Modern organic reactions and reactive intermediates. Cations, free radicals, radical ions, carbenes, metallocarbenes, arynes, and transition-metal catalysis. Mechanisms, transition-state conformational analysis and stereoelectronic effects. Diastereoselectivity. The laboratory is focused on multistep organic synthesis, featuring reactions drawn from the lecture topics. Prerequisites: Chem 361 or consent of instructor. Students with credit for Chem 363 cannot take Chem 460 for credit.
Winter Term 2022