RSC - Advancing the Chemical Sciences


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March 2005

Vol 42, No 2. Selected articles and reviews available online.

March 2005

Column

RSC fights on .

In the wake of the of the chemistry department closures, the House of Commons science and technology committee launched an inquiry into what steps need to be taken to safeguard an ...


Medicinal compounds

John Mann, Queen's University Belfast, takes a look at drugs on the market


Soundbite molecules

Simon Cotton, teacher at Uppingham School, takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives


Features

Analytical chemistry makes the news

University departments traditionally divided chemistry into inorganic, organic and physical subsets, with analytical chemistry sitting somewhere in between. But this is changing. T...


The fight against food adulteration

Today, food packages and drink cans or bottles must state their contents by law, but until 1875 there were few effective controls on the contents or quality of food and drink on sa...


Reviews

Test your higher chemistry calculations
David Calder
London: Hodder Gibson 2004 | 7.99 |

Catalyst 2, green and red student books
Carol Chapman and Moira Sheehan
Oxford: Heinemann 2003 | 10.25 each |

Caveman chemistry
Kevin M. Dunn
Parkland, Florida: Universal 2003 | 23.95 |

Metal-ligand bonding
Rob Janes and Elaine Moore
Cambridge: RSC-OU 2004 | 24.95 |

Endpoint

Endpoint - John Holman

Chemical literacy revisited


Infochem

Infochem - Bone makers

This month's pupil supplement looks at the development of polymer composites used as bone implants.