Overview
This tenth volume is the sixth in the series devoted to stereoselective synthesis. Review articles by leading exponents in the field covering the synthesis of cembranes, vitamin D, isoquinolinequinone antibiotics, medium ring ethers, didemnins, C-glycosides, blood group I and i active oligosaccharides, glycosidase and glycosyl transferase inhibitors, novel nucleosides, macrocyclic oligopeptides and chiral alkaloids should provide a wealth of information to a large number of organic chemists. Articles on additions to polyunsaturated carbonyl compounds, novel ring transformations and Claisen rearrangements applied to carbohydrate precursors are also included and should be interesting as well as stimulating to scientists in biology and natural products chemistry.
Full Product Details
Author: Atta-ur- Rahman (University of Karachi, Pakistan)
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Imprint: Elsevier Science Ltd
Volume: 10
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 3.80cm
, Length: 23.00cm
Weight: 1.170kg
ISBN: 9780444895585
ISBN 10: 0444895582
Pages: 730
Publication Date: 13 April 1992
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
...each chapter is well-written and extensively referenced. --Journal of Medicinal Chemistry ...is a valuable collection of recent synthetic endeavors for organic chemists who find the strategy and execution of a total synthesis appealing and interesting. --Journal of the American Chemical Society ...maintains the high standard of the earlier volumes. The chapters are well-written, have good, clear structures, and the final products reflect a characteristically well produced volume. --International Journal of Pharmacognosy ...the chapters are impressively up-to-date, with many literature references. --Fitoterapia
"""...each chapter is well-written and extensively referenced."" --Journal of Medicinal Chemistry ""...is a valuable collection of recent synthetic endeavors for organic chemists who find the strategy and execution of a total synthesis appealing and interesting."" --Journal of the American Chemical Society ""...maintains the high standard of the earlier volumes. The chapters are well-written, have good, clear structures, and the final products reflect a characteristically well produced volume."" --International Journal of Pharmacognosy ""...the chapters are impressively up-to-date, with many literature references."" --Fitoterapia"
Author Information
Atta-ur-Rahman, FRS, D.Phil., TI, SI HI, NI, is a leading scientist and scholar in the field of organic chemistry from Pakistan, especially renowned for his research in the various areas relating to natural product chemistry. With over 909 publications in the field of his expertise including 116 books largely published by leading publishers in Europe and USA and 27 patents, he is also credited for reviving the higher education and research practices in Pakistan. Prof. Rahman was elected as Fellow of Royal Society (London) in July 2006 thereby becoming one of the 4 scientists from the Muslim world to have ever won this honor in the last 350 years when the Royal Society was established. He is also the only scientist from the Muslim world to have been conferred the UNESCO Science Prize in 1999.[11] He has been conferred honorary doctorate degrees by many universities including the degree of Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) by Cambridge University (UK) (1987) and an Honorary degree of Doctor of Education by Coventry University UK in November 2007. He was elected Honorary Life Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge University, UK in 2007. Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman was conferred the TWAS Prize for Institution Building in Durban, South Africa in October 2009 in recognition of his contributions for bringing about revolutionary changes in the higher education sector in Pakistan. He was awarded the Engro Excellence Award in Science & Technology 2011 for meritorious contributions. He is President of Network of Academies of Sciences of Islamic Countries (NASIC) and the Vice-President (Central & South Asia) of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) Council, and Foreign Fellow of Korean Academy of Sciences. Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman was the President of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences (2003–06), and was again elected President of Pakistan Academy of Sciences in January 2011. He was the Federal Minister for Science and Technology (14 March 2000 – 20 November 2002), Federal Minister of Education (2002) and Chairman of the Higher Education Commission with the status of a Federal Minister from 2002-2008. The Austrian government also honoured him with its highest civil award (""Das Große Goldene Ehrenzeichen am Bande"", 2007) in recognition of his eminent contributions. Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman was the Coordinator General of COMSTECH, an OIC Ministerial Committee comprising the 57 Ministers of Science & Technology from 57 OIC member countries during 1996-2012. He is also the Patron of International Centre of Chemical and Biological Sciences (which comprises a number of institutes, including the Hussain Ebrahim Jamal Research Institute of Chemistry and the Dr. Panjwani Center of Molecular Medicine and Drug Development) at Karachi University. He established a research center on Genomics in Karachi University. In recognition of the eminent contributions of Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman, a number of institutions have been named after him within and outside Pakistan. These include a natural product chemistry institute (Atta-ur-Rahman Research Institute of Natural Product Discovery, RiND) at the University of Technology Mara in Malaysia, Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences at National University of Science & Technology in Islamabad, and Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman Building at the International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi. The Academy of Sciences in the Developing World (TWAS) based in Trieste, Italy has introduced a Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman Prize in Chemistry to a scientist from the developing world each year. The Prize carries a cash award of $ 5,000 and a Certificate.
