Heterocyclic Chemistry

Heterocycles are crucial components of imortant molecules found across all facets of every day life. This course of videos aims to provide a rigourous foundation of heterocyclic chemistry, it aims to teach you to: 1) identify and name the most commonly found and most important heterocycles; 2) work out when a heterocycle is aromatic and appreciate the different ways in which a heteroatom can contribute to aromaticity; 3) explain the reactivity and behaviour of different classes of heterocycles and substituted heterocycles; 4) devise or explain the synthesis of key heterocycles based upon a) classical heterocyclic syntheses; and b) basic functional group chemistry; 5) recognise how the structure and reactivity of heterocycles containing two or more heteroatoms correlates with heterocycles possessing a single heteroatom; 6) devise or explain the synthesis of heterocycles containing two or more heteroatoms and recognise the relationship to the syntheses of those containing a single heteroatom; and 7) appreciate the pivotal importance of heterocycles in important molecules.