Modern Organic chemistry-Trends in the field

Frequency

Every 3 years

Summary

Total synthesis, Natural product, Green chemistry,Enantioselective synthesis, Organo-catalysis, Lewis acid,Transition-metal, Drug discovery.

Content

Keywords

Total synthesis, Natural product, Green chemistry, Enantioselective synthesis, Organo-catalysis, Lewis acid, Transition-metal, Drug discover.

Learning Prerequisites

Important concepts to start the course

M2 level

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, the student must be able to:

• Contextualise His own research within state of the art in the field
• Critique the novelty and impact of research in the field

Transversal skills

• Assess one's own level of skill acquisition, and plan their on-going learning goals.
• Demonstrate the capacity for critical thinking
• Make an oral presentation.
• Write a literature review which assesses the state of the art.

Teaching methods

external experts from academia and industry with lecture and discussion meeting

Expected student activities

Attend to the lectures

Participate to discussions at science lunch

Write a report on the research of one speaker

Assessment methods

Project report

Resources

Websites

• https://www.epfl.ch/schools/sb/research/isic/news-events/organic_chemistry_seminars/