Front Cover; Asymmetric Synthesis, Volume 4; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. Readily Available Chiral Carbon Fragments and Their Use in Synthesis; I. The Method; II. The Chiral Building Blocks; III. Approaches to Synthetic Targets Using Chiral Carbon Building Blocks; References; Chapter 2. Optical Activation and Utilization of Compounds Containing Chiral Sulfur Centers; I. Introduction; II. The Optical Activation of Chiral Organosulfur Compounds; III. Applications of Optically Active Organosulfur Reagents in Asymmetric Synthesis; References

Chapter 3. Preparation of the Enantiomers of Compounds Containing Chiral Phosphorus CentersI. Introduction; II. Chiral Tertiary Phosphines and Related Substances; III. Four-Coordinate Phosphorus Thioacids and Related Compounds; IV. Conclusions; References; Chapter 4. Synthesis and Utilization of Compounds with Chiral Nitrogen Centers; I. Introduction; II. Chiral Trivalent Nitrogen; III. Chiral Tetravalent Nitrogen; References; Chapter 5. Synthesis and Utilization of Compounds with Chiral Silicon Centers; I. Introduction; II. Mechanism of Reactions at Silicon

III. Preparation of Optically Active OrganosilanesIV. Utilization of Optically Active Organosilanes in Synthesis; V. Concluding Remarks; References; Index