This comprehensive text presents a critical discussion of the scopes and limitations of various organic synthetic methodologies that are available for performing asymmetric transformations.

David John Ager and Michael B. East

Introduction, Nomenclature, Why Asymmetric Synthesis?, Methods to Achieve Asymmetric Synthesis, Resolution, A Question of Scale, General Rules, Carbonyl Additions, Houk's Rule, Allylic Strain, Baldwin's Rules, Pericyclic Transition States, One-Carbon Transformations, Inversions at a Single Carbon Center, Chiral Organometallic Reagents, Other Reactions, Reactions With Carbonyl Compounds, Reactions of Carbonyl Compounds With Nucleophiles, Acetal Reactions, Other Electrophiles, Other Reactions, Reductions, Enolate Reactions of Carbonyl Compounds, Enol Ethers and Enolate Formation, Reactions of Enol Ethers and Enolates, Use of Nitrogen Derivatives, Asymmetric Deprotonations and Protonations, Reactions of Functionalized Carbonyl Systems, Alkylations of 1,2-Functionalized Carbonyl Compounds, Reductions of 1,2-Functionalized Carbonyl Compounds, Alkylations of 1,3-Functionalized Carbonyl Compounds, Reductions of 1,3-Functionalized Carbonyl Compounds, Other Systems, Aldol and Related Reactions, The Aldol Reaction: Methods of Control, The Aldol Reaction: The Role of Enolate Geometry and Metal Counterion, The Formose Reaction, Preparation and Reactions of Alkenes, Alkene Synthesis, Reactions of Alkenes, Reactions of Functionalized Alkenes, Hydrogenations, Other Transition Metal Catalyzed Reactions, Hydride Delivery Agents, Reactions of Some Functionalized Alkenes, Conjugate Additions, Allyl Alkylations, Other Reactions, Asymmetric Oxidations of Isolated Alkenes, Epoxidations, Reactions of Epoxides, 1,2-Diols, Formation and Reactions of Cyclic Sulfates, Preparation and Reactions of Aziridines, Oxidations of Functionalized Alkenes, Epoxidation of Allyl Alcohols, Reactions of 2,3-Epoxy Alcohols and Related Systems, Epoxidations and Reactions of Other Unsaturated Systems, Other Oxidations, Other Systems, Pericyclic Reactions, The Diels-Alder Reaction, Claisen Rearrangements, Ene Reaction, Dipolar Cycloadditions, [2,3] Sigmatropic Rearrangements, Photochemical Reactions, Other Reactions, Cyclization Reactions and Reactions of Cyclic Systems, Carbocycles, Preparations of Lactones and Cyclic Ethers, Reactions of Lactones and Related Systems, Reactions of Cyclic Sulfur Compounds, Biochemical Methods, Esters and Related Compounds, Reductions, Other Reactions, Catalytic Antibodies, Index