Origin of Chirality in the Molecules of Life
Language: English
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry, GB, 2008
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- Title
- Origin of Chirality in the Molecules of Life
- Author
- Miguel Yus, Albert Guijarro
- Publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry, GB
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0854041567
- ISBN 13
- 9780854041565
- Item weight
- 418 grams
An interdisciplinary review of one of the great unsolved scientific mysteries - the origin of chirality in biomolecules.
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About the Author
Albert Guijarro received his MSc and PhD from the University of Alicante. He then spent three years at the University of Nebraska before returning to Alicante where he became Associate Professor in 2003. His current research interests are in the field of physical organic chemistry, specifically in the study of highly reduced anionic electron systems. He is co-author of 32 papers, has supervised four PhD students, and has participated in/directed numerous research projects. He is a research member of the ISO (Institute of Organic Synthesis) in Alicante and co-founder of MEDALCHEMY, S.L. Miguel Yus is based at the University of Alicante where he is currently head of the Organic Synthesis Institute (ISO). He has been visiting professor at various institutions including ETH-Zentrum and the Universities of Oxford, Harvard, Uppsala, Tucson, Okayama, Paris and Strasbourg. Professor Yus is on the Advisory Board of numerous learned journals and is Regional Editor of Letters in Organic Chemistry. He is co-author of over 400 papers, has given more than 150 lectures and supervised 43 PhD students. He has received accolades including the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Prize, the French-Spanish Prize of the SocietÚ Franþaise de Chimie, the C.A. Stiefvater Memorial Lecture Award, the Nagase Science and Technology Foundation fellowship, and the Cellchem Lectureship. He is co-founder of MEDALCHEMY, S.L.
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