The Chemistry of Peroxides, Parts 1 and 2, 2 Volume Set

The Chemistry of Peroxides is a new volume in the Chemistry of Functional Groups series. This series covers all aspects of organic chemistry with each volume containing chapters on: General and theoretical aspects Computational approaches Thermodynamics and kinetics NMR and ESR Mass Spectrometry Spectroscopies Analytical aspects Reaction mechanisms Syntheses Biological effects Environmental effects Industrial applications  Edited by Zvi Rappoport, this series provides outstanding reviews on all aspects of functional groups in analytical, physical, synthetic and applied chemistry.

1 General and theoretical aspects of the peroxide group 1 Robert D. Bach 2 The structural chemistry of acyclic organic peroxides 93 Jens Hartung and Ingrid Svoboda 3 Thermochemistry of peroxides 145 Suzanne W. Slayden and Joel F. Liebman 4 17O NMR spectroscopy of organic compounds containing the O-O group 171 Giovanni Cerioni and Francesca Mocci 5 Synthesis of cyclic peroxides 189 Edward E. Korshin and Mario D. Bachi 6 Synthetic uses of peroxides 307 Albrecht Berkessel and Nadine Vogl 7 Analytical and safety aspects of organic peroxides and related functional groups 597 Jacob Zabicky 8 Silicon and germanium peroxides 775 Wataru Ando 9 Selective formation of allylic hydroperoxides via singlet oxygen ene reaction 831 Michael Orfanopoulos, Georgios C. Vougioukalakis and Manolis Stratakis 10 Polar effects in decomposition of peroxidic compounds and related reactions 899 Sung Soo Kim 11 Peroxides in biological systems 915 Jean Cadet and Paolo Di Mascio 12 Sulfur and phosphorus peroxides 1001 Vidyadhar Jadhav, Min Young Park and Yong Hae Kim 13 Transition metal peroxides. Synthesis and role in oxidation reactions 1053 Valeria Conte and Olga Bortolini 14 Contemporary dioxirane chemistry: Epoxidations, heteroatom oxidations and CH insertions 1129 Waldemar Adam and Cong-Gui Zhao 15 Contemporary trends in dioxetane chemistry 1171 Waldemar Adam and Alexei V. Trofimov 16 Chemiluminescence of organic peroxides 1211 Wilhelm J. Baader, C. V. Stevani and Erick L. Bastos 17 Biomimetic Fe(II) chemistry and synthetic studies on antimalarial and antitumour endoperoxides 1279 Paul M. O'Neill, James Chadwick and Sarah L. Rawe Author index 1347 Subject index 1439