Models, Mysteries, and Magic of Molecules (Hardcover)

PREFACE I. METHODS RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY: THE BIOMOLECULAR DETECTION OF LIFE IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS Howell G.M. Edwards and Michael D. Hargreaves SINGLE-CRYSTAL X-RAY DIFFRACTION STUDIES OF PHOTO-INDUCED MOLECULAR SPECIES Jacqueline M. Cole MOLECULAR CONFORMATION AND CRYSTAL LATTICE ENERGY FACTORS IN CONFORMATIONAL POLYMORPHS Ashwini Nangia HOW GUESTS SETTLE AND PLAN THEIR ESCAPE ROUTE IN A CRYSTAL --STRUCTURAL METRICS OF SOLVATION AND DESOLVATION FOR INORGANIC DIOLS Alessia Bacchi STRUCTURAL DETERMINATION OF UNSTABLE SPECIES Yuji Ohashi II. MYSTERIES IS POLYMORPHISM CAUSED BY MOLECULAR CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES? Ivan Bernal CRYSTALLINE AMINO ACIDS - A LINK BETWEEN CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS SCIENCE AND BIOLOGYElena Boldyreva UNRAVELLING THE CHEMICAL BASIS OF THE BATHOCHROMIC SHIFT OF THE LOBSTER CARAPACE CAROTENOPROTEIN CRUSTACYANIN John R. Helliwell and Madeleine Helliwell TINY STRUCTURAL FEATURES AND THEIR GIANT CONSEQUENCES FOR PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS Andrzej Katrusiak POLYMORPHISM IN LONG-CHAIN N-ALKYLAMMONIUM HALIDES Gert Kruger, Dave Billing and Melanie Rademeyer III. MAGIC MYSTERIOUS CRYSTALLOGRAPHY: FROM SNOW AKE TO VIRUS Aloysio Janner CLUSTERS IN F-PHASE ICOSAHEDRAL QUASICRYSTALS Zorka Papadopolos, Oliver Groening and Roland Widmer PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS IN THE CYANOBACTERIAL KaiABC CIRCADIAN CLOCK Martin Egli, Rekha Pattanayek, Sabuj Pattanayek PROTEIN-PROTEIN DOCKING USING THREE-DIMENSIONAL REDUCED REPRESENTATIONS AND BASED ON A GENETIC ALGORITHM A. Becue, N. Meurice, L. Leherte, and D.P. VercauterenTROPOLONE AS NEUTRAL COMPOUND AND LIGAND IN PALLADIUM COMPLEXES G. Steyl and A. RoodtIV. MODELS THEORETICALAND EXPERIMENTAL MODELS OF MOLECULES ILLUSTRATED WITH2 2 QUANTUM-CHEMICAL CALCULATIONS OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF H CN ISOMERS J. F. Ogilvie and Feng Wang RECURRENT COMPLEX MODULES INSTEAD OF MOLECULES IN NON-MOLECULAR COMPOUNDS - DESCRIBING AND MODELLING MODULAR INORGANIC STRUCTURES Giovanni Ferraris and Marcella CadoniMODELS FOR ISOMERIC BISPIDINE COMPLEXES - ACCURATE PREDICTION VERSUS THOROUGH UNDERSTANDING Peter Comba and Marion KerscherTHE LIGAND-FIELD PARADIGM: INSIGHT INTO ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF TRANSITION-METAL COMPLEXES BASED ON CALCULATIONS OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE M. Atanasov, P Comba , C A Daul and F NeeseTHE HOLISTIC MOLECULE J C A Boeyens