An update to the continuing series containing 31 edited and checked preparations that represent the most active and advanced areas in organic synthesis. These procedures are presented in six categories: simple one- and two- carbon synthons, chiral auxiliaries and stereocontrolled processes, organometallic reagents, useful starting materials for complex syntheses, new reactions of potentially broad utility and cryptands with novel guest-host properties.

James D. White is the author of Organic Syntheses, Volume 68, published by Wiley.