Reviews on General Synthetic Methods

Alkene Synthesis via 8-Functionalised Organosilicon Compounds , Accounts Chem. Res., 1977,10, 442. 

Pommer, The Wittig Reaction in Industrial Practice , Angew. Chem. Internal. Edn., 1977,16, 423. 

Ripoll, A. Rouessac, and F. Rouessac, Applications recentes de la reaction de retro Diels-Alder en synthese organique . Tetrahedron, 1978, 34, 19. 

Jackman and B. C. Lange, Structure and Reactivity of Alkali Metal Enolates , Tetrahedron, 1977, 33, 2737. 

Rasmussen, O-Silylated Enolates—Versatile Intermediates for Organic Synthesis , Synthesis, 1977, 91. 

The following list of reviews on general synthetic methods covers the year 1976, 

Calderon, E. A. Ofstead, and W. A. Judy, Olefin Metathesis , Angew. Chem, Internat. Edn., 1976,15, 401. 

Kennedy, Cationic Polymerization of Olefins A Critical Inventory , Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1975. 

McQuillin, Homogenous Catalysis in the Functionalization of Alkenes and Alkanes , Chem. and Ind., 1976, 941. 

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Reviews on General Synthetic Methods By K. Cooper and G. Pattenden... 

The first five chapters of the Report cover all the possible interconversions between the major functional groups, and Chapter 6 reports specifically on the application of organometallic compounds in synthesis. Two other chapters (Chapters 7 and 8) deal with developments in the synthesis of saturated and partially unsaturated i.e. non-aromatic) carbocyclic and heterocyclic rings, and the final chapter highlights trends and developments in strategy and design of synthesis. A list of reviews on General Synthetic Methods is collected at the end of the Report. 

From time to time, we plan to devote space in the Reports to special topics which are undergoing rapid development or growth. In this first volume, for example, an additional chapter (Chapter 10) reports on the important growth area of Phase Transfer and Related Methods . Because of the enormous volume of review literature dealing with general and synthetic methods, we have sought to provide a service to readers and have compiled a comprehensive list of Reviews on General Synthetic Methods at the end of the Report. 

Comprehensive and important reviews on photochromism of spiropyrans have been published by Bertelson1 and Guglielmetti2 In the present chapter, general synthetic methods and physical properties of spiropyrans with special reference to leuco dyes will be described. The chapter is divided into the spirobenzopyran, spironaphthooxazine, and spirothiopyran and related compounds. 

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