| In this Volume 8 of Science of Synthesis, 41 authors (M. Barbero, L. Brandsma, D. Caine,
J. V. Comasseto, R. L. O. R. Cunha, R. K. Dieter, T. Durst, J. Eames, R. W. Friesen, R. E. Gawley,
J. R. Green, G. W. Gribble, F. Hasanayn, A. Jonczyk, E. Juaristi, R. M. Kellogg, M. Khodaei,
R. Klein, A. Kowalkowska, A. P. Krapcho, R. Lazny, S. MacNeil, M. Majewski, R. Melgar-
Fernandez, C. Metallinos, A. Mordini, O. Munoz-Muniz, C. Najera, S. O'Connor,
N. Ono, J. N. Reed, C. C. Silveira, V. Snieckus, A. Streitwieser, C. F. Sturino, M. Valacchi,
P. Venturello, U. Wietelmann, L. Xie, M. Yus, and J. W. Zwikker) describe formation and
use of a variety of compounds of the group 1 elements (Li, Na, K, Rb, and Cs) in organic
synthesis. Lithium compounds are described in Volume 8a, while compounds of the other
group 1 elements are covered in Volume 8b. |
| As may be appreciated, due largely to their simplicity,
many useful alkali metal reagents are difficult to search using standard databases.
Therefore, we decided near the beginning that Volume 8 shall depart from the pure “organometallics”
theme and that some simple compounds used either for generation of polar
organometallics, in situ or otherwise, will also be covered. Similarly, the alkali metal
enolates are covered although arguably they are not organometallic species. This choice
of coverage resulted in a rather sizeable two-part volume that nonetheless is rather selective
in nature. |
