Organic Reactions, Volume 2

This series provides the most comprehensive and highly focused treatment of important organic reactions currently available. All volumes of Organic Reactions (including this one) are collections of chapters each devoted to a single reaction or a definitive phase of a reaction, of wide applicability. The authors have had experience with the processes surveyed. The subjects are presented from the preparative viewpoint and particular attention is given to limitations, interfering influences, effects of structure and the selection of experimental techniques. Each chapter includes several detailed procedures illustrating the significant modifications of the method.

1. The Claisen Rearrangement--D. Stanley Tarbell

2. The Preparation of Aliphatic Fluorine Compounds--Albert L. Henne

3. The Cannizzaro Reaction--T. A. Geissman

4. The Formation of Cyclic Ketones by Intramolecular Acylation--William S. Johnson

5. Reduction with Aluminum Alkoxides (The Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley Reduction)--A. L. Wilds

6. The Preparation of Unsymmetrical Biaryls by the Diazo Reaction and the Nitrosoacetylamine Reaction--Werner E. Bachmann and Roger A. Hoffman

7. Replacement of the Aromatic Primary Amino Group by Hydrogen--Nathan Kornblum

8. Periodic Acid Oxidation--Ernest L. Jackson

9. The Resolution of Alcohols--A. W. Ingersoll

10. The Preparation of Aromatic Arsonic and Arsinic Acids by the Bart, Bechamp, and Rosenmund Reactions--Cliff S. Hamilton and Jack F. Morgan

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.