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The present book might be regarded as a sequel to my previous work, Bioinorganic Chemistry: An Introduction (Allyn and Bacon, 1977). It is hoped that this book will help bridge this gap and at the same time provide an overview of the entire Biochemistry of the Elements series.

Structure and Geometry.- Hierarchic structure.- The structure of quasicrystals: from diffraction patterns to atom positions.- Determination of quasi-crystal structures by higher dimensional analysis.- Six-dimensional atoms for a decorated three-dimensional Penrose tiling.- Metrical aspects of quasicrystal embedding in superspace.- Landau theory and direct methods for crystal structures analysis.- Geometry of films of amphiphile molecules: a curved space approach.- Geometrical approach of blue phases.- Electron microscopy and quasicrystals.- On the dark field imaging behaviour of icosahedral phases in rapidly cooled aluminium alloys.- Electron microscopy of modulated structures.- Models for Stability and Growth.- Physical models of perfect quasicrystal growth.- Generation and dynamics of defects in two-dimensional quasicrystals.- Intrinsic stability of quasicrystals and behavior under a load of Frenkel defects.- Reconstructive phase transition to the icosahedral phase.- Structure and growth of twoand three-dimensional hexatic liquid crystals.- The tiling structure of simple liquids: squares and triangles in two dimensions.- Does cholesteric blue phase III have an icosahedral structure ?.- Intrinsic frustration and space curvature in smectic A liquid crystals.- Critical behavior of polymorphic smectic-A liquid crystals.- Universal behavior in phospholipid multimembrane systems.- Pattern formation during the ordering processes in nematic liquid crystals.- Spatially modulated structures in models with competing interactions some new results.- Weakly periodic structures with a singular continuous spectrum.- The Anderson metal-insulator transition: incommensurate versus disordered systems.- Theory of phase transition between two incommensurate phases in NbTe4.- The origin of polytypes in SiC and ZnS.- Structural modulations in the high-temperature superconductor YBa2Cu3O7.? and semi conducting WO3-x, aspects of non-equilibrium behaviour.- Incommensurate modulations in bismuth-based high-Tc superconductors.- Incommensurate commensurate phase transition of Cu2-xTe. (x

This book is written for the research biochemist who needs to know more about the particular field of dioxygen metabolism, whether this be for designing lectures for a graduate level course or for his or her own research needs.

In response to the worldwide health problems caused by nutritional zinc deficiency, coupled with the remarkable advances in our knowledge of zinc metabolism, the author has written this monograph on the clinical effects of this important mineral.

There can be few elements with a biochemistry as coherent as that of sulfur. Although there are large gaps in the fabric of our basic knowledge of sulfur biochemistry, it is sufficiently framed to allow a unified and organized story, a story which many of the best-known names in bio chemistry have helped to write.

In this timely monograph, the author summarizes the rapidly growing body of knowledge regarding nickel by providing a balanced discussion of its harmful and beneficial effects. the chemistry of nickel, descriptions of the four known enzymes which contain nickel; and nickel metabolism in microbes, plants, and animals.

By a happy coincidence, the completion of this text coincided with the 200th anniversary of the discovery of gadolinite, the mineral with which the lanthanide story begins. Se rious interest in the biochemical properties ofthese elements can be traced to concerns about the safety of radioactive lanthanides toward the end of World War 11.

Copper has long been known as essential to living systems, in part through its fundamental role in electron transport and respiration. Thus, I have tried to make this a source book for historic as well as current information on all aspects of copper bio chemistry, and a summary of our current knowledge of copper-dependent proteins and processes.

Biochemistry of Halogenated Organic Compounds has been written as a general reference source for researchers in several related areas, including organic chemists, medicinal chemists, pharmacologists, toxicologists, and medical researchers.

This book is written for the research biochemist who needs to know more about the particular field of dioxygen metabolism, whether this be for designing lectures for a graduate level course or for his or her own research needs.

These two volumes will treat the two main structural categories of iron: heme and nonheme iron. In this volume on nonheme iron, the first in the series, Anatoly Bezkorovainy provides what we believe is the most comprehensive treatment of this important topic.

The biochemistry of thyroid hor mones is considered in Chapter 6, while biohalogenation, an important link between inorganic and organic halogen biochemistry, is reviewed in Chapter 7.

Copper has long been known as essential to living systems, in part through its fundamental role in electron transport and respiration. Thus, I have tried to make this a source book for historic as well as current information on all aspects of copper bio chemistry, and a summary of our current knowledge of copper-dependent proteins and processes.

This volume is intended for students and professionals in diverse areas of the biological and biochemical sciences. We hope the reader will find the material a helpful reference for other volumes of this series as well as the general literature, and some may see ways to adopt these techniques in their own pursuits.

These essential elements include the bulk elements (hydro gen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur), the macrominerals (sodium, potas sium, calcium, magnesium, chloride, and phosphorus), and the trace elements.

Biochemistry of Scandium and Yttrium gathers together existing knowledge about scandium and yttrium from a wide variety of disciplines.

Biochemistry of Scandium and Yttrium gathers together existing knowledge about scandium and yttrium from a wide variety of disciplines.

In response to the worldwide health problems caused by nutritional zinc deficiency, coupled with the remarkable advances in our knowledge of zinc metabolism, the author has written this monograph on the clinical effects of this important mineral.

Biochemistry of Scandium and Yttrium gathers together existing knowledge about scandium and yttrium from a wide variety of disciplines.

There can be few elements with a biochemistry as coherent as that of sulfur. Although there are large gaps in the fabric of our basic knowledge of sulfur biochemistry, it is sufficiently framed to allow a unified and organized story, a story which many of the best-known names in bio chemistry have helped to write.

Biochemistry of Halogenated Organic Compounds has been written as a general reference source for researchers in several related areas, including organic chemists, medicinal chemists, pharmacologists, toxicologists, and medical researchers.

The biochemistry of thyroid hor mones is considered in Chapter 6, while biohalogenation, an important link between inorganic and organic halogen biochemistry, is reviewed in Chapter 7.

In this timely monograph, the author summarizes the rapidly growing body of knowledge regarding nickel by providing a balanced discussion of its harmful and beneficial effects. the chemistry of nickel, descriptions of the four known enzymes which contain nickel; and nickel metabolism in microbes, plants, and animals.