CHEM41510

Learning Outcomes:

After participating in this course, learners will have a better appreciation for the discipline: they will have covered the syntheses of a selected group of naturally occurring compounds (belonging to each of the main classes - alkaloids, polyketides, peptides etc.), and will have been exposed to a range of different chemical reactions. They will better appreciate the motivations behind these syntheses and be able to demonstrate these skills both by answering questions related to specific parts of syntheses and by analysing published syntheses. Ultimately this knowledge will be geared towards the learner being able to design their own, novel, approaches to the chemical syntheses of natural products.

Indicative Module Content:

This module will be delivered in six sessions which will be timetabled for 2 hours. Roughly these will be broken down into the following:

Class 1: Introduction to Natural Products and their Synthesis
Class 2: Selectivity in Synthesis
Class 3: Selected Syntheses of Fatty Acids and Polyketides
Class 4: Selected Syntheses of Oligopeptides and use of Amino Acids in Synthesis
Class 5: Selected Syntheses of Alkaloids
Class 6: Summary and In-Class Asssessment

During each class time will be scheduled in order to complete short problems associated with the material presented.

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

The module will be delivered in a traditional face-to-face setting. Notes to support student learning will be supplied and the timetabled sessions will be broken into sections where students can receive information and then practice these ideas using problems supplied. Students will complete some of these individually but also work in small groups. Assessments, in order to judge whether, and to what extent, the student has met the learning objectives, will be built into the aforementioned classroom activities and also will come in the form of set homework assignments.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

The Brightspace assessment will be marked automatically and the results triggerred to appear when the assessment period elapses. The recorded powerpoint presentation will be graded and this, and additioanl feedback given individually to each student.

Notes will be provided and these will containg literature references for the primary research papers.

Additionally, the Classics in Total Synthesis books by K. C. Nicolaou and colleagues are recommended.

(James Joyce 547.70459)

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.