Advanced Organic Synthesis

Catalog description

This course will cover essential synthetic and characterization methodologies of complex organic molecules and polymers, particularly the conjugated semiconducting and conducting molecules and polymers relevant to supramolecular 'plastic' electronic and optoelectronic applications. The course will first provide a brief overview of important and relevant organic reactions and mechanisms; it will then present advanced lab techniques and instrumentations, product purification and characterizations, including air sensitive chemicals handling, vacuum distillation, sublimation, rotary evaporation, thin-layer chromatography, column chromatography, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), elemental analysis and mass spectrometry, thermal analysis (DSC/TGA), gel permeation chromatography (GPC) and HPLC, cyclic voltammetry (CV), UV-VIS spectrometry, luminescence spectrometry, FT-IRRaman, etc.