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Lipkowitz KB, Boyd DB, editors. Books Published on the Topics of Computational Chemistry. In Reviews in Computational Chemistry, Vol. 17. New York Wiley-VCH, 2001. p. 255-357. 

Cellulose and Cellulose Derivatives, by Emil Ott, Editor (book review), M. L. Wolfrom, /. Chem. Educ., 21, 519-520 (1944). 

I would like to express my special gratitude towards the Editor Book Manager - Ms. Romana Vukelic, for coordinating all activities associated with the process of compiling the book and for the continuous and very friendly contact with the authors. We are much obliged to all those who contributed to the book reviewers, language editors, and all those impossible to mention by name. 

This book was carefidly produced. Nevertheless, editors, authors and publisher do not warrant the information contained therein to be free of errors. Readers are advised to keep in mind that statements, data, illustrations, procedural details or otiier items may inadvertently be inaccurate. 

Several chapters in this book are based on articles that appeared in American Laboratory from 1981 to 1988. I wish to acknowledge my coauthors of these papers, F. J. McLafferty, W. Gratzer, and B. P. Angelis. I wish to thank the editors of American Laboratory, especially Brian Howard, for permission to quote extensively from those articles. 

The sponsoring editors for this book were Zoe Foundotos and Robert Esposito, the editing supervisor was Marc Campbell, and the produetion supervisor was Pamela A. Pelton. It was set in Caledonia by North Market Street Graph ies. 

I am very pleased to have been given the opportunity to contribute a Foreword to this very useful book. It is a particular pleasure for me to do so because all the editors and fifteen of the authors are alumni of my research group at Harvard, where molecular dynamics simulations of biomolecules originated. 

Perry, R. H., Editor-in-Chief, Engineering Manual, McGraw-Hill Book. Co., l959,pp. C-44, 8-51. 

With 50 articles, organization of the book was difficult certain techniques could equally well have appeared in more than one place. The organizational intent of the Editors was to group techniques that have a similar physical basis, or that provide similar types of information. This is not the traditional organization of an encyclopedia, where articles are ordered alphabetically. Such ordering seemed less useful here, in part because many of the techniques have multiple possible acronyms (an Acronyms Glossary is provided to help the reader). 

The editors are gratefully indebted to all contributors who were ready to redirect time from their research, educational, and private activities in order to contribute to this book. They also wish to thank Mrs Silke Kittel for her tireless help in developing our editorial ideas. 

Chopey, Nicholas P., and Tyler G. Hicks, editors. Handbook of Chemical Engineering Calculations. New York McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1984. 

Dr. Daniel A. Crowl of Michigan Technological University served as editor for the book. The Subcommittee would also like to acknowledge the contributions of Mr. Robert A. Schulze of CCPS and Mr. Robert Kambach of BASF Corporation for their valuable input during the conceptual stages of this project. 

The editors thank all authors who contributed so many excellent papers covering all aspects of carbon nanotubes and the related fields. We are indebted to the Editor-in-Chief of Carbon, Professor Peter A. Thrower, for his suggestion and kind efforts, and also to Dr V. Kiruvanayagam for her kind cooperation related to this book. 

In a mesoscopic system in which both classical- and quantum-mechanical pictures become compatible even for a short time is realised, its pragmatic significance would be very large considering technical level of today. This book is expected to offer the starting point of such new developments. In this sense. I like to express my wholehearted admiration to the eminent work of Dr. Sumio lijima who first discovered CNT. The timely contents of this book are readily conceivable by the excellent authors and I also appreciate the wisdom of my colleague editors. 

The TSK-GEL column is a trademark of Tosoh Haas Co. Ltd and the Waters Insulin HMWP column is a trademark of Waters Corporation. The author thanks the book s editor Chi-san Wu, the assigned peer reviewer, and the Eli Lilly and Company reviwers John Towns, Ralph Riggin, and James Kelley for their assistance, time, and professional comments. 

The editor wishes to extend his thanks to each of the contributors of this book who so willingly gave of their time and talents, and he wishes to extend his personal gratitude to Dr. Nelson J. Leonard for initially stimulating his interest in enamines and for his continuing interest over the years. 

Catastrophe When Man Loses Control, preptired by the editors of the Encyclopaedia Britaiuiica, Bantam Books, Now York, 1979. 

Somehow the editor usually escapes acknowledgment. We were particularly fortunate to have B.J. Clark serve as the editor for our book. He had the vision early on to realize the need for a project of this nature. He and his staff s (including Brian Black and Ted Allen) patient handling and understanding of the numerous problems that arose during the preparation of the manuscript was particularly appreciated. Thanks, B.J. 

Catalytic enantioselective hetero-Diels-Alder reactions are covered by the editors of the book. Chapter 4 is devoted to the development of hetero-Diels-Alder reactions of carbonyl compounds and activated carbonyl compounds catalyzed by many different chiral Lewis acids and Chapter 5 deals with the corresponding development of catalytic enantioselective aza-Diels-Alder reactions. Compared with carbo-Diels-Alder reactions, which have been known for more than a decade, the field of catalytic enantioselective hetero-Diels-Alder reactions of carbonyl compounds and imines (aza-Diels-Alder reactions) are very recent. 

Finally, in a project like this, someone must take responsibility for any errors that have crept in. Ultimately we are the editors and this responsibility is ours. So we apologise unreservedly for any mistakes that have found their way into the book. 

Ellerbee, R. W., Section 1.4 in Schweitzer, P. A. (editor). Handbook of Separation Techniques for Chemical Engineers, McGraw-Hill Book Co. (1979). 

International Critical Tables, Ed. W. Washburn, Editor, Vol. V, p. 213, National Research Council, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, N.Y. 

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