Stereoselective or asymmetric synthesis of organic molecules preferentially leads to one of several possible steric structures of ae target molecule, which is most important for economical multistep syntheses of for example natural products, drugs, and fine chemicals, that show activity only in a certain steric modification. The book provides a collection of classic methods that have been developed over the last two decades for asymmetric synthesis. It highlights the modern and contemporary methods that are the classic workhorses of organic synthesis or are in the process of becoming classics themselves.