Organic chemistry overview

Compounds which contain direct M-C bonds comprise a vast field which spans the traditional branches of inorganic and organic chemistry. A general overview is given in Section 19.7... 

To understand both organic and biological chemistry, it s necessary to know not just what occurs, but also why and how chemical reactions take place. In this chapter, we ll start with an overview of the fundamental kinds of organic reactions, we ll see why reactions occur, and we ll see how reactions can be described. Once this background is out of the way, we ll then be ready to begin studying the details of organic chemistry. 

I An overview chapter, A Preview of Carbonyl Chemistry, follows Chapter 18 and highlights the author s belief that studying organic chemistry requires both summarizing and Looking ahead. 

The high diversity of hexacoordinated phosphorus compounds and their use as versatile reagents are fully illustrated in Chap. 1 by S. Constant and J. Lacour. A large number of new structures are reported with applications in different fields such as classical organic chemistry, bioorganic chemistry, electrochemistry and photochemistry, thus affording a general overview of the new trends in hexacoordinated phosphorus chemistry. 

In our opinion, this approach provides not only a clear overview of the existing domino reactions, but also helps to develop new domino reactions and to initiate ingenious independent research projects in this important field of synthetic organic chemistry. 

Asymmetric catalysis is a vital and rapidly growing branch of modern organic chemistry. Within this context, Ti- and Zr-based chiral catalysts have played a pivotal role in the emergence of a myriad of efficient and enantioselective protocols for asymmetric synthesis. In this chapter, a critical overview of enantioselective reactions promoted by chiral Zr-based catalysts is provided. Since an account of this type is most valuable when it provides a context for advances made in a particular area of research, when appropriate, a brief discussion of related catalytic asymmetric reactions promoted by non-Zr-based catalysts is presented as well. 

The theme of this book is the formation, transformation, and application of ion-radicals in typical conditions of organic synthesis. Avoiding complex mathematics, this book presents an overview of organic ion-radical reactions and explains the principles of the ion-radical organic chemistry. Methods of determining ion-radical mechanisms and controlling ion-radical reactions are also... 

The major purpose of the title is to inform readers about the specific content of the work, ideally identifying both what was studied and how it was studied. The major purpose of an abstract is to summarize, in one clear and concise paragraph, the purpose, experimental approach, principal results, and major conclusions of the work. In most journals, the abstract includes only text in some journals (e.g.. The Journal of Organic Chemistry and Organic Letters), the abstract also includes a graphic. Importantly, both the abstract and title must be able to stand on their own. This is because these two sections (and only these two sections) are reprinted by abstracting services (e.g.. Chemical Abstracts Service, or CAS) in separate documents for literature searches. Also, many chemists read titles and abstracts to obtain a quick overview of the journal s contents but do not read the articles in full. 

Organic Chemistry II For Dummies is an overview of the material covered in the second half of a typical college-level organic chemistry course. We have made every attempt to keep the material as current as possible, but the field of chemistry is changing ever so quickly as new reactions are developed and the fields of biochemistry and biotechnology inspire new avenues of research. The basics, however, stay the Scime, and they are where we concentrate our attention. 

The synthesis of sodium amide, NaNH2 (or sodamide ), by passing ammonia over heated sodium metal, was first reported almost two centuries ago. A number of studies have since been made of its properties, but no crystal structure has been reported. Sodamide is used as a strong base in organic chemistry (often in liquid ammonia solution). In contrast, sodium bis(trimethylsilyl)amide NaN(SiMe3)2 (or sodium hex-amethyldisilazide , NaHMDS), whose crystal structure is discussed later, is widely used for deprotonation reactions or base catalysed reactions due to its solubility in a wide range of non-polar solvents. An overview of some of the types of chemical reactions in which NaHMDS is used is presented in Scheme 2.3. 

Tables 1-6 give an overview of the fluorinating agents used in organic chemistry for recent books and reviews, see refs 4-7, and 22-26. A complementary summary of agents, with examples, has been published.27...

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