Class Topics & Important dates

Adopted Textbook:

A = Organic Chemistry Clayden, Greeves, Warren, Wothers Second Edition, Ed. OXFORD

B = Modern Organic Synthesis - An Introduction George Zweifel, Michael H. Nantz Freeman and Company

 

Week
Dates
Chapter(s)
Topics

1

12/02 - 16/02

A29-A30-A31

Heterocycles

2

19/02 - 23/02

A42

Biological Chemistry-Chemistry of Life

3
26/02 - 02/03
A14, B2

Chemistry and Stereochemistry of Life

Advanced Sterechemistry and Chirality ( only Youtube)

16/03/2017 9:30 am
MidTerm1

4

05/03- 09/03

 

B4

Modern Organic Reactions (Oxidation)

Modern Organic Reactions (Reduction)

5

12/03- 16/03

A36,38

Modern Organic Reactions (Redox Neutral reactions )

Modern Organic Reactions (Carbenes and Nitrenes)

6

19/03 - 23/03

A20, 25-26;B5-B6

Modern Organic Reactions (Alcohol Activation, Modern Olefination, Aldol and allylation reactions)

7

26/03 -30/03

A32-33

B5-B6

Modern Organic Reactions (Stereoselective Reactions)

02/05/2018 9:00 am
MidTerm2

8

16/04 - 20/04

A34-35

B9.3

Modern Organic Reactions (Peryciclic reactions-Cycloaddition)

Modern Organic Reactions (Peryciclic reactions-Electrocyclic and Sigmatropic)

9

23/04- 27/04

A9,40; B7

Modern Organic Reactions (Organometallics)

10

30/04 - 04/05

B7-B9.4

Modern Organic Reactions (cross-coupling and olefin metathesis)

11

07/05 - 11/05

B3

B1-B2-epilogue

A23,28,41

Modern Organic Reactions (Protecting groups)

Synthesis and Key Concepts in logic of RetroSynthesis

12

14/05 - 18/05

Overview and Practice exams

18/05/2018 9:30 am
Midterm3