Designed for use in graduate or senior undergraduate courses in bioinorganic chemistry, this includes a tutorial in biochemistry and evolution and another in fundamentals of coordination chemistry to bring all students up to speed. Bertini (U. of Florence) and his editors, Harry B. Gray (Caltech), Edward I. Stiefel (Princeton U.), and Joan Selverstone Valentine (UCLA), call upon world leaders in the field to provide overviews of biological inorganic chemistry, covering bioinorganic chemistry and the biogeochemical cycles, the behavior of metal ions and proteins, special cofactors and metal clusters, transport and storage of metal ions in biology, biomineralization, and metals in medicine. Contributors then describe specific topics on metal ions in biological systems such as transport and storage, hydrolytic chemistry, electron transfer in respiration and photosynthesis, metalloenzymes with radical intermediates, Fe-S clusters in radical generation, metal ion receptors and signaling, and oxygen, hydrogen, carbon and sulfur metabolism. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Ivano Bertini - Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Magnetic Resonance Center of the University of Florence. His main research interests are the advancements in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, the expression and preparation of metalloproteins, their structural characterization and the investigation of their interactions with emphasis on understanding cellular processes at the molecular level.
Harry B. Gray - the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and the Founding Director of the Beckman Institute at the California Institute of Technology. His main research interests center on inorganic spectroscopy, photochemistry, and bioinorganic chemistry, with emphasis on understanding electron transfer in proteins. For his contributions to chemistry, which include over 700 papers and 17 books, he has received the National Medal of Science from President Ronald Reagan (1986); the Linderstrøm-Lang Prize (1991); the Basolo Medal (1994); the Gibbs Medal (1994); the Chandler Medal (1999) and the Harvey Prize (2000).
Edward I. Stiefel - Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University and associated faculty member of the Princeton Environmental Institute until his untimely death in summer of 2006. His research involved the role of metal ions in biological systems including: iron in marine environments, especially the iron storage and DNA protective proteins ferritin and Dps; the biological production of hydrogen by phototropic hydrogenases and theoretical studies of hydrogenase action; the role of molybdenum in biology; and aspects of metals in medicine.
Joan S. Valentine -
