Ciba Foundation Symposium 53 - Further Perspectives in Organic Chemistry: Ciba/Futher

Content: Chapter 1 Chairman's Opening Remarks (pages 1–2): G. W. Kenner Chapter 2 Introduction (pages 3–4): Lord Todd Chapter 3 Biosynthesis in Theory and Practice: Structure Determinations (pages 5–24): A. J. Birch Chapter 4 Ideas and Experiments in Biosynthesis (pages 25–51): A. R. Battersby Chapter 5 Design of a Specific Oxidant for Phenols (pages 53–66): Sir Derek Barton and Steven V. Ley Chapter 6 Synthesis of Sesquiterpenoids of Biogenetic Importance (pages 67–83): Robert Ramage Chapter 7 Rules for Ring Closure (pages 85–106): J. Baldwin Chapter 8 Some Recent Developments in Quantum Organic Chemistry (pages 107–129): Michael J. S. Dewar Chapter 9 Biomimetic Syntheses of Phenols from Polyketones (pages 131–147): G. E. Evans, M. J. Garson, D. A. Griffin, F. J. Leeper and J. Staunton Chapter 10 Selective Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis (pages 149–173): J. M. Brown Chapter 11 Studies on Enzyme Models and on the Enzyme Carboxypeptidase A (pages 175–202): Ronald Breslow Chapter 12 Summing Up (pages 203–204): Lord Todd The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.