Advances in Cycloaddition [Hardcover]

This is the fourth volume in the series, aimed at those wishing to stay abreast of developments in the mechanisms and synthetic applications of 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions.

Preface (M. Launtens). Photocyclization and photocycloaddition reactions of 4- and 2-pyrones (F.G. West). Intramolecular [4+3] cycloaddition reactions (M. Harmata). Lewis acid catalyzed [2+2] cycloaddition reactions of vinyl sulfides and their analogues: catalytic asymmetric [2+2] cycloaddition reactions (K. Narasaka, Y. Hayashi). Vinylboranes as diels-alder dienophiles (D.A. Singleton). Preparation and exo-selective [4+2] cycloaddition reactions of cobaloxime-substituted 1,3-denies (M.E. Welker et al.). Index.Professor Michael Harmata graduated from the University of Illinois-Chicago with honors and highest distinction in chemistry.

In 1980, he began graduate studies in chemistry at the University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana where he was awarded a University Teaching Fellowship. He worked with Professor Scott E. Denmark on the invention of the carbanion-accelerated Claisen rearrangement. In his second year of study, he was awarded an Eastman Kodak Research Fellowship.

Upon graduation in 1985, he was awarded an NIH postdoctoral fellowship which he used to study with Professor Paul A. Wender at Stanford University, where he worked on the synthesis of the neocarzinostatin chromophore.

In 1986, Prof. Harmata began his independent career at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He became an Associate Professor in 1992 and a full professor in 1998. In 2000, he was named the Norman Rabjohn Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in recognition of his achievements in research and teaching. In 1998, he received a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and stayed for a year at the University of G?ttingen where he was affiliated with the groups of Professors Reinhard Br?ckner and Lutz. F. Tietze. In 2000, he served als’