Preparing organic compounds containing a single or multiple functional groups remains a current goal for the synthetic community. The demand for operationally straightforward approaches that are sustainable and can be carried out in the presence of moisture and under air using readily accessible synthetic intermediates is expected to rise in the coming years.

Practical Functional Group Synthesis addresses the chemists working in these fields by offering a practical guide to modern functional group synthesis through carbon-heteroelement bond forming reactions. Rather than spread coverage thin, the author focuses on the 6 most common and used heteroelements - thus, maintaining a focus on chemical reactions that result in the formation of nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sulphur, boron or halogen bonds. Each chapter is focused on a single type of heteroelement, with subsections discussing specific functional groups. Those subsections contain the detailed information needed to facilitate the selection of a reasonable set of conditions / reagents / catalysts in order to prepare specific functional groups.

A valuable handbook for chemists performing bond forming reactions, this book features:

¿ A focus on operational simplicity, sustainability, and microwave assisted reactions

¿ Key and recent developments - which are otherwise scattered across journal literature - into a single source

¿ Over 100 detailed procedures for the preparation of carbon-heteroelement bonds

¿ A total of 25 troubleshooting guides with suggestions and approaches to address common challenges

¿ Chemical equations that accompany most discussions in order to outline the flow of the process and provide clarity to the overall transformation that was achieved