The first text to organize industrial organic chemistry as a discipline, bridging the gap between academic organic chemistry and real life. Part 1 shows the place of the chemical industry in a modern economy, describing how industrial chemists make a host of organic chemicals from a small number of feedstocks-petroleum, natural gas, and a few agricultural products. Reviews the chemistry of polymer manufacture, and outlines the new organic chemistry based on exotic catalysts. Ends with an examination of the future of the chemical industry.
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