Bioinorganic Chemistry

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This book covers material that could be included in Bioinorganic Chemistry course for undergraduate and advanced undergraduate students in Chemistryand Biochemistry. The topics have been chosen to represent those areas of Bioinorganic Chemistry that are mature enough for textbook presentation. Each chapter presents material at a more advanced level than that of other Bioinorganic textbooks and provides students with the necessary background required to follow the research literature in the field. What the contributors have done in each chapter is to teach the underlying principles of bioinorganic chemistry as well as the state of knowledge in selected areas. For the convenience of the instructors, students and other readers, the book includes an appendix that lists references to reviews of the research literature that has been found to be particularly useful in the course of Bioinorganic Chemistry. "An excellent treatise on this important subject, this book will be a valuable resource for first-year graduate or senior undergraduate students".- Choice.

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s Patrick Forsyth runs Touchstone Training & Consultancy, which advises on marketing, management and communications skills. An established author, he was written many successful business books including Successful Time Management, How to Motivate People and How to Write Reports and Proposals (also part of the Creating Success series and published by Kogan Page). Table of ContentsTransition-metal storage, transport and biomineralization The reaction pathways of zinc enzymes and related biological catalysts Biological and synthetic dioxygen carriers Dioxygen reactions Electron transfer Ferredoxins, hygrogenases and nitrogenases: Metal-sulphide proteins Metal/ Nucleic-acid interactions Metals in medicine.