"Essential for chemistry collections at the university and research levels." --The New York Public Library
"Highly recommended...lots of succinct, practical information on recent developments...in a format that is easy to use. The reagents are taken up in alphabetical order (common usage names, not CAS indexing code names), sometimes several to a page, sometimes several pages to a reagent. One can expect to find how to make the reagent (in loose terms), or where it can be bought, what it is good for, and where to seek complete details. As with previous volumes, one can profit from just browsing, even if one does not feel a need to look up any particular subject. It is thus a secondary function of the book to help one keep abreast of the field, and it would be a rare chemist who would not learn something new and useful from a casual perusal of the pages." --Journal of the American Chemical Society
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-)