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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

312496 (v.1) Synthetic Methods in Chemistry 311

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Tutition Patterns

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Area: Department of Chemistry
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 6.5
Lecture: 2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x .5 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 4 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 312489 (v.1) Chemical Structure and Spectroscopy 201 or any previous version
AND
312492 (v.1) Chemical Reactions and Mechanisms 212 or any previous version
Syllabus: Synthesis. What is synthesis? Retrosynthetic analysis. Oxidation and reduction reactions and protecting groups. Carbon-carbon bond forming reactions. Pericyclic reactions: types of pericyclic reactions, electrocyclisations, the Diels-Alder reaction, the Cope and Claisen rearrangements. Total Synthesis. Carbanion chemistry, reactions and reactivity involved in organometallic chemistry, transition-metal catalysed reactions including cross-coupling and olefin metathesis. Ligand or metal centred reactions. Homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts.
Field of Education: 010500 Chemical Sciences (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External