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Product Description: Designed for practitioners of organic synthesis, this book helps chemists understand and take advantage of rearrangement reactions to enhance the synthesis of useful chemical compounds. Provides ready access to the genesis, mechanisms, and synthetic utility of rearrangement reactions Emphasizes strategic synthetic planning and implementation Covers 20 different rearrangement reactions Includes applications for synthesizing compounds useful as natural products, medicinal compounds, functional materials, and physical organic chemistry...read more

Product Description: Heteroarenes are among the most prevalent structural units in natural products, pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and other compounds of scientific or commercial interest. In the last decade, a broad range of novel synthetic methods has been developed to not only facilitate construction of the heteroarene motif, but to enable its modification through direct C?H functionalization...read more

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Product Description: Combining the important research topic of multiple bond-forming transformations with green chemistry, this book helps chemists identify recent sustainable stereoselective synthetic sequences. •    Combines the important research topic of multiple bond-forming transformations with green chemistry and sustainable development •    Offers a valuable resource for preparing compounds with multiple stereogenic centers, an important field for synthetic chemists •    Organizes chapters by molecular structure of final products, making for a handbook-style resource •    Discusses applications of the synthesis of natural products and of drug intermediates •    Brings together otherwise-scattered information about a number of key, efficient chemical reaction...read more

Product Description: The second edition of Comprehensive Organic Synthesis―winner of the 2015 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Science from the Association of American Publishers―builds upon the highly respected first edition in drawing together the new common themes that underlie the many disparate areas of organic chemistry...read more

Product Description: Advanced tools for developing new functional materials and applications in chemical research, pharmaceuticals, and materials science Cycloadditions are among the most useful tools for organic chemists, enabling them to build carbocyclic and heterocyclic structures...read more

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Product Description: For the second edition of 'Microreactors in Organic Chemistry and Catalysis' all chapters have been revised and updated to reflect the latest developments in this rapidly developing field. This new edition has 60% more content, and it remains a comprehensive publication covering most aspects of the topic...read more

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