title: Teaching target-oriented and diversity-oriented organic synthesis at Harvard University.
abstract: Diversity-oriented synthesis presents many formidable challenges to the practitioners of synthetic organic chemistry. Those challenges include the effective teaching of this new and evolving discipline to ensure that students are well positioned to begin exploring its full potential. Fortunately, the teaching of synthetic organic chemistry has a rich history in the context of target-oriented synthesis, and this precedent can serve as a strong foundation for meeting the challenges of teaching diversity-oriented synthesis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. burke@slsiris.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Martin D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Burke
authors.forename: Gojko
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lalic
mesh_terms: D000478:Alkylation; D002625:Chemistry, Organic / Q000193:education* / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D003479:Curriculum / Q000639:trends; D015195:Drug Design; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D009930:Organic Chemicals / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry; D013663:Teaching; D014495:Universities
chemical_list: D009930:Organic Chemicals