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Introduction
"Stereochemistry and Conformation", Professor Anthony Davis

Stereochemistry

 * Stereochemistry

Chirality
[http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.200462661 ''Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.'' (2005) 44, 5384–5427], Tetrahedron Lett. (1990) 31, 5409–5412
 * Optical rotation
 * Levorotation and dextrorotation
 * Specific rotation
 * Polarimetry and polarimeters
 * Cahn–Ingold–Prelog priority rules
 * Chirality (chemistry)
 * Axial chirality
 * Atropisomers: "stereoisomers resulting from hindered rotation about single bonds where the steric strain barrier to rotation is high enough to allow for the isolation of the conformers". Example: substituted biphenyls.
 * Planar chirality &mdash; synonymous with axial chirality?
 * Stereocenter
 * Absolute configuration
 * Enantiomer
 * Racemic mixture
 * Diastereomer
 * Meso compound

Conformation

 * Molecular configuration
 * Conformational isomerism
 * Alkane stereochemistry
 * Decalins

Cyclooalkanes

 * Baeyer strain
 * Pitzer strain
 * Cycloalkanes
 * Cyclopropanes - planar by definition
 * Cyclobutanes - puckered to avoid eclipsing interactions
 * Cyclopentanes - envelope conformation
 * Cyclohexane conformation - chair form, boat form, twist boat, twist chair
 * Cyclooctanes have many low-energy conformations, but the stablest one is the boat-chair (Jmol)
 * Anomeric effect: anomers are epimers of cyclic saccharides that differ only in their configuration at the anomeric carbon (= the hemiacetal or hemiketal carbon)

Stereoelectronic effects and reactions

 * Steric effects
 * Stereoelectronic effects
 * Bürgi-Dunitz angle
 * Stereoselectivity vs. stereospecificity
 * re and si faces
 * Chiral auxiliary
 * Chiral derivatizing agents:
 * Mosher's acid
 * Pirkle's alcohol
 * a chiral amino alcohol (use with diethylzinc on enantiotopic carbonyls)