OC VI Lecture Notes
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These chapters were written and illustrated by the PhD students and postdocs in Professor Bode’s research group at ETH-Zürich as the “script” for OC VI: Advanced Methods and Strategies in Organic Chemistry. Professor Bode’s group members (and a few from the Hilvert group) put an enormous amount of time and effort into preparing these chapters! They are designed to present the background and development of both historical and contemporary topics in organic chemistry. All entries are based on the primary literature and citations provided. In nearly all cases, the schemes have been redrawn in Chemdraw and are available for use or modification without copyright violations. The notes are updated from time to time and 2-3 new chapters per year are created. In a future project, we will prepare these notes in eBook format for better reading on tablet devices.
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