JIE JACK LI is a chemist at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in Wallingford, Connecticut. He has authored or edited various books, including Name Reactions in Heterocyclic Chemistry, Name Reactions for Functional Group Transformations, Name Reactions for Homologations, Parts I and II, Contemporary Drug Synthesis, The Art of Drug Synthesis, and Modern Drug Synthesis, all published by Wiley.

"This comprehensive reference guide offers information on the most current developments in name reactions on carbocyclic ring formations, and is intended as a resource for both students and professionals working in organic chemistry and polymer synthesis." (Booknews, 1 February 2011)

• Foreword. Preface.Contributing Authors.Chapter 1 Three-Membered Carbocycles.1.1 Freund Reaction.1.2 Kishner Cyclopropane Synthesis.1.3 Kulinovich Cyclopropanol Synthesis.1.4 Simmons-Smith Reaction.Chapter 2 Four-Membered Carbocycles.2.1 Staudinger Ketene Cycloaddition.Chapter 3 Five-Membered Carbocycles.3.1 Danheiser Annulation.3.2 Dieckmann Condensation.3.3 Favorskii Rearrangement.3.4 Nazarov Cyclization.3.5 Pauson-Khand Reaction.3.6 Weiss–Cook Reaction.Chapter 4 Six-Membered Carbocycles.4.1 Bardhan-Sengupta Pheantherene Synthesis.4.2 Bergman Cyclization.4.3 Bogert-Cook Reaction.4.4 Bradsher Cycloaddition and Bradsher Reaction.4.5 Bradsher Reaction.4.6 Darzens Synthesis of Tetralin Derivatives.4.7 Diels-Alder Reaction.4.8 Dötz Benzannulation.4.9 Elbs Reaction.4.10 Fujimoto-Belleau Reaction.4.11 Haworth Reaction.4.12 Moore Cyclization.4.13 Myers-Saito Cyclization.4.14 Robinson Annulation.4.15 Scholl Reaction.Chapter 5 Large-Ring Carbocycles.5.1 Buchner Reaction.5.2 de Mayo Reaction.5.3 Ring-closing Metathesis (RCM).5.4 Thorpe-Ziegler Reaction.Chapter 6 Transformations of Carbocycles.6.1 Blanc Chloromethylation Reaction.6.2 Asymmetric Friedel-Crafts Reactions: Past to Present.6.3 Houben-Hoesch Reaction.6.4 Kolbe-Schmitt Reaction.6.5 Vilsmeier-Haack Reaction.6.6 von Richter Reaction.Appendices.1 Contents Volume 1: Name Reactions in Heterocyclic Chemistry.2 Contents Volume 2: Name Reactions for Functional Group Transformations.3 Contents Volume 3: Name Reactions for Homologations—Part I.4 Contents Volume 4: Name Reactions for Homologations—Part II.5 Contents Volume 6: Name Reactions in Heterocyclic Chemistry—Part II.Subject Index.