BIOLOGICAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Produktbeschreibung

This guide serves both as an excellent course text for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates, and as a reference for anyone working in this area. Already praised by specialists in the field, this text gives both an overview of biological inorganic chemistry and presents a detailed look at metal-ion containing biological systems. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction and Text Overview.- PART A: OVERVIEWS OF BIOLOGICAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY.- Bioinorganic Chemistry and the Biogeochemical Cycles.- Metal Ions and Proteins: Binding, Stability and Folding.- Special Cofactors and Metal Clusters.- Transport and Storage of Metal Ions in Biology.- Biominerals and Biomineralization.- Metals in Medicine.- PART B: METAL-ION CONTAINING BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS.- Metal Ion Transport and Storage.- Hydrolytic Chemistry.- Electron Transfer, Respiration and Photosynthesis.- Oxygen Metabolism.- Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen, and Sulfur Metabolism.- Metalloenzymes with Radical Intermediates.- Metal Ion Receptors and Signaling.- PART C: TUTORIALS.- Tutorial I: Cell Biology, Biochemistry and Evolution.- Tutorial II: Fundamentals of Coordination Chemistry.- Appendices.- Index. 

Autoreninfo

Edward I. Stiefel is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Princeton University. He has worked as Senior Scientific Advisor at ExxonMobil Corporate Strategic Research and as Senior Investigator at the Charles F. Kettering Research Laboratory. He is a member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the winner of the American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry for the year 2000. He is also the founding co-chair (with Russell Hille) of the Inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Molybdenum and Tungsten Enzymes (July 1999) and of the Inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry (June 2002).