Book Review: Macrolide Antibiotics. Chemistry, Biology and Practice. Edited by S. Ōmura

✍ Scribed by Walter Keller-Schierlein

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 284 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.198605802

✦ Synopsis

there in the book but surely deserves a more detailed treatment.

Preparative chemists will find useful the tables that follow the main chapter, in which are grouped important types of educt, reduction reagents and products. These tables refer back into the main body of the text and thence to an extensive literature index.

The last part of the book consists of fifty experimental procedures for the preparation of special reduction reagents and for the reduction of representative compounds. Since the compounds chosen have got quite simple structures, these procedures can serve only as a guide; for more complicated molecules it would certainly be advisable to consult the original literature.

This book does not, then, offer a critical view, but simply a superficial description of the extensive arsenal of reduction methods. For the practical chemist there is use-Tul guidance, especially in the numerous tables and experimental procedures. The very high price is bound to stand in the way of purchase for everyday use.