The new chemistry / editor-in-chief, Nina Hall.

The New Chemistry is a unique and fascinating book - a showcase for modern chemistry. It highlights the most important developments in chemistry over the past 30 years, covering the latest research trends in a wide range of fields, both theoretical and experimental. The book consists of 17 self-contained chapters, each covering a different topic in chemistry, ranging from the discovery of new elements and synthetic techniques to the design of drugs and materials, and each written by one of the world's leading chemists in that particular field. It includes contributions from several Nobel Prize winners and is copiously illustrated with photographs and explanatory diagrams. Written in a lively and accessible style, this book will be of interest to scientists of all disciplines and will be useful as a reference text for anyone wanting to know more about modern chemistry.

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. Molecular 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.