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CHEM 4000 Lecture Notes (Findlay)

These are the most recent versions of my lecture notes for CHEM 4000 (from Spring 2022).

These are skeleton notes; it is intended that you complete them when you attend class.  Admittedly, the first set isn't very skeletal...  :-) 

Topics are numbered to match the chapters in the textbook (Elements of Synthesis Planning by R.W. Hoffmann).

CHEM 4000 Topic 0: Drug Discovery and Design160 KB
CHEM 4000 Topic 1: Introduction232 KB
CHEM 4000 Topic 2: Functional Group Oriented Bond-Sets221 KB
CHEM 4000 Topic 3: Skeleton Oriented Bond-Sets180 KB
CHEM 4000 Topic 4: Building Block Oriented Synthesis487 KB
CHEM 4000 Topic 5: Basis for Planning123 KB
CHEM 4000 Topic 6: Formation of Cyclic Structures277 KB
CHEM 4000 Topic 7: Protecting Groups85 KB
CHEM 4000 Topic 8: Ranking of Synthesis Plans71 KB
CHEM 4000 Topic 9: Practicing Retrosynthesis49 KB
Appendix to Topic 1: Steroids from Isoprene Building Blocks (Lanosterol from Squalene)42 KB