Understanding Organic Synthesis
A Systematic Approach to Reaction Classification
$165.10
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
9 September 2026
Summary
A unique and authoritative text on the fundamental principles of organic synthesis
Understanding Organic Synthesis unveils the logic of organic synthesis by identifying and explaining the similarities and analogies between reactions, as well as the underlying principles that determine how and why various types of organic compounds react. It demonstrates that a wide variety of reactions are either variants or specific examples of a small number of fundamental …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783527356676 |
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| ISBN-10: | 3527356673 |
| Author: | Mieczyslaw Makosza, Michal Fedorynski |
| Publisher: | Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH |
| Imprint: | Blackwell Verlag GmbH |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 9 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 680g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 170mm x 244mm |
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Mieczyslaw Makosza
Mieczyslaw Makosza was a professor of organic chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry at Warsaw Technical University in Poland, and the Director of the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw from 1979 until his retirement in 2004. He passed away in January 2026. He was a world-renowned expert in organic synthesis and one of the pioneers of phase-transfer catalysis. Another of his significant contributions to organic chemistry was the formulation of a general mechanism of nucleophilic aromatic substitution.
Michal Fedorynski was a professor of organic chemistry at Warsaw Technical University in Poland until he retired in 2016. His research interests include phase-transfer catalysis and the chemistry of carbanions and dihalocarbenes.
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