Organic Synthesis Highlights

Part 1 New methods and reagents for organic synthesis: the sharpless epoxidation, D. Schinzer; enantioselective cis-dihydroxylation, H. Waldmann; enantioselective deprotonation and protonation, H. Waldmann; carbohydrate complexes in enantioselective carbon-carbon bond formation, K.H. Dotz; asymmetric aza-diels-alder reactions, H. Waldmann; C2-symmetric amines as chiral auxiliaries, H. Waldmann; iron h5-complexes in organic synthesis, D. Schinzer; rhodium-catalyzed carbenoid cyclizations, K.H. Dotz; nickel-activated C1-synthons, K.H. Dotz; aminocarbene complexes in ligand- and metal-centered carbon - carbon bond formation, K.H. Dotz; organolanthanides in reduction and nucleophilic addition methodology, K.H. Dotz; carbon-carbon bond formation with group four metallocenes, M. Maier; aluminum enolates, H. Waldmann; selective transformations with pentacoordinate silicon compounds, D. Schinzer; oxidative cleavage of silicon-carbon bonds, D. Schinzer; temporary silicon connections, M. Maier; enzymatic carbon-carbon bond formation, H. Waldmann; enzymatic synthesis of O-glycosides, H. Waldmann; electrophilic cyclizations to heterocycles - iminium systems, D. Schinzer; electrophilic cyclizations to heterocycles - oxonium systems, D. Schinzer; electrophilic cyclizations to heterocycles - sulfonium systems, D. Schinzer; polycyclization as a strategy in the synthesis of complex alkaloids, D. Schinzer; domino reactions, H. Waldmann; group selective reactions, M. Maier; hypervalent iodine reagents, H. Waldmann; furan as a building block in synthesis, M. Maier; fluorine in organic synthesis, R. Bohlmann. Part 2 Applications in total synthesis: synthesis of hydroxyethylene isosteric dipeptides, R. Henning; synthesis of natural products for plant protection, H. Fischer; penems - a new generation of beta-lactam antibiotics, G. Sedelmeier; synthesis of O-glycosides, H. Waldmann; carbacyclines - stable analogs of prostacyclines, D. Schinzer; synthesis of mitomycines, H. Waldmann; syntheses of ergot alkaloids, T. Brumby; enantioselective synthesis of piperidine alkaloids, P. Hammann; taxanes - an unusual class of natural products, D. Schinzer; CC-1065 - one of the most powerful anti-tumor compounds, D. Schinzer; syntheses of morphine, M. Maier; synthesis of calicheamicin gamma 1I, H. Waldmann; total synthesis of rapamycin, M. Maier.