Chemistry

This volume comprises the compounds of thorium with the 4th main group elements silicon and germanium and all 5th main group elements except nitrogen.

The present volume, "e;Fluorine"e; Suppt.

"e;Nitrogen"e; Suppt.

This volume C 3, as a part of the Gmelin "e;Thorium"e; Handbook, Series C, describes the thorium-nitrogen compounds.

In the first part of this volume the nitrogen-containing compounds of molybdenum are described.

The present volume in the organogermanium series describes mononuclear compounds containing only germanium-carbon and germanium-hydrogen bonds (Chapter 1.

This third volume of the Supplement Series supplying the Main Volumes of the series "e;Perfluorohalogenoorgano Compounds of Main Group Elements"e;, Part 1 to 9, completes the treatment of the compounds of the Main Group VI elements.

The present volume of the Gmelin thorium series describes the solid thorium-carbon compounds with the exception of the carbides and coordination compounds of the type 4 ThAn* X B, where B is a neutral ligand.

This is the first supplementary volume on silicon-nitrogen compounds.

The present volume, "e;Organoiron Compounds"e; B 17, systematically covers the literature through the end of 1987 for Sections 1.

Die Assimilation von anorganischen Stickstoff - Nitrat, Ammonium - durch die höhere Pflanze ist für das Leben von ähnlich fundamentaler Bedeutung wie die Assimilation des Kohlenstoffs.

The present issue, Volume 2 of "e;Boron Compounds"e; 4th Supplement of the Gmelin Hand- book, updates the previous issues by reporting the literature on boron-oxygen systems published up to 1988.

The 3rd supplement continues the updating of the original 20 volumes on boron com- pounds published between 1974 and 1979.

A broad coverage of boron topics is provided.

The present issue, Volume 3a of "e;Boron Compounds"e; 4th Supplement of the Gmelin Hand- book, presents the description of boron nitride and a part of other boron compounds containing nitrogen.

The 3rd supplement continues the updating of the original 20 volumes on boron compounds published between 1974 and 1979.

The present volume belongs to a series of handbooks dealing with organorhenium com- pounds.

The present volume describes organoberyllium compounds containing at least one berylli- um-carbon bond, except the beryllium carbides and cyanides.

The present volume A4 of the "e;Uranium"e; series of the Gmelin Handbook deals with two very important technological aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle: - the behavior of fuel elements during burnup in a nuclear reactor, and - the reprocessing of spent fuel to recover the non-fissioned uranium and newly created materials.

Alloys of Uranium with Alkali Metals, Alkaline Earths, and Elements of Main Groups III and IV.

The Gmelin Formula Index and its First Supplement covered those volumes of the Eighth Edition of the Gmelin Handbook which had been issued up to the end of 1979.

This work had its beginnings in the early 1980s at the University ofWollongong, with significant contributions from Dr.

From our current knowledge, it is obvious that estrogen action in- volves more than reproduction and fertility.

Based on the international workshop on 'Small Molecule - Protein Interactions' held in Berlin, April 24-26, 2002, researchers from industry and academic laboratories describe novel and efficient ways selecting promising new drug targets and developing small molecule inhibitors against them.

Natural Products have been important sources of useful drugs from prehistoric times to the present.

Alzheimer's Disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder of late life with devastating consequences for the afflicted and their carers and poses one of the major challenges to medical research.

In recent years the importance of adjuvants for optimising the activity of agrochemicals has become increasingly recognized.