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Names: Moloney, M. G., editor.
Title: Organic reaction mechanisms 2018 : an annual survey covering the literature dated january to december 2018 / edited by M. G. Moloney, University of Oxford, England, UK.
Description: Hoboken : Wiley, 2021. | Series: Organic reaction mechanisms
Identifiers: LCCN 2021028000 (print) | LCCN 2021028001 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119531968 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119531999 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119532002 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Organic reaction mechanisms.
Classification: LCC QD502.5 .O74 2021 (print) | LCC QD502.5 (ebook) | DDC 547/.2—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021028000
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| F. ALONSO | Instituto de Síntesis Orgánica and Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain |
| K. K. BANERJI | Department of Chemistry, J.N.V. University, Jodhpur, India |
| C. T. BEDFORD | Department of Chemistry, University College London, London, UK |
| M. L. BIRSA | Faculty of Chemistry, “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania |
| S. CHASSAING | Laboratoire de Synthèse, Réactivité Organique et Catalyse, Institut de Chimie, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France |
| J. M. COXON | Department of Chemistry, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand |
| M. R. CRAMPTON | Department of Chemistry, University of Durham, Durham, UK |
| N. DENNIS | 3 Camphorlaurel Crt, Stretton, Queensland, Australia |
| J. C. GONZALEZ-GOMEZ | Instituto de Síntesis Orgánica and Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain |
| E. GRAS | Laboratoire d'Hétérochimie Fondamentale et Appliquée, Université Toulouse III, Toulouse, France |
| P. KOČOVSKÝ |
Department of Organic Chemistry, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic and Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic |
| J. G. MOLONEY | Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK |
| M. G. MOLONEY | Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK |
| V. M. MOREIRA |
StrathclydeInstitute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK and Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Portugal; Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Portugal |
| B. A. MURRAY | Department of Science, Technological University of Dublin (TU Dublin), Dublin, Ireland |
| A. F. PARSONS | Department of Chemistry, University of York, York, UK |
| T. F. PARSONS | School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK |
| G. W. WEAVER | Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK |
The present volume, the 54th in the series, surveys research reporting organic reaction mechanisms described in the available literature dated 2018. The rapid increase in annual numbers of publications makes the compilation of Organic Reaction Mechanisms a challenge in which we seek to achieve comprehensive coverage, but in a defined page limit. While the general format for ORM 2018 is similar to that of recent volumes, I have taken the opportunity to make some adjustments in chapter arrangement and coverage. Firstly, given the amount of material relating to aromatic substitution (electrophilic and nucleophilic), these chapters have been separated, and I am delighted to welcome George Weaver to the author team who has contributed the former chapter, along with our long-standing contributor, Mike Crampton, who has done the latter. Secondly, given the importance ligand coupling processes now have in modern synthetic chemistry, along with their mechanistic variability, we have created a new chapter (Transition-metal Catalyzed Reactions) and I thank Jose Carlos Gonzalez-Gomez and Francisco Alonso for agreeing to take on this significant task. Finally, Radical Reactions are explicitly included as a new chapter and I am delighted that it has been authored by Andy Parsons, very well known in the area, and his son, Thomas. That father and son team is not the only one in this volume, and it is a great pleasure to me to be able to thank my own son, Jonathan, who worked on our own chapter; should any other authors wish to field a family author team in the future, I would be delighted since it would make ORM even more unique! I am also delighted to be able to welcome Vania Moreira to the ORM team, who has contributed the Carbocation chapter. While it is a pleasure to have new members in the ORM author team, it is fully appropriate to celebrate the long-standing service of the other authors, who quietly get on with what is proving to be an ever-expanding task, done under deadline constraints which seek to keep the publication timely, and I offer my thanks to them for their dedication and attention to detail.
M. G. Moloney