Strategy and tools in organic synthesis

  • Level of study

    BAC +4

  • ECTS

    2 credits

  • Component

    Faculty of Science

Description

The teaching of the module of strategies and tools in organic synthesis is centered on the deepening of the strategies of elaborations of molecules resulting or not from the natural environment using the tools of organic chemistry.

Hourly volumes* :

CM : 15 H

TD : 5 H

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Objectives

Understand and be able to implement and plan the strategy for a given synthesis (key step, regio- and chemo-selectivity, use of protective groups, ...)

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Necessary pre-requisites

Organic chemistry level L3

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Knowledge control

Final written exam of 2 hours:

  • Authorized documents: no
  • Non-graphic calculator allowed: yes
  • Internet allowed : no
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Syllabus

Course : Inductive (problematic) and deductive pedagogy. Support(s) available on ENT (Moodle): Course documents, TD documents, exam annals and reference publications.

 

  1. Review of the fundamentals of retrosynthesis/protective groups/regio- and chemo-selectivity: (3h)
  2. Ionic and radical approaches to bond formation (3h)
  3. Cyclisation reactions (Baldwin's rules, Thorpe-Ingold effect, ...) (3h)
  4. Multi-component reaction (3h)
  5. Applications to the synthesis of biomolecules (3h)

 

 

TD (5h): Individual work, exercises to prepare before and during the session. Study of examples

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Additional information

Teaching team :

 

Christophe Mathé

christophe.mathe@umontpellier.fr

Jean-Pierre Uttaro

Jean-pierre.uttaro@umontpellier.fr

 

 

Administrative contact(s):

Secretariat Master Chemistry

master-chimie @ umontpellier.fr @

https://master-chimie.edu.umontpellier.fr

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