Overview
You have completed an outline of your paper, where you have organized some ideas and gotten some research together. Now turn your outline of ideas into a formal draft! Your rough draft should consist of four paragraphs which cover the following topics:
Paragraph 1: The discovery of your molecule (who, when, where), when it was first synthesized, and/or general background information.
Paragraph 2: Describe structural features of interest (chiral centers, functional groups, rings, conjugated pi bonds, etc.) in your molecule
Paragraph 3: Describe at least four steps of interest from one or more published syntheses of your molecule, and briefly describe the mechanism of two of those steps (precursors, bonds or functional groups made, conditions, etc.)
Paragraph 4: Describe the utility or research interest of your molecule (drug properties? useful material? "We're making it to show off some cool chemistry?"- all fair game!)