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The Role of the Solvent in Chemical Reactions

Description

This excellent book is designed to be a useful supplementary text for students of physical, organic or inorganic chemistry (senior undergraduates and graduates). Buncel introduces the reader to all aspects of this important, but often ignored topic in chemistry. It also highlights the significant role that solvents play on the course of a chemical reaction. The book is a balanced review of current theory combined with discussions of specific examples.

Editorial Review

The solvent, which makes up approx. 90% of the mass of a reaction solution, plays an immense role. Solubility, equilibrium position and reaction rate are affected by it. In times of combinatorial chemistry, individual representatives in a certain type of reaction can be tested, but the unbelievable variety of solvents with a large range of chemical and physical characteristics should generally be known.

The present book mediates the most important parameters of solvents and describes the characteristics of selected solvent classes, without going too much into the detail. For this reason, it is a good companion, which summarizes the knowledge from the text books of organic and physical chemistry in a compact way.

Contents

1 Introduction

2 The Solvent as a Medium

3 The Solvent as Participant

4 Chemometrics: Emperical correlations of solvent effects

5 Theoretical calculations

6 Some Specific Examples (1): Dipolar-Aprotic Solvents

7 Some Specific Examples (2): acidic, basic, chiral, ionic solvents

8 Concluding observations

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Solvent properties

References