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Volume 26: Ketones
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Introduction by Prof. Janine Cossy (Volume Editor): |
| Ketones are the most important organic compounds in terms of their occurrence and utility in chemical and biochemical transformations, and this volume on the synthesis of ketones
is the second one of a series of nine volumes of the Science of Synthesis series,
covering compounds with two carbon—heteroatom bonds. |
| This volume has been divided into eleven sections related to a class of ketone (aliphatic
and alicyclic ketones, cyclobutanones and cyclopropanones, 1,2-diketones and related
compounds, a, a-dihetero- and a-heterosubstituted ketones, ynones, enones, saturated
and unsaturated ketones with an additional functional group at a b- or more remote
position, and finally saturated and unsaturated ketones with a heteroatom at a b- or
more remote position). In all cases, the emphasis is on the formation of the ketone functionality.
As aliphatic and alicyclic ketones can be obtained from a great variety of compounds,
the section related to these classes of ketone is divided into ten subsections related
to the starting material from which these compounds are prepared. |
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