Designing Organic Syntheses: A Programmed Introduction to the Synthon Approach

by Stuart Warren

Book Overview

Teaches students to use the language of sythesis directly (utilizing the grammar of synthon and disconnection) rather than translating it into that of organic chemistry. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471996122
• ISBN13: 9780471996125
• Release Date: April 1978
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Published 1978

The book is fine, however it is definitely for a graduate student in Organic Chemistry.

The best Synthon Approach book

In addition to the comment above (by bklassen@xula.com) i wanna say that Since the all synthesis mechanisms in the book are tried in real time, we can trust to the plans described as retrosynthetic methods.This helps us to use the methods without any doubt.More specificly i can say that when i was reading book i sometimes surprised:'How can this selectivity occurs!'.But in fact it was so and i had to accept and try to find its reason..For the last word,it really worths its high cost..

Most engaging book on the logic of synthesis I have read.

Back in the early '80s, I struggled with synthetic problems in sophomore organic. All my teachers told the classes to try retrosynthesis, but they were not able to communicate just how, in practice, this should work. After reading just 2 or 3 chapters (and they are short--I read them over dinner one evening), I thought I would go crazy with excitement. Things suddenly made so much sense. I think I lost a lot of sleep during the next few days as I devoured the little book. Few other chemistry books--if any--ever have engaged me so. In a class of its own.