Organic Synthesis Highlights

A collection of articles on various topics of organic synthesis. It includes a large number of references for each article. The articles are topical, with references up to 1989 included. It covers organometallic chemistry, natural product chemistry and technical chemistry. The book is aimed at chemists working within organometallics, libraries, organic chemists, students, industrial chemists and chemists involved in working with natural products. The first part of the book describes methods and reagents, with particular emphasis on rapidly developing organometallic and bio-orientated procedures. In the second part, these tools are applied to the syntheses of interesting target compounds and natural compounds with remarkable physiological properties. Mechanistic discussions and retrosynthetic analyses are included. More than 1000 up-to-date references help the reader to pursue the topics highlighted here. This book gives both the active researcher and the advanced student insight into the competitive atmosphere, creativity, and resourcefulness so characteristic of organic synthesis today.