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Introduction
"Organic Synthesis", Professor Chris Willis

Retrosynthetic analysis

 * Retrosynthetic analysis
 * Synthon
 * Umpolung

Application to organic synthesis

 * Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis
 * Baeyer-Villiger oxidation
 * Osmylation
 * Ozonolysis - ozone is a pair of molecular scissors
 * Vicinal diols:
 * Osmium tetroxide gives syn diols
 * Epoxidation followed by hydrolysis gives anti diols
 * Woodward cis-hydroxylation gives syn diols
 * Prévost reaction gives anti diols
 * Pyrrolizidine alkaloids

Textbooks

 * Chris Willis and Martin Wills, Organic Synthesis (Oxford Chemistry Primer) (1995) (on Amazon.co.uk)
 * Stuart Warren and Paul Wyatt, Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach (2008) (on Amazon.co.uk)
 * Stuart Warren, Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach (1983) (on Amazon.co.uk)