Professor Zvi Rappoport, Department of Organic Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.

"... this high-quality book is an indispensable reference book that should find its place in every good scientific library." (SYNTHESIS, December 2007)"... this volume is an extremely useful background/overview resource that should be part of the collection of any comprehensive chemistry library." (Journal of the American Chemical Society, January 17, 2007)

• 1 General and theoretical aspects of the peroxide group 1Robert D. Bach2 The structural chemistry of acyclic organic peroxides 93Jens Hartung and Ingrid Svoboda3 Thermochemistry of peroxides 145Suzanne W. Slayden and Joel F. Liebman4 17O NMR spectroscopy of organic compounds containing the O-O group 171Giovanni Cerioni and Francesca Mocci5 Synthesis of cyclic peroxides 189Edward E. Korshin and Mario D. Bachi6 Synthetic uses of peroxides 307Albrecht Berkessel and Nadine Vogl7 Analytical and safety aspects of organic peroxides and related functional groups 597Jacob Zabicky8 Silicon and germanium peroxides 775Wataru Ando9 Selective formation of allylic hydroperoxides via singlet oxygen ene reaction 831Michael Orfanopoulos, Georgios C. Vougioukalakis and Manolis Stratakis10 Polar effects in decomposition of peroxidic compounds and related reactions 899Sung Soo Kim11 Peroxides in biological systems 915Jean Cadet and Paolo Di Mascio12 Sulfur and phosphorus peroxides 1001Vidyadhar Jadhav, Min Young Park and Yong Hae Kim13 Transition metal peroxides. Synthesis and role in oxidation reactions 1053Valeria Conte and Olga Bortolini14 Contemporary dioxirane chemistry: Epoxidations, heteroatom oxidations and CH insertions 1129Waldemar Adam and Cong-Gui Zhao15 Contemporary trends in dioxetane chemistry 1171Waldemar Adam and Alexei V. Trofimov16 Chemiluminescence of organic peroxides 1211Wilhelm J. Baader, C. V. Stevani and Erick L. Bastos17 Biomimetic Fe(II) chemistry and synthetic studies on antimalarial and antitumour endoperoxides 1279Paul M. O'Neill, James Chadwick and Sarah L. RaweAuthor index 1347Subject index 1439