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Theoretical and experimental methods that are applied to analyse the hydrogen bond and other interactions are described, and different types of hydrogen bond are characterized.

Stereochemistry is an important concept that often causes confusion amongst students when they learn it for the first time. In this book we deal with tricky concepts like conformation and configuration, how to represent them accurately and how to use the correct terms to describe them in both organic and inorganic chemistry.

Summarizing progress in the preparation and applications of CO2-responsive materials, this is an ideal resource for researchers working in green chemistry, chemical engineering, polymer chemistry and material science.

Ideal for undergraduate courses, this book provides an introduction to colloid science, based on the application of the principles of physical chemistry.

This is the first book to cover the history, chemistry, biochemistry, and medical importance of vitamin C and provide an in-depth study of this essential and fascinating compound.

Newcomers to flame spectrometry will gain increased confidence, job skills and many handy tips and ideas from this book.

Divided into six chapters, this guide covers basic concepts of HPLC; instrumentation; stationary phase materials; eluents; column efficiency; and the influence of physical chemistry on separations.

This book covers the last developments in asymmetric domino reactions, focussing on those published in the last 6 years.

This book is a must for all those seeking a straightforward explanation of how batteries are constructed, their operation, and the factors determining their performance and life.

This book should be read by academics and industrialists at all levels, to encourage wider applications of the use of hydrogen peroxide in laboratories.

This book surveys highlights of the progress made in the creation of discrete synthetic assemblies and provides a foundation for new workers in the area.

This unique book demonstrates the current status, and future potential, of millimetre wavelength (MMW) spectrometry as a means of quantitative analysis of gaseous mixtures.

The book clears up some of the confusion that surrounds the analytical use of supercritical fluids and assists the user in understanding the power and utility of this technique.

This is a tutorial guide to the use and application of the more commonly encountered techniques used in processing and interpreting analytical spectroscopic data.

Research into polymer nanofibers has increased significantly over the last decade, prompting the need for a comprehensive monograph examining the subject as knowledge of their properties and potential applications has increased.

This text is intended to introduce the non-specialist reader to the benefits and limitations of polymeric materials from an environmental viewpoint.

This book focuses on solid catalysts based on inorganic supports and covers the emerging area of chemically modified mesoporous solid catalysts.

This book discusses, in relatively simple language, the importance of even minute amounts of certain trace elements for the protection of human health and how insufficiency or excess may produce serious diseases. It also examines the use of metal chelators in the treatment of such diseases.

Written in a non-mathematical way, this book will be welcomed by chemists, physicists and materials scientists in both industry and research.

The book is written in a pragmatic and straight-forward manner and is illustrated throughout with examples of real-world, everyday problems and applications.

Clean Energy presents a broad survey of the energy problems facing society over the coming decades and the prospects for their solution

A comprehensive account of the history of silver in medicine, its clinical benefits and advantages as a broad spectrum antimicrobial agent.

This book, a distillation of information only touched upon in other books, is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students, scientists, engineers and industrialists with an interest in the field.

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.

This unique book covers all the practical aspects of setting up an HPLC system for high temperature operation.

This book provides a comprehensive review of microporous materials in an easily accessible style offering a valuable source of references over a wide range of topics.

The book is aimed at a wide readership, particularly beer enthusiasts, but it will also be a good source for the serious scholar.

Guiding chromatographers working in regulated industries and helping them to validate their chromatography data systems to meet data integrity, business and regulatory needs. This book is a detailed look at the life cycle and documented evidence required to ensure a system is fit for purpose throughout the lifecycle. Initially providing the regulatory, data integrity and system life cycle requirements for computerised system validation, the book then develops into a guide on planning, specifying, managing risk, configuring and testing a chromatography data system before release. This is followed by operational aspects such as training, integration and IT support and finally retirement. All areas are discussed in detail with case studies and practical examples provided as appropriate. The book has been carefully written and is right up to date including recently released FDA data integrity guidance. It provides detailed guidance on good practice and expands on the first edition making it an invaluable addition to a chromatographer's book shelf.

The emerging field of lipidomics has been made possible because of advances in mass spectrometry, and in particular tandem mass spectrometry of lipid ions generated by electrospray ionization. The ability to carry out basic biochemical studies of lipids using electrospray ionization is predicated upon understanding the behaviour of lipid derived ions following collision induced decomposition and mechanisms of product ion formation. During the past 20 years, a wealth of information has been generated about lipid molecules that are now analysed by mass spectrometry, however there is no central source where one can obtain basic information about how these very diverse biomolecules behave following collisional activation. This book brings together, in one volume, this information so that investigators considering using tandem mass spectrometry to structurally characterize lipids or to quantitate their occurrence in a biological matrix, will have a convenient source to review mechanism of decomposition reactions related to the diversity of lipid structures.A separate chapter is devoted to each of seven major lipid classes including fatty acids, eicosanoids and bioactive lipid mediators, fatty acyl esters and amides, glycerol esters, glycerophospholipids, sphingolipids, and steroids. Mechanistic details are provided for understanding the pathways of formation of major product ions and ions used for structural characterization. In most cases specific ancillary information has been critical to understand the pathways, including isotope labeling and high resolution analysis of precursor and product ions. For a few specific examples such data is missing and pathways are proposed as a means to initiate further mass spectral experiments to prove or disprove pathway hypotheses. While this work largely centres on the lipid biochemistry of animal (mammalian) systems, general principles can be taken from the specific examples and applied to lipid biochemistry found in plants, fungi, prokaryotes and archeal organisms.

The efficient synthesis of heterocycles has become one of the main branches in organic chemistry due to their use in the synthesis of natural products and pharmaceuticals. Current sythentic strategies based on C-H activation methodologies are met with many problems like harsh reaction conditions and low reaction efficiency. Double functionalized chemicals offer a perfect alternative for the synthesis of heterocycles. Heterocycles from Double-Functionalized Arenes starts with a short discussion on the importance of heterocycles and a brief introduction on the preparation of double-functionalized arenes. Specific chapters then look at five-membered heterocycles synthesis, six-membered heterocycles synthesis and macroheterocycles synthesis.This is the first book dedicated to the topic of transition metal catalyzed coupling reactions of double functionalized arenes in heterocycle synthesis and can be used as a handbook for senior researchers and as an introduction for organic chemistry students.