Modern Methods for Organic Synthesis

This course exposes you to many types of carbon-based molecular structures, the transformations they undergo, and many kinds of chemical reactions and strategies that are important to the field of organic synthesis. Recent advances in asymmetric catalysis, cascade and other complexity-generating structural transformations, and powerful strategies for chemical synthesis that evolved from ideas about the structural origins of important, biologically active molecules such as steroid hormones, cofactors, and alkaloids are addressed.