Total Synthesis

0.5 Course Units

The focus of this course comprise the development of two synthetic strategies to access architecturally complex natural products of biological significance exploiting innovative chemistry. Lectures towards this end are given. As a project, each studnet is given a different complex natural product and expected at the end of the course to deveop two strategies, one based on asymmetric induction to provide the absolute stereochemical structure, the second where the absolute stereochemistry derives from commercially available starting materials. Fall or Spring 0.5 Course Units