Chemistry

This first comprehensive book to cover the expanding field of bioorganometallics represents the perfect starting point for beginners but also an excellent source of high quality information for experts in the field.

The ability to introduce non-canonical amino acids in vivo has greatly expanded the repertoire of accessible proteins for basic research and biotechnological application.

Chemical production processes consist of many complex apparatuses involving both moving and static parts as well as interconnecting pipes, control mechanisms and electronics, mechanical and thermal stages, heat exchangers, waste and side product processing units, power ducts and many others.

Despite the fact that more than 90% of production processes in industry are catalyzed, most chemists and engineers are restricted to trial and error when searching for the proper catalyst.

Recently, supercritical fluids have emerged as more sustainable alternatives for the organic solvents often used in polymer processes.

Focusing on both academic questions and applications of self-assembly of this extremely important class of compounds, this book discusses not only the self-organization of inorganic and magnetic nanocrystals, but also their collective optical and magnetic properties, as well as the in-situ fabrication of metal nanoparticles in solid matrices.

In 17 contributions by leading research groups, this first comprehensive handbook in the field covers the interactions between proteins and lipids that make the fabric of biological membranes from every angle.

Filling the gap in the literature, this book presents everything there is to know about this topic.

With its particular emphasis on the constitutive activity of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs)s, this book comprehensively discusses an important biological process that has not yet been covered in such depth in any other existing books on GPCRs.

Until now colloid science books have either been theoretical, or focused on specific types of dispersion, or on specific applications.

The authors of this guide are experts on the use of microwaves for drug synthesis as well as having much experience in teaching courses held under the auspices of the American Chemical Society and the IUPAC.

For the first time, the whole field of organoboronic acids is presented in one comprehensive handbook.

This timely book is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of all important aspects of this modern technology with the focus on the "e;green aspect"e;.

Quasicrystals form a new state of solid matter beside the crystalline and the amorphous.

This completely revised second edition of the standard work has been expanded by some twenty percent to include more information on the latest developments and new apparatus.

This first work to be devoted entirely to this increasingly important field, the "e;Textbook"e; provides both an in-depth and comprehensive overview of this exciting new area.

An introduction to practical IR and Raman spectroscopy.

Serving as a general introduction to surface and interface science, this book focuses on basic concepts rather than specific details, and on intuitive understanding rather than merely learning facts.

Knowledge of the excitation characteristics of matter is decisive for the descriptions of a variety of dynamical processes, which are of significant technological interest.

High-resolution continuum source atomic absorption spectrometry (HR-CS AAS) is the most revolutionary innovation since the introduction of AAS in 1955.

Written by an interdisciplinary team of chemists, biologists and engineers from one of the leading European centers for microsystem research, MIC in Lyngby, Denmark, this book introduces and discusses the different aspects of (bio)chemical microsystem development.

The rational, structure-based approach has become standard in present-day drug design.

Mastering management skills is hard to achieve by newcomers starting their careers in the chemical industry.

ATP-dependent active ion transport enables cells to regulate their pH value and to control their ion composition.

In a reactive distillation column, both the chemical conversion and the distillative separation of the product mixture are carried out simultaneously.

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The whole range of biocatalysis, from a firm grounding in theoretical concepts to in-depth coverage of practical applications and future perspectives.

In the first work to comprehensively cover this all-important topic, the recognized expert Helmut Vorbruggen provides both organic and bioorganic chemists with much new and valuable information for preparative synthesis.

This interdisciplinary approach combines the chemistry and engineering involved to describe the conception and improvement of chromatographic processes.

Here, authors from academia and industry provide an exciting overview of current production technologies and the fascinating possibilities for future applications.

Low-dimensional solids are of fundamental interest in materials science due to their anisotropic properties.

Edited by two of the experts in the field, the central aim is to show organic chemists working in process development that enantioselective catalysis is suitable for the large-scale production of enantioenriched intermediates.

Lipases and Phospholipases are key control elements in mammalian metabolism.

Peptides are among the most versatile bioactive molecules, yet the do not make good drugs, because they are quickly degraded or modified in the body.

This is the first book to describe the synthesis and characterization of the materials used in polymer-supported synthesis.

In most cases, every chemist must deal with solvent effects, whether voluntarily or otherwise.

Until now, the literature has offered a rather limited approach to the use of fundamental kinetics and their application to catalytic reactions.

The first volume in a new series dedicated to protein degradation, this book lays the foundations of targeted protein breakdown via the ubiquitin pathway.

The lock-and-key principle formulated by Emil Fischer as early as the end of the 19th century has still not lost any of its significance for the life sciences.

The demand for increasingly clean and efficient chemical syntheses is becoming more urgent from both an economic and an environmental standpoint.

The vast progress made in the investigation of biomolecules using NMR has only recently been rewarded with the Nobel Prize for Kurt Wuthrich.

Magnetic phenomena and materials are everywhere.

From reviews of the previous volumes: 'This is an essential book for researchers in electrochemistry; it covers areas of both fundamental and practical importance, with reviews of high quality.

While this important reaction class is among the most important and most widely used in organic chemistry, this is the first book to summarize the many different olefination methods, including: * Wittig reaction * Peterson reaction * Julia olefination * Utilizing the Tebbe and related reagents * Low-valent chromium, zinc or titanium mediated olefination * McMurry coupling plus the related reactions in each case and the application to asymmetric synthesis.

Micro process engineering is approaching both academia and industry.

The demand for increasingly clean and efficient chemical syntheses is continuously becoming more urgent from both an economic and an environmental standpoint.

The miniaturization of bulky devices and machines is a process that confronts us on a daily basis.

Computational methods are transforming the work of chemical and pharmaceutical laboratories.

In light of the increasing importance of these proteins and their ligands for our understanding of cellular growth, differentiation, and development, as well as of diseases such as obesity, insulin resistance, atherosclerosis, cancer, and inflammation, a team of internationally renowned editors and authors have compiled here the very first comprehensive book on these topics.

At the start of the 1950s, Ziegler and Natta discovered that simple metallorganic catalysts are capable of transforming olefins into linear polymers with highly ordered structures.