Chemical History

• 1: Getting to Know History of Chemistry;1.1: Trends in History of Chemistry Literature;1.2: General Histories of Chemistry;1.3: Other General Works;1.4: Chemical Biographies;1.5: History of Chemistry and the Internet;2:Chemistry before 1800;2.1: Introduction;2.2: Early Chemistry in General Histories of Chemistry;2.3: Biographical Studies;2.4: Ancient Alchemy and Chemistry;2.5: The Paracelsians;2.6: Chemistry in the Scientific Revolution;2.7: New Studies on Lavoisier and the Chemical Revolution;3: Inorganic Chemistry;3.1: Introduction;3.2: Atoms and the Periodic Table;3.3: Uranium and Trans-uranics;3.4: Main Group Elements;4: Organic Chemistry;4.1: General;4.2: People;4.3: Organic Compounds;4.4: Reactions and Syntheses;4.5: Aromatic Chemistry;4.6: Stereochemistry;4.7: Analysis and Techniques;4.8: Natural Products;4.9: Polymers;5: Physical Organic Chemistry;5.1: The Nature of Physical Organic Chemistry;5.2: Robinson and Ingold: Electronic Theories and Reaction Mechanisms;5.3: Physical organic Chemistry in the United Kingdom;5.4: Physical organic Chemistry in Continental Europe;5.5: Physical Organic Chemistry in the U. S. A.;5.6: Free Radical Chemistry;5.7: Stereochemistry;5.8: Quantum Organic Chemistry;5.9: Biological Activity of Organic Compounds;: Classical Books and Review Articles;5.11: Miscellaneous;6: Physical Chemistry;6.1:General;6.2: Biographies;6.3: Electrochemistry;6.4: Thermochemistry;6.5: Chemical Statics and Dynamics;6.6: Valency and Structural Chemistry;6.7: Stereochemistry;6.8: Solutions;6.9: Colloid Chemistry;6.10: Co-ordination Chemistry;7: Analytical Chemistry;7.1: General Works;7.2: Classical Methods;7.3: Organic Analysis and Microanalysis;7.4: Electroanalytical Methods;7.5: Chromatography and Electrophoresis;7.6: Spectroscopy;7.7: Thermal Methods of Analysis;7.8: Analytical Laboratories;7.9: Instrumentation;7.10: Industrial Analysis;7.11: Analytical Education;7.12: Analytical Chemistry in Society;8: Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry;8.1: Origins of Medical Chemistry;8.2: Contributions from Pharmacy;8.3: Pharmacology;8.4: Origins of Biochemistry;8.5: Early Physiological Chemistry;8.6: Proteins and Peptides;8.7: Biochemistry since 1900;9: Instruments and Apparatus;9.1: Introduction;9.2: General Works;9.3: Instruments and Apparatus of Particular Chemists and Laboratories;9.4: Instruments and Apparatus by Type and Function;9.5: Museum and Laboratory Collections;9.6: Instrument Makers;

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