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