| Contents Notes |
The search for new elements / Glenn T. Seaborg and Walter D. Loveland -- Bonding and the theory of atoms and molecules / John N. Murrell -- Chemistry in a new light / Jim Baggott -- Novel energy sources for reactions. Electrosynthesis / Tatsuya Shono ; Microwaves in chemical synthesis / D. Michael, P. Mingos and David R. Baghurst ; Ultrasound in chemical synthesis / Paul D. Lickiss -- What, why and when is a metal? / Peter P. Edwards -- The clothing of metal ions : coordination chemistry at the turn of the millennium / Malcolm Chisholm -- Surface chemistry / Gabor A. Somorjai -- New roads to molecular complexity / K.C. Nicolaou, E.W. Yue and T. Oshima -- Medicines from nature / Jim Staunton and Kira Weissman -- From pharms to farms. New drugs, novel aids for agriculture and the preparation of refined fragrances / Stanley Roberts ; Discovering pesticides / Bhupinder P.S. Khambay and Richard H. Bromilow -- The inorganic chemistry of life / Robert J.P. Williams -- Supramolecular chemistry / Jean-Marie Lehn and Philip Ball -- Advanced materials / Paul Calvert -- Molecular electronics / Bob Munn -- Electrochemical and photoelectrochemical energy conversion / Andrew Hamnett and Paul Christensen -- Chemistry far from equilibrium : thermodynamics, order and chaos / Guy Dewel, Dilip Kondepudi and Ilya Prigogine -- Chemistry in society / Colin Russell. |
