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This book is an enthusiastic account of Pierre Laszlo's life and pioneering work on catalysis of organic reactions by modified clays, and his reflections on doing science from the 1960s to 1990s. In this autobiography, readers will discover a first-hand testimony of the chemical revolution in the second half of the 20th century, and the author's perspective on finding a calling in science and chemistry, as well as his own experience on doing science, teaching science and managing a scientific career. During this period, Pierre Laszlo led an academic laboratory and worked also in three different countries: the US, Belgium and France, where he had the opportunity to meet remarkable colleagues. In this book, he recalls his encounters and collaborations with important scientists, who shaped the nature of chemistry at times of increased pace of change, and collates a portrait of the worldwide scientific community at that time. In addition, the author tells us about the turns and twists of his own life, and how he ended up focusing his research on clay based chemistry, where clay minerals were turned in his lab to catalysis of key chemical transformations. Given its breath, the book offers a genuine information on the life and career of a chemist, and it will appeal not only to scientists and students, but also to historians of science and to the general reader. .
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Walk into your local grocery store and down the produce aisle, and you'll find a dazzling array of citrus, from navel oranges and clementines to grapefruit and key limes - and sometimes even more exotic fare like the Japanese yuzu or the baboon lemon. Nearly 100 million tons of citrus are produced globally every year, but where did these fruits first come from? How did they find their way into the Western world? And how did they become both a culinary and cultural phenomenon?Pierre Laszlo here traces the spectacular rise and spread of citrus across the globe: from Southeast Asia in 4000 BC through North Africa and the Roman Empire to early modern Spain and Portugal, whose explorers introduced the fruits to the Americas during the 1500s. Blending scientific rigor with personal curiosity, "Citrus" ransacks over two millennia of world history, exploring the numerous roles that citrus has played in agriculture, horticulture, cooking, nutrition, religion, and art - from the Jewish feast of the Tabernacles through the gardens and courts of Versailles to the canvasses of Vincent van Gogh to the orange groves of southern California and the juicing industry of today.
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• Part I - Addressing PeersGuidelines: Abstract, Acknowledgements, Acronyms, Active or Passive Voice?, Bibliography, Body language, Conclusion, Electronic publishing, E-mailing, Erudition, Figures and captions, Free access to literature, Ideographic or nomothetic?, Illustration, Index, Introduction, I or We?, Irony, Neologisms and eponymy, Notes, Open access, Opening paragraph, Organizing your material, Paragraph, Scholarship, Sentences, Signers, Speech delivery, Sub-titles, Taking the floor, Title, Understatement, Verbs, Visuals (for a lecture), Vocabulary, Wit.- Genres: After-dinner speech, Book chapter, Book proposal, Conference presentation, Correcting proofs, E-mail, Editing, Editing a book, Editing a magazine, Editing for a journal, Editing a journal, Editorial Informal discussion, Internet, Keynote lecture, Lecture , Lecture series, Letter for publication, Magazine article, Monograph, Obituary, Panel, roundtable discussion, Phone call, Poster, Presentation to a visitor, Progress report, Recommendation letter, Referee report, Research proposal, Research talk, Review article, Seminar, Slides & transparencies, State-of-the-art review, Teleconference, Visuals (for a lecture), Website, Writing a book review Part II - The General PublicGuidelines.- Genres Part III- Decision MakersGenres.
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Have you new and interesting, or even outstanding, scientific results that you want to be recognized by your scientific colleagues, or be understood by the public? Or do you want to address decision makers to change their minds? Then, Laszlo's "Communicating Science" may be the book to consult. It has two main parts, corresponding to the type of communication task at hand: addressing peers and the general public, plus a third briefer section on how to inform decision-makers. Each of the main parts is subdivided into two sections, Guidelines and Genres, with entries arranged in alphabetical order. The guidelines are devoted to entries such as acronyms, active or passive voice, body language, figures and captions, introduction, irony, and taking the floor. Within genres, all possible media of communicating science are treated, e.g. the after-dinner speech, conference presentation, keynote lecture, magazine article, research proposal, and teleconference. Laszlo, a professional scientist, had a career embracing both academia and industrial consulting. He has extensive experience in authoring and editing papers, books and popular science books and conveys his skills as a communicator in this concise guide. This book is geared to engineers and scientists, educators and journalists, science administrators and the medical profession, editors and publishers, whether native or non-native-speakers - in short to anyone having to convert scientific data into an easily intelligible and interesting narrative.
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From proverbs to technical arguments, from anecdotes to examples of folklore, chemist and philosopher Pierre Laszlo takes us through the kingdom of ""white gold."" With ""enthusiasm and freshness"" (Le Monde) he mixes literary analysis, history, anthropology, biology, physics, economics, art history, political science, chemistry, ethnology, and linguistics to create a full body of knowledge about the everyday substance that rocked the world and brings zest to the ordinary.

• Foreword by Albert Sonnenfeld, series editor The Proverb of Salt on Lettuce Osmosis and Salt Curing Salting Herring The Cossacks of the Don The Proverb of Friendship Over Salt Food Preservation Flavor Concentrates Saucing Saumandises Cookery The Proverb on Success in Love The Salting Tub From the Salty to the Sweet: Saint Nicholas Settled and Nomadic Peoples On Camelback Mind of Salt Saint-John Perse West Salt Story, 1650--1850 Salt Routes The Proverb of the Tardy Salt Alpine Salt Lick Like the Dawn Technical Vocabularies The Proverb of the Bland Egg Salt Domes Mining The Proverb of Rejecting the Bland Solar-Evaporation Saltworks The Beginning of "Catrix" Onondaga, Success, and Decay Desalination of Seawater Technology and Social Structure National Sovereignty The Proverb of the Marsh Purchase Venice The Seeds of Modern Times The Dutch Revolt The Gabelle An Admonishment to a King Taxation A Mine Near Krakow The Warrior's Saying Citadel of Salt The Proverb of the Cardinal Points Gandhi The Salinity of the Ocean A Marine Origin? What Osmosis Consists Of The Two Kinds of Organisms Fish Thirst and Lack of Salt The Nerve Impulse Extreme Halophiles A Frenchman's Look at the Great Salt Lake Alchemy Michigan Salt Raw Material for an Industry The Age of Vinyl Salt and Cold Salt and Water The Wine Stain Slippages Water Softening Salt Glazing Invention of Spectroscopy Variation on the Same Old Tune The Saying About the Red Herring The Saugrenu Punning in the Rain From Salt to Salts Ritual and Liturgical Uses of Salt in the Bible Salt and Dance Aztec Bacchus The Proverb of the Aspersion Saltcellars Benvenuto Cellini Decorative Arts: From Colbert to Queyras The Saying on the Pinch of Salt Stendhalian Crystallization Ramakrishna's Emblem Conclusion: Ethics and Politics Popularization The Representation of History Afterword: The Union of Earth and Sea
• 1. Salt-Cured Foods
• 2. Nomads
• 3. Harvesting
• 4. Abuse of Power
• 5. Biology
• 6. Other Science Insights
• 7. Myths.
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For the sake of salt, Rome created a system of remuneration (from which we get the word "salary"), nomads domesticated the camel, the Low Countries revolted against their Spanish oppressors, and Gandhi marched against the tyranny of the British. Through the ages, salt has conferred status, preserved foods, and mingled in the blood, sweat, and tears of humanity. Today, chefs of haute cuisine covet it in its most exotic forms -- underground salt deposits, Hawaiian black lava salt, glittery African crystals, and pink Peruvian salt from the sea carried in bricks on the backs of llamas.From proverbs to technical arguments, from anecdotes to examples of folklore, chemist and philosopher Pierre Laszlo takes us through the kingdom of "white gold." With "enthusiasm and freshness" ( Le Monde) he mixes literary analysis, history, anthropology, biology, physics, economics, art history, political science, chemistry, ethnology, and linguistics to create a full body of knowledge about the everyday substance that rocked the world and brings zest to the ordinary. Laszlo explains the history behind Morton Salt's slogan "When it rains, it pours!" and looks into the plight of the salt miner, as well as spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance. Salt is a tour de force about a chemical compound that is one of the very foundations of civilization.
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• Carbonyl Group: Additions and Addition-Elimination Reactions
• The Carbonyl Group: Enolization - Michael Addition
• The Carbonyl Group, Aldol Condensation
• Some Solutions to the Problem of Selectivity
• Protection and Regeneration, Examples of the Alcohol and Carbonyl Group, Inversion of Polarity
• Activation
• Building of Rings
• Functional Adaptation: Substitutions
• Functional Adaptation: Reductions
• Functional Adaptation: Oxidations
• Addition-Elimination Reactions
• Functionalizations: Conversion of Carbonyl Compounds into Olefins by the Wittig Reaction
• Rearrangements
• Synthons: Donor Synthons
• Synthons: Acceptor Synthons
• Retrosynthetic Analysis.
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• Partial table of contents: Carbonyl Group: Additions and Addition-Elimination Reactions. Carbonyl Group: Enolization--Michael Addition. Carbonyl Group: Aldol Condensation. Some Solutions to the Problem of Selectivity (Chemo-, Regio-, Stereo-). Protection and Regeneration: Cases of the Alcohol and Carbonyl Group, Inversion of Polarity. Protection and Regeneration: Examples of the Alcohol and Carbonyl Group, Inversion of Polarity. Activation. Building of Rings. Functionalizations: Reductions. Functionalizations: Wittig Conversion of Carbonyl Compounds to Olefins. Synthons: Donor Synthons. Retrosynthetic Analysis. Index.
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This text provides a first introduction to the fascinating world of organic chemistry. Each chapter deals with both the practical and theoretical aspects of organic synthesis. A rigorous treatment of the underlying principles of all major classes of reactions are given, followed by a discussion of the applications, history, development and discovery of these pathways. Students are made aware of the impact organic synthesis has on everyday life, and of the elementary logic and simplicity of organic chemistry.
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Written by one of the worlds leading researchers and teachers in organic chemistry, this book focuses on the living core of chemistry, organic synthesis. A rational treatment allows an economical presentation of both the theory and the actual procedures for synthetic pathways. Organic Reactions: Simplicity and Logic the students and lecturers ideal companion, provides:a superb overview of organic reactionsa rigorous introduction to the underlying theoretical conceptsinsight into the logic and simplicity underpinning organic synthesisbiographies of, and mini-essays devoted to, great scientists who have shaped chemistry and biochemistryexamples of industrial organic chemistryan easy-to-read, well-written, highly illustrated textan essential learning tool for chemistry, biochemistry and polymer science coursesOrganic Reactions: Simplicity and Logic presents a lucid introduction to organic synthesis which will appeal to students and lecturers in organic, medicinal, pharmaceutical and industrial chemistry as well as biochemistry, polymer and materials science.
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• Acylation of aromatic compounds
• alkylations, dealkylations, transalkylations, disproportionations
• halogenations
• nitrations
• miscellaneous substitution reactions
• addition reactions
• elimination reactions
• oxidation, dehydrogenation reactions
• aromatization
• hydrogenation, hydrogenolysis
• cyclization reactions
• Diels-Alder reactions
• isomerization
• dimerization, oxidative dimerization
• rearrangements
• condensation reactions
• thermal and hydrolytic decompositions
• reactions of carbonyl compounds
• reactions of carboxylic acids and derivatives
• amino acid and peptide formation under prebiotic conditions
• miscellaneous reactions.
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The development of appropriate catalytic systems in the syn- thesis of fine chemicals is in constant progress. This book provides an overview of organic reactions catalyzed by clays (natural, activated and modified, including pillard clays) or performed by clay-supported reagents. The book should be of considerable interest to all research groups (academic and industrial) involved in heterogeneous catalysis. Organic reactions on clays are organized by reaction type. A rather comprehensive coverage of the literature is perfor- med, including patent literature. Throughout, the approach to the subject is rational rather than empirical. From the contents: Acylation of Aromatic Compounds - Alkyla- tion, Dealkylations, Transalkylations, Disproportionations - Halogenations - Nitrations - Miscellaneous Substitution Re- actions - Addition Reaction - Elimination Reactions - Oxida- tion, Dehydrogenation Reactions - Aromatization - Hydrogena- tion, Hydrogenloysis - Cyclization Reactions - Diels-Alder Reactions - Isomerization - Dimerization, Oxidative Dimeri- zation - Rearrangements - Condensation Reactions - Thermal and Hydrolytic Decompositions - Reactions of Carbonyl Com- pounds - Reactions of Carboxylic Acids and Derivatives - Amino Acid and Peptide Formation Under Prebiotic Conditions - Miscellaneous Reactions.
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• v. 1. Chemical and biochemical applications
• v. 2. Chemically and biochemically important elements.

En ce début du troisième millénaire, la musique adresse une question aux autres arts comme aux sciences : comment ajuster les écritures musicale, mathématique, chorégraphique, biologique, etc., aux nouvelles matières sur lesquelles ces pensées embrayent ? S’il est vrai que le système autonome d’écriture musicale, le solfège, inventé il y a près de 1 000 ans, s’avère désormais en partie inadapté aux nouveaux matériaux sonores qu’il s’agit de composer, l’actuelle prolifération empirique des simples notations ne saurait pourvoir aux mutations en jeu : en matière d’écriture musicale, il en va non de techniques neutres mais bien de logique musicale, de ce qu’un discours ou un développement veulent dire musicalement. S’il s’agit donc de penser les mutations en cours en matière de « logique musicale », et leurs exigences, en matière de nouvelles « lettres/notes » musicales, qu’en est-il de problématiques semblables dans les autres arts et dans les sciences ? Qu’en est-il de mutations équivalentes dans les autres arts, singulièrement dans ceux qui entreprennent de se doter d’une écriture qui leur est propre, comme la chorégraphie ? Qu’en est-il surtout dans les sciences, en mathématiques mais aussi en logique, comme dans les sciences ayant à nouer leurs propres lettres à l’impératif galiléen de s’écrire mathématiquement ? Comment ce double dispositif (écriture mathématique importée/modes endogènes d’inscription) tend-il aujourd’hui à se nouer en physique, en chimie, en biologie, en informatique ? Ce volume rassemble différentes contributions présentées et discutées lors d’un colloque tenu à l’École normale supérieure (Paris, Ulm) en octobre 2007.