Asymmetric Organocatalysis in Natural Product Syntheses

• Main Author: Waser, Mario (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products, 96
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Organic chemistry.; Medicinal chemistry.; Catalysis.; Organic Chemistry.; Medicinal Chemistry.

This book provides the reader with an illustrative overview concerning successful and widely used applications of organocatalysis in the field of natural product synthesis. The main focus will be on organocatalytic key-steps for each (multi-step) synthesis described, whereas other often particularly...

Table of Contents:

• Enamine Catalysis
• Iminium Catalysis
• Combined Iminium-Enamine Catalyzed Approaches
• Single Occupied Molecular Orbital (SOMO) Catalysis
• Asymmetric Phase-Transfer Catalysis
• Chiral Brønsted Acids and Hydrogen Bonding Donors
• Chiral Brønsted and Lewis Bases.-Asymmetric Oxidations and Reductions.