The Chemistry of Organolithium Compounds, The Chemistry of Organolithium Compounds (Chemistry of Functional Groups)

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This is the first volume in the series to concentrate on organo-lithium compounds - the sub series "The chemistry of the metal-carbon bond" (5 vol) treated organometallics in general.

It deals with theoretical/physical/computational apsects, as well as major spectroscopies, such as MS, NMR, IR/UV etc and both biological and industrial applications.

The core of the volume is the synthetic chapters with lots of examples for modern synthetic approaches
Written by key researchers in the field
An invaluable reference source to organic chemists working in academia and industry
Features important reagents in organic synthesis

Comprehensive Organic Transformations: A Guide to Functional Group Preparations

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A must have for any medicinal chemist
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Agreed - a must have for the practicing organic chemist
Ignore the non-chemists reviewing this book.
Hoping Big but Disappointing

Comprehensive Organic Transformations: A Guide to Functional Group Preparations
Richard C. Larock
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This long-awaited, greatly-expanded new edition of a best-selling guide offers an encyclopedic and systematic collection of useful synthetic methodology, including tens of thousands of reactions and synthetic transformations. The first edition has been reviewed in the professional journals as "clearly...the first choice for researchers seeking information on synthetic transformations." And as "useful to anyone who must do organic synthesis, especially those whose focus is not strictly organic chemistry. It provides a...clear road map to the synthetic literature and should be kept within easy reach of the chemist's desk."

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A must have for any medicinal chemist.......2007-08-25

This is one of the best reference books to use if something in literature doesn't go according to plan...which it almost always does.

It's also extremely helpful in drug design and helping plan those unknown reactions, etc.

I don't think this would be helpful to anyone except organic or synthetic chemists.

review/comment in response to foregoing poor reviews.......2007-04-04

The following comments are offered as counterpoint to other reviews, and are collected here so that I can offer the excellent rating I do, above. I apologize for the redundancies that appear. M-ED

In response to 'Matthew M. Yau':

COT is the practical encyclopedic work of choice among books of its type, and is well worth the time it takes to master it's indexing and formats.

Other encyclopedic books lack the practical pointedness and insight that comes from an actively publishing chemist/group still in the thick of the research game. This criticism cannot be leveled against the Larock book. That group is in the thick of it, and moving ahead the forefront of modern research chemistry. (Most of us wish that we might contribute as much as he/they already have.) In re: comparison with March, see also Comment to 'gregory.schaaf' below.

In response to 'A reader' / 'don't waste you time' [sic] :

The care and thought that appears to have gone into this review makes it almost unworthy of reply, but since Amazon has no weighting system for their review scoring, and this review brings the average score down for this important synthetic organic research reference, it demands comment.

COT is the practical encyclopedic work of choice among books of its type, and is well worth the time it takes to master it's indexing and formats.

Moreover, in a period where the shear numbers of articles on syntheses and methodologoes are exploding, the careful hand of a knowledgable pro becomes all the more useful. Choosing problems to work on is a challenge, not of seeing what's out there, but of understanding what's not -- ie, perceiving the areas of darkness amidst an emphasis on the well-lit geographies of the chemistry landscape. Map's like Larock make much faster the job of perceiving such, allowing one to use computer search tools and other encyclopedic works all the more effectively to do the followup scholarly work necessary (filling in gaps, looking to more recent literature threads).

Speaking personally, my group and I are publishing, and have received funding for, novel synthetic paths/ideas that arise because we are stimulated by the cataloging the Larock group and others have done.

Finally, other encyclopedic books -- and the above reviewer's naive comment to the contrary, the one volume nature of Larock, thick as it is, is a benefit -- lack the practical pointedness and insight that comes from an actively publishing chemist/group still in the thick of the research game. This criticism cannot be leveled against the LaRock book. They are in the thick of it, and moving ahead the forefront of modern research chemistry. (Most of us wish that we might contribute as much as he/they already have.)

In response to 'gregory.schaaf':

It is generally understood (I think) that [other']s book, while encyclopedic, lacked some of the practical pointedness and insight that might come from an actively publishing chemist/group still in the thick of the research game. This question might be addressed by the addition of [new authors to] current production.

The foregoing criticism cannot be leveled against the LaRock book. Larock's group is in the thick of it, and moving ahead the forefront of modern research chemistry. (Most of us wish that we might contribute as much as he/they already have.) In this sense, COT is the practical encyclopedic work of choice, and is well worth the time it takes to master it's indexing and formats.

Agreed - a must have for the practicing organic chemist.......2004-02-15

I agree that the bad reviews are probably predominantly from non-chemists. Larock's first edition has become an absolute standard reference on the desk of the practicing organic chemist, who is after lead references and an idea of how a given transformation has been done. I have seen his 2nd edition and it is much the same, only updated and expanded. The price is high, but typical for the field and quite justified. I am waiting til I can buy it with faculty startup funds, but in 6 months it will be on my desk!

Ignore the non-chemists reviewing this book........2001-01-10

I want to help others sort through the conflicting reviews of this book. As a PhD chemist, I can say unequivocally that this book is not for the non-professional, as I suspect the negative reviewers are. The indexing system is not intuitive, but makes sense once you've begun to use it. One of the reviewers complains that database searching is better than this book. This book is intended to help you find straightforward procedures for relatively straightforward reactions and allows you to look at the many things that have been tried to effect a given transformation. These are things that the databases can't help much with since these reactions have been done in the literature thousands of times, and any search will generate a huge mess of matches.

Hoping Big but Disappointing.......2000-10-04

The title "Comprehensive Orgainc Transformations" strikes me with much hope that all representative functional groups tranfer and reactions will be fully explained and included in one volume for easy reference. Well, not so quick.

Cited references from this volume might be the only (+) that I will credit to the piece. The organization of the book is extremely perplexing and weird. It is not very easy to find a reaction that I desire. In fact, the details for transformation are disappointingly little. If you plan to get this book with the same expectation, you should turn to Jerry March's Advanced Organic Chemistry or the Beilstein Cross-Fire Organic Reaction and Compounds software. Any advanced texts on organic synthesis will give you more details.

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This is the first book to deal with C-Ge, C-Sn and C-Pb bonds as functional groups. This concept helps to better understand the chemistry of these compounds, which find an increasing amount of applications. The volume concentrates on analytical aspects, and on safety and toxicology in the environment.

This volume is now available in electronic format from Books Online.

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Organic compounds of Ge, Sn, and Pb have many properties that can be useful for such things as microbiocides, pesticides, anticancer treatments, octane number enhancers, and anti-foaming agents. This supplementary volume covers the most recent advances in the fields of photochemistry and structural chemistry. The authors also discuss the complex formation of these compounds.

Written by key researchers in the field
A supplement to The Chemistry of Organic Germanium
Provides organic chemists with an invaluable reference source

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In this book Ron Amundson examines 200 years of scientific views on the evolution-development relationship from the perspective of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). This new perspective challenges several popular views about the history of evolutionary thought by claiming that many earlier authors made history come out right for the Evolutionary Synthesis. The book starts with a revised history of nineteenth-century evolutionary thought. It then investigates how development became irrelevant to evolution with the Evolutionary Synthesis. It concludes with an examination of the contrasts that persist between mainstream evolutionary theory and evo-devo.

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Get this book.......2005-07-07

This gives a great view of the history of evo-devo. My supervisor, one of the reviewers of the book, had joked that it was fantastic "even though it was written by a philosopher".

Admundson gives a great analysis on the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis and its dominance in biological thought. As well, the section on heredity was fantastic as I had been mulling these same ideas over for some time before I came across this, which really helped crystalize things. In short, the notion of heredity was pirated from developmental biology by the geneticists(T Morgan and followers), and this had long term consequences for developmental biology in evolutionary theory. Perfect example today is that "heritability" is stricly a population level concept, which is at odds whith heredity as understood by developmental biologist. However, it seems clear that "heritability" in the individual is a neessary precondition to detection of "heritability" in a population. Failing to recognize the importance of "developmental heredity" will mean that the neo-darwinian synthesis will be incomplete.

Get this book. If you don't know the history of your discipline, you can't understand it fully.

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Modern electronic devices and novel materials often derive their extraordinary properties from the intriguing, complex behavior of large numbers of electrons forming what is known as an electron liquid. This book introduces the quantum theory of the electron liquid and the mathematical techniques that describe it. The electron liquid's behavior is governed by the laws of quantum mechanics which prevail over the microscopic world of atoms and molecules.

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Wonderful!.......2007-07-01

This is a kind of book rare to find nowadays. It seems to be the result of a long and careful investigation of the literature, of reflection, of deep physical understanding. It avoids hand-waving, "phenomenological", jargon and fashionable types of arguments, in favor of well grounded, logical and mathematically solid arguments. It is the opposite of most we find today, that is, it is not a set of "lectures" quickly transformed into textbook; it is not the point of view of the authors, defended by phraseology; it is not a biased book. It is really a wonderful book, very well written, displaying love by the subject, strong curiosity and search for the truth.
Congratulations to the authors! May their book inspire other physicists to search truth instead of glory and fame. May their book inspire the young to avoid the fashion and easy way. May their book become a classic because it truly deserves.

An outstanding job.......2005-10-08

Written with the student in mind, this book gives an excellent introduction to density functional theory, many-body quantum theory, and their application to the physical system now known as the electron liquid. Given the current interest in electron liquids, both from an applied and a theoretical standpoint, this book serves a need for those who want to educate themselves on the different techniques and strategies used to study the behavior of electron liquids, and general many-body systems. The authors of the book emphasize modern developments, and give many references for those readers who want to pursue the subject in even more detail. An understanding of both the physical and mathematical ideas in the book require concentrated effort, but anyone who has decided to read such a sizable book realizes that true insight into any subject only comes from such an effort. The authors understand this, and they do not hesitate to elaborate on sophisticated concepts when they arise. But they also interject informal and colloquial language in many places in the text. This serves to set the reader more at ease, and makes for even more enjoyable reading.

Readers (such as this reviewer) who have a background in high energy physics or relativistic quantum field theory will find many of the concepts used in these fields find application in the theory of electron liquids. In addition, many of the concepts used in high-energy physics, such as the idea of spontaneously broken symmetries, arose in condensed matter and many-body physics. The symbiosis of ideas between these different fields has been a fruitful one and this will no doubt continue in the years to come. An example of this is the Chern-Simons theory, which arose in the context of quantum chromodynamics as a theory of the strong interaction, and finds its way in this book in the discussion on the Laughlin theory of the fractional quantum Hall liquid. This theory, as the authors point out, is based on a careful choice of wave functions, and therefore cannot be viewed as systematic in its strategy in finding solutions. The Chern-Simons theory is brought in to provide a more systematic approach. It is a fascinating strategy, for using it one maps the problem of the two-dimensional electron liquid into an equivalent many-body problem of interacting composite particles. One can then use a mean-field approximation on the latter system. This approach is somewhat similar to the "duality" phenomena found in string theories (although the analogy is somewhat loose). The Chern-Simon theory also finds its place in purely mathematical contexts, such as topological quantum field theory and the theory of knots, and readers with a background in this area will see familiar constructions in the author's discussions. The authors derive an expression for the electromagnetic response function for a system of composite particles that satisfies Kohn's theorem, but point out that it does not have the correct scaling properties.

The authors give a thorough overview of density functional theory, with emphasis placed not only on the formalism but also on its utility in solving many-body problems. Readers growing up in the usual formalism of Hilbert spaces will need justification as to the power of density functional methods and how one can still calculate quantities of interest without really using the many-body wave function. And, anyone who has tried to perform numerical computations of quantum-mechanical quantities understands the need for algorithms that are manageable, i.e. that allow the computation of physical quantities in a reasonable time scale. The authors point out though that the Kohn-Sham equations, which result after the minimization of the energy as a functional of the electron density, can be solved computationally on a time scale that increases as a power of the number of electrons. This is to be contrasted with the computation of the solution of the N-electron Schrodinger equation, which depends exponentially on N. However, as in all problems in constrained optimization, there is no free lunch (this has been proven rigorously), and so there is always a penalty to be paid in any solution strategy. For the Kohn-Sham equations, one uses the `effective potential' that is local in space, but has a nonlocal dependence on the density, allowing only an approximate description. Another penalty arises from using the determinantal wave function in the solution of the Kohn-Sham equations does not give a robust approximation to the true ground-state wave function. The last penalty arises because of the "universal" nature of density functional: it has the same form for all physical systems and so does not bring out the physical properties that are unique to a particular one. In addition to these issues, readers who insist on constructive approaches to mathematical proof will reject the proof of the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem, since it relies on proof by contradiction. In physical applications this is a minor issue of course, but in attempts to put density functional theory, indeed all of quantum field theory, on a constructive rigorous mathematical foundation, this issue is of importance. The authors (correctly) have no intention of respecting mathematical rigor, and state so explicitly. Instead they emphasize the physics behind the formalism and discuss the experimental evidence for it. Indeed, the book is full of examples of this evidence, and the appropriate references are given. Most of the discussion on the experimental situation is given in the context of the quantum Hall effect, which seems appropriate given that the authors have made original contributions to the understanding of this effect.

[DISCLOSURE: This reviewer knows the second author personally, but did not discuss this review with him. The opinions above are an honest assessment of the content of the book, and were not influenced, at least consciously, by any personal knowledge of the author.]

Great book!!.......2005-08-06

This book is truly a valuable and unique resource for physicists and quantum chemists interested in the structure and dynamics of electronic systems, especially (but not solely) in the solid-state. It presents the standard theories, as well as very recent cutting-edge developments, for example, extensions of density functional theory to time-dependent phenomena and current-densities -- all with elegant derivations and beautiful explanations. The authors have an extremely engaging writing style, which makes the book one of the most enjoyable physics books I have read. Many of the exercises at the end of each chapter are fascinating in themselves, instructive, and clearly explained.
I feel this book will prove to be a wonderful treasure for graduate students, postdocs, and professors.

Excellent.......2005-05-02

This is the one of best overall book on the electronic theory of solids. It certainly covers all relevant aspect one could ever want to know about the topic and does a phenomenal job of clearly explaining and demonstrating the material. The best example is the chapter dedicated to the Fermi liquid with the very illuminating explanations of the theory of quasiparticles. This book is easy to read and its lecture does not require advanced mathematical knowledge. It is an excellent textbook and a very good start point for research problems. It is also remarkable the use of state of the art results and the elimination of several common misconceptions. I must say that the exercises are a good opportunity to better understand the material.

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The measurements of the Hall coefficient R _Hand the Seebeck coefficient (thermoelectric power) S are known to give the sign of the carrier charge q. In sodium (Na) forming a body-centered cubic (bcc) lattice both R _H and S are negative, indicating that the carrier is the "electron". In silver (Ag) forming a face-centered cubic (fcc) lattice the Hall coefficient R _H is negative but the Seebeck coefficient S is positive. This complication arises from the Fermi surface of the metal. In conducting matter physics the "electrons" and the "holes" play important roles. The "electrons" ("holes") which by definition circulate counterclockwise (clockwise) around the magnetic field (flux) vector B cannot be discussed based on the prevailing equation of motion in the electron dynamics: dk/dt=q (E + v x B), k = k-vector, E = electric field, v = velocity since the energy-momentum relation is not incorporated in this equation. In this book we shall derive Newtonian equations of motion with a symmetric mass tensor. We diagonalize this tensor by introducing the principal masses and the principal axes of the inverse-mass tensor associated with the Fermi surface. We demonstrate that the "electrons" ("holes") are generated near the Fermi surface, depending on the curvature sign of the surface. As applications, we treat magnetic oscillations in the susceptibility and conductivity, cyclotron resonance, thermopower and infrared Hall effect. In each case we treat the phenomena, starting with the crystal structure and using the Fermi surface. Free-electron model, phonons, kinetic theory of the electron transport, the magnetic susceptibility and the Boltzmann equation method, which are normally covered in the introductory solid state physics course are included as the preliminaries. The text is composed of three parts, Part I preliminaries, Chap. 1-6, Bloch electron dynamics, Chap. 7-10, and applications, Chap. 11-15.

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