James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2000

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CH3082:03

Advanced Organic Chemistry

Townsville

24 lectures, 50 hours practicals. First semester. CH3032 is a required corequisite subject.

Staff: Assoc. Professor G Meehan, Assoc. Professor B Bowden.

Advanced study of specialist areas of organic chemistry. Currently these include application of advanced nmr techniques to structure determination; pharmacologically active natural products; pericyclic reactions and their applications in synthesis. The laboratory work will generally be associated with a current research interest in organic chemistry within the Department.

Learning Objectives:

  1. be familiar with the conceptual and methodological frameworks of several current areas of organic chemical research;
  2. have gained first-hand experience of carrying out a short research project in the environment of a modern chemical research laboratory.

Assessment by problem assignments (50%); performance in the laboratory research project and related report (50%).


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