This volume provides, at postgraduate student level, an accessible introduction to a topic of central importance in organic synthesis. It covers the main functional groups requiring protection in organic synthesis, explaining why a particular protecting agent works and how an agent should be chosen. Emphasis is placed on what a protecting group is doing chemically to the structure that it is protecting. Attention is given to removal of the protecting group. This is a clear and thoughtful book, which concentrates on explaining the chemistry. It also provides a convenient point of entry to the primary literature.
- ISBN10 063204506X
- ISBN13 9780632045068
- Publish Date 15 November 1999 (first published 1 October 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 August 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group - Sheffie
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 138
- Language English