Preface Acknowledgment and Personal Statement Introduction Chapter 1. Alkylation of Enolates and Other Carbon Nucleophiles Chapter 2. Reactions of Carbon Nucleophiles with Carbonyl Compounds Chapter 3. Functional Group Interconversion by Substitution, Including Protection and Deprotection Chapter 4. Electrophilic Additions to Carbon-Carbon Multiple Bonds Chapter 5. Reduction of Carbon-Carbon Multiple Bonds, Carbonyl Croups, and Other Functional Groups Chapter 6. Concerted Cycloadditions, Unimolecular Rearrangements, and Thermal Eliminations Chapter 7. Organometallic Compounds of Group I and II Metals Chapter 8. Reactions Involving Transition Metals Chapter 9. Carbon-Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions of Compounds of Boron, Silcon, and Tin Chapter 10. Reactions Involving Carbocations, Carbenes, and Radicals and Reactive Intermediates Chapter 11. Aromatic Substitution Reactions Chapter 12. Oxidations Chapter 13. Multistep Syntheses References Index