High Pressure Chemistry and Biochemistry

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. General and Physical Aspects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages ix-ix

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   2. Modern Aspects of High Pressure Chemistry

      • H. C. Drickamer

      Pages 1-7

   3. Physics of Dense Fluids

      • Marvin Ross

      Pages 9-49

   4. Properties of Gases under High Compression

      • B. Le Neindre

      Pages 51-92

   5. Experimental Studies of Compressed Fluids

      • E. U. Franck

      Pages 93-116

   6. High Temperature - High Pressure Techniques for the Study of Fluid Electronic Conductors

      • F. Hensel

      Pages 117-135

   7. Critical Behaviour in Fluid Metals

      • F. Hensel

      Pages 137-156

   8. Fluid Phase Separations in Polymerizing Systems at Elevated Pressures

      • L. A. Kleintjens, R. Van der Haegen, R. Koningsveld

      Pages 157-191

   9. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Laser Scattering Techniques at High Pressure

      • Jiri Jonas

      Pages 193-235

   10. Solid State High Pressure Research : X-Ray and Neutron Scattering

       • J. Voiron, C. Vettier

       Pages 237-262

   11. Pressure Tuning Spectroscopy

       • H. C. Drickamer

       Pages 263-276

3. Chemical Aspects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 277-277

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   2. Kinetics of Organic Reactions at High Pressure

      • W. J. le Noble

      Pages 279-293

   3. Organic Synthesis at High Pressure

      • W. J. le Noble

      Pages 295-310

   4. Kinetics of Solvent Exchange Reactions at High Pressure

      • André E. Merbach

      Pages 311-331

   5. High Pressure Studies of Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms

      • Rudi van Eldik

      Pages 333-356

   6. Inorganic Photochemistry at High Pressure

      • Rudi van Eldik

      Pages 357-378

4. Biochemical Aspects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 379-379

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   2. High-Pressure Studies of Biomembranes by Vibrational Spectroscopy

      • P. T. T. Wong

      Pages 381-400

It was the objective of the ASI on "Advances in High Pressure Studies of Chemical and Biochemical Systems" to present the current status of such studies and to emphasize the advances achieved during the nine years since the previous ASI on "High Pressure Chemistry". These advances are partly due to the improved instrumentation enabling static and dynamic measurements at pressures several orders of magnitude higher than before, and partly due to the more general availability of high pressure equipment. This has led to a remarkable development in various areas of physics and chemistry, and especially in biochemistry. Throughout the presentation of this Advanced Study Institute the emphasis fell on the teaching character of such a summer school, and the contributions in this volume are of such a nature. Following a general introduction to modern high pressure research, a series of chapters on theoretical and experimental studies of gases, fluids and solids at high temperatures and pressures are presented with special emphasis on the physical aspects involved. Instrumentation used in such studies, viz. shock compression, NMR spectroscopy, laser scattering, x-ray and neutron scattering, and vibrational spectroscopy are treated in detail. The subsequent chapters are devoted to the application of high pressure techniques in the broad areas of organic, inorganic and biochemistry_ The formal lectures were supplemented by 29 contributed papers, for which a list of titles is included.

• Neutron
• biochemistry
• chemistry
• kinetics
• metals
• photochemistry
• polymer
• reactions
• spectroscopy

• Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  R. Eldik

• Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA

  J. Jonas

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