[gritch]

Hello,

I've got a 15 page paper due by the end of the semester in my organic synthesis class. It's still a ways off but I'll like to at least start brainstorming interesting ideas now. The class primarily focuses on the synthesis of aromatic systems. The only guidelines for the paper so far is that it be related to the class material without directly overlapping. Many of the topics are only briefly touched on during class and a more throughout paper on some topics would probably be fine.

Some topics on the syllabus are: tertiary alcohol oxidation, photocyclization, flash vacuum pyrolysis, Wagner-Meerwein rearragments, Elbs reaction, Jutz synthesis,diaryl coupling, and Pschorr synthesis.

If anyone has had any experience with this type of chemistry and/or knows of any interesting topics for a paper that'd be great.

As of now I was thinking of doing a much more in depth review on thermal/photo initialized cyclizations but I'm not terrible thrilled with this idea yet.

[Archer]

As of now I was thinking of doing a much more in depth review on thermal/photo initialized cyclizations but I'm not terrible thrilled with this idea yet.

Why are you not thrilled with this idea?

[azmanam]

Ginkgolide B. Fascinating study into the stereochemistry of photocyliczations... and a synthesis by my former grad school PI.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja001747s

[zsinger]

Write one on Gabriel Synthesis……FASCINATING……also, explore ways to improve yield in the H30 Workup at the last step to free the salt of the amine .