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 Diels-Alder Reaction with Maleic Anhydride--Milton C. Kloetzel 2. The Diels-Alder Reaction: Ethylenic and Acetylenic Dienophiles--H. L. Holmes 3. The Preparation of Amines by Reductive Alkylation--William S. Emerson 4. The Acyloins--S. M. McElvain 5. The Synthesis of Benzoins--Walter S. Ide and Johannes S. Buck 6. Synthesis of Benzoquinones by Oxidation--James Cason 7. The Rosenmund Reduction of Acid Chlorides to Aldehydes--Erich Mosettig and Ralph Mozingo 8. The Wolff-Kishner Reduction--David Todd 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 Diels-Alder Reaction with Maleic Anhydride--Milton C. Kloetzel 2. The Diels-Alder Reaction: Ethylenic and Acetylenic Dienophiles--H. L. Holmes 3. The Preparation of Amines by Reductive Alkylation--William S. Emerson 4. The Acyloins--S. M. McElvain 5. The Synthesis of Benzoins--Walter S. Ide and Johannes S. Buck 6. Synthesis of Benzoquinones by Oxidation--James Cason 7. The Rosenmund Reduction of Acid Chlorides to Aldehydes--Erich Mosettig and Ralph Mozingo 8. The Wolff-Kishner Reduction--David Todd 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 Diels-Alder Reaction with Maleic Anhydride--Milton C. Kloetzel 2. The Diels-Alder Reaction: Ethylenic and Acetylenic Dienophiles--H. L. Holmes 3. The Preparation of Amines by Reductive Alkylation--William S. Emerson 4. The Acyloins--S. M. McElvain 5. The Synthesis of Benzoins--Walter S. Ide and Johannes S. Buck 6. Synthesis of Benzoquinones by Oxidation--James Cason 7. The Rosenmund Reduction of Acid Chlorides to Aldehydes--Erich Mosettig and Ralph Mozingo 8. The Wolff-Kishner Reduction--David Todd Index