Taking us beyond the confines of our own experiences, The Color of North traverses the kingdom of life to uncover the myriad ways that proteins shape us and all organisms on the planet. Inside every cell, a tight-knit community of millions of proteins skillfully contorts into unique shapes to give fireflies their ghostly glow, enable the octopus to see predators with its skin, and make humans fall in love.

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This guide includes 240 pages of information separated into first-term and additional full-year organic chemistry material. Each section contains material that also aligns to most organic chemistry textbooks for a seamless addition to study materials for students.

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The first part of the textbook presents basic theoretical topics such as the structure of the atom, periodic table and law, chemical bonding and complex compounds. It includes topics related to chemical processes, such as chemical thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, catalysis, chemical equilibrium, redox processes, physicochemical analysis, as well as topics on solutions, such as disperse systems, electrolyte solutions and colloidal solutions.

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The book thoroughly explores the principles and characteristics that define stereoisomers. It covers fundamental topics such as symmetry and chirality, absolute and relative configuration, conformations of cyclic and acyclic molecules, stereoisomerism and prostereoisomerism, resolution, and racemisation, all presented in a clear and accessible manner.

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The present book describes the applications of the principles of stereochemistry in organic reactions (called dynamic stereochemistry). The stereochemical aspects of substitution, addition, elimination (including fragmentations) reactions and rearrangements are discussed in a most systematic way.

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This book covers the basic concepts of acids and bases, and explores the inductive effect, resonance effect, steric effect, and solvent effect, among others, on the strength of acids or bases, as well as hydrogen bonding. It also discusses the difficulties of proposing a suitable mechanism for any reaction.

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Here, Paul Hawken looks at the flow of life through the lens of carbon. Embracing a panoramic view of carbon's omnipresence, he explores how this ubiquitous and essential element extends into every aperture of existence and shapes the entire fabric of life.

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Bioanalytical chemistry plays today a central role in various fields, from healthcare to food and environmental control. This book presents the main methodologies for analyzing biomacromolecules, with a focus on methods based on molecular recognition.

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Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES) and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS or ESCA) are well-established techniques for surface analysis and also (when combined with sputter depth profiling) for thin film and interface analysis. This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject for over 10 years, during which time there have been many advances in instrumentation and performance, understanding of electron spectroscopy fundamentals, experimental methodology and data interpretation, which have markedly enhanced the capabilities of AES and XPS. All this new information is now integrated into a thoroughly up-to-date reference volume for the benefit of researcher and practical analyst alike.

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The publication of this volume continues the supplementation of the second edition of Rodd's Chemistry of Carbon Compounds thus keeping this major work of reference up-to-date. The contents of this volume supplement chapters 20, 21, and 22 of Volume IVE of the second edition. Chapter 22 of the second edition was a reproduction of chapter IX of the original edition and was published as a tribute to Sir Robert Robinson. Advances in this area have been incorporated into the main text of the supplement. Although the chapters in this book stand on their own, they are intended to be read in conjunction with the parent chapters in the second edition.

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