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The chemistry of superacids has developed in the last two decades into a field of growing interest and importance. Now available in a new expanded second edition, this definitive work on superacids offers a comprehensive review of superacids and discusses the development of new superacid systems and applications of superacids in the promotion of unusual reactions. Covering Bronsted and Leurs superacids, solid superacids, carbocations, heterocations, and catalyzed reactions, this timely volume is invaluable to professionals, faculty, and graduate students in organic, inorganic, and physical chemistry. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Paul Erds (occasionally spelled Erdos or Erdös; Hungarian: , pronounced ; 26 March 1913 20 September 1996) was an immensely prolific and notably eccentric Hungarian mathematician. Erds published more papers than any other mathematician in history, working with hundreds of collaborators. He worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory. Paul Erds was born in Budapest, Hungary on March 26, 1913. He was the only surviving child of Anna and Lajos Erds; his siblings died before he was born, aged 3 and 5. His parents were both Jewish mathematicians from a vibrant intellectual community. His fascination with mathematics developed early at the age of three, he could calculate how many seconds a person had lived. Both of Erds's parents were high school mathematics teachers, and Erds received much of his early education from them. Erds always remembered his parents with great affection. At 16, his father introduced him to two of his lifetime favorite subjects infinite series and set theory. During high school, Erds became an ardent solver of the problems proposed each month in KöMaL, the Mathematical and Physical Monthly for Secondary Schools. Erds later published several articles in it about problems in elementary plane geometry. In 1934, at the age of 21, he was awarded a doctorate in mathematics. Because anti-Semitism was increasing, he moved that same year to Manchester, England, to be a guest lecturer. In 1938, he accepted his first American position as a scholarship holder at Princeton University. At this time, he began to develop the habit of traveling from campus to campus. He would not stay long in one place and traveled back and forth among mathem... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=601284 ... Read more

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George Andrew Olah born May 22, 1927 in Budapest, as Oláh György) is a Hungarian-born American chemist. His research involves the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids. For this research, Olah was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994.He has also been awarded the Priestley Medal, the highest honor granted by the American Chemical Society. ... Read more

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The study of energetic materials is emerging from one primarily directed toward practical interests to an advanced area of fundamental research, where state-of-the-art methods and theory are used side by side with modern synthetic methods.
This timely book integrates the recent experimental, synthetic, and theoretical research of energetic materials. Editors George Olah and David Squire emphasize the importance of structure and mechanism in determining properties and performances. They also explore new spectrometric methods and synthetic approaches in this useful reference.

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* Discusses structural analysis by x-ray crystallography
* Explains chemical dynamics by photofragmentation translational spectroscopy
* Covers kinetic analysis by ultrafast absorption and emission spectroscopy
* Details syntheses of polycyclic caged amines, fuel additives, and polynitro compounds
* Examines computer-aided design of monopropellants
* Includes contributions by two Nobel laureates and five members of the National Academy of Sciences ... Read more