Organic Reaction Mechanisms · 2002: An annual survey covering the literature dated January to December 2002

• Reaction of Aldehydes and Ketones and their Derivatives
• Reactions of Carboxylic, Phosphoric, and Sulfonic Acids and their Derivatives
• Oxidation and Reduction
• Carbenes and Nitrenes
• Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution
• Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
• Carbocations
• Nucleophilic Aliphatic Substitution
• Carbanions and Electrophilic Aliphatic Substitution
• Elimination Reactions
• Radical Reactions
• Addition Reactions: Polar Addition
• Addition Reactions: Cycloadditions
• Molecular Rearrangements

An experienced team of authors is compiling these reviews every year, so that the reader can rely on a continuing quality of selection and presentation. As a new service to the reader all reaction mechanisms leading to stereospecific products are highlighted. This reflects the needs of the organic synthetic community with leads to chiral reactions.

Detailed author and subject indexes help the reader to find the information they are looking for.Content:
Chapter 1 Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones and their Derivatives (pages 1–44): B. A. Murray
Chapter 2 Reactions of Carboxylic, Phosphoric and Sulfonic Acids and their Derivatives (pages 45–103): C. T. Bedford
Chapter 3 Oxidation and Reduction (pages 105–168): Raj N. Mehrotra
Chapter 4 Carbenes and Nitrenes (pages 169–194): D. M. Hodgson, M. Christlieb and E. Gras
Chapter 5 Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution (pages 195–208): M. R. Crampton
Chapter 6 Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution (pages 209–221): R. G. Coombes
Chapter 7 Carbocations (pages 223–260): R. A. McClelland
Chapter 8 Nucleophilic Aliphatic Substitution (pages 261–295): J. Shorter
Chapter 9 Carbanions and Electrophilic Aliphatic Substitution (pages 297–345): A. C. Knipe
Chapter 10 Elimination Reactions (pages 347–371): A. C. Knipe
Chapter 11 Addition Reactions: Polar Addition (pages 373–410): P. Kocovsky
Chapter 12 Addition Reactions: Cycloaddition (pages 411–458): N. Dennis
Chapter 13 Molecular Rearrangements: Part 1 (Pericyclic Molecular Rearrangements) (pages 459–513): S. K. Armstrong
Chapter 14 Molecular Rearrangements: Part 2 (pages 515–580): A. Brandi, M. Gensini and F. Pisaneschi