This book continues the well-established and authoritative series on name reactions in organic chemistry by focusing on name reactions on ring formation.  Ring formating reactions have found widespread applicability in traditional organic synthesis, medicinal/pharmaceuticals, agricultural, fine chemicals, and of late, especially in polymer science.

JIE JACK LI is a chemist at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in Wallingford, Connecticut. He has authored or edited various books, includingName Reactions in Heterocyclic Chemistry, Name Reactions for Functional Group Transformations, Name Reactions for Homologations, Parts I and II, Contemporary Drug Synthesis, The Art of Drug Synthesis, andModern Drug Synthesis, all published by Wiley.

Foreword.

Preface.

Contributing Authors.

Chapter 1 Three-Membered Carbocycles.

1.1 Freund Reaction.

1.2 Kishner Cyclopropane Synthesis.

1.3 Kulinovich Cyclopropanol Synthesis.

1.4 Simmons-Smith Reaction.

Chapter 2 Four-Membered Carbocycles.

2.1 Staudinger Ketene Cycloaddition.

Chapter 3 Five-Membered Carbocycles.

3.1 Danheiser Annulation.

3.2 Dieckmann Condensation.

3.3 Favorskii Rearrangement.

3.4 Nazarov Cyclization.

3.5 Pauson-Khand Reaction.

3.6 WeissCook Reaction.

Chapter 4 Six-Membered Carbocycles.

4.1 Bardhan-Sengupta Pheantherene Synthesis.

4.2 Bergman Cyclization.

4.3 Bogert-Cook Reaction.

4.4 Bradsher Cycloaddition and Bradsher Reaction.

4.5 Bradsher Reaction.

4.6 Darzens Synthesis of Tetralin Derivatives.

4.7 Diels-Alder Reaction.

4.8 Dötz Benzannulation.

4.9 Elbs Reaction.

4.10 Fujimoto-Belleau Reaction.

4.11 Haworth Reaction.

4.12 Moore Cyclization.

4.13 Myers-Saito Cyclization.

4.14 Robinson Annulation.

4.15 Scholl Reaction.

Chapter 5 Large-Ring Carbocycles.

5.1 Buchner Reaction.

5.2 de Mayo Reaction.

5.3 Ring-closing Metathesis (RCM).

5.4 Thorpe-Ziegler Reaction.

Chapter 6 Transformations of Carbocycles.

6.1 Blanc Chloromethylation Reaction.

6.2 Asymmetric Friedel-Crafts Reactions: Past to Present.

6.3 Houben-Hoesch Reaction.

6.4 Kolbe-Schmitt Reaction.

6.5 Vilsmeier-Haack Reaction.

6.6 von Richter Reaction.

Appendices.

1 Contents Volume 1:Name Reactions in Heterocyclic Chemistry.

2 Contents Volume 2:Name Reactions for Functional Group Transformations.

3 Contents Volume 3:Name Reactions for HomologationsPart I.

4 Contents Volume 4:Name Reactions for HomologationsPart II.

5 Contents Volume 6:Name Reactions in Heterocyclic ChemistryPart II.

Subject Index.