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Heterocyclic Chemistry

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This book gives a thorough review of the chemistry of each particular class of heterocycles, covering structure, reactivity, and synthesis. Unique to this book is a coverage of the organometalic chemistry associated with each class. It is my opinion that this book is a touch better than the Thieme and Gilcrest heterocyclic books, based mostly on the organization of material. I do wish, however, that the authors had given aminoheterocycles a bit more attention!

It's pretty much obsolete in the days of Beilstein (at most universities). But if you don't have Beilstein, this will do nicely.

It is also telling that the authors made it a point NOT to put lots of pretty pictures in the book to cover up a weak text. (I am not saying that this text was weak, but that many authors do try to cover up weak texts with lots of pretty pictures. Chemistry books change very little from year to year and old editions say pretty much the same thing as new ones.)

This is well worth a secondhand purchase and a keeper for reference in the lab.

I'm a chemist by education, trade, and love for the art. Although I hardly ever work with heterocyclic compounds aside from the occasional pyridine I have always been fascinated by them. This book gives a good overview of a number of systems complete with some reactions of them and their synthesis. All of this is presented in a very concise format that allows the casual reader to read the book for enjoyment without getting bogged down. I'm sure many of you out there know the feeling of reading a few paragraphs of information and then to be given several 'dry' paragraphs of one literature reaction after another. There are few if any actual detailed procedures in this book, it's overview and if you have the background that's what makes it fun.

The book was exactly as it was described and it did not take more than a week for it to arrive.