Classics in Hydrocarbon Chemistry

Literature Prize for Henning Hopf:Henning Hopf, Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Technische Universitaet Braunschweig (Germany), was recently awarded the German Chemical Industry Society's (VCI) Literature Prize 2001 for his monograph Classics in Hydrocarbon Chemistry: Syntheses, Concepts, Perspectives. VCI President Manfred Schneider emphasized the powerful synthetic methods as well as the clear concept and style of the book.

• PrefaceFROM SIMPLE BUILDING BLOCKS TO COMPLEX TARGET MOLECULES AND MULTIFACETED REACTIONSADAMANTANE AND OTHER CAGE HYDROCARBONSAdamantaneHigher analogs of adamantaneTwistaneTetraasteraneReferencesTHE PRISMANESTriprismane[5]-PrismaneEn route to hexaprismaneReferencesTHE PLATONIC HYDROCARBONSTetrahedraneCubane ([4]-prismane)DodecahedraneReferencesBRIDGEHEAD-DISTORTED HYDROCARBONSPropellanesFenestranesout,out, out,in and in,in HydrocarbonsReferencesALKENESLinear conjugated polyenesCyclopropene, the smallest cycloolefin and how it can be used in hydrocarbon synthesisLarge-ring cycloalkenes by transition metal-catalyzed oligomerization of dienesDistorted olefins: trans-cycloalkenes, anti-Bredt-hydrocarbons, betweenanenes, and pyramidalized olefinsTetrakis-tert-butylethene - an exercise in preparative futilityReferencesALKYNESPolyacetylenes - rods made of carbonAngle-strained cycloalkynesMedium and large-ring alkynesReferencesALLENES AND CUMULENESAcyclic allenesAcyclic cumulenesCyclic allenesCyclic cumulenesReferencesTHE ANNULENES1,3-CyclobutadieneBenzene and its isomersCyclooctatetraene and the (CH)8 isomersThe higher annulenesBridged annulenesReferencesCROSS-CONJUGATED AND RELATED HYDROCARBONSThe dendralenesThe fulvenesThe fulvalenesPentalene, azulene, heptalene and other zero-bridged annulenesThe [n]radialenesThe [n]rotanesReferencesLEAVING THE P-PLANE-NON-PLANAR AROMATIC COMPOUNDSThe helicenesThe circulenesThe cyclophanesReferencesTHREE-DIMENSIONAL OLIGOOLEFINSBarreleneTriptycene and the iptycenesBullvalene and semibullvaleneTriquinaceneSpiropolyenes, stellapolyenes and related hydrocarbonsReferencesEXTENDED SYSTEMS I. FROM BENZENE TO GRAPHITE SUBSTRUCTURESLinearly annelated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbonsAngularly annelated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbonsCondensed aromatic hydrocarbons with ribbon structuresGraphite substructuresReferencesEXTENDED SYSTEMS II. BEYOND THE PAH PATTERNFrom biphenylene to linear and angular [n]phenylenesExtended structures containing triple bondsBuilding with cyclopropane ringsReferencesCLASSICS IN HYDROCARBON SYNTHESIS: THREE EXAMPLES FROM PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRYThe dehydrobenzenesNon-Kekulé hydrocarbonsBond fixation in benzene ringsReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index

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