This unit includes a review of carbon–carbon bond-forming reactions; ring-closure reactions; synthetic reactions involving 1, 2-shifts; protecting groups; functional group interconversions; pericyclic reactions in synthesis, electrocyclic, cycloaddition, sigmatropic; photochemistry; palladium cross coupling reactions; useful synthetic transformations involving radicals and carbenes; synthesis in the pharmaceutical industry and some examples of the total synthesis of complex compounds. -- Course Website
Instructor: Professor Murray Baker
Prerequisites: CHEM2210 Structure Determination and Physical Chemistry and CHEM2211 Synthetic and Materials Chemistry
