Organic Chemistry Principles and Industrial Practice

Name: Organic Chemistry Principles and Industrial Practice
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ISBN: 9783527302895

ISBN-10: 3527302891

ISBN-13: 9783527302895

Edition: 2003

Authors: M. M. Green, Harold A. Wittcoff

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Nylon, Plexiglas , epoxy resin, and Elmer's glue; dynamite, rubber tires, and spandex. These are a few among the multitude of industrial products produced using the principles of organic chemistry, principles that are often taught to students without reference to the commercial and practical importance of the subject. The marvelous theoretical principles on which organic chemistry is based are therefore often not fully appreciated by students of this subject. Organic Chemistry can appear dry, meaningless, and seemingly irrelevant. In this textbook, designed to be used in conjunction with classic texts of organic chemistry at the undergraduate level, or standing alone for more advanced…

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List price: $84.25
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/19/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 341
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Preface


What the Experts Say about this Book.



How Petroleum is convertedinto Useful Materials: Carbocations and Free Radicals are the Keys



Polymerization, Polypropylene and the Principles of Stereochemistry



The Central Role of Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution



From Nucleophilic Chemistry to Crosslinking, with a Side Trip to Glycerol, in the Synthesis of Commercially Important Plastics



The Nylon Story



Competition for the Best Industrial Synthesis of Methyl Methacrylate



Natural Rubber and Other Elastomers



Ethylene and Propylene: Two Very Different Kinds of Chemistry



The Demise of Acetaldehyde: A Story of How the Chemical Industry Evolves



Doing Well by Doing Good


An Epilogue-The Future


Index