Protecting Groups in Organic Synthesis: Postgraduate Chemistry Series

by James R. Hanson

This volume provides, at postgraduate student level, an accessible introduction to a topic of central importance in organic synthesis. It covers the main functional groups requiring protection in organic synthesis, explaining why a particular protecting agent works and how an agent should be chosen. Emphasis is placed on what a protecting group is doing chemically to the structure that it is protecting. Attention is given to removal of the protecting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185075957X
• ISBN13: 9781850759577
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.5"