This original and fascinating book highlights the most important developments in chemistry over the past thirty years. The New Chemistry covers the latest research trends in a wide range of fields, both theoretical and experimental. It consists of seventeen self-contained chapters, each covering a different topic in chemistry, ranging from the discovery of new elements and synthetic techniques to the design of drugs and materials. Each chapter is written by one of the world's leading chemists in that particular field, including several Nobel Prize winners. Throughout, the volume is copiously illustrated with photographs and explanatory diagrams. Written in a lively and accessible style, this showcase for modern chemistry will interest all readers and also serve as a useful reference.
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"Without a doubt, it is a carefully written and superbly produced work. It is truly a joy to read this book. ... I enthusiatically recommend this book to students of science, regardless of their major, age, and area of expertise. This book should [be] on the shelf of every library, personal and institutional." Journal of Food Biochemistry
"Ask a bunch of otherwise well-informed chemists what exactly they think is going on in the field. The answer will probably be 'not much.' The New Chemistry is the book to set them right...Nina Hall has assembled a glittering array of authors to flesh out the current excitements. There is, in fact, so much happening that the contents are too diverse to list in full...and overall? The book is beautifully produced...It's good value for money. You get several Nobel winners for your 30 pounds. Recommended as good background material for chemists and the scientifically literate with chemical interests." New Scientist
"Informative articles....give[s] the nonchemist a solid impression of the possibilities, directions, and critical limitations in each of the research areas discussed....individual topics and particular implications should interest scientists from a wide range of fields." Science
"Covers a sufficiently broad scope that even those who have spent too many years thinking about atoms and molecules will find that its essays contain surprises....Much of Hall's book should be easily understandable by other natural scientists....Do[es] a good job of describing chemistry to chemists in ways that catch the imagination." Nature
"In virtually every chapter I came upon findings that were totally unknown 30 years ago and that have proven to be major advances in our understanding of chemistry. Indeed, every chapter (all 17 of them and a very thoughtful introduction by Professor Roald Hoffman), proved to be chock full of delightful tidbits that gave me a marvelous appreciation of just how creative and inventive chemists have been in the latter third of the 20th century....A delightful book that completely lives up to the marketing blurb on its dust jacket." Pesticide Biology
"This book is a challenging survey of the past 30 years of chemistry. Take a holiday from medicine and return to the foundations, and you will find it rewarding." bmj.com
"[This book] is a fine production with many structures, pictures, and photographs. There should be many younger enquirers who would profit from time spent with this book." inform
"I recommend the book highly to anyone who wishes to have on his or her shelf a single volume that covers the grand sweep of the new chemistry, from its origins in the latter half of the 20th century, to its potential opportunity in the years ahead." Chemical Engineering
"Ask a bunch of otherwise well-informed chemists what exactly they think is going on in the field. The answer will probably be 'not much.' The New Chemistry is the book to set them right...Nina Hall has assembled a glittering array of authors to flesh out the current excitements. There is, in fact, so much happening that the contents are too diverse to list in full...and overall? The book is beautifully produced...It's good value for money. You get several Nobel winners for your 30 pounds. Recommended as good background material for chemists and the scientifically literate with chemical interests." New Scientist
"Informative articles....give[s] the nonchemist a solid impression of the possibilities, directions, and critical limitations in each of the research areas discussed....individual topics and particular implications should interest scientists from a wide range of fields." Science
"Covers a sufficiently broad scope that even those who have spent too many years thinking about atoms and molecules will find that its essays contain surprises....Much of Hall's book should be easily understandable by other natural scientists....Do[es] a good job of describing chemistry to chemists in ways that catch the imagination." Nature
"In virtually every chapter I came upon findings that were totally unknown 30 years ago and that have proven to be major advances in our understanding of chemistry. Indeed, every chapter (all 17 of them and a very thoughtful introduction by Professor Roald Hoffman), proved to be chock full of delightful tidbits that gave me a marvelous appreciation of just how creative and inventive chemists have been in the latter third of the 20th century....A delightful book that completely lives up to the marketing blurb on its dust jacket." Pesticide Biology
"This book is a challenging survey of the past 30 years of chemistry. Take a holiday from medicine and return to the foundations, and you will find it rewarding." bmj.com
"[This book] is a fine production with many structures, pictures, and photographs. There should be many younger enquirers who would profit from time spent with this book." inform
"I recommend the book highly to anyone who wishes to have on his or her shelf a single volume that covers the grand sweep of the new chemistry, from its origins in the latter half of the 20th century, to its potential opportunity in the years ahead." Chemical Engineering
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The New Chemistry highlights the most important developments in chemistry over the past 30 years, covering the latest research trends in a wide range of fields, both theoretical and experimental. The book consists of 17 self-contained chapters, each covering a different topic and written by one of the world's leading chemists in that particular field. It includes contributions from several Nobel Prize winners and is copiously illustrated with photographs and explanatory diagrams. Written in a lively and accessible style, this book will be of interest to scientists of all disciplines.
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fused species, attendant ligands, activated reactant, elemental density, cavitational collapse, supramolecular catalysts, fluid hydrogen, caesium atom, thermodynamic branch, transuranium elements, supramolecular arrays, supramolecular systems, sandwich compounds, homogeneous steady state, chemisorption site, retrosynthetic analysis, indirect reaction, supramolecular chemistry, metallic behaviour, hollow site, metal centre, molecular materials, loading module, external electrical field Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Metal-Insulator Transitions (Second Edition) by Nevill Mott on page 6 (1), and page 6 (2)
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson on page 285, and page 287
- Photodissociation Dynamics: Spectroscopy and Fragmentation of Small Polyatomic Molecules (Cambridge Monographs on Atomic, Molecular and Chemical Physics) by Reinhard Schinke on page 6
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