Classic Chemistry website

The first of these chapters, by Carmen Giunta, concentrates on the evidence that atoms are composite—not the ultimate particles of matter. Evidence for the divisibility and impermanence of atoms was collected even while some chemists and physicists continued to doubt their very existence. The chapter focuses on discoveries of the electron, the nucleus, and the heavy particles of the nucleus. Girmta is Professor of Chemistry at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, and he maintains the Classic Chemistry website. 

The Malaria Parasite Metabolic Pathway (MPMP) is a website (http // sites.huji.ac.il/malaria last accessed 16 July 2008) that contains over 120 maps that encompasses not only classical biochemical pathways but next to each entry there is a 48-h clock that depicts stage-dependent transcription of a particular gene in P. falciparum. At the clock s zero hour, merozoites invade and at 12 o clock the 48-h cycle terminates. In the middle of the clock appears the hour of maximal transcript level. Clicking on the clock links to a transcriptomic database (http //malaria. ucsf.edu last accessed 16 July 2008). The enzymes are also linked to the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology website (http //www.iubmb.org last accessed 16 July 2008) where there is a detailed chemistry of the enzymatic reaction. Unlike other databases MPMP has been developed, curated and updated manually (Ginsburg, 2006). 

CHEMISTRY IN THE MOVIES BOXES This new feature, authored by Mark Griep, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, uses innovative boxed material to relate in-chapter chemistry concepts to popular and classic film content. Problems are included in each movie box for possible student assignments. Answers are provided on the instructor website, along with video chp information for each film. Comments and suggestions on the movie boxes can be directed to Mark Griep at mgriepl unl.edu. 

Due to the classical nature of the content in this chapter, the list of research articles and books that can act as further source of reading is not provided. However, an interested reader can refer to any book dealing with inorganic and coordination chemistry the topics included in this chapter will invariahly be present. A good amount of web resources are available in this area. This resources are more or less the same, but to cater to the taste of different readers, a list of such websites is provided here. 

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