Modern Gold Catalyzed Synthesis

With its impressive features, gold has added another facet to organic catalysis. Focusing on homogeneous catalysis this book also covers the main applications in heterogeneous catalysis.
Following a look at the gold-catalyzed addition of heteroatom nucleophiles to alkynes, this monograph 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.

Stephen Hashmi is professor for Organic Chemistry at University of Heidelberg, Germany. He obtained his academic degrees from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, after his postdoctoral studies with Barry M. Trost at Stanford University he started his Habilitation at Freie Universit?t Berlin with Johann Mulzer. During that time he followed Prof. Mulzer to Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universit?t Franfurt and Universit?t Wien. He then returned to Frankfurt to finish his Habilitation. After the stations at University of Tasmania, Australia, Universit?t Marburg, and Universit?t Stuttgart, he was appointed a full professorship at Heidelberg University, where he is also involved in the Catalysis Research Laboratory (CaRLa). He received a number of awards, including a Karl-Zieger fellowship, the ORCHEM prize for natural scientists and the Hector research award.

F. Dean Toste was born in Terceira, Azores, Portugal but soon moved to Toronto Canada. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in chemistry from the University of Toronto, Canada where he worked with Prof. Ian W. J. Still. In 1995, he began his doctoral studies at Stanford
University under the direction of Professor Barry M. Trost. Following postdoctoral studies with Professor Robert H. Grubbs at Caltech, he joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 2002, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2006 and Professor in 2009.
Professor Toste?s honors include an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the Cope Scholar Award and the E. J. Corey Award from the American Chemical Society, BASF Catalysis Award, the OMCOS and Thieme Award from IUPAC, the Merck Award from the Royal Society of
Chemistry, the Mukaiyama Award, the Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award and numerous awards from the pharmaceutical industry.