Organic Reactions, Volume 7

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 Pechmann Reaction--Suresh Sethna and Ragini Phadke 2. The Skraup Synthesis of Quinolines--Richard H. F. Manske and Marshall Kulka 3. Carbon-Carbon Alkylations with Amines and Ammonium Salts--James H. Brewster and Ernest L. Eliel 4. The von Braun Cyanogen Bromide Reaction--Howard A. Hageman 5. Hydrogenolysis of Benzyl Groups Attached to Oxygen, Nitrogen, or Sulfur--Walter H. Hartung and Robert Simonoff 6. The Nitrosation of Aliphatic Carbon Atoms--Oscar Touster 7. Epoxidation and Hydroxylation of Ethylenic Compounds with Organic Peracids--Daniel Swern Index