Research Catalog

Title

Radical chemistry / M. John Perkins.

Author

Perkins, M. John (Michael John)

Publication

New York ; London : Ellis Horwood, 1994.

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Details

Description

x, 182 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Ellis Horwood series in organic chemistry

Uniform Title

Ellis Horwood series in organic chemistry.

Subject

• Free radicals (Chemistry)
• Free radical reactions
• Organic compounds > Synthesis

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-164) and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction -- 2. Chain reactions and unit steps. 2.2. Bimolecular processes. 2.3. Unimolecular processes. 2.4. An introduction to the kinetics of radical chain reactions -- 3. Initiation and some non-chain processes: "free" and "caged" radicals. 3.1. Thermolysis. 3.2. Photolysis. 3.3. Radiolysis. 3.4. Electron transfer and molecule-induced homolysis -- 4. An introduction to reactivity and selectivity in radical reactions. 4.2. Halogenation of alkanes. 4.3. Other reactions. 4.4. Stereoelectronic effects. 4.5. Polar influences. 4.6. Steric effects. 4.7. Intra- versus inter-molecular reactions. 4.8. Radical addition versus hydrogen atom transfer. 4.9. Summary -- 5. Detection of organic free radicals, and a discussion of their structures. 5.2. ESR spectroscopy. 5.3. ESR and radical structure. 5.4. Spin trapping. 5.5. Electron nuclear double resonance spectroscopy. 5.6. Chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarisation (CIDNP) -- 6. Radicals and radical reactions in organic synthesis.
• 6.2. Chain reactions in synthesis. 6.3. Non-chain processes -- 7. Some stereochemical considerations -- 8. Radical ions and electron transfer -- 9. Some special topics. 9.1. Frontier orbital approach to radical reactivity. 9.2. Radical kinetics and thermodynamics. 9.3. Captodative stabilisation. 9.4. Autoxidation of unsaturated lipids. 9.5. Antioxidants. 9.6. Adamantane matrix studies. 9.7. Thermolysis of dibenzoyl peroxide in benzene. 9.8. Stable-radical effects. 9.9. Radicals from ketone photochemistry. 9.10. Transition-metal ions in radical reactions -- 10. Radicals in biology. 10.1. Oxidising radicals. 10.2. Enzyme catalysis mechanisms. 10.3. Spin trapping and spin labelling. 10.4. The enediyne antibiotics -- Appendix: Absolute rate constants of unit steps in radical chemistry.

ISBN

0133209202 (pbk) :

LCCN

gb 94089626

OCLC

ocm31608655

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries