Selenium-based methods in synthetic chemistry have developed rapidly over the past years and are now offering highly useful tools for organic synthesis. Filling the gap for a comprehensive handbook and ready reference, this book covers all modern developments within
the field, including biochemical aspects. The chemistry chapters are organized according to the different reactivities of various selenium
compounds and reagents, with each chapter dealing with a special reaction type.

Also includes a table with 77Se NMR shifts to aid in practical problems.

From the Contents:
* Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Selenium
* Selenium Compounds in Radical Reactions
* Selenium-Stabilized Carbanions
* Selenium Compounds with Valency Higher than Two
* Selenocarbonyls
* Selenoxide Elimination and [2,3]-Sigmatropic Rearrangement
* Selenium Compounds as Ligands and Catalysts
* Biological and Biochemical Aspects of Selenium CompoundsContent:
Chapter 1 Electrophilic Selenium (pages 1–51): Claudio Santi and Stefano Santoro
Chapter 2 Nucleophilic Selenium (pages 53–109): Michio Iwaoka
Chapter 3 Selenium Compounds in Radical Reactions (pages 111–146): W. Russell Bowman
Chapter 4 Selenium?Stabilized Carbanions (pages 147–189): Joao V. Comasseto, Alcindo A. Dos Santos and Edison P. Wendler
Chapter 5 Selenium Compounds with Valency Higher than Two (pages 191–256): Jozef Drabowicz, Jaroslaw Lewkowski and Jacek Scianowski
Chapter 6 Selenocarbonyls (pages 257–285): Toshiaki Murai
Chapter 7 Selenoxide Elimination and [2,3]?Sigmatropic Rearrangement (pages 287–320): Yoshiaki Nishibayashi and Sakae Uemura
Chapter 8 Selenium Compounds as Ligands and Catalysts (pages 321–360): Fateh V. Singh and Thomas Wirth
Chapter 9 Biological and Biochemical Aspects of Selenium Compounds (pages 361–396): Bhaskar J. Bhuyan and Govindasamy Mugesh