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Topics in Stereochemistry, Materials-Chirality provides comprehensive information on the stereochemistry of materials. Coverage includes the chirality of materials and the important role stereochemistry plays in the physical properties of polymers, liquid crystals, and other materials.
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MATERIALS-CHIRALITY
VOLUME 24
ADVISORY BOARD
GUY BERTRAND, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France HENRI BRUNNER, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany DAVID E. CANE, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA GAUTAM R. DESIRAJU, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India FRANCOIS ¸ DIEDERICH, Eidgen¨ossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland ERNEST L. ELIEL, University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA MARK M. GREEN, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York, USA CLAYTON H. HEATHCOCK, University of California/Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA KENDALL N. HOUK, University of California/Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA DANIEL S. KEMP, Massachusetts, Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA JEAN-MARIE LEHN, Universit´e Louis Pasteur, Strassbourg, France STEVEN V. LEY, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England EIICHI NAKAMURA, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan RYOJI NOYORI, Nagaya University, Nagoya, Japan NED A. PORTER, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA STUART L. SCHREIBER, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA K. BARRY SHARPLESS, Scripps Institute, La Jolla, California, USA DAVID M. WALBA, University of Colorado/Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
MATERIALS-CHIRALITY EDITED BY
MARK M. GREEN R. J. M. NOLTE E. W. MEIJER
VOLUME 24 TOPICS IN STEREOCHEMISTRY Series Editors SCOTT E. DENMARK JAY SIEGEL
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