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More powerful than ever, Ullmann's is the definitive reference work for all fields of industrial chemistry, and is certain to hold its number-one position for generations to come. For this revised electronic edition of the Encyclopedia all revisions and improvements of the 7th printed edition (released in August 2011), plus a number of new and...

A compilation of 76 articles from the ULLMANN's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry , this three-volume handbook contains a wealth of information on the production and industrial use of more than 2,000 of the most important fine chemicals, from "Alcohols" to "Urea Derivatives". Chemical and physical characteristics, production processes and...

This third in a suite of four practical guides is an engineer's companion to using numerical methods for the solution of complex mathematical problems. It explains the theory behind current numerical methods and shows in a step-by-step fashion how to use them. The volume focuses on optimization from experimental to large-scale processes, detailing...

This first systematic treatment of the concept and practice of scaffold hopping shows the tricks of the trade and provides invaluable guidance for the reader's own projects. The first section serves as an introduction to the topic by describing the concept of scaffolds, their discovery, diversity and representation, and their importance for...

Edited by two renowned medicinal chemists who have pioneered the development of personalized therapies in their respective fields, this authoritative analysis of what is already possible is the first of its kind, and the only one to focus on drug development issues. Numerous case studies from the first generation of "personalized drugs" are...

Leading authorities in the field review our current knowledge of critical behavior in brain functioning, both experimental and theoretical. Divided into four parts, the book begins by summarizing the experimental evidence that supports the idea of brain dynamics in the context of self-organized criticality, presenting recent groundbreaking...