Organocopper Reagents: A Practical Approach

It has been a pleasure to review this excellent volume. It will prove to be of value to academic and industrial practitioners of organic synthesis. I confidently expect that all reasearch laboratories will contain a copy. I hope that the publishers will be persuaded to standardise the drawings in future volumes - there are even differences within some chapters - so as to achieve a uniformity of presentation. Despite this minor criticism, all those connected with the production of this book are to be congratulated.

• 1. Organocopper chemistry: an overview ; 2. General procedures: starting materials and reaction guidelines ; 3. Preparation of reagents using activated copper ; 4. Preparation of highly functionalized reagents ; 5. Higher order cuprates ; 6. Me3SiCl accelerated conjugate additions ; 7. BF3/AlCl3 mediated conjugate addition and substitution reactions ; 8. Asymmetric conjugate addition ; 9. Conjugate addition - enolate trapping reactions ; 10. Sonogashira Cu/Pd catalysed alkyne coupling ; 11. Alkyne carbocupration and polyene synthesis via palladium catalysed coupling ; 12. Synthetic applications of silyl and stannyl cuprates ; 13. Mechanistic studies of organocopper reactions ; Appendix 1: Compilation of organocopper preparations ; Appendix 2: Suppliers of reagents and specialist items ; Index