Arthur J. Birch : To See the Obvious Book

List of Photographs Preface Editor's Note
Prolog
Why Me?
How Science Works Gaps in the Record Personalities
Prelude, and Evolution of a Chemist
Family Background: My Father Primary School High School Motivations Why Chemistry
University Influences: Sydney, Oxford, and Cambridge
Sydney, 1933-1938
An Australian in Oxford Cambridge University, 1949-1952
Being a Professor
University of Sydney, 1952-1955
University of Manchester (1956-1967)
Research Set 1
Research Sets Natural Products: Chemistry and Structure Determination Some Specific Structures Some Unusual Reactions Interpreted Structurally Early Physical Methods
Behind Every Successful Man...
Lily Bailey and Jessie Williams Secretaries and Their Ilk Ackowledging Other Contributions
Research Set 2
Total Synthesis: Novel Methods and Reaction Mechanisms; the Birch Reduction Becomes the Birth Reduction German Fighter Pilots and Cortical Hormones Polyphosphoric Acid: Cyclizations of Acids into Aryl Ketones Introduction of Angular Methyl Methylene Addition: Regio- and Stereospecificity Dependent on an Unactivated Olefinic Bond Metal-Ammonia Reductions: 19-Norsteroid Hormones The Synthetic Importance of Mechanistic Studies Further Synthetic Uses of Substituted Dihydrobenzenes: Some Overall Philosophies of Synthesis Experimental Use of Diel's Reactions Other Reduction Fields Developing Activities Related to My Office Situations
Become a Professor and See the World
Research Set 3
Biosynthesis; Biosynthetic Structure Determination; Iterations of Biosynthetic Pathways Applications of My Sydney Situation Historical Background The Role of Faith Testing My Hypotheses under Difficulties Missing Oxygens: What Mechanism?
Terpenoid Biosynthesis Some Other Hypotheses Novel Types of Structure: Brevianamides What are Biosynthetic Intermediates and What Can Be Accomplished by Feeding Them to Organisms?
Altered Antibiotics by Partial Biosynthesis: Mutasynthesis Chemical Phylogeny
Political and Other Activities
A Scientist in Blunderland Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University (1967-1980): A Unique Opportunity Research, 1965-1974
Research Set 4
Lateral Control of Synthesis: Transition Metal Complexes Organometallic Preparations Some Synthetic Applications: Shikimic Acid and Gabaculine
Random Conversations with the Editor
History and the Future Robert B. Woodward Gilbert Stork Franz Sondheimer France India United States The Soviet Union and Other Socialist Countries Switzerland Australia Stories about Tetrahedron
Beauty in Science
(ENVOI) or "On Y'r Way, Maite" (in Colloquial Australian)
Further Acknowledgments References Index