Organic Reactions

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This course focuses on chemical reactivity. In this course, a broad review will be presented of the most important functional groups and their reactivity. This review will not only consist of comparatively simple molecules, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids and amines, but will also be illustrated with examples from more complex biomolecules. Knowledge of the various types of organic reactions will provide the basic skills to design multistep synthesis sequences to obtain specific organic compounds. In this context special attention will also be paid to organometallic reactions and their importance for multistep organic synthesis. Furthermore, the reaction types will be placed in an appropriate context with regard to practical applicability and industrial processing. Finally, also theoretical aspects regarding reaction mechanisms will be presented.