A. C. Knipe 
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2008 
An annual survey covering the literature dated January to December 2008

This volume is the 44th in this classical series. In every volume relevant reaction mechanisms are featured in chapters entitled:

* Reaction of Aldehydes and Ketones and their Derivatives

* Reactions of Carboxylic, Phosphoric, and Sulfonic Acids and their Derivatives

* Oxidation and Reduction

* Carbenes and Nitrenes

* Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution

* Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

* Carbocations

* Nucleophilic Aliphatic Substitution

* Carbanions and Electrophilic Aliphatic Substitution

* Elimination Reactions

* Addition Reactions: Polar Addition

* Addition Reactions: Cycloadditions

* Molecular Rearrangements

An experienced team of authors is compiling these reviews every year, so that the reader can rely on a continuing quality of selection and presentation. As a new service to the reader all reaction mechanisms leading to stereospecific products are highlighted. This reflects the needs of the organic synthetic community with leads to chiral reactions.

Detailed author and subject indexes help the reader to find the information they are looking for.

As a new service to the reader all mechanisms featuring ‘Enantiospecific and diastereospecific’ reactions are highlighted. This reflects the interest of synthetic organic chemists in such reactions and the pharmaceutical role of chiral molecules.

Table des matières

1. Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones and their Derivatives by A. C. Knipe 1

2. Reactions of Carboxylic, Phosphoric, and Sulfonic Acids and their Derivatives by C. T. Bedford 45

3. Oxidation and Reduction by K. K. Banerji 79

4. Carbenes and Nitrenes by M. G. Moloney 129

5. Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution by M. R. Crampton 153

6. Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution by R. G. Coombes 165

7. Carbocations by R. A. Mc Clelland 183

8. Nucleophilic Aliphatic Substitution by A. C. Knipe 203

9. Carbanions and Electrophilic Aliphatic Substitution by M. L. Birsa 225

10. Elimination Reactions by M. L. Birsa 253

11. Addition Reactions: Polar Addition by P. Kocovsk caron y´ 267

12. Addition Reactions: Cycloaddition by N. Dennis 331

13. Molecular Rearrangements: Part 1. Pericyclic Molecular Rearrangements by S. K. Armstrong 361

14. Molecular Rearrangements: Part 2. Other Reactions by A. Brandi and M. Gensini 393

Author Index 459

Subject Index 491

A propos de l’auteur

Professor A.C. Knipe, School of BMS, The University of Ulster, Northern Ireland.