The Organic Chemistry of Isotopic Labelling: RscHardcover, 24 January 2011

The chemical synthesis of isotopically labelled compounds is a pre-requisite for many chemical, biochemical and medicinal investigations. The constraints imposed by the requirements for regiospecific labelling and the time-scale of the synthesis can lead to different synthetic strategies to those used for the unlabelled material. This is the first short introductory organic chemistry book covering the range of commonly used isotopes. The aim of the book is to introduce research workers to a variety of methods that have been used to achieve these synthetic labelling objectives. Labelling methods can also provide useful undergraduate teaching examples of modern synthetic reactions and their stereochemical consequences using relatively simple substrates.