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alkylation of enolates and other carbon nucleophiles, reactions of carbon nucleophiles with carbonyl compounds, functional group interconversion by substitution, including protection and deprotection, electrophilic additions to carbon-carbon multiple bonds, reduction of carbon-carbon multiple bonds, carbonyl groups and other functional groups, concerted cycloadditions, unimolecular rearrangements and thermal eliminations, organometallic compounds of group I and II metals, reactions involving transition metals, carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions of compounds of boron, silicon and tin, reactions involving carbocations, carbenes and radicals as reactive intermediates, aromatic substitution reactions, oxidations, multistep syntheses