MCH-305 Organic Synthesis Syllabus M.Sc.(CHEMISTRY) 3rd-III Sem Syllabus for DAVV Indore Affiliated Institutions

DEVI AHILYA VISHWAVIDYALAYA, DAVV INDORE Syllabus

M.Sc. (CHEMISTRY)Third-3rd-III Semester Curriculum/ Syllabus

MCH-305: Organic Synthesis Syllabus

Unit -I The disconnection approach (Retrosynthetic analysis):

Guidelines to choose disconnection, Synthons and synthetic equivalents, Functional group interconversion, the order of events and its guidelines, One-group C-X disconnections, Two-group C-X disconnections, Chemoselectivity, reversal of polarity, cyclization reactions and summary of strategy.Amine synthesis, Stereoselectivity, stereoselective reactions, stereospecific reactions

Unit - II : One group C-C disconnections

 Alcohols, carbonyl compounds, regioselectivity. Use of acetylenes Two-group C-C disconnections:Diels-Alder reactions (stereospecificity, stereoselectivity, endo-selectivity, regioselectivity), 1,3-Difunctionalised and ,- unsaturated carbonyl compounds, 1,5- Difunctionalised compounds, Michael addition and Robinson Annelation.

Unit – III : Oxidation Processes

Introduction, Different oxidative processes. Mn(VII) oxidants:Oxidation of alcohols,alkenes,alkynes,aldehydes,ketones,aromatic side chains and rings,amines Cr (VI) oxidants:Oxidation of alcohols /phenols(Jones reagent,Collins reagent,PCC,PDC), alkanes,alkenes,aromatic side chain and aromatic nucleus. Oxidation with peracids: oxidation of alkenes ,ketones.

Other oxidants: Oxidation with ruthenium tetraoxide, lead tetra acetate, thallium. (III) nitrate,potassium periodate,aluminium tri-isopropoxide and aluminium tri-t-butoxide, hydrogen

peroxide, t-Butyl hydroperoxide 

Unit- IV : Reduction Processes

Introduction, Different reductive processes. Catalytic hydrogenation: Heterogeneous hydrogenation, Homogeneous hydrogenation. Metal hydride reduction :Scope, Mechanism, stereochemical aspects of metal hydride reduction using lithium aluminium hydride,Sodium borohydride, Diboranes eduction by dissolving metals: Scope and basic mechanism, Clemensen reduction, Birch reduction Reduction by other reducing agents: Hydrazines, Diimide

Books suggested

1. S. Warren ,Designing Organic Synthesis, Wiley.

2. J. Fuhrhop and G. Penzillin, Organic synthesis – Concept, Methods and Starting Material, Verlage VCH.

3. W. Carruthers,Some Modren Methods of Organic Synthesis, Cambrige Univ. Press.

4. H.O. House, Modern Synthetic Reactions, W.A. Benjamin

5. V.K.Ahluwalia ,Organic Reaction Mechanisms, Narosa Publishing House

6. S.M.Mukherji and S.P.Singh,Reaction Mechanism in Organic Chemistry, Macmilan

7. J. March, Advanced Organic Synthesis: Reaction, Mechanisms and Structure, Wiley.