Second Supplements to the 2nd Edition of Rodd's Chemistry of Carbon Compounds

Hardbound. This volume, written by Professor Livingstone, updates the major contribution he made to the First Supplement, published in 1989. The amount of work involved bears dramatic testimony to the intensity of interest in the chemistry of six-membered heterocycles containing an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom.

A comprehensive survey of all that is relevant to the progression of the chemistry of pyrans and thiopyrans and their oxidised and ring-fused analogues in the last decade is covered in this book. It is obvious that these compounds are immensely important and have value in many applications, not just as biologically active substances. These six-membered monoheterocyclic compounds are also intrinsically interesting and many of the more complex representatives present challenges for synthesis.

...The entire volume is the work of one author, Professor R. Livingstone from the University of Huddersfield, England, resulting in a consistency of presentation not found in the multi–authored volumes in this series...The book is a mine of information, with extensive references, making it a valuable resource for researchers.... The volume is well endowed with consistently numbered formulae, and the level of production is good. -- Professor M.S. Gibson, Brock University, Canadian Chemical News

1996 This new Volume of "Rodd" continues to be a major service to organic chemistry... The chapters are uniformly well written...they should be standard component of any good organic chemical library. -- Philip D. Magnus, Journal of the Americal Chemical Society

1998 This entire volume of Rodd's Chemistry of Carbon Compounds has been written by R. Livingstone from the University of Huddersfield in the UK. It highlights progress in the pyrans and thiapyrans that has occurred since publication of this author's major contribution to the first supplement published in 1990.... Each chapter details available chemistry for the specific class of heterocycle and provides guidance to original literature sources. The continuity between this second supplement, the first supplement, and the second edition is particularly outstanding in this volume. This supplement, along with the complete series of Rodd's Chemistry of Carbon Compounds, is recommended for institutional library acquistion; it provides an excellent collected source of information for broad areas of organic chemistry. -- Arnold Martin, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

A comprehensive survey of all that is relevant to the progression of the chemistry of pyrans and thiopyrans and their oxidized and ring– fused analogues in the last decade. These important compounds have value in many applications, not just as biologically active substances, and many of the more complex representatives present a challenge for synthesis. Two chapters cover six–membered ring compounds with one hetero–atom: oxygen; and six–membered ring compounds with one hetero–atom: sulphur, selenium, tellurium, silicon, germanium, and tin. -- Scitech Book News