Chemical Synthesis

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This skills focuses on the development of a clear understanding of the synthesis of organic chemical compounds. It is important for the students to learn how to convert their theoretical knowledge on chemical reactivity to actual design and execution of synthetic chemical reactions. Typical topics, which will be covered in this skills training are: • Safe handling of organic reagents and safe execution of organic experiments. • Commonly used organic synthetic laboratory techniques. • Synthetic chemistry of various organic reaction types (e.g. nucleophilic substitutions and eliminations, electrophilic reactions and radical chemistry). • Stereochemistry in organic synthesis. • Purifications and separations in chemistry. • Spectroscopy and characterization of organic compounds.