Chemical interdisciplinary approach

Richard A. Register and Stuart L. Cooper, Chemical Engineers in Polymer Science The Need for an Interdisciplinary Approach... 

The applicability of using these interdisciplinary approaches, which include incorporation of various physical and chemical properties of the pollutants, QSARs/QSPRs and multicomponent joint action modeling are discussed and evaluated using a group of toxic and carcinogenic pollutants, i. e., polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). 

This section represents different case studies to explain how physical and chemical properties, QSAR and QSPR approaches, and multicomponent toxic effect models can be used to predict the mobility and bioavailability of organic pollutants at aqueous-solid phase interfaces. Such interdisciplinary approaches are applied here to two groups of toxic and carcinogenic compounds. 

Longstanding and international experience, interdisciplinary approach and impartiality are TON/ SOD attributes, which also benefit companies requesting assessment and certification in the field of Chemical Leasing. 

An interdisciplinary approach should lead to their future prospects as building blocks of a variety of chemical structures. Thus, betaines 1 can be incorporated as a subunit(s) in host molecules and could confer unusual properties to the supramolecules, either cavitates or clathrates. Their capacity for specific physical behavior should also be considered together with their use as neutral ligands (azolate ligands without counterion) in forming metal complexes. Advances in the chemistry of betaines 1, to be of any real significance, must result from coordinate efforts directed toward supramolecular chemistry, advanced organic materials, and heteroarene coordination chemistry. 

The aim of the present text is to further encourage interdisciplinary approaches, which unavoidably start with careful and patient exchange of concepts and methods. A physicist must be aware that a molecular formula does not become a real molecule only by being written on paper, but that simple facts of chemical feasibility, purity, and structure proof must be obeyed. A chemist must learn that a chemical compound, available in milligram quantities and... 

This article, while not being intended to provide a full accoimt of poly(arylene)s, emphasises the synthetic aspects. The synthesis of conjugated oligomers and polymers is, however, always part of an interdisciplinary approach with their active physical function being a key concern. In that sense the research being reviewed above concentrates on physical properties rather than playing with exotic chemical structures. 

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