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    • Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 70
      • June 20, 2017
      • English
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      Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms, Volume 70 is the latest volume in the Advances in Inorganic Chemistry series that presents timely summaries of current progress in inorganic chemistry, ranging from bio-inorganic to solid state studies. Topics covered in this updated volume include The Kinetics and Mechanism of Complex Redox Reactions in Aqueous Solution: The Tools of the Trade, O-O Bond Activation in Cu and Fe-Based Coordination Complexes: Breaking it Makes the Difference, µ-Nitrido Diiron Phthalocyanine and Porphyrin Complexes: Unusual Structures With Interesting Catalytic Properties, and The Role of Nonheme Transition Metal-Oxo, -Peroxo and -Superoxo Intermediates in Enzyme Catalysis and Reactions of Bioinspired Complexes. This acclaimed serial features reviews written by experts in the field, serving as an indispensable reference to advanced researchers. Each volume contains an index and chapters are fully referenced.

    • Methods in Chemical Process Safety

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 1
      • April 6, 2017
      • English
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      Methods in Chemical Process Safety, Volume One publishes fully commissioned reviews across the field of process safety, risk assessment, and management and loss prevention, with this volume focusing on the process of learning from experience, elements of process safety management, human factors in the chemical process industries, and the regulation of chemical process safety, including current approaches and their effectiveness. Users will find an informative tool and user manual for process safety for both engineering researchers and practitioners that details the latest methods in the field of chemical process safety.

    • Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 74
      • November 23, 2017
      • English
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      Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, Volume 74, presents a definitive interpretation of the current status and future trends in carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry. Since its inception in 1945, the series has provided critical and informative articles written by research specialists that integrate the industrial, analytical and technological aspects of biochemistry, organic chemistry and instrumentation methodology to the study of carbohydrates.

    • Advances in Applied Mechanics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 50
      • October 16, 2017
      • English
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      Advances in Applied Mechanics, Volume 50, draws together recent, significant advances in various topics in applied mechanics. Published since 1948, the book aims to provide authoritative review articles on topics in the mechanical sciences. While the book is ideal for scientists and engineers working in various branches of mechanics, it is also beneficial to professionals who use the results of investigations in mechanics in various applications, such as aerospace, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical and nuclear engineering.

    • Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 123
      • March 28, 2017
      • English
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      Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry, Volume 123 brings together the fields of biology and organic chemistry, highlighting the ways they increasingly intersect. This updated volume includes a section on new developments in tetrazole chemistry, a section on the synthesis and applications of thiophene derivatives as organic materials, and a synopsis of the properties and applications on heteroaromatic rings in medicinal chemistry. Written by established authorities from around the world, this comprehensive review combines descriptive synthetic chemistry and mechanistic insight to yield an understanding of how chemistry drives the preparation and useful properties of heterocyclic compounds. This definitive series in the field will be of great value to organic chemists, polymer chemists and many biological scientists.

    • Advances in Quantum Chemistry: Ratner Volume

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 75
      • May 25, 2017
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      Advances in Quantum Chemistry, Volume 75 presents work and reviews of current progress in computational quantum mechanics as presented by some of the world’s leading experts. This latest release includes chapters on Mean-Field Methods for Time-Dependent Quantum Dynamics of Many-Atom Systems, Electron–Ion Impact Energy Transfer in Nanoplasmas of Coulomb Exploding Clusters, Molecular Properties of Sandwiched Molecules Between Electrodes and Nanoparticles, Criterion for the Validity of D'Alembert's Equations of Motion, and A Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory Study of the Impact of Ligand Passivation on the Plasmonic Behavior of Ag Nanoclusters.

    • Advances in Organometallic Chemistry

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 68
      • October 24, 2017
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      Advances in Organometallic Chemistry, Volume 68 contains authoritative review articles of worldwide known researchers in the field of organometallic chemistry. This updated volume includes new chapters that cover Water Oxidation at Base Metal Molecular Catalysts, Functionalization Of White and Red Phosphorus in the Coordination Sphere of Transition Metal Complexes, Carbon Dioxide Transition Metal Complexes, Synthesis and Reaction Chemistry of Alkylidene Complexes with Group 4 and 5 Transition Metals: Effective Catalysts for Olefin Metathesis Polymerization and the Other Organic Transformations, and Recent Advances in Heteroatom Stabilized Carbones and Their Metal Complexes. This long-standing serial is known for its comprehensive coverage of topics in organometallic synthesis, reactions, mechanisms, homogeneous catalysis, and more. It is ideal for a wide range of researchers involved in organometallic chemistry, including synthetic protocols, mechanistic studies and practical applications.

    • Handbook of Magnetic Materials

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 26
      • November 13, 2017
      • Ekkes H. Brück
      • English
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      Handbook of Magnetic Materials, Volume 26, covers the expansion of magnetism over the last few decades and its applications in research, notably the magnetism of several classes of novel materials that share the presence of magnetic moments with truly ferromagnetic materials. The book is an ideal reference for scientists active in magnetism research, providing readers with novel trends and achievements in magnetism. Each article contains an extensive description given in graphical, as well as, tabular form, with much emphasis placed on the discussion of the experimental material within the framework of physics, chemistry and material science.

    • Disease Modelling and Public Health, Part B

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 37
      • October 31, 2017
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      Handbook of Statistics: Disease Modelling and Public Health, Part B, Volume 37 addresses new challenges in existing and emerging diseases. As a two part volume, this title covers an extensive range of techniques in the field, with this book including chapters on Reaction diffusion equations and their application on bacterial communication, Spike and slab methods in disease modeling, Mathematical modeling of mass screening and parameter estimation, Individual-based and agent-based models for infectious disease transmission and evolution: an overview, and a section on Visual Clustering of Static and Dynamic High Dimensional Data. This volume covers the lack of availability of complete data relating to disease symptoms and disease epidemiology, one of the biggest challenges facing vaccine developers, public health planners, epidemiologists and health sector researchers.

    • Recent Advances in the Analysis of Marine Toxins

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 78
      • September 18, 2017
      • English
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      Recent Advances in the Analysis of Marine Toxins, Volume 78, the newest release in the Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry series, presents chapters from the best authors in the field, making it an essential resource. Updated sections in this new volume include topics such as The importance of toxin detection and quantification: environmental issues, public health, food safety, animal health, bioterrorism, bioactive compounds, medical approach, an LC-MS/MS analysis of marine toxins, Animal bioassays: identification of toxins and mechanism of action, Receptor binding assays for the analysis of marine toxins, Immunoassays and optical biosensors (visual, SPR, fluorescence) for marine toxins, and Electrochemical biosensors for marine toxins. Chapters in this ongoing series contain practical and useful information, describing real advantages and limitations. Experts in this field contribute based on their research and personal point-of-view.

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