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
organic catalysis and material science. Other fields where a significant amount of new results has been obtained include nanotechnology,
self assembly/supramolecular systems and biochemical/medicinal chemistry. As a result, gold is one of the hottest topics in catalysis at
the moment, with an increasing amount of research being carried out in this field.
While focusing on homogeneous catalysis, this monograph also covers the main applications in heterogeneous catalysis. Following
a look at the gold-catalyzed addition of heteroatom nucleophiles to alkynes, it goes on to discuss gold-catalyzed additions to allenes and
alkenes, gold-catalyzed benzannulations, cycloisomerization and rearrangement reactions, as well as oxidation and reduction reactions.
The whole is finished off with a section on gold-catalyzed aldol and related reactions and the application of gold-catalyzed reactions to natural
product synthesis.
Of interest to synthetic chemists and inorganic chemists, as well as organic chemists working in homogeneous catalysis, physical and
technical chemists.Content:
Chapter 1 Hydrochlorination of Acetylene Catalyzed by Gold (pages 1–26): Marco Conte and Graham J. Hutchings
Chapter 2 Gold?Catalyzed Reduction Reactions (pages 27–54): Avelino Corma and Pedro Serna
Chapter 3 Gold?Catalyzed Benzannulations: Asao–Yamamoto Benzopyrylium Pathway (pages 55–73): Naoki Asao and Yoshinori Yamamoto
Chapter 4 Gold?Catalyzed Reactions of Propargyl Esters, Propargyl Alcohols, and Related Compounds (pages 75–134): Pablo Mauleon and Prof. F. Dean Toste
Chapter 5 Intramolecular Hydroarylation of Alkynes (pages 135–152): Paula de Mendoza and Antonio M. Echavarren
Chapter 6 Gold–Alkyne Complexes (pages 153–173): Maria Agostina Cinellu
Chapter 7 Gold–Alkene Complexes (pages 175–199): Maria Agostina Cinellu
Chapter 8 Hydration and Hydroalkoxylation of CC Multiple Bonds (pages 201–235): J. Henrique Teles
Chapter 9 Gold?Catalyzed Aldol and Related Reactions (pages 237–261): Christoph Hubbert and Prof. Dr. A. Stephen K. Hashmi
Chapter 10 Gold?Catalyzed Oxidation Reactions: Oxidation of Alkenes (pages 263–272): Yuanhong Liu
Chapter 11 Gold?Catalyzed Oxygen?Atom Transfer to Alkynes (pages 273–296): Maria Camila Blanco Jaimes and Prof. Dr. A. Stephen K. Hashmi
Chapter 12 Gold?Catalyzed Additions to Alkenes: N?Nucleophiles (pages 297–302): Zigang Li, David A. Capretto and Chuan He
Chapter 13 Gold?Catalyzed Additions to Alkenes: O?Nucleophiles (pages 303–307): Zigang Li, David A. Capretto and Chuan He
Chapter 14 Oxidation of Alcohols and Carbohydrates (pages 309–329): Cristina Della Pina, Ermelinda Falletta and Michele Rossi
Chapter 15 Applications of Gold?Catalyzed Reactions to Natural Product Synthesis (pages 331–362): Matthias Rudolph
Chapter 16 Gold?Catalyzed Addition Reactions to Allenes (pages 363–389): Christian Winter and Norbert Krause