Superacids natural product chemistry

A book containing authoritative reviews of many aspects of carbocation chemistry has been published.1 These reviews are up-to-date to the end of 1991, as the book is the result of a symposium held in honour of George Olah in 1992 it features many of the world s leading carbocation chemists. At least one book review of it has also appeared.2 Olah has an introductory chapter concerning his decades-long search for stable long-lived carbocations in superacid media,3 and other review chapters include ones on carbocations at surfaces and interfaces,4 on the X-ray structural analyses that have been performed on many carbocation salts and related compounds in recent years,5 and on natural product chemistry in superacids.6 Other review chapters will be referred to below, as appropriate. 

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