Salts of Amino Acids: Crystallization, Structure and Properties

✍ Scribed by Michel Fleck, Aram M. Petrosyan (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 581
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Over the last decades, amino acids have been found to be of importance in many fields of science. Apart from their biological function, this family of organic compounds has been employed in the synthesis of a vast variety of salts, with impact on areas such as materials science, pharmaceutical or physical research. This covers a wide range, from the discovery of important ferroelectrics or non-linear optical materials to nutrients, flavor enhancers or drugs. This book describes amino acids and their salts with cations, anions and inorganic compounds from a chemical, physical and crystallographical point of view. Additional data on structural properties, crystal growth and the relation of structure and physical properties of amino acid salts is discussed.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-19
Amino Acid Structures....Pages 21-82
Compounds of Amino Acids as Anions....Pages 83-137
Compounds of Amino Acids and Neutral Salts....Pages 139-206
Reactions of Amino Acids with Acids....Pages 207-571
Back Matter....Pages 573-574

✦ Subjects

Biomedicine general; Chemistry/Food Science, general; Materials Science, general; Physics, general