Book Review. Organic Synthesis Highlights II. H. Waldermann (ed.), VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 1995, 420 pages: DM 98.00, ISBN 3 527 29200 4

✍ Scribed by P. R. Jenkins

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 12 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0268-2605
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0739(199701)11:1<67::aid-aoc544>3.0.co;2-6

✦ Synopsis

This book is a well-organized collection of 40 essays on recent advances in synthetic chemistry. The editor, Professor H. Waldmann, has recruited a group of six authors from industry and four from universities in Germany and Switzerland. The topics are divided into three sections: one on new methods including asymmetric synthesis, organometallic reagents, silicon-mediated reactions, applications of enzymes, cyclization and general methods, a second section on the applications of new and old methods in total synthesis of classes of natural products, and finally some important individual targets of recent times.

The readership for a book such as this could be defined as anyone interested in improving their knowledge of