Advanced Problems in Organic Reaction Mechanisms (Volume 16) (Tetrahedron Organic Chemistry, Volume 16)

Consisting of 300 problems which challenge the user in terms of providing reasonable mechanistic interpretations of sets of experimental observations. The problems cover all major areas of modern organic chemistry. The idea is that the user tackles a problem by first, if necessary, revising the basic principles of key types of reactions referred to in the setting of the problem, and then attempts to devise a solution. literature references are available.

The Elsevier Tetrahedron Organic Chemistry Series is a topical series of monographs by world-renowned scientists in several fields of organic chemistry. The Tetrahedron Organic Chemistry Series has been very successful in providing some of the very best scholarly works in these topical areas that have proven to be of lasting quality as indispensable reference sources. These books have provided the practicing researcher, student and scholar with an invaluable source of comprehensive reviews in organic chemistry, predominantly in the areas of synthesis and structure determination, including:

• Reagents
• Reaction mechanisms
• Molecular Diversity
• Asymmetric Synthesis
• Multi-dimensional nmr
• Enzymatic Synthesis
• Organometallic Chemistry
• Biologically Important Molecules

The Elsevier Tetrahedron Organic Chemistry Series is a topical series of monographs by world-renowned scientists in several fields of organic chemistry. The Tetrahedron Organic Chemistry Series has been very successful in providing some of the very best scholarly works in these topical areas that have proven to be of lasting quality as indispensable reference sources. These books have provided the practicing researcher, student and scholar with an invaluable source of comprehensive reviews in organic chemistry, predominantly in the areas of synthesis and structure determination, including:

* Reagents
* Reaction mechanisms
* Molecular Diversity
* Asymmetric Synthesis
* Multi-dimensional nmr
* Enzymatic Synthesis
* Organometallic Chemistry
* Biologically Important Molecules
"This book is a collection of 300 problems which challenge the user to devise reasonable mechanistic interpretations for sets of experimental observations. Almost all of the problems are taken from the literature of the last twenty years. Each is a separate entity, although similar mechanistic themes occur in several quite different problems. Answers are not given, nor are references to the original literature. The user who fails to solve a particular problem and reaches an appropriate level of frustration should be able, relatively quickly, to locate the original literature from the information given in the problem." "For senior undergraduate and graduate students of organic chemistry and all teachers of organic chemistry."--BOOK JACKET sdarticle......Page 1 Preface......Page 2 List of problems......Page 3 Problems......Page 12