TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wittcoff, H. A.
AU  - Reuben, B. G.
AU  - Plotkin, J. S.
TI  - Industrial organic chemicals
SN  - 9780471443858
AV  - DUCE TP247.W59 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New Jersey
PB  - John Wiley & sons
KW  - Science
KW  - Organic compounds- industrial applications
N1  - Includes appendixes, indexes and references
N2  - Broadly describes the essential topics of the organic chemicals industry
In the past two decades, the organic chemicals industry has undergone unprecedented restructuring, complicated feedstock problems, and massive shifts of capacity to developing countries. In the developed world, specialty chemicals have gained increasing significance. Although the fundamentals of organic chemical and polymer production have remained largely constant, one needs to be aware of the economic, structural, and political changes in the industry in order to understand its current state.
This much-expanded Second Edition of Industrial Organic Chemicals presents the various technologies and processes involved in the organic chemicals industry as an organized body of knowledge. It describes the chemistry of the seven basic building block chemicals and their derivatives, how they are manufactured, their e
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