The New Chemistry

From the contents: Preface Nina Hall; Introduction Roald Hoffman
1. The search for new elements Glenn Seaborg and Walter Loveland; 2. Bonding and theory of atoms and molecules John N. Murrell; 3. Chemistry in a new light Jim Baggott; 4. Novel energy sources for reactions Shono Tatsuya, D. Michael P. Mingos, David R. Baghurst and Paul D. Lickiss; 5. What, why and when is a metal? Peter P. Edwards; 6. The clothing of metal ions: coordination chemistry at the turn of the millennium Malcolm Chisholm; 7. Surface chemistry Gabor A. Somorjai; 8. New roads to molecular complexity K. C. Nicolaou, E. W. Yue and T. Oshima; 9. Medicines from nature Jim Staunton and Kira Weissman; 10. From pharms to farms Stanley Roberts, Bhupinder Khambay and Richard H. Bromilow; 11. Metals in biology Robert J. P. Williams; 12. Supramolecular chemistry Jean-Marie Lehn and Philip Ball; 13. Advanced materials Paul Calvert; 14. Mo lecular electronics Bob Munn
15. Electrochemical and photochemical energy conservation Andrew Hamnett and Paul Christensen
16. Chemistry far from equilibrium: thermodynamics, order and chaos Ilya Prigogine, Dilip Kondepudi and Guy Dewel
17. Chemistry in society Colin Russell