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Living Chemistry
About this book
Living Chemistry is a 23-chapter textbook that provides a thorough, systematic coverage of the chemical information related to health. The opening chapters cover the basic concepts required for understanding the ""language"" and principles of chemistry. These chapters also introduce the International System of units followed by the studies of carbon compounds based on functional groups. The discussions then shift to the study of biologically important molecules, such as the chemistry of carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins, as well as the individual reaction steps for important complex metabolic pathways. The remaining chapters explore the chemistry of vitamins, hormones, body fluids, drugs and poisons. Optional topics, including a mathematics review, scientific notation, the unit-factor and proportion methods, metric conversion with practice problems, atomic orbitals, hybridization, metabolic pathways, and the cell, are provided in the supplementary texts. This book is of great value to undergraduate chemistry students.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Living Chemistry
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Adaptability
- Special interest topics
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1. Matter and measurement
- Chapter 2. The composition of matter
- Chapter 3. Chemical bonding
- Chapter 4. Compounds and chemical change
- Chapter 5. Gases and respiration
- Chapter 6. Water
- Chapter 7. Solutions
- Chapter 8. Acids, bases, andsalts
- Chapter 9. Nuclear chemistry and radiation
- Chapter 10. Organic chemistry—hydrocarbons
- Chapter 11. Oxygen derivatives of the hydrocarbons
- Chapter 12. Other organic derivatives and polymers
- Chapter 13. Carbohydrates
- Chapter 14. Lipids
- Chapter 15. Proteins
- Chapter 16. Enzymes and digestion
- Chapter 17. Energy and carbohydrate metabolism
- Chapter 18. Metabolism of lipids
- Chapter 19. Metabolism of proteins
- Chapter 20. Heredity and protein synthesis
- Chapter 21. Vitamins and hormones
- Chapter 22. Chemistry of the body fluids
- Chapter 23. Drugs and poisons
- APPENDIX A: Basic mathematics for chemistry
- APPENDIX B: Metric system conversions
- APPENDIX C: Orbitals
- APPENDIX D: Details of glucose catabolism
- APPENDIX E: The Cell
- APPENDIX F: Answers to numerical problems
- INDEX
