Graduate students receive Roche organic chemistry awards

1994 ◽  
Vol 72 (27) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
STEPHEN STINSON
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
Graduate Students

Modern Organic Synthesis in the Laboratory

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Jack Li ◽  
Chris Limberakis ◽  
Derek A. Pflum
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Organic Synthesis ◽  
Functional Group ◽  
Bond Formation ◽  
Reaction Conditions ◽  
Carbon Bond ◽  
Oxidation Reduction ◽  
Carbon Carbon Bond ◽  
Daunting Task

Searching for reaction in organic synthesis has been made much easier in the current age of computer databases. However, the dilemma now is which procedure one selects among the ocean of choices. Especially for novices in the laboratory, it becomes a daunting task to decide what reaction conditions to experiment with first in order to have the best chance of success. This collection intends to serve as an "older and wiser lab-mate" one could have by compiling many of the most commonly used experimental procedures in organic synthesis. With chapters that cover such topics as functional group manipulations, oxidation, reduction, and carbon-carbon bond formation, Modern Organic Synthesis in the Laboratory will be useful for both graduate students and professors in organic chemistry and medicinal chemists in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries.

A Comparison of How Undergraduates, Graduate Students, and Professors Organize Organic Chemistry Reactions

2018 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelli R. Galloway ◽  
Min Wah Leung ◽  
Alison B. Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
Graduate Students

scholarly journals Basil Lythgoe. 18 August 1913—18 April 2009

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Total Synthesis ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
Natural Substances ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Organic Chemist ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

Basil Lythgoe was distinguished as an organic chemist. He began his career at the University of Manchester, where he had studied for his undergraduate and PhD degrees, before moving to University of Cambridge. During this period he collaborated with Alexander Todd on the structural elucidation and total synthesis of the natural nucleosides, and was also noted for his investigation of the structure of the natural substance macrozamin. In 1953 he moved to the chair of organic chemistry at the University of Leeds, running a research group from which several graduate students went on to academic careers of the highest distinction. At Leeds he worked on the structure of the alkaloid taxine 1 and calciferol, among other natural substances. Lythgoe's work was characterized by a combination of insight and high experimental skill.

scholarly journals Basics in colors, dyes and pigments chemistry: A review

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chem Int
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Large Community ◽  
Fundamental Understanding ◽  
Paper Review ◽  
Dyes And Pigments

More than one hundred multi choice problems and their solutions in colors, dyes and pigments chemistry are represented in this paper review. Reviewing the basic, fundamental principles and or the knowledge of colors, dyes and pigments chemistry via multi choice problems and their solutions is an interesting type of reviewing and can be considered as a novel and or patent type of reviewing which is lacking in literature. This paper review is informative and acts as a mordant and or stabilizer for the basic information, fundamental understanding, principles and or knowledge in colors, dyes and pigments chemistry, and it may be very interesting to read by a large community of dyers and colorists, and also by professors and teachers in this field. It is valuable both for getting an overview in the field of colors, dyes and pigments chemistry and as a mine of information for the dyestuff chemists. In addition, this paper review can be published and or printed as a thesis and or note book teaching and lectures for undergraduate and graduate students of chemistry departments and or chemistry institutions at any university. Besides, this paper review can be used and or will be most valuable in domestic and or international scientific and or chemistry competitions, in organic chemistry as general and particularly in the field of colors, dyes and pigments chemistry.

Trials and tribulations: student approaches and difficulties with proposing mechanisms using the electron-pushing formalism

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 594-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gautam Bhattacharyya
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Chemistry Education ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Chemistry Education Research ◽  
Coherent Picture ◽  
Mechanisms Of Reactions

The skill of proposing mechanisms of reactions using the electron-pushing formalism (EPF) is not only of value to practicing organic chemists but it is also emphasized to students enrolled in organic chemistry courses at all levels. Several research studies in the past decade have documented the difficulties that undergraduate, and even graduate students, encounter when trying to propose mechanisms using the EPF. An examination of this work suggests the emergence of a preliminary, but coherent, picture of students' strategies and difficulties with using electron-pushing to solve a variety of organic chemistry tasks. The first two sections of this paper, I present (1) two factors that may underlie several of the students' difficulties as presented in the organic chemistry education research literature; and (2) a model of how students approach solving mechanism tasks using the EPF. This paper concludes with a section on potential implications for instruction and a set of research questions arising from this analysis that have yet to be answered.

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