Teaching

I have established a lecture series on the Science of Synthesis (Synthesewissenschaft) that aims to teach students about available and valuable methods for selective structural manipulation of organic molecules. The course illustrates opportunities and illuminates limitations of the currently available synthetic methodology. I will outline ways and means – tactics and strategies – for the selective structural manipulation of structurally complex molecules with relevance to medicinal chemistry, materials chemistry, and natural product chemistry. To (pre)serve the purpose, my lecture series is based exclusively on examples from the contemporary original literature. By design, relevance with respect to the current state of the art is thus secured. The lecture series doesn’t shy away from the unexpected or the unexplainable experimental results nor from the exceptions from the rule. Hence, the lecture series was not designed to hide but rather to introduce to intellectual ambiguities in this field of research. For more information, please visit Moodle of the TU Dortmund.