Physical chemistry

This book provides an overview of fundamental concepts of asymmetric synthesis highlighting the significance of stereochemical and stereodynamic reaction control.

Low molar mass organic materials and polymers exhibit a range of physical properties that are dependent on their ability to undergo self organization.

The first IUPAC Manual of Symbols and Terminology for Physicochemical Quantities and Units (the Green Book) of which this is the direct successor, was published in 1969, with the object of 'securing clarity and precision, and wider agreement in the use of symbols, by chemists in different countries, among physicists, chemists and engineers, and by editors of scientific journals'.

This book describes in mathematical terms the extraction of useful information from ESR spectra as applied to paramagnetic organic, inorganic and organometalic molecules.

Environmental Radiochemical Analysis III is an authoritative, up to date review of research contributions presented at the 10th International Symposium on Environmental Radiochemical Analysis.

Why do molecules adopt particular shapes?

Chemical Kinetics and Mechanism considers the role of rate of reaction.

Physics and Chemistry of Ice is an authoritative summary of state-of the-art research contributions from the world's leading scientists.

The Special Publications Series is a collection of books produced from the proceedings of international symposia.

Food structure at the molecular level and how it impacts on health, taste, texture and shelf life is becoming an increasingly important area of science.

Solubility is fundamental to most areas of chemistry and is one of the most basic of thermodynamic properties.

Flavins and flavoproteins are a widely investigated and highly versatile group of compounds.

Computational and theoretical tools for understanding biological processes at the molecular level is an exciting and innovative area of science.

The Special Publications Series is a collection of books produced from the proceedings of international symposia.

The science and technology of hydrocolloids used in food and related systems has seen many new developments and advances over recent years.

Catalysis underpins most modern industrial organic processes.

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is increasingly being used amongst health practitioners in combating a variety of diseases.

As modern day society takes an increasing interest in outdoor activities, its exposure to sunlight has never been greater.

Food Colloids: Interactions, Microstructure and Processing describes the principles and practice underlying the formulation of food emulsions, dispersions, gels, and foams.

Is it safe?

Batteries are becoming increasingly important in today's world of portable electronic devices, along with the need to store electricity derived from solar and other renewable forms of energy, and the desire to introduce electric and hybrid electric vehicles to reduce emissions.

Sulfur compounds contaminate many industrially important feedstocks and, on release to the atmosphere as sulfur oxides, can cause widespread damage to the ecosystem.

The need to improve both the efficiency and environmental acceptability of industrial processes is driving the development of heterogeneous catalysts across the chemical industry, including commodity, specialty and fine chemicals and in pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals.

This book offers comprehensive coverage of the most important areas in photoreceptors and light signalling.

For centuries, light has been used to cure various diseases.

Molecular Physical Chemistry: A Concise Introduction focuses on two main aspects of physical chemistry: thermodynamics and reaction dynamics.

Coordination chemistry, as we know it today, has been shaped by major figures from the past, one of whom was Joseph Chatt.

Traditionally, magnetic materials have been metals or, if inorganic compounds such as oxides, of continuous lattice type.

The latest volume in the successful Special Publication Series captures the most recent research findings in the field of food hydrocolloids.

Ionization Methods in Organic Mass Spectrometry is a basic practical guide for scientists of all disciplines who wish to analyse samples by organic mass spectrometry.

Electrochemistry can be an elegant and essential support to synthetic inorganic chemistry.

The breadth and depth of knowledge of gums and stabilisers has increased tremendously over the last two decades, with researchers in industry and academia collaborating to accelerate the growth.

There have been many developments in anaesthesia since Joseph Priestley discovered nitrous oxide.

Introducing the application of free energy correlations to elucidating the mechanisms of organic and bio-organic reactions, this book provides a new and illuminating way of approaching a potentially complex topic.

Food macromolecules play a crucial role in the formulation of a wide range of food products such as beverages, bread, cheese, dressings, desserts, ice-cream, and spreads.

Food Colloids: Fundamentals of Formulation describes the physico-chemical principles underlying the formulation of multi-component, multi-phase food systems.

Food scientists aim to control the taste and texture of existing food products and to formulate new structures of high quality using novel combinations of ingredients and processing methods.

Electrochemical Detection in HPLC: Analysis of Drugs and Poisons is the first monograph devoted to the application of this mode of analysis to the assay of exogenous compounds such as drugs in biological fluids and associated areas.

Waste minimisation has a number of aims which include enhancing the intrinsic selectivity of any given process, providing a means of recovering reagents in a form which allows easy regeneration and the replacement of stoichiometric processes with catalytic ones.

Chemometrics in Analytical Spectroscopy provides students and practising analysts with a tutorial guide to the use and application of the more commonly encountered techniques used in processing and interpreting analytical spectroscopic data.

This text provides a concise introduction to all aspects of light-induced processes in chemistry, physics and biology, as well as in medicine and industry.

Chemical formulation can be traced back to Stone Age times, when hunter-gatherers attached flint arrowheads to shafts using a resin made from birch bark and beeswax.

Since the realisation that the ozone layer protecting the earth is suffering massive depletion, atmospheric science has been increasingly in the spotlight.

Although catalysts are responsible for the manufacture and processing of a number of products in daily use, the subject of catalysis is still very much in its infancy, and the complexity of the processes still present major challenges.

Capillary electrochromatography (CEC) is a new and exciting hybrid separation technique that seeks to exploit the combined advantages of both capillary electrophoresis (high efficiencies) and HPLC (mobile and stationary phase selectivity).

This book provides an introduction to colloid science, based on the application of the principles of physical chemistry.

A Working Method Approach for Introductory Physical Chemistry Calculations is a concise inexpensive introduction to first year chemistry that is aimed at students who are weak in chemistry or have no chemistry on entry to university.

Compiled to celebrate the centenary of the founding of the Faraday Society in 1903, this collection presents some of the key papers published in Faraday journals over the past one hundred years.

An understanding of the behavioural properties of water is fundamental to gaining an appreciation of many scientific processes and principles.

The cost of drug development is increasing, and investment returns are decreasing.