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1. This book represents the first systematic treatise on fullerene chemistry, and Andreas Hirsch presents the state of the discipline four years after the fullerene synthesis and nine years after the fullerene discovery. The book has its roots in a research stay of the author with Fred Wudl at Santa Barbara, one of the leading centers of fullerene chemistry.

   The book is written from the point of view of organic chemistry and follows a logical systematization of fullerene reactions: reduction, nucleophilic additions, cycloadditions, hydrogenation, radical additions, oxidation, reactions with electrophiles. Also treated are complexes with transition metals. Fullerene production, separation and purification is discussed comprehensively. Written in an engaging style, the book's 203 pages succeed in conveying the entire range of fullerene chemistry to chemists of various kinds. The author is not particularly concerned with the more theoretical aspects of fullerene topology, symmetry, or computations. After all, the latter would in fact require a monograph of its own, as would various physical applications of fullerenes. The monograph, however, covers all aspects of C60 derivatization, and touches C70 as understood in early 1994 (while chemistry of higher fullerenes was virtually unknown that time).

   The Chemistry of the Fullerenes perfectly meets what a practicing research chemist would expect. The book, however, can serve for advanced courses, too. After a wave of multi-author compendia, this is the first single author work; it is balanced, systematic, and uniform in style. Hirsch's treatise is further evidence of the almost explosive development of fullerene science, which, within a few years, has already accumulated a wealth of results.

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1 comments about From Coello to Inorganic Chemistry: A Lifetime of Reactions (Profiles in Inorganic Chemistry).

1. Tracing his life from his childhood in Coello, Illinois, through his chemical education, work in the emerging field of inorganic chemistry, and tenure as president of the American Chemical Society (ACS), to his life as a professor emeritus, Fred Basolo has written a remarkable autobiographical account of a life that exemplifies the American Dream. Born of poor immigrant Italian parents, Basolo spent his childhood in a small mining village in southern Illinois and was the only student from his village to attend the local teaching college. Although he was expected to become a high school chemistry teacher after graduation, Basolo followed the advice of a college professor and enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Here he studied under John C. Bailar, Jr., the "father of coordination chemistry in the United States" and a pioneer of inorganic chemistry. Bailar became a mentor to Basolo. He is just the first of a veritable A-list of inorganic chemists whom Basolo encounters in his travels to laboratories around the world or as a host in his office at Northwestern University, where he taught for 40 years.
   
   Basolo and his colleagues were at the forefront of a renaissance of inorganic chemistry after World War II. The discipline languished on the sidelines of chemistry for decades after the pioneering work of Sophus Mads Jørgenson in Denmark and Alfred Werner in Switzerland at the turn of the last century. (Basolo has a profound respect for the history of his discipline. He often lectured on the early history of metal complexes, worked in Jørgensen's laboratory while on a fellowship in Copenhagen, and visited Werner's grave while lecturing in Zurich.)
   
   Basolo's autobiography is the first of a series called Profiles in Inorganic Chemistry, edited by John P. Fackler, Jr. As Fackler explains in his introduction, the publication in 1938 of Linus Pauling's Nature of the Chemical Bond and the scientific requirements of the Allied war effort convinced many gifted chemists to apply their talents to inorganic chemistry. Many of the leaders of this reawakening in inorganic chemistry, including Bailar, Ludwig F. Audrieth, Warren C. Johnson, W. Conard Fernelius, Raymond E. Kirk, and Harold S. Booth, are now deceased. So Basolo's book, as well as Fackler's larger series, is a crucial resource for understanding the resurgence of this field.
   
   Basolo has lived a remarkable life. Although he has published over 400 scientific papers and his best laboratory work is pioneering, his greatest contributions to chemistry have been as an educator and ambassador for the science. He mentored 58 doctoral students and 66 postdoctoral fellows and coauthored two extremely well-regarded textbooks, Mechanisms of Inorganic Reactions (1958) and Coordination Chemistry (1964). He traveled to dozens of foreign countries, forging international bonds between chemists. He helped start the inorganic chemistry meetings of the Gordon Research Conferences (GRC) in 1951, has attended almost all the inorganic conferences in the half-century since, and served as the chairman of the GRC board of trustees in 1975-1976.
   
   Basolo has been recognized for his achievements by numerous ACS awards, including the 2001 Priestley Medal. Since 1991 Northwestern University has awarded the Fred Basolo Medal for Outstanding Research in Inorganic Chemistry.
   
   Although it might have benefited from another editing to remove some repetition and minor typographic errors, From Coello to Inorganic Chemistry is an engaging autobiography of a preeminent chemist and will be of great interest to inorganic chemists with interest in the history of their field and anyone with an appreciation of the human nature of science.

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1 comments about The Iron Oxides.

1. This is an excellent book about the iron oxides. as the book says it talks about everything you every wanted to know about iron. It helped me understand a great deal about iron chemistry in a very short amount of time. the book is very user friendly and divided very well into different chapters. If you want to learn about iron chemistry this book is by far worth every penny.

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