S. Patai’s scientific contributions

The first supplementary volume in The Chemistry of Functional Groups series was published in 1976. This included thirteen chapters in the form of essay-reviews complementing the original main volumes in the series on C=C, C=O, C=N and N=N double bonds. As then, in the present second Supplement A2, several of the authors were asked to write 'integrative' chapters, i.e. chapters which give a unified and comparative treatment of several double-bonded functional groups together. It is a great satisfaction to the Editor, that this aim has been achieved and indeed more than half of the chapters in the book are such 'integrative' ones, concentrated in the first part of the volume.