Asymmetric Synthesis Of Three Membered Rings

The first handbook to focus on the asymmetric synthesis of different types of three-membered rings. The outstanding and experienced authors have an excellent international reputation and cover cyclopropanes, epoxides and aziridines as well as chiral oxaziridines in equal measure. To this end, they describe in detail different synthetic approaches starting with chiral substrates as well as the application of chiral metal- or organocatalysts. Furthermore, methods for the kinetic resolution of initially racemic products are treated alongside recent advances and novel developments in established techniques for the synthesis of three-membered rings. With its structured composition this is of high interest to scientists in methodological and natural product synthesis as well as those in industrial and pharmaceutical chemistry.

3-membered heterocyclic rings offer an unusual combination of synthetic flexibility, reactivity, and atom economy. The main challenge for synthetic chemists, both in academia and industry, is the search for efficient approaches to target molecules. This book presents several methodologies for the synthesis of three-membered heterocyclic compounds and the readers will defiantly gain knowledge about the topic. With Three-Membered Heterocycle Synthesis, readers have detailed information about the synthesis of three-membered heterocyclic compounds. It comprehensively describes three-membered heterocyclic compounds synthesis, allowing the audience to quickly assess possible synthetic approaches. Covers the applications of three-membered heterocycles Includes comprehensive descriptions of heterocycle synthesis Highlights methodologies for the synthesis of three-membered heterocycles Analyzes several types and families of compounds, with a large set of recent examples in the field

The review covers work published in the calendar year 2012. The synthesis of four-membered oxygen- and nitrogen-containing heterocycles is reviewed. New developments in the reaction chemistry of four-membered heterocycles, especially β-lactams, are covered.

Here, all aspects of the topic are presented in a compact manner. The book is clearly structured, and divided into two sections -- asymmetric synthesis of heterocycles containing only one nitrogen and that of those with more than one nitrogen as a heteroatom -- such that the necessary information may be found at a glance. The international team of authors provides important experimental procedures, including industrial applications. Essential for synthetic chemists in pharmaceutical and agrochemical chemistry.

The series Topics in Heterocyclic Chemistry presents critical reviews on present and future trends in the research of heterocyclic compounds. Overall the scope is to cover topics dealing with all areas within heterocyclic chemistry, both experimental and theoretical, of interest to the general heterocyclic chemistry community. The series consists of topic related volumes edited by renowned editors with contributions of experts in the field.

This chapter covers the chemistry of three-membered heterocycles, epoxides, aziridines, azirines, and oxaziridines for the calendar year 2012. For each of the different three-membered heterocycles, a listing of new methods of synthesis and new examples of reactions are presented. This review is not comprehensive for 2012 but covers methods and reactions that should be synthetically useful for the practicing chemist and those interested in the study of three-membered heterocyclic ring systems.

The major emphasis here is on enantioselective reactions using asymmetric catalysts. Examples from the total synthesis of various natural and unnatural targets validates the utility of the synthetic methods. Specific topics discussed: cycloaddition, cycloisomerization and sigmatropic rearrangement reactions, allylic and carbonyl functionalization reactions, metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions, desymmetrization, fluorination, polymerization and sulfide oxidation reactions. This volume is part of a 3-volume set: Science of Synthesis Stereoselective Synthesis Workbench Edition Further information about Stereoselective Synthesis (including sample pages and the table of contents)