Organotin chemistry /

Davies offers a fairly comprehensive coverage of organotin chemistry. He concentrates on the organometallic aspects of organotin compounds rather than exhaustively investigating the applications that organotin compounds have had in organic synthesis; only typical examples are given, with no attempt to dwell on the resulting organic chemistry. The organotin compounds surveyed include preparation, variety of structure, and chemistry underlying their applications. This is a rapidly developing field whose compounds have been investigated by more physical methods and have had more applications than any other class of organometallic compound. The 19 chapters cover the literature through 1995 with some into 1996. The book is supplemented by a computer database (PC or Macintosh) on disk with more than 2,500 references; all are cross-referenced to relevant sections of the book. Graduate students through professional. J. Landesberg Adelphi University