Compendium of Organic Synthetic Methods

I. T. Harrison and S. Harrison, Compendium of Organic Synthetic Methods, Vol. 1, Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1971. 

Compendium of Organic Synthetic Methods , Wiley, New York, contains equations describing the preparation of thousands of monofunctional and difunctional compounds with references. Nine volumes have been published so far (1971 and 1974, edited by Harrison and Harrison 1977, edited by Hegedus and Wade 1980 and 1984, edited by Wade 1988, 1992, 1995, and 2000 edited by Smith). Volume 10 will appear in 2000-2001. 

Compendium of Organic Synthetic Methods, Volume 9. Michael B. Smith Copyright 2001 by John Wiley Sons, Inc. ISBNs 0-471-14579-3 (Hardback) 0-471-22822-2 (Electronic)... 

Compendium of Organic Synthetic Methods, Vo/ume 9 contains both functional group transformations and carbon-carbon bond forming reactions from the literature appearing in the years 1993,1994 and 1995. The classification schemes used for volumes 6-8 have been continued. Difunctional compounds appear in Chapter 16. The experienced user of the Compendium will require no special insructions for the use of Volume 9. Author citations and the Author Index have been continued as in Volumes 6-8. 

Relationship between Volume 9 and Previous Volumes. Compendium of Organic Synthetic Methods, Voiume 9 presents about 1200 examples of published reactions for the preparation of monofunctional compounds, updating the 10650 in Volumes 1-8. Volume 9 contains about 800 examples of reactions which prepare of difunctional compounds with various functional groups. Reviews have long been a feature of this series and Volume 9 adds almost 90 pertinent reviews in the various sections. Volume 9 contains approximately 1000 fewer entries than Volume 8 for an identical three-year period, primarily for difunctional compunds. Interestingly, there are about 500 fewer citations from the most cited journal (Tetrahedron Letters) than in the previous edition. Whether this represents a trend in the literature or an inadvertent selectivity on my part is unknown, but there has been a clear increase in biochemicai and total synthesis papers which may account for this. 

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