Letters to a Young Chemist (eBook)

Abhik Ghosh, Editor, is a professor of inorganic and materials chemistry at the University of Tromso, 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.

FOREWORD (Stephen J. Lippard).

PREFACE.

CONTRIBUTORS.

Part I From Fundamentals to Applications.

1. Let's Get Physical (Marye Anne Fox).

2. In Silico: An Alternate Approach to Chemistry and
Biology (David A. Case).

3. The Purple Planet: A Short Tour of Porphyrins and Related
Macrocycles (Abhik Ghosh).

4. Anesthesia: Don't Forget Your Chemistry (Jonathan L.
Sessler and Daniel I. Sessler).

5. The Green Evolution (Terrence J. Collins).

Part II Chemistry and the Life Sciences.

6. Thinking Like an Enzyme (Judith P. Klinman).

7. Making Sense of Oxygen (Marie-Alda
Gilles-Gonzalez).

8. Let's Visualize Biology: Chemistry and Cellular Imaging
(Elizabeth M. Nolan).

9. Bioinorganic Chemistry: Show Your Mettle by Meddling with
Metals (Kara L. Bren).

10. Better Than Sliced Bread (Chaitan Khosla).

11. Choreographing DNA (Cynthia J. Burrows).

Part III Functional Materials.

12. Supramolecules to the Rescue! (Seth M. Cohen).

13. Biomaterials at the Beach: How Marine Biology Uses Chemistry
to Make Materials (Jonathan J. Wilker).

14. The Advantage of Being Small: Nanotechnology (Michael J.
Sailor).

Part IV Chemistry and Energy.

15. Happy Campers: Chemists' Solutions to Energy Problems
(Penelope J. Brothers).

16. Clean Electrons and Molecules Will Save the World (Carl
C. Wamser).

17. Metals, Microbes, and Solar Fuel (Harry B. Gray and John
S. Magyar).

INDEX.

"Therefore, this book is a useful tool for faculty
mentoring students in a chemistry club, or even using the book in
courses on careers or professionalism in chemistry."
(Journal of Chemical Education, 11 June 2012)
"Finally this book helps teachers and scholars at universities to
get ideas how to think about their own research fields in order to
motivate young students and to wake enthusiasm for the wonderful
and widely spread world of chemistry. So that they not only learn
or study chemical facts but also live the science. For all other
readers this book is an entertaining reading matter." (Materials
and Corrosion, 2011)

"A great resource for career mentoring. Summing Up: Highly
recommended. Teachers and students of chemistry at all levels."
(Choice, 1 January 2012)

"Lippard also says that the book should be 'required
reading for all faulty members who teach chemistry in high schools,
colleges, and universities'. I would endorse this view, as I found
the book to provide excellent insights into many unfamiliar areas
of modern chemistry." (Chemistry World, 1 September 2011)

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contributors provide an excellent overview of chemistry as a whole,
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chemists do." (Booknews, 1 June 2011)