Chemistry and Industry, May 4th, 1992
The search for stereoselectivity and new reactivity patterns has promoted the wider acceptance of the use of organotransition metals in organic synthesis. Popularity of catalytic methods has come first, because often a conventional step in a synthesis plan can simply be replaced by a transition metalmediated version. With more unusual reactions, or methods that are most powerful when a fresh approach to synthesis design is employed, the synthetic chemistry community is slower to bring these techniques into general use.
Peter Harrington has produced a book that will help in this respect. The...
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