A guide to the preparation of organic compounds and types of reactions used in modern organic synthesis, emphasizing recent techniques. Covers lab basics such as safety, record keeping, and equipment, presents techniques for working with solvents, reagents, gases, and vacuum pumps, and details carrying out reactions, purification, and characterization. Includes a review of the chemical literature, and appendices listing properties of solvents, gases, reducing reagents, and oxidizing reagents. For postgraduates and advanced undergraduates. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Product Description: This book covers a wide range of reactions which are important in the asymmetric synthesis of organic compounds. Each chapter is self-contained, covers a single reaction type, and concludes with references to the original literature for the examples...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)