CHEM 144Practical and Theoretical Introductory Organic Synthesis
Chemistry and Biochemistry · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Lectures on modern synthetic reactions and processes, with emphasis on stereospecific methods for carbon-carbon bond formation. Laboratory methods of synthetic organic chemistry, including reaction techniques, synthesis of natural products, and molecules of theoretical interest.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisites: courses 30C and 30CL, with grades of C– or better.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
CHEM 144
- CHEM 30COrganic Chemistry III: Reactivity, Synthesis, and Biomolecules
- CHEM 30BOrganic Chemistry II: Reactivity, Synthesis, and Spectroscopy
- CHEM 30CLOrganic Chemistry Laboratory II
- CHEM 30BLOrganic Chemistry Laboratory I
2 direct requisites. Showing 10 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
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