Recent Volumes

Following are the contents of the most recent volume of P Tarrant s Fluorine Chemistry Reviews... 

Recent volumes of Organic Syntheses have laid emphasis on widely applicable, model procedures that illustrate important types of reactions. This volume continues this policy, and many of the procedures selected here have major significance in the synthetic method, rather than in the product that results. However preparations of reagents and products of special interest are also included, as in previous volumes. 

The synthesis and properties of the tin-carbon bond were reviewed in reference (35). Three recent volumes of Gmelin, written by H. Schumann and I. Schumann, comprehensively cover the literature, up to the end of 1973, on tetraalkyltin compounds R Sn (36), RaSnR (37), and RtSnR, RjSnR R", and RR SnR"R " (38), and are invaluable sources of reference. 

Recent volumes in this. serial appear at the end of this volume... 

Recent volumes of the Gmelin Handbook. Organogermanium—Part 5, Ge—O Compounds and Organotin, Vol.20, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1993. 

Following a transformation of the programme in 2004 the Series has been re-named and re-organised. Recent volumes on topics not related to security, which result from meetings supported under the programme earlier, may be found in the NATO Science Series. 

We are also glad to note that our publisher now makes our most recent volumes available in an online form through Wiley InterScience. Please consult the Web (http //www.interscience.wiley.com/onlinebooks) or contact reference wiley.com for the latest information. For readers who appreciate the permanence and convenience of bound books, these will, of course, continue. 

A well-assorted, international representation of authorship is evident in recent volumes of Advances the original British-American liaison on which the publication was founded has been substantially expanded to the international level. The present volume includes, in addition to contributions from North America and Great Britain, articles from continental Europe and, coincidentally, three separate chapters by authors based at different points on the African continent. 

A cursory glance at a recent volume of any journal or book which covers organic synthesis will convince the reader of the central importance of double-bonded functional groups as sources of starting materials, as key intermediates and as synthetic target molecules. In particular, the reader is referred to the excellent Art in Organic Synthesis1 which chronicles key syntheses that have been successfully completed over the last several decades. 

There now exists a vast literature on inorganic heterocycles, and much of this has been reviewed in the two recent volumes edited by Haiduc and Sowerby [19], The most extensively studied of the boron-nitrogen heterocycles, and probably the system... 

Of the 19 LAII projects 3 are part of the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX), which looks at the response of plant communities to climate change. Three others are concerned with atmosphere processes, including weather patterns affecting snowmelt, Arctic-wide temperature trends, and water vapor over the Arctic and its relationship with atmospheric circulation and surface conditions. Another project deals with the response of birds to climate and sea level change at river deltas, and yet another studies the balance and recent volume changes of McCall Glacier in the Brooks Range. 

A knowledge of the kinetics of the reaction at the active sites is of primary importance in determining the nature of catalytic action in heterogeneous catalysis. Information about the nature of the catalyst-substrate interaction can be obtained from the way in which the rate constants in the kinetics change on variation of such parameters as temperature, catalyst treatment, and catalyst composition. In addition, these constants are the quantities which should correlate with structural information such as that obtained by the methods of solid state physics. However, the true kinetics at the active sites is not always obtained unless certain precautions are taken, as has been pointed out in a recent volume of Advances in Catalysis (1). 

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