This book is addressed principally to advanced undergraduates and to graduates
at the beginning of their research careers, and aims to bring to their notice some
of the reactions used in modern organic syntheses. Clearly, the whole field of synthesis
could not be covered in a book of this size, even in a cursory manner, and
a selection has had to be made. This has been governed largely by consideration
of the usefulness of the reactions, their versatility and, in some cases, their
selectivity.