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1、3003TBrucknerFM5/23/0111:51AMPagexvForewordWeareatthestartofarevolutioninmolecularsciencethatwillmoreprofoundlychangeourlives,ourculture,indeed,ourworldthandidtheIndustrialRevolutionacenturyago.Fromthehumangenomeproject,thelargestnaturalproductcharacteri-zationeffo
2、rtever,tothesearchforthemolecularsignaturesoflifeonotherplanets,thismolecularrevolutioniscreatinganever-expandingviewofourselvesandouruni-verse.Atthecoreofthisrevolutionischemistry,thequintessentialmolecularsciencewithinwhichisorganicchemistry,adisciplinethatwillsu
3、relybethesourceofmanyofthemajoradvancesinchemistry,biology,medicine,materialsscience,andenviron-mentalscienceinthe21stcentury.Inhistextonorganicchemistry,thetranslationofwhichhasbeenimpressivelyledbyProfessorsHarmataandGlaser,ProfessorBrucknerhasmasterfullyaddresse
4、dthecoreconceptsofthediscipline,providingarichtapestryofinformationandinsight.Thestudentofcontemporaryorganicchemistrywillbewell-servedbythedepthandqualityofthistreatment.Theunderlyingphilosophyofthistextisthatmuchofchem-istrycanbeunderstoodintermsofstructure,which
5、inturninfluencesreactivity,ulti-matelydefiningthehigherorderactivitiesofsynthesis.Whetheroneseekstounder-standnatureortocreatethenewmaterialsandmedicinesofthefuture,akeystartingpointisthusunderstandingstructureandmechanism.ProfessorBruckneraddressestheinterrelation
6、shipofstructureandmechanismwiththerichinsightofoneschooledattheinterfaceofphysicalorganicchemistryandsyn-thesis.Histreatmentisimpressivelyrigorous,integrated,andbroad.Heachievesbreadththroughthecarefulselectionofrepresentativeandfundamentalreactiveintermediatesandr
7、eactions.Rigorandintegrationderivefromhisdisciplinedadherencetostructure,orbitaltheory,andmechanism.Theresultisapowerfullycoherenttreatmentthaten-ablesthestudenttoaddresstherichsubjectmatterathandandimportantlybyanalogythefar-rangingaspectsofthefieldthatliebeyondth
8、escopeofthebook.Extendingfromhistreatmentofradicals,nucleophiles,carbeniumions,andorganometallicagentstocon-certedreactionsandredoxchemistry,Bruc
