Chemistry

Traditionally, interest in the chemistry of hydrazine and its derivatives has been focused on the development of propellants and explosives, but in recent years a wide variety of new applications have emerged in fields such as polymers, pharmaceuticals, water treatment, agriculture and medicine.

This book offers a thorough review of the scientific research that links the consumption of grapes to better health.

The Augmented Spherical Wave (ASW) method is one of the most powerful approaches for handling the requirements of finite basis sets in DFT calculations.

Emerging contaminants (ECs) are predominantly unregulated anthropogenic chemicals that occur in air, soil, water, food, and plant/animal tissues in trace concentrations.

Advances in Synthetic Organic Chemistry and Methods Reported in US Patents provides synthetic guidelines for preparing current and commercially significant organic compounds, derivatives, and intermediates as reported in issued US Patents.

Molten salts are investigated by very diverse techniques and for differ- ing purposes, and the results are reported in widely scattered journals.

New materials addressed for the first time include the chapters on minerals by Barber et al and the chapter on dislocations in colloidal crystals by Schall and Spaepen.

Evolutionally optimized biomolecules and their complexes present attractive objects in the production of functionalized nanoobjects.

Treatise on Geochemistry, Third Edition, 8 volume set is an invaluable resource for geoscientists and others seeking to understand the origin, evolution, and functioning of our inhabited world, in service of a sustainable future.

This important survey of alchemical symbols and doctrines sets forth the mysterious worldview and teachings of the practitioners of the "e;royal art.

The discovery of ribozymes nearly 30 years ago triggered a huge interest in the chemistry and biology of RNAs.

Practical Sampling Techniques for Infrared Analysis provides a single-source guide to sample handling for routine analysis in infrared spectroscopy using commercially available instrumentation and accessories.

Industry and academia remain fascinated with the diverse properties and applications of polymers.

Modern thermodynamics is a unique but still not a logically self-consistent field of knowledge.

Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry

New developments in mass spectrometry have allowed routine identification and lowered limits of detection at levels only imagined a decade ago.

Advances in Magnetic and Optical Resonance, Volume 17 reviews different developing branches of coherent spectroscopy, focusing on the incoherent radiation pulses in optics and magnetic resonance.

Quantitation of Amino Acids and Amines by Chromatography: Methods and Protocols is intended to serve as a ready-to-use guide for the identification and quantification of amino acids and amines in various matrices, providing an overview on the theory and protocol of available methods.

This book presents the principle ideas of combining different analytical techniques in multi-dimensional analysis schemes.

Taste is the number one driving force in the decision to purchase a food product and food consumption is the most critical function for living organisms to obtain the energy and resources essential to their vitality.

In Calabria, Italy, where bergamot has been successfully cultivated since the eighteenth century, it is commonly defined as "e;the prince of the Citrus genus.

FORENSIC SCIENCE Forensic Science: Current Issues, Future Directions presents a comprehensive, international discussion of key issues within the forensic sciences.

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.

This book covers all the basic and applied aspects of crystallization processes based on membrane technology.

Volume 20 of Reviews in Mineralogy attempted to: (1) provide examples illustrating the state-of-the-art in powder diffraction, with emphasis on applications to geological materials; (2) describe how to obtain high-quality powder diffraction data; and (3) show how to extract maximum information from available data.

This book describes new gel permeation chromatography/liquid chromatography applications and techniques that will provide polymer scientists and practitioners with insight into the development of new polymers and plastics and improvement of existing materials.

This book gives a comprehensive overview of the basis and the current applications of LC-NMR and related techniques.

In the very first book on this hot topic, the expert editors and authors present a comprehensive overview of these elegant reactions.

This completely revised second edition incorporates the latest data available and reflects the knowledge of one of the largest companies active in the business.

Myelopeptides are a new class of endogenous bioregulatory peptides.

This book describes all aspects of the physics of transition metal compounds, providing a comprehensive overview of this diverse class of solids.

This monograph offers a comprehensive overview of diverse quantization phenomena in layered materials, covering current mainstream experimental and theoretical research studies, and presenting essential properties of layered materials along with a wealth of figures.

This volume is a collection of the presentations given at a symposium on reaction kinetics in micelles at the l64th Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Division of Colloid and Surface Science, in New York City in August of 1972.

Detennination of the magnetic structure of magnetic materials is a fundamental problem that can be solved by magnetic neutron diffraction techniques.

With its 104 chapters, this Encyclopedia of aquatic ecotoxicology reveals the diversity of issues, problems and challenges that have faced, and are facing today, receiving environments.

This new edition of the unrivalled textbook introduces concepts such as the quantum theory of scattering by a potential, special and general cases of adding angular momenta, time-independent and time-dependent perturbation theory, and systems of identical particles.

The C-C bond is a basic building block in chemistry, and its formation is often the first step towards building more complex molecules.

This new volume presents leading-edge research in the rapidly changing and evolving field of polymer science as well as on chemical processing.

There is a unity to physics; it is a discipline which provides the most fundamental understanding of the dynamics of matter and energy.

Antimicrobial Resistance in Agriculture: Perspective, Policy and Mitigation is a valuable industrial resource that addresses complex, multi-factorial topics regarding farm, wild, companion animals, fish, and how the environment plays an important role in amplification and transmission of resistant bugs into the human food chain.

The tremendous impact of electronic devices on our lives is the result of continuous improvements of the billions of nanoelectronic components inside integrated circuits (ICs).

This book describes the complexity of impact hazards associated with asteroids and comets.

This second edition offers a comprehensive overview of the priority indoor air pollutants, such as volatile organic compounds, indoor particles and fibres, combustion products and other chemical agents that may affect health.

Continuous casting of non-ferrous metals has been practised for well over 100 years.

The research and its outcomes presented here is devoted to the use of x-ray scattering to study correlated electron systems and magnetism.