Features of the Third Edition:
- Focuses on a relatively small number of commonly used protecting groups
- Places emphasis on deprotection conditions
- Uses schemes extensively
- Has been reorganised and thoroughly revised and updated
- Two new chapters on thiol and phosphate protecting groups have been added
- The number of schemes has increased from 500 to 1200
Colour has been introduced as an aid to visual retrieval
- The number of references has increased from 1200 to 2270 with emphasis given to literature covering the period 1990-2001
