Chemistry 8229 - 001 - course 31756 - Spring 2022

Organic Reactions & Synthesis

There are currently 9 students enrolled in this course. The maximum enrollment is 30 possible students.This course is offered by the Chemistry & Biochemistry departmentin the College of Sciences . It is classified as a Lecture, and is worth 3. It meets on Tuesdays, Thursdays, from 07:30 pm to 08:45 pm in John Barry Hall 201B.The course is instructed by Spoors, Paul.

Course description:

Survey of organic reactions with emphasis on modernsynthetic methods and their applications to the synthesisof complex organic compounds. Enolates, carbonylcondensation reactions, functional group interconversions,electrophilic addition reactions, reductions,organometallic reagents, concerted reactions, oxidationsSynthetic strategies including retrosynthetic analysis inthe context of specific examples of multi-step synthesisfrom recent literature.