Modern Reduction Methods

With its comprehensive overview of modern reduction methods, this book features high quality contributions allowing readers to find reliable solutions quickly and easily. The monograph treats the reduction of carbonyles, alkenes, imines and alkynes, as well as reductive aminations and cross and heck couplings, before finishing off with sections on kinetic resolutions and hydrogenolysis.An indispensable lab companion for every chemist.

List of contents

ALKENE REDUCTIONSHydrogenationHydroborationHydrosilylationCARBONYL REDUCTIONSHydrogenationTransfer-HydrogenationHydroborationHydrosilylationEnzymaticIMINO REDUCTIONSHydrogenationTransfer-HydrogenationHydroborationHydrosilylationMISCELLANEOUS REDUCTIONSOrganocatalysis Alkyne ReductionsReductive Couplings & CyclizationsDissolved MetalsHydrometallation

About the author

Pher G. Andersson holds a chair at the Department of Biochemistry and Organic Chemistry at Uppsala University, Sweden. He received his Ph.D. in 1991 and became Docent at Uppsala University in 1994 and Professor in 1997. Among his many awards are the Bjurzons award (1992), the Oscar award (1995), the Junior Individual Grant for outstanding young researchers (1997), and the Astra Zeneca Research Award in Organic Chemistry (2004).He was the Chairman of the management committee for COST D24 program "Sustainable Chemical Processes: Stereoselective Transition Metal-Catalysed Reactions" lasting 2001-2006 and Coordinator for the "Excellent Nordic Chemistry Network". Pher Andersson has authored more than 100 publications. His research interests cover selective synthesis, asymmetric catalysis and sustainable chemistry.

Summary

With its comprehensive overview of modern reduction methods, this book features high quality contributions allowing readers to find reliable solutions quickly and easily.
The monograph treats the reduction of carbonyles, alkenes, imines and alkynes, as well as reductive aminations and cross and heck couplings, before finishing off with sections on kinetic resolutions and hydrogenolysis.
An indispensable lab companion for every chemist.

Product details

• Authors: Pher G. Andersson, Ian J. Munslow
• Assisted by: Pher Andersson (Editor), Pher G. Andersson (Editor), Phe G Andersson (Editor), Pher G Andersson (Editor), J Munslow (Editor), J Munslow (Editor), Ian Munslow (Editor), Ian J. Munslow (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley-VCH
• Languages: German
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.04.2008
• EAN: 9783527318629
• ISBN: 978-3-527-31862-9
• No. of pages: 502
• Dimensions: 177 mm x 247 mm x 31 mm
• Weight: 1144 g
• Illustrations: 593 SW-Abb., 66 Tabellen
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry > Organic chemistry; Chemie, Organische Chemie, ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, chemistry, Industrial Chemistry, Technische u. Industrielle Chemie, Methods - Synthesis & Techniques, Organische Chemie / Methoden, Synthesen, Verfahren, Reduktion (Chemie)