Teaching & PhD PhD Students Morgane Elodie Marie Delattre, Paul Jean Gri, Clément Paul Adrien Rols, Yun Hao Shawn Teh Past EPFL PhD Students Jean-Baptiste Gualtierotti, Ala Bunescu, Thomas Buyck, Olivier Wagnières, Minh Tu Ha, Dylan Jean Robert Dagoneau, Antonin François Roland Clemenceau, Cyril Piemontesi, Nicolas David Gaeng, Mathias Mamboury, Raphaël Beltran, Balázs Budai, Teerawat Songsichan, Alexandre Julien Florent Leclair, Bastien Delayre, Rémi Julien Sylvain Andres, Dina Boyarskaya, Rémi Lavernhe, Cédric Fung, Takuji Fujii, Vincent Léon Norbert Goëlo, Dan Forster Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Viktoria Reinmüller Courses Modern Organic chemistry-Highlights in the field CH-640 Total synthesis, Natural product, Green chemistry, nantioselective synthesis, Organo-catalysis, Lewis acid,Transition-metal, Drugdiscovery. Organic chemistry laboratory Work CH-230 Purification methods (distillation, crystallization, chromatography), simple organic syntheses: bromination, reduction, acylation, imine, nitration, Grignard, Reformatsky)Acquisition of knowledge on the chemical hazards and how to protect ourself. Knowledge of legal commitments. Organic functions and reactions I CH-233 The course will focus on the reactivity of carbonyl compounds: their structure, reactivity and transformations; the reaction of enols/enolates. The understanding of reaction mechanisms, chemo-, regio- and stereo-selectivities will be emphasized. Synergism between Art of Total Synthesis and High Level Strategic Design (MOM) CH-622 Retro-synthessis, Total Synthesis, Atom-economy Total synthesis of natural products CH-438 Complex polycyclic natural products are chosen to illustrate the evolution of the state-of-the-art of the field, the interplay between strategy and new reactions as well as the importance of implementing multi-bond forming processes in a synthesis.
