Chemical sciences current status

Taxane Anticancer Agents Basic Science and Current Status (Eds. G. I. Georg, T. T. Chen, I. Ojima, D. M. Vyas), American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 1995, ACS Symposium Series 538. 

L/evelopment of sophisticated surface analytical techniques over the past two decades has revived interest in the study of phenomena that occur at the electrode-solution interface. As a consequence of this renewed activity, electrochemical surface science is experiencing a rapid growth in empirical information. The symposium on which this book was based brought together established and up-and-coming researchers from the three interrelated disciplines of electrochemistry, surface science, and metal-cluster chemistry to help provide a better focus on the current status and future directions of research in electrochemistry. The symposium was part of the continuing series on Photochemical and Electrochemical Surface Science sponsored by the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry of the American Chemical Society. 

The Integration of Single Molecule Detection Technologies into Miniaturized Drug Screening Current Status and Future Perspectives, in Valeur B. and Brochon J. C. (Eds), New Trends in Fluorescence Spectroscopy. Applications to Chemical and Life Sciences, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 331-79. 

In this book, we have sought to bring together the expertise of scientists involved in chemical speciation in various fields, with the aim of providing an overview of the current status of speciation science and indications of how the field may develop in the future. 

The aim of this chapter is to describe briefly the progress and current status of the chemical modifications of proteins and how they are being applied to food, nutritional, and pharmacological sciences. In many instances, the subjects covered superficially here are covered in depth in other chapters in this volume. We hope that omissions will be understood sympathetically as due to the wide scope of the subject. 

The current status of polymer science, and other materials-related research, within chemical engineering demands a wider definition of what is fruitful activity within the profession than that of 20 years ago. Polymer sci-... 

Chapter 3 provides an overview of physicochemical factors that impact analysis and purification of polypeptides and proteins by HPLC techniques. The current status and some of the future challenges facing this major field of separation sciences are considered from both didactic and practical perspectives (Chapter 3). This chapter attempts to provide an overview of terms, concepts, principles, practical aspects, and primary references that underpin the recent developments in this field. Where appropriate, key relationships and dependencies that describe the interactive behavior of polypeptides and proteins with chemically immobilized ligands are discussed. This understanding is central to any subsequent exploration of alternative avenues now available for further research and development into the field of polypeptide or protein purification and analysis. 

The third workshop of the Chemical Sciences Roundtable, Research Teams and Partnerships Trends in the Chemical Sciences, was held in Irvine, California, on May 2-3, 1999. The presentations and discussions at the workshop considered the current status of research partnerships in the chemical sciences and methods to improve the ability to form and maximize such collaborations. This volume presents the results of that workshop. 

Ojima I, Park YH, Fenoglio I, Duclos O, Sun C-M, Kuduk SD, Zucco M, Appendino G, Pera P, Veith JM, Bemacki RJ, Bissery M-C, Combeau C, Vrignaud P, Riou JG, Lavelle F (1995) Syntheses and Structure-Activity Relationships of New Taxoids. In Georg GI, Chen TT, Ojima I, Vyas DM (ed) Taxane Anticancer Agents Basic Science and Current Status. American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, p 262... 

Today no one professionally involved in chemical science or engineering has any doubts about the importance of thermodynamics and thermochemistry. Now, however, the danger is that the field is being taken for granted it is assumed that all the problems have been solved, all the important data measured, and what cannot be measured has been adequately calculated. In this chapter we review the thermochemistry of the alkane and cycloalkane hydrocarbons, with some attention to the current status of our knowledge in this important field and to the problems that remain to be solved. 

The technology of membrane separations is a new and growing field where the polymer membrane contributes unique separation properties based on its structure and, to some extent, on its chemical composition. Various manufacturing processes are used to create special structures in forms such as flat films and hollow fibers. Lonsdale [143] provides a review of the history and current status of separation media and their applications, and a text [144] provides a discussion of the materials science of synthetic membranes. 

Superheavy elements—chemical elements which are much heavier than those which we know of from our daily life—are a persistent dream in human minds and the kernel of science fiction literature for about a century. This book describes in Chap. 1 how today this dream becomes true at a few accelerator laboratories, what the tools are to synthesize these elusive, man-made elements in heavy-ion nuclear reactions and how to detect the specific nuclear decays which terminate their existence shortly after they are created. The current status of experimental and theoretical insights into this very unique region of nuclear stability is briefly reviewed. The last chapter outlines historical developments, from first scientifically sound ideas about the existence of superheavy elements, which surfaced during the mid-50s, all the way to the beginning of the current research programs described in Chap. 1. It also discusses experimental attempts and prospects of the search for superheavy elements in Nature. 

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