Jérôme Waser

This course comprises of two parts. The bases of the thermodynamics of equilibria and of the kinetics of reactions are introduced. The first notions of quantum chemistry on electrons and bonds, exemplified in organic chemistry, are presented in the second part.

Jérôme Waser

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Infoscience

Silyl Ethynyl Benziodoxolone Reagents

Asymmetric Organocatalysis Meets Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry for the alpha-Functionalization of Carbonyl Compounds

Development of Catalytic Umpolung

Indole Alkaloids Synthesis via a Selective Cyclization of Aminocyclopropanes

Electrophilic alkynylation: the dark side of acetylene chemistry

Ethynyl Benziodoxolones for the Direct Alkynylation of Heterocycles: Structural Requirement, Improved Procedure for Pyrroles, and Insights into the Mechanism

Synthesis of 1-[(Triisopropylsilyl)ethynyl]-1 lambda(3),2-benziodoxol-3(1H)-one and Alkynylation of Indoles, Thiophenes, and Anilines

Catalytic Enantiospecific [3+2] Annulation of Aminocyclopropanes with Ketones

Para-Selective Gold-Catalyzed Direct Alkynylation of Anilines

Iron-Catalyzed [3+2] Annulation of Aminocyclopropanes with Aldehydes: Stereoselective Synthesis of Aminotetrahydrofurans

Catalytic Formal Homo-Nazarov Reaction and Other Cyclizations of Cyclopropanes

Formal Homo-Nazarov and Other Cyclization Reactions of Activated Cyclopropanes

Catalytic [3+2] Annulation of Aminocyclopropanes for the Enantiospecific Synthesis of Cyclopentylamines

Benziodoxole-based hypervalent iodine reagents for atom-transfer reactions

One-pot gold-catalyzed synthesis of 3-silylethynyl indoles from unprotected o-alkynylanilines

Cyclopropanes and Hypervalent Iodine Reagents: High Energy Compounds for Applications in Synthesis and Catalysis

Pd(0)-Catalyzed Oxy- and Aminoalkynylation of Olefins for the Synthesis of Tetrahydrofurans and Pyrrolidines

New Acetylene Chemistry

A Palladium-Catalyzed Aminoalkynylation Strategy towards Bicyclic Heterocycles: Synthesis of (±)-Trachelanthamidine

Cyclization of Aminocyclopropanes in Indole Alkaloids Synthesis

Benziodoxole-based hypervalent iodine reagents for atom-transfer reactions

Direct Alkynylation of Thiophenes: Cooperative Activation of TIPS–EBX with Gold and Brønsted Acids

Ethynyl-1,2-benziodoxol-3(1 H)-one (EBX): An Exceptional Reagent for the Ethynylation of Keto, Cyano, and Nitro Esters

Catalytic Selective Cyclizations of Aminocyclopropanes: Formal Synthesis of Aspidospermidine and Total Synthesis of Goniomitine

Synthesis of Chiral Bifunctional (Thio)Urea N-Heterocyclic Carbenes

Azides by Olefin Hydroazidation Reactions

Pd-Catalyzed Intramolecular Oxyalkynylation of Alkenes with Hypervalent Iodine

Direct Alkynylation of Indole and Pyrrole Heterocycles

Cyclization and Cycloaddition Reactions of Cyclopropyl Carbonyls and Imines

Cyclization of Cyclopropyl Carbonyls and the Homo-Nazarov Reaction

Catalytic Formal Homo-Nazarov Cyclization

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Advanced general chemistry I

Advanced general chemistry II

Catalytic asymmetric reactions in organic chemistry

Modern Organic chemistry-Trends in the field

Frontiers in Chemical Synthesis. Towards Sustainable Chemistry

Frontiers in Organic Synthesis. Part II Synthesis of carbo- and hetero-cycles

Frontiers in Organic Synthesis. Part III Stereochemistry

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