Organic chemistry : breakthroughs and perspectives / edited by Kuiling Ding, Li-Xin Dai. [electronic resource] Ding, Kuiling. Dai, Li-Xin. Wiley InterScience (Online service) Chemistry, Organic. QD251.3 .O74 2012 547 23 Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record. This helpful, useful, practical book presents the most important achievements in organic chemistry over the past decade, summarizing such major developments as C-H activation, organocatalysis, and supramolecular chemistry. Each chapter contains two or three personal, hitherto unpublished, commentaries by leading experts on the topic. This reference work focuses on four main areas: the total synthesis of natural products and chemical biology; synthetic methodology; physical organic chemistry and chemistry relevant to meeting the urgent needs of humanity. The result is a complete and extremely useful source of a wide variety of information for graduate students, post-docs and researchers. Weinheim : Wiley-VCH Verlag, ©2012. ©2012. 2012 Text 1 online resource (li, 802 pages) : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9783527664801 eng Organic chemistry. Organic chemistry.