Includes bibliographical references and index.

Diversity-oriented syntheses of natural products and natural product-like compounds / Ling-Min Xu ... [et al.] -- Total synthesis of natural products and the synergy with synthetic methodology / Qian Wang and Jie-Ping Zhu -- Interplay between the chemical space and the biological space / Ren-Xiao Wang -- Biosynthesis of pharmaceutical natural products and their pathway engineering / Michael J. Smanski ... [et al.] -- Carbohydrate synthesis towards glycobiology / Biao Yu and Lai-Xi Wang -- Chemical synthesis of proteins / Lei Liu -- CuAAC : the quintessential click reaction / Valery V. Fokin -- Transition metal-catalyzed C-H functionalization : synthetically enabling reactions for building molecular complexity / Keary M. Engle and Jin-Quan Yu -- An overview of recent developments in metal-catalyzed asymmetric transformations / Christian A. Sandoval and Ryoji Noyori -- The proline-catalyzed Mannich reaction and the advent of enamine catalysis / Benjamin List and Sai-Hu Liao -- Recent topics in cooperative catalysis : asymmetric catalysis, polymerization, hydrogen activation, and water splitting / Motomu Kanai -- Flourishing frontiers in organofluorine chemistry / G.K. Surya Prakash and Fang Wang --

Supramolecular organic chemistry : the Foldamer approach / Zhan-Ting Li -- Novel catalysis for alkene polymerization mediated by post-metallocenes : a gateway to new polyalkenes / Hiromu Kaneyoshi, Haruyuki Makio, and Terunori Fujita -- Chem is try computationally and experimentally : how will computational organic chemistry impact organic theories, mechanisms, and synthesis in the twenty-first century? / Zhi-Xiang Yu and Yong Liang -- Case study of mechanisms in synthetic reactions / Ai-Wen Lei and Li-Qun Jin -- Organic materials and chemistry for bulk heterojunction solar cells / Chun-Hui Duan, Fei Huang, and Yong Cao -- Catalytic utilization of carbon dioxide : actual status and perspectives / Albert Boddien ... [et al.] -- Synthetic chemistry with an eye on future sustainability / Guo-Jun Deng and Chao-Jun Li -- Organic pi-conjugated molecules for organic semiconductors and photovoltaic materials / De-Qing Zhang ... [et al.] -- The future of organic chemistry : an essay / Ronald Breslow.