Includes bibliographical references and index.

Diversity-Oriented Syntheses of Natural Products and Natural Product-Like Compounds / Ling-Min Xu, Yu-Fan Liang, Qin-Da Ye, Zhen Yang, Michael Foley, Scott A Snyder, Da-Wei Ma -- Total Synthesis of Natural Products and the Synergy with Synthetic Methodology / Qian Wang, Jie-Ping Zhu, Kyriacos C Nicolaou, Henry N C Wong, Wei-Dong Li -- Interplay between the Chemical Space and the Biological Space / Ren-Xiao Wang, Ke Ding, Li-He Zhang, Jun-Ying Yuan -- Biosynthesis of Pharmaceutical Natural Products and Their Pathway Engineering / Michael J Smanski, Xu-Dong Qu, Wen Liu, Ben Shen, Yi Tang, Yi Yu, Zi-Xin Deng -- Carbohydrate Synthesis towards Glycobiology / Biao Yu, Lai-Xi Wang, Sam Danishefsky, David Crich -- Chemical Synthesis of Proteins / Lei Liu, Sam Danishefsky, David Crich -- CuAAC: The Quintessential Click Reaction / Valery V Fokin, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski -- Transition Metal-Catalyzed C-H Functionalization: Synthetically Enabling Reactions for Building Molecular Complexity / Keary M Engle, Jin-Quan Yu, Huw M L Davies, Zhenfeng Xi, Shu-Li You, Zhang-Jie Shi -- An Overview of Recent Developments in Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Transformations / Christian A Sandoval, Ryoji Noyori, Qi-Lin Zhou, Andreas Pfaltz, Xue-Long Hou, Hisashi Yamamoto -- The Proline-Catalyzed Mannich Reaction and the Advent of Enamine Catalysis / Benjamin List, Sai-Hu Liao, Seiji Shirakawa, Keiji Maruoka, Liu-Zhu Gong, Wen-Jing Xiao -- Recent Topics in Cooperative Catalysis: Asymmetric Catalysis, Polymerization, Hydrogen Activation, and Water Splitting / Motomu Kanai, Takao Ikariya, Takashi Ooi, Kuiling Ding, David Milstein -- Flourishing Frontiers in Organofluorine Chemistry / G K Surya Prakash, Fang Wang, David O'Hagan, Jinbo Hu, Kuiling Ding, Li-Xin Dai -- Supramolecular Organic Chemistry: The Foldamer Approach / Zhan-Ting Li, Peter J Stang, Liang Zhao, Mei-Xiang Wang, Chen-Ho Tung -- Novel Catalysis for Alkene Polymerization Mediated by Post-Metallocenes: A Gateway to New Polyalkenes / Hiromu Kaneyoshi, Haruyuki Makio, Terunori Fujita, Robert Grubbs, Jun Okuda, Eugene Y-X Chen -- Chem Is Try Computationally and Experimentally: How Will Computational Organic Chemistry Impact Organic Theories, Mechanisms, and Synthesis in the Twenty-First Century? / Zhi-Xiang Yu, Yong Liang, K N Houk, Yun-Dong Wu, Xin-Hao Zhang -- Case Study of Mechanisms in Synthetic Reactions / Ai-Wen Lei, Li-Qun Jin, Xin Mu, Guo-Sheng Liu, Qi-Long Shen, Yoshinori Yamamoto -- Organic Materials and Chemistry for Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells / Chun-Hui Duan, Fei Huang, Yong Cao, Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci, Yongfang Li, Guillermo C Bazan, Xiong Gong -- Catalytic Utilization of Carbon Dioxide: Actual Status and Perspectives / Albert Boddien, Felix G̃rtner, Christopher Federsel, Irene Piras, Henrik Junge, Ralf Jackstell, Matthias Beller, G̀bor Laurenczy, Min Shi -- Synthetic Chemistry with an Eye on Future Sustainability / Guo-Jun Deng, Chao-Jun Li, Roger A Sheldon, Tak Hang Chan -- Organic p-Conjugated Molecules for Organic Semiconductors and Photovoltaic Materials / De-Qing Zhang, Xiao-Wei Zhan, Zhao-Hui Wang, Jian Pei, Guan-Xin Zhang, Dao-Ben Zhu, Seth R Marder, Tien Yau Luh -- The Future of Organic Chemistry : an Essay / Ronald Breslow.

This helpful, useful, practical book presents the most important achievements in organic chemistry over the past decade, summarizing such major developments as C-H activation, organocatalysis, and supramolecular chemistry. Each chapter contains two or three personal, hitherto unpublished, commentaries by leading experts on the topic. This reference work focuses on four main areas: the total synthesis of natural products and chemical biology; synthetic methodology; physical organic chemistry and chemistry relevant to meeting the urgent needs of humanity. The result is a complete and extremely useful source of a wide variety of information for graduate students, post-docs and researchers.

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