Biological Chemistry is a fast emerging branch of chemistry, which sets out to understand the molecular basis of life through a rigorous understanding of the detailed structure and behaviour of biomolecules.
Filling a void in the currently available literature, Essentials of Chemical Biology offers a comprehensive introduction to this dynamic area of chemistry, which will equip chemists for the task of understanding and studying the underlying principles behind the functioning of biomolecules.
Hallmark features:
* Covers all the basic concepts and ideas associated with the study of the interface between chemistry and biology
* Includes many pedagogical features such as worked examples, key concept boxes, problems, and further reading sections to encourage student understanding
* Clearly written and richly illustrated, many illustrations in full colour
* Offers a fully interactive website to accompany the book with useful links to further resources
Essentials of Chemical Biology is an invaluable text for advanced undergraduates taking courses in biological chemistry, bioorganic chemistry and organic and structural chemistry. It is also of interest to biochemists and molecular biologists, as well as professionals within the medical and pharmaceutical industry.
Dem Grenzgebiet zwischen Chemie und Biologie ist dieser ausführliche, auf einem für Studenten geeigneten fachlichen Niveau verfasste Band gewidmet. Auf Vorkenntnissen aus dem physikochemischen Grundstudium aufbauend, erläutern die Autoren die Prinzipien, die der biologischen Funktionsweise von Molekülen zugrunde liegen. Didaktisch durchdachte Details -- typographisch abgesetzte Schlüsselkonzepte, viele durchgearbeitete Beispiele und Übungsaufgaben --, dazu zahlreiche, größtenteils farbige Illustrationen erleichtern das Verstehen und Vertiefen des Stoffs. Ein interaktiver Webserver stellt nützliche Links zu weiteren Informationsquellen zur Verfügung.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"Essentials in Chemical Biology is a valuable resource not only for chemistry students who are venturing into and interested in biological systems, but also biochemistry and biology students who want a fundamental understanding of the physical and chemical basis of biology and the techniques used in its study.? (Chemistry World, August 2009) "The succinct and lucid presentation style of Essentials Of Chemical Biology will likely make it a popular resource for undergraduate and graduate students interested in the structure and interaction of biologically relevant macromolecules." (Journal of Chemical Biology, February 2009)
"This excellent work fills the need for an upper-level graduate course resource that examines the latest biochemical, biophysical, and molecular biological methods for analyzing the structures and physical properties of biomolecules. Miller (Imperial College London, UK) and Tanner (Univ. of Hong Kong) cover traditional subjects such as binding interactions and catalysis. They also describe biophysical theories and current methods for protein structure determinations such as circular dichroism, X-ray crystallography, neutron diffraction, NMR, EPR, fluorescence, mass spectrometry, and electron and atomic force microscopy. For example, the chapter on solution NMR provides simplified yet high-quality explanations of the key principles of NMR. The well-developed introduction helps students to better follow the more complex information concerning the principles of multidimensional NMR. In addition, the latter part of the chapter offers current applications using a variety of multidimensional NMR spectroscopy experiments in the analysis of proteins, nucleic acid, carbohydrate, and lipid structures. This reviewer showed Essentials of Chemical Biology to several of his senior graduate students, and they unanimously gave the book rave reviews. The work could be improved by better referencing the resource materials within the text and by providing student exercises at the end of each chapter." (J. M. Tomich, Kansas State University, Choice, February 2009)
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Zielgruppe
Maße
Höhe: 24.6 cm
Breite: 19 cm
Dicke: 2.5 cm
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ISBN-13
978-0-470-84531-8 (9780470845318)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Andrew Miller Imperial College Genetic Therapies Centre, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, UK
Julian Tanner Department of Biochemistry, The University of Hong Kong
Autor*in
Imperial College, London, UK
University of Hong Kong
Introduction: What is Biological Chemistry?
Chapter One: Basic Biomolecule Structures.
Chapter Two: Mass Spectrometry.
Chapter Three: Vibrational Spectroscopy.
Chapter Four: Electronic Spectroscopy.
Chapter Five: Magnetic Resonance.
Chapter Six: Diffraction and Microscopy.
Chapter Seven: Structural Forces and Thermodynamics.
Chapter Eight: Modelling Structure.
Chapter Nine: Kinetics.
Chapter Ten: Molecular Recognition.
Chapter Eleven:Molecular Motion.
Chapter Twelve: Self Assembly of Biomolecules.
