ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.2 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.45
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Organic Chemistry
Areas: Organic Chemistry
Center Faculty of Chemistry
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
To enable the student to plan the synthesis of an organic molecule of intermediate complexity.
Synthesis strategies: retrosynthesis.
Chemoselectivity: protecting groups.
Regioselectivity and stereoselectivity.
Synthesis of bioactive compounds: representative examples.
Basic bibliography
ORGANIC SYNTHESIS. THE DISCONNECTION APPROACH. Stuart Warren. 2nd Edition. Wiley. 2012
Complementary bibliography
WORKBOOK FOR ORGANIC SYNTHESIS. THE DISCONNECTION APPROACH. Stuart Warren y Paul Wyatt. 2nd Edition. Wiley. 2009
Organic Synthesis. Christine Willis y Martin Wills. Oxford Chemistry Primers. 1996
Basic and General
CG2 - Being able to gather and interpret data, information and relevant results, draw conclusions and issue reasoned reports on scientific or technological chemical problems.
CG3 - Apply the knowledge and skills acquired as the capacity of analysis and abstraction in the definition and approach to problems and finding solutions in both academic and professional contexts.
CG4 - Ability to communicate, in both writing and orally, knowledge, procedures, results and ideas in chemistry to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
CG5 - To study and learn independently new knowledge and techniques in any scientific or technological discipline.
Transversal
CT8 - Working in an international context.
CT10 - Critical reasoning.
CT11 - Ethical commitment.
Specific
CE4 - Main chemical reactions.
CE11 - Relation between macroscopic properties and properties of individual atoms and molecules, including macromolecules (natural and synthetic), polymers, colloids and other materials.
CE12 - Structure and reactivity of the main classes of biomolecules and the chemistry of the main biological processes.
CE13 - Ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of essential facts, concepts, principles and theories related to the areas of chemistry.
CE15 - Recognize and analyze new problems and plan strategies to solve them.
Teaching will take the form of lectures, seminars and tutorials. Lectures by leading chemists may be included as an option. The course consists of 4.5 ECTS credits. This includes 36 hours of class attendance. In the lectures, the lecturer will present the subject. In the seminars, students will present solved exercises. In the tutorials, students will present their doubts to the professor.
If necessary, some classes may be given using the TEAMS platform.
Periodically, exercises will be uploaded to the Virtual Classroom to be carried out by the students and which will be the basis for the seminars.
1. The evaluation of this subject will consist of two parts:
1.1. Continuous assessment, with a weight of 40%, which will include participation in seminars and tutorials, in addition to the bulletins uploaded to the Virtual Classroom.
1.2. Final exam (60%)
Seminar notes
Students will have to solve problem papers that they will download from the Virtual Classroom. The solved problem papers will have to be uploaded to the Virtual Classroom in due time. These bulletins will be spaced throughout the course at an approximately weekly cadence. The average mark of the corrected bulletins will be calculated, giving a mark of zero to the bulletins not handed in without justification. In the seminars, the problems raised in the bulletins will be solved, as well as the students' doubts. In the seminars, students will use the blackboard to solve the bulletins. Attendance at the seminars and the participation of each student will be graded when they use the blackboard. Each attendance to the blackboard will be graded and the average will be calculated, with each unexcused absence from the seminar being counted as an absence with a mark of zero. In this way, each student will have two marks corresponding to the report cards and the participation in the seminars. The seminar grade will be calculated as the average of the two previous grades. If a student cannot be graded for his/her participation in the seminars, he/she will be assigned only the grade corresponding to the resolution of the bulletins.
Tutorial grades
Tutorials will be graded on the basis of attendance and participation. Each student will be given a mark for his/her participation in each tutorial. A lack of attendance in a tutorial will be graded as a participation with a zero mark. The average of the marks for both tutorials will be calculated.
4. The final exam will consist of a set of retrosynthetic exercises.
5. The student's final mark, which will not be lower than that of the final exam or that obtained by weighting it with the continuous assessment mark, will be obtained as a result of applying the following formula:
Final mark= maximum (0,4 x N1 + 0,6 x N2, N2)
N1= numerical mark of the continuous assessment (scale 0-10).
N2= numerical mark for the final examination (scale 0-10).
8. The following competences are assessed throughout the course:
seminar classes: CG2, CG4, CG5, CT8, CT10, CT11, CE4, CE11, CE12.
tutorial classes:CG2, CT10, CE4, CE11, CE12.
final exam: CG2, CG3, CT10, CE4, CE12.
Classload in the classroom:
Lectures: 14
Interactive seminar classes: 20
Interactive tutorial classes: 2
TOTAL HOURS IN THE IN THE CLASSROOM: 36 hours
Personal work:
Individual or group study: 25 hours
Solving exercises and other work: 40 hours
Preparation of oral presentations, preparation of proposed written exercises, or similar activities in the library: 11.5 hours
TOTAL HOURS OF PERSONAL WORK: 76.5 hours
In my opinion, the average student should devote 2-2.5 hours of personal study per hour of classroom.
We strongly recommend the purchase of the book
ORGANIC SYNTHESIS. THE DISCONNECTION APPROACH. Stuart Warren. 2nd Edition. Wiley. 2012
This book will be used as the basis of the subject under the premise that it is more pedagogical to use a single reference book than a collection of books, simplifying both the work of the students and the teacher.
It is advisable to attend lectures.
It is advisable to keep the study of the subject "up to date" in order to reinforce what has been studied in class and to carry out exercises (self-assessment model).
Once you have finished reading a topic in the reference manual, it is useful to make a summary of the important points, identifying the equations, concepts and basic reactions that must be remembered.
Solving exercises is fundamental to learning this subject. For exercises involving stereochemical concepts, it is advisable to use molecular models.
In cases of fraudulent execution of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations on the assessment of students' academic performance and the revision of qualifications shall apply.
Gabriel Tojo Suarez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Organic Chemistry
- Area
- Organic Chemistry
- Phone
- 881814244
- gabriel.tojo [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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