Organic synthesis: strategy and control/ Paul Wyatt and Stuart Warren.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [893]) and index.

Organic Synthesis; Contents; Preface; A: Introduction: Selectivity; 1.Planning Organic Syntheses: Tactics, Strategy and Control; 2.Chemoselectivity; 3.Regioselectivity: Controlled Aldol Reactions; 4.Stereoselectivity: Stereoselective Aldol Reactions; 5.Alternative Strategies for Enone Synthesis; 6.Choosing a Strategy: The Synthesis of Cyclopentenones; B: Making Carbon-Carbon Bonds; 7.The Ortho Strategy for Aromatic Compounds; 8.σ-Complexes of Metals; 9.Controlling the Michael Reaction; 10.Specifi c Enol Equivalents; 11.Extended Enolates; 12.Allyl Anions; 13.Homoenolates -- 14.Acyl Anion EquivalentsC: Carbon-Carbon Double Bonds; 15.Synthesis of Double Bonds of Defi ned Stereochemistry; 16.Stereo-Controlled Vinyl Anion Equivalents; 17.Electrophilic Attack on Alkenes; 18.Vinyl Cations: Palladium-Catalysed C-C Coupling; 19.Allyl Alcohols: Allyl Cation Equivalents (and More); D: Stereochemistry; 20.Control of Stereochemistry - Introduction; 21.Controlling Relative Stereochemistry; 22.Resolution; 23.The Chiral Pool - Asymmetric Synthesis with Natural Products as Starting Materials .; 24.Asymmetric Induction I Reagent-Based Strategy -- 25.Asymmetric Induction II Asymmetric Catalysis: Formation of C-O and C-N Bonds26.Asymmetric Induction III Asymmetric Catalysis: Formation of C-H and C-C Bonds; 27.Asymmetric Induction IV Substrate-Based Strategy; 28.Kinetic Resolution; 29.Enzymes: Biological Methods in Asymmetric Synthesis; 30.New Chiral Centres from Old - Enantiomerically Pure Compounds & Sophisticated Syntheses .; 31.Strategy of Asymmetric Synthesis; E: Functional Group Strategy; 32.Functionalisation of Pyridine; 33.Oxidation of Aromatic Compounds, Enols and Enolates -- 34.Functionality and Pericyclic Reactions: Nitrogen Heterocycles by Cycloadditions and Sigmatropic Rearrangements35.Synthesis and Chemistry of Azoles and other Heterocycles with Two or more Heteroatoms; 36.Tandem Organic Reactions; General References; Index