Online resource; title from home page (viewed July 22, 2014).

"Published Online: 14 JAN 2013"--Home page.

Edition statement from first page of chapter PDFs.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

After the overwhelming success of 'Asymmetric Synthesis - The Essentials', narrating the colorful history of asymmetric synthesis, this is the second edition with latest subjects and authors. While the aim of the first edition was mainly to honor the achievements of the pioneers in asymmetric syntheses, the aim of this new edition was bringing the current developments, especially from younger colleagues, to the attention of students. The format of the book remained unchanged, i.e. short conceptual overviews by young leaders in their field including a short biography of the authors. The growing multidisciplinary research within chemistry is reflected in the selection of topics including metal catalysis, organocatalysis, physical organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, and its applications in total synthesis. The prospective reader of this book is a graduate or undergraduate student of advanced organic chemistry as well as the industrial chemist who wants to get a brief update on the current developments in the field.

Catalytic Enantioselective Alkylation of Prochiral Ketone Enolates / Corey M Reeves, Brian M Stoltz -- Point-to-Planar Chirality Transfer in Total Synthesis: Scalable and Programmable Synthesis of Haouamine A and Its Atropisomer / Noah Z Burns, Phil S Baran -- Tethered Aminohydroxylation / Timothy J Donohoe, Stefanie Mesch -- Organocatalyzed Transformations of [alpha], [beta]-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds through Iminium Ion Intermediates / Julian H Rowley, Nicholas C O Tomkinson -- The Renaissance of Silicon-Stereogenic Silanes: A Personal Account / Andreas Weickgenannt, Martin Oestreich -- Asymmetric Dienamine Activation / Mathias Christmann -- Asymmetric Bronsted Acid Catalysis / Iuliana Atodiresei, Uxue Uria, Magnus Rueping -- Quaternary Stereogenic Centers by Enantioselective [beta]-Carbon Eliminations from tert-Cyclobutanols / Nicolai Cramer, Tobias Seiser -- Total Synthesis of Oseltamivir and ABT-341 Using One-Pot Technology / Hayato Ishikawa, Yujiro Hayashi -- Enantioselective Annulations with Chiral N-Mesityl N-Heterocyclic Carbenes / Jessada Mahatthananchai, Jeffrey W Bode -- Asymmetric Counteranion-Directed Catalysis (ACDC) / Manuel Mahlau, Benjamin List -- Enantioselective Organo-SOMO Catalysis: a Novel Activation Mode for Asymmetric Synthesis / David W C Macmillan, Sebastian Rendler -- Enantioselective Passerini Reaction / Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu, Mei-Xiang Wang -- Rapid Enantiomeric Excess Determination / Oliver Trapp -- Asymmetric Catalysis of Reversible Reactions / Lukas Hintermann -- Exploiting Fluorine Conformational Effects in Organocatalyst Design: The Fluorine-Iminium Ion / Christof Sparr, Lucie E Zimmer, Ryan Gilmour -- Dutch Resolution / Richard M Kellogg -- Construction of anti-Me-OH Vicinal Relationships in Polyketides / Vaidotas Navickas, Martin E Maier -- Photoswitchable General Base Catalysts / Philipp Viehmann, Stefan Hecht -- Asymmetric Halonium Addition to Olefins / Scott A Snyder, Alexandria P Brucks -- Catalytic Asymmetric Gosteli-Claisen Rearrangement (CAGC) / Julia Rehbein, Martin Hiersemann -- Biomimetic Total Synthesis of the Penifulvin Family / Tanja Gaich, Johann Mulzer -- Catalyst-Controlled 1,3-Polyol Syntheses / Tobias Harschneck, Stefan F Kirsch -- Enantioselective Carbonyl Allylation and Crotylation from the Alcohol Oxidation Level via C-C Bond Forming Transfer Hydrogenation / Joseph Moran, Michael J Krische -- Stereoselective Synthesis with Hypervalent Iodine Reagents / Umar Farid, Thomas Wirth -- Asymmetric Gold-Catalyzed Reactions / Nuria Huguet, Antonio M Echavarren -- Asymmetric Catalysis in the Total Synthesis of Lipids and Polyketides / Santiago Barroso, Adriaan J Minnaard -- The Evolving Role of Biocatalysis in Asymmetric Synthesis / Meelanie Hall, Wolfgang Kroutil, Kurt Faber -- Bifunctional Thiourea Catalysts / Yoshiji Takemoto, Tsubasa Inokuma -- Catalytic Asymmetric (4 + 3) Cycloadditions Using Allenamides / Yun-Fei Du, Richard P Hsung -- Application of the Achmatowicz Rearrangement for the Synthesis of Oligosaccharides / Michael F Cuccarese, George A O'doherty -- Asymmetric C-C Bond Formation Using Chiral Phosphoric Acid / Takahiko Akiyama -- Asymmetric C-H Bond Functionalization / Masayuki Wasa, Kelvin S L Chan, Jin-Quan Yu -- Asymmetric C-C Bond Formation Using Chiral Guanidine Catalysts / Masahiro Terada -- Enantioselective Synthesis of Lactones via Rh-Catalyzed Ketone Hydroacylation / Matthew M Coulter, Vy M Dong -- Radical Haloalkylation / Armen Zakarian -- Asymmetric Hydrovinylation of Alkenes / T V (babu) Rajanbabu -- Heterocycle Construction via Asymmetric Rhodium-Catalyzed Cycloadditions / Kevin M Oberg, Tomislav Rovis -- N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Catalyzed Aldol Desymmetrizations / Karl A Scheidt, Eric M Phillips, Julien Dugal-Tessier -- Strategies for the Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Natural Products: "Chiral Pool" versus Chiral Catalysts / Karl Gademann -- Dynamic Kinetic Asymmetric Transformations Involving Carbon-Carbon Bond Cleavage / Andrew T Parsons, Jeffrey S Johnson -- Iron-Catalyzed Allylic Substitutions / Markus Jegelka, Bernd Plietker -- Asymmetric Conia-ene Carbocyclizations / Filippo Sladojevich, Darren J Dixon -- Tactics and Strategies in the Total Synthesis of Chlorosulfolipids / Christian Nilewski, Erick M Carreira -- Linear Free Energy Relationships (LFERs) in Asymmetric Catalysis / Elizabeth N Bess, Matthew S Sigman -- Asymmetric Diamination of Alkenes / Jose A Souto, Kilian Muniz -- Enzymatic Asymmetric Synthesis of Tertiary Alcohols / Michael Richter -- Oxidative Dearomatization and Organocatalytic Desymmetrization / Alice E Williamson, Matthew J Gaunt -- Total Synthesis of All ( -- )-Agelastatin Alkaloids / Mohammad Movassaghi, Sunkyu Han.

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