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A comprehensive and up-to-date overview of alkyne chemistry, reflecting the progress made over the last two decades. Edited and written by renowned leaders in the field, this is a valuable reference for all those working in the modern synthesis of organic compounds and materials.

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A comprehensive and up-to-date overview of alkyne chemistry, taking into account the progress made over the last two decades. The experienced editors are renowned world leaders in the field, while the list of contributors reads like a "Who s Who" of synthetic organic chemistry.
The result is a valuable reference not only for organic chemists at universities and in the chemical industry, but also for biologists and material scientists involved in the modern synthesis of organic compounds and materials.

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Introduction
PART I: CATALYTIC ISOMERIZATION OF ALKYNES
1) Redox Isomerization of Propargyl Alcohols to Enones
2) Carbophilic Cycloisomerization Reactions of Enynes and Domino Processes
3) Alkyne-Alkyne Metathesis Reactions
PART II: CATALYTIC CYCLOADDITION REACTIONS
4) Alkyne-Azide Reactions
5) Catalytic Cycloaddition Reactions
PART III: CATALYTIC NUCLEOPHILIC ADDITIONS AND SUBSTITUTIONS
6) Catalytic Conjugate Additions of Alkynes
7) Catalytic Alkyne-Carbonyl Additions
8) Catalytic Nucleophilic Addition of Alkynes to Imines: The A3 (Aldehyde-Alkyne-Amine) Coupling
9) Sonogashira Reactions
PART IV: OTHER REACTIONS
10) Catalytic Dimerization of Alkynes
11) The Oxidative Dimerization of Acetylenes and Related Reactions: Synthesis and Applications of Conjugated 1,3-Diynes
12) The Alkyne Zipper Reaction in Asymmetric Synthesis

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