Houben-Weyl Methods of Organic Chemistry

Houben -Weyl is the abbreviation for the manual " methods of organic chemistry," a standard work in the chemical literature.

The Theodor Weyl (1851-1913) founded and Josef Houben (1875-1940) and Karl Heinz Büchel ( born in 1931 ) continuing operations manual tries to comprehensively collect the methods and rules for the preparation and derivatization of organic compounds.

The fourth and last German edition appeared in 1952 when Thieme Verlag and was completed in 1987. Since 1982 supplement volumes, which were completed in 1999 appear. Since 2001, an English 5th edition appears.

The 4th edition consists of 16 volumes, each consisting of several sub- volumes. In total, there are 70 individual volumes. The supplementary volumes were partially published in a different thematic division as the main work, and topics not treated it previously picked up.

The first four volumes of the 4th Edition treat general laboratory practices, the volumes five to 15 specific groups of substances, Volume 16 is an index volume. By 2003, appeared in the printed 4th edition 162 volumes.

Since September 2010, parts of the work are available online, it took off with a selection of about 14,000 responses.

The work will be continued as electronic Science of Synthesis from 2000.

Expenditure

• Theodor Weyl ( Lim. ), Josef Houben (ed.), Karl H. Büchel ( ed.): Methods of Organic Chemistry. Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-13-140084-6.