Comprehensive organic transformations : a guide to functional group preparations / by Richard C. Larock

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Alkanes and arenes. Reduction -- Coupling reactions -- Freidel-Crafts and related alkylation reactions -- Ring-forming reactions -- Aromatization -- Alkenes. Isomerization of alkenes -- Elimination -- Alkylidenation of carbonyl and related compounds -- Wittig and related reactions -- Metal-promoted coupling reactions -- Arene, alkyne and diene addition reactions -- Dienes and polyenes -- Diels-Alder reactions -- Cyclization, annulation and related reactions -- Alkynes. Isomerization -- Elimination reactions -- Wittig and related approaches -- Alkylation, alkenylation and arylation of alkynes and allenes -- Halides. Halogenation of hydrocarbons -- Aromatic halogenation -- Halogenation of alkynes -- Interconversion of halides -- Halgenation of nitrogen compounds -- Halogenation of ethers -- Halogenation of alcohols -- Halogenation of phenols -- Halogenation of carbonyl and related compounds -- Halodecarboxylation and decarbonylation of acids and derivatives -- Halogenation of organometallics --

Amines. From alkanes -- From arenes -- From alkenes, dienes and alkynes -- From alkyl and aryl halides or sulfonates -- From other amines and derivatives -- From azides -- From nitro compounds -- Heteroatom and metal displacement -- From ethers, alcohols and derivatives -- From carboxylic acids and derivatives -- From nitrils -- From isonitriles -- Ethers. From other ethers -- Alkylation of alcohols and phenols -- Alkane, arene, alkene and alkyne additions and substitutions -- Acetal, carbonyl and ortho ester conversions -- Miscellaneous reactions -- Alcohols and phenols. Resolution -- Alcohol transposition -- Substitution -- Oxidation -- Alkene, diene and alkyne additions -- Organoboranes -- Ether cleavage -- Reduction -- Alkylation of carbonyl compounds -- Miscellaneous reactions --

Aldehydes and ketones. Carbonyl transposition -- Oxidation -- Reduction of phenols, carboxylic acids and derivatives, and nitriles -- Rearrangements -- Condensation reactions -- Cyclization and annulation reactions -- Carbonylation and related reactions -- Electrophilic acylation -- Nucleophilic acylation -- Sulphur, selenium and tellurium reagents -- Heterocycles -- Carbonyl homologation -- Alkylation and acylation of aldehydes, ketones and their derivatives -- Alkylation of [alpha] and [beta]- substituted carbonyl compounds -- 1,4-addition to [alpha], [beta]-unsaturated carbonyl compounds and derivatives -- Miscellaneous reactions -- Nitriles, carboxylic acids and derivatives. Oxidation, substitution and addition -- Reduction -- Carbonylation, carboxylation and related reactions -- Carbonyl homologation and degradation -- Alkylation, acylation and substitution of nitriles, carboxylic acids and derivatives -- Conjugate addition to [alpha], [beta]-unsaturated nitriles, carboxylic acids and derivatives -- Rearrangements -- Lactone and lactam formation -- Interconversion of nitriles, carboxylic acids and derivatives -- Miscellaneous reactions.