Carbonyl-Lewis acid complexes / Takashi Ooi and Keiji Maruoka -- Carbonyl recognition / Susumu Saito and Hisashi Yamamoto -- Pinacol coupling / Gregory C. Fu -- Modern free radical methods for the synthesis of carbonyl compounds / Ilhyong Ryu and Mitsuo Komatsu -- Acyllithium / Shinji Murai and Keiji Iwamoto -- ]pi[-facial selectivity in reaction of carbonyls : a computational approach / James M. Coxon and Richard T. Luibrand -- Engineered asymmetric catalysis / Koichi Mikami -- Aldol reaction : methodology and stereochemistry / Erick M. Carreira -- Stereoselective aldol reactions in the synthesis of polyketide natural products / Ian Paterson, Cameron J. Cowden and Debra J. Wallace -- Allylation of carbonyls : methodology and stereochemistry / Scott E. Denmark and Neil G. Almstead -- Recent applications of the allylation reaction to the synthesis of natural products / Sherry R. Chemler and William R. Roush -- Asymmetric Michael-type addition reaction / Kiyoshi Tomioka -- Stereoselective radical reactions / Mukund P. Sibi and Tara R. Ternes -- Activation of carbonyl and related compounds in aqueous media / Shغu Kobayashi, Kei Manabe, and Satoshi Nagayama -- Thermo- and photochemical reactions of carbonyl compounds in the solid state / Fumio Toda.