Introduction
edit"Organic Synthesis", Professor Chris Willis
Retrosynthetic analysis
editApplication to organic synthesis
edit- Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis
- Baeyer-Villiger oxidation
- Osmylation
- Ozonolysis - ozone is a pair of molecular scissors
- Vicinal diols:
- Osmium tetroxide gives syn diols
- Epoxidation followed by hydrolysis gives anti diols
- Woodward cis-hydroxylation gives syn diols
- Prévost reaction gives anti diols
- Pyrrolizidine alkaloids
Textbooks
edit- Chris Willis and Martin Wills, Organic Synthesis (Oxford Chemistry Primer) (1995) (on Amazon.co.uk)
- Stuart Warren and Paul Wyatt, Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach (2008) (on Amazon.co.uk)
- Stuart Warren, Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach (1983) (on Amazon.co.uk)