Organization of Book

W. L. Jorgensen, The Organic Chemists Book of Orbitals Academic Press, New York (1973). 

Each chapter starts with a description of the topic covered in the chapter. This is followed by a short example highlighting a reported incident involving a batch reaction system. The case study is followed by a listing of key issues and process safety practices unique to the topic. The issues and concerns presented in this book, as well as potential design solutions and sources of additional information are presented in the tables. This format concisely conveys the necessary and relevant information in a familiar and convenient format. The organization of the tables is described below. 

With 50 articles, organization of the book was difficult certain techniques could equally well have appeared in more than one place. The organizational intent of the Editors was to group techniques that have a similar physical basis, or that provide similar types of information. This is not the traditional organization of an encyclopedia, where articles are ordered alphabetically. Such ordering seemed less useful here, in part because many of the techniques have multiple possible acronyms (an Acronyms Glossary is provided to help the reader). 

This chapter introduces the need for process equipment failure rate data, defines the scope and organization of this book and the data it contains, and explains how to the use the book. 

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Mass Spectra and Chemical Structure While there are a number of books (Refs 16, 30, 49 64) already referred to, which deal with details of the instrumentation and techniques of mass spectrometry, there are several concise introductory texts (Refs 10, 21 52) on the interpretation of mass spectra. Still other recent books deal comprehensively with organic structural investigation by mass spectrometry. One of these (Ref 63) discusses fundamentals of ion fragmentation mechanisms, while the others (Refs 7, 15, 20, 28 29) describe mass spectra of various classes of organic compounds. In the alloted space for this article methods of interpretation of mass spectra and structural identification can not be described in depth. An attempt is, therefore, made only to briefly outline the procedures used in this interpretation... 

The first chapter presents the general aspects of the reaction Chapters 2-6 illustrate the various methods and their applications in organic synthesis. At the end of each chapter a list of graphically abstracted Diels-Alder reactions is presented to show selected synthetic applications of the specific methodology. The discussion of the various topics is not exhaustive because our aim has been to emphasize the synthetic potential of each method. Chapter 7 reports a list of books, reviews, monographs and symposia proceedings which have appeared since 1990 and an index of keywords to help the reader find a particular paper of interest. 

Organic chemistry is blessed with a large number of books devoted to a thorough coverage of a specific area. Many of these are essentially very long review articles, differing from ordinary review articles only in size and scope. Some of the books are by a single author, and others have chapters by different authors but all are carefully planned to cover a specific area. Many of these books have been referred to in... 

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