Comprehensive Organic Synthesis 
Subtitle: Carbon-Carbon sigma-Bond Formation
Publisher: Pergamon
Published: September 1, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780080405940
Subjects: Organic chemistry; Science; Science/Mathematics; Chemistry - Organic; Science / Chemistry / Organic; Chemistry - General
First sentence: The -alkylation of carbonyl compounds by their conversion into nucleophilic enolates or enolate equivalents and subsequent reaction with electrophilic alkylating agents provides one of the main avenues for regio- and stereo-selective formation of carbon-carbon -bonds.