Chemists today are under the gun to find solutions to a host of tough new challenges, including diminishing oil reserves, an array of environmental hazards, and ever more stringent government regulations. Now this book helps meet these challenges by bringing together, for the first time in one volume, all major aspects of contemporary hydrocarbon chemistry. Hydrocarbon Chemistry functions equally well as a working professional reference and an advanced-level student text. Each of its twelve chapters treats a specific type of hydrocarbon transformation and reviews, in depth, all related basic chemistry—including reactivity, selectivity, stereochemistry, and numerous mechanistic aspects—as well as a wide range of practical applications.

Offers comprehensive coverage of the chemistry of alkanes, cycloalkanes, alkenes and dienes, acetylenes, and aromatics

• Includes developments in the field through early 1994
• Treats all important aspects of the chemistry involved in hydrocarbon transformations
• Emphasizes the chemistry of processes used in the petrochemical industry, including cracking, reforming, isomerization, and alkylation
• Reviews, in detail, derivation reactions to form carbon heteroatom bonds as well as both traditional and recent hydrocarbon oxidation techniques
• Numerous formulas and flowsheets help illuminate all important concepts and practical processes discussed

Destined to be the definitive work on the subject well into the twenty-first century, Hydrocarbon Chemistry is an indispensable resource for chemical and petroleum engineers; industrial researchers in organic, physical organic, and inorganic chemistry; and students of those and other related disciplines.