The highly successful Fieser & Fieser series has provided generations of professional chemists with an ongoing and easily-accessible guide to the chemical literature. Volume 20 maintains the same high caliber format of previous volumes, including references to both new reagents and reagents covered in previous volumes.

TSE-LOK HO is Professor of Organic Chemistry at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. His research interests are in organic synthesis, including total synthesis of natural products and methodology. He has written 16 books, including, most recently, Stereoselectivity in Synthesis, available from Wiley. Dr. Ho holds degrees from National Taiwan University and the University of New Brunswick, Canada.