Lanterna Rally

Author: Nevil Vincent Sidgwick

Publisher:

Published: 2015-06-28

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9781330454503

Excerpt from The Organic Chemistry of Nitrogen This book originated in lectures given to more advanced students in Oxford. Its object is thus primarily educational, and it is in no sense intended as a work of reference. I have endeavoured to give an account of the present state of knowledge on those parts of the subject which are of the greatest theoretical interest, and at the same time to avoid overloading the text with the names of less important substances. In dealing with the vast group of heterocyclic compounds, I have thought it better not to attempt even an enumeration of all the known types of ring; but I have selected a few of the more important, and discussed these in detail. I have assumed throughout that the reader has at least an elementary knowledge of organic and of general chemistry. It is becoming generally recognized that organic chemistry cannot be treated satisfactorily without reference to those questions of physical chemistry which it involves. To attempt a separation of the two is to refuse all the assistance which can be derived from what is really the quantitative side of chemistry. The various physical questions are therefore discussed as they arise. A full treatment of the phenomena of tautomerism would have required too great an interruption of the main current of thought; but I have tried to indicate the more important points in which they are illustrated by the bodies under consideration. The dynamics of organic reactions is a field which, in spite of the increasing amount of attention recently devoted to it, is still very largely unexplored; and yet it is of the utmost value for elucidating the mechanism of chemical change. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.