Rodd's Chemistry of Carbon Compounds: Topical Volumes : Organic Electrochemistry - Couverture rigide

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Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0444509003 ISBN 13 : 9780444509000

Editeur : Elsevier Science Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

The explosion of information in organic chemistry has presented the chemist with the tedious exercise of searching chemical abstracts for details of a compound or reaction type. On-line searching has somewhat alleviated this but the task still remains of putting this information into perspective. "Rodd" aims to do this for the reader. The authors of each chapter have already sifted through abstracts, picked out the relevant references, and used their professional skills to present the contents in a concise and critical manner. Each volume in the series has a detailed index facilitating the rapid location of reaction types, synthetic procedures, or individual compounds. To date, the second edition of this series consists of 71 volumes and over 30,000 pages. Elsevier has recently published a cumulative index that covers all volumes, so the reader can easily access this valuable information. The series is continuing with a short series of topical volumes on emerging subjects that are not covered in the main volumes. The first two topical volumes will cover organic electrochemistry and asymmetric catalysis.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

To date, the second edition of the Rodd's series consists of 71 volumes and over 30,000 pages.
Rodd's Chemistry of Carbon Compounds is continuing with a short series of topical volumes on emerging subjects that are not covered in detail in the main volumes. The first two topical volumes will cover organic electrochemistry and asymmetric catalysis.
Asymmetric synthesis initiated by metal catalysts is, of course, not a new topic and asymmetric reduction and epoxidation of alkenes, in particular, are major subject areas covered widely in the Supplements to the 2nd Edition of Rodd's Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds. However, there has been a huge increase in the use of asymmetrically catalysed reactions in other areas in the last five years or so, and this is why this subject has been specially selected to form the content of a Topical Volume.
The book does not dwell at length upon topics of great importance such as Sharpless epoxidation, or upon the control of stereochemistry through catalytic reduction of double bonds. These subjects have been exhaustively surveyed elsewhere. Instead it concentrates upon those topics that appear to be 'up and coming'. Only time can tell if all will be adopted as widely and successfully as their predecessors, but it now seems clear that chemists have at their disposal an ever increasing and formidable array of methods to effect total topological control of even the most complex target molecule.
This book, written by some of the best young chemists, concentrating upon work in their own subject areas, provides a snap shot of the current 'state of play' in this a key test of their scientific ingenuity.

In the Cumulative Index will be found the entire contents of the 2nd edition and both of the supplements, together with a list of main titles and chapter headings for each volume. This index will enable the reader to make better and easier searches in Rodd, which is the most compact, comprehensive and accessible survey of organic chemistry ever written.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Elsevier Science Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0444509003
• ISBN 13: 9780444509000
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 522
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Barbara Criscuolo; b.criscuolo@lswr.it; ; Via Spadolini, 7; Milano; 20141; Italie