The past decade of organic chemistry may be charcterized as a period of violent
development of new synthetic methods. This was accompained by a systematization of the …

Among the applications of low‐valent titanium in organic synthesis, the reductive coupling of
carbonyl compounds to produce alkenes (the McMurry reaction) is particularly prominent …

The formation of a carbon-carbon bond using free radicals has ushered a new era1-8 in the
domain of synthetic organic chemistry. This development, which took place during the last …

In den letzten zehn Jahren haben sich die organisch‐chemischen Synthesemethoden
stürmisch entwickelt. Parallel dazu ist die Analyse synthetischer Probleme systematisiert …

The second edition of this best-selling handbook is bigger, more comprehensive, and now
completely current. In addition to thorough updates to the discussions featured in the first …

Allylsilanes are interesting synthetic intermediates with highly nucleophilic double bonds, 2
and recently we have demonstrated that the allyl transferreaction takes place very smoothly …

Active titanium metal, produced in a finely divided form by reduction of TiCl3 with either
potassium or lithium, will reductively couple ketones and aldehydes to olefins. Although the …

Catalysis with lanthanide (Ln) complexes has been underestimated for long time, although
LnIII complexes have great advantages as Lewis acid catalysts for “asymmetric” carbon …

The use of metals in carbon-carbon bond forming reactions is well-known. Recent advances
in organo-metallic chemistry have produced many useful and highly specific carbon-carbon …

Recent examples are given to emphasize that alumina can cause many different and often
unexpected chemical reactions of adsorbed organic molecules. Recent developments are …