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First Published in 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher of major influence and significance. Understanding a philosophical doctrine stands close to seeing its strengths and weaknesses, how best it could be defended and how best attacked. The author therefore has tried, not merely to state Russell’s philosophical doctrines, but also to appraise them: to determine, if possible, whether they are true, or at least what arguments tell in their favour, and what tell against them.

To date, the second edition of the Rodd's series consists of 71 volumes and over 30,000 pages. Rodd's Chemistry of Carbon Compounds is continuing with a short series of topical volumes on emerging subjects that are not covered in detail in the main volumes. The first two topical volumes will cover organic electrochemistry and asymmetric catalysis. Asymmetric synthesis initiated by metal catalysts is, of course, not a new topic and asymmetric reduction and epoxidation of alkenes, in particular, are major subject areas covered widely in the Supplements to the 2nd Edition of Rodd's Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds. However, there has been a huge increase in the use of asymmetrically catalysed reactions in other areas in the last five years or so, and this is why this subject has been specially selected to form the content of a Topical Volume. The book does not dwell at length upon topics of great importance such as Sharpless epoxidation, or upon the control of stereochemistry through catalytic reduction of double bonds. These subjects have been exhaustively surveyed elsewhere. Instead it concentrates upon those topics that appear to be 'up and coming'. Only time can tell if all will be adopted as widely and successfully as their predecessors, but it now seems clear that chemists have at their disposal an ever increasing and formidable array of methods to effect total topological control of even the most complex target molecule. This book, written by some of the best young chemists, concentrating upon work in their own subject areas, provides a snap shot of the current 'state of play' in this a key test of their scientific ingenuity. In the Cumulative Index will be found the entire contents of the 2nd edition and both of the supplements, together with a list of main titles and chapter headings for each volume. This index will enable the reader to make better and easier searches in Rodd, which is the most compact, comprehensive and accessible survey of organic chemistry ever written.

This volume begins with two chapters concerned with the chemistry of medium and large heterocyclic rings, including lactones and lactams. This work also explores host-guest relationships within macrocycles embodying oxygen and nitrogen atoms. The authors responsible for bringing together recent progress in the chemistry of this wide assembly of compounds are Dr MacBride and his colleagues Drs Grayson and Kelly. Drs Ewing and McKenzie then survey then survey recent advances in purine chemistry and that of the attendant nucleosides. This chapter naturally leads on to a focused survey of nucleosides and nucleotides. Dr Cosstick contributed a chapter on these major subject areas to the First Supplement and he agreed to review the same subjects in this volume.

First Published in 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher of major influence and significance. Understanding a philosophical doctrine stands close to seeing its strengths and weaknesses, how best it could be defended and how best attacked. The author therefore has tried, not merely to state Russell’s philosophical doctrines, but also to appraise them: to determine, if possible, whether they are true, or at least what arguments tell in their favour, and what tell against them.

This volume covers current work on the syntheses and reactions of pyrdines, quinolines and isoquinolines.

This volume deals with the chemistry of five-membered heterocycles containing at least two nitrogen atoms, or those with one, or more, nitrogens and one or more atoms from Group 6 of the Periodic Table. The aim to survey this burgeoning area of chemistry has succeeded. The editor and contributors have provided another, very readable, supplement to the Second Edition of Rodd.

One of a series of supplements, this text covers the chemistry of five-membered pyrrole and pyridine plus their benzo derivatives and reduced forms.