Ian Manners

With contributions by numerous experts

With contributions by numerous experts

With contributions by numerous experts

With contributions by numerous experts

Ring systems represent a very important branch of organic chemistry. Benzene is perhaps the pre-eminent example and provides the benchmark for the so-called aromatic character of cyclic systems. Cycloalkanes are another prominent class of organic compounds and these saturated ring systems form a homologous series known as alicyclics. Materials that are constructed from organic polymers such as polythene, polystyrene, polyisoprene (natural rubber) and polyvinyl chloride are common features of our daily lives. Most of these and related organic polymers are generated from acyclic precursors by free radical, anionic, cationic or organometallic polymerisation processes or by condensation reactions. The focus of this book is monocyclic inorganic ring systems of the p-block elements and the polymers that are, in many cases derived from them. Bicyclic or polycyclic arrangements are considered when they are closely related to those of monocyclic systems. Inorganic heterocycles that are more accurately described as coordination complexes of chelating inorganic ligands are included only when they are directly related to an inorganic homocycle or heterocycle by the replacement of one p-block element by a more metallic p-block element. After a short introductory chapter, the first half of the book is comprised of seven chapters that deal with the fundamentals of the subject intended for undergraduates or researchers who are unfamiliar with the topic, covering the following areas: - synthetic methods - characterisation techniques - delocalisation in inorganic rings - paramagnetic inorganic rings - inorganic macrocycles - ligand chemistry - inorganic polymers (general concepts including, synthesis, structure and bonding, characterisation methods, properties and applications) The final four chapters discuss in detail the chemistry of inorganic homo- and hetero-cycles involving the elements of groups 13-16 (the p-block elements). The focus is on relating the early seminal contributions to the field with exciting new developments. From the fundamental standpoint, novel structures and new bonding concepts are highlighted, in addition to synthetic approaches. This is the first book that addresses both the fundamental and applied aspects of inorganic ring systems through an emphasis of their use as precursors to inorganic polymers and other useful materials (e.g. semiconductors and ceramics). The book is intended primarily for senior undergraduates and graduate students in inorganic chemistry, as well research workers in the field of inorganic ring systems and polymers. At the undergraduate level it serves as a supplementary text to the more general inorganic chemistry text books and at the graduate level it would be the text of choice for a course in the area of inorganic rings and polymers.

With contributions by numerous experts

With contributions by numerous experts

Att förstå den Europeiska unionen – var den har sina rötter och hur den fungerar – är inte det lättaste. Ändå är det en absolut nödvändig kunskap att tillägna sig för att som enskild individ kunna navigera i dagens Europa.Syftet med denna bok är att beskriva, begripliggöra och analysera det europeiska projektet – EU. Boken är flervetenskaplig i det att såväl historiska och juridiska som statsvetenskapliga perspektiv har styrt upplägget och framställningen. Tack vare dessa olika disciplinära infallsvinklar ger boken en allsidig och nyanserad bild av EU:s tillblivelse, framväxt och funktion.Boken är uppdelad i fyra delar som täcker in olika aspekter av den Europeiska unionen:En historisk del som ger den europeiska samtiden och framtiden en grund att stå på.En del som beskriver, analyserar och förklarar EU som politiskt system.En del med fokus på EU som juridiskt system och EU som rättsordning.En del som tar upp och diskuterar på vilket sätt vi ska förstå EU:s agerande i en alltmer globaliserad värld.Boken är central läsning för studenter i statsvetenskap, Europakunskap, sociologi och juridik, men också för alla som vill lära sig mer om EU:s bakgrund och verkningssätt.Om författarnaBokens författare är statsvetaren Rikard Bengtsson, verksam vid Lunds universitet, juristen Linda Gröning, verksam, vid Universitetet i Bergen, juristen Ola Zetterquist, verksam vid Göteborgs universitet, den brittiske statsvetaren Ian Manners, verksam vid Roskilde Universitet och historikern Hans-Åke Persson, verksam vid Roskilde Universitet.

This lavishly illustrated catalogue of the exhibit European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750 , explores how mapmakers sought to document a new geography of the Near East that reconciled classical ideas and theories with the information collected and brought back by travellers and voyagers. The text is accompanied by images of illuminated manuscript charts and atlases, the earliest printed maps of the Ottoman Empire, and bird's-eye views of cities that provided "arm-chair travellers" with the experience of knowing distant places.

The development of the field of synthetic metal-containing polymers - where metal atoms form an integral part of the main chain or side group structure of a polymer - aims to create new materials which combine the processability of organic polymers with the physical or chemical characteristics associated with the metallic element or complex. This book covers the major developments in the synthesis, properties, and applications of synthetic metal-containing macromolecules, and includes chapters on the preparation and characterization of metal-containing polymers, metallocene-based polymers, rigid-rod organometallic polymers, coordination polymers, polymers containing main group metals, and also covers dendritic and supramolecular systems. The book describes both polymeric materials with metals in the main chain or side group structure and covers the literature up to the end of 2002.