InhaltsangabeForeword. Preface. Contributing Authors. Chapter 1. Asymmetric Synthesis. Chapter 2. Reduction. Chapter 3. Oxidation. Chapter 4. Olefination. Chapter 5. Amine Synthesis. Chapter 6. Carboxylic Acid Derivatives Synthesis. Chapter 7. Miscellaneous Functional Group Manipulations. Appendixes. Appendix 1. Table of Contents for Volume 1: Name Reactions in Heterocyclic Chemistry. Appendix 2. Table of Contents for Volume 3: Name Reactions for Chain Extension. Appendix 3. Table of Contents for Volume 4: Name Reactions for Ring Formation. Appendix 4. Table of Contents for Volume 5: Name Reactions in Heterocyclic Chemistry-2. Subject Index.

Jie Jack Li is a medicinal chemist at Pfizer Global Research and Development in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is coauthor of Contemporary Drug Synthesis and editor of Name Reactions in Heterocyclic Chemistry (both from Wiley). E. J. Corey, Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, is scientific editorial advisor for this book. Dr. Corey won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1990 for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis, and was awarded the Priestley Medal in 2004.

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