CHEM 6650 - Advanced Organic Chemistry

Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: CHEM 3580 or CHEM 3600, and CHEM 3900 or equivalents, or permission of instructor. Primarily for graduate students, juniors, and seniors.

S. Lin.

The course focuses on stereoelectronic properties of organic compounds, reaction thermodynamics and kinetics, stereochemistry, and catalysis. Case studies constituted examples where the applications of these concepts and corresponding techniques lead to creative design of selective organic synthesis and mechanistic insights into complex organic transformations. A particular emphasis is on the development of chemical and mechanistic intuition that will facilitate the students’ laboratory research efforts.