Recent Review Articles and Monographs

Molecular Recognition and Stereotopic Group Recognition, Pure App/. Chem. 1996,68, 1279-1284. 

Gawley, R. E. Aube, J., Eds. Principles of Asymmetric Synthesis. Elsevier Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1996. 

Asymmetric Synthetic Methodology. CRC Boca Raton, FL, 1996. 

Stecher, H. Faber, K. Biocatalytic Deracemization Techniques. Dynamic Resolutions and Stereoinversions, Synthesis 1997, 1-16. 

Caddick, S. Jenkins, K. Dynamic Resolutions in Asymmetric Synthesis, Chem. Soc. Rev. 1996, 25, 447-457. 

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The book is extensively footnoted. It is neither possible nor desirable in a book of this kind to present exhaustive reviews of the topics taken up, and we have made no effort to give complete references. We have tried to include references to review articles and monographs wherever recent ones are available, to provide key references to the original literature for the ideas discussed, and to give sources for all factual information presented. The text also contains numerous cross references. 

This review deals in detail with recent advances more important early observations, i.e., those made prior to 1963, are only briefly mentioned. No attempt is made to review the various topics completely, and it is, therefore, suggested that the following review articles and monographs be consulted ... 

On account of the increased attention the class of thioxocarboxylic esters has recently gained, new and successful efforts have led to a considerable improvement in the methods that are available for the preparation of these compounds. The advances in this field are clearly described in several review articles and monographs which have appeared in the last decade. - - ... 

The following is a listing by subject area of recent data compilations, review articles, and monographs dealing with thermodynamic properties, bond energies, and associated measurement techniques. 

The primary purpose of this article is a critical, synthetic review and not a survey of the material wliich has been published. No one will have any difficulty in finding in the numerous review articles and monographs, etc., published in the last twenty to thirty years information which has been omitted here. The chemistry of vitamin D has not been dealt with, because other authors are more competent, and furthermore Deuel has reviewed the subject recently (1951). Moreover, a number of subjects, such as the blood data of calcium and phosphorus, phosphatase, etc., have only been mentioned. We regard as our main task a discussion of the biochemical and physiological observations which can be said to be well... 

This second edition provides an update of each of the chapters in Volume II which was originally published in 1977. Additional references from the recent literature and patents (U.S. and foreign) have been added where essential. Also cited are references to recent review articles or monographs. 

Recent review articles and one monograph provide an excellent survey of research on the mechanism of action and the effect of structural modifications on the antibiotic activity of the j8-lactam antibiotics. The penicillins and cephalosporins are believed to exert their antibacterial activity by irreversible acylation of the bacterial transpeptidase responsible for the final cross-linking step in... 

The treatment of equilibrium solvation effects in condensed-phase kmetics on the basis of TST has a long history and the literature on this topic is extensive. As the basic ideas can be found m most physical chemistry textbooks and excellent reviews and monographs on more advanced aspects are available (see, for example, the recent review article by Tnihlar et al [6] and references therein), the following presentation will be brief and far from providing a complete picture. 

Since the concern of this monograph is teratogens, the effects of chemicals on sperm and male reproduction are not dealt with. However, for readers interested in the latter a recent review article by Schrag and Dixon, "Occupational Exposures Associated with Male Reproductive Dysfunction" (ref. 20)is recommended. Chapters on various aspects of male reproductive toxicology and on sperm production of men working under heavy-metal or organic-solvent exposure are presented by Hemminki et al. (ref. 19). 

Although the thermodynamic feasibility to design artificial photosynthetic processes is obvious, practical assembly of such systems confronts substantial difficulties. Thermodynamic limitations accompanying artificial photosynthetic systems have been considered theoretically [40-42], and the recent progress in the subject has been reviewed [43, 44] in several articles and monographs [45, 46]. 

In the literature, there is a lack of specific recent review articles on the compounds of sulfur, selenium, and tellurium with the heavy halogens [exceptions are, e.g., reports on sulfur compounds 117,176,277, 386) and on the subhalides of tellurium 237) ], although this whole area is an important field of large current interest (for general accounts in more comprehensive monographs and reference works, see 31, 32, 83, 158-162,244, 291, 449). 

The study of gaseous metal halide complexes is of fundamental interest for the chemistry of coordination compounds. In addition, gaseous metal halide species are of practical importance for material science and technical applications. These practical aspects are reported briefly in the recent review by Schafer [425] and in detail in the book by Hastie [428]. The potential of enhanced vapor phase material transport is for example an important practical aspect and has been described in the monograph by Schafer [437]. It is of interest for metal halide lamps, chemical vapor deposition, and metallurgical processes. The practical significance of complexation for metal halide lamps and the experimental methods used in addition to Knudsen effusion mass spectrometry for the study of metal halide vapors are reported in the recent review article by Hilpert [438]. 

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