Practical and Theoretical Introductory Organic Synthesis

5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

Lecture, two hours; laboratory, eight hours. Enforced requisites: courses 30C and 30CL, with grades of C– or better. Lectures on modern synthetic reactions and processes, with emphasis on stereospecific methods for carbon-carbon bond formation. Laboratory methods of synthetic organic chemistry, including reaction techniques, synthesis of natural products, and molecules of theoretical interest. P/NP or letter grading.