Polycyclic Hydrocarbons

Volume 1

Eric Clar (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XXVII, 487 Seiten

2013 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1964
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-662-01667-1 (ISBN)

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Polycyclic hydrocarbons are of interest in many fields of science: theoretical chemistry, physical chemistry, organic chemistry, dyestuff chemistry and biology. With regard to the latter, I am indebted to Dr. Regina Schoental of the Medical Research Council for the review in this present work of carcinogenesis by polycyclic hydrocarbons. This book is designed to present the facts in a simple and clear order and to derive empirical rules from them, but it does not present a com prehensive theory about polycyclic hydrocarbons. An attempt is made instead to extend classical symbolism into modern structural chemistry. Thus extensive use is made of Robinson's aromatic sextet, which is applied in an uncompromising and strict way. This quasi-classical attempt is encouraged further by such completely unexpected dis coveries as those of Dewar benzene and of the electronic asymmetry of formally symmetric hydrocarbons. How difficult it is to break away from any established way of thinking has been admirably expressed by Kekule ("Organische Chemie", 1861, Part 1, page 4, translated from the German): "All our ideas are based, to an extent much greater than we ordinarily believe, on those of our predecessors. Our accumulated experience, the notions of which our training has accustomed us to, of whatever kind they have been, influence the course of our thoughts far more than we are willing to admit; only too frequently the following of our regularly used, well trodden way of thinking leads us to overlook the simplest of correlations.

General.- Nomenclature of Polycyclic Hydrocarbons.- Carbon Atoms, p-Electrons and Hybridization.- The C=C Double Bond and Conjugation in Butadiene.- Theories about the Aromatic Bonds in Benzene.- The Significance of Double Bonds and Kekulé Structures for the Stability of Aromatic Systems.- The Aromatic Sextet and its Significance in Relation to the Stability of Aromatic Systems.- The Annellation Principle.- Asymmetric Annellation Effects.- The Relation between ?-, ?- and ?-Bands, Phosphorescence Bands and the Reactive ?-State in Aromatic Hydrocarbons.- The Ionization Potentials and the Electronic Levels of the Aromatic Sextet.- The Tautomerism of Phenols.- The Relation between Hydroquinols and Quinones.- Magnetic Properties of Aromatic Hydrocarbons.- The Electrical Conductivity of Aromatic Hydrocarbons.- The C-C Bond Length in Polycyclic Hydrocarbons.- Non-coplanar, Overcrowded Aromatic Hydrocarbons.- The Possibility of Bond Fixation by Substitution.- Carcinogenesis by Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and by Certain Other Carcinogens.- General Methods for the Preparation of Aromatic Hydrocarbons.- kata-Annellated Hydrocarbons.- Benzene.- Hydrocarbons Containing up to Two Linearly Annellated Benzene Rings.- Hydrocarbons Containing Three Linearly Annellated Benzene Rings.- Hydrocarbons with Four Linearly Annellated Benzene Rings.- Hydrocarbons with Five Linearly Annellated Rings.- Hydrocarbons with Six Linearly Annellated Rings.- Hydrocarbons with Seven Linearly Annellated Rings.- Hydrocarbons with Eight and More Linearly Annellated Rings.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.11.2013
Co-Autor	Regina Schoental
Zusatzinfo	XXVII, 487 p. 18 illus.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	669 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pharmazie ► PTA / PKA
Schlagworte	Biology • Chemistry • Organic Chemistry
ISBN-10	3-662-01667-2 / 3662016672
ISBN-13	978-3-662-01667-1 / 9783662016671
Zustand	Neuware