Description
Four-Membered Heterocycle Synthesis offers a comprehensive approach to these unstable organic compounds, providing a systematic introduction to the synthesis and reactions of all common four-membered heterocycles and illustrating different methods to prepare specific four-membered heterocycles. Four-membered heterocyclic compounds are known as a class of unstable organic compounds because of their strain characteristics, which make them very beneficial as precursors for the formation of a broad range of complex heterocyclic molecules and for synthetic elaboration.- Provides a systematic introduction to the synthesis and reactions of all common four-membered heterocycles- Highlights different methods to prepare specific 4-membered heterocycles- Analyzes several types and families of compounds, with a large set of recent examples in the field
Table of Contents
1. Synthesis of diazetidines2. Synthesis of dioxetanes3. Synthesis of oxazetidines4. Synthesis of thietanes-I5. Synthesis of thietanes-II6. Synthesis of dithietes7. Synthesis of thiazetidines8. Synthesis of azetines and oxetanes9. Photochemical synthesis of azetes, dioxetanes, and thietes
