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  • Review

    Reactions with arrows

    2009-07-28T16:40:23Z

    This book sets out to bridge the gap between the teaching lab and the research laboratory

  • Review

    Retrosynthesis

    2009-07-28T16:40:22Z

    Reinhard Hoffmann sets out to 'demystify' the art of synthetic planning

  • Review

    Starting from quantum theory

    2009-07-28T16:40:22Z

    The aim is to produce a book to accompany teaching physical chemistry according to this philosophy

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    Welcome to the nanoworld

    2009-07-28T16:40:22Z

    The book is perfectly balanced and contains many new chapters with detailed and comprehensive information

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    Molecules on a large scale

    2009-07-28T16:40:22Z

    the second edition of Steed and Atwood's Supramolecular chemistry is the most comprehensive overview of the area available in textbook form

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    Jump start thermodynamics

    2009-07-28T16:40:22Z

    The book provides a coherent and refreshing introduction to thermodynamics, restricting itself to simple algebra with no calculus

  • Review

    In brief

    2009-07-28T16:40:22Z

    Short items

  • Review

    Arrow-pushing in organic chemistry: An easy approach to understanding reaction mechanisms

    2009-07-28T16:40:22Z

    From the blurb for this new text, I expected a student-friendly book

  • Review

    New light

    2009-07-28T16:40:21Z

    This textbook aims to familiarise both students and researchers with the critical concepts and methods involved in studies of organic molecular photochemistry

  • Review

    Chemistry primer

    2009-07-28T16:40:21Z

    It provides students with an understanding of the fundamental principles of chemistry on which to build later studies

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    Hands up for chiral chemistry

    2009-07-28T16:40:21Z

    The importance of knowing left from right

  • Review

    Bio-aided chemistry

    2009-07-28T16:40:21Z

    The latest volume in a series primarily aimed at postgraduates and researchers published by Wiley

  • Review

    Chemical basis of biology

    2009-07-28T16:40:21Z

    An excellent new textbook in this area targeted at third and fourth year undergraduates

  • Review

    Fundamentals of asymmetric catalysis

    2009-07-28T16:40:21Z

    The book deals with Lewis acid, Lewis base, metal-based catalysis and organic catalysis

  • Careers

    Profile: Life, but not as we know it

    2009-07-28T14:51:24Z

    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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    Opinion

    Thiele tube

    2009-07-28T14:07:00Z

    Johannes Thiele - the Prussian inventor of a temperature-stable convection heating tube for melting point analysis

  • Careers

    Profile: Criminal chemistry

    2009-06-29T11:39:29Z

    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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    Opinion

    Mary's bath

    2009-06-29T10:22:00Z

    Approximately 2nd century AD. One of the earliest alchemists, inventor of the 'bain marie', the kerotakis apparatus and the tribikos still

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2009-06-26T15:26:07Z

    30 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • Review

    Academic Inspiration

    2009-06-26T15:09:28Z

    The highs and lows of creating a business from university research