Apology

After examining and reading in two days the proof of the whole book, which was corrected for various typing, spelling, and factual errors, we found that it would be 

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C. Daniel, App/ications of Statistics to lndustria/Experimentation, ]oE Wiley Sons, Inc., New York, 1976. This book is based on the personal experiences and insights of the author, an eminent practitioner of industrial appHcations of experimental design. It provides extensive discussions and concepts, especially in the areas of factorial and fractional factorial designs. "The book should be of use to experimenters who have some knowledge of elementary statistics and to statisticians who want simple explanations, detailed examples, and a documentation of the variety of outcomes that may be encountered." Some of the unusual features are chapters on "Sequences of fractional repHcates" and "Trend-robust plans," and sections entided, "What is the answer (what is the question )," and "Conclusions and apologies."... 

Except in the case of reactions that have been known for a long time under shared names, we often took the liberty to include in the title, as well as in the references (here to save space), only the name of the major author for this we apologize to the co-authors, whose contributions are often seminal. For reactions named after contemporary authors, we have tried to consult the authors about choice of examples, etc. This led for instance to the Mannich-Eschenmoser methylination. 

Among the newer reactions we have chosen those that are not only synthetically useful but at first glance not immediately obvious transformations. Another criterion was the stereochemical implications of the process. Yet, we admit our own bias in choosing from the plethora of novel transformations that have appeared in the literature over the past 30 years or so. Space limitation was by necessity a criterion. Nevertheless we have included approximately 450 name reactions and 2100 references. We sincerely apologize if we have inadvertedly omitted important reactions. 

I would like to apologize to my family and friends for neglecting them during the titiie it has tttken ine to write this book in particular, tny wife Madhti tind tny daughter Anjutia. 

Any errors which have survived the proofreading process are ours alone and we apologize in advance for any inconvenience these omissions or errors may cause a reader. 

It is the intention of the present author to discuss the aforementioned developments and not to give a complete review of all work concerning thiophenes which has appeared during the last 7-8 years. Because of the subjectivity inherent in choosing material for such a survey, it is possible that important contributions will unintentionally be overlooked for which the author would like to apologize. 

The limitation of space confines our attention to only three of these with apologies to the chemists whose work has been omitted the reader is referred to a recent review for a summary of alternate routes. ... 

Ehren-mitglied, n. honorary member, -preis, m. speedwell, veronica jrize. -rettung, /. vindication apology, -slelle, /. honor, preferment. 

My sincere, humble apologies to all those that belong on this short list, but cannot find their name so listed. Know that your absence from these acknowledgments conveys no other conscious message other than the obvious evidence it provides of the author s fallible memory. 

This volume is based partly on the lecture notes of K. C. N. that were used for teaching courses at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California, San Diego, and The Scripps Research Institute. We apologize sincerely to those whose brilliant works have been left out owing to the inevitable closing of the curtain and hope that in the event of a second volume we can rectify these omissions. We also apologize in advance for the inevitable errors that a volume of this size may contain, and welcome constructive comments from our readers in order to correct such errors in future editions. 

In a similar way, my question in this article will be to be to ask to what extent the periodic table of the elements can be explained strictly from first principles of quantum mechanics without assuming any experimental data whatsoever. I suspect that some readers and fellow contributors to this volume might well experience some irritation at the almost perverse demands which I will make on what should be derivable from the current theory. If so, then I apologize in advance. 

This book is intended to work like a short course. The material is presented in a progressive sequence, and the tone is informal. You may notice that the discussions are paced more slowly than usual for a book of this kind. There is also a certain amount of repetition. No apologies are offered for this—it is deliberate. Remember, the purpose of this book is to get you past the "entry barrier" and "up-to-speed" on the basics. This book is not intended to teach you everything you wanted to know about. An extensive bibliography, organized by topic, has been provided to help you explore material beyond the scope of this book. Selected topics are also treated in more detail in the Appendices. 

We have attempted to cover all aspects of the field, trying to display its richness of thoughts and models, as well as its still considerable shortcomings. However, it is not possible to detail all developments and we apologize for any omissions which others may have included. 

In order to provide students with a manageable list of references we have resorted to the use of citations from textbooks and reviews. We therefore apologize to the large number of original investigators whose publications are not cited. Some recent original papers have been included to provide current information. 

The literature search for this chapter has uncovered a typically large number of references for papers published in 1996. These references were culled to remove repetition and to provide the most interesting examples of thiophene chemistry and its applications. As in the past, the authors apologize for omissions and oversights. 

Finally, I wish to make the point that I was invited to review the results of my own group in this chapter. Many other workers have made important contributions to the organoborane area in recent years. However, progress even within my own group has been so rapid that I could not include all of our own developments in this review. Consequently, I must.apologize to other authors for having restricted this chapter primarily to the topics that have occupied the attention of my students and associates. Fortunately, in my recently published Baker Lectures, Boranes in Organic Chemistry (Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, New York, 1972) it has been possible to provide a fuller, more complete treatment. 

In the approaches to data standards, the authors make no apology for using the OMG s life science research group as a structured approach to building new data standards (as both authors have a wealth of experience in bringing standards to the market via this organization [22, 23]). As only a handful of readers will be conversant with the OMG, here is a brief overview on how the OMG works to deliver standards to the life science community. 

In the direct adsorption process, the ground state of the atom is in the three-dimensional space above the surface (we apologize for the somewhat counter-intuitive terminology of using ground state for a molecule above the surface). The transition state is the fully immobilized atom on the surface site, which is not allowed to move around... 

This work was supported by the Marsden Fund managed by the Royal Society of New Zealand. Our thanks go to Detlev Figgen, Behnam Assadollahzadeh, Reuben Brown, Jon K. Laerdahl and Pekka Pyykko for helpful discussions and suggestions, and to Wojciech Grochala for letting us know in advance of the solid state results for gold fluoride. We do not claim that our review is comprehensive, and we apologize from possible omissions of any related and important work. A more complete list of references can be found in Pyykko s work [43-45]. 

Much of the material presented in this book is based on the direct experience of the authors. This would not have been possible without the hard work and input of our colleagues, students and post-doctoral fellows. We sincerely want to acknowledge each of them for their good research and contributions without which we would not have been able to treat such a broad range of subjects. Some of them read chapters or helped in other ways. We also owe thanks to the chemometrics community and at the same time we have to offer apologies. We have had the opportunity of collaborating with many colleagues and we have profited from the research and publications of many others. Their ideas and work have made this book possible and necessary. The size of the book shows that they have been very productive. Even so, we have cited only a fraction of the literature and we have not included the more sophisticated work. Our wish was to consolidate and therefore to explain those methods that have become more or less accepted, also to... 

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