Industrial Organic Chemicals in Perspective, Raw Materials and Manufacture

by HA WITTCOFF and Bryan G. Reuben

The first text to organize industrial organic chemistry as a discipline, bridging the gap between academic organic chemistry and real life. Part 1 shows the place of the chemical industry in a modern economy, describing how industrial chemists make a host of organic chemicals from a small number of feedstocks-petroleum, natural gas, and a few agricultural products. Reviews the chemistry of polymer manufacture, and outlines the new organic chemistry...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471038113
• ISBN13: 9780471038115
• Release Date: May 1980
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 298 Pages