Description
Book Synopsis* The 43rd annual volume in this highly successful series * Mechanisms of stereo-specific reactions are highlighted * Literature is compiled and reviews written by a team of experienced editors and authors * A unique series surveying the advances in the understanding of organic reaction mechanisms .
Table of Contents1. Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones and their Derivatives (
A. C. Knipe).
2. Reactions of Carboxylic, Phosphoric, and Sulfonic Acids and their Derivatives (C. T. Bedford).
3. Oxidation and Reduction (R. N. Mehrotra).
4. Carbenes and Nitrenes (E. Gras).
5. Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution (M. R. Crampton).
6. Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution (R. G. Coombes).
7. Carbocations (R. A. McClelland).
8. Nucleophilic Aliphatic Substitution (K. C. Westaway).
9. Carbanions and Electrophilic Aliphatic Substitution (M. L. Birsa).
10. Elimination Reactions (M. L. Birsa).
11. Addition Reactions: Polar Addition (P. Kocovsky).
12. Addition Reactions: Cycloaddition (N. Dennis).
13. Molecular Rearrangements: Part 1. Pericyclic Reactions (S. K. Armstrong).
14. Molecular Rearrangements: Part 2. Other Reactions (J. M. Coxon).
Author Index.
Subject Index
