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Chemistry topic areas include: physical and theoretical, computational, organic, organometallic and inorganic, pharmaceutical and medicinal, analytical and bioanalytical, nuclear, general, nanochemistry, geochemistry, materials and polymer, as well as environmental, green and sustainable chemistry.

  • Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 50
    • English

  • Advances in Organometallic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 31
    • English

  • The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Pharmacology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 39
    • English

  • Radical, Single Electron Transfer, and Concerted Reactions

    A Research Annual
    • 1st Edition
    • James M. Coxon
    • English
    Advances in Detailed Reaction Mechanisms, Volume 1: Radical, Single Electron Transfer, and Concerted Reactions presents the unique properties of reactions. This book discusses the approaches to synthetic strategies, including nucleophilic substitution and the study of the radicals of the amino acids. Organized into four chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the complications that can arise in mechanistic probe investigations. This text then examines the development of free radicals that reflects several factors, including the recognition that their unique characteristics may be harnessed in simple approaches to synthetic strategies. Other chapters consider the variety and types of reaction that free radicals can undergo. This book discusses as well the factors that affect the formation and reaction of α-carbon-centered radicals derived from amino acids and their derivatives. The final chapter deals with deuterium isotope effects as well as fluorine substituent effects. This book is a valuable resource for physical organic chemists.

  • Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 48
    • English
    Intended for researchers in biochemistry, medicine, nutrition and industry, this book discusses such topics as components of bacterial polysaccharides, fluorinated carbohydrates, and carbon sugars chemistry.

  • Scientific Computing and Automation (Europe) 1990

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 6
    • E.J. Karjalainen
    • English
    This book comprises a large selection of papers presented at the second European Scientific Computing and Automation meeting (SCA 90 (Europe)) which was held in June 1990 in Maastricht, The Netherlands. The increasing use of computers for making measurements, interpreting data, and filing results brings a new unity to science. SCA concentrates on common computer-based tools which are useful in several disciplines. Practical problems in laboratory automation, robotics and information management with LIMS are covered in depth. The process of designing and acquiring a LIMS is described and standards for data transfer between instruments, between LIMS and instruments and between different LIMS are discussed. The applications of statistics and expert systems are covered in several chapters. Strategies for drug design are discussed with various practical examples. Finally the display of scientific results as images and computer-based animations is demonstrated by several examples with their color illustrations. The book should be of interest to those managing R&D projects, doing research in laboratories, acquiring or planning LIMS, designing instruments and laboratory automation systems and those involved in data analysis of scientific results.

  • Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 49
    • English

  • Advances in Quantum Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 21
    • English

  • Chemometrics Tutorials

    Collected from Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems - An International Journal, Volumes 1-5
    • 1st Edition
    • R.G. Brereton + 5 more
    • English
    The journal Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems has a specific policy of publishing tutorial papers, (i.e. articles aiming to discuss and illustrate the application of chemometric and other techniques) solicited from leading experts in the varied disciplines relating to this subject. This book comprises reprints of tutorials from the first 5 volumes of this journal, covering the period from late 1986 to mid 1989. The authors of the papers include analytical, organic and environmental chemists, statisticians, pharmacologists, geologists, geochemists, computer scientists and biologists, which reflects the strong interdisciplinary communication. The papers have been reorganized into major themes, covering most of the main areas of chemometrics. This book is intended both as a personal reference text and as a useful background for courses in chemometrics and laboratory computing.

  • Cycloaddition Reactions in Organic Synthesis

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 8
    • W. Carruthers
    • English
    Demonstrates the wide scope of cycloaddition reactions, including the Diels-Alder reaction, the ene reaction, 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions and [2+2] cycloadditions in organic synthesis. The author, a leading exponent of the subject, illustrates the ways in which they can be employed in the synthesis of a wide range of carbocyclic and heterocyclic compounds, including a variety of natural products of various types. Special attention is given to intramolecular reactions, which often provide a rapid and efficient route to polycyclic compounds, and to the stereochemistry of the reactions, including recent and developing work on enantioselective synthesis.

  • Advances in Inorganic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 35
    • English

  • Introduction to Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy

    • 3rd Edition
    • Norman B. Colthup + 2 more
    • English
    Now in its third edition, this classic text covers many aspects of infrared and Raman spectroscopy that are critical to the chemist doing structural or compositional analysis. This work includes practical and theoretical approaches to spectral interpretation as well as a discussion of experimental techniques. Emphasis is given to group frequencies, which are studied in detailed discussions, extensive tables, and over 600 carefully chosen and interpreted spectral examples. Also featured is a unique treatment of group frequencies that stresses their mechanical origin. This qualitative approach to vibrational analysis helps to simplify spectral interpretation.Addit... topics include basic instrumental components and sampling techniques, quantitative analysis, Raman polarization data, infrared gas contours, and polarized IR studies, among others.

  • Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 48
    • English

  • The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Pharmacology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 38
    • English

  • Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 47
    • English

  • Advances in Chemical Engineering

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 15
    • English

  • Advances in Organometallic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 30
    • English

  • Modified Nucleosides in Cancer and Normal Metabolism - Methods and Applications

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 45C
    • English

  • Sol-Gel Science

    The Physics and Chemistry of Sol-Gel Processing
    • 1st Edition
    • C. Jeffrey Brinker + 1 more
    • English
    Sol-Gel Science: The Physics and Chemistry of Sol-Gel Processing presents the physical and chemical principles of the sol-gel process. The book emphasizes the science behind sol-gel processing with a chapter devoted to applications. The first chapter introduces basic terminology, provides a brief historical sketch, and identifies some excellent texts for background reading. Chapters 2 and 3 discuss the mechanisms of hydrolysis and condensation for nonsilicate and silicate systems. Chapter 4 deals with stabilization and gelation of sols. Chapter 5 reviews theories of gelation and examines the predicted and observed changes in the properties of a sol in the vicinity of the gel point. Chapter 6 describes the changes in structure and properties that occur during aging of a gel in its pore liquor (or some other liquid). The discussion of drying is divided into two parts, with the theory concentrated in Chapter 7 and the phenomenology in Chapter 8. The structure of dried gels is explored in Chapter 9. Chapter 10 shows the possibility of using the gel as a substrate for chemical reactions or of modifying the bulk composition of the resulting ceramic by performing a surface reaction (such as nitridation) on the gel. Chapter 11 reviews the theory and practice of sintering, describing the mechanisms that govern densification of amorphous and crystalline materials, and showing the advantages of avoiding crystallization before sintering is complete. The properties of gel-derived and conventional ceramics are discussed in Chapter 12. The preparation of films is such an important aspect of sol-gel technology that the fundamentals of film formation are treated at length in Chapter 13. Films and other applications are briefly reviewed in Chapter 14. Materials scientists and researchers in the field of sol-gel processing will find the book invaluable.

  • The Alkaloids: Antitumor Bisindole Alkaloids from Catharanthus roseus (L.)

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 37
    • Arnold Brossi + 1 more
    • English

  • Immobilized pH Gradients: Theory and Methodology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 20
    • Pier Giorgio Righetti
    • English
    Immobilized pH gradients (IPG) represent the most advanced development of isoelectric focusing (IEF). Originally developed to overcome all the problems of IEF in soluble amphoteric buffers (CA) (such as pH gradient instability, complexation with CA chemicals, unreproducibility of pH gradients, protein precipitation at the pI), it turned out to be an entirely new technique, quite different in principle and operation from conventional IEF. The book is thus meant to bring the reader up to date with this fast developing field. The book is divided into six chapters containing information on: detailed treatment of all the chemistry of the Immobiline chemicals; theory of pH gradient generation (computer simulations, tables with all the possible pH recipes); all analytical aspects of IPGs, including staining techniques, blotting etc.; two-dimensional maps, with a detailed treatise of advantages and limitations; preparative aspects of IPGs, including comparison with other preparative electrophoretic techniques; some examples of applications, including genetic and forensic analysis, blood polymorphism etc.The book is extensive and up-to-date, while also extensively covering the theory. Clearly written, with easily accessible information, the volume is a worthy asset to the Lab. Techniques series.

  • PCs for Chemists

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 5
    • J. Zupan
    • English
    The book first introduces the reader to the fundamentals of experimental design. Systems theory, response surface concepts, and basic statistics serve as a basis for the further development of matrix least squares and hypothesis testing. The effects of different experimental designs and different models on the variance-covariance matrix and on the analysis of variance (ANOVA) are extensively discussed. Applications and advanced topics (such as confidence bands, rotatability, and confounding) complete the text. Numerous worked examples are presented. The clear and practical approach adopted by the authors makes the book applicable to a wide audience. It will appeal particularly to those with a practical need (scientists, engineers, managers, research workers) who have completed their formal education but who still need to know efficient ways of carrying out experiments. It will also be an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students following courses in chemometrics, data acquisition and treatment, and design of experiments.

  • Advances in Food and Nutrition Research

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 33
    • English

  • Profiles of Drug Substances, Excipients and Related Methodology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 18
    • English

  • Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 22
    • English

  • Advances in Inorganic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 34
    • English

  • Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 47
    • English

  • The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Pharmacology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 36
    • English

  • Analytical Methods for Major and Modified Nucleosides - HPLC, GC, MS, NMR, UV and FT-IR

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 45A
    • English

  • Biological Roles and Function of Modification

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 45B
    • English

  • Optical Techniques to Characterize Polymer Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • H. Bässler
    • English
    To optimize the properties of polymers or to design new polymeric materials for special applications, one has to understand how their properties depend on chemical and physical structure. This, in turn, requires methods for material characterization operating on a microscopic level such as optical techniques. Over the past decades major progress has been made in exploiting the analytical power offered by spectroscopic methods if combined with modern light source and detection technology.This multi-author book has been written in order to acquaint a broader audience with these recent achievements. Its individual chapters have been arranged in three groups featuring absorption, luminescence and diffraction techniques including non-linear optics for probing the physical structure of polymers, as well as their dynamic behavior in the presence and absence of electronic excitation. Emphasis has been placed on recent developments in the spectroscopy of solid polymers.

  • Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 46
    • English

  • Selective Sample Handling and Detection in High-Performance Liquid Chromatography

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume B
    • K. Zech + 1 more
    • English
    This is the second of a two-volume project which treats the handling, separation and detection of complex samples as an integrated, interconnected process. On the basis of this philosophy the editors have selected those contributions which demonstrate that optimal sample preparation leads to a simplification of detection or reduced demands on the separation process. Throughout the book emphasis is on chemical principles with minimum discussion of the equipment required - an approach which reflects the editors' view that the limiting factor in the analysis of complex samples is an incomplete knowledge of the underlying chemistry rather than the hardware available. This lack of knowledge becomes more evident as the demands for lower detection limits grow, as solving complex matrix problems requires a greater understanding of the chemical interaction between the substance to be analysed and the stationary phase. Thus, apart from one chapter dealing with chemically modified silicas, the main theme of the book is developed in three chapters on sample preparation and three on detection.The opening chapter outlines concentration and chromatography on chemically modified silicas with complexing properties, and gives examples of the use of these phases with organic and inorganic compounds. Chapter II, the first of the three contributions dealing with sample preparation, addresses such questions as whether the prepared sample is representative of the material to be analysed; how to avoid contamination; which separation procedure should be used to avoid tedious sample preparation. Chapter III describes the processing of whole blood for drug analysis. The determination of cyclosporine and its metabolites (an especially difficult case) demonstrates how comprehensive the optimisation of sample preparation must be to successfully perform the analysis. Several other examples are also given. Chapter IV deals with radio-column liquid chromatography and introduces the other theme of the book, i.e. selective detection methods. The widespread use of radioisotopes requires a high degree of purification during the manufacture of the compounds, as well as highly accurate detection methods in biological and biochemical studies.Chapter V continues the theme of selective detection with an overview of post-column reaction detection. The use of immobilised enzymes in post-column reactors or `pumpless' reactor systems for on-line reagent generation after the chromatographic separation step is discussed in detail. Various examples of the separation of biological compounds show how the production of electrochemical reagents and photochemical reaction detection have increased the selectivity of the detection, leading to more economical analytical systems. Selective detection employing luminescence detection techniques is outlined in Chapter VI. The use of immobilised fluorophores or the coupling to photochemical reactions leads to highly selective detection systems which can greatly simplify the sample handling. The final chapter reviews the use of continuous separation techniques in flow injection analysis thus revealing the need for a strong interdisciplinary dependence between sample handling and separation in this area.Written by experienced practitioners, this book will be extremely useful to investigators in many areas of application. Each chapter includes sufficient references to the literature to serve as a valuable starting point for more detailed investigation. The strong emphasis on sample handling makes the book unique in many ways and it will be welcomed by environmental scientists as well as those active in the clinical, pharmaceutical and bioanalytical fields.

  • Advances in Quantum Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 20
    • English

  • Advanced EPR

    Applications in Biology and Biochemistry
    • 1st Edition
    • A.J. Hoff
    • English
    Advanced EPR: Applications in Biology and Biochemistry provides an up-to-date survey of existing EPR techniques and their applications in biology and biochemistry, and also provides a wealth of ideas for future developments in instrumentation and theory. The material is broadly organized into four parts. In the first part (chapters 1 to 6) pulsed EPR is discussed in detail. The second part (chapters 7 to 12) provides detailed discussions of a number of novel and experimental methods. The third part comprises seven chapters on double-resonance techniques, five on ENDOR and two on optically- and reaction yield-detected resonance. The final part is devoted to a thorough discussion of a number of new developments in the application of EPR to various biological and biochemical problems. Advanced EPR will interest biophysicists, physical biochemists, EPR spectroscopists and others who will value the extensive treatment of pulsed EPR techniques, the discussion of new developments in EPR instrumentation, and the integration of theory and experimental details as applied to problems in biology and biochemistry.

  • The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Pharmacology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 35
    • English

  • Organic Functional Group Preparations

    Volume 3
    • 2nd Edition
    • Stanley R. Sandler + 1 more
    • English
    This volume provides organic chemists with a convenient, up-to-date reference source on reliable preparative procedures for the most common functional groups. Preparations for each functional group have been subdivided into various reaction types.

  • Flow Injection Analysis

    A Practical Guide
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 10
    • B. Karlberg + 1 more
    • English
    This is a practical guide for first-time and experienced users of Flow Injection Analysis (FIA). It gives, not a detailed theoretical analysis, but a ``nuts and bolts'' approach to the description of the technique and how it can be utilized to solve analytical chemical problems.The advantages of flow injection, how, when, why and where it works are all fully explained. Criteria for the choice of hardware and useful hints for maintenance are provided. The large variety of detectors suitable to combine with FIA are discussed, as are special modes of operation, their advantages and their limitations, and also conversion of batch methods to FIA methods. Numerous in-depth descriptions of applications of FIA techniques in water, soil, pharmaceutical and industrial analysis are featured, and a complete bibliography is included.The authors have spent several years demonstrating, lecturing and using FIA and the basic outline of their book closely follows the schedule of the FIA workshops they have taught. It will be an invaluable tool for all chemists who perform analyses on a routine basis.

  • Reactions at the Liquid-Solid Interface

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 28
    • R.G. Compton
    • English
    Volume 28 of Comprehensive Chemical Kinetics is concerned with reactions occurring at the solid-liquid interface. Volumes 26 and 27 have dealt with electrochemical reactions. The present volume therefore covers those interfacial processes which involve no net passage of current. The first chapter covers the structure of the interfacial region and its experimental investigation. The second chapter reviews the mechanisms by which heterogeneous catalysis of solution reactions can take place. The third is concerned with the mechanism and kinetics of crystal growth from solution. The final chapter deals with corrosion processes at the metal-solution interface.

  • Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 45
    • English

  • Advances in Inorganic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 33
    • English

  • Advances in Clinical Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 27
    • English

  • Photochemistry on Solid Surfaces

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 47
    • Takeshi Matsuura + 1 more
    • English
    The latest developments in photochemistry on solid surfaces, i.e. photochemistry in heterogeneous systems, including liquid crystallines, are brought together for the first time in a single volume. Distinguished photochemists from various fields have contributed to the book which covers a number of important applications: molecular photo-devices for super-memory, photochemical vapor deposition to produce thin-layered electronic semiconducting materials, sensitive optical media, the control of photochemical reactions pathways, etc. Photochemistry on solid surfaces is now a major field and this book which provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of the subject will be of interest to a wide range of readers.

  • Advances in Organometallic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 29
    • English

  • Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 21
    • English
    Commencing with Volume 21, the aim of this series is to produce a larger number of, relatively short but, timely and authoritative reviews. These will concentrate, in particular, on areas of NMR where recent progress, and developments, are of special interest and will reflect the many NMR developments occurring in the primary scientific literature. The present volume demonstrates the advances which can be made by the application of NMR techniques in many diverse areas of chemistry. Of particular significance is the account of Graphics-Aided NMR which will become an inprotant development in the use of NMR spectroscopy.

  • New Techniques for the Study of Electrodes and Their Reactions

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 29
    • R.G. Compton
    • English
    Volume 29 gives an account of new techniques for the study of electrodes and their reactions. It extends and complements Volumes 26 and 27 of the series which provide an introductory treatment of modern electrochemical methodology and reactions. This volume covers the various branches of spectroelectrochemis... and also some recent purely electrochemical advances. In-situ spectroelectrochemic... techniques are covered by chapters on infrared, Raman, EPR, ellipsometry, electroreflectance, and photocurrent spectroscopy. Ex-situ UHV experiments are treated in a separate chapter. New electrochemical directions are described in chapters on hydrodynamic methods, channel electrodes, and microelectrodes. A final chapter covers computing strategies for the on-line accumulation and processing of electrochemical data.

  • Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 44
    • English

  • Advances in Chemical Engineering

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 14
    • English

  • Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 46
    • English

  • The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Pharmacology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 34
    • English

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