Handbook of Organophosphorus Chemistry

This practical work summarizes the development of organophosphorus chemistry in topical areas and details the discipline's current state - providing applications and experimental procedures throughout.;Written by 18 leading authorities in the field, the Handbook of Organophosphorus Chemistry: examines advances in the mechanistic understanding of the Perkow and related organophosphorus reactions; describes methods for the reduction of quinquevalent to trivalent phosphorus and their applications to standard synthetic procedures; emphasizes the preparation of phosphonates bearing hydroxy, amino, and thiol functions at the alpha-position relative to the phosphoryl group; reviews the basics of NMR as it applies to the 31P nucleus, considering the use of the latest measurement techniques in solving structural and mechanistic problems; compares the characteristics of polymer-based and monomeric materials; and presents recent progress in the design of insecticides and covers their chemical and biological characteristics.;Generously referenced with close to 3000 bibliographic citations, the Handbook of Organophosphorus Chemistry is an important volume for organic, medicinal, and agricultural chemists and biochemists; pharmacists; chemical engineers; and graduate-level students in these disciplines.

Optically active phosphorus compounds, Tsuneo Imamoto; developments in the preparation and use of silicon-containing organophosphorus compounds, John Thottathil; the Perkow and related reactions, Grace Borowitz and Irving J. Borowitz; nonhydrolytic cleavage of phosphorus esters, Robert Engel; the reduction of quinquevalent phosphorus to the trivalent state, Robert Engel; phosphorus containing umpolung reagents, Adel Amer and Hans Zimmer; alpha-substituted phosphonates, Przemyslaw Mastalerz; some aspects of H-phosphonate chemistry, Jacek Stawinski; advances in 31P NMR, David G. Gorenstien; phospholes and related compounds, Alan Hughes; the use of carbon-phosphorus analogue compounds in the regulation of biological processes, Robert Engel; glycerophospholipids - some reliable and recent syntheses, Luis Vargas; the application of phosphinyl-stabilized ylids and carbanions in the synthesis of phosphonates and phosphinates of biological interest, Ronald W. McClard and John F. Witte; phosphorus-based flame retardants, Edward D. Weil; aliphatic carbon-phosphorus compounds as herbicides, James A. Sikorski and Eugene W. Logusch; phosphorus containing insecticides, Morifusa Eto.