内容简介

This book is about the recognition of new principles in Organic Chemistry. It is also about the discovery and invention of Chemical Reactions. In addition, it deals with the determination of structure by chemical degradation during the epoch when physical methods were not well developed. Also presented are new reagents and new types of functional groups never seen in chemistry before. The overall aim of the collected papers is to show how thought can direct original research and to demonstrate how thought about old or new chemical facts can lead to originality. This is further illuminated by commentaries which Prof Barton has written to accompany these papers. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.


作者简介
Derek H.R.Barton was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1969, jointly with Odd Hassel, for the concept of Conformational Analysis.During his distinguished career,he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1954and received the Davy（1961）,Royal（1972）and Copley（1980）Medals of the Royal Society.In 1995,he received the Priestley Medal from the Americean Chemical Society.He was made a Knight Bachelor（1972）and an Officier de la Legion d'Honneur（1985）,He received the Order of the Rising Sun（1972）.He became a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences（1970）.He was a Chemistry Professor in lmperial College,London from 1957 to 1978.