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Detailed descriptions of experimental and theoretical works are given. The last two articles are Actinide-specific Sequestering agents and Decontamination Applications (K. N. Raymond and W. L. Smith) and Novel Structures in Iron-Sulphur Proteins (V. A. Xavier, J. J. G. Moura and I. Moura). The former describes research on sequestering agents capable of removing plutonium deposited in bone, whilst the latter presents the information available on the novel iron-sulphur centres found in ironsulphur proteins_ Techniques to identify the centres are described and the oxidation-reduction potentials involved are discussed. J. W. Landolt-Biirnstein, Numerical Data and Functional Relationships in Science and Technology, New Series, editor-in-chief K.-H. Hellwege. Group III: Crystal and Solid State Physics, Vol. 7, Crystal Structure Data of Inorganic Compounds, Part d2, Key Elements B, Al, Go, In, Tl, Be, by R. Allmann, W. Pies and A. Weiss, edited by K.-H. Hellwege and A. M. Hellwege, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg and New York, 1980, pp. xxv + 330, price DM 425.00. One of the tasks of a reviewer of this volume must be to draw the attention of his readers to the niche occupied by the book (abbreviated 111/7d2) in the mammoth.Landolt-Biirnstein Series of reference works; I simply refer my readers to the lengthy delineation above. 111/7d2, prepared with the usual scrupulous care of the Series, consists of tables of crystallographic data for inorganic compounds of the elements B through Be (see above). The literature is covered up to 1978 (completely up to 1971, ‘relevant literature’ up to 1978). The data presented for each selected substance are comprehensive but stop short of atomic coordinates and interatomic distances. The xxv introductory pages are printed in English and German, as are the headings to the tables, but the limited text within the tables is in German. This policy makes the volume eminently readable whatever the main language of the reader. My only reservation is as to the wisdom of producing such a reference series when other works presenting the same data exist (e.g., Structure Reports). I must, however, praise the excellent systematization of the Landolt-Bernstein Series. B. B. Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy of Polymers, by H. W. Siesler and K. Holland-Moritz, M. Dekker, Basel, 1980, pp. vii + 389, price Swiss Fr. 132. This publication is Volume 4 in Edward Brame’s excellent series “Practical Spectroscopy”. As implied by the title, this book is meant to explain how vibrational spectroscopy can be used as an effective problem-solving tool in polymer studies.
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In view of the large amount of published material and the necessity of covering the basic theory and experimental techniques, a detailed discussion covering all classes of polymers has not been possible. All major applications are, however, covered. These include identification and analysis, structural order, near-infrared and low-frequency regions, and resonance-Raman studies. The publication of a modem account on this topic is timely in view of the great advances made since the early monographs appeared. This book is well organised and clearly written. It should be invaluable to industrial chemists, and made available to all academic spectroscopists. W. J. O.-T. Itzfrared Reference Spectra, British Pharmacopoeia 1980, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, 1981, pp. xiv + 310, price 640.00. This companion volume to British Pharmacopoeia 1980 provides a collection of 273 spectra of pharmaceutical substances mentioned in the Pharmacopoeia. It will be of great value to any analyst concerned with the identification of drugs. J.W. Structural Studies of Molecules of Biological Interest. A Volume in Honour of Dorothy Hodgkin, edited by G. Dodson, J. P. Glusker and D. Sayre, Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1981, pp. xviii + 610, price s39.00. This is the best “Festschrift” volume I have ever read. The editors were aided, of course, by having as their focal point Nobel prizewinner Dorothy Hodgkin. They have gone beyond her admittedly marvellous contribution to science and presented us, in addition, with a full-scale loving portrait of a remarkable woman. A warm regard for those who worked with her, and her concern for their welfare during their stay in her group are in stark contrast to the big group, high efficiency impersonal approach associated with so many other leaders of science. In their introduction, the editors outline the career of Dorothy Hodgkin and this is fleshed out in a historical section containing extremely readable and interesting personal recollections by some of the eminent scientists who collaborated with Dorothy Hodgkin duringvarious important scientific facets of her life. These contributions by M. F. Perutz, Sir David Phillips, D. P. Riley, F. Welsh, C. H. Carlisle, Linus Pauling and Tang Yu Chi, are fascinating and so well-written and complement each other so well that the story is as gripping as a first-class novel. The rest of the book consists of thirty-eight contributions from leading workers on structural chemistry and biochemistry, methods in crystallography, protein structure, and insulin. Taken together, they provide a most
Detailed descriptions of experimental and theoretical works are given. The last two articles are Actinide-specific Sequestering agents and Decontamination Applications (K. N. Raymond and W. L. Smith) and Novel Structures in Iron-Sulphur Proteins (V. A. Xavier, J. J. G. Moura and I. Moura). The former describes research on sequestering agents capable of removing plutonium deposited in bone, whilst the latter presents the information available on the novel iron-sulphur centres found in ironsulphur proteins_ Techniques to identify the centres are described and the oxidation-reduction potentials involved are discussed. J. W. Landolt-Biirnstein, Numerical Data and Functional Relationships in Science and Technology, New Series, editor-in-chief K.-H. Hellwege. Group III: Crystal and Solid State Physics, Vol. 7, Crystal Structure Data of Inorganic Compounds, Part d2, Key Elements B, Al, Go, In, Tl, Be, by R. Allmann, W. Pies and A. Weiss, edited by K.-H. Hellwege and A. M. Hellwege, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg and New York, 1980, pp. xxv + 330, price DM 425.00. One of the tasks of a reviewer of this volume must be to draw the attention of his readers to the niche occupied by the book (abbreviated 111/7d2) in the mammoth.Landolt-Biirnstein Series of reference works; I simply refer my readers to the lengthy delineation above. 111/7d2, prepared with the usual scrupulous care of the Series, consists of tables of crystallographic data for inorganic compounds of the elements B through Be (see above). The literature is covered up to 1978 (completely up to 1971, ‘relevant literature’ up to 1978). The data presented for each selected substance are comprehensive but stop short of atomic coordinates and interatomic distances. The xxv introductory pages are printed in English and German, as are the headings to the tables, but the limited text within the tables is in German. This policy makes the volume eminently readable whatever the main language of the reader. My only reservation is as to the wisdom of producing such a reference series when other works presenting the same data exist (e.g., Structure Reports). I must, however, praise the excellent systematization of the Landolt-Bernstein Series. B. B. Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy of Polymers, by H. W. Siesler and K. Holland-Moritz, M. Dekker, Basel, 1980, pp. vii + 389, price Swiss Fr. 132. This publication is Volume 4 in Edward Brame’s excellent series “Practical Spectroscopy”. As implied by the title, this book is meant to explain how vibrational spectroscopy can be used as an effective problem-solving tool in polymer studies.
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In view of the large amount of published material and the necessity of covering the basic theory and experimental techniques, a detailed discussion covering all classes of polymers has not been possible. All major applications are, however, covered. These include identification and analysis, structural order, near-infrared and low-frequency regions, and resonance-Raman studies. The publication of a modem account on this topic is timely in view of the great advances made since the early monographs appeared. This book is well organised and clearly written. It should be invaluable to industrial chemists, and made available to all academic spectroscopists. W. J. O.-T. Itzfrared Reference Spectra, British Pharmacopoeia 1980, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, 1981, pp. xiv + 310, price 640.00. This companion volume to British Pharmacopoeia 1980 provides a collection of 273 spectra of pharmaceutical substances mentioned in the Pharmacopoeia. It will be of great value to any analyst concerned with the identification of drugs. J.W. Structural Studies of Molecules of Biological Interest. A Volume in Honour of Dorothy Hodgkin, edited by G. Dodson, J. P. Glusker and D. Sayre, Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1981, pp. xviii + 610, price s39.00. This is the best “Festschrift” volume I have ever read. The editors were aided, of course, by having as their focal point Nobel prizewinner Dorothy Hodgkin. They have gone beyond her admittedly marvellous contribution to science and presented us, in addition, with a full-scale loving portrait of a remarkable woman. A warm regard for those who worked with her, and her concern for their welfare during their stay in her group are in stark contrast to the big group, high efficiency impersonal approach associated with so many other leaders of science. In their introduction, the editors outline the career of Dorothy Hodgkin and this is fleshed out in a historical section containing extremely readable and interesting personal recollections by some of the eminent scientists who collaborated with Dorothy Hodgkin duringvarious important scientific facets of her life. These contributions by M. F. Perutz, Sir David Phillips, D. P. Riley, F. Welsh, C. H. Carlisle, Linus Pauling and Tang Yu Chi, are fascinating and so well-written and complement each other so well that the story is as gripping as a first-class novel. The rest of the book consists of thirty-eight contributions from leading workers on structural chemistry and biochemistry, methods in crystallography, protein structure, and insulin. Taken together, they provide a most