Steric and Stereoelectronic Effects in Organic Chemistry

Veejendra K. Yadav earned his PhD under the mentorship of Dr. Sukh Dev in 1982. He carried out his postdoctoral research at University of Calgary, Memorial University of Newfoundland, University of Ottawa, and University of Southern California over the years 1983-1990 before joining Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) as Assistant Professor in late 1990. Over the years, he rose through ranks and became full Professor in 2001. He has taught both undergraduate and postgraduate students at IITK over the past thirty years, and has remained a popular teacher among the students throughout. His research focuses on development of new reactions with emphasis on the construction of pharmacophores, synthesis of biologically active molecules, computational-cum-experimental investigation of facial selectivity, and computational investigation of reaction mechanisms. He has three international patents and 100 research papers in peer reviewed journals to his credit.

Chapter-I: Steric and stereoelectronic control of molecular structures and organic reactions.- Chapter-II. Reactions at saturated and unsaturated carbon.- Chapter-III: Diastereoselectivity in organic reactions.- Chapter-IV: A(1,2) and A(1,3) strains.- Chapter-V: The conservation of orbital symmetry (Woodward-Hoffmann rules).- Chapter-VI: The overlap component of the stereoelectronic factor vis-à-vis the conservation of orbital symmetry rules.- Chapter VII: Torquoselectivity of conrotatory ring opening in 3-substituted cyclobutenes.- Chapter-VIII: Hammett Substituent Constants.- Chapter-IX. Relative aromaticity of pyrrole, furan, thiophene and selenophene, and their Diels-Alder stereoselectivity.- Chapter-X: Miscellaneous.