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  • Indole Alkaloids

    An Introduction to the Enamine Chemistry of Natural Products
    • 1st Edition
    • September 17, 2013
    • W. I. Taylor
    • Robert Robinson
    • English
    A Course in Organic Chemistry Advanced Section, Volume 27: Indole Alkaloids: An Introduction to the Enamine Chemistry of Natural Products describes the chemistry of selected alkaloids that contain indolic or closely related nuclei. Some five hundred of these compounds have been obtained from about three hundred plants mostly of the family Apocynaceae. This book is composed of 12 chapters that specifically cover the chemistry of the complex indoles. The introductory chapters deal with the origin, isolation, characterization, basic chemistry, and simple derivatives of indole alkaloids. The remaining chapters examine the biogenesis, basic chemistry, stereochemistry, and structure of selected complex alkaloids of various origins. These chapters include tetrahydro-?-carboli... strychnos, iboga, picralima, and eburnamine alkaloids, cinchonamine, quinamine, and ajmaline-sarpagine bases. This text is of great value to organic chemists and researchers.

  • Handbook of Magnesium-Organic Compounds

    Volume III
    • 1st Edition
    • September 17, 2013
    • S. T. Yoffe + 1 more
    • English
    Handbook of Magnesium-Organic Compounds, Volume III contains Russian indexes of end products of reactions, magnesium organic compounds, literature sources, and co-authors. This book will prove useful to Russian organic chemists and researchers.

  • TRAC: Trends in Analytical Chemistry

    Volume 4
    • 1st Edition
    • September 17, 2013
    • P. W. J. M. Boumans + 2 more
    • English
    Trends in Analytical Chemistry, Volume 4 focuses on the advancements of processes, technologies, operations, automation, and applications of analytical chemistry. The selection first offers information on bullet-proof input with an IBM-PC, including trends in pesticide residue analysis; environmental analysis using gas chromatography; and ion-induced spectroscopic methods for the analysis of surfaces, interfaces, and thin films. The text then elaborates on the PROLOG, an artificial intelligence language, and the consideration of FORTH as a good programming environment for laboratory automation. Discussions focus on computer aided optimization in high performance liquid chromatography; porphyrin analysis by reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography; and liquid chromatography with on-line electron-capture detection. The text elaborates on linear regression and simple statistics calculated with the spread sheet program, SUPERLAC. Discussions focus on lipid membrane technology for chemical and biosensor development; use of chemometrics in apportionment of air pollution sources; and analytical applications of direct chromatographic enantioseparation. The publication is a dependable reference for readers interested in the trends in analytical chemistry.

  • TRAC: Trends in Analytical Chemistry

    Volume 3
    • 1st Edition
    • September 17, 2013
    • Susan E. Lord
    • English
    Trends in Analytical Chemistry, Volume 3 focuses on developments in analytical chemistry, including the adoption of automation in laboratory processes, chromatography, and flow analysis. The selection first underscores the effect of automation on the operations of analytical laboratories and techniques for the automated optimization of HPLC separations. Topics include initial requirements, window diagrams, and chemometric approaches. The text then ponders on generation of statistical tables by microcomputer; enzyme electrodes for continuous in-vivo monitoring; and enantiomeric analysis of the common protein amino acids by liquid chromatography. The publication takes a look at sample preparation for the analysis of heavy metals in foods and application of ion-selective electrodes in flow analysis, including dry ashing, acid extraction, and ion-selective electrodes in flowing systems. The text then examines trends in laboratory information management systems; zone electrophoresis in open-tubular capillaries; and using computers to interpret IR spectra of complex molecules. The selection is a valuable source of data for readers interested in the developments in analytical chemistry.

  • Biochemical Aspects of Renal Function

    Proceedings of a Symposium Held in Honour of Professor Sir Hans A. Krebs FRS, Held at Merton College, Oxford, England, 16–19 September, 1979
    • 1st Edition
    • September 17, 2013
    • B. D. Ross + 1 more
    • English
    Biochemical Aspects of Renal Function is a collection of papers from the Fifth International Symposium on the Biochemical Aspects of Renal Function. The materials presented details the advancement in the understanding of various areas in the biochemistry of renal function. The title first covers the metabolic studies in kidney, and then proceeds to tackling intermediary metabolism and its regulation. Next, the selection discusses the biochemistry of filtration and reabsorption. The last chapter covers renal work and ATP. The book will be of great interest to students, researchers, and practitioners of medicine, biochemistry, and physiological sciences.

  • International Symposium on Marine Natural Products

    Plenary Lectures Presented at the International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, Aberdeen, Scotland, 8 - 11 September 1975
    • 1st Edition
    • September 17, 2013
    • R. H. Thomson
    • English
    International Symposium on Marine Natural Products presents the developments in the chemistry of soft corals. This book provides information on several relevant topics, including the chemistry of sponges, metabolites, biomimetic synthesis, and aplysiatoxins. Organized into five chapters, this compilation of papers begins with an overview of the biogenetical origin, distribution, and biological significance of Alcyonaceans. This text then examines the constituents and structural features of marine sponges. Other chapters consider the biosynthetic pathways to several halogenated marine natural products, which are based on bromonium ion. This book discusses as well the apparent isomerization of the aplysiatoxins during chromatography. The final chapter deals with the natural product research on marine organisms found in Australia. This book is a valuable resource for marine scientists, oceanographers, biologists, marine pharmacologists, chemists, and research workers.

  • Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

    Volume 14
    • 1st Edition
    • September 17, 2013
    • J. W. Emsley + 2 more
    • English
    Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Part 1 is a two-chapter text that reviews significant developments in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) applications. The first chapter discusses NMR studies of molecules physisorbed on homogeneous surfaces. This chapter also describes the phase changes in the adsorbed layer detected by following the variation in the NMR parameters. The second chapter examines the process to obtain a plotted, data reduced Fourier transform NMR spectrum. This chapter highlights the pitfalls that can cause a decrease in information content in a NMR spectrum. The various steps involved in taking a free induction decay from a NMR spectrometer are also summarized. This book is of value to NMR spectroscopists, analytical chemists, and instrumentation students.

  • Chelating Extractants

    Equilibrium Constant of Liquid–Liquid Distribution Reactions
    • 1st Edition
    • September 17, 2013
    • J. Stary + 1 more
    • English
    Equilibrium Constants of Liquid-Liquid Distribution Reactions, Part IV: Chelating Extractants is a compilation of liquid-liquid distribution equilibrium constants, with emphasis on extractants that form chelates. This tabulation includes all data published up to the end of 1972 for the major chelating extractants, and the given equilibrium parameters are supplemented by calculations (or recalculations) from experimental results. This monograph consists of 12 chapters and characterizes the homogeneous equilibria involving the acid dissociation of the extractant in the aqueous phase and adduct or mixed ligand complex formation in the organic phase. The information given for each system includes the chemical reactions, the equilibrium constant, the temperature, and the composition of the aqueous and organic phases. Compounds covered include dialkyldithiocarbami... acids (such as diethyldithiocarbami... acid and dibutyldithioarbamic acid), tropolones (beta-isopropyltropo... and gamma-isopropyltropo... N-acylhydroxylamines... N-nitroso-N-arylhydr... (cupferrons), alpha-dioximes, diarylthiocarbazones (dithizones), 8-hydroxyquinolines, 8-mercaptoquinolines... o-dimercaptobenzenes (toluene-3,4-dithiol... beta-diketones (such as acetylacetone and hexafluoroacetylacet... 4-acylpyrazol-5-ones... and o-nitrosophenols (1-nitroso-2-naphtho... and 2-nitroso-1-naphthol... This book will be of interest to chemists.

  • Anomalous Rare Earths and Actinides

    Valence Fluctuation and Heavy Fermions
    • 1st Edition
    • September 17, 2013
    • J.X. Boucherle + 2 more
    • English
    Anomalous Rare Earths and Actinides: Valence Fluctuation and Heavy Fermions focuses on the characteristics, reactions, transformations, technologies, and processes involved in the study of anomalous rare earths and actinides. The selection first offers information on lanthanides and actinides and electronic structures in cerium monopnictides. Topics include rare earth metals with fluctuating valencies, 'normal' rare earth metals, and band calculation and Fermi surface. The text then elaborates on neutron scattering studies of anomalous rare earth compounds, including magnetic neutron scattering measurements, stability and localization of magnetic moments, and condensed state. The manuscript examines the transport properties of cerium monochalcogenides and pressure-volume relationships of cerium monochalcogenides and monopnictides. The text also ponders on the theory of anisotropic magnetic behavior in hybridizing actinide systems; band hybridization effects on indirect magnetic coupling of localized moments; and neutron scattering from transuranium materials. The selection is a dependable reference for readers interested in the research on anomalous rare earths and actinides.

  • Applications of MO Theory in Organic Chemistry

    Progress in Theoretical Organic Chemistry
    • 1st Edition
    • September 17, 2013
    • I.G. Csizmadia
    • English
    Applications of MO Theory in Organic Chemistry is a documentation of the proceedings of the First Theoretical Organic Chemistry meeting. This text is divided into five sections. Section A contains contributions ranging from the stereochemistry of stable molecules, radicals, and molecular ions, through hydrogen bonding and ion solvation to mathematical analyses of energy hypersurfaces. Section B deals with theoretical studies of organic reactions, including basecatalyzed hydrolysis, protonation, epoxidation, and electrophilic addition to double and triple bonds. Section C consists of topics starting with a qualitative configuration interaction treatment of thermal and photochemical organic reactions, followed by ab initio treatments of photochemical intermediates and a consideration of the role of Rydberg and valence-shell states in photochemistry. Section D provides analyses of methods for the determination and characterization of localized MO and discussions of correlated electron pair functions. Section E covers a very wide range from the application of statistical physics to the treatment of molecular interactions with their environments to a challenge to theoretical organic chemists in the field of natural products, and an introduction to information theory in organic chemistry. This book is a good source of information for students and researchers conducting study on the many areas in theoretical organic chemistry.

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