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The use of computers for the design of chemical syntheses was first demonstrated by Corey and Wipke in 1969 with their program OCCS [30]. The successor to OCCS, LHASA [31], is generally considered to be the first synthon-based system. Its development is still going on. Currently, three groups are working on LHASA, one at Harvard University, USA [32], one at the University of Leeds, UK [33], and... 

We hope that this new edition of Chemistry of the Elements will continue to stimulate and inform its readers, and that they will experience something of the excitement and fascination which we ourselves feel for this burgeoning subject. We should also tike to thank our many correspondents who have kept us informed of their work and the School of Chemistry in the University of Leeds for providing us with facilities. 

Almost all of the directly measured thermochemical data for the sulfoxides, sulfones, sulfites and sulfates are due to the work of Busfield and Mackle and their coworkers at the University of Leeds and The Queens University, Belfast1-14. This work involved measurement of enthalpies of combustion, fusion and vaporization. It is the basis of the subsequent compilations of Benson and coworkers15, Cox and Pilcher16 and Pedley, Naylor and Kirby11. The data given by the latter are used as the basic data set in the present work. Corrections and omissions are noted in the next section. Data on additional compounds were sought by searching the IUPAC Bulletin of Thermochemistry and Thermodynamics for the years 1980 198318, and by searches of Chemical Abstracts. 

Department of Colour Chemistry The University of Leeds Leeds, U.K. 

Presents the text of a manuscript of the University of Leeds on the production of gold and... 

The chemists frenzy over transmutation perhaps reached its peak at the meeting of the Chemical Society on February 6, 1913, at which Ramsay discussed his experiments and Collie and Patterson read papers on the alleged formation of neon and helium due to electricity discharged through hydrogen at low pressure. Professor Arthur Smithells, FRS (1860-1939), of the University of Leeds left an unpublished record of that meeting and of the gathering... 

Smithells was a significant chemist of the period, having studied with Bunsen at Heidelberg, served as professor of Chemistry at Yorkshire College (which became the University of Leeds in 1904) since 1885, and enjoyed membership in the Royal Society since 1901 (he was to serve as vice president of the Royal Society in 1916). He had even served as president of the prestigious Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society from 1902 to 1904. His personal account reveals what the official records of the Chemical Society cannot—the intensity of the emotions felt by the chemists around the issue of... 

Dipartimento di Chimica, Universita di Firenze, 1-50144 Firenze, Italy fSchool of Chemistry, The University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, England ... 

Quoted in Frederick Challenger, "Schools of Chemistry in Great Britain and Ireland. IV. The Chemistry Department of the University of Leeds," J. Royal Inst. Chem. 11 (1953) 161171, on 166. Challenger was Ingold s successor at Leeds, when Ingold moved to University College, London, in 1930. 

Ibid., 167 and A. N. Shimmin, The University of Leeds The First Half-Century (Cambridge ... 

In carrying out this revision we have made substantial alteration to Chapters 1, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 and 15 and have taken the opportunity of presenting the volume paged separately from Volume 1. The revision has been possible only as the result of the kind cooperation and help of Professor J. D. Thornton (Chapter 12), Mr. J. Porter (Chapter 13), Mr. K. E. Peet (Chapter 10) and Dr. B. Waldie (Chapter 1), all of the University at Newcastle, and Dr. N. Dombrowski of the University of Leeds (Chapter 15). We want in particular to express our appreciation of the considerable amount of work carried out by Mr. D. G. Peacock of the School of Pharmacy, University of London. He has not only checked through the entire revision but has made numerous additions to many chapters and has overhauled the index. 

Ricin is the deadliest plant toxin known. It also has the advantage of being impossible to detect at an autopsy. (Note - Work is currently being done at the University of Leeds in England to develop a means of... 

Clifford, Rayner and co-workers at the University of Leeds [66,67] have used the density of SCCO2 to control the stereoselectivity of reactions in a novel way. Previous workers have observed an influence of density on selectivity in reactions very close to the critical point. The novelty of the Leeds work is that the effects are observed at densities considerably above pc and temperatures higher than Tc. This selectivity has no obvious counterpart in reaction chemistry in conventional solvents. Effects have been observed in a whole range of reactions, and this approach may well have widespread applicability. 

All computation was carried out on the University of Leeds Computing Service s ICL 1906A computer. The programs were written in ALGOL 60. 

Dr. J. Griffiths The University of Leeds Dept, of Colour Chemistry Leeds LS2 9JT UK... 

Ingold was Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Leeds from 1924 to 1930.98 At the time he went to Leeds, he was antipathetic to the new electronic theories, and favoured the alternating affinity approach of Fliirscheim." This is what the... 

The authors gratefully acknowledge the growth of the samples by Doctor M. Ali and Professor B.J. Hickey at the University of Leeds, the x-ray measurements performed by A.T.G. Pym and Professor B.K. Tanner at the University of Durham, the financial support of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), and the award of an Overseas Research Studentship (ORS) to V.V. Kruglyak. 

Bernard Mark Heron was born in Workington, England in 1965. After graduation (GRSC) from Lancashire Polytechnic (Preston) in 1987 and a brief period in industry he obtained his PhD (CNAA) in Benzothiopyran Chemistry in 1992 under the supervision of Professor John Hepworth at the University of Central Lancashire. A postdoctoral fellowship in heterocyclic chemistry (1992-95) and an industrially funded lectureship at Central Lancashire (1995-98) were followed by appointment to a James Robinson Lectureship at the University of Hull (1998-2000). Dr. Heron was appointed as a senior lecturer (2000-present) in the Department of Colour and Polymer Chemistry at the University of Leeds. His research interests include the chemistry and applications of heterocyclic compounds, color chemistry, and organic photo- and thermochromic materials. 

E. SNAPE obtained his BS and PhD degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Leeds in 1965. During his research career with Inco, he received numerous awards for his work on stress corrosion and hydrogen embrittlement, and became an international authority on this subject. In 1974, Dr. Snape pioneered the development of a waste reclamation process which now is being applied to the recovery... 

Zelda Kahan76 was educated at KEVI and then at Victoria University (later the University of Manchester). She entered the University of Leeds in 1900, graduating with a B.Sc. (Yorks) in 1905. The same year, she commenced research at UCL, where she authored three publications between 1906 and 1908. She was still at UCL in 1912, then she married Mr. Coates in 1914. 

Leeds most famous chemical alumna was May Sybil Leslie.60 Leslie was born on 14 August 1887 in Yorkshire and studied chemistry at the University of Leeds. She graduated with first class honours in 1908, and was awarded an M.Sc. for research with Harry M. Dawson01 the following year on the kinetics of the iodination of acetone, work that has since become a classic in its field.62 In that same year, 1909, Leslie was awarded a scholarship, which she decided to use to work with Marie Curie63 in Paris. Her letters from Paris to Smithells are among the few accounts of life in the early Curie laboratory.04... 

In 1915, she entered the world of industrial chemistry, being hired to work at His Majesty s Factory in Litherland, Liverpool, a position that she obtained as a result of the call-up for military duty of the male research chemists. Her initial rank was that of Research Chemist, but in 1916 she was promoted to Chemist in Charge of Laboratory, a very high position for a woman at that time. Her research involved the elucidation of the pathway in the formation of nitric acid and the determination of the optimum industrial conditions for the process. This work was vital for the munitions industry, which required massive quantities of nitric acid for explosives production. In June 1917, the Litherland factory closed00 and Leslie was transferred with the same rank to the H.M. Factory in Penrhyndeudraeth, North Wales. Leslie was awarded a D.Sc. degree in 1918 by the University of Leeds, mainly in recognition of her contribution to the war effort. 

With the return of the surviving male chemists at the end of the First World War, Leslie lost her government position. She returned to the University of Leeds as Demonstrator in the Department of Chemistry in 1920, being promoted in the following year to Assistant Lecturer. Leslie then moved to the Department of Physical Chemistry in 1924 and was promoted to Lecturer in 1928. In 1923, Leslie had married Alfred Hamilton... 

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