The course is dedicated to the understanding of the concepts and consequences of molecular chirality and to illustrate some of the most advanced topics in this area, including several important applications at the industrial level, in biological as well as material chemistry research, and in organic synthesis.
Bibliographic material and references for further study of these subjects will be provided.
The course is composed by 6 lectures of 2-hour time, distributed over two weeks, for a total of 12 hours, corresponding to 1.5 CFU. Students will get credits according to their attendance to the lectures and a final exam.
The lecture titles and contents are:
1-Life, the Universe and… Chirality.
2-Chiral separations
3-Chiral analysis by non-chromatographic methods
4-The quest for absolute asymmetric synthesis
5-Chirality in supramolecular systems
6- Chirality in biomolecular systems