Bismuth chemistry

Science in its youth is always exciting to pursue. When I began my career forty years ago, aluminum chemistry was a newly emerging field. Thus, whatever I found was new and exciting. I am sure that every young researcher who is interested in bismuth chemistry will enjoy the still-unfolding era of this element prior to its full blooming - and I am also confident this book will provide a reliable compass for his or her journey of discovery. 

In general, the biological concepts of bismuth chemistry are rather limited and are once again based upon earlier work and also dealing with the latest data involving arsenic and the related chemistries . Furthermore, much of the published work is once again based... 

Some aspects of bismuth chemistry have been known and studied for many decades but in recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the properties of this element not least because of its application in a number of important yet often disparate fields. These fields include bismuth containing pharmaceuticals, superconductors, ferroelectrics, heterogeneous catalysts and, of particular relevance to this book, reagents for organic synthesis. 

Bismuth in human history dates back about two millennia when it was used as an additive to ancient metal products. However, its identity as a distinct metal element was only established by the middle of the eighteenth century. In marked contrast to the history of inorganic bismuth chemistry which started more than two centuries ago, the chemistry of organic bismuth compounds was born only two decades ago, when Professor D.H.R. Barton and coworkers began a systematic study of organobismuth compounds and laid the foundation for further development. 

Bismuth chemistry has seen another quite active period over the last twelve months. For example, aldehydes undergo allylation with... 

Unfortunately, arsenic, antimony, or bismuth chemistry has no reaction analogous to the McCormack reaction for the synthesis of phospholenes and phospholes (see Section 2.15.10.3). 

A volume in the Patai s series, "Chemistry of the Functional Groups", devoted to organo-arsenic, -antimony and -bismuth chemistry, has been published. ... 

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