Comprehensive Organic Name Reactions and Reagents (Volume 2) - Hardcover

Wang, Zerong

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470286636 ISBN 13: 9780470286630

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience, 2009

Synopsis

With over 850 listings, Comprehensive Organic Name Reactions and Reagents is the most comprehensive collection of name reactions and reagents available today. Information provided on each reaction includes a description of the reaction, the reaction scheme, a brief bio of the person(s) for which the reaction is named, proposed mechanisms, modifications (if applicable), applications, related reactions (if applicable), experimental examples, and references to primary literature. With several indices, this is the definitive reference that helps bench chemists and students navigate the growing number of name reactions and reagents.

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About the Author

Dr. Zerong Wang was born in Pi County, Sichuan Province, in 1968 and graduated from the No.2 Middle School of Pi County in 1985. He entered the chemistry Department at Lanzhou University, Gansu Province, and received his BS degree in Chemistry in 1989. Subsequently, he pursued his PhD. at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, and graduated in 1995. He did his first postdoctoral study at the Department of Chemistry, the University of California at Berkeley from 1996 to 1999, studying enolate chemistry. His second postdoctoral study accomplished at York University (Canada) was on the synthesis of nucleosides analogues. he then worked at the Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, as an assistant research officer studying carbohydrate chemistry until 2002, and thereafter he joined the University of Houston-Clear Lake as a tenure-track assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor in 2008. His personal research interests include photochemistry, nucleosides, heterocycles, computational chemistry, and material science.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0470286636
• ISBN 13: 9780470286630
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 987