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MODERN METHODS ANIC SYNTHESIS
The fourth edition of this well-known textbook discusses the key methods used in
organic synthesis, showing the value and scope of these methods and how they are
used in the synthesis plex molecules. All the text from the third edition has
been revised, to produce a modern account of traditional methods and an up-to-date
description of recent advancements in synthetic chemistry. The textbook maintains
a traditional and logical approach in detailing carbon–carbon bond formations,
followed by a new chapter on the functionalization of alkenes and concluding with
oxidation and reduction reactions. Reference style has been improved to include
footnotes, allowing easy and rapid access to the primary literature. In addition, a
selection of problems has been added at the end of each chapter, with answers
at the end of the book. The book will be of significant interest to chemistry and
biochemistry students at advanced undergraduate and graduate level, as well as
to researchers in academia and industry who wish to familiarize themselves with
modern synthetic methods.
Bill Carruthers was born in Glasgow. He won a bursary to Glasgow Uni-
versity, where he graduated with a first-class honours degree in 1946 and a .
in 1949. He moved to Exeter in 1956, working first for the Medical Research
Council and then, from 1968, as a lecturer then senior lecturer at the Department
of Chemistry in the University of Exeter. He died in April 1990, just a few months
before he was due to retire.
Iain Coldham was born in Sandbach, Cheshire. He graduated from the Univer-
sity of Cambridge with a first-class honours degree in 1986 and a . in 1989.
After postdoctoral studies at the University of Texas, Austin, he moved in 1991 to
the University of Exeter as a lecturer then senior lecturer. He is currently Reader
at the Department of Chemistry in the University of Sheffield and specializes in
organic synt