Title:
The art of problem solving in organic chemistry
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Publication Information:
New York : John Wiley, 1987
ISBN:
9780471847847
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Summary
Summary
For students of advanced organic chemistry, this text develops problem-solving skills using fifty-six challenging, organic chemistry problems covering a wide variety of chemical systems. Concentrates on necessary and fundamental concepts in the introductory chapters. Valuable not only as a study guide and source of interesting problems, but also as an illustration of reactions and phenomena of general interest.
Table of Contents
| Partial table of contents |
| The Rules of the Game |
| Slow Motion, Deep Insight |
| Clear Drawings, Three-Dimensional Structures |
| Preserve Atoms in Place, Keep Things Simple |
| Atom and Bond Budgets |
| Fragmentation of Bicyclobutane by Way of Anti-Bredt Intermediates |
| Acidic Fragmentation in the Course of a Clever Synthesis of Alpha--Methylene Butyrolactones |
| A Local Oxidation at the Unexpected Site by Bromination at the Expected Site |
| Vicinal Migrations with Stereocontrol |
| Hydrazine Used for Ring Mutation |
| A Stepwise Electron Transfer That Requires Two Moles of Oxidant |
| Circuitous Oxidation With Lead Tetraacetate |
| Multifaceted Performance of Grignard Reagent |
| A Potentially Complex Wagner--Meerwein Rearrangement Made Simple |
| Strange Involvement of Nonfunctionalized Isopentyl Side Chain |
| A Case of X-Ray Data Yielding the Wrong Structure Due to Interference of Organic Chemistry |
| Reaction |
| Index |
