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John Wiley Handbook Of Reagents For Organic Synthesis Reagents For Organocatalysis by Tomislav Rovis
Spurred by the desire to make chemistry a sustainable and "greener" technology, the field of organocatalysis has grown to become one of the most important areas in synthetic organic chemistry. Organic catalysts can often replace potentially toxic metal catalysts and allow reactions to proceed under mild reaction conditions, thereby saving energy costs and rendering chemical processes inherently safer. More importantly perhaps, organocatalysis offers a complementary reactivity in many instances leading to increased versatility. This Handbook describes 126 key reagents for organocatalytic reactions and will be especially useful for professionals in the area of sustainable chemistry, medicinal research, as well as synthetic organic chemists working in academia and the pharmaceutical industry.
All the information compiled in this volume is also available in electronic format on Wiley Online Library. The 126 reagents represented here are but a small fraction of the ca. 5,000 reagents available in the electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (e-EROS). e-EROS offers various search interfaces to locate reagents of interest, including chemical structure, substructure and reactions search modes. e-EROS is updated regularly with new and updated entries.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Tom Rovis holds the John K. Stille chair in Chemistry at the Colorado State University, Fort Collins (USA). He graduated from the University of Toronto (Canada) in 1998 and studied with David Evans at Harvard University, before joining the faculty of Colorado State. Among other scientific awards, he received the Roche Excellence in Chemistry Award in 2010. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, Excecutive Editor for the Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, and Associate Editor for the journal Synlett.