All Culture and people articles – Page 187
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Arrow-pushing in organic chemistry: An easy approach to understanding reaction mechanisms
From the blurb for this new text, I expected a student-friendly book
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Chemistry primer
It provides students with an understanding of the fundamental principles of chemistry on which to build later studies
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Bio-aided chemistry
The latest volume in a series primarily aimed at postgraduates and researchers published by Wiley
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Chemical basis of biology
An excellent new textbook in this area targeted at third and fourth year undergraduates
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Fundamentals of asymmetric catalysis
The book deals with Lewis acid, Lewis base, metal-based catalysis and organic catalysis
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Careers
Profile: Life, but not as we know it
In Second Life real people live in a virtual world. Joanna Scott has a actual job there, organising scientific events within the online environment, reports Sarah Houlton
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OpinionThiele tube
Johannes Thiele - the Prussian inventor of a temperature-stable convection heating tube for melting point analysis
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Profile: Criminal chemistry
Helen Bandey faced choosing between a scientific career and the police force. But then she found the perfect job as a scientist at the Home Office, as she tells Yfke Hager
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OpinionMary's bath
Approximately 2nd century AD. One of the earliest alchemists, inventor of the 'bain marie', the kerotakis apparatus and the tribikos still
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Plant Polyphenols
Chemistry and biology of ellagitannins: an underestimated class of bioactive plant polyphenols