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CHEM3306 Modern Organic Synthesis [UG]

Credit 6 points
Availability Semester 2
Old unit code 510.306
Content This unit includes a review of carbon–carbon bond-forming reactions; ring-closure reactions; synthetic reactions involving 1, 2-shifts; protecting groups; functional group interconversions; pericyclic reactions in synthesis, electrocyclic, cycloaddition, sigmatropic; photochemistry; useful synthetic transformations involving radicals and carbenes; synthesis in the pharmaceutical industry and some examples of the total synthesis of complex compounds.
Assessment This comprises laboratory work (30 per cent), continuous assessment work (one or more examinations and/or assignments during semester, total 20 per cent) and an end-of-semester examination (50 per cent).

Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit except in the case of a bachelor's pass degree student who has obtained a mark of 45 to 49 and is currently enrolled in this unit, and it is the only remaining unit that the student must pass in order to complete their course.
Unit Co-ordinator(s) Associate Professor Murray Baker
Location UWA (Crawley)
Mode on-campus
Unit Rules
Prerequisites: CHEM2210 Structure Determination and Physical Chemistry and CHEM2211 Synthetic and Materials Chemistry
Contact hourslectures: 2 hrs per week; labs: 50 hrs
Note This unit is only available in even-numbered years.


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