Chapter 1. Thioamides: Overview
Toshiaki Murai
Chapter 2. Theoretical Aspects of Thioamides
José V. Cuevas, José García-Calvo, Víctor García-Calvo, Gabriel García-Herbosa and Tomás Torroba
Chapter 3. Synthesis of Thioamides
Toshiaki Murai
Chapter 4. Reaction of Thioamides
Toshiaki Murai
Chapter 5. Asymmetric Synthesis Using Thioamides
Masakatsu Shibasaki, Naoya Kumagai
Chapter 6. Synthesis of Heterocycles from Thioamides
Hong Yan, Hai-Chao Xu
Chapter 7. Thioamides-based Transition Metal-complexes
Ken Okamoto, Junpei Kuwabara, Takaki Kanbara
Chapter 8. Thioamide-containing Peptides and Proteins
Taylor M. Barrett, Kristen E. Fiore, Chunxiao Liu, and E. James Petersson
About the Author: Prof. Toshiaki Murai obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1986 under the guidance of Professors Noboru Sonoda and Shinji Murai at Osaka University. Since 1983, he had been a research associate in Professor Shinzi Kato Group at Gifu University. He spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Jonathan L. Sessler group from 1986. He became an Associate Professor in 1990 and was promoted to a Full Professor in 2001 at Gifu University. He has been a Section Editor of the Chemistry Letters since 2013 and one of Editorial Advisory Board Members of ChemistryOpen since 2017.
He was awarded Progress Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan (1997, 2) and Gifu Shinbun Grand Prize (2017.2).
His research interest is Synthetic Organic and Elements Chemistry Related to Organochalcogen and Organophosphorus Compounds.
