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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones and Their Derivatives -- Formation and Reactions of Acetals and Related Species -- Reactions of Glucosides -- Reactions of Ketenes and Related Cumulenes -- Formation and Reactions of Nitrogen Derivatives -- C-C Bond Formation and Fission: Aldol and Related Reactions -- Other Addition Reactions -- Enolization, Reactions of Enolates, and Related Reactions -- Oxidation and Reduction of Carbonyl Compounds -- Miscellaneous Cyclizations -- Other Reactions -- References

Chapter 2 Reactions of Carboxylic, Phosphoric, and Sulfonic Acids and their Derivatives -- Intermolecular Catalysis and Reactions -- Carboxylic Acids and their Derivatives -- Phosphoric Acids and their Derivatives -- Intramolecular Catalysis and Neighbouring Group Participation -- Biologically Significant Reactions -- Carboxylic Acids and their Derivatives -- Phosphoric Acids and their Derivatives -- References -- Chapter 3 Oxidation and Reduction -- Oxidation by Metal Ions and Related Species -- Oxidation by Compounds of Non-metallic Elements -- Ozonolysis and Ozonation -- Peracids and Peroxides

Photo-oxygenation and Singlet Oxygen -- Triplet Oxygen and Autoxidation -- Other Oxidations -- Reduction by Complex Metal Hydrides -- Hydrogenation -- Transfer Hydrogenation -- Other Reductions -- References -- Chapter 4 Carbenes and Nitrenes -- Reviews -- Metal-Free Carbenes -- Structure and Reactivity -- Metallated Carbenes -- Structure and Reactivity -- Heterocyclic Carbenes -- Structure -- Heterocyclic Carbenes -- Reactivity -- Heterocyclic Carbenes -- DFT Analysis Methods -- Heterocyclic Carbenes -- As Ligands -- N-Heterocyclic Carbenes -- Chiral Systems -- Nitrenes -- Silylenes and Germylenes

References-Chapter 5 Aromatic Substitution-Introduction-General-Nucleophilic Substitution-Electrophilic Substitution-Transition-Metal-Catalysed Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation-References-Chapter 6 Carbocations-Introduction-Carbocation Reactivity and Electrophilicity-Electronic Effects and Structure-Aromatic and Anti-Aromatic Systems-New Reactions and Methods Involving Carbocations-Superelectrophilic Carbocations-Arenium Ions-SN1 Reactions-Non-Classical Cations-Ring-Opening and-Forming Reactions-Rearrangements of Carbocations

Propargyl and Vinyl Carbocations -- Asymmetric Synthesis -- Biosynthetic Chemistry -- References -- Chapter 7 Nucleophilic Aliphatic Substitution -- SN Reactions Forming C-C Bonds -- Allylic Substitutions -- Vinyl Substitutions -- Propargylic Substitutions -- Reactions of Cyclic Ethers -- Aziridines and Other Small Ring Substitution Reactions -- Studies Using Kinetic Isotope Effects -- Nucleophilic Substitution on Elements Other than Carbon -- Medium Effects/Solvent Effects -- Structural Effects -- Theoretical Studies -- Miscellaneous Kinetic and Product Studies -- Other -- Acknowledgement

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