Second Supplements to the 2nd Edition of Rodd's Chemistry of Carbon Compounds

Second Supplements to the 2nd Edition of Rodd's Chemistry of Carbon Compounds Summary:

Publisher: Elsevier Publishing Company | ISBN 10: 0444822429 | 1995 | PDF | 382 pages | 11.9 MB

This volume spans several very important areas of aromatic chemistry. It

includes chapters devoted to benzoquinone, nitro compounds, metallo derivatives

and aromatic hydrocarbons with substituents which contain more than

one nitrogen atom, e.g., azobenzenes, azides, etc.

The first chapter is written by Dr. Malcolm Bruce. It is fitting that I should

recognise Dr. Bruce's special contribution to Rodd, since it was he who wrote

on this subject in the 2nd edition in 1974 and again in the 1st Supplement.

Dr. Bruce's enthusiasm and lifelong interest in this subject is still very evident,

and this can easily be judged by the style with which he has surveyed progress

in benzoquinone chemistry in the last decade.

The application of organometallic chemistry to synthesis has been spectacular,

and two chapters in this volume emphasise this development. With so

much information, the task of condensing the most significant new knowledge

into a readable and informative account is a daunting one. Yet the authors,

Dr. Mullins and Professors Pearson and Woodgate, have managed this with

skill and flair. Dr. Simon Fortt has written on the chemistry of the nitroarenes.

This is a subject steeped in history, but it is still very much alive and relevant

today as is highlighted in Dr. Fortt's contribution.

I would like to thank all the authors for making my job as editor an easy

and intellectually rewarding one.

Malcolm Sainsbury Bath

March 1995

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