Course description
The course aims to provide students with a more in-depth training in Organic Chemistry from the first basic course, with particular regard to the nomenclature, chemical properties and reactivity of polyfunctional compounds, the main classes of organic compounds of biological relevance: carbohydrates, amino acids and peptides, lipids and heterocyclic systems.
Students also gain knowledge on pericyclic reactions and on the fundamental principles of organic synthesis, learning to develop simple synthetic sequences of multifunctional organic compounds and to apply the principles of modern synthetic strategies: the disconnection approaches, the formation of carbon-carbon bonds, organometallic, protection and deprotection of functional groups.
In one sentence, the primary learning goal of this course is:
The student will learn how to study, understand, and predict the features of new organic structures and reactions by drawing analogies to past experiments.