Organic synthesis via examination of selected natural products

Suitable for advanced graduate and undergraduate students, this book intends to expose them to a variety of strategies for the synthesis of organic compounds. It presents multiple approaches to each group of synthesis targets, and compares the approaches with one another with an eye on similarities...

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore : World Scienetific , c2011
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Steroids
  • 3. Prostaglandins
  • 4. Pyrrolizidine alkaloids
  • 5. Juvabione and the vicinal stereochemistry problem
  • 6. Functional group reactivity patterns and difunctional relationships
  • 7. Some unnatural products-twistane and triquinacene
  • 8. Alkaloids-difunctional relationships and the importance of the mannich reaction
  • 9. Alkaloids from "Dart-poison" frogs
  • 10. Morphine and oxidative phenolic coupling
  • 11. Olefin synthesis and cecropia juvenile hormone
  • 12. A recent example of structure determination through total synthesis and convergent syntheses: Lasonolide A