Organic chemistry INDEX

Chemisches Zentrallblatt. This periodical, published by the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft to 1945, originated in 1830 as the Phar-maceutisches Zentrallblatt, the name was changed in 1850 to Chemisches-Pharmaceutisches Centrallblatt, again in 1856 to Chemisches Centrall-blatt, and in 1907 to Chemisches Zentrallblatt. Collective indexes are available from 1870. The abstracts, particularly for organic chemistry, are very detailed to 1939. 

Apart from a complete set of Beilstein s Handbuch and as many scientific journals with indexes as the Institution can aSFord, the following selected volumes are suggested as forming the nucleus of a small library for use in connexion with work in the organic chemistry laboratory. 

The choice of which reactions to include is not an easy one. First there are the well known "Name Reactions", that have appeared in various monographs or in the old Merck index. Some of these are so obvious mechanistically to the modern organic chemistry practitioner that we have in fact omitted them for instance esterification of alcohols with acid chlorides - the Schotten-Baumann procedure. Others are so important and so well entrenched by name, like the Baeyer-Villiger ketone oxidation, that it is impossible to ignore them. In general we have kept older name reactions that are not obvious at first glance. 

In this book we use the Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, 1979 Edition ( Blue book , IUPAC, 1979), the Revised Nomenclature for Radicals, Ions, Radical Ions, and Related Species (IUPAC, 1993), and additional rules applied by the Chemical Abstracts Service for the 1987-1991 Index Guide Chemical Abstracts, 1992). 

Journal articles and patents contain virtually all of the original work in organic chemistry. However, if this were all, if there were no indexes, abstracts, review articles, and other secondary sources, the literature would be unusable because it is so vast that no one could hope to find anything in particular. Fortunately, the secondary sources are excellent. There are various kinds and the categories tend to merge. Our classification is somewhat arbitrary. 

Another publication is the Index of Reviews in Organic Chemistry , complied by Lewis, Chemical Society, London, a classified listing of review articles. The first volume, published in 1971, lists reviews from 1960 (in some cases much earlier) to 1970 in alphabetical order of topic. Thus four reviews are listed under Knoevenagel condensation , five under Inclusion compounds , and one under Vinyl ketones. There is no index. A second volume (1977) covers the literature to 1976. Annual or biannual supplements appeared from 1979 until the publication was terminated in 1985. Classified lists of review articles on organometallic chemistry are found in articles by Smith and Walton and by Bruce.A similar list for heterocyclic chemistry is found in articles by Katritzky and others.See also the discussion of the Index of Scientific Reviews, page 1638. 

Comprehensive Organic Chemistry , Pergamon, Elmsford, NY, 1979, is a six-volume treatise on the synthesis and reactions of organic compounds. The first three volumes cover the various functional groups, vol. 4, heterocyclic compounds, and vol. 5, biological compounds such as proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids. Probably the most useful volume is vol. 6, which contains formula, subject, and author indexes, as well as indexes of reactions and... 

Organic Chemistry A Brief Introduction by Robert J. Ouellette, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1998, contains a super introduction to the history of DNA and heredity. Stephen Rose s now classic book The Chemistry of Life, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1972, goes into more depth, and includes a good discussion of H-bonds in nature and DNA. The sites http //www.dna50.org.uk/index.asp and http //www.nature.com/ nature/dna50/ have good pictures and links. 

Developments in organic chemistry of ion-radicals have been rapid. Thns, new interpretations of scientific data appear freqnently in the literatnre. I have attempted to jnxtapose the ideas from varions references that complement one another, althongh the connections between them may not be immediately obvions. (An anthor index is inclnded to help the readers find such connections in this book.)... 

Index of Reviews in Organic Chemistry, Second Cumulative Volume 1976 , compiled by D. A. Lewis and P. Charnock, The Chemical Society, London, 1977. 

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