Book Review: Comprehensive Biochemistry. Edited by M. Florkin and E. H. Stotz

✍ Scribed by L. Jaenicke

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1967
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 160 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.196701912

✦ Synopsis

In the first article (67 pp.), R. Zahradnik deals with theoretical considerations on the electronic structure, the resulting reactivity, and a number of physical properties of heterocyclic sulfur compounds. Starting with the model for the atomic orbitals of sulfur, calculations of the molecular orbitals for sulfur compounds are presented, and comparisons are drawn with corresponding carbocycles. The second article (49 pp.) by K. Zahradnik and J. Koutecki. covers theoretical studies on the physical properties and reactivity of nitrogen heterocycles ("azines"). This article presents lucidly a tabular collection of spectral data, polarographic half-wave potentials, Tc-electron densities, basicities, and chemical reactivities of mono-aza heterocycles with a completeness that is unequalled elsewhere.