Organic Syntheses, Volume 65

Edwin Vedejs was born in 1941 in Riga, Latvia. After completion of his BS and PhD, he spent a postdoctoral year with E. J. Corey at Harvard. Prof. Vedejs then joined the chemistry faculty at the University of Wisconsin. In 1999, he returned to the University of Michigan as the Moses Gomberg Professor of Chemistry. Work in the Vedejs group combines topics at the interface of methodology, total synthesis, heterocycle chemistry, stereochemistry, and related mechanistic studies. Prof. Vedejs has won several awards: Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, 1984; Professore a Contratto, University of Bologna, Italy, 1988; Helfaer Professor, 1991-1996; Pharmacia&Upjohn Teaching Award, 1996. Robert M. Bock Professor, 1997-98; Paul Walden Medal, Riga Technical University; H. C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods, 2004. Grand Medal of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, 2005. Order of the Three Stars, Latvia, 2006. Honorary Doctorate, Riga Technical University 2010.

• Partial table of contents: Acetone Trimethylsilyl Enol Ether (N. Walshe et al.). 3-Hydroxy-3-Methyl-1-Phenyl-1-Butanone by Crossed Aldol Reaction(T. Mukaiyama, K. Narasaka). Ring Expansion and Cleavage of Succinoin Derivatives:Spiro[4.5]Decane-1, 4-Dione and Ethyl 4-Cyclohexyl-4-Oxobutanoate(E. Nakamura, I. Kuwajima). Preparation and Three-Carbon /Two Carbon Cycloaddition of a Cyclopropenone Ketal: Cyclo-Propenone1,3-Propanediol Ketal (D. Boger et al.). 1,2,3,4,5-Pentamethylcyclo-Pentadiene (R. Threlkel et al.). Methylenation of Carbonyl Compounds: (/)-3-Methylene-cis-p-Methane(L. Lombardo). A General Synthetic Method for the Preparation of Conjugated Dienesfrom Olefins Using Bromomethanesulfonyl Bromide:1,2-Dimethylenecyclohexane (E. Block, M. Aslamb). Unchecked Procedures. Cumulative Author Indexes for Volume 65. Cumulative Subject Indexes for Volume 65.