Topics in stereochemistry. Volume 15 / editors, Ernest L. Eliel, Samuel H. Wilen, Norman L. Allinger

This series is intended for the advanced student, the teacher and the active researcher and background for the basic knowledge in the field of stereochemistry is assumed. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field and covers its subject in depth. The authors have chosen topics of fundamental import aimed primarily at an audience of organic chemists but involved frequently with fundamental principles of physical chemistry and molecular physics, and dealing also with certain stereochemical aspects of inorganic chemistry and biochemistry. This is the 19th volume in this ongoing series. It will benefit all organic chemists working with stereochemistry in academic and industrial areas. This seminal series, first edited by Ernest Eliel, responsible for some of the major advances in stereochemistry and the winner of the ACS Priestley Medal in 1996, provides coverage of the major developments of the field of stereochemistry. The scope of this series is broadly defined to encompass all fields of chemical and biological sciences that are founded on molecular and supramolecular interactions. Insofar as chemical, physical, and biological properties are determined by molecular shape and structure, the importance of stereochemistry is fundamental to and consequential for all natural sciences. Topics in Stereochemistry serves as a multidisciplinary series that enriches all of chemistry. Aimed at advanced students, university professors and teachers as well as researchers in pharmaceutical, agricultural, biotechnological, polymer, materials, and fine chemical industries, Topics in Stereochemistry publishes definitive and scholarly reviews in stereochemistry and has long been recognized as the gold standard reference work in this field. Covering the effect of chirality on all aspects of molecular interaction from the fundamental physical chemical properties of molecules and their molecular physics to the application of chirality in new areas such as its applications in materials science, Topics in Stereochemistry explores a wide variety of properties, both physical and chemical of isomers with a view to their applications in a number of disciplines from biochemistry to materials science. TOPICS IN STEREOCHEMISTRY, VOLUME 15......Page 5 CONTENTS......Page 13 WALK REARRANGEMENTS IN [n.1.0] BICYCLIC COMPOUNDS......Page 17 STEREOCHEMISTRY AT SILICON......Page 59 THE SYNTHESIS AND STEREOCHEMISTRY OF CHIRAL ORGANIC MOLECULES WITH HIGH SYMMETRY......Page 215 STEREOCHEMISTRY OF BIOLOGICAL REACTIONS AT PROPROCHIRAL CENTERS......Page 269 SUBJECT INDEX......Page 339 CUMULATIVE INDEX, VOLUMES 1-15......Page 349