Comprehensive Organic Synthesis 
Subtitle: Additions to C-X pi-Bonds, Part 2
Publisher: Pergamon
Published: September 1, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780080405933
Subjects: Organic chemistry; Chemistry - Organic; Science / Chemistry / Organic; Science; Science/Mathematics
First sentence: The widespread occurrence and biological significance of the macrolide ansamycin and polyether antibiotics, and of polyhydroxylated natural products, including rare carbohydrates, among others, has stimulated considerable interest in the development of concise, efficient synthetic methodology for the stereo-and enantio-selective construction of stereochemically adorned acyclic molecules.1,2