This book defines and classifies polyisoprenoids, describes the characteristics of polyprenols, dolichols and their phosphates, and the metabolism ...

Beautiful, translucent and indestructible, jade has a mystique that's captivated people since Neolithic times. Stan Leaming, Canada's leading jade ...

An approach to the investigation of the thermodynamic and kinetic stability of variable-valence metal complexes has been developed. Concepts of the...

Kinetics & Mechanisms of Chemical Reactions

This is the second volume of works of Prof. Gennady Efremovich Zaikov and his colleagues dedicates to 75th anniversary of his birth. The first volu...

From the point of view of hydrogen, desorption metal hydrides are extremely complex and interesting. Various metal hydrides differ so much, range i...

Professor Yurii B Monakov was a world-renowned scientist and exceptional person who deserves our deepest admiration. This volume is dedicated to hi...

This book presents current research on reactive oxygen species in joint physiology, including possible mechanism of maintaining hypoxia to protect ...

Lanthanum is a chemical element with the symbol La and atomic number 57. Lanthanum is a silvery white metallic element that belongs to group 3 of t...

When the output from a pulsed laser is forced onto a small spot of a sample, optically induced plasma, called laser-induced plasma (LIP) is formed ...

The chemical or biological process whereby the presence of an external compound, a catalyst, serves as an agent to cause a chemical reaction to occ...

Organometallic chemistry is based on the reactions and use of a class of compounds (R-M) that contain a covalent bond between carbon and metal. The...

Polymers are substances containing a large number of structural units joined by the same type of linkage. These substances often form into a chain-...

This book deals with polymers and composite materials, which is currently one of the fastest developing branches of science and practice, which mer...

This book presents new and significant research progress on composite materials which are engineered materials made from two or more constituent ma...

Developed in this book is a classic presentation about the structure and physical properties of polymers. Particular emphasis is placed upon peculi...

Rate constants for reactions of 11 hydrochlorofluorocarbons and 12 hydrofluorocarbons were measured by means of the absolute rate method over the t...

Since the early investigations by Berthelot (1862) and N.A. Menshutkin (1887) the solvent effects on the chemical reaction rate is an object of reg...

This book presents an overview of lipid peroxidation: inhibition, effects and mechanisms. The topics analysed, cover a broad spectrum of functions ...

Basic problems concerning the computer simulation of liquid metals in usual and extreme conditions with the use of interparticle potentials, mainly...

In petroleum engineering, liquid nitrogen can be used to aid in fracturing the formation rock because of its extremely cryogenic temperature. With ...

The book presents important information about creation of models of solvent influence on solute behaviour. The authors explain linear free energy (...

Liquid-Liquid Systems

Liquid-Phase Oxidation of Unsaturated Compounds

Lithium is a chemical element with unique properties. Its applications in today's world are countless, from psychiatry to cell phones, and we are s...

The living/controlled polymerisation techniques opened new vistas in polymer chemistry. The leading authorities in this field and its pioneers cont...

Low Flammability Polymeric Materials

This volume provides the readers an in-depth, yet concise, overview of the physico-chemical structures, luminescence and related properties of II-V...

A macrocycle is, as defined by IUPAC, "a cyclic macromolecule or a macromolecular cyclic portion of a molecule". In the chemical literature, organi...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of macromolecular chemistry. Topics include efficient biotechological tools on GM c...

Magneto-structural studies on polynuclear complexes, aimed at understanding the structural and chemical factors that govern the exchange coupling b...

Magnetite is one of the two most important iron ores, the other being hematite. Although hematite is more abundant world-wide, magnetite is more wi...

Life is controlled by chemistry. Chemistry is not the whole life but the life is totally chemistry. Chemistry is a key to biology. Nothing in biolo...

When polyolefins are functionalised to modify its chemical structure and polarity, some other secondary reactions take place as well. The grafting ...

Malachite green is a green, crystalline, water soluble, triphenyl methylene chloride salt with several sources, including the dye industry, textile...

This compilation opens with a distinct perspective on the solubility of maleic anhydride, presenting the research findings regarding the identifica...