Organoselenium Chemistry Synthesis and Reactions

Filling the gap for a comprehensive handbook and ready reference with a focus on synthetic methods, this book covers all modern developments within the field, including biochemical aspects. The chemistry chapters are organized according to the different reactivities of various selenium compounds and reagents, with each chapter dealing with a special reaction type. Also includes a table with 77Se NMR shifts to aid in practical problems.

Thomas Wirth is professor of organic chemistry at Cardiff University. After studying chemistry in Bonn and at the Technical University of Berlin, he obtained his PhD in 1992 with Professor S. Blechert. After a postdoctoral stay with Professor K. Fuji at Kyoto University a JSPS fellow, he started his independent research at the University of Basel Switzerland. In the group of Professor B. Ciese he obtained his habilitation on stereoselective oxidations supported by various scholarships before taking up his current position at Cardiff University in 2000. He was invited as a visiting professor to a number of places including the University of Toronto/Canada 1999, Chuo University in Tokyo-/Japan 2000, and Osaka University/Japan 2004 and was awarded the Werner-Prize from the New Swiss Chemical Society 2000.His main interests of research concern stereoselective electrophilic reactions, oxidative transformations with hypervalent iodine reagents including mechanistic investigations and organic synthesis performed in microreaders.