SUBJECT

Title

Modern Synthetic Methods

Type of instruction

lecture

Level

Master

Part of degree program
Credits

2

Recommended in

Semester 1

Typically offered in

Autumn semester

Course description

Biocatalysis, syntheses in supercritical media, combinatorial chemistry, photochemistry, rearrangement reactions, cross-coupling, metathesis, syntheses in alternate solvent systems (ionic liquids, fluorinated solvents).

Readings

Compulsory:

  • A. Kotschy, G. Timári, Heterocycles from Transition Metal Catalysis, Springer, 2005

Suggested:

  • Palladium in Heterocyclic Chemistry, Second Edition: A Guide for the Synthetic Chemist (Tetrahedron Organic Chemistry Series) 2nd Edition Jie Jack Li, Gordon W. Gribble (Editors) Elsevier Science, 2007

  • Handbook of Metathesis, 1st Edition Robert H. Grubbs (Editor) Viley-VCH, 2003

  • Biocatalysis: Fundamentals and Applications 1st Edition Andreas S. Bommarius, Bettina R. Riebel-Bommarius Viley-VCH, 2004