Jens Christoffers & Angelika Baro 
Quaternary Stereocenters 
Challenges and Solutions for Organic Synthesis

Filling the gap in the literature, this book presents everything there is to know about this topic. By comprehensively covering the quaternary stereocenters found in a range of important and useful molecules in pharmaceutical and medicinal applications, as well as in thousands of natural products, the book provides the know-how chemists need to synthesize challenging molecules with numerous applications.
A must for organic chemists in academia, the pharmaceutical industry and medicine.

From the Contents:
Important Natural Products
Important Pharmaceuticals and Intermediates
Aldol Reactions
Michael Reactions and Conjugate Additions
Cycloaddition Reactions
Rearrangement Reactions
Alkylation of Ketones and Imines
Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation
Asymmetric Cross Coupling and Heck Reactions
Phase Transfer Catalysis
Enzymatic Methods
Radical Reactions

Table of Content

Important Natural Products
Important Pharmaceuticals and Intermediates
Aldol Reactions
Michael Reactions and Conjugate Additions
Rearrangement Reactions
Cycloaddition Reactions
Asymmetric Cross-coupling and Mizoroki-Heck Reactions
Alkylation of Ketones and Imines
Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation
Phase-Transfer Catalysis
Radical Reactions
Enzymatic Methods

About the author

Born in Germany in 1966, Jens Christoffers received his diploma from the University of Marburg, Germany in 1992, before moving to Bonn, Germany, where he completed his doctorate in 1994 on Fischer carbene complexes and Pauson-Khand reactions. He became involved with zirconocene catalysis during a post doctorate under Professor R. G. Bergman in Berkeley, USA, and in 1996 started his independent career at the Technical University Berlin, Germany, gaining his lecturing qualification under Professor S. Blechert in 2000. He has been Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, since 2001. Professor Christoffers’s current research interests are in the fields of asymmetric catalysis, synthesis of heterocyclic compounds and catalytic oxidation reactions utilizing molecular oxygen.

Angelika Baro studied chemistry at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, where she received her Ph D degree in Clinical Biochemistry in 1987 under the supervision of Professor H. D. Söling. Since 1991 she has been a scientific staff member at the Institute for Organic Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart.