Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Electrophilic Selenium / Claudio Santi, Stefano Santoro -- Nucleophilic Selenium / Michio Iwaoka -- Selenium Compounds in Radical Reactions / W Russell Bowman -- Selenium-Stabilized Carbanions / Jôo V Comasseto, Alcindo A Dos Santos, Edison P Wendler -- Selenium Compounds with Valency Higher than Two / J̤zef Drabowicz, Jaroslaw Lewkowski, Jacek Scianowski -- Selenocarbonyls / Toshiaki Murai -- Selenoxide Elimination and [2,3]-Sigmatropic Rearrangement / Yoshiaki Nishibayashi, Sakae Uemura -- Selenium Compounds as Ligands and Catalysts / Fateh V Singh, Thomas Wirth -- Biological and Biochemical Aspects of Selenium Compounds / Bhaskar J Bhuyan, Govindasamy Mugesh -- Se NMR Values -- Index.

Selenium-based methods in synthetic chemistry have developed rapidly over the past years and are now offering highly useful tools for organic synthesis. Filling the gap for a comprehensive handbook and ready reference, this book covers all modern developments withinthe field, including biochemical aspects. The chemistry chapters are organized according to the different reactivities of various seleniumcompounds and reagents, with each chapter dealing with a special reaction type. Also includes a table with 77Se NMR shifts to aid in practical problems. From the Contents: