The "Compendium of Organic Synthetic Methods" serves as a handy desktop reference for organic chemists to browse new reactions and transformations of interest, facilitating the search for functional group transformations in the original literature of organic chemistry. Volume 13 contains both functional group transformations and carbon-carbon bond forming reactions from the literature in the years 2005-8. It presents examples of published reactions for the preparation of monofunctional compounds.The Compendium of Organic Synthetic Methods series facilitates the search for quality, selected functional group transformations, organized by reacting functional group of starting material and functional group formed, with full references to each reactionPresents examples of published reactions for the preparation of monofunctional compounds from the literature of 2005-8Provides a handy reference and a valuable tool to the working organic chemist, allowing a quick check of known organic transformationsStringent criteria for inclusion of reactions, including real synthetic utility of reactions, reagents readily available or easily prepared and handled in the laboratory
Michael Bryant Smith earned a B.S. in Chemistry (1969) from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry (1977) from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
He was occupied as Visiting Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit van Leuven (Catholic University Louvain), Belgium (1986); Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut (1979-1987); Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut (1987-1994) and Professor at the University of Connecticut (1994-)