Dynamics and Mechanism in Organic Chemistry
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This grant funded by the Organic Dynamics Program in Chemistry                  provides support for the research of Prof. William Doering at                   Harvard University. The broad objective of the research is the                  formulation of mechanistic generalizations by deduction from                    experiment in the area of thermally induced reactions. His                      research will complement that of many theoretical and applied                   quantum chemists as well as kineticists.                                                                                                                        Specifically, his work on energy flow within molecules will                     address the question whether intramolecular energy                              randomization is competitive with the rate of a chemical                        reaction and whether the concept of mode-specific reaction is                   capable of being reduced to practice. Two projects will test                    for the previously unrecognized structural factors in the                       thermochemistry of polyenes and cyclobutanes. Such studies  may                 have some implications to the anticarcinogenicity of                            beta-carotene. Finally, a new hypothesis on the role of                         solvation on rates of thermal cis-trans isomerism of polyenes                   will be tested and, if validated, will mark a significant                       advance in understanding medium effects.
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