CHEM 144

Practical and Theoretical Introductory Organic Synthesis

Chemistry and Biochemistry · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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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.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisites: courses 30C and 30CL, with grades of C– or better.

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grade C- or better in

all of
- CHEM 30C
- CHEM 30CL

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 30AOrganic Chemistry I: Structure and Reactivity1 more beneath
CHEM 30CLOrganic Chemistry Laboratory II
- CHEM 30BOrganic Chemistry II: Reactivity, Synthesis, and Spectroscopyanother path to it

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