Edited by
Karl Kadish, University of Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
Kevin Smith, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Roger Guilard, Universit de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Description
Announcing the sequel to the first ten volumes of
The Porphyrin Handbook, which provided an authoritative treatise on the porphryin
system and dealt in fine detail with the synthesis, chemistry, spectroscopy, and applications of porphyrins.
The ten latest volumes
11-20 address those major disciplinary areas not covered in the first, including biology and medical implications of porphyrin systems,
the biosynthesis of porphyrins, chlorophylls and vitamin B12. Other areas include the multitude of genetically transmitted and drug
induced diseases associated with errors in heme metabolism, the transformations of hemes into bile pigments, the organic syntheses of
bilins, very recent work on phytochrome, and the pathways of degradation of chlorophyll in senescent plants.
In addition, volumes
11-20 address every aspect of synthesis, chemistry, structure and spectroscopy of phthalocyanines which will appeal to scientists in
fields ranging from mathematics through physics, chemistry and biochemistry, to biology and medicine.
Audience:
For scientists in fields ranging from mathematics through physics, chemistry and biochemistry, to biology and medicine
