The Chemical Bond: Structure and Dynamics

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This inspired book by some of the most influential scientists of our time--including six Nobel laureates--chronicles our emerging understanding of the chemical bond through the last nine decades and into the future. From Pauling's early structural work using x-ray and electron diffraction to Zewail's femtosecond lasers that probe molecular dynamics in real time; from Crick's molecular biology to Rich's molecular recognition, this book explores a rich tradition of scientific heritage and accomplishment. The perspectives given by Pauling, Perutz, Rich, Crick, Porter, Polanyi, Herschbach, Zewail, and Bernstein celebrate major scientific achievements in chemistry and biology with the chemical bond playing a fundamental role. In a unique presentation that also provides some lively insights into the very nature of scientific thought and discovery, The Chemical Bond: Structure and Dynamics will be of general interest to scientists, science historians, and the scientifically inclined populous.

Chemical Bonding Models (Molecular Structure and Energetics, Vol 1)

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Chemical Bonding Models (Molecular Structure and Energetics, Vol 1)
Joel F. Liebman
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The Chemical Bond, First Edition : Structure and Dynamics

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The Chemical Bond, First Edition : Structure and Dynamics
Ahmed Zewail
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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ASIN: B000OHDZBK

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A lot of information, but not-so-well explained..........2005-04-13

With an undergrad degree in chemistry and a year of graduate school (granted, without a focus solely in biochemistry), this text was often difficult for me to follow and gain much from. Though the text contained an impressive breadth of topics, this breadth came at the cost of depth. In my opinion, a textbook should more-or-less stand on its own in providing a clear understanding of a topic. All too often I didn't find this to be the case with the Fersht book. Instead, I often had to consult many of the references listed in the text to obtain sufficient understanding of topics. (Fortunately, the book includes extensive reference lists.) If looking up endless references (many old and sometimes difficult to obtain) is something you enjoy, this book is for you.--If not, forget it!

Highly recommend it.......2003-08-31

Hands down the bible of enzyme kinetics!

Anyone looking to learn more about enzyme kinetics, thermodynamics, structure, and function will find this book clear, thoughtfully written, and at the forefront in the field.

essential.......2002-05-01

If you are studying protein structure, you probably should read this book for reference.

This is solely my opinion, but I have learned new things and reinforced some old knowledge, as well. The book is well-written, and understandable, without being simplistic.

Some texts are difficult to understand, or dry, or facile. This is not one of those texts.

Biochemists Can't Miss.......2001-08-23

The book focuses on enzyme catalysis, stereochemistry of enzyme reactions, determination of rate constant, enzyme kinetics, and protein structure and folding. It would be an ideal reference for the study of protein chemistry. It can serve as the primary text for an advanced course in protein chemistry or a supplement for undergraduate biochemistry text.

Protein folding has remained one of the most intricate yet less understood process in modern biochemistry. Feersht's treatise of the subject in this book is splendid. The author overviews protein structure and diversity in the opening chapter. What I find really precious about this book is the discussion on protein engineering, forces on folding, and recombinant DNA technology in the context of protein folding.

Aside from protein chemistry, the chapter on chemical catalysis is excellent in learning more about transition state theory, general acid/base catalysis, covalent catalysis, structure-reactivity relationships, and kinetic isotope effects.

The Mother of All Enzyme Books.......2001-01-10

Man, this book rocked! I took one look at the ribbon structure of ATPase on the cover and said to myself, "Whoa dude! This is, like, phat!" Then I turned the pages and BAM! I was knee deep in protein structure! Like, any first-year biochemist knows its all about the acids, as in amino, and Fersht, he knows his peptides! Oh man, I was on cloud nine! And I've been off my meds for two months now! But you wanna know the real dope? You can't say diddly about function unless you know structure, and that Alan, as in Fersht, dude! Like, he starts you off simple, like, you know, with the "building blocks," like we're a bunch of two-year-olds, and you string 'em together and get all that higher-order structure and stuff, and slowly, ever so slowly, like a mental itch that invades your consciousness and becomes screaming voices telling you to AHHHHHHHHH! So many domains! Too many functional units! No, no, nooooooo! Schiff base? Shift Bass! Ah HA HA HA HA! What do all those K's mean!?! Take me home! Please...

The Enzymes: Mechanisms of Catalysis (The Enzymes)

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The Enzymes: Mechanisms of Catalysis (The Enzymes)
David S. Sigman
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The Enzyme Catalysis Process:Energetics, Mechanism and Dynamics (Nato a S I Series Series a, Life Sciences)

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The Enzyme Catalysis Process:Energetics, Mechanism and Dynamics (Nato a S I Series Series a, Life Sciences)

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Enzyme Kinetics and Mechanisms, Part E: Energetics of Enzyme Catalysis (Methods in Enzymology, Volume 308) (Methods in Enzymology)

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Enzyme Kinetics and Mechanisms, Part E: Energetics of Enzyme Catalysis (Methods in Enzymology, Volume 308) (Methods in Enzymology)

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ASIN: 0121822095

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This volume supplements Volumes 63, 64, 87, and 249 of Methods in Enzymology. These volumes provide a basic source for the quantitative interpretation of enzyme rate data and the analysis of enzyme catalysis. Among the major topics covered are Engergetic Coupling in Enzymatic Reactions, Intermediates and Complexes in Catalysis, Detection and Properties of Low Barrier Hydrogen Bonds, Transition State Determination, and Inhibitors.
The critically acclaimed laboratory standard for more than forty years, Methods in Enzymology is one of the most highly respected publications in the field of biochemistry. Since 1955, each volume has been eagerly awaited, frequently consulted, and praised by researchers and reviewers alike. Now with more than 300 volumes (all of them still in print), the series contains much material still relevant today--truly an essential publication for researchers in all fields of life sciences.

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A Classic.......2007-03-02

The Methods in Enzymolgy series is probably the most useful and respectable series of books for those of use who actually work in this field. This volume is a classic, even at almost 30 years old it is still excellent.

Enzymes Dependent on Pyridoxal Phosphate and Other Carbonyl Compounds As Cofactors: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Vitamin B6 and (International ... Union of Biochemistry// Symposium Series)

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Enzymes Dependent on Pyridoxal Phosphate and Other Carbonyl Compounds As Cofactors: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Vitamin B6 and (International ... Union of Biochemistry// Symposium Series)
Japan) International Symposium on Vitamin B and Carbonyl Catalysis (8th : 1990 : Osaka , H. Kagamiyama , K. Soda , and T. Fukui
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Enzymatic reaction mechanisms: Course notes, Chemistry 5.50

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Enzymatic reaction mechanisms: Course notes, Chemistry 5.50
Christopher Walsh
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ENZYME CATALYSIS PROCESS: ENERGETICS, MECHANISM, AND DYNAMICS (NATO ASI SERIES VOL. A178) (HB) "

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ENZYME CATALYSIS PROCESS: ENERGETICS, MECHANISM, AND DYNAMICS (NATO ASI SERIES VOL. A178) (HB) "
Cooper/houben/chien
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Enzyme Kinetics and Mechanisms, Part E: Energetics of Enzyme Catalysis (Methods in Enzymology, Volume 308) (Methods in Enzymology)
Academic Press
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The Enzymes: Mechanisms of Catalysis
David S. Sigman; Editor-Paul D. Boyer
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Structure and Mechanism in Protein Science A Guide to Enzyme Catalysis and Protein Folding

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Structure and Mechanism in Protein Science A Guide to Enzyme Catalysis and Protein Folding
Alan Fersht
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ASIN: B000N7GHXO

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Now you can capitalize on all the power and versatility of Intelligent Network (IN) technology, which frees you from previous network constraints, allowing you to provide customized user and carrier services. Written by four IN experts from AT&T and Bell Labs, this concise guide to the international IN standards will help you navigate the comprehensive ITU standards documents. The book covers IN concepts and structures. . .their technical and business importance. . .recent developments in IN integration with existing services like UPT, PCS, and Broadband. . .and ITU, ETSI, and ANSI IN protocols.

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Heavy on the AIN standards, sketchy on the applications........1998-12-05

This book gives a quite comprehensive roadmap and tour of the AIN standards. There are very useful reference sections and tables describing the various standards documents, what each contains, and how they relate to each other. In addition, the book contains one of the clearer descriptions of the AIN architectural concepts that I've come across. However, the book it actually a collaboration of several authors, each covering a separate area of the AIN architecture. This leads to a lack of continuity and a large variance in depth of coverage between chapters. Finally, some of the material simply regurgitates the contents of the standards themselves, providing less insight into an admittedly difficult subject than one would have hoped. But it *is* comprehensive.

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This concise, fast-paced text introduces the concepts and applications behind plane networks. Currently, there is nothing in book form dealing with the topics covered in this work. The presentation unfolds in a systematic, user-friendly style and goes from the basics to cutting-edge research.

Key features include:

* presentation of the basics required: fundamental material from linear algebra and differential equations

* examination of classical mathematical tools for analyzing discrete networks, followed by a well-developed theory, which is the continuous analogue of a discrete network

* transition from the discrete to the continuous case, described via finite elements; Ch. 3 involves an analysis of linear operators, variational calculus, boundary value problems for PDEs, and Green's functions; Green's functions are the continuous analogue of the discrete error covariance functions, and form the basis for all types of error prediction

* numerous examples and illustrations

* techniques applied to leveling and other observation types of networks in one and two dimensions

* several different applications of the continuous theory

* practical problems, supported by MATLAB files, underscore the continuous theory; additional material can be downloaded from the author's website at www.kom.auc.dk/~borre/network

* bibliography of recent results and index

Plane Networks and their Applications is aimed at applied mathematicians, mechanical engineers, geodesists and graduate students, and should be an excellent text for self-study, classroom, or reference

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Old Translations

Some of the best of 19th century German literature

Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century (Immensee. Peter Schlemihl. Brigitta)
Theodor Storm , Adelbert von Chamisso , and Adalbert Stifter
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Theodor Storm: Immensee / Adelbert von Chamisso: Peter Schlemihl / Adalbert Stifter: Brigitta ---Theodor Storm (1817 - 88), poet and short-story writer, was born in Schleswig... As early as 1843 he had made himself known as a lyrical poet of the Romantic School, ...but he wrote nothing that excels, in depth and tenderness of feeling, the charming story of Immensee; and taking his work all in all, Storm still ranks today as a master of the short story in Ger-man literature, rich though it is in this form of prose-fiction. (C. W. Bell) --- Peter Schlemihl, one of the pleasantest fancies of the days when Germany delighted in romance, was first published in 1814. The story is a poet's whim. Later writings of Chamisso (1781-1838) proved him to be one of the best lyric poets of the romance school of his time, entirely German in his tone of thought. (Henry Morley) --- Brigitta is usually regarded as an early example of German realism and written by probably the most accomplished Austrian prose writer of the nineteenth century, Adalbert Stifter (1805 - 68)..., an illustration of Stifter's didactic con-cern with inner beauty in contrast to outward appearances... Stifter instructs us in more than inner beauty by demonstrating for us - perhaps unwittingly - that the preferred and positive values of the civilized world are always already informed by their antinomies. (Robert C. Holub in: Brigitta, or the Lesson of Realism)

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Old Translations.......2007-08-12

This book collects old tanslations. E.g., Chamisso's "...Schlemihl" is in a 19th-century translation by Henry Morley. A more recent trans. is Harry Steinhauer's 1977 version in German Romantic Stories (Continuum, ed. Ryder). Stifter's 'Brigitta' is in Edward Fitzgerald's 1957 trans. (cf. Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly's 1990 trans.), Storm's 'Immensee' is C. W. Bell's trans.

Some of the best of 19th century German literature.......2005-02-23

The book contains three well known German novellas:

Theodor Storm: Immensee
Adelbert von Chamisso: Peter Schlemihl
Adalbert Stifter: Brigitta

Being German, I know them since I was an adolescent, and I love them. Therefore, here is what others have to say about them:

Theodor Storm (1817 - 88), poet and short-story writer, was born in Schleswig... As early as 1843 he had made himself known as a lyrical poet of the Romantic School, ...but he wrote nothing that excels, in depth and tenderness of feeling, the charming story of Immensee; and taking his work all in all, Storm still ranks today as a master of the short story in Ger-man literature, rich though it is in this form of prose-fiction. (C. W. Bell)

Peter Schlemihl, one of the pleasantest fancies of the days when Germany delighted in romance, was first published in 1814. The story is a poet's whim. Later writings of Chamisso (1781-1838) proved him to be one of the best lyric poets of the romance school of his time, entirely German in his tone of thought. (Henry Morley)

Brigitta is usually regarded as an early example of German realism and written by probably the most accomplished Austrian prose writer of the nineteenth century, Adalbert Stifter (1805 - 68)..., an illustration of Stifter's didactic con-cern with inner beauty in contrast to outward appearances... Stifter instructs us in more than inner beauty by demonstrating for us - perhaps unwittingly - that the preferred and positive values of the civilized world are always already informed by their antinomies. (Robert C. Holub in: Brigitta, or the Lesson of Realism)

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