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Doner-Acceptor Cyclopropanes (DACs) play an essential role in organic reactions and belong to the toolbox of synthetic chemistry. This book covers comprehensively the chemistry and applications of this compound class and is indispensable for every scientist working in this area.
List of contents
Preface
1) Introduction to the Chemistry of Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes: A Historical and Personal Perspective
2) Understanding Reactivity of Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes: Structural and Electronic Analysis
3) Cycloaddition and Annulation Reactions of Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes
4) Activation of Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes under Covalent Organocatalysis: Enamine, Iminium, NHC and Phosphine Catalysis
5) Ring-Opening 1,3-Difunctionalization of Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes
6) Molecular Rearrangements in Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes
7) Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes with Amino Group as Donor
8) Chemistry of Cyclopropyl Monocarbonyls
9) Chemistry of Aroyl- and Nitro-substituted Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes
10) Metal-free Activation of the Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes: Thermal Reactions, Protic Acids and Bases
11) Asymmetric Catalytic Activation of Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes
12) Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes in Natural Product Synthesis
About the author
Prabal Banerjee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institution of Technology Ropar (IIT Ropar), Bara Phool, India. He obtained his PhD from National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) under the supervision of Prof. Ganesh Pandey (Pune) and worked with Prof. Gais at RWTH Aachen (Germany) as DFG postdoctoral fellow from 2005 to 2007. He then moved to Purdue University (USA), where he worked with Prof. Fuchs before joining IIT Ropar as an assistant professor in 2010. He was promoted to associate professor in 2016. He has extensive research experience in pericyclic reactions with particular emphasis on cycloaddition reactions, asymmetric catalysis, and synthesis of pharmaceutically important heterocyclic compounds.
Akkattu T. Biju is a Professor in the Department of Organic Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, since 2023. He received his PhD in 2006 under the guidance of Dr. Vijay Nair at the CSIR-NIIST (formerly RRL), Trivandrum, India. Subsequently, he was a post-doctoral fellow with Prof. Tien-Yau Luh at National Taiwan University and an Alexander von Humboldt-Fellow with Prof. Frank Glorius at WWU Münster (Germany). In 2011, he began his independent research career at CSIR-NCL (Pune), and became an Associate Professor in the Department of Organic Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (India) in 2017. His research focuses on the development of transition-metal-free carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bond-forming reactions using aryne chemistry and NHC organocatalysis, and their application in organic synthesis. He is the Editor of the Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry (Wiley), and a member of the Advisory Board of Organic Chemistry Frontiers (RSC) and Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry (Wiley).
