Advanced Aromatic Heterocyclic Chemistry

14 - 16 November 2012, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Introduction

This course is intended to provide a thorough update of recent developments in the synthesis and subsequent transformations of heterocyclic aromatic compounds. The lectures briefly reprise 'classical' methods used for the synthesis of aromatic heterocycles containing nitrogen, oxygen and sulphur and build upon these concepts by focusing upon advances made in the area during the last decade. Improved classical processes and any new reactions described are thoroughly delineated in problem classes held in tutorial format.