ISBN: 9780470450338    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Year of publishing: 2011     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 288        Language: English

This vital resource book captures the essential scope of organic chemistry of all main group elements and covers all main group elements dealing with syntheses and reactions of their organic compounds. While organic compounds of second row elements centered at carbon are the major components of animals and plants, those of the third row and below are also important and have unique roles which this book discusses. Since main group chemistry has been traditionally classified as a part of inorganic chemistry, this book establishes the scope of organic chemistry of main group elements.
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KIN-YA AKIBA, PHD, is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry at Hiroshima University and a visiting researcher at the Advanced Research Institute for Science and Engineering at Waseda University. Among his many honors are the 1996 Humboldt Research Award, the 1997 Award by the Chemical Society of Japan, and the 2000 Medal with Purple Ribbon by the Prime Minister of Japan.
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