Overview
Description
Concepts for planning and evaluating multi-step synthesis of complex molecules, natural products and pharmaceuticals.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- independently design and present a synthetic plan or strategy for synthesizing organic molecules.
- articulate in writing or verbally and critically analyze differences between synthetic strategies reported in the chemical literature.
- articulate the general rules of relative reactivity and apply these rules to the design of synthetic routes.
- explain the concepts of umpolung, synthons, synthetic equivalents, and stereocontrol and use them in planning organic syntheses.
- describe the basic principles of retrosynthetic analysis and apply them to designing synthetic strategies.