This entry-level textbook prepares college students for advanced science courses by bridging the gap from high school chemistry. It emphasizes the history of the discipline to create a storyline, showing how modern chemical vocabulary makes sense only in the light of history.
This book covers the theory of Raman scattering by molecules and crystals, including molecular vibrations and their symmetry. It details Raman spectroscopic techniques and is ideal for students and scientists researching chemical, mineralogical, and biological systems.
An accessible guide to the basic concepts of atomic & molecular quantum structure and how we probe it using light. These ideas underpin modern science. Ideal for undergraduates, this book includes in-chapter examples, questions, workbooks, and accompanying online videos.
Explore the limitations of traditional lithium-ion batteries and the potential of silicon as an alternative to graphite anodes. This guide navigates the challenges of pure silicon, presenting innovative solutions with diverse carbon nanomaterials and Si-based hybrids.
Archaeological Chemistry
This multidisciplinary volume presents new research in archaeological chemistry, applying chemical techniques to study the material remains of past cultures. It shows how the field combines analytical chemistry, history, and materials science to better understand our past.
The first monograph to present the big picture of Artificial Intelligence in spectroscopy. Its rigorous mathematical basis, numerous examples, and reproducible computer calculations make it a valuable guide for theorists, practitioners, and students in chemistry and physics.
This book is a comprehensive overview of clay science, covering the characterization and application of clay minerals. Explore applications in pharmaceuticals, wastewater treatment, construction, and agriculture. An important reference for researchers, scientists, and engineers.
Complexes of Natural Flavonoids with Transition Metals
The beneficial effects of plants are associated with flavonoids, which bind metals to form complexes. This book summarizes the scientific evidence on the structure, chemistry, and biological function of these metal-flavonoid complexes and their effect on disease.
Most chemists have little understanding of crystallography. This book provides a basic, non-mathematical education on crystallographic methods, written in language chemists use. It is designed for students and any chemist who has had no instruction in the subject.
Cyclic and Noncyclic Organic Compounds
This textbook covers the main classes of organic compounds, their structure, properties, and preparation. It connects theoretical concepts like stereochemistry, kinetics, and thermodynamics with modern methods of synthesis and analysis. For university students of chemistry.
This is the first book to form the big picture of all data analytics methods in spectroscopy. Its rigorous mathematical basis, in-depth descriptions, numerous examples, and reproducible calculations make it a valuable guide for practitioners, students, and lecturers.
This book sums up over half a century of research in derivative spectroscopy. For the first time, it offers the big picture of all spectroscopic and non-spectroscopic derivative methods, with reproducible calculations, serving as a practical guide for researchers and students.
Dynamic Stereochemistry
Master dynamic stereochemistry. This guide systematically explores substitution, addition, elimination, and pericyclic reactions. Learn with clear examples and test your knowledge using the chapter exercises, which include full solutions.
Explore eco-friendly bromination using bromide-bromate salts, which generate only salt water as waste. This guide covers key reactions, from aromatic substitutions to oxidations. With simple, novel, and economically viable methods, it’s essential for academia and industry.
Ethnochemistry
This guide to ethnosciences links traditional knowledge with modern scientific inquiry. It examines ethnochemistry, from the medicinal marvels of plants to traditional dyes, envisioning it as a catalyst for innovation, conservation, and cultural preservation.
Heterogeneous catalysis is founded on solid state chemistry, but the relationship is often elusive. This book provides insights into solid state chemistry to widen the vision of catalysis, covering structure, bonding, and defects and their implications.
This guide to inorganic and organic chemistry is for students and competitors. Sample problems and solutions develop skills of analysis and problem-solving. It covers redox processes and qualitative reactions for identifying important ions, elements, and functional groups.
This book explores the principles of stereoisomers in a clear, accessible manner. Covering topics like symmetry and chirality with illustrations and cartoons, it helps students prepare for exams with chapter exercises and provided solutions for self-assessment.
For students in medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry, this text covers General and Inorganic Chemistry with a focus on medical applications. It presents chemical principles and explores their role in developing metal-based diagnostic and therapeutic agents and new cancer therapies.
Based on undergraduate course notes, this book makes chemical physics concepts easier to understand with numerous solved examples. It clearly explains states of matter, then experimental laws in solution, before using thermochemistry to explain the principles behind them.