Literature resources

It must be stressed that this book can do no more than to serve as a guide to much more detailed information available via the quoted references. It cannot relieve the student, the chemist and their supervisors of their moral and now legal obligation to themselves and to their co-workers, to equip themselves with the fullest possible information from the technical literature resources which are widely available, before attempting any experimental work with materials known, or suspected, to be hazardous or potentially so. It could be impossible for you after the event. 

Realistically, the information available to perform risk studies varies over the lifetime of a process. During the early stages of process development, analysis teams may only have access to basic chemical reactivity hazard data, such as may be obtained from suppliers and literature resources. By the time a facility reaches the detailed design phase, most of the basic design and operating information should be available and used in any study of the facility hazards and risks. 

Although several computerized tools13 and literature resources are available to identify reactive hazards, surveyed companies do not generally use them. In some cases, these tools provide an efficient means of identifying reactive hazards without the need for chemical testing. 

Additionally, as discussed earlier, though several computerized tools and literature resources are available to identify reactive hazards, the surveyed companies generally do not use them. Also, they typically do not share detailed reactive chemical test data... 

A variety of tools and resources are available to aid in the recognition of reactive hazards. Table D-l provides a list and brief description of selected literature resources and computerized tools. 

As with chemical synthesis, the first step when prospecting for a particular biotransformation is to perform a literature search to check whether a suitable precedent has been described. Extensive technical literature resources in the public domain provide both examples of specific enzyme-catalysed reactions and descriptions of transformations where enzyme activity is inferred if not explicitly described. Currently, searches of online databases such as PubMed reveal over 2000 new publications per annum in the subject of enzyme catalysis (excluding reviews). 

This appendix lists the most relevant literature resources for this book. First we give general resources for our subjects, followed by concise chapter specific literature lists. An extended list of additional papers and books is contained on the accompanying CD. 

American Chemical Society, Literature Resources for Chemical Process Industries, Advances in Chem. Ser., No. 10 (1954). 

Received April 22, 1952. Presented before the Division of Chemical Literature, Symposium on the Literature Resources for Chemical Market Research, at the 121st Meeting of the American Chemical Society. Buffalo, N. Y. 

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