Organic Reactions, Volume 87

The first chapter describes the manifold ways in which the latent functionality embedded in the humble heterocycle furan can be revealed by various oxidative processes.The second chapter details the fascinating cycloaddition and electrocyclization chemistry of unsaturated ketenes. The third chapter chronicles the development of a remarkable organometallic reaction of unactivated alkenes and alkynes, namely carbozincation. 1. Oxidative Cleavage of Furans
Pedro Merino 1

2. Cycloaddition and Electrocyclic Reactions of Vinylketenes, Allenylketenes, and Alkynylketenes
Nanyan Fu and Thomas T. Tidwell 257

3. Carbozincation Reactions of Carbon–Carbon Multiple Bonds
Genia Sklute, Hannah Cavender, and Ilan Marek 507

Cumulative Chapter Titles by Volume 765

Author Index, Volumes 1–87 781

Chapter and Topic Index, Volumes 1–87 787

SCOTT E. DENMARK is the R. C. Fuson Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to his editor-in-chief role for Organic Reactions, he is an editor for Organic Syntheses and for the Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, both available from Wiley.