Reactivity of terpenes and their analogues in an 'organised medium'

Published studies on the reactivity of terpenes and their analogues in an 'organised medium', viz. upon adsorption on solid catalysts and upon complex formation with cyclodextrins (photochemical processes), are analysed. It is shown that the use of an 'organised medium' not only improves the environmental characteristics of the known processes involving natural terpene derivatives. In addition, due to the specific features of the latter (conformational mobility, polyfunctionality), it opens broad opportunities for discovering unusual transformations, and this extends the prospects of using the 'renewable raw materials' for fine organic synthesis. The bibliography includes 92 references.