Table of Contents

1: General Aspects.- I: Synthesis in Perspective.- II: Strategies for Building the Carbon Skeleton.- III: Characterization of Products.- 2: Coupling Reactions.- I: Enol Ether and Aldol Condensations.- II: Organometallic Reactions.- III: Wittig Olefination.- IV: Sulphone Coupling.- 3: Carotenoid Synthesis.- I: Polyene Synthons.- II: Acyclic Carotenoids.- III: Synthesis of Cyclic Carotenoids.- IV: Synthesis of Acetylenic, Allenic and In-chain Substituted Carotenoids.- V: Total Synthesis of (Z)-Isomers.- VI: Labelled Carotenoids.- VII: Technical Syntheses.- VIII: Partial Synthesis of Glycosides and Glycosyl Esters.- IX: Partial Synthesis of Sulphates.- Worked Examples.- Example 1: Enol Ether Condensation.- Example 2: Organometallic Reactions.- Example 3: Wittig and Horner-Emmons Reaction.- Example 4: Sulphone Coupling.- Example 5: Asymmetric Syntheses.- Example 6: Synthesis ex Chiral Pool.- Example 7: Optical Resolution of Racemic ?-Ionone.- Example 8: ?,?-Carotene.- Appendix I: List of Synthons.- Appendix II: List of Naturally Occurring Carotenoids Prepared by Total Synthesis.- List of abbreviations.