Practical Approaches to Biological Inorganic Chemistry

Robert Crichton is Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Science, Universite Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. He has some forty years experience in teaching the subject, and published over 200 scientific articles and a number of books. Since 1985 he has organized a series of over twenty advanced courses on Metals in Biology in Louvain-la-Neuve, which have trained over 1300 doctoral and post-doctoral students, many of whom are today leaders in the field. The Second Edition of Biological Inorganic Chemistry: An Introduction to Molecular Structure and Function received the 2013 TEXTY Textbook Excellence Award in Physical Sciences from the Text and Academic Authors Association. Inorganic Biochemistry and NMR Laboratory ITQB-UNL Av da Republica (EAN), Portugal

Preface  Chapter 1 - An Overview of the Roles of Metals in Biological Systems Chapter 2 - Introduction to Ligand Field Theory Chapter 3 - EPR Spectroscopy    Chapter 4 - Introduction to Biomolecular NMR and Metals    Chapter 5 - 57Fe-Mössbauer Spectroscopy and Basic Interpretation of Mössbauer Parameters    Chapter 6 - X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy in Biology (BioXAS)    Chapter 7 - Other Spectroscopic Methods for Probing Metal Centres in Biological Systems    Chapter 8 - An Introduction to Electrochemical Methods for the Functional Analysis of Metalloproteins   Chapter 9 - X-ray Crystallography    Chapter 10 - Genetic and Molecular Biological Approaches for the Study of Metals in Biology    Index