Undergraduate Course: Synthetic Organic Chemistry Level 10 (CHEM10024)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Chemistry |
College |
College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
Chemistry |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
A lecture course covering contemporary synthetic methods in organic chemistry, and their application to complex molecule synthesis. The course comprises individual lecture courses on: Reagents for Organic Synthesis, Synthesis of Natural Products, Solid Phase Synthesis, Synthesis of Unnatural Products, Pericyclic Reactions, Organometallics in Synthesis. Either the Level 10 or Level 11 version of this course (as specified in the degree programme tables) is a compulsory requirement for Year 4/5 students on degrees in Chemistry or Medicinal and Biological Chemistry, but can be taken by Year 4/5 students on any Chemistry degree programme. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: No |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| King's Buildings | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | | | 09:00 - 09:50 | | King's Buildings | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | 09:00 - 09:50 | | | | King's Buildings | Lecture | | 1-11 | | 09:00 - 09:50 | | | |
| First Class |
Week 1, Tuesday, 09:00 - 09:50, Zone: King's Buildings. Lecture Theatre 100, Joseph Black Building |
| Additional information |
30 hours lectures + 6 hours tutorials, at times arranged. |
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 1, Part-year visiting students only (VV1)
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WebCT enabled: No |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| King's Buildings | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | 09:00 - 09:50 | | | | King's Buildings | Lecture | | 1-11 | | 09:00 - 09:50 | | | | | King's Buildings | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | | | 09:00 - 09:50 |
| First Class |
Week 1, Tuesday, 09:00 - 09:50, Zone: King's Buildings. Lecture Theatre 100, Joseph Black Building |
| Additional information |
30 hours lectures + 6 hours tutorials, at times arranged. |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:
- discuss the chemistry and applications of a range of phosphorus, silicon, sulfur and selenium reagents in modern organic synthesis
- compare and contrast the biosynthesis of natural products with their chemical synthesis in the laboratory
- discuss the relative merits of solid phase and solution phase organic synthesis
- understand the role of solid phase organic synthesis in the pharmaceutical industry, particularly with respect to the use of combinatorial chemistry in screening against biological targets
- discuss the synthesis of various functional molecular architectures and the principles behind molecular switches, motors, shuttles and other 'designer' molecules
- apply Frontier Molecular Orbital (FMO) theory to predict the results of electrocyclic, cycloaddition and sigmatropic rearrangement processes
- compare and contrast mechanistic details of common modern synthetic organometallic reactions
- predict the outcome of some simple transition metal catalysed processes and comment on the strategies used by others for the synthesis of more complex targets |
Assessment Information
One degree exam of 2.5 hours.
(Visiting Student Variant Assessment
One degree exam of 2.5 hours at the end of Semester 1.) |
| Please see Visiting Student Prospectus website for Visiting Student Assessment information |
Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Paul Lusby
Tel:
Email: Paul.Lusby@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Ms Rosie Filipiak
Tel: (0131 6)50 4707
Email: r.filipiak@ed.ac.uk |
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