Organic Reactions, Volume 5

The volumes of Organic Reactions are collections of chapters each devoted to a single reaction, or a definite phase of a reaction, of wide applicability. The material is treated from a preparative viewpoint, with emphasis on limitations, interfering influences, effects of structure, and the selection of experimental techniques. Numerous detailed procedures illustrate the significant modifications of each method. Includes tables that contain all possible examples of the reaction under consideration. 1. The Synthesis of Acetylenes--Thomas L. Jacobs

2. Cyanoethylation--Herman Alexander Bruson

3. The Diels-Alder Reaction: Quinones and Other Cyclenones--Lewis W. Butz and Anton W. Rytina

4. Preparation of Aromatic Fluorine Compounds from Diazonium Fluoborates: The Schiemann Reaction--Arthur Roe

5. The Friedel and Crafts Reaction with Aliphatic Dibasic Acid Anhydrides--Ernst Berliner

6. The Gattermann-Koch Reaction--Nathan N. Crounse

7. The Leuckart Reaction--Maurice L. Moore

8. Selenium dioxide oxidation--Norman Rabjohn

9. The Hoesch Synthesis--Paul E. Spoerri and Adrien S. DuBois

10. The Darzens Glycidic Ester Condensation--Melvin S. Newman and Barney J. Magerlein

Index

Roger Adams was an American organic chemist. He is best known for the eponymous Adams' catalyst, and his work did much to determine the composition of naturally occurring substances such as complex vegetable oils and plant alkaloids.