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B. Bosnich
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Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages I-VIII
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Back Matter
Pages 159-160
About this book
The rate of advance in areas of science is seldom constant. Usually certain fields effloresce with activity because of the ~ealization that solutions are possible to long standing important problems. So it is now with asymmetric catalysis, a field which promises to change profoundly the strategic thinking of synthetic chemists. As this Report will show, reagents which can induce catalytic enantiocontrol of chemical transformations could represent the ultimate synthetic method. Nearly all synthetic strategies of complex molecules involve steps which require enantiocontrol and, in many cases, a specific catalytic transformation embodying enan tiocontrol has enormous advantages in terms of the rate and economy of the reaction. Because asymmetric catalysis is in a formative stage, workers with different backgrounds have joined the field. This Workshop had representatives with organometallic, organic, structural, kinetic, enzymatic, microbiological and industrial backgrounds. Each had his own perspective and this Report represents a consensus of this group of eleven people. The result is probably as compre hensive and balanced a view of the subject as is possible at present. It is hoped that those who have until now had but a glancing interest in asymmetric catalysis will find this Report a useful indication of its present state. We believe that asymmetric catalysis will have an increasing impact on the development of chemistry and will eventually dominate much of synthetic and industrial chemistry.
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`... presents an overview of the state of the art of this important subject (as of early 1984). It would be appropriate to any graduate level course in Organometallic, Catalytic, or Synthetic Chemistry. It would also serve as an selective primer for anyone considering serious research in this rapidly expanding field.'
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 108:18 (1986)
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
B. Bosnich
