A: Introduction: Selectivity.

1. Planning Organic Syntheses: Tactics, Strategy, and Control.

2. Chemoselectivity.

3. Regioselectivity: Controlled Aldol Reactions.

4. Stereoselectivity: Stereoselective Aldol Reactions.

5. Alternative Strategies for Enone Synthesis.

6. Choosing a Strategy : The Synthesis of cyclopentenones.

B: Making Carbon-Carbon Bonds.

7. The Ortho Strategy for Aromatic Compounds.

8. ´-Complexes of Metals.

9. Controlling the Michael Reaction.

10. Specific Enol Equivalents.

11. Extended Enolates.

12. Allyl Anions.

13. Homoenolates.

14. Acyl Anion Equivalents.

C: Carbon-Carbon Double Bonds.

15. Synthesis of Double Bonds of Defined Stereochemistry.

16. Stereo-Controlled Vinyl Anion Equivalents.

17. Electrophilic Attack on Alkenes.

18. Vinyl Cations: Palladium-Catalysed C-C Coupling.

19. Allyl Alcohols: Allyl Cation Equivalents (and More).

D: Stereochemistry.

20. Control of Stereochemistry -- Introduction.

21 Controlling Relative Stereochemistry.

22. Resolution.

23. The Chiral Pool.

24. Asymmetric Induction I: Reagent-Based Strategy.

25. Asymmetric Induction II: Asymmetric Catalysis: Formation of C-O and C-N Bonds.

26. Asymmetric Induction III: Asymmetric Catalysis: Formation of C-H and C-C Bonds.

27. Asymmetric Induction IV: Substrate-Based Strategy.

28. Kinetic Resolution.

29. Enzymes: Biological Methods in Asymmetric Synthesis.

30. New Chiral Centres from Old.

31. Strategy of Asymmetric Synthesis.

E: Functional Group Strategy.

32. Functionalisation of Pyridine.

33. Oxidation of Aromatic Compounds, Enols and Enolates.

34. Functionality and Pericyclic Reactions: Nitrogen Heterocycles by Cycloadditions and Sigmatropic Rearrangements.

35. Synthesis and Chemistry of Azoles and other Heterocycles with Two or more Heteroatoms.

36. Tandem Organic Reactions.

General References.

Index.