Chapter Titles by Volume

Since electrochemical methods are described in Volume 7, Chapter 7.1, emphasis will be placed on the thermal and photochemical activation of electron-transfer oxidation. Even with this restriction the scope of electron-transfer oxidation is too extensive to be covered completely in a single chapter. Therefore the approach here is to present those fundamental aspects that allow electron-transfer oxidations to be developed for synthetic transformations. Hopefully this format will encourage the creative chemist to devise myriad oxidative syntheses from a limited number of principles. Fortunately, there are already available a variety of recent monographs with each presenting a restricted coverage to permit the inclusion of detailed and useful examples. For the convenience of the reader these articles are listed as references 17 to 32, with the chapter titles included where appropriate. Taken all together they offer the reader an interesting panoply of electron-transfer oxidations that are intertwined by the principles outlined herein. 

In Volumes 7 and 25 of this series, we published chapters titled Literature of Heterocyclic Chemistry, which attempted to give a broad summary of reviews, logically classified by subject matter. A similar chapter was included in Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry, Volume 1 (Pergamon, 1984). These overviews have here been updated by Dr. Belen kii (Moscow, U.S.S.R.), who has been contributing surveys of this type for some years to the Russian journal Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, but which have not been included in English translations of this journal. 

In this volume, we have retained the format and chapter titles of the 1979 book by Wei et al. The material within the chapters has been updated or revised to conform to current practice. In Chapter 2, the data for the GNP and the GDP have been extended to 1995 with appropriate deflators. With respect to the AL-GOL-DELOS problem, Example 2.1, a number of intermediate equations were omitted in the development of the equations presented in the earlier book. 

However, it is unfortunate that steps taken to reduce progressively the delay between title year and publication date were thwarted by very late arrival of a chapter for this volume. Nonetheless, we hope to regain our optimum production schedule soon. 

This means that more than 10% by volume of the waste is one of the noted solvents, and that it is classified as a generic hazardous waste of type F001. The legal basis for this stricture is Title 40 Protection of Environment, Part 261 - Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste, Subpart D - Lists of Hazardous Wastes (Ref. 2, Chapter 7.7)... 

Editor s note In Volume 2 of this Handbook, our readers will find a very important and comprehensive chapter titled Heat Stable Adhesives by Guy Rabilloud, which provides much new information of such adhesives that may resist up to 300 or 400 C, for instance for aerospace, mechanics, machines or appliances. 

This third annual volume seeks to maintain the original aims of the series namely, to present critically and briefly new and significant contributions in various fields of medicinal chemistry which appeared in the literature during the past year, and to suggest directions in which future advances may occur. In line with these aims, it is appropriate that each new volume differ from previous ones by changes in subjects discussed and in viewpoints presented. The present volume contains many changes one new section editor, a number of new authors, different chapter titles, additions and deletions of topics discussed, and the inclusion of the Second Medicinal Chemistry Award Address. 

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