Organic synthesis

Organic chemistry can be studied by functional groups, as in Organic Chemistry made transparent, or by synthetic transformations and their strategy. This topic moves to the second approach: how the synthesis of a molecule is designed, above all the formation of C–C bonds.

It introduces E. J. Corey's retrosynthetic analysis and its vocabulary (disconnection, synthon, synthetic equivalent), functional group interconversion, polarity inversion (umpolung) and protecting groups, and applies them to ibuprofen, aspirin, paracetamol, lidocaine and epothilone.