CHM 8229
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Organic Reactions & Synthesis
Survey of organic reactions with emphasis on modern synthetic methods and their applications to the synthesis of complex organic compounds. Enolates, carbonyl condensation reactions, functional group interconversions, electrophilic addition reactions, reductions, organometallic reagents, concerted reactions, oxidations Synthetic strategies including retrosynthetic analysis in the context of specific examples of multi-step synthesis from recent literature.