Organic Reaction Mechanisms, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
40 Solved Cases

Level 1.- Case 1. A Surprise in the Synthesis of Guanacastepene A.- Case 2. Sulfenylation of Indole.- Case 3. Substrate Selective Reactions in the Presence of Lewis Acids.- Case 4. Diastereoselective Reductions of ?-Ketoesters.- Case 5. Rearrangements from Tetrahydropyran Derivatives.- Case 6. Stereospecific Substitution Reactions of Epoxy Sulfides.- Case 7. NaBH4 Reduction of ?,?-Unsaturated Chromium Carbene Complexes.- Case 8. Addition of Hydroxylamines to ?,?-Unsaturated Esters.- Case 9. Solvolysis of Electron-Deficient Norbornyl Triflates.- Case 10 Nucleophile Versus Base Catalysis.- Case 11. The Hydrolysis of p-Substituted Styrene Oxides.- Case 12. Elimination Reactions of Benzaldehyde O-Benzoyloximes.- Case 13. Oxygen Versus Sulfur Stabilization of Carbenium Ions.- Case 14. Cyclization of 2,3-Dibenzylidenesuccinates.- Case 15. Oxazoline N-Oxides as Dipoles in [3+2] Cycloadditions.- Case 16. Light-Induced Cycloadditions of N-Phthaloyl ?Amino Acids.- Level 2.- Case 17. Change in Rate-Determining Step in an E1 cB Mechanism: Aminolysis of Sulfamate Esters.- Case 18. Unusual Diels-Alder Reactivity of Acyclic 2-Azadienes.- Case 19. Chelate-Controlled Carbonyl Addition Reactions.- Case 20. Esterification of Carboxylic Acids with Dimethyl Carbonate and DBU.- Case 21. A Hammett Analysis in a Multistep Reaction: Rhodium(II)-Catalyzed Decomposition of ?Diazo Esters.- Case 22. Tandem Cycloadditions with Nitronates.- Case 23. Hydrolysis of 2-Aminobenzoate Esters.- Case 24. Rearrangements of Cyclobutenones.- Case 25. Epoxi Ester-Orthoester Rearrangement.- Case 26. 2-Chloro-1,3,5-triazines as Activating Groups of Carboxylic Acids in the Formation of Peptide Bonds.- Case 27. Acid-Catalyzed Isomerization of Imines.- Case 28. A Dearomatizing Disrotatory Electrocyclic Ring Closure.- Case 29. Stereoselective Debromination of Vicinal Dibromides.- Case 30. Diels-Alder Reactions of N-Acyl-1,2,4,5-tetrazines.- Case 31. Stereoselective Synthesis of 2-Acylaziridines.- Level 2.- Case 32. The Baylis-Hillman Reaction.- Case 33. The Rate-Determining Step in the SNAr Reaction.- Case 34. Helicenophanes and their Racemization.- Case 35. Solvolysis of Vinyl Iodonium Salts.- Case 36. Vicarious Nucleophilic Substitution.- Case 37. Base-promoted HF Elimination from 4-Fluoro-4-(4'-nitrophenyl)butan-2-one.- Case 38. Substitution of ?Halostyrenes Mes.- Case 39. Periodinane-Mediated Cyclization of Anilides.- Case 40. Solvolysis of 8-Deltacyclyl Brosylates.