Advanced Organic Chemistry

Since its original appearance in 1977, this textbook has found wide use as a work providing broad coverage of the structure, reactivity and synthesis of organic compounds.

Since practically all syntheses of any complexity involve carbon-carbon bondforming steps as an essential feature, the availability of methods which allow two molecular fragments to be connected by the reaction of a nucleophilic carbon with an electrophilic one can be crucial to the success of a synthetic plan.