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Contents Introduction. - Activation and Coupling. - Reversible Blocking of Amino and Carboxyl Groups. - Semipermanent Protection of Side Chain Functions. - Side Reactions in Peptide Synthesis. - Tactics and Strategy in Peptide Synthesis. - Techniques for the Facilitation of Peptide Synthesis. - Recent Developments and Perspectives. - Author Index. - Subject Index. 

The index consists of two parts. Part I contains entries referring to the conventional names of compounds as they appear in the preparations of this volume followed by the systematic names in brackets, if the nomenclature differs The bracketed names conform to the systematic nomenclature adopted by the Chemical Abstracts Service starting with Chemical Abstracts Volume 76 (1972) Part II of the index contains entries of the subjects of this volume with compound names in a reversed order of Part I... 

Overdose. Benzodiazepines are remarkably safe in acute overdose and the therapeutic dose x 10 induces sleep from which the subject is easily aroused. It is said that there is no reliably recorded case of death from a benzodiazepine taken alone by a person in good physical (particularly respiratory) health, which is a remarkable tribute to their safety (high therapeutic index) even if the statement is not absolutely true, death must be extremely rare. But deaths have occurred in combination with alcohol (which combination is quite usual in those seeking to end their own lives) and from complications of prolonged unconsciousness. Flumazenil selectively reverses benzodiazepine effects and is useful in diagnosis and in treatment (see below). 

A source of error in the HPLC method is the very short retention time of PEG in reversed-phase systems. This makes quantification by differential refractive index subject to interference by peaks from water, solvent impurities, and other unretained substances. This source of error may be eliminated by coupling the HPLC column to a GPC column, so that PEG is resolved from both the surfactant and from other impurities (36). Even with this modification, if phenol impurity were present in the initial alkylphenol, the resulting ethoxylated phenol could interfere with PEG determination by this method. Its presence is detected by using a UV detector in series with the RI detector. Another source of interference is the anion, such as acetate or lactate, added during the neutralization of the catalyst. For careful work, this should be removed by ion exchange prior to HPLC analysis (36). 

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