This book, for young readers ages 10 and up, is filled with detailed information about the fascinating world of plant ecology. Discusses how plants have adapted to survive the challenges of various habitats. This is a black-and-white edition.

Neighboring group participation is a term which encompasses all intra- molecular reactions and all reactions which involve nonelectrostatic through-space interactions between groups within the same molecule. The term was invented in 1942 by Saul Winstein, whose many contributions to the growth and maturing of the subject are unequaled. Although the inventor of the term, Winstein was not the first worker to study neighboring group participation. An examination of Beilstein will show that many intramolecular reactions were known to the synthetic organic chemist weIl before the turn ofthe...