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A compendium of organic chiral compounds that can be prepared in a few easy steps from inexpensive carbohydrate materials, presented in a pictorial dictionary form to facilitate the identification and selection of useful compounds. For practicing or student organic chemists and college-level instructors in the field. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Bols delivers an original and effective presentation that unravels secrets from carbohydrate chemistry. He specifically describes which carbohydrates are best used in Synthesis and how to obtain them. The first half of this indispensable reference contains a dictionary-like list of compounds that can be prepared in a few steps from commercially cheap carbohydrates. The latter section describes which carbohydrates are commercially and inexpensively available along with the chemistry that can be used to convert them into useful building blocks.
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