What would one with some experience in organic chemistry expect to find in a 668-page, third edition of a book, entitled Protecting Groups? How does one presume it to be organized? These questions become somewhat irrelevant after you have read Philip Kocienski’s book because you come to realize that it takes much more than experience in organic synthesis to produce the book Prof. Kocienski did.

(Published in Khimiya/Chemistry. Bulgarian Journal of Chemical Education (2006), Vol.15, Issue 1).

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