Advanced Organic Chemistry

Course schedule

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29-9-2025, 27-10-2025, 26-1-2026, 16-2-2026, 23-3-2026, 20-4-2026
6 sessions
15:00 18:00 Wageningen Campus Yvonne Smolders Apply

Course description

ORC organises a series of lectures, with the aim to improve your understanding of the modern organic chemistry and its interconnections with neighboring disciplines. Lectures (2-3 hours each) will be given on a monthly basis, and the materials for pre-lecture preparation will be provided a week in advance. The full 1-year course of 7 lectures is equal to 2.1 ECTS credits. PhD students from ORC have to attend the course in their PhD years 1-3, while other VLAG students can attend selected lectures and get 0.3 ECTS/lecture, if the pre-lecture preparation was done.

Course materials vary with each session. The main Advanced Organic Chemistry course textbook is The Art of Writing Reasonable Organic Reaction Mechanisms (Grossman)

The course schedule for 2025-2026:

29.09.2025  Fedor Miloserdov      Total Synthesis

27.10.2025  Simone Ruggeri         Nanoscale Surface Analysis 

26.01.2026  Bauke Albada            Peptide Chemistry

16.02.2026  Eva Meeus                 In vivo Catalysis

23.03.2026  Maarten Smulders    Polymer Chemistry

20.04.2026  Han Zuilhof               Click Chemistry

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01.06.2026  Fedor Miloserdov      Organic Reaction Mechanisms Part 1

28.09.2026  Fedor Miloserdov      Organic Reaction Mechanisms Part 2

Information:

For questions on the content of the course: fedor.miloserdov@wur.nl. For organizational matters please contact office.orc@wur.nl (ORC PhD students) or VLAG yvonne.smolders@wur.nl (for PhD students who are not affiliated with the ORC group).