BOOK Reactions of Organic Compounds: Textbook for the Advanced Student
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Rp7,nold C. Fusm, University of Illinois, Urhana. John Wiley and Sons, Ine., New York, 1862. viii 765 pp. 16 X 23.5mm. $12.95.
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This hook is essentially a revision and updating of the previous volume, "Advanced Organic Chemistry," published in 1850 and reviewed in J. CHEM.EDUC., 28, 664 (1061). The organization of the mnt,erinl has been considerably altered from the functional group approach of the earlier h w k to a elmifirat,ion under the three general headings of polar, radical, end molernlar reactions. Within the part on polar reactions s. division is made on the basis of consideration of the reagent as elertrophilie or nurleophilie. I&ctrophilic reactions covered include the ususl substitutions of aromatic compounds including simple heteroc)dic and activated hensenoid compounds "having sensit,ive nuclei," Friedel-Crafts ring closure, and appropriatp reactions of unsaturated aliphatirs. Molerular rearrangements involving electron deficient csrhon at,oms, thcwe involving nit,mgen or oxygen nt,orns, and oxidations with agents surh 38 dichromste and permnnganate whirh prohahly do not operat,e hy oneelectron transfer mechanisms serve as s t,rnnsition to reactions whieh are comm
