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Volume 24: Three Carbon¾Heteroatom Bonds:
Ketene Acetals and Yne¾X Compounds |
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Introduction by Prof. Armin de Meijere (Volume Editor): |
| May this volume of Science of Synthesis, which covers the chemistry of compounds all having
the formal oxidation state of carboxylic acids, help the research chemists in industry
and academia to understand and creatively apply the vast knowledge in this area that has
been accumulated in the last 125 years. Most of the subclasses of these compounds with
formally three carbon¾heteroatom bonds gain their importance from being valuable synthetic
intermediates en route to more complex organic molecules which may show beneficial
biological activity or have important materials properties. Thus, the four classes of
compounds in this volume (allenes with two geminal heteroatom substituents, alkenes
with two geminal heteroatom substituents, acetylenes with one or two heteroatom substituents),
which are subdivided into up to 19 subclasses, do not only compile the most
important methods for the preparation of all the subclasses, but also discuss their applications
as synthetic building blocks. Wherever necessary, relevant examples of such further
synthetic transformations are presented at the end of a given section. This is intended
to guide the user in finding totally new applications and furthering our chemical inventory. |
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