1. Edition - April 2011
34.90 Euro
2011. 320 Pages, Softcover
- General Reading -
ISBN-10: 0-470-39043-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-39043-6 - John Wiley & Sons






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Short description
Written with a personal, humorous touch by today's chemistry luminaries, Letters to a Young Chemist offers hypothetical missives from a professor to a chemistry undergrad considering a career in several subdisciplines. These include organic, inorganic, experimental physical, analytical, and theoretical chemistry, as well as chemical biology materials chemistry, and green chemistry. The authors discuss major achievements, future prospects, and the challenges and satisfactions of a career in each. These entertaining and informative pieces will appeal to a wide range of chemistry students, instructors, and professionals, as well as the interested public.

From the contents
FOREWORD (Stephen J. Lippard).

PREFACE.

CONTRIBUTORS.

Part I From Fundamentals to Applications.

1. Let's Get Physical (Marye Anne Fox).

2. In Silico: An Alternate Approach to Chemistry and Biology (David A. Case).

3. The Purple Planet: A Short Tour of Porphyrins and Related Macrocycles (Abhik Ghosh).

4. Anesthesia: Don't Forget Your Chemistry (Jonathan L. Sessler and Daniel I. Sessler).

5. The Green Evolution (Terrence J. Collins).

Part II Chemistry and the Life Sciences.

6. Thinking Like an Enzyme (Judith P. Klinman).

7. Making Sense of Oxygen (Marie-Alda Gilles-Gonzalez).

8. Let's Visualize Biology: Chemistry and Cellular Imaging (Elizabeth M. Nolan).

9. Bioinorganic Chemistry: Show Your Mettle by Meddling with Metals (Kara L. Bren).

10. Better Than Sliced Bread (Chaitan Khosla).

11. Choreographing DNA (Cynthia J. Burrows).

Part III Functional Materials.

12. Supramolecules to the Rescue! (Seth M. Cohen).

13. Biomaterials at the Beach: How Marine Biology Uses Chemistry to Make Materials (Jonathan J. Wilker).

14. The Advantage of Being Small: Nanotechnology (Michael J. Sailor).

Part IV Chemistry and Energy.

15. Happy Campers: Chemists' Solutions to Energy Problems (Penelope J. Brothers).

16. Clean Electrons and Molecules Will Save the World (Carl C. Wamser).

17. Metals, Microbes, and Solar Fuel (Harry B. Gray and John S. Magyar).

INDEX.