Letters to a Young Chemist

by Ghosh, Abhik; Lippard, Stephen J.

• ISBN13: 9780470390436
• ISBN10: 0470390433
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-05
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience

Summary

Written with a personal, humorous touch by today's chemistry luminaries, Letters to a Young Chemist offers hypothetical missives from a professor to a chemistry undergrad considering a career in several subdisciplines. These include organic, inorganic, experimental physical, analytical, and theoretical chemistry, as well as chemical biology materials chemistry, and green chemistry. The authors discuss major achievements, future prospects, and the challenges and satisfactions of a career in each. These entertaining and informative pieces will appeal to a wide range of chemistry students, instructors, and professionals, as well as the interested public.

Author Biography

Abhik Ghosh, Editor, is a professor of inorganic and materials chemistry at the University of Troms, Norway. A former Senior Fellow at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and a frequent Visiting Research Fellow at The University of Auckland, New Zealand, he has recently completed a term as an Outstanding Younger Researcher of the Research Council of Norway. He serves or has served on the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, the Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, and the Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines. His research interests lie at the intersection of bioinorganic, materials and computational chemistry.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. xiii
Contributors	p. xix
From Fundamentals to Applications	p. 1
Let's Get Physical	p. 3
In Silico: An Alternate Approach to Chemistry and Biology	p. 19
The Purple Planet: A Short Tour of Porphyrins and Related Macrocycles	p. 33
Anesthesia: Don't Forget Your Chemistry	p. 51
The Green Evolution	p. 77
Chemistry and the Life Sciences	p. 95
Thinking Like an Enzyme	p. 97
Making Sense of Oxygen	p. 109
Let's Visualize Biology: Chemistry and Cellular Imaging	p. 119
Bioinorganic Chemistry: Show Your Mettle by Meddling with Metals	p. 137
Better Than Sliced Bread	p. 155
Choreographing DNA	p. 165
Functional Materials	p. 177
Supramolecules to the Rescue!	p. 179
Biomaterials at the Beach: How Marine Biology Uses Chemistry to Make Materials	p. 197
The Advantage of Being Small: Nanotechnology	p. 217
Chemistry and Energy	p. 239
Happy Campers: Chemists' Solutions to Energy Problems	p. 241
Clean Electrons and Molecules Will Save the World	p. 261
Metals, Microbes, and Solar Fuel	p. 279
Index	p. 291
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