3.1 CAS REGISTRY NUMBER INDEX

Amino acids, carbohydrates and steroids not found below are in Chapter 4 (see also CAS Registry Numbers Index and General Index). 

CAS Registry Numbers INDEX. The respective pages are italicised... 

Almost all the entries in Chapters 4, 5 and 6 have CAS (Chemical Abstract Service) Registry Numbers to identify them, and these have been entered for each substance. Unlike chemical names which may have more than one synonymous name, there is only one CAS Registry Number for each substance (with only a few exceptions, e.g. where a substance may have another number before purification, or before determination of absolute configuration). To simplify the method for locating the purification of a substance, a CAS Registry Number Index with the respective page numbers has been included after the General Index at the end of the book. This will also provide the reader with a rapid way to see if the purification of a particular... 

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