Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis 3e

IWAO OJIMA, PhD, a world-renowned leader in asymmetric catalysis, medicinal chemistry, and drug discovery, is the Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and the Director of the Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (ACS), the Chemical Society of Japan Award, and the E. B. Hershberg Award (ACS). He is a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the New York Academy of Sciences. Dr. Ojima was inducted to the Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame (ACS) in 2006.

Preface. Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Contributors. 1 Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis in Non-Conventional Media/Conditions ( Chikako Ogawa and Shu Kobayashi ). 2 Asymmetric Organocatalysis. 2A Enantioselective Organocatalysis Involving Iminium, Enamine, SOMO and Photoredox Activation ( Allan J. B. Watson and David W. C. MacMillan ). 2B Asymmetric Acid-Base Bifunctional Catalysis with Organic Molecules ( Yi Wang and Li Deng ). 2C Asymmetric Phase-Transfer and Ion Pair Catalysis ( Seiji Shirakawa and Keiji Maruoka ). 3 Chiral Lewis Acids and Br?nsted Acids in Asymmetric Synthesis ( Hisashi Yamamoto and Cheol Hong Cheon ). 4 Asymmetric Synthesis through C?H Activation ( Huw M. L. Davies and J?rn Hansen ). 5 Asymmetric Carbon-Heteroatom Bond-Forming Reactions ( Yoshiji Takemoto and Hideto Miyabe ). 6 Enzyme-Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis ( Harald Groger ). 7 Transition Metal-Catalyzed Homogeneous Asymmetric Hydrogenation ( Gao Shang, Wei Li and Xumu Zhang ). 8 Asymmetric Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions. 8A Catalytic Asymmetric Conjugate Addition ( Jian-Xin Ji and Albert S. C. Chan ). 8B Enantioselective Allylic Substitutions with Carbon-Nucleophiles ( Gunter Helmchen,Uli Kazmaier and Sebastian Forster ). 8C Asymmetric Carbometallation and Carbocyclizations ( Iwao Ojima, Joseph J. Kaloko, Stephen J. Chaterpaul, Yu-Han Gary Teng and Chi-Feng Lin ). 8D Asymmetric Ene Reactions and Cycloadditions ( Koichi Mikami and Kohsuke Aikawa ). 8E Catalytic Enantioselective Olefin Metathesis Reactions ( Amir H. Hoveyda, Steven J. Malcolmson, Simon J. Meek and Adil R. Zhugralin ). 9 Asymmetric Hydrosilation of Carbon-Carbon Double Bonds and Related Reactions ( Jin Wook Han and Tamio Hayashi ). 10 Asymmetric Carbonylations ( Cyril Godard, Aurora Ruiz, Montserrat Dieguez, Oscar Pamies and Carmen Claver ). 11 Asymmetric Oxidations and Related Reactions ( Kazuhiro Matsumoto and Tsutomu Katsuki ). 12 Asymmetric Amplification and Autocatalysis ( Kenso Soai, Tsuneomi Kawasaki, and Takanori Shibata ). 13 Asymmetric Polymerization ( Shingo Ito and Kyoko Nozaki ). Index.