Molecules in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology

• Biomolecular Evolution.- Randomness and Natural Selection in Genome Evolution.- New Insights into the Evolution of Proteins.- Biomolecular Chirality.- Origin of the L-Homochirality of Amino-Acids in the Proteins of Living Organisms.- Right-Handed and Left-Handed Molecular Structures.- Molecular Pathology.- The Adventure of Molecules in Pathology.- Metallo-Organic Complexes and Carcinogenesis.- Topics in Biomolecular Physics.- Vibrational Spectroscopy, Molecular Flexibility and Molecular Graphics.- Collective Excitations in Biological Macromolecules: Photoelectron and Exciton Spectra of Polyene, Polypeptides and Polynucleotides.- The Problem of Protonation in Rhodopsin and Model Schiff Bases.- Molecular Neurobiology and Sociobiology.- Modeling the Drug-Receptor Interaction in Quantum Pharmacology.- Raman and Infrared Study of Acetylcholine and Postsynaptic Membranes.- Molecules as Signal Transmitters in Biological Systems.- Molecular Cues in Salmonid Migration.- Molecules in Mammalian Communication.

`The book merits a place in any Science Library and I recommend it to anyone who shares the obvious fascination of the writers with molecules and accepts that molecular properties are often best described with the aid of mathematical expressions.' M. Godfrey, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 269 (1989) `... provide a panoramic view of the status and potential of molecular sciences at the end of the nineteen eighties. This four-volume set ... represents a great value for any scientific library or private collections. creating a broad-based and rich mini-series on molecular sciences.' Structural Chemistry, 1:5