Organic Reactions, Volume 5

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 Synthesis of Acetylenes--Thomas L. Jacobs 2. Cyanoethylation--Herman Alexander Bruson 3. The Diels-Alder Reaction: Quinones and Other Cyclenones--Lewis W. Butz and Anton W. Rytina 4. Preparation of Aromatic Fluorine Compounds from Diazonium Fluoborates: The Schiemann Reaction--Arthur Roe 5. The Friedel and Crafts Reaction with Aliphatic Dibasic Acid Anhydrides--Ernst Berliner 6. The Gattermann-Koch Reaction--Nathan N. Crounse 7. The Leuckart Reaction--Maurice L. Moore 8. Selenium dioxide oxidation--Norman Rabjohn 9. The Hoesch Synthesis--Paul E. Spoerri and Adrien S. DuBois 10. The Darzens Glycidic Ester Condensation--Melvin S. Newman and Barney J. Magerlein Index