This subject aims to provide students with an understanding of: The principles of coordination and bio-inorganic chemistry and how these relate to the design and synthesis of metal-based and metal-chelating therapeutic agents; The utility of organometallic reagents in organic synthesis; The fundamentals of pericyclic reactions and their application to the synthesis of bioactive compounds; The chemistry used to prepare heterocycles and their substituted derivatives, including several important heterocyclic drugs.This will involve: coordination chemistry and inorganic medicinal chemistry organometallic reagents in synthesis pericyclic chemistry synthesis of heterocycles reactions of... -- Course Website
Instructor: Associate Professor Bernard Flynn
Prerequisites: PSC1021<br/>PSC1022
