The Logic of Chemical Synthesis

✍ Scribed by Peter Weyerstahl

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 138 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0882-5734
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1026(199607)11:4<261::aid-ffj608>3.0.co;2-k

✦ Synopsis

thinking about and planning a synthesis (camphor, Komppa, 1903; tropinone, Robinson, 1917; hemin, Hans Fischer, 1929; vitamin C, Reichstein, 1934; quinine, Woodward and Doering, 1944).

After 1945 several influences enhanced synthesis to a higher level of sophistication, such as the develop-