Ebook: ?-Hydroxy Acids in Enantioselective Syntheses

Attention synthetic chemist!

Chiral alpha-hydroxy acids available from nature's chiral pool serve as starting materials in a wide variety of enantioselective conversions leading to commercially important products. This monograph, a stimulating source of ideas and an essential reference work for research chemists, focuses on the well-known lactic, mandelic, malic, and tartaric acids.

Well-chosen examples show how chiral centers inherent in these simple compounds can be used to control the introduction of further stereogenic centers. Readers can directly apply new transformations in their own work since reaction conditions are given in handy tables.

Content:
Chapter 1 Lactic Acid (Part 1) (pages 1–64):
Chapter 1 Lactic Acid (Part 2) (pages 65–118):
Chapter 1 Lactic Acid (Part 3) (pages 119–136):
Chapter 2 Mandelic Acid (pages 137–165):
Chapter 3 Malic Acid (Part 1) (pages 167–213):
Chapter 3 Malic Acid (Part 2) (pages 213–275):
Chapter 3 Malic Acid (Part 3) (pages 275–312):
Chapter 4 Tartaric Acid (Part 1) (pages 313–368):
Chapter 4 Tartaric Acid (Part 2) (pages 368–424):
Chapter 4 Tartaric Acid (Part 3) (pages 424–478):