Book excerpt: Combining the important research topic of multiple bond-formingtransformations with green chemistry, this book helps chemistsidentify recent sustainable stereoselective syntheticsequences. • Combines the important research topic ofmultiple bond-forming transformations with green chemistry andsustainable development • Offers a valuable resource for preparingcompounds with multiple stereogenic centers, an important field forsynthetic chemists • Organizes chapters by molecular structureof final products, making for a handbook-style resource • Discusses applications of the synthesisof natural products and of drug intermediates • Brings together otherwise-scatteredinformation about a number of key, efficient chemical reactions