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2021
March: Biosynthetic Gene Clusters in (New) Natural Product Synthesis
April: Transition Metal Catalyzed Simmons-Smith Type Cyclopropanations
May: Rhodium-Catalyzed Cross-Dehydrogenative Coupling
July: Unnatural Amino Acids
August: Cascade Reactions
September: Borane Carbenoid Homologation: Varinder Aggarwal's Contributions
November: Biocatalytic Cascades
2020
January: Photochemically-Mediated Transformations & Pd-Catalyzed Alkene Aminations
(Problem Set)
February: Catellani Reaction
April: Total Synthesis of (-)-Cajanusine
May: The Search for the Brevianamide Diels-Alderase
June: Asymmetric Autocatalysis: The Soai Reaction
August: The Communensin Alkaloids
September: Ni-Catalyzed Cross Electrophile Coupling Enabled by Overcharge Protection
2019
January: Total Synthesis of Stemonamine Alkaloids
(Problem Set)
February: Total Sythesis of Wortmannin & Viridin
(Problem Set)
March: Total Synthesis of Ecteinascidin 743
(Problem Set)
April: Petasis-Ferrier Rearrangement
(Problem Set)
May: Total Synthesis of Herquline B & C
(Problem Set)
June: Total Synthesis of (+)-Granatumine A
(Problem Set)
July: Club Info + Buchwald Ligands
(Problem Set)
August: Superacid Chemistry
(Problem Set)
September: Baldwin's Rules
(Problem Set)
October: Impact of Reaction Conditions on the Reactivity of Benzynes
(Problem Set)
November: Vinigrol
(Problem Set)
December: Using Computational Chemistry Tools in Natural Product Synthesis
(Problem Set)
2018
January: Cross Electrophile Coupling
(Problem Set)
February: Strychnine
(Problem Set)
March: Total Synthesis of (-)-Palau’amine
(Problem Set)
April: Eribulin
(Problem Set)
May: Limonoids: The Total Synthesis of (±)-Andirolide N & (-)- Xylogranatopyridine B
(Problem Set)
June: Total Syntheses of Epothilones A & B
(Problem Set)
July: Synthesis of Diazonamide A
(Problem Set)
August: Using C-C Activation as the Key Step in Total Synthesis
(Problem Set)
September: Stereoelectronic Effects in Action
(Problem Set)
October: Visible-Light Mediated Photoredox/Dual Catalysis
(Problem Set)
November: Jeff Johnson's Synthesis of Pactamycin
December: Chiral Phosphoric Acids in Total Synthesis
(Problem Set)
2017
January: Radicals in Synthesis
(Problem Set)
February: Welwitindolinone Natural Products
(Problem Set)
March: Utilizing Chiral Pool in Synthesis of Terpene Natural Products
(Problem Set)
April: Total Synthesis of (+)-Phorbol
(Problem Set)
May: Misassigned Natural Products: The Curious Case of Batzelladine F
(Problem Set,
Solutions)
June: A Molecule That Has Changed the World: Quinine
(Problem Set)
July: Arynes as Tools in Natural Product Synthesis
(Problem Set)
August: Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Organic Synthesis
(Problem Set)
September: Iodine(III)-Mediated Nitrene Transfer: Stereoselective C–H Amination in Total Synthesis
(Problem Set)
November: Total Synthesis of (+)-Pleuromutilin
(Problem Set)
December: Total Syntheses of Ryanodol & Ryanodine
(Problem Set)
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