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Applied homogeneous catalysis with organometallic compounds, vols. and 2. Edited by Boy Cornils and Wolfgang A. Herrmann, VCH, Weinheim 1996, xxxvi + 571 pp., xv + 675 pp., hardcover, DM 748.00, ISBN 3‐527‐ 29286‐1

Applied homogeneous catalysis with organometallic compounds, vols. and 2. Edited by Boy Cornils... Book Reviews ADVANCED AATERIALS Book Reviews Colorful Catalysts? Applied Homogeneous Catalysis with tions. Further sections (2.2-2.9) treat estab- repeated within one chapter, and some Organometallie Compounds, Vols. 1 lished industrial processes employing equations are unbalanced. Some mechanis- and 2. Edited by Boy Cornils and Wolf- hydrogenation, olefin oligomerization, co- tic schemes, as in Section 2.3.2.2 are rather gang A. Herrmann, VCH, Weinheim oligomerization, and metathesis reactions, extensive, taking into account that restraint 1996, xxxvi + 571 pp., xv + 675 pp., oxidations, hydrocyanation, hydrosilyla- as to the correctness of mechanistic models hardcover, DM 748.00, ISBN 3-527- tion, and hydroamination, miscellaneous, is always appropriate. 29286-1. and, finally, asymmetric synthesis. I find it somewhat unfortunate that the Wow - a great book. Since the begin- The second volume, Developments, is book is divided into two volumes. Further- nings of homogeneous catalysis with the devoted to homogeneously catalyzed reac- more, a significant reduction of its prohibi- pioneering discoveries by Roelen and tions that might become commercialized in tive price for private customers is highly Reppe almost 60 years ago and numerous the future or display principles of scientific desirable, even at the expense of paper and further tremendous achievements, it has interest. This volume starts with a survey of print quality. The present edition is been left to B. Cornils (Hoechst AG, Frank- methods (Sec. 3.1) for heterogenization and undoubtedly a must for every chemical furt) and W. A. Herrmann (Technische immobilization of catalysts, molecular library. However, a reasonably priced soft- Universitat Miinchen, TUM) to edit the modeling, analytical parahydrogen label- cover version would enable Cornils/Herr- first comprehensive book on the subject. ing, and engineering aspects. Industrially mann to achieve the broad distribution it is This book is part of the WILEY-VCH performable Heck reactions still represent a seeking - and deserves - among those handbook series on catalysis, of which the challenge and the same holds for cross cou- designing the chemistry of the next century, Handbook of Enantioselective Catalysis plings. A great deal of space is given to a i.e., university students and research chem- and the Handbook of Heterogeneous Catal- treasure trove of “Special Catalysts and ists in both academic and industrial posi- Processes” (Sec. 3.2), such as biocatalysis, tions. ysis have also already appeared. In view of the importance of catalysis now and for our template reactions, phase transfer, electro- Klaus-R. Porschke future, this series is very timely, not to say and photocatalysis, and so on, as well as to Max-Planck-Institut fir Kohlenforschung the synthesis of “Special Products” (Sec. D-45466 Miilheim an der Ruhr (Germany) overdue. Concerning the given book, the plain title Homogeneous Catalysis would 3.3), such as chiral commodities, diols, also have been sufficient to describe the products from CO,, methacrylates, and many more. The section in which a proce- content, but the more descriptive title ex- The Colours of Life. An introduction to dure or product is listed sometimes appears the Chemistry of Porphyrins and Re- presses the enthusiasm and high esteem of the authors for the achievements of both ap- somewhat arbitrary (e.g., enantioselective lated Compounds. By L. R. Milgrom, reactions are topics in both Sec. 3.2. and plied (industrial) and fundamental organo- Oxford University Press, Oxford 1997, metallic chemistry. As the editors state in Sec. 3.3). vi, 225 pp., softcover, E49.50, ISBN 0- the Preface, “homogeneous catalysis is the In the Epilogue the question “Homoge- 19-855380-3. neous Catalysis - Quo Vadis?’ is raised success story of organometallic chemistry”. In the preface the first words of the book The reputation of the editors has helped and “key problems of catalysis” that “war- are: “Why is grass green? Why not red or to gather a multinational team of more than rant intensive research” are addressed. any other color? Come to think of it, why is 90 contributors, half from academia and Among those emphasized are liquid/liquid blood red?. . .” Then the last paragraph in two-phase catalysis, colloidal catalysts, the the final chapter “Porphyrins for the future” half from industry, many of whom are prominent experts in their discipline. The functionalization of hydrocarbon feed- contains the words “ ...p orphyrins and re- stocks, and the further development of book is divided into four major parts, in ad- lated macrocyclic compounds are playing dition to the Preface, namely, 1. Introduc- mononuclear catalyst design. their part in these exciting developments. tion, 2. Applied Homogeneous Catalysis, The whole work is very instructive and it Truly, where there is life, there are por- was fun to review it. Despite the large num- phyrins.” 3. Recent Developments, and 4. Epilogue. Finally, a 45-page index is provided. In the ber of authors the layout of the chapters is Between these sentences a very absorb- uniform and appealing and the language is Preface of the first (Applications) volume ing, unconventional story mainly about generally concise. In both volumes I found porphyrins unfolds on 243 pages. Por- the editors outline the scope of the book and the targeted readership (see the last just a few typos [e.g., on page 1055, replace phyrins are not only in general the colors of Ni(CO), by Ni(C0,)). The drawings, all of life but also part of the life of the author, L. sentence of this review), while the Intro- duction provides an in-depth historical them supplied by the TUM staff, are superb R. Milgrom. Let us demonstrate this by (but on page 810 N/H separation is poor). considering the chapters in turn. overview. The Applied Catalysis section The great majority of the chapters appear to We start with Chapter 1, “What por- starts (Sec. 2.1) with an excellent state-of- phyrins are and what they do”. This chap- the-art discussion of hydroformulation, fol- be written with the utmost care and exper- tise. Nevertheless, in a few cases references ter, after outlining their history, introduces lowed by no less thorough accounts of have not been updated, or are mixed up or the structure and nomenclature of natural methanol and other carbonylation reac- 0 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69469 Weinheim, 1997 0935-9648/97/15 12-1191 $ 17.50+.50/0 1191 Adv. Mater. 1997, 9, No. 15 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Advanced Materials Wiley

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Book Reviews ADVANCED AATERIALS Book Reviews Colorful Catalysts? Applied Homogeneous Catalysis with tions. Further sections (2.2-2.9) treat estab- repeated within one chapter, and some Organometallie Compounds, Vols. 1 lished industrial processes employing equations are unbalanced. Some mechanis- and 2. Edited by Boy Cornils and Wolf- hydrogenation, olefin oligomerization, co- tic schemes, as in Section 2.3.2.2 are rather gang A. Herrmann, VCH, Weinheim oligomerization, and metathesis reactions, extensive, taking into account that restraint 1996, xxxvi + 571 pp., xv + 675 pp., oxidations, hydrocyanation, hydrosilyla- as to the correctness of mechanistic models hardcover, DM 748.00, ISBN 3-527- tion, and hydroamination, miscellaneous, is always appropriate. 29286-1. and, finally, asymmetric synthesis. I find it somewhat unfortunate that the Wow - a great book. Since the begin- The second volume, Developments, is book is divided into two volumes. Further- nings of homogeneous catalysis with the devoted to homogeneously catalyzed reac- more, a significant reduction of its prohibi- pioneering discoveries by Roelen and tions that might become commercialized in tive price for private customers is highly Reppe almost 60 years ago and numerous the future or display principles of scientific desirable, even at the expense of paper and further tremendous achievements, it has interest. This volume starts with a survey of print quality. The present edition is been left to B. Cornils (Hoechst AG, Frank- methods (Sec. 3.1) for heterogenization and undoubtedly a must for every chemical furt) and W. A. Herrmann (Technische immobilization of catalysts, molecular library. However, a reasonably priced soft- Universitat Miinchen, TUM) to edit the modeling, analytical parahydrogen label- cover version would enable Cornils/Herr- first comprehensive book on the subject. ing, and engineering aspects. Industrially mann to achieve the broad distribution it is This book is part of the WILEY-VCH performable Heck reactions still represent a seeking - and deserves - among those handbook series on catalysis, of which the challenge and the same holds for cross cou- designing the chemistry of the next century, Handbook of Enantioselective Catalysis plings. A great deal of space is given to a i.e., university students and research chem- and the Handbook of Heterogeneous Catal- treasure trove of “Special Catalysts and ists in both academic and industrial posi- Processes” (Sec. 3.2), such as biocatalysis, tions. ysis have also already appeared. In view of the importance of catalysis now and for our template reactions, phase transfer, electro- Klaus-R. Porschke future, this series is very timely, not to say and photocatalysis, and so on, as well as to Max-Planck-Institut fir Kohlenforschung the synthesis of “Special Products” (Sec. D-45466 Miilheim an der Ruhr (Germany) overdue. Concerning the given book, the plain title Homogeneous Catalysis would 3.3), such as chiral commodities, diols, also have been sufficient to describe the products from CO,, methacrylates, and many more. The section in which a proce- content, but the more descriptive title ex- The Colours of Life. An introduction to dure or product is listed sometimes appears the Chemistry of Porphyrins and Re- presses the enthusiasm and high esteem of the authors for the achievements of both ap- somewhat arbitrary (e.g., enantioselective lated Compounds. By L. R. Milgrom, reactions are topics in both Sec. 3.2. and plied (industrial) and fundamental organo- Oxford University Press, Oxford 1997, metallic chemistry. As the editors state in Sec. 3.3). vi, 225 pp., softcover, E49.50, ISBN 0- the Preface, “homogeneous catalysis is the In the Epilogue the question “Homoge- 19-855380-3. neous Catalysis - Quo Vadis?’ is raised success story of organometallic chemistry”. In the preface the first words of the book The reputation of the editors has helped and “key problems of catalysis” that “war- are: “Why is grass green? Why not red or to gather a multinational team of more than rant intensive research” are addressed. any other color? Come to think of it, why is 90 contributors, half from academia and Among those emphasized are liquid/liquid blood red?. . .” Then the last paragraph in two-phase catalysis, colloidal catalysts, the the final chapter “Porphyrins for the future” half from industry, many of whom are prominent experts in their discipline. The functionalization of hydrocarbon feed- contains the words “ ...p orphyrins and re- stocks, and the further development of book is divided into four major parts, in ad- lated macrocyclic compounds are playing dition to the Preface, namely, 1. Introduc- mononuclear catalyst design. their part in these exciting developments. tion, 2. Applied Homogeneous Catalysis, The whole work is very instructive and it Truly, where there is life, there are por- was fun to review it. Despite the large num- phyrins.” 3. Recent Developments, and 4. Epilogue. Finally, a 45-page index is provided. In the ber of authors the layout of the chapters is Between these sentences a very absorb- uniform and appealing and the language is Preface of the first (Applications) volume ing, unconventional story mainly about generally concise. In both volumes I found porphyrins unfolds on 243 pages. Por- the editors outline the scope of the book and the targeted readership (see the last just a few typos [e.g., on page 1055, replace phyrins are not only in general the colors of Ni(CO), by Ni(C0,)). The drawings, all of life but also part of the life of the author, L. sentence of this review), while the Intro- duction provides an in-depth historical them supplied by the TUM staff, are superb R. Milgrom. Let us demonstrate this by (but on page 810 N/H separation is poor). considering the chapters in turn. overview. The Applied Catalysis section The great majority of the chapters appear to We start with Chapter 1, “What por- starts (Sec. 2.1) with an excellent state-of- phyrins are and what they do”. This chap- the-art discussion of hydroformulation, fol- be written with the utmost care and exper- tise. Nevertheless, in a few cases references ter, after outlining their history, introduces lowed by no less thorough accounts of have not been updated, or are mixed up or the structure and nomenclature of natural methanol and other carbonylation reac- 0 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69469 Weinheim, 1997 0935-9648/97/15 12-1191 $ 17.50+.50/0 1191 Adv. Mater. 1997, 9, No. 15

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