Description
Book SynopsisOrganic Reaction Mechanisms 2009, the 45th annual volume in this highly successful and unique series, surveys research on organic reaction mechanisms described in the available literature dated 2009.
Table of Contents1. Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones and their Derivatives
by B. A. Murray 1
2. Reactions of Carboxylic, Phosphoric, and Sulfonic Acids and their Derivatives by C. T. Bedford 75
3. Oxidation and Reduction by R. N. Mehrotra 117
4. Carbenes and Nitrenes by E. Gras 191
5. Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution by M. R. Crampton 215
6. Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution by R. G. Coombes 229
7. Carbocations by R. A. McClelland 257
8. Nucleophilic Aliphatic Substitution by K. C. Westaway 275
9. Carbanions and Electrophilic Aliphatic Substitution by M. L. Birsa 311
10. Elimination Reactions by M. L. Birsa 335
11. Addition Reactions: Polar Addition by P. Kocovsky 347
12. Addition Reactions: Cycloaddition by N. Dennis 421
13. Molecular Rearrangements: Part 1. Pericyclic Molecular Rearrangements by S. K. Armstrong 457
14. Molecular Rearrangements: Part 2 by J. M. Coxon 483
Author Index 531
Cumulative Subject Index, 2005–2009 571
