Heterolytic Fragmentation of Organic Molecules

An examination of heterolytic fragmentation reactions aid in understanding stereoelectronic effects in organic chemistry. Considering their importance and the implications in future synthetic discoveries, this monograph is devoted to categorizing the many fragmentation possibilities according to the nature and distribution of polar functionalities in molecules or reactive intermediates. Demonstrates, by examples, how a molecule which is undisposed to fragment may be activated to do so.