Professor Phil Baran
email: pbaran@scripps.edu
website

TAs:
Will Gutekunst, BCC-162, 784-7371
email: willgute@scripps.edu

Hans Renata , BCC-162, 784-7371
email: hrenata@scripps.edu

Texts:
Joule and Mills, "Heterocyclic Chemistry"
Li, "Name Reactions in Heterocyclic Chemistry" (Available in Library)
Corey, Czakó, Kürti, "Molecules and Medicine"

Time: 8:00am - 9:30am (unless specified otherwise)
Location: Keck Auditorium (BCC-1)

• Grades: Midterm (30%), Final (30%), Problem Sets/Project (30%), Class Participation (10%)
  Examples:
  • 2005 Midterm, 2005 Final, 2005 Problem Set
  • 2006 Midterm, 2006 Final, 2006 Problem Set
  • 2007 Midterm, 2007 Final, 2007 Problem Set
  • 2008 Midterm, 2008 Final, 2008 Problem Set
  • 2009 Midterm, 2009 Final, 2009 Problem Set 1, 2009 Problem Set 2
  • 2011 Midterm, 2011 Final, 2011 Problem Set 1, 2011 Problem Set 2
• Midterm and Final are open note exams, 2 hours
  Definition of "open notes": Only handwritten notes (from lectures and any other source), no copies allowed. Lecture summaries are the only handouts permitted during test.
• Heterocycles in Medicine Project: 2-4 Page graphical summary (ChemDraw) of one or more related papers (from J. Med. Chem. or Org. Proc. Res. Dev. only) which feature mechanistically interesting/novel transformations in heterocyclic chemistry.
  (Examples: example 1, example 2, example 3, and example 4)