Modern Synthetic Organic Reactions is a course dedicated to recent developments and industrial opportunities.
Modern Synthetic Organic Reactions covers topics such as:
- Photoredox catalysts- synthesis, properties and tuning
- Photoinduced electron transfer chemistry
- Aromatic C-H functionalisation
- Application and scale-up
- C-H coupling with halides and pseudohalides
- Aliphatic C-H functionalisation
- Oxidation with hypervalent iodine reagents
- C-H – C-H coupling
- C-C and C-X bond formation mediated by hypervalent reagents
- Rearrangements mediated by hypervalent iodine reagents
- Electrochemical redox processes
- Synthetic organic electrochemistry
- C-C and C-X bond formation via borrowing hydrogen
- Applications, setup and getting started
- Hydrogen mediated C-C bond formation (Krische chemistry)
- Using alcohols in place of halides and pseudohalides
- Catalyst classes and reaction examples
- Organocatalysis v’s transition metal processes
- Recent developments in biocatalysis
- Asymmetric transformations
- "Non-natural" reactions catalysed by modified enzymes
- Directed evolution of enzymes
- Base metals in cross coupling, hydrogenation and cyclization chemistry
- Green chemistry and sustainability
- New applications of base metals in industrial organic che
Modern Synthetic Organic Reactions brings together:
- Process development chemists
- Discovery/Synthetic organic chemists
- Academics who wish to understand how industrial and process chemists view new synthetic chemistry and what can be done at the discovery stage to make the technology scalable
- Anyone wishing to learn more about essential new synthetic chemistry methodology and its potential application in an industrial setting
