Pharmacists or their pharmaceutical equivalents have
been responsible for compounding medicines for cen
turies. Recently this role has been challenged in the
pharmaceutical literature with suggestions and recom
mendations that it is inappropriate for the pharmaceu
tical practitioner to compound medicines in a local
pharmacy...
'This is a timely, thoughtful and authoritative account of the current state of play on the ecological battlefront'. Rouvray D., 2008. Biodiversity for chemists. Chemistry World, 5 (1), p.p.64-65.
There is much public concern about threats to global biodiversity. Industrial pollution, changes in agricultural practices...
The second edition of this popular title Archaeological Chemistry builds on the successful formula of the first edition. The existing case studies have been expanded to take account of new perspectives and new data in the intervening decade since the 1st edition was published. In addition, two new chapters emphasise the significant increase in...
The Chemistry and Biology of Winemaking not only discusses the science of winemaking but also aims to provide the reader with a wider appreciation of the impact of oenology on human society. Beginning with a history of wine the book discusses a wide range of topics, with particular emphasis on the organisms involved.
Carried in wallets and displayed in homes, photographs are a common, but often an overlooked feature of modern life. And, with the advent of digital technology many believe that the so called 'wet chemistry' behind old fashioned photography is a thing of the past - but is it?
The Chemistry of Photography endeavours to unravel the mysteries of...
Many nuclear reactors and components are coming to the end of their 'useful' life and strategies for the effective management of these decommissioned parts are paramount. Management of Ageing Processes in Graphite Reactor Cores discusses in detail both the scientific challenges and the issues involved in this subject. Covering fundamentals of...
The discovery of caged carbon structures, in 1985, established a whole new field of carbon chemistry. Unlike graphite and diamond, these structures known as fullerenes are finite in structure and are relevant to a wide variety of fields including supramolecular assemblies, nanostructures, optoelectronic devices and a whole range of biological...
The aim of this textbook is to treat each numerical problem in basic physical chemistry with a systematic step-wise approach of a working method. It hopes to encourage students to think out their own approach. It covers the basic principles of introductory physical chemistry. Each chapter contains an introduction, followed by a typical examination...
This book is designed as a laboratory manual of methods used for the preparation and extraction of organic chemical compounds from food sources. It offers ideas on how to facilitate progress towards the total automation of the assay, as well as proposing assays for unknowns by comparison with known methods.
Functional Group Chemistry presents the chemistry of functional groups with an emphasis on patterns of reactivity, the consequences of the relative electronegativity of the atoms that constitute functional groups, the role of lone pairs and the stereochemistry of reactions at a particular group. The material is presented in four chapters. The...
The wonderful complexity of organic chemistry involves thousands of
different reactions which allow the synthesis and interconversions of millions
of compounds, some of great complexity. The key to understanding
this vital branch of chemistry is the concept of the reaction mechanism.
There are many techniques of varying degrees of generality for the study
of mechanisms and that of free energy relationships is the most readily
applicable and general. Free energy relationships comprise the simplest
and easiest of techniques to use but the results are probably the trickiest
to interpret of all the mechanistic...
