Heterocycles (eBook)

Teresa M.V.D. Pinho e Melo is an Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She is Head of the Organic Chemistry Research Group of the Coimbra Chemistry Centre and her research interests are in the area of synthetic and mechanistic heterocyclic chemistry as well as medicinal chemistry. She has published 144 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and 11 patents/patent applications. Marta Pineiro is an Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Her research interests are in the area of sustainable organic synthesis, microwave-assisted organic synthesis, mechanochemistry and synthesis and applications of heterocycles with unique photophysical properties. She has published 60 peer-reviewed papers, in international journals, 7 book/book chapters and 3 patents/patent applications.

SYNTHESIS AND CATALYTIC METHODS
1) Heterocyclic Compounds in Enantioselective Photochemical Reactions
2) Heterocycles via Dearomatization Reactions
3) Strategies for the Synthesis of Heterocyclic Macrocycles and Medium-sized Rings
4) Organocatalysis in Synthetic Heterocyclic Chemistry
5) Transition-Metal Catalysis in Synthetic Heterocyclic Chemistry
6) Biocatalytic Synthesis of Heterocycles

SUSTAINABLE METHODS
7) Multicomponent Synthesis of Heterocycles
8) Heterocyclic Compounds from Renewable Resources
9) Synthesis of Heterocycles in Nonconventional Bio-based Reaction Media
10) Mechanochemistry in Heterocyclic Synthesis
11) Flow Chemistry: Sequential Flow Processes for the Synthesis of Heterocycles

CHARACTERIZATION
12) Matrix Isolation in Heterocyclic Chemistry
13) NMR Structural Characterization of Oxygen Heterocyclic Compounds