Comprehensive Organic Transformations: A Guide to Functional Group Preparations, Volume 2

Larock, Richard C.

ISBN 10: 111803760X / ISBN 13: 9781118037607

Published by Wiley-VCH, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Comprehensive Organic Transformations: A Guide to Functional Group Preparations, Volume 2
• Publisher: Wiley-VCH
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 111803760X
• ISBN 13: 9781118037607
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

This greatly-expanded new edition of a best-selling guide offers an encyclopedic and systematic collection of useful synthetic methodology, including tens of thousands of reactions and synthetic transformations.

• Covers and cross references so practicing chemists can easily navigate through the book’s comprehensive coverage of reagents and reactions
• Updates and expands a best-selling guide through the year 2009
• “…the book is undoubtedly still of great value and every chemist working in the area of synthesis should have it within reach in the laboratory.” – Angewandte Chemie review of the 2nd edition
• “...an indispensable reference work for designing and carrying out modern organic chemical synthesis.... It is amazing that so much information is contained in a single volume that is arranged in a logical and easy to use fashion." – Analytical Biochemistry review of the 2nd edition

About the Author

Larock was born in Berkeley, California and raised in San Francisco Bay Area. He received his B.S degree summa cum laude in chemistry in 1967. He received an NSF Graduate Fellowship to pursue his graduate training at Purdue University and after obtaining his Ph.D. in 1971, he received an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship. In 1972, he joined the organic chemistry faculty at Iowa State University, where he is currently University Professor of Chemistry.