文档介绍：Name Reactions
Fourth Expanded Edition
Jie Jack Li
Name Reactions
A Collection of Detailed Mechanisms
and Synthetic Applications
Fourth Expanded Edition
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Jie Jack Li, .
Discovery Chemistry
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Foreword
I don't have my name on anything that I don't really do.
–Heidi Klum
Can anic chemists associated with so-called “Named Reactions” make the
same claim as supermodel Heidi Klum? Many scholars of chemistry do not
hesitate to point out that the names associated with “name reactions” are often not
the actual inventors. For instance, the Arndt–Eistert reaction has nothing to do
with either Arndt or Eistert, Pummerer did not discover the “Pummerer”
rearrangement, and even the famous B