The Philosophical Diseases of Medicine and Their Cure: Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Vol. 1: Foundations (Philosophy and Medicine)

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This book deals with the essential philosophical/ethical dimension that concerns the ends and goods entrusted to medicine. It shows that medicine cannot be reduced to its scientific and technical aspects and that the constitutive philosophical aspects of medicine presently are in a state of crisis.

Medicine, besides being a scientifically based art of diagnosing and curing infirmities of many kinds, also possesses an essential philosophical and ethical dimension. It turns into anti-medicine if it no longer stands in the service of those goods and ends that are entrusted to it. Their nature is in no way known by natural science but can be clarified by philosophy. Consequently, medicine suffers from philosophical diseases of different degrees of gravity if its theory and practice are based on errors about its proper ends. The cure from the life-threatening philosophical diseases of medicine lies in a critique of philosophical mistakes that influence the theory and practice of medicine and in an understanding and practical implementation of those ethically relevant goods that constitute its true ends. At a time when these goods are by no means universally recognized or embodied in laws of medicine, some basic philosophical understanding of them and of the foundations of medical ethics is urgently required. The purpose of this volume is to provide this largely neglected part of general and medical education.

The Biology of Moral Systems (Foundations of Human Behavior)

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Profound work of theoretical biology

The Biology of Moral Systems (Foundations of Human Behavior)
Richard Alexander
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Despite wide acceptance that the attributes of living creatures have appeared through a cumulative evolutionary process guided chiefly by natural selection, many human activities have seemed analytically inaccessible from such an approach. Morality, for example, has been described by prominent evolutionary biologists as contrary to the direction of biological evolution, and moral philosophers rarely regard evolution as relevant to their discussions.

This book adopts the argument that moral questions arise out of conflicts of interest, and that moral systems are ways of using confluences of interest at lower levels of social organization to deal with conflicts of interest at higher levels. Moral systems are described as systems of indirect reciprocity: humans gain and lose socially (and reproductively) not only by direct transactions, but also by the reputations they gain from the everyday flow of social interactions.

The author develops a general theory of human interests, using senescence and effort theory from biology to help analyze the patterning of human lifetimes. He argues that the ultimate interests of humans are reproductive, and that the concept of morality has arisen within groups because of its contribution to unity, in the context, ultimately, of success in intergroup competition. He contends that morality is not easily relatable to universals, and he carries this argument into a discussion of what he calls the greatest of all moral problems, the nuclear arms race.

CONTENTS Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Biology and the Background of Moral Systems. The Evolutionary Approach. Human Interests and Their Conflicts: What Lifetimes are About. Reproduction and Senescence: Why Lifetimes are Finite. Reproduction and Cooperation: Special Cases. 2. A Biological View of Morality. Conflicts and Confluences of Interest: A Theory of Moral Systems. Morality and the Human Psyche. Life History Theory and the Ontogeny of Moral Behavior. General Conclusions. 3. Morality as Seen by Philosophers and Biologists. The Moral Philosophers. The Biologist-Philosophers. The Philosophers of Biology. Morality and Law. Morality and Democracy. The Goal of Universal Beneficence. Summary . Conclusions. 4. Applying the Biological View of Morality. Morality and Openness in the Pursuit of Truth: Science, Law, and God as the Models. Modelling Value Systems and Maintaining Indirect Reciprocity . Arms Races, Human and Otherwise. 5. Conclusions. References. Index

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A great book with an outdated model of human behavior.......2000-11-02

Where does morality come from? The traditional answer are from God, as revealed by theologians, or from Reason or Intuition, as revealed by philosophers. In fact, as Richard Alexander makes clear in this landmark book, morality comes from our evolution as a species. Individuals who developed ethical awareness and practiced moral behavior in the course of our emergence from the hoard of pre-human hominids had an evolutionary edge over those who did not. It follows that to understand morality, one must undertake a scientific and evolutionary approach. Ethics is thus something like linguistics, in that both are extremely complex human ideational forms that must be modeled, and the success of ethical theories is their capacity to explain how humans express and make moral choices.

The scientific approach to morality espoused by Alexander is a deeply refreshing alternative to the endless pious platitudes of the theologians, who believe they have a special line to the Almighty's will, and the supercilious meanderings of the philosophers who think their personal moral predilections are something more than mere personal prejudice. We owe to this book the reorientation of ethical theory from the prejudices of the privileged to the realm of the scientific. As such, Alexander's book is must reading for a student of ethics.

However, contemporary evidence shows that his major thesis is flawed. Here are some key quotes and my critique of the assertions made in the quotes.

Quote from p. 3: "ethics, morality, human conduct, and the human psyche are to be understood only if societies are seen as collections of individuals seeking their own self-interest..."

Critique: This is of course the model of human action in standard economic theory, and I have spent my whole life dealing with its inadequacies and proposing alternative models more in line with the empirical evidence on human behavior. Alexander's description of human behavior ignores such prosocial other-regarding behaviors as altruistic cooperation, altruistic punishment, and the tendency to conform to social norms independent from the possibility of being detected and punished for such behavior. We now have lots of behavioral evidence in favor of the existence of strong reciprocity (a propensity to cooperate in social dilemmas and to punish free riders without regard to personal material payoffs), as well as its ability to foster sustainable cooperation when self-interest would lead to social breakdown. See, for instance Herbert Gintis, "Strong Reciprocity and Human Sociality", Journal of Theoretical Biology 206 (2000):169-179 and Ernst Fehr and Simon Gaechter, "Cooperation and Punishment", American Economic Review 90,4 (2000). See also my web site.

I also believe that empathy and shame are counterexamples to Alexander's model. Indeed, sociopaths who have neither empathy nor shame can be considered as "self-interested" in Alexander's sense in that they refrain from harming other human beings only if they calculate that the personal costs (e.g., of being caught) exceed the benefits flowing from harming others.

Quote from p. 34: "That people are in general following what they perceive to be their own interests is, I believe, the most general principle of human behavior."

If this is not tautologous (whatever people want to do is in their interest by definition), then it is false, for the same reason as in my critique of the previous quote, since people who punish violators of group norms often "perceive" their actions to be for the benefit of the group, and understand quite well that it is not in their own self-interest.

But there are other problems with Alexander's statement. (a) If I am addicted to smoking I might perceive that I am not acting in my own self interest when I smoke, and do it anyway. (b) I may "perceive" it in my own interest to help the poor, or contribute to environmental groups, or perform other prosocial acts when in fact it is not. If humans systematically misperceive their self-interest, as in this case, and if the misperception is very likely in a prosocial direction, then violations of self-interest might be central to human social cooperation, even were Alexander's statement correct (which it is not). In fact, I do not believe that humans systematically misperceive their self-interest. Rather, they choose often to act altruistically against their self-interest because they have other-regarding preferences.

Quote from p. 77: "Moral systems are systems of indirect reciprocity."

This is the first statement of Chapter 2, "A Biological View of Morality." It is not an aside, but Alexander's fundamental explanation of moral systems. By "indirect reciprocity" he means almost exactly what Robert Trivers calls "reciprocal altruism," but which in fact is just enlightened long-term self interest. It is fundamentally wrong. The evidence is that virtually all moral systems exhort forms of altruism that do not reduce to self interest, even in the long run, and large numbers of people subscribe to and to some extent follow these non-self-interested principles.

I should note that even criminals and psychopaths often exhibit non-self-regarding behavior, as when, for instance, a man takes revenge on his "enemies" and then kills himself.

Of course, a lot of human behavior is self-interested, and some non-self-interested behavior is just random noise in the behavioral system. But the types of systematic prosocial behavior promoted by strong reciprocity, shame, empathy, and identification with "insiders" is, unless I am mistaken, the key to the particular strength of human cooperation.

Profound work of theoretical biology.......1999-08-13

Richard Alexander's pioneering work of theoretical biology was one of the first attempts (in the current cycle of sociobiological interest) to apply Darwinian thinking to human morality. The book is profoundly disturbing. Like any work of theory, many of the specifics of Alexander's analysis will be revised but the main argument that morality can only be understood within the Darwinian framework is important. Subsequently many authors have pusued the same line of thought but Alexander's treatment is one of the most interesting. The discusison of deception is particularly provocative.

Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science: Essential Readings in Neuroethics (Dana Press - Dana Foundation Series on Neuroethics)

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An introduction to the proper ethics for the twenty-first century

Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science: Essential Readings in Neuroethics (Dana Press - Dana Foundation Series on Neuroethics)

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Where is the line between instinct and free will in humans? How far can technology and medicine go to manipulate the brain? With every new discovery about the human mind, more and more questions emerge about the boundaries of consciousness, responsibility, and how far neuroscience research can go. The fledgling field of neuroethics has sought answers to these questions since the first formal neuroethics conference was held in 2002. This groundbreaking volume collects the expert and authoritative writings published since then that have laid the groundwork for this rapidly expanding debate.
Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science traverses the breadth of neuroethics, exploring six broad areas—including free will, moral responsibility, and legal responsibility; psychopharmacology; and brain injury and brain death—in thirty provocative articles. The scientific and ethical consequences of neuroscience research and technology are plumbed by leading thinkers and scientists, from Antonio Damasio’s “The Neural Basics of Social Behavior: Ethical Implications” to “Monitoring and Manipulating Brain Function” by Martha J. Farah and Paul Root Wolpe. These and other in-depth chapters articulate the thought-provoking questions that emerge with every new scientific discovery and propose solutions that mediate between the freedom of scientific endeavor and the boundaries of ethical responsibility.

As science races toward a future that is marked by startling new possibilities for our bodies and minds, Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science is the definitive assessment of the ethical criteria guiding neuroscientists today.

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An introduction to the proper ethics for the twenty-first century.......2007-08-30

Due to the rapid advances in experimental techniques for studying processes in the human brain, the ability to alter neuronal processes real-time, and the understanding of how the brain organizes information it is becoming apparent that the there are pressing ethical issues that will have to be addressed in the years ahead. These issues center on the possibility of direct intervention into the human brain, either using psychopharmacological drugs, electronic technology, or even genetically engineered viruses. Such interventions could have as their goals the curing of Alzheimer's disease (or the delaying of its onset), the improvement of memory, or the enhancement of cognitive abilities. These efforts are admirable, and must be pursued diligently, but as in all areas of science and medicine, caution is necessary, since the potential for deliberate or inadvertent abuse is very real. But these same advances also shed considerable light on one of the most important problems in human experience: that of finding moral and ethical standards that are not based solely on philosophical rhetoric but instead respect the real capabilities and potential of human beings.

This book, which is a collection of articles that have appeared before in either books or scientific journals, addresses the first concern, which is properly called now the `ethics of neuroscience.' But is also addresses the second, namely of whether indeed one can find a `neuroscience of ethics', which is an ethical theory or formulation that is firmly rooted in the science of the brain. It is very exciting to contemplate that such a theory is within our grasp, not only because brain science is fascinating in and of itself, but also because ethical standards and morality have not found a realistic foundation as of yet, despite the efforts of theologians and philosophers.

Along the lines of a neuroscience of ethics, the most interesting article in the book is the one entitled `Moral Cognition and its Neural Constituents' by William D. Casebeer. Recognizing that sound moral reasoning is essential for humans, his goal is to understand the manner in which ethical reasoning is performed in the human brain. It does not make sense to adhere to certain ethical standards or theories if the brain cannot process information in a manner that is required by these standards. There are many such ethical theories developed throughout human history, with varying degrees of popularity and definitely diverse in their views of proper conduct. Some of them have resulted in extreme violence on the part of their adherents; others have been benign and died out possibly out of sheer boredom. Each has its own perspective, but which one of them, if any, is actually compatible with how the human brain engages in moral cognition? This is an important question to answer, since blind adherence to a given set of ethical standards may result in cognitive dysfunction or dissonance. Whatever the proper systems of ethics is, it must be based on what is possible, with possibilities defined with respect to what the human brain is actually capable of, and what it has evolved to do.

In his article, Casebeer outlines briefly some of the major moral theories in Western culture. These include rule utilitarianism, the Kantian categorical imperative, and the Aristotelian notion of eudaimonia. He also briefly addresses any concerns that neuroethics commits the naturalistic fallacy but refers the reader to the literature for more in-depth discussion. But the most interesting part of this article deals with which regions of the brain are correlated with moral emotions and abstract moral reasoning. Because of its role in decision making and planning, the prefrontal cortex is thought to play a role, but the author cautions against being too hasty to make definite conclusions until more data is collected. He claims that imaging and lesion studies seem to indicate that damage to the ventral and medial prefrontal cortex causes degradation in practical and moral decision-making. As more experimental data is acquired, and as the workings of the brain become better understood through reverse engineering, it will be very exciting to find out just what part(s) of the brain are primarily responsible for moral thought and to what degree moral reasoning patterns can be altered by psychopharmacological interventions or using some other techniques.

These interventions may trouble the morally sensitive reader, and they should, for any attempts to alter brain chemistry should be undertaken only when an extreme level of confidence is acquired. But if for example an in-depth understanding of moral reasoning indicates which parts of the brain are responsible for violent behavior or tendencies for making war (and that these parts are not "entangled" with others in the brain), then humanity should use, with the greatest of care, the technologies available for altering these behaviors or tendencies. The scope and ramifications of using brain intervention to such a degree are awesome, but morally justified. It will require a global commitment that goes across cultures and races, but a more morally sensitive world that abhors violence is infinitely more preferable to a world that does not.

Biology and the Foundations of Ethics (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)

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There has been much attention devoted in recent years to the question of whether our moral principles can be related to our biological nature. This collection of new essays focuses on the connection between biology and foundational questions in ethics. The book asks such questions as whether humans are innately selfish, and whether there are particular facets of human nature that bear directly on social practices. This is the first book to offer this historical perspective on the relation of biology and ethics, and has been written by some of the leading figures in the history and philosophy of science, whose work stands very much at the cutting edge of these disciplines.

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Scholars Debate the Legitimacy of the Naturalistic Philosophy Underpinning Darwin's Theory of Evolutionary
collection of essays from symposium on ID

Darwinism: Science or Philosophy?

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Scholars Debate the Legitimacy of the Naturalistic Philosophy Underpinning Darwin's Theory of Evolutionary.......2006-06-22

This volume presents papers presented at an early conference at Southern Methodist University in 1992 which was a landmark event in uniting scholars who now make up the intelligent design movement. Phillip Johnson explains that evolution is based upon assumptions of naturalism, which are often unsupported by the evidence. Johnson recounts both fossil and genetic evidence which are difficult to explain under evolution. Moreover, Johnson finds that many Darwinists have used the theory to promote materialism under the guise of science.

Michael Ruse responds to Johnson by noting that evolution does not have to be true, but that it is supported by Mendelian genetics and the explanatory power of natural selection. It is possible to be a Christian and a Darwinian, according to Ruse, but one would find difficulty if he or she were a biblical literalist or even a Christian who believed that Jesus rose from the dead through a miraculous event.

Philosopher of science Stephen C. Meyer challenges Ruse's definition of science as subject to "natural law." Meyer points out that in the historical sciences, laws do not explain singular events, such as the rising of a particular mountain range. Michael Behe historically presented some of his arguments that the rarity of functional proteins challenges Neo-Darwinian explanations. When critics try to explain the origin of this complexity, Behe notes that their detail-less explanations are unconvincing. Finally, William Dembski provides an early discussion of how the probabilistic resources available to describe the origin of biological complexity (such as Behe's examples of unlikely functional proteins) rules out Darwinism as an explanation.

While critics have their say in this book as well, this is the earliest volume containing essays by noted design theorists such as Johnson, Behe, Meyer, and Dembski. Thus, it's a must-read for anyone interested in the development of the theory of intelligent design.

collection of essays from symposium on ID.......2003-05-16

_Darwinism: Science or Philosophy?_

This is a collection of 25 essays in 13 questions with a thesis-rebuttal type of structure. The symposium that gave rise to the book had as a theme:

Darwinism and neo-darwinism as generally held and taught in our society carry with them an a priori commitment to metaphysical naturalism, which is essential to make a convincing case on their behalf."
quoted on pg 177

I classify the book as Intelligent Design (ID) despite the fact that about 1/2 the essays are rebuttals to the position, not it's support. The book is better than average in the quality of the writing and the authors presented. It is however specific enough that it is not a general work on the creation-evolution-design (CED) debate but rather an interesting contribution to a small facet of the field. That being said i sought out the book because it's topic sentence is my current interest in a self-directed study of the CED field. I was glad to have found 2 lines of thought in the book, those i would like to concentrate on now.

The first is the essay, "Radical Intersubjectivity: Why Naturalism is an assumption necessary for doing Science" by Frederick Grinnell, section *. It is simply a very concise introduction to the public nature of science and "Only naturalistic explanations can become part of science because of the way in which scientific discoveries become credible." pg 100. And "Individual scientists make discoveries; scientific communities make discoveries credible. That is, credibility is embedded in the social structure of science." I have struggled in vain for several weeks trying to reach this idea and i am indebted for the simple and persuasive way the he makes it. To be persuaded, to be convinced, to yield author to, these are all ideas the circulate within an ideology, any social organization. Some like governments, military or perhaps in families yield simply "i told you so, therefore do it!". Others especially voluntary organizations which rely on the consent of the members are much more subtile in their demands so not to estrange potential converts. But science is as an institution, extraordinarily multi-cultural and multi-national. As such the recruitment and education of potential members is extremely important, just look at the complex of universities, research institutions both governmental and private which encircle our globe. An institution and an ideology like science based in large part on a radical skeptism and provisionalness that disturbs many people has developed an extraordinary way of accepting and confirming individual discoveries. In particular, the community makes new ideas credible not just by reproducing and disseminating these new discoveries but by incorporating them into the structure of the communities thinking. The object is to modify and incorporate long standing ideas with the new in a systematic way that will minimize errors getting by the process to become conventional scientific wisdom. Certainly the bar is very high, and stops good, true ideas sometimes, we only have to look at the currents ideas about ulcers and compare them to a medical textbook of 10 years ago to see this point.

The second set of essays i found particularly valuable was chapter 11 "X Does not Entail Y: the Rhetorical Uses of Conflating levels of logic" by Arthur M Shapiro. "Here is argument in a nutshell: biological evolution (darwinism, neo-Darwinism) entails no particular position on the ultimate orgins of either life or the universe. Evolution is a subject studied by the methods of science. To conduct scientific investigation per se entails no claim to intellectual hegemony or ontological priority over other potential 'ways of knowing.' The contrary claims, implicit or explicit in the arguments of both theists and atheists, flow from a conflation of evolution with evolutionism or of science with scientism(or postiivism, or materialism, or some other ism). The conflation may be pertinent to discussions of human affairs and society but at the same time is obfuscatory and logically invalid, as conflation by definition is." pg 159
This is the major point of ID that science is wrongfully dismissing a Designer from the start of its investigations. Shapiro argues convincingly that this is not the case, but rather simply part of doing science. He rightfully blames the current debate on a confusion of levels of discourse, confusing science with philosophy of science, or science as tool with scientism as epistemology.

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Human Genetic Information: Science, Law and Ethics Chairman: Sir Gustav Nossal 1990 Research into human genetics is making unprecedented progress as a result of new developments in molecular biology. We are becoming increasingly able to obtain genetic information about individual people in a way that has never before been possible. These developments offer us the potential advantages of treating or preventing genetically determined diseases (and most diseases have some genetic component). They also raise many questions—ethical and legal as well as scientific and medical. Is it desirable to map the human genome? Who has the right to know the genetic constitution of a person? What are the limits to prenatal diagnosis? Are we able to predict that disorders will develop in a particular individual? What is the legal status of personal genetic information? And what are the implications of altering the human genome for our conception of human nature and personal identity? In this symposium a distinguished international group of geneticists, molecular biologists, physicians, moral philosophers, lawyers and theologians discuss these and other questions raised by developments in molecular genetics and by the new reproductive technology. Other Ciba Foundation Publications: Symposium No 130 Molecular approaches to human polygenic disease Chairman: Sir David Weatherall 1987 ISBN 0 471 91096 1 Symposium No 142 Genetic analysis of tumour suppression Chairman: E.J. Stanbridge 1989 ISBN 0 471 92299 4 Conference Communicating science to the public Chairman: W. M. Laetsch 1987 ISBN 0 471 91511 4 Conference The evaluation of scientific research Chairman: Sir David Phillips 1989 ISBN 0 471 92143 2

Investigating the Biological Foundations of Human Morality (Symposium Series)

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The third edition contains major improvements over the previous edition. In addition to updated references, each reaction is now supplemented with two to three representative examples in synthesis to showcase its synthetic utility. Biographical sketches for the chemists who discovered or developed those name reactions have been included. Furthemore, the subject index is significantly expanded.

Different from other books on name reactions in organic chemistry, Name Reactions, A Collection of Detailed Reaction Mechanisms focuses on their mechanisms. It covers over 300 classical as well as contemporary name reactions. Each reaction is delineated by its detailed step-by-step, electron-pushing mechanism, supplemented with the original and the latest references, especially review articles. Thus, it is not only an indispensable resource for senior undergraduate and graduate students for learning and exams, but also a good reference book for all chemists interested in name reactions.

Some praise for the previous edition:

"This is an excellent book for arrow pushing and learning organic name reactions as encountered in graduate school . . . Li’s book contains reactions of all mechanistic classes . . . The book is nicely balanced, containing modern-day reactions for assembly of stereocomplex molecules. Reactions such as the Corey-Bakshi-Shibata reduction are analyzed. This book is a good reference text that fills a void that has existed for some time. It is both an excellent tool for learning and a good reference source."

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Awesome book.......2007-05-10

This book is nice for writing the basics of mechanism. There are some other books available in market. But I will recommend this book because they are short and concise. This third edition is more or less similar to second edition.

best name reactions book.......2006-03-23

this book is a really great resource for organic chemists. it has all the main name reactions in alphabetical order, and does a good job showing not only the overall reaction, but also the step-by-step mechanism as well. it also has references listed for each reaction, for further clarification. i recommend it for any organic chemist as part of their library.

The named reactions bible.......2005-08-16

This book is fantastic! It has a complete set of every important named reaction with its respective mechanism and literature references. The simple layout makes this book very user friendly. The mechanisms are easy to follow and the references are very useful making this book excellent for use at any level from undergraduate to graduate and beyond. This book is a definite must have for anyone studying advanced organic chemistry, as it is the named reactions bible.

not bad if you can't write a mechanism..........2005-08-06

Basically, all this book does is draw mechanisms for a whole bunch of name reactions. It doesn't really tell you all that much and only gives one example (for which the mechanism is drawn out)or each. Definately not recomended if you know how to push arrows and write a mechanism. Not at all what I was expecting.

A excellent collection of important Name Reactions.......2004-04-10

This book is a must for any undergrad, graduate student or for that matter, CHEMIST, at any level who is interested in Name Reactions. It contains 331 name reactions that range from classic organic chemistry to modern day organic chemistry. An excellent collection of important name reactions that is in an easy to read format. Each reaction contains a brief summary, a general reaction scheme and a detailed arrow pushing mechanism.

I really like this book because of its contents and simplicity. Its very easy to find the reaction you are looking for and the information is complete. It would be very helpful in studying for advance organic chemistry exams or as a quick reference when you do not know a particular named reaction. The index is about average for this type of book; however, this book is based on the fact that you are looking up named reactions and not using it as a functional group conversion reference.

After all is said and done, I can truly say that I am glad I purchased this book. It is a complete summary of named reactions and I look forward to using it in the years to come.

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This book is aimed at researchers in the field of inorganic reaction mechanisms. The chemical kinetics portion of the book would be widely applicable in both organic and inorganic chemistry. A third of the book would appeal to graduate students of any chemical subject, such as chemical engineering, pharmaceutical chemistry, and some medical sciences.

The remainder of the book is devoted to inorganic reaction mechanisms and will be of interest to researchers. Compounds which contain metals are of interest not only to inorganic chemists, but to organic chemists and biochemists as well.

Organic Reaction Mechanisms: 40 Solved Cases

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Organic Reaction Mechanisms shows readers how to interpret the experimental data obtained from an organic reaction, and specifically how an organic reaction mechanism can be considered or rejected based on the analysis of the experimental evidence. Examining a series of selected examples of mechanisms, Organic Reaction Mechanisms focuses on real cases and discusses them in detail, following the same methodology: introduction, experimental data and discussion. The examples are arranged to elucidate key aspects of organic reaction mechanisms. The authors employ all the types of information that the authors of the original work considered useful and necessary, including kinetic and thermodynamic data, isotopic labelling and organic reactivity. The book makes an excellent primer for advanced undergraduates in chemistry who are preparing for exams and is also useful for graduate students and instructors.

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Understanding the mechanisms of the reactions at transition metal sites is a key component in designing synthetic methods, developing industrial homogeneous catalysts, and investigating metalloenzymes. These mechanisms are therefore an essential component of undergraduate courses. The author here provides a broad-based and systematic guide through the fundamentals of transition-metal mechanistic chemistry, including substitution, electron transfer, and reaction of ligands.

Advances in Inorganic Chemistry: Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms (AIC) (Advances in Inorganic Chemistry)

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Advances in Inorganic Chemistry: Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms (AIC) (Advances in Inorganic Chemistry)

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ASIN: 0120236540

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The Advances in Inorganic Chemistry series presents timely and informative summaries of the current progress in a variety of subject areas within inorganic chemistry ranging from bio-inorganic to solid state studies. This acclaimed serial features reviews written by experts in the area and is an indispensable reference to advanced researchers. Each volume of Advances in Inorganic Chemistry contains an index, and each chapter is fully referenced.

This, the 54th volume in the series continues this tradition providing comprehensive reviews by leading experts in the field with the focus on inorganic and bioinorganic reaction mechanisms.

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Inorganic and Organometallic Reaction Mechanisms

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Inorganic and Organometallic Reaction Mechanisms
Jim D. Atwood
Manufacturer: Wiley-VCH
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ASIN: 0471188972

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This title provides detailed coverage of classic inorganic reaction mechanisms and organometallic reaction mechanisms. The coverage of the mechanisms expected for reactions of transitions metal complex includes the kinetic studies used to differentiate possible mechanisms. This combination of coordination complexes and organometallic complexes is unique to this title. Describing how transition metal complexes react and the type of data used to determine how complexes react, this work provides excellent introductions, extensive problems, and thought-provoking summaries in every chapter. Complete with excellent references, this second edition has been updated with new problems and increased information on NMR techniques, dissociative reactions of square-planar complexes, seventeen-electron complexes, organometallic transfer, and oxidative-addition and reductive-elimination reactions. The only current text on inorganic mechanisms, this book is ideal for students and chemists who deal with inorganic and organometallic reagents.

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Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms
D O Cooke
Manufacturer: CHEMICAL SOCIETY
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ASIN: B000QA5T8C

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