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Recent Developments in Asymmetric Organocatalysis

Hélène Pellissier author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Royal Society of Chemistry

Published:23rd Mar '10

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1. An up-to-date digest on this rapidly expanding field 2. Applicable to organic chemists in academia and industry 3. A key, sole point of reference for anyone working in the field

An up-to-date digest on the rapidly expanding field of asymmetric organocatalysis, covering developments from 2008 onwards and aimed at organic chemists.

The aim of this book is to cover the very recent developments in asymmetric organocatalysis, focussing on those published since the beginning of 2008. The last decade has witnessed an explosive growth in the field of asymmetric organocatalysis with an impressive amount of new catalysts, novel methodologies, and applications in numerous reaction types, such as nucleophilic substitutions, addition reactions, as well as cycloadditions, oxidations, reductions, kinetic resolutions, and miscellaneous reactions. This very diverse and intensely developing field is too wide to cover in a single review. The timeliness of the book together with the expected impact is excellent, since nowadays asymmetric organocatalysis is arguably the most intensively developed field in organic chemistry. The book is designed to meet the demands of a postgraduate textbook,containing case studies and Q&A sections, as well as a practical book filled with facts and data useful as a working tool for the practitioner. The book is divided into ten sections, dealing successively with nucleophilic additions to electron-deficient C=C double bonds, nucleophilic additions to C=O double bonds, nucleophilic additions to C=N double bonds, nucleophilic additions to unsaturated nitrogen, nucleophilic substitutions at aliphatic carbon, cycloaddition reactions, oxidations, reductions, kinetic resolutions and desymmetrisations, and miscellaneous reactions.

"A strength of the book lies in the extensive use of graphics. Virtually every entry in the book is provided a graphic summary of the best cases for a particular report.""This compilation can be regarded as a snapshot of progress for a field that requires treatment in any modern graduate program in organic chemistry.""...the author has produced a work that is commendable by the measures of the topics selected and their organization."

* Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS),2011, 133, 2330 - 2330, Jeffrey N Johnston *

"...this book was set out to update the audience on the application of asymmetric organocatalysis after several earlier review articles and this certainly meets the task with a plethora of detailed reports on important asymetric organic catalysed processes.""This book will appeal to those researchers engaged in catalysis at phD or post-doctoral level and provides a useful compendium on a wide number of organocatalytic transformations."

* Chemistry World, February 2011, Benjamin Buckl

ISBN: 9781849730549

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1191g

241 pages