Organic Synthesis

One approach to organic synthesis is retrosynthetic analysis. With this approach a chemist will start with the structure of their target molecule and progressively cut bonds to create simpler molecules. Reversing this process gives a synthetic route to the target molecule from simpler starting materials. This "disconnection" approach to synthesis is now a fundamental part of every organic synthesis course.

Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach, 2^nd Edition introduces this important technique, to help students to design their own organic syntheses. There are forty chapters: those on the synthesis of given types of molecules alternate with strategy chapters in which the methods just learnt are placed in a wider context. The synthesis chapters cover many ways of making each type of molecule starting with simple aromatic and aliphatic compounds with one functional group and progressing to molecules with many functional groups. The strategy chapters cover questions of selectivity, protection, stereochemistry, and develop more advanced thinking via reagents specifically designed for difficult problems.

Examples are drawn from pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, natural products, pheromones, perfumery and flavouring compounds, dyestuffs, monomers, and intermediates used in more advanced synthetic work. Reasons for wishing to synthesise each compound are given.

This second edition has been fully revised and updated with a modern look. Recent examples and techniques are included and illustrated additional material has been added to take the student to the level required by the sequel, "Organic Synthesis: Strategy and Control".

Several chapters contain extensive new material based on courses that the authors give to chemists in the pharmaceutical industry.

Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach, 2^nd edition provides a full course in retrosynthetic analysis for chemistry and biochemistry students and a refresher for organic chemists working in industry and academia.

Author: Stuart Warren
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 01/14/2009
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.50h x 7.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780470712368

About the Author

Dr Stuart Warren, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
Dr Warren is the author of the bestselling textbooks Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach (Wiley), Organic Synthesis: Strategy and Control (Wiley) and Organic Chemistry (OUP).

Dr Paul Wyatt, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK
Dr Wyatt is Director of Undergraduate Studies for the School of Chemistry at Bristol University and also Director of BRISTOL ChemLabS - a HEFCE Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning. He is co-author, with Warren, of Organic Synthesis: Strategy and Control.

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