SUBJECT
Title
Asymmetric Synthesis
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
Master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
2
Recommended in
Semester 3
Typically offered in
Autumn semester
Course description
Practical method of stereoselective synthesis with emphasis on recent advantages. It embraces a wide variety of subjects, such as hydrogenation over chiral catalysts, stereoselective epoxidation and dihydroxylation. Assymetric carbon-carbon bond formation.
Readings
Compulsory:
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Mihály Nógrádi, Stereoselective Synthesis, VCH, 1995. ISBN 3-527-29243-8 .
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Kotschy, G. Timári, Heterocycles from Transition Metal Catalysis, Springer, 2005. ISBN 1-4020-36-24-8.