Chemistry Subject Research Guide: Print Resources

One of the greatest challenges facing chemists and chemical educators today is conveying the central importance and relevance of chemistry to students and society at large. The new edition of Chemistry Connections highlights the fundamental role of chemical principles in governing our everyday experiences and observations. Introductory chemistry students and educators as well as laypersons with an inquisitiveness about the world around them will find the book an informative introduction to the context of chemistry in their lives. The book is written in a lively question-and-answer format with presentations in both lay and technical terms.

The Chemistry Maths Book is a comprehensive textbook of mathematics for undergraduate students of chemistry. Such students often find themselves unprepared and ill-equipped to deal with the mathematical content of their chemistry courses. Textbooks designed to overcome this problem have so far been too basic for complete undergraduate courses and have been unpopular with students. However this modern textbook provides a complete and up-to-date course companion suitable for all levels of undergraduate chemistry courses. All the most useful and important topics are covered with numerous examples of applications in chemistry and some in physics. The subject is developed in a logical and consistent way with few assumptions of prior knowledge of mathematics. This text is sure to become a widely adopted text and will be highly recommended for all chemistry courses.

A rigorous, comprehensive introduction to soil chemistry, this text is aimed at students and researchers who are not soil chemists. The author describes soil minerals and organic matter in soils and the soil solution, and provides in-depth coverage of important chemical processes, includingsolubility reactions, oxidation-reduction phenomena, adsorption, and ion exchange. The three final chapters present detailed applications to soil-plant relationships, fertilizer reactions in soils, acidity, salinity, mineral weathering, and soil management. Over 200 problems at varying levels ofdifficulty are coordinated with the text, and an appendix on SI units summarizes their use in soil chemistry.

This volume is a collection of the Nobel Lectures delivered by the prizewinners, together with their biographies, portraits and the presentation speeches at the award ceremonies in Stockholm for the period 1991 - 1995. Each Nobel Lecture is based on the work for which the laureate was awarded the prize. New biographical data of the laureates, since they were awarded the Nobel Prize, are also included. These volumes of inspiring lectures by outstanding chemists and biochemists should be on the bookshelf of every keen student, teacher and professor of chemistry as well as of those in related fields.Below is a list of the prizewinners during the period 1991 - 1995 with a description of the works which won them their prizes.(1991) R R ERNST -- for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy; (1992) R A MARCUS -- for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems; (1993) For contributions to the developments of methods within DNA-based chemistry: K B MULLIS -- for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method; M SMITH -- for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleiotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies; (1994) G A OLAH -- for his contribution to carbocation chemistry; (1995) P CRUTZEN, M J MOLINA & F S ROWLAND -- for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone.

These volumes are collections of the Nobel Lectures delivered by the prizewinners, together with their biographies, portraits and the presentation speeches for the period 1971 - 1990. Each Nobel Lecture is based on the work that won the laureate his prize. New biographical data of the laureates, since they were awarded the Nobel Prize, are also included. These volumes of inspiring lectures by outstanding chemists and biochemists should be on the bookshelf of every keen student, teacher and professor of chemistry as well as those in related fields.Below is a list of the prizewinners during the period 1971 - 1980 with a description of the works which won them their prizes: (1971) G HERZBERG -- for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals; (1972) C B ANFINSEN -- for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active confirmation; S MOORE & W H STEIN -- for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule; (1973) E O FISCHER & G WILKINSON -- for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds; (1974) P J FLORY -- for his fundamental achievements, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of macromolecules; (1975) J W CORNFORTH -- for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions; V PRELOG -- for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions; (1976) W N LIPSCOMB -- for his studies on the structure of boranes, illuminating problems of chemical bonding; (1977) I PRIGOGINE -- for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures; (1978) P MITCHELL -- for his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory; (1979) H C BROWN & G WITTIG -- for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively into important reagents in organic synthesis; (1980) P BERG -- for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA; W GILBERT and F SANGER -- for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids.

Below is a list of the prizewinners during the period 1981 - 1990 with a description of the works which won them their prizes: (1981) K FUKUI & R HOFFMANN -- for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions; (1982) A KLUG -- for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nuclei acid-protein complexes; (1983) H TAUBE -- for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes; (1984) R B MERRIFIELD -- for his development of the methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix; (1985) H A HAUPTMAN & J KARLE -- for their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures; (1986) D R HERSCHBACH, Y T LEE & J C POLANYI -- for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes; (1987) D J CRAM, J-M LEHN & C J PEDERSEN -- for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity; (1988) J DEISENHOFER, R HUBER & H MICHEL -- for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre; (1989) S ALTMAN & T R CECH -- for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA; (1990) E J COREY -- for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis.

This volume is a collection of the Nobel Lectures delivered by the prizewinners, together with their biographies, portraits and the presentation speeches at the award ceremonies in Stockholm for the period 1996 - 2000. Each Nobel Lecture is based on the work for which the laureate was awarded the prize. New biographical data of the laureates, since they were awarded the Nobel Prize, are also included. These volumes of inspiring lectures by outstanding chemists and biochemists should be on the bookshelf of every keen student, teacher and professor of chemistry as well as of those in related fields.Below is a list of the prizewinners during the period 1996-2000 with a description of the works which won them their prizes.(1996) R F CURL, Jr, H W KROTO & R E SMALLEY -- for their discovery of fullerenes; (1997) P D BOYER & J E WALKER -- for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and; J C SKOU -- for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+-ATPase; (1998) W KOHN -- for his development of the density-functional theory and; J A POPLE -- for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry; (1999) A H ZEWAIL -- for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy; (2000) A J HEEGER, A G MacDIARMID & H SHIRAKAWA -- for the discovery and development of conductive polymers.

This volume is a collection of the Nobel Lectures delivered by the prizewinners, together with their biographies and the presentation speeches at the award ceremonies in Stockholm for the period 2001 - 2005. Each Nobel Lecture is based on the work for which the laureate was awarded the prize. This volume of inspiring lectures by outstanding chemists and biochemists should be on the bookshelf of every keen student, teacher and professor of chemistry as well as of those in related fields. Below is a list of the prizewinners during the period 2001 - 2005 with a description of the works which won them their prizes.(2001) William S Knowles, Ryoji Noyori -- for their work on chirally catalyzed hydrogenation reactions & K Barry Sharpless -- for his work on chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions; (2002) John B Fenn, Koichi Tanaka -- for their development of soft desorption ionization methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules & Kurt W thrich -- for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution; (2003) Peter Agre -- for the discovery of water channels & Roderick MacKinnon -- for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels; (2004) Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko & Irwin Rose -- for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation; (2005) Yves Chauvin, Robert H Grubbs & Richard R Schrock -- for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis.