[...]... toxic chemicals World Intellectual Property Organization xxxi c00.qxd 29.5.04 10:41 Page 1 CHAPTER 0 HOW TO USE INDUSTRIAL ORGANIC CHEMICALS, SECOND EDITION Industrial Organic Chemicals, published in 1996, was an updated, expanded, and completely rewritten version of volume I of a two-volume set, Industrial Organic Chemicals in Perspective, published in 1980 Volume I of the set described where industrial. .. exciting new technology Instead they had become an accepted and routine part of modern life Industrial Organic Chemicals, Second Edition, by Harold A Wittcoff, Bryan G Reuben, and Jeffrey S Plotkin ISBN 0-471-44385-9 Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Inc 1 c00.qxd 29.5.04 2 10:41 Page 2 HOW TO USE INDUSTRIAL ORGANIC CHEMICALS By the 1970s, growth was leveling off The first and second oil shocks increased... Division, London, 1998 A L Waddams, Chemicals from Petroleum, 4th ed., John Murray, London, 1978, was a pioneering account of petrochemicals and provides an insight into the relationship of the refinery to the chemical industry Among the important books dealing specifically with the organic chemicals industry is P Wiseman, An Introduction to Industrial Organic Chemistry, 2nd ed., Halsted Press, New York,... time of publication of all the chemicals it mentions and illustrates vividly the adding of value as chemicals further and further downstream of the oil refinery are produced P J Chenier, Survey of Industrial Chemistry, 3rd ed., Kluwer Academic-Plenum, New York, 2002, contains well-written thumbnail sketches of about a hundred industrial organic chemicals plus a few inorganics It describes some economic... Reuben, Industrial Organic Chemicals in Perspective, Part I: Raw Materials and Manufacture, and Part II: Technology, Formulation and Use, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1980 Part I concentrated on the production of organic chemicals from seven major building blocks, while Part II dealt with the downstream sectors of the chemical industry, detailing the chemistry that was involved in the use of chemicals. .. college students who have studied organic chemistry and to graduates and industrial chemists who work in or are interested in the chemical industry Even though much of the chemistry has remained the same, the change in the way the industry looks at its problems provides ample justification for our offering this edition as a fresh perspective on industrial organic chemicals flast.qxd 29.5.04 11:13... lacks an international dimension Handbook of Chemicals Production Processes, R A Meyers, Ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1986, describes lucidly 40 industrial processes, divided between organics, inorganics, and polymers S Matar and L F Hatch, Chemistry of Petrochemical Processes, 2nd ed., Gulf Professional Publishing, Boston, 2001 is a competent exposition of petrochemicals, weak on social and economic implications... opportunities and resources ” Industrial Chemistry, vol 1, E Stocchi, Ellis Horwood, London, 1990, appeared to be the start of a series but was largely devoted to inorganic chemicals and no further volumes have yet appeared The Industrial Chemistry Library is a somewhat off-beat series, publishing books on topics generally neglected For example, G Agam, Industrial Chemicals, their Characteristics... McGraw-Hill in 1989 Two newer ventures are R D Ashford, Dictionary of Industrial Chemical Properties, Production and Uses, 2nd ed., Wavelength, London, 2002, and A Comyns, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Named Processes in Chemical Technology, CRC Press, Cleveland OH, 1999 c00.qxd 29.5.04 6 10:41 Page 6 HOW TO USE INDUSTRIAL ORGANIC CHEMICALS Some consulting companies publish reports on a continuing basis... coatings, adhesives, surface active agents, pharmaceuticals, solvents, lubricating oils, plasticizers, agrochemicals, food chemicals, and dyes and pigments Both volumes were reprinted by Krieger, FL, in 1990 The 1980s and early 1990s saw some new editions but relatively few new books on industrial organic chemistry W S Emerson, Guide to the Chemical Industry: R&D, Marketing and Employment, Wiley-Interscience, .