Course Weekly Lecture Plan

Week	Topic
1	1- Definition of free radicals, properties, stabilities, reactivities and kinetics
2	2- Radicals centered on an atom other than carbon
3	3-Reactions and mechanisms of free radicals I (production methods of free radicals, radical-radical reactions, substitution reactions)
4	4-Reactions and mechanisms of free radicals II (production methods of free radicals, radical-radical reactions, substitution reactions)
5	5-Reactions and mechanisms of free radicals III (addition and fragmentation reactions of free radicals)
6	6-Reactions and mechanisms of free radicals IV (cyclizations and rearrangement reactions of radicals)
7	7-Aromatic substitution reactions of free radicals
8	8-Reactions of charged radicals and free radicals in biochemistry
9	9-How to prove that a reaction is a radical process
10	10-Applications in synthesis I (functionalization of C-H bond, transformation of functional groups, additions of multiple bonds and coupling reactions)
11	11-Applications in synthesis II (Reaction of Barton-McCombie for nucleosides and sugars, Barton Decarboxylation reaction, free radical reactions with metal hydride)
12	12-Applications in polymer chemistry (free radical polymerization) I
13	13-Applications in polymer chemistry (controlled/living radical polymerization) II
14	14-Current advances