Product Description: The autobiography of a Nobel Prize winner, this book tells us about George Olah's fascinating research into extremely strong superacids and how it yielded the common term "magic acids." Olah guides us through his long and remarkable journey, from Budapest to Cleveland to Los Angeles, with a stopover in Stockholm...read more

Product Description: In the course of his career spanning over six decades, George A Olah, winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, has been exceedingly prolific. He has published some 1500 scientific papers and 25 books and holds more than 150 patents...read more

Chemists today are under the gun to find solutions to a host of tough new challenges, including diminishing oil reserves, an array of environmental hazards, and ever more stringent government regulations. Now this book helps meet these challenges by bringing together, for the first time in one volume, all major aspects of contemporary hydrocarbon chemistry. Hydrocarbon Chemistry functions equally well as a working professional reference and an advanced-level student text. Each of its twelve chapters treats a specific type of hydrocarbon transformation and reviews, in depth, all related basic chemistry—including reactivity, selectivity, stereochemistry, and numerous mechanistic aspects—as well as a wide range of practical applications. Offers comprehensive coverage of the chemistry of alkanes, cycloalkanes, alkenes and dienes, acetylenes, and aromatics Includes developments in the field through early 1994 Treats all important aspects of the chemistry involved in hydrocarbon transformations Emphasizes the chemistry of processes used in the petrochemical industry, including cracking, reforming, isomerization, and alkylation Reviews, in detail, derivation reactions to form carbon heteroatom bonds as well as both traditional and recent hydrocarbon oxidation techniques Numerous formulas and flowsheets help illuminate all important concepts and practical processes discussed Destined to be the definitive work on the subject well into the twenty-first century, Hydrocarbon Chemistry is an indispensable resource for chemical and petroleum engineers; industrial researchers in organic, physical organic, and inorganic chemistry; and students of those and other related disciplines.

Superelectrophiles and Their Chemistry contains, for the first-time, a discussion of the basics of this emerging field of organic chemistry, alongside tools to help the reader apply the chemistry. Specific tools include an evaluation of the ways to increase the strength of electrophiles, the classification of superelectrophiles, the solvation issues, a review of methods for studying superelectrophilicity, with details of the superelectrophiles that have been identified and studied. Additional information includes substituent effects in activation of superelectrophiles, and solvation in chemical reactions, as well as an insightful look into future applications.

Product Description: A detailed understanding of reactive intermediates is at the heartof chemical transformations, and thus of modern organic syntheticchemistry. Carbocations are electron deficient species that are themost important intermediates in organic chemistry...read more

Product Description: Comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of onium ions-an indispensable reference for academic and industrial chemists In Onium Ions, Nobel Prize-winning chemist George Olah joins forces with coauthors Kenneth Laali, Qi Wang, and G...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The first book to offer a comprehensive review of superacids (those much stronger than conventional mineral acids). Covers Bronsted superacids, Lewis superacids and solid superacids. Chapters are devoted to the chemistry of both carbocations and heterocations, and to catalysed reactions...read more

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Product Description: Inspired by a symposium held at the University of Southern California, March 1988, dedicated to Paul von R. Schleyer. Contributors examine the role of ``hypercarbons'' in several areas of chemistry, systematically covering the multicenter bonding of ``hypercarbons'' relative to the chemistry of main group elements, organometallics, cluster chemistry, carbocations, and hydrocarbon chemistry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Comprehensive and up-to-date, the book brings together for the first time synthetic nitration methods and mechanistic aspects of both aromatic and aliphatic nitrations. Researchers and students will appreciate the complete perspective of the whole field that this unique work offers...read more

Product Description: The essential new edition of the book that put hypercarbonchemistry on the map A comprehensive and contemporary treatment of the chemistry ofhydrocarbons (alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, and aromatics) towardselectrophiles, Hypercarbon Chemistry, Second Edition dealswith all major aspects of such chemistry involved in hydrocarbontransformations, and of the structural and reaction chemistry ofcarboranes, mixed hydrides in which both carbon and boron atomsparticipate in the polyhedral molecular frameworks...read more