This page is meant to help all Organic Graduate Students who are currently taking Chem 521.  It's to your advantage to spend a bit of time perusing the following topics.

 

The Organic Faculty

Front Row:  Simon Blakey , Lanny Liebeskind , Dennis Liotta , Al Padwa and Fred Menger .
Back Row:  Frank McDonald , David Goldsmith , Jim Snyder (visiting professor) and Craig Hill

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Topics of Interest to Organic Students

• The Influence of Allylic Strain on Structure and Reactivity
• The Anomeric Effect
• Baldwin Rules:  Favored vs. Disfavored Ring-Closure Reactions
• The Bürgi-Dunitz Trajectory
• The Gem-Dialkyl Effect and its Effect on Ring Closure
• Neighboring Group Participation
• Ring Closure Kinetics
• A Study of the Effects of Strain on the Structure and Reactivity of Bridgehead Olefins
• Arynes
• Stoichiometric and Catalytic Asymmetric Protonation of Enolates
• Rhodium Carbenoids: Structure and Reactivity
• Radical Clock Reactions
• Nucleophilic Substitution Via SRN1 Mechanism
• Stereospecificity in the 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reaction

 

Here are past course exams, problem sets and cumulative exams from the organic division. Check them out.

 

Frank McDonald Cume 1 Cume 2	Lanny Liebeskind Cume 1 Cume 2 Cume 3 Cume 4	Debbie Mohler Cume 1
Chem 523 Key Ring Forming Reactions Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (-)-Strychnine Double Diastereoselection in Intramolecular Photocycloadditions Synthesis of (+)-Juruenolide C: Total Synthesis of (+)-7-Deoxypancratistatin Total Synthesis of (-/+)-Hirsutine Stereocontrolled Total Synthesis of (+)-vinblastine First Total Synthesis of Ircinol A, Ircinal A, and Manzamines A and D Intramolecular Photocycloaddition of Dioxenones	Dennis Liotta Cume1 Cume 2 Cume 3	Fred Menger Cume 1 Cume 2 Cume 3 Problem Sets
Chem 729R Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Section 5 radical Palladium 1 heterocycles Download 521.zip to your CPU	Albert Padwa Cume 1 Cume 2 Cume 3	Problem Sets for  Cume Preparation