Organic Reactions V36 - Hardcover

This volume forms part of a collection of works designed to save practitioners and students the time and effort of extensive literature searches by providing the background necessary to apply each method and discussing their scope and applications. Three processes are covered: the nitrone-olefin cycloaddition reaction, phosphorus addition at sp2, and reduction by metal alkoxyaluminum hydrides (carboxylic acids and derivatives, nitrogen compounds and sulphur compounds). Each topic includes details on preparation and procedures, focusing on limitations, interfering influences, effects of structure, and selection of experimental techniques. Also illustrated are significant modifications of these methods.

Andrew S. Kende, Charles F. Houghton Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus PhD, Harvard University, 1957. Professor Kende's research interests include the total synthesis of alkaloids, terpenes, and antibiotics; rearrangement reactions; synthesis of antineoplastic natural products; chemistry of small rings; chemical and biochemical studies of polyhalogenated xenobiotics and of bacterial autoinducers.