Description The Elsevier Tetrahedron Organic Chemistry Series is a topical series of monographs by world-renowned scientists in several fields of
organic chemistry. The Tetrahedron Organic Chemistry Series has been very successful in providing some of the very best scholarly works
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synthesis and structure determination, including:
* Reagents
* Reaction mechanisms
* Molecular Diversity
* Asymmetric Synthesis
* Multi-dimensional
nmr
* Enzymatic Synthesis
* Organometallic Chemistry
* Biologically Important Molecules
Audience
For senior undergraduate and graduate students of organic chemistry, and all teachers of organic chemistry.
Contents
Selected Problems: A tandem route to 1,2,3,4-tetrasubstituted naphthalenes. The Hooker oxidation. Benzopyrene synthesis
- by accident. Lactone ammonolysis. Acid-catalysed condensation of indole with acetone. Flash vacuum pyrolysis of o-xylylene
dimers. A "stable enol" that doesn't exist. Reaction of benzothiazole with DMAD. Ring contractions of a dibenzothiepinone. Rearrangement
of 6-hydroxyprotopine to dihydrosanguinarine. An intramolecular Wittig reaction. Easy contruction of a tricyclic indole related to the
mitomycins. A flavone from a chromanone. Lewis acid-catalysed condensation of indole with 1,3-cyclohexanedione. Two syntheses of dehydrorotenone.
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