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Organic Synthesis: Strategy and Control
A: Introduction: Selectivity
1. Planning Organic Syntheses: Tactics, Strategy, and Control
2. Chemoselectivity
3. Regioselectivity: Controlled Aldol Reactions
4. Stereoselectivity: Stereoselective Aldol Reactions
5. Alternative Strategies for Enone Synthesis
6. Choosing a Strategy : The Synthesis of cyclopentenones
B: Making Carbon-Carbon Bonds.
7. The Ortho Strategy for Aromatic Compounds
8. ?-Complexes of Metals
9. Controlling the Michael Reaction
10. Specific Enol Equivalents
11. Extended Enolates
12. Allyl Anions
13. Homoenolates
14. Acyl Anion Equivalents
C: Carbon-Carbon Double Bonds
15. Synthesis of Double Bonds of Defined Stereochemistry
16. Stereo-Controlled Vinyl Anion Equivalents
17. Electrophilic Attack on Alkenes
18. Vinyl Cations: Palladium-Catalysed C?C Coupling
19. Allyl Alcohols: Allyl Cation Equivalents (and More)
D: Stereochemistry
20. Control of Stereochemistry ? Introduction
21 Controlling Relative Stereochemistry
22. Resolution
23. The Chiral Pool
24. Asymmetric Induction I: Reagent-Based Strategy
25. Asymmetric Induction II: Asymmetric Catalysis: Formation of C-O and C-N Bonds
26. Asymmetric Induction III: Asymmetric Catalysis: Formation of C-H and C-C Bonds
27. Asymmetric Induction IV: Substrate-Based Strategy
28. Kinetic Resolution
29. Enzymes: Biological Methods in Asymmetric Synthesis
30. New Chiral Centres from Old
31. Strategy of Asymmetric Synthesis
E: Functional Group Strategy
32. Functionalisation of Pyridine
33. Oxidation of Aromatic Compounds, Enols and Enolates
34. Functionality and Pericyclic Reactions: Nitrogen Heterocycles by Cycloadditions and Sigmatropic Rearrangements
35. Synthesis and Chemistry of Azoles and other Heterocycles with Two or more Heteroatoms
36. Tandem Organic Reactions
Appendix ? General References