This is a practical guidebook about cyclopropanes that thoroughly surveys derivatives and transformations, synthetic methods, and experimental efficiency as a gateway for further research and development in the field.

•    Provides comprehensive lists and synthetically-oriented synopses of cyclopropane chemistry review references along with publication data on applications in the syntheses of natural and related biologically active compounds
•    Acts as a resource to help readers better understand cyclopropane applications for the efficient realization of synthetically important organic transformations and popular experimental procedures
•    Includes new developments and up-to-date information that will lead to original methodologies for complex organic synthesis
•    Stresses universality, flexibility, and experimental efficiency of a strategy based on preparing cyclopropane derivatives and performing ring cleavage reactions with inexpensive reagents
•    Focuses on the synthetic potential of cyclopropane applications, for example  the synthesis of natural compounds and other target-oriented syntheses via cyclopropane intermediaries, as well on their planning by retrosynthetic analysis

Oleg Kulinkovich was the head of the Department of Organic Chemistry from 1993-2003 and the head of the Laboratory of Organoelement Synthesis at Belarusian State University and visiting professor at Tallinn University of Technology. His seminal work on titanium-catalyzed cyclopropanation of carboxylic esters with Grignard reagents bearing β-hydrogen atoms (Kulinkovich reaction) is very well-known. Dr. Kulinkovich has published several reviews and original articles on organic synthesis in leading international journals.