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Strategic Applications of Named Reactions in Organic Synthesis

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Learning organic chemistry has always been about acquiring a comprehensive knowledge of chemical behavior and with this as the backdrop, to consider the principles, theoretical and mechanistical basis of the subject. In this context, the named reactions in organic chemistry provide one with a historical feel for the subject, is an easy tool to remember the myriad functional group transformations and thus create a love for this fascinating chemistry.

When I saw this book by Laszlo and Barbara, I was just amazed at the amount of labor that has gone into producing, what I believe, is one of the finest books ever written on named reactions in organic chemistry. It is not just another name reactions book, as it can also be considered a reaction mechanisms book, since the authors have drawn out elaborately, the mechanistic schemes / reaction pathways for every single reaction and you wouldn't believe, it lists a multitude of 250 named reactions! What strikes me most is that this book can cater to anybody, from an undergraduate who is trying to learn and love the art of Organic chemistry to a graduate student who is trying to learn complicated reaction mechanisms and also to chemists with a MS or PhD who want to strategically apply these in synthetic reactions.

One of the many salient points of this book, which I really liked, is the way references have been treated. It has been classified into reviews, seminal publications and applications. So a reader doesn't have to delve through a large number of refs in the library and find out what he likes. Every name reaction has its historical background listed, followed by the mechanism, drawn with differing / appealing colors for the appropriate bond disconnections, and finally synthetic applications; and take my word, the authors have taken pains to show the latest and most appropriate synthetic applications that have appeared in the scientific literature.

No wonder then that two of the living giants of modern synthetic chemistry (E. J. Corey & K. C. Nicolaou) have written the introduction and foreword to this beautiful book, which outshines and outdoes every name reactions book previously written.

Hearty congratulations to the authors for this marvelous effort and I would highly recommend this book to everyone who hold organic chemistry dear to their heart!!!!!

Let me preface this review with: I have a huge library of chemistry related books, of which books relating to name reactions has a prominent footprint. With that said, this is one of the most readable of its kind. Before this, I enjoyed the Jie-Jack Li name reaction book. However, as with all of them, it was just a reference manual. Kurti's, however, is a well thought out "text" with background on each reaction and color coded mechanisms. It is an excellent book for both beginners and PI's. Sick as it may sound, I actually purchsed a second copy for home as well as the office. My conclusion is that this is one of maybe 3 name reaction books that make a complete reference set.

Other books on this subject often are equal and contain the same amount of information : a very short mecanism and a list of 5-6 references. That's all, so you have to search the references in order to have more information.
This book works completely differently : there is an "historical introduction" - often very instructive because the discovery was unintended - then a complete mechanism and a illustration of the reaction as a key step in a recent synthesis. This last point is very valuable because it shows all the importance of the concerned reaction. Finally the references are classified between articles, reviews, books, ... So it's very useful to find quickly the best reference ...

In a word it's really an excellent book and it's worth the money!

Absolutely excellent book!!! but make sure you spend the extra money on the hard cover. I bought the paperback and used it for a grad level total synthesis class and after two weeks the book completely fell apart. I now have a very useful stack of papers instead of a very useful book. I even emailed the publisher about it and got no response. i would try and boycott the book but it's just too good to live without. I recommend the hard cover instead.

To put it shortly, if you're an organic chemistry graduate student the just go ahead and buy this book. It will be the most used book in your personal library. Also, if you are an undergraduate working in a research lab buy it as well. You'll have a huge jump on the other graduate students when you go to grad school having been familiar with this book.

The Strategic Applications of Named Reactions in Organic Synthesis is constitute the largest group of organic compounds and are becoming ever more important in all aspects of strategic applications in mechanic of action organic synthesis in detail.hence,I read repeatly.I promoted to the organic chemistry from this text book.

This is the best named reactions book currently available to the organic chemist. Mechanistic detail is quite thorough, and i hope a second edition comes out in a few more years.

Its a great book, there's no doubt about it. For any graduate student doing his or her course in synthesis and there's a book that you HAVE to buy discussing the synthetic utility, mechanisms of quite famous named reactions, this book should be the one you turn to.

But on the other hand, for people those who are interested in pursuing a career in the field of synthesis and want to equip themselves in what best they can get, I strongly suggest you to buy the NAME REACTION SERIES by Jie Jack Lie. In fact, there are two more books that he is left to publish, in 2011 and 2013. Apart from those, he has the perfect collection of the "yummiest" books that any aspiring synthetic chemist needs.

Briefly: Awesome for a graduate course on synthesis and to dig a little deeper, but get a better collection of books for those who want to confine themselves to this field. :) :)

This book is nicely illustrated. The mechanisms of named reactions are depicted in colors for easy understanding by the user.This will be a very good book for the beginners in chemistry as well for the practising chemists.The industrial & academic examples choosen for the name reactions will give an indepth knowledge of the utility of the reactions. Overall I rate this book as a good companion for an organic chemist.

A very good compendium of organic reactions with nice color coded mechanisms. If you are in the organic chemistry field you should have this book.