Organic Reactions, Volume 70

Larry Overman is Professor of Chemistry at the University of California at Irvine. He obtained a B.A. degree from Earlham College in 1965, and completed his doctoral dissertation in 1969 with Professor Howard W. Whitlock, Jr., at the University of Wisconsin. After a NIH postdoctoral fellowship with Professor Ronald Breslow at Columbia University, he joined the faculty at the University of California, Irvine, in 1971. Professor Overman's research interests center on the invention of new reactions and strategies in organic synthesis and the total synthesis of natural products and their congeners. Using synthesis strategies developed largely in his laboratory, Professor Overman's group has completed total syntheses of more than 80 structurally complex natural products.

• 1. THE CATALYTIC ASYMMETRIC STRECKER REACTION (Masakatsu Shibasaki, Motomu Kanai, and Tsuyoshi Mita). 2. THE SYNTHESIS OF PHENOLS AND QUINONES VIA FISCHER CARBENE COMPLEXES (Marcey L. Waters and William D. Wulff ).CUMULATIVE CHAPTER TITLES BY VOLUME.AUTHOR INDEX, VOLUMES 1-70.CHAPTER AND TOPIC INDEX, VOLUMES 1-70.