Jacqueline Seyden-Penne, PhD, is Emeritus Director of Research at CNRS. From 1972 to 1991, she taught postgraduate organic chemistry at Orsay University in Paris, and she served as the head of a CNRS Research Unit at Orsay from 1983 to 1991. She has published more than 200 research papers in international journals and was scientific editor of the Bulletin de la Societe; Chimique de France and the Journal of Chemical Research. Dr. Seyden-Penne is an acknowledged international authority on carbanions and selective stereochemical methods in organic synthesis.

• Enantiomerically Pure Chiral Auxiliaries. Chiral Reagents. Chiral Catalysis and Catalysts Bearing Chiral Ligands. Asymmetric Deprotonations and Protonations. Alkylations and Related Reactions. Additions to C=O and C=N Double Bonds. Additions to Carbon-Carbon Double Bonds. Additions to Double Bonds Bearing Heteroatoms;Oxidations of Sulfides and Selenides. Cycloadditions. Sigmatropic Rearrangements. Transition Metal Catalyzed Reactions. References. Index.