Primary research journals

The material included in this chapter has been organized by oxidation state, with further subdivision into ligand donor type, and was obtained from reports published in primary research journals. The article will cover coordination complexes of copper in three oxidation states Cum, Cu11, and Cu1. The sections dealing with specific ligand donor types cut across several structural types. In view of the all-inclusive nature of the previous review of CCC(1987), no effort will be made here to present a comprehensive account. Instead, specific cases will be chosen for discussion because they exemplify important concepts concerning the relationship of ligand structure to metal complex properties. 

When we need the properties of a chemical compound, such as the boiling point of benzene, the fastest and least expensive method is a forward search from the structure to the properties by consulting a database. The sources of such experimental information are first published in primary research journals, and then pass through professional editors and panels to make their way to secondary textbooks and handbooks. 

Pure and Applied Chemistry (official IUPAC research journal for all chemists) Tetrahedron (primary research journal for organic chemists)... 

In addition to the primary research journals, there are many useful sources of property data of the type contained in the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. A selected list of these is presented here, with emphasis on print and electronic sources whose contents have been subject to a reasonable level of quality control. 

Research progress is very rapid in biochemistry, and the literature in the field is vast and growing. Many books appear each year, and a large number of primary research journals and review journals report on original research. References to this body of literature are provided at the end of each chapter. A particularly useful reference is Scientific American its articles include general overviews of the topics discussed. Trends in Biochemical Sciences and Science (a journal published weekly by the American Association for the Advancement of Science) are more advanced but can serve as primary sources of information about a given topic. In addition to material in print, a wealth of information has become available in elec-... 

TETRAHEDRON (rapid publication primary research journal for organic chemistry)... 

The Institute for Scientific Information database was interrogated to determine the number of incidences of the string MP2 in titles and keywords in four specific primary research journals during 2000. The journals chosen were The Journal of Chemical Physics, Chemical Physics Letters, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A and The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. We describe the results obtained for each of these journals in turn. 

Scientific journals. Two journals are listed that can provide useful safety information to practicing chemists and chemical educators. (We have not listed other primary research journals, of which there are many, where the audience is highly specialized toward medicine, chemical hygiene, or epidemiology.)... 

Primary research journals are the ultimate source of most of the information in chemistry. These journals publish original research results in several formats. Articles are full papers that provide historical discussions together with a presentation of the important findings, conclusions, and experimental details for preparing new compounds. Communications and letters are short articles, sometimes with brief experimental details, that are restricted to a single topic or important... 

Some review serials publish reviews in all areas of chemistry, while others cover only specific areas. In addition to the review serials listed below, a number of the primary research journals listed above also publish excellent reviews. These include Ange-zvandte Chemie International Edition in English, Heterocycles, Synthesis, and Tetrahedron. 

Finally, we turn to the relatively prosaic question of sources of information. We would have preferred to recommend only suitably advanced textbooks and articles in review journals and monographs. Somehow these sources appear more permanent than papers in the primary research journals, yet by definition secondary and tertiary sources of information are more dated. Wonders abound in all of them. We admit arbitrariness in our choices— no universal criterion for their inclusion other than the presence of exotic chemistry can be offered. There was too much, rather than too little, to choose among. After all, we were not allowed to write our own volume, The Encyclopedia of Exotica. We close the introduction with two quotes that provided us a guideline. The first is from a psalm that provides implicit chastisement for whatever choice we made the second is from the Mishnah, the legal core of the Talmud, which offers a source of reassurance for our efforts. 

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