Name Reactions and Reagents in Organic Synthesis

This Second Edition is the premier name resource in the field. It provides a handy resource for navigating the web of named reactions and reagents. Reactions and reagents are listed alphabetically, followed by relevant mechanisms, experimental data (including yields where available), and references to the primary literature. The text also includes three indices based on reagents and reactions, starting materials, and desired products. Organic chemistry professors, graduate students, and undergraduates, as well as chemists working in industrial, government, and other laboratories, will all find this book to be an invaluable reference.

Customer Reviews:

A Delightful Game

By craig stamp "stampy's soapbox" - April 5, 2006

Tetris move over Mundy's got a new game. How do you make science fun? You make a game of it. This is exactly what we do in our lab, we use this book as a game. We open up to a random page to see if there is an error, and most times (the guy shouting behind is saying every time) we are not dissapointed. This book is useful in that it has contemporary examples, where March does not, however, the number of errors makes this book useless for somebody who is trying to learn the material for the first time. Zero stars for accuracy, five stars for entertainment.

Here is the Gauntlet!!!

Page 425 (meta photoaddition) TL 44 2011. product- wrong structure

Page 365 (Knoevenagel condensation)TL,45, 3999. Ugi-Knoevenagel Rxn starting material aniline derivative does not have a NITROGEN.

Page 428 (Michael addition) JACS, 125, 15837. Not a Dicobalt product. It is a ester. Page 429 Robinson annulation Not a Michael addition

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dissapointed

By Daniel J. Micco - March 20, 2000

I bought this book as required for my organic synthesis course. I am dissapointed with how little detail is given for each mechanism. Also the examples given are also very difficult to work out and no solution is given for each example.

This is a good book.

By A graduate student - December 16, 1999

March's book is a tome, so I'm not sure how you could not use most of the same kinds of reactions that March uses. March's book is comprehensive, but Mundy and Ellerd's book is not bad because it is not comprehensive. It is what it says it is- a complilation of name reactions. It doesn't go into as much detail as March does, but it puts the name reactions in a nice format, and that's just fine and dandy if that's how you're trying to go about things. They put the name reactions in alphabetical order, give a generic reaction, a mechanism, and many examples of that kind of reaction.

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