Modern Gold Catalyzed Synthesis

With its impressive features, gold has led to completely new reaction types in recent years, which in turn have strongly influenced both<br> organic catalysis and material science. Other fields where a significant amount of new results has been obtained include nanotechnology,<br> self assembly/supramolecular systems and biochemical/medicinal chemistry. As a result, gold is one of the hottest topics in catalysis at<br> the moment, with an increasing amount of research being carried out in this field.<br> While focusing on homogeneous catalysis, this monograph also covers the main applications in heterogeneous catalysis. Following<br> a look at the gold-catalyzed addition of heteroatom nucleophiles to alkynes, it goes on to discuss gold-catalyzed additions to allenes and<br> alkenes, gold-catalyzed benzannulations, cycloisomerization and rearrangement reactions, as well as oxidation and reduction reactions.<br> The whole is finished off with a section on gold-catalyzed aldol and related reactions and the application of gold-catalyzed reactions to natural<br> product synthesis.<br> Of interest to synthetic chemists and inorganic chemists, as well as organic chemists working in homogeneous catalysis, physical and<br> technical chemists.