By George A. Olah, Árpád Molnár
Hydrocarbons and their variations play significant roles in chemistry as uncooked fabrics and resources of power. Diminishing petroleum offers, regulatory difficulties, and environmental matters always problem chemists to reconsider and redecorate the economic purposes of hydrocarbons. Written by way of Nobel Prize-winner George Olah and hydrocarbon professional Árpád Molnár, the thoroughly revised and increased moment version of Hydrocarbon Chemistry offers an exceptional modern evaluation of the sector, proposing uncomplicated ideas, present learn, and destiny applications.
Hydrocarbon Chemistry starts off by means of discussing the overall points of hydrocarbons, the separation of hydrocarbons from traditional assets, and the synthesis from C1 precursors with fresh advancements for attainable destiny purposes. each one successive bankruptcy offers with a particular form of hydrocarbon transformation. the second one variation encompasses a new part at the chemical relief of carbon dioxide–focusing on catalytic, ionic, electrocatalytic, photocatalytic, and ezymatic reductions–as good as a brand new bankruptcy on new catalysts and activation tools, combinatorial chemistry, and environmental chemistry. different issues coated contain: significant tactics of the petrochemical undefined, comparable to cracking, reforming, isomerization, and alkylation
Derivation reactions to shape carbon-heteroatom bonds
Hydrocarbon oxidations
Metathesis
Oligomerization and polymerization of hydrocarbons
All chapters were up to date by means of including sections on contemporary advancements to study new advances and effects. crucial studying for training scientists in undefined, polymer and catalytic chemists, in addition to researchers and graduate scholars, Hydrocarbon Chemistry, moment variation is still the benchmark textual content in its box.
