Name Reactions for Carbocyclic Ring Formations

JIE JACK LI is a chemist at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in Wallingford, Connecticut. He has authored or edited various books, including Name Reactions in Heterocyclic Chemistry, Name Reactions for Functional Group Transformations, Name Reactions for Homologations, Parts I and II, Contemporary Drug Synthesis, The Art of Drug Synthesis, and Modern Drug Synthesis, all published by Wiley.

• Foreword. Preface.Contributing Authors.Chapter 1 Three-Membered Carbocycles.1.1 Freund Reaction.1.2 Kishner Cyclopropane Synthesis.1.3 Kulinovich Cyclopropanol Synthesis.1.4 Simmons-Smith Reaction.Chapter 2 Four-Membered Carbocycles.2.1 Staudinger Ketene Cycloaddition.Chapter 3 Five-Membered Carbocycles.3.1 Danheiser Annulation.3.2 Dieckmann Condensation.3.3 Favorskii Rearrangement.3.4 Nazarov Cyclization.3.5 Pauson-Khand Reaction.3.6 Weiss–Cook Reaction.Chapter 4 Six-Membered Carbocycles.4.1 Bardhan-Sengupta Pheantherene Synthesis.4.2 Bergman Cyclization.4.3 Bogert-Cook Reaction.4.4 Bradsher Cycloaddition and Bradsher Reaction.4.5 Bradsher Reaction.4.6 Darzens Synthesis of Tetralin Derivatives.4.7 Diels-Alder Reaction.4.8 Dötz Benzannulation.4.9 Elbs Reaction.4.10 Fujimoto-Belleau Reaction.4.11 Haworth Reaction.4.12 Moore Cyclization.4.13 Myers-Saito Cyclization.4.14 Robinson Annulation.4.15 Scholl Reaction.Chapter 5 Large-Ring Carbocycles.5.1 Buchner Reaction.5.2 de Mayo Reaction.5.3 Ring-closing Metathesis (RCM).5.4 Thorpe-Ziegler Reaction.Chapter 6 Transformations of Carbocycles.6.1 Blanc Chloromethylation Reaction.6.2 Asymmetric Friedel-Crafts Reactions: Past to Present.6.3 Houben-Hoesch Reaction.6.4 Kolbe-Schmitt Reaction.6.5 Vilsmeier-Haack Reaction.6.6 von Richter Reaction.Appendices.1 Contents Volume 1: Name Reactions in Heterocyclic Chemistry.2 Contents Volume 2: Name Reactions for Functional Group Transformations.3 Contents Volume 3: Name Reactions for Homologations—Part I.4 Contents Volume 4: Name Reactions for Homologations—Part II.5 Contents Volume 6: Name Reactions in Heterocyclic Chemistry—Part II.Subject Index.

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