Industrial Organic Chemicals (Wittcoff/O
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Wittcoff, Harold A.; Reuben, Bryan G.; Plotkin, Jeffrey S.
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Article
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2004
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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We have described the derivation of chemicals from petroleum and natural gas. But between 5 and 10% of organic chemicals come from other sources-coal, fats, oils, and carbohydrates. Historically, these sources are important because it was from them that the modern chemical industry evolved. Their pr