Ideas In Chemistry And Molecular Sciences: Where Chemistry Meets Life

Ideas in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Where Chemistry Meets Life Edited by Bruno Pignataro Ideas in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Edited by Bruno Pignataro Related Titles Pignataro, Bruno (ed.) Waldmann, H., Janning, P. (eds.) Ideas in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Chemical Biology Advances in Synthetic Chemistry 2010 Learning through Case Studies 2009 ISBN: 978-3-527-32330-2 ISBN: 978-3-527-32539-9 Jacob, Claus/Winyard, Paul G. (eds.) Pignataro, Bruno (ed.) Ideas in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Advances in Nanotechnology, Materials and Devices Redox Signaling and Regulation in Biology and Medicine 2009 ISBN: 978-3-527-31925-1 2010 ISBN: 978-3-527-32543-6 Carta, Giorgio/Jungbauer, Alois Gjerde, Douglas T./Hoang, Lee/ Hornby, David RNA Purification and Analysis Protein Chromatography Sample Preparation, Extraction, Chromatography Process Development and Scale-Up 2009 2010 ISBN: 978-3-527-32116-2 ISBN: 978-3-527-31819-3 Pignataro, Bruno (ed.) Hartmann, Roland K./Bindereif, Albrecht/ ¨ Astrid/Westhof, Eric (eds.) Schon, Tomorrow’s Chemistry Today Handbook of RNA Biochemistry Concepts in Nanoscience, Organic Materials and Environmental Chemistry 2nd edition Student Edition 2009 ISBN: 978-3-527-32623-5 2008 ISBN: 978-3-527-32534-4 Ideas in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Where Chemistry Meets Life Edited by Bruno Pignataro The Editor Prof. Bruno Pignataro University of Palermo Department of Physical Chemistry Viale delle Scienze 90128 Palermo Italy All books published by Wiley-VCH are carefully produced. Nevertheless, authors, editors, and publisher do not warrant the information contained in these books, including this book, to be free of errors. Readers are advised to keep in mind that statements, data, illustrations, procedural details or other items may inadvertently be inaccurate. Cover Library of Congress Card No.: applied for We would like to thank Dr. Adriana Pietropaolo (ETH Z¨urich) for providing us with the graphic material used in the cover illustration. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at .  2010 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim All rights reserved (including those of translation into other languages). No part of this book may be reproduced in any form – by photoprinting, microfilm, or any other means – nor transmitted or translated into a machine language without written permission from the publishers. Registered names, trademarks, etc. used in this book, even when not specifically marked as such, are not to be considered unprotected by law. Cover Design Adam Design, Weinheim Typesetting Laserwords Private Limited, Chennai, India Printing and Binding betz-druck GmbH, Darmstadt Printed in the Federal Republic of Germany Printed on acid-free paper ISBN: 978-3-527-32541-2 Set ISBN: 978-3-527-32875-8 V Contents Preface XIII List