Professor Tohru Fukuyama received his PhD in Chemistry in 1977 from Harvard University all under the direction of Professor Yoshito Kishi. In 1995 he returned to Japan to join the faculty of the University of Tokyo where he is currently Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences. His main research interests include total synthesis of structurally interesting molecules of medicinal importance and development of synthetically useful methodology. He has been successful in the total synthesis of such natural products as catharanthine, CP-263,114, cyanocycline, ecteinascidin 743, FR900482, gelsemine, isomitomycin A, K252a, leinamycin, mitomycin C, polyamine spider toxins, quinocarcine, vinblastine, and vindoline. He received the ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award in 1993 and the Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award, Japan, in 2002.
这本书是他根据研究小组多年seminar编著的一本讲述有机反应机理的一本书。
分为初级，中级和高级三部分。采用问答式，分为问题和答案两大部分。书中对许多重要的有机反应机理结合实例进行解释，可作为学习有机合成的工具书，也可作为检验自己对反应掌握情况的习题集。
2005年7月编著，
