In this book the first three chapters outline the chemistry of nickel and heme largely associated with anaerobic life and believed to represent reactions which took place some 3-4x109years ago. Nickel has disappeared from the chemistry of man. The fascinating detail of the "primitive" catalysts is of interest to industrial society since very simple feed-stock is used, hydrogen, carbon monoxide and sulphate for example. The fourth chapter switches attention to a metal which became valuable later ...
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Bioinorganic Chemistry
Trace Elements Evolution from Anaerobes to Aerobes
Gebunden, x, 209 S.
X, 209 p. 83 illus., 12 illus. in color.
Sprache: Englisch
234 mm
Springer, Berlin (1997)
Gewicht: 478 g
ISBN-13: 978-3-540-63548-2
Titelnr.: 07400955