Book description
The essential new edition of the book that put hypercarbon chemistry
on the map
A comprehensive and contemporary treatment of the chemistry of
hydrocarbons (alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, and aromatics) towards
electrophiles, Hypercarbon Chemistry, Second Edition deals with
all major aspects of such chemistry involved in hydrocarbon
transformations, and of the structural and reaction chemistry of
carboranes, mixed hydrides in which both carbon and boron atoms
participate in the polyhedral molecular frameworks.
Despite the firmly established tetravalency, carbon can bond
simultaneously to five or more other atoms. "Hypercarbon"
bonding permeates much organic, inorganic and organometallic
chemistry, and the book serves as the compendium for this phenomenon.
Copious diagrams illustrate the rich variety of hypercarbon
structures now known, and patterns therein. Individual chapters deal
with specific categories of compound (e. g. organometallics,
carboranes, carbocations) or transformations that proceed through
transient hypercarbon species, detailing fundamental chemistry,
including reactivity, selectivity, stereochemistry, mechanistic
factors and more.
GEORGE A. OLAH, PhD, is the 1994 Nobel Laureate in
Chemistry, Founding Director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research
Institute, and Distinguished Loker Chair Professor at the University
of Southern California. A pioneer in the hypercarbon chemistry field,
Dr. Olah has published numerous papers, books, and monographs.
G. K. SURYA PRAKASH, PhD, is the George A. and Judith A. Olah
Nobel Laureate Chair Professor and the Director of the Loker
Hydrocarbon Research Institute at the University of Southern California.
KENNETH WADE, PhD, DSc, FRS, is an Emeritus Professor at the
University of Durham, UK and a Senior Fellow of the Loker Hydrocarbon
Research Institute at the University of Southern California.
ÁRPÁD MOLNÁR, DSc, is an Emeritus Professor at the University
of Szeged, Hungary, and a Senior Fellow of the Loker Hydrocarbon
Research Institute at the University of Southern California.
ROBERT E. WILLIAMS, PhD, is a Senior Fellow of the Loker
Hydrocarbon Research Institute at the University of Southern
California.
