Organic Chemistry and Synthesis Rely More and More upon Catalysts

A few months before the COVID-19 pandemic, Pierre Vogel and Kendall N. Houk published with a new textbook Wiley-VCH, “Organic Chemistry: Theory, Reactivity, Mechanisms in Modern Synthesis”, foreword from late Roberts H. Grubbs. The book demonstrates how catalytic processes dominate all fields of modern organic chemistry synthesis, invention combines thermodynamics, kinetics, spectroscopy, quantum mechanics, thermochemical data libraries. Here, authors present case studies that should be interest to teachers, practitioners organometallic chemistry, engineers molecules. Vogel–Houk is both reference manual; it provides way think about chemical reactivity powerful toolbox inventors reactions procedures.