Subject Code: CY7L012 Subject Name: Organic Reagents and Reactions L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3
Prerequisite(s): Nil
General introduction; Modern oxidizing and reducing reagents with applications; organotransition metal reagents:  Organosilicon, organotin, organoborane, organocopper, organopalladium and functionalized Grignard reagents; oragnocatalysts; metal carbonyl reagents; Lewis Acids, Tebbe reagent, Corey-Nicolaou reagent, Peterson’s synthesis, baker’s yeast, lipase,Mosher’s reagent in organic synthesis. Name reactions including coupling reactions, rearrangement reactions in organic synthesis and functional group transformations.
Text/ Reference Books:
  1. Carey F. A. and Sundberg R. Advanced Organic Chemistry, Part B, Plenum Press.
  2. Carruthers W. Modern methods of Organic Synthesis, Cambridge University Press.
  3. Norman R. O. C.  and Coxon J. M. Principles of Organic Synthesis, Nelson Thornes.