M. Volkan Kisakürek (Ed.)

Organic Chemistry: Its Language and Its State of the Art

Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta, Basel

VCH Weinheim • New York • Basel Cambridge • Tokyo CONTENTS

Organic Nomenclature: 1 The Geneva Conference 1892 and the Following Fifty Years James G. Traynham Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-1804, USA

Forty Years of Ferrocene 9 Jack D. Dunitz Organic Chemistry Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH-Zentrum, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Synthesis of New Heterocyclic Systems by Photochemical Reactions of Chromium 25 Carbene Complexes with Imidazolines Claudia Betschart and Louis S. Hegedus* Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA

Organic Nomenclature: 35 The Geneva Conference and the Second Fifty Years: Some Personal Observations Kurt L. Loening Topterm, North American Division, P.O. Box 21213, Columbus, Ohio 43221, USA

My 'Nomenclature Years' 47 Vladimir Prelog Organic Chemistry Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH-Zentrum, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Chemistry Journals and Nomenclature, 1892-1930 55 M. Volkan Kisakürek Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Zürich-Irchel, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland

The Concepts and Language of Supramolecular Chemistry 77 Jean-Marie Lehn College de France, 11, place Marcelin Berthelot, F-75OO5 Paris Institut Le Bei, Universite Louis Pasteur, 4, rue Blaise Pascal, F-67000 Strasbourg, France The Importance of Language in the Teaching of Organic Chemistry 91 Marjorie C. Caserio University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0001, USA

Synthetic Progress toward Powerfully Cytotoxic Taxol and Related Taxane 103 Diterpenes Leo A. Paquette Evans Chemical Laboratories, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA

Chemical Nomenclature in the Government Laboratory 117 Edward W. Godly Former Head, Chemical Nomenclature Advisory Service, Laboratory of the Government Chemist, London, UK

Organic Chemistry in Lithium Perchlorate/Diethyl Ether 133 Paul A. Grieco Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA

Recent Progress in Asymmetrie Synthesis 147 Wolfgang Oppolzer Departement de Chimie Organique, Universite de Geneve, CH-1211 Geneve 4, Switzerland

Tomorrow's Organic Nomenclature 161 Jack H. Stocker Department of Chemistry, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana 70148, USA

The History of Chemical Substance Nomenclature at Chemical Abstracts 173 Service (CAS) Patton M. Giles, Jr.* and W. V. Metanomski Chemical Abstracts Service, P.O. Box 3012, Columbus, Ohio 43210-0012, USA