Organic chemistry

Studies in Natural Products Chemistry, Volume 53, covers the synthesis, testing, and recording of the medicinal properties of natural products, providing cutting-edge accounts of the fascinating developments in the isolation, structure elucidation, synthesis, biosynthesis, and pharmacology of a diverse array of bioactive natural products.

Application of light in chemistry presents an active field of research with a very promising outlook, particularly in technology and medicine.

Telechelic polymers have garnered a great deal of scientific interest due to their reactive chain-end functions.

Discussing the electrospinning process, the book covers in great depth the current research interest in nanoscience and nanotechnology, especially electrospinning of polymer nanofibers.

The main objective of this book is to present the recent applications of photodynamic therapy (PDT) in treating cancer and other diseases.

This innovative book presents an original account of the principles of conformational theory.

This 2-volume set provides the reader with a basic understanding of the foundational concepts pertaining to the design, synthesis, and applications of conjugated organic materials used as organic semiconductors, in areas including organic photovoltaic devices, light-emitting diodes, field-effect transistors, spintronics, actuation, bioelectronics, thermoelectrics, and nonlinear optics.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the synthesis and characterization of nanocomposites based on block copolymers.

This monograph describes the behavior of molecules confined to small spaces.

Hydrogels are an emerging area of interest in medicine as well as pharmaceutics, and their physico-chemical characterization is fundamental to their practical applications.

Sustainable polymers play an indispensable role in the emergence of green materials, and the 21st century is an era of sustainable polymeric materials.

The 21st century offers vast challenges for researchers all around the globe, especially regarding the effective use of sustainable polymers and their materials for different applications.

Conjugated polymer composites with high dielectric constants are being developed by the electronics industry in response to the need for power-grounded decoupling to secure the integrity of high-speed signals and to reduce electromagnetic interference.

Green materials and green nanotechnology have gained widespread interest over the last 15 years; first in academia, then in related industries in the last few years.

This volume provides a topical survey of the static and dynamic properties of hydrogen in both metallic and inorganic materials studied by neutron scattering which has been the key technique in this field for a long time.

The proceedings summarise the oral and poster presentations of the Winterschool on the above topic.

Hematite (a-Fe2O3), the stable oxide of iron, is a major constituent of soils, rocks and the earth's crust.

This is the seventh set of Handbook of Porphyrin Science.

The JSPS/NUS Seminar on Analytical Chemistry is part of an ongoing exchange programme to promote direct contact between scientists from Japan and Singapore.

This book is about the underlying principles of symmetry, thermodynamics and electronic structure that pertain to crystalline solids.

This book is intended for those who are interested in understanding the electronic structure and properties of polymers.

This is a coherent collection of thoroughly written articles on the present status of new mass spectrometry methods.

This book is about the recognition of new principles in Organic Chemistry.

Conjugated polymers are attractive from the viewpoint of possible applications as novel nonlinear optical materials and conductive materials.

Experts provide a unique and broad perspective of the theoretical tools available today to analyze protein structure and function.

The closed-cage carbon molecules known as fullerenes provide an entirely new branch of chemistry, materials science, and physics.

This book highlights recent progress in the chemistry of radicals.

This book highlights recent progress in the chemistry of radicals.

This multi-authored book includes selected contributions reviewing the results achieved in the synthesis and characterization of organized polymeric materials.

The biological activation of dioxygen is a key reaction in biological systems.

In the course of his distinguished career spanning about half a century, George A Olah, winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, has been exceedingly prolific and has published more than 1000 scientific papers and 15 books and holds more than 100 patents.

The selected papers in this invaluable volume are arranged in chapters, each with an introductory essay.

Myelopeptides are a new class of endogenous bioregulatory peptides.

The first two chapters of this invaluable book trace the developments of the chemistry and macromolecular structures, respectively, of proteins and nuclei acids.

This important book is intended to familiarize the practitioner of synthetic chemistry with somewhat extraordinary techniques which should prove very helpful to his or her work.

This volume focuses on the use of quantum theory to understand and explain experiments in organic chemistry.

Photoinduced charge transfer constitutes the scientific basis of photography, electrophotography and many biological processes.

Endohedral fullerenes represent a novel family of carbon nanostructures, which are characterized by a robust fullerene cage with atoms, ions, or clusters trapped in its interior.

This book provides a fundamental physical picture of various phenomena occurring in organic monolayers, dealing with dielectric, elastic, and electronic properties.

Numerous articles have been published on cholorosulfonyl isocyanate (CSI), but no book compiling research on this versatile reagent has been available up to now.

This invaluable book distils the research accomplishments of Professor Fred Basolo during the five decades when he served as a world leader in the modern renaissance of inorganic chemistry.

This book surveys the relatively new area of the synthesis of organic ligands when metal ions act as a template.

Chalcogen-nitrogen chemistry involves the study of compounds that exhibit a linkage between nitrogen and sulfur, selenium or tellurium atoms.

There is continuing interest in natural products as sources of potentially new and exciting chemical compounds.

Few books cover experimental and theoretical methods to characterize decomposition, combustion and detonation of energetic materials.

Noncovalent interactions play key roles in many natural processes leading to the self-assembly of molecules with the formation of supramolecular structures.

Heats of hydrogenation constitute a body of thermochemical information that has had an on-going significance despite the small number of research groups engaged in the work.

What is unique about this book?

This book is the first of its kind that focuses on the chemistry and biology of ellagitannins, a special class of naturally occurring polyphenols which have so far not received the attention they deserve.

Polymer thin films is an emerging area driven by their enormous technological potential and the intellectually challenging academic problems associated with them.