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This pioneering text is the first to point out the emerging significance of higher-valent carbon compounds. Describes the compounds of carbon with coordination numbers greater than four. Explores the delocalized bonds of pi[l.c. Greek letter] aromatic molecules as a basis for rational description of orbitals; localized multicentered orbitals; the interactions of metallic ions with other atoms and molecules; the skeletal electron counts as a guide for synthesis; and the isolobal concept. Illustrates the way in which these subjects bring together structure and reactivity in the great diversity of novel carbon chemistry and its relationship to that of boron, lithium, hydrogen, the metals, and others.

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The conceptual strength provided by the language of chemistry has powered the science through more than two centuries of astonishing growth. One of the linchpins of the lingua franca is the tetravalency of carbon. Few ideas have been more fruitful. But bonding models in general are at best only close approximations and not the real thing. So localized electron-pairs in carbon-carbon sigma bonds needed to be delocalized, and then spread across multiple centers: hence the name "hypercarbon chemistry," and the world of Nobel laureate Olah (Univ. of Southern California). Olah's body of work includes this still flourishing field, brought to focus for an ever-widening audience through a classic first edition (1987) that has now been modestly upgraded and updated in a crisp 400-page revision with 1,830 supporting references, current through 2009. Chapters include "Carbon-Bridged (Associated) Metal Alkyls," "Carboranes and Metallacarboranes," "Mixed Metal-Carbon Clusters and Metal Carbides," "Hypercoordinate Carbocations and their Borane Analogs," and "Reactions Involving Hypercarbon Intermediates." The work includes an introductory tip of the hat to basic principles and the three-center bond concept, and an "outlook" posted to the reader at the end. As a monograph, the work will serve faculty and is appropriate for students in advanced courses. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. L. W. Fine Columbia University

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George Andrew Olah was born in Budapest, Hungary on May 22, 1927. After World War II, he received master's and doctoral degrees from the Technical University of Budapest. He and his family fled Hungary after the 1956 uprising, eventually settling in Canada. His worked at a Dow Chemical Company research laboratory and discovered superacids. In 1965, he left Dow to return to academia as a chemistry professor at Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He moved to the University of Southern California in 1977 and founded the Hydrocarbon Research Institute there.

His advances in the understanding of hydrocarbons have been used in an array of applications including the development of gasoline that burns more cleanly and the discovery of new drugs. He wrote nearly 1,500 scientific papers and held 160 patents in seven countries. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994 for his study of the chemical reactions of carbon compounds. He also wrote an autobiography entitled A Life of Magic Chemistry. He died on March 8, 2017 at the age of 89.

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