Phosphorous Chemistry: Developments in American Science

About this book

Summarizes the status of science in such areas as phosphorus in biology, phosphorus reaction mechanisms, stereochemistry, photochemistry of phosphorus compounds, applications of state-of-the-art NMR spectroscopy for phosphorus compounds, phosphorus compounds in flame retardants, insecticides, and synthesis. Offers theoretical, academic, and industrial applications of phosphorus chemicals and includes chapters from leading academic and industrial phosphorus chemists in both the U.S. and Canada. Includes contributions from Arthur D. F. Toy and H. Harnisch, who provide rare insights into the field, from describing the circuitous paths scientists travel in developing industrial products to how basic phosphorus chemistry can be harnessed for the good of humankind.

Contents

A Tribute to Arthur D. F. Toy: A Life of Dedication to Research in Industrial Chemistry; Research in Industrial Phosphorus Chemistry: A Reminiscence; The Role of Phosphorus in Chemistry and Biochemistry: An Overview; Cyclic Oxyphosphoranes: Models for Reaction Intermediates; Quantitative Analysis of Inorganic Phosphates Using 'P NMR Spectroscopy; Phosphorus Atoms in Unusual Environments; Five-Coordinate and Quasi-Five-Coordinate Phosphorus; New Derivative Chemistry of Two-Coordinate Phosphines; Factors Influencing the Chain Lengths of Inorganic Polyphosphates; Mechanism of Reactions of Monosubstituted Phosphates in Water: Appearance and Reality; Ring Fragmentation Approaches to Low-Coordinate Phosphorus Species; Phosphoranide Anions (10-P-4) with Electronegative Apicaland Electropositive Equatorial Ligands Coordinated to Metals To Form Symmetrical 10-P-5 Species; Photorearrangements of Allyl Phosphites; Mechanisms of the Wittig Reaction; Reaction of 2-Amino-4-Substituted Phenols with Aryl Phosphorodichloridates: Formation of a Novel Spirobis(1,3,2-benzoxazaphosphole) System from an Unexpected Elimination of Aryloxy Moieties; Bis(diphenylphosphino)methane in Organometallic Synthesis: New Applications; Substituted 1,3,2*l]5-Dioxaphospholanes: New Synthetic Methodologies; DNA-The Ultimate Phosphorus Polymer: 'P One- and Two-Dimensional NMR Spectroscopy of Oligonucleotides and Protein-DNA Complexes; Phosphorus Flame Retardants for a Changing World; Aryl Group Interchange in Triarylphosphines and Its Role in Catalyst Stability in Homogeneous Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Processes; Crystalline Chloro-Trisodium Orthophosphate; Development of Functional Organophosphorus Compounds

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