Roger Adams was an American organic chemist. He is best known for the eponymous Adams' catalyst, and his work did much to determine the composition of naturally occurring substances such as complex vegetable oils and plant alkaloids.

• 1. The Claisen Rearrangement--D. Stanley Tarbell 2. The Preparation of Aliphatic Fluorine Compounds--Albert L. Henne 3. The Cannizzaro Reaction--T. A. Geissman 4. The Formation of Cyclic Ketones by Intramolecular Acylation--William S. Johnson 5. Reduction with Aluminum Alkoxides (The Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley Reduction)--A. L. Wilds 6. The Preparation of Unsymmetrical Biaryls by the Diazo Reaction and the Nitrosoacetylamine Reaction--Werner E. Bachmann and Roger A. Hoffman 7. Replacement of the Aromatic Primary Amino Group by Hydrogen--Nathan Kornblum 8. Periodic Acid Oxidation--Ernest L. Jackson 9. The Resolution of Alcohols--A. W. Ingersoll 10. The Preparation of Aromatic Arsonic and Arsinic Acids by the Bart, Bechamp, and Rosenmund Reactions--Cliff S. Hamilton and Jack F. Morgan Index

Roger Adams was an American organic chemist. He is best known for the eponymous Adams' catalyst, and his work did much to determine the composition of naturally occurring substances such as complex vegetable oils and plant alkaloids.

• 1. The Claisen Rearrangement--D. Stanley Tarbell 2. The Preparation of Aliphatic Fluorine Compounds--Albert L. Henne 3. The Cannizzaro Reaction--T. A. Geissman 4. The Formation of Cyclic Ketones by Intramolecular Acylation--William S. Johnson 5. Reduction with Aluminum Alkoxides (The Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley Reduction)--A. L. Wilds 6. The Preparation of Unsymmetrical Biaryls by the Diazo Reaction and the Nitrosoacetylamine Reaction--Werner E. Bachmann and Roger A. Hoffman 7. Replacement of the Aromatic Primary Amino Group by Hydrogen--Nathan Kornblum 8. Periodic Acid Oxidation--Ernest L. Jackson 9. The Resolution of Alcohols--A. W. Ingersoll 10. The Preparation of Aromatic Arsonic and Arsinic Acids by the Bart, Bechamp, and Rosenmund Reactions--Cliff S. Hamilton and Jack F. Morgan Index

Roger Adams was an American organic chemist. He is best known for the eponymous Adams' catalyst, and his work did much to determine the composition of naturally occurring substances such as complex vegetable oils and plant alkaloids.

• 1. The Claisen Rearrangement--D. Stanley Tarbell 2. The Preparation of Aliphatic Fluorine Compounds--Albert L. Henne 3. The Cannizzaro Reaction--T. A. Geissman 4. The Formation of Cyclic Ketones by Intramolecular Acylation--William S. Johnson 5. Reduction with Aluminum Alkoxides (The Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley Reduction)--A. L. Wilds 6. The Preparation of Unsymmetrical Biaryls by the Diazo Reaction and the Nitrosoacetylamine Reaction--Werner E. Bachmann and Roger A. Hoffman 7. Replacement of the Aromatic Primary Amino Group by Hydrogen--Nathan Kornblum 8. Periodic Acid Oxidation--Ernest L. Jackson 9. The Resolution of Alcohols--A. W. Ingersoll 10. The Preparation of Aromatic Arsonic and Arsinic Acids by the Bart, Bechamp, and Rosenmund Reactions--Cliff S. Hamilton and Jack F. Morgan Index