Inorganic chemistry

Energy is an important area of contemporary research, with clear societal benefits.

Using inorganic solid adsorbents/sorbents is a promising approach for carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and is attracting intense attention from both academic and industrial fields.

Inorganic solid adsorbents/sorbents are attractive materials for capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from flue gases after fossil fuel combustion.

The metal-ligand coordination of metallomacrocycles allows for the production of both discrete and infinite metallosupramolecular structures with high-degrees of complexity.

Gasotransmitters are gas molecules produced endogenously in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells for signalling purposes.

Showcasing recent developments in inorganic materials in an area of societal interest and importance, this book provides an up-to-date introduction to the contemporary use of functional solids in emerging technologies.

Aerobic organisms have evolved to utilise the intrinsic oxidising power of oxygen from the atmosphere.

Organoselenium shows incredible promise in medicine, particularly cancer therapy.

Organoselenium shows incredible promise in medicine, particularly cancer therapy.

Metal ions play key roles in biology.

Metal ions play key roles in biology.

New materials are required to solve global challenges such as the growing energy demand and reducing the threat of new and re-emerging diseases and infections.

The fullerenes, hailed as one of the discoveries of the century, have created whole new fields of organic/organometallic chemistry and of physics.

The Structure of Rare-Earth Metal Surfaces introduces the concepts of surface crystallography and surface-structure determination, outlines the principles of the most widely used experimental techniques and theoretical simulations, and reviews their application to the surfaces of rare-earth metals.

This book deals with polypyrazolylborates (scorpionates), a class of ligands known since 1966, but becoming rapidly popular with inorganic, organometallic and coordination chemists since 1986, because of their versatility and user-friendliness.

There has been enormous progress in our understanding of molybdenum and tungsten enzymes and relevant inorganic complexes of molybdenum and tungsten over the past twenty years.

Metal nanoclusters, which bridge metal atoms and nanocrystals, are gaining attention due to their unique chemical and physical properties which differ greatly from their corresponding large nanoparticles and molecular compounds.

In less than 20 years N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have become well-established ancillary ligands for the preparation of transition metal-based catalysts.

Powder diffraction is a widely used scientific technique in the characterization of materials with broad application in materials science, chemistry, physics, geology, pharmacology and archaeology.

For centuries fireworks have been a source of delight and amazement in cultures around the world.

Since the discovery of the first examples of 2-oxoglutarate-dependent oxygenase-catalysed reactions in the 1960s, a remarkably broad diversity of alternate reactions and substrates has been revealed, and extensive advances have been achieved in our understanding of the structures and catalytic mechanisms.

Catalysis is a central topic in chemical transformation and energy conversion.

There is great interest in metallosupramolecular materials because of their use in magnetic, photonic and electronic materials.

Metal ions play key roles in biology.

There has been enormous progress in our understanding of molybdenum and tungsten enzymes and relevant inorganic complexes of molybdenum and tungsten over the past twenty years.

Metal chelators are emerging as versatile tool with many medical applications.

There has been enormous progress in our understanding of molybdenum and tungsten enzymes and relevant inorganic complexes of molybdenum and tungsten over the past twenty years.

This work is a foundation course text for first and second year undergraduates in which description and understanding of inorganic chemistry are fully integrated.

This extensive overview combines both instrumental and radiochemical techniques with qualitative and quantitative (volumetric and gravimetric) analyses, and also with preparation of compounds, thereby strengthening analytical and preparative skills.

This thoroughly revised and rewritten edition of the book is a consequence of repeated demand from students and teachers at different levels.

In this title the correlation between the properties of elements and compounds and their structures with their electronic arrangements has been shown in the text as far as possible using orbital hybridization, molecular orbital and crystal field concepts.

Major part of the book deals mainly with chemistry of the elements meant for the undergraduate students.

Inorganic Chemistry Fourth Edition provides essential information for students of inorganic chemistry and is updated throughout.

The incredible "e;glowing"e; history of the "e;Devil's element "e;phosphorusDiscovered by alchemists, prescribed by apothecaries, exploited by ninth-century industrialists, and abused by twentieth-century combatants, the chemical element phosphorus has fascinated us for more than three centuries.

Molybdenum is crucially important for almost all organisms ranging from ancient single cell microorganisms to modern human beings.

So what are organic and inorganic chemicals?

Aluminium Oxide: Structure, Production and Applications opens with a study wherein it is proposed that, according to the electrolyte composition and the parameters of an applied electric signal, it is possible to obtain either barrier or porous oxide films with precisely controlled dimensions.

In Zinc Oxide: Production, Properties and Applications, the authors first provide a summary of the natural sources available for the synthesis of zinc oxide nanoparticles, enlisting some plant-mediated synthesized zinc oxide nanoparticles showing promising antimicrobial, antioxidant, cytotoxic and photocatalytic properties.

Lewis acids have been utilized to activate molecules, whether it be the generation of a simple Lewis acid-base adduct or the coordination and activation of a substrate molecule in a catalytic transformation.

The subject of aluminium and Alzheimer's disease has been plagued with controversy.

The importance of metals in biology, the environment and medicine has become increasingly evident over the last twenty five years.

This timely and unique publication is designed for graduate students and researchers in inorganic and materials chemistry and covers bonding models and applications of symmetry concepts to chemical systems.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of nanocomposite materials obtained by the sol-gel method, from synthesis to applications and including design tools for combining different properties.

Successful industrial heterogeneous catalysts fulfill several key require- ments: in addition to high catalytic activity for the desired reaction, with high selectivity where appropriate, they also have an acceptable commercial life and are rugged enough for transportation and charging into plant reactors.

Mass spectrometry underwent dramatic changes during the decade of the 1980s.

During the past few decades, much research has been reported on the formation of insoluble monomolecular films of lipids and biopolymers (synthetic polymers and proteins) on the surface of water or at the oil-water interface.

This book contains a series of papers and abstracts from the 7th Industry-University Cooperative Chemistry Program symposium held in the spring of 1989 at Texas A&M University.

The role of high pressure experiments in the discovery of supercon- ducting materials with a T.