Overview
- Many chemists collect named and unnamed reactions and their mechanisms
- Will make this time-consuming effort redundant
- Gives the earliest and latest references to these name reactions
- Gives representative examples in synthesis
- The 4th edition contains more reactions as well as more real case applications in synthesis.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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I don't have my name on anything that I don't really do. –Heidi Klum Can the organic chemists associated with so-called “Named Reactions” make the same claim as supermodel Heidi Klum? Many scholars of chemistry do not hesitate to point out that the names associated with “name reactions” are often not the actual inventors. For instance, the Arndt–Eistert reaction has nothing to do with either Arndt or Eistert, Pummerer did not discover the “Pummerer” rearrangement, and even the famous Birch reduction owes its initial discovery to someone named Charles Wooster (first reported in a DuPont patent). The list goes on and on… But does that mean we should ignore, boycott, or outlaw “named reactions”? Absolutely not. The above examples are merely exceptions to the rule. In fact, the chemists associated with name reactions are typically the original discoverers, contribute greatly to its general use, and/or are the first to popularize the transformation. Regardless of the controversial history underlying certain named reactions, it is the students of organic chemistry who benefit the most from the cataloging of reactions by name. Indeed, it is with education in mind that Dr. Jack Li has masterfully brought the chemical community the latest edition of Name Reactions.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Name Reactions
Book Subtitle: A Collection of Detailed Mechanisms and Synthetic Applications
Authors: Jie Jack Li
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01053-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-01053-8Published: 14 March 2010
Edition Number: 4
Number of Pages: XXII, 621
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Biochemistry, general, Medicinal Chemistry