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Myriads of reductions reported in the literature have been surveyed in countless review articles and a respectable ro y of monographs, most of which are listed in the bibliography at the end of this book. With the exception of two volumes on reduction in Houben-Weyl s Methoden der Organischen Chemie, the majority of the monographs deal mainly with catalytic hydrogenation, reductions with hydrides and reductions with metals. 

H. Durr, in Houben-Weyl s Methoden der Organischen Chemie, Teil 4/5a, Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, 1975, p. 627. 

M. Hanack and L. R. Subramanian, in Carbokationen, Carbokation-Radikale, Houben- Weyl s Methoden der organischen Chemie, Band El9c (Ed. M. Flanack). Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, 1990, pp. 97-119. 

In this connection, the fourth edition of Houben-Weyl s Methoden der organische Chemie should also be mentioned. The first three volumes deal with laboratory equipment and methods, analytical methods, and physical methods in organic chemistry. The fourth volume deals with general methods for preparing organic compounds, and the later volumes deal in great detail with the preparation of specific types of compounds. For example. Volume VII, Part 1, deals with aldehydes, and Volume VIII deals with peroxides and with carboxylic acids and their derivatives. 

A more brief coverage of much of the same material is found in Houben-Weyl s Methoden der organische Chemie, particularly in the first three volumes, as mentioned above. A number of books dealing with specific techniques are also available, and many of the more recent of these sources have been listed under the reading references at the end of each chapter. 

The best source of information on techniques for the introduction of fluorine into organic compounds and for information on preparative methods is the excellent treatise by Hudlicky (25), Houben-Weyl s Methoden der Organischen Chemie(65), as well as the books of Shephard and Sharts (25) and Chambers (24). More recently, methods for the fluorination of organic molecules have been reviewed by several authors (15,69-75). More... 

There are a number of large works in organic chemistry which deal with laboratory synthesis and technique. A very comprehensive German work is Houben-Weyl s Methoden der organischen Chemie (Fig. 34) edited by E. Muller (G. Thieme Verlag, 4th edn., 1952-) of which 16 volumes have been planned, some in several parts. Volume 1 deals with general methods of laboratory practice in organic chemistry, vol. 2 is a summary of analytical... 

EBE L (1969), Die Aciditat der CH-S4uren Stuttgart Georg Thieme Verlag (a reprint of a chapter from Houben-Weyl s Methoden der Organischen Chemie , vol. XIII/1). 

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