Organic Reactions, Volume 4

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 Diels-Alder Reaction with Maleic Anhydride--Milton C. Kloetzel

2. The Diels-Alder Reaction: Ethylenic and Acetylenic Dienophiles--H. L. Holmes

3. The Preparation of Amines by Reductive Alkylation--William S. Emerson

4. The Acyloins--S. M. McElvain

5. The Synthesis of Benzoins--Walter S. Ide and Johannes S. Buck

6. Synthesis of Benzoquinones by Oxidation--James Cason

7. The Rosenmund Reduction of Acid Chlorides to Aldehydes--Erich Mosettig and Ralph Mozingo

8. The Wolff-Kishner Reduction--David Todd

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.