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Platinum Metals Review, January 2008, 52, (1)

E-ISSN 1471-0676

This quarter's articles

Metal-Ligand Exchange Kinetics in Platinum and Ruthenium Complexes

Jan Reedijk

Leiden Institute of Chemistry, PO Box 9502, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands;

The Tenth Grove Fuel Cell Symposium

Reviewed by Donald S. Cameron

The Interact Consultancy, 11 Tredegar Road, Reading RG4 8QE, U.K.;

“Medicinal Applications of Coordination Chemistry”

BY CHRIS J. JONES (University of Birmingham and The University of Manchester, U.K.) AND JOHN R. THORNBACK (MassTag Technologies Ltd., U.K.)
Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, U.K., 2007, xii + 354 pages, ISBN 978-0-85404-596-9, £89.95, U.S.$169.00

Reviewed by Peter J. Sadler

Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K.;

Diesel Engine Emissions and Their Control

Tim Johnson

Corning Environmental Technologies, Corning Incorporated, HP-CB-2-4, Corning, NY 14831, U.S.A.;

Palladium-Catalysed C–C Coupling: Then and Now

Chris Barnard

Johnson Matthey Technology Centre, Blounts Court, Sonning Common, Reading RG4 9NH, U.K.;

“Frontiers in Transition Metal-Containing Polymers”

EDITED BY ALAA S. ABD-EL-AZIZ (University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada) and IAN MANNERS (University of Bristol, U.K.)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New Jersey, U.S.A., 2007, 533 pages, ISBN 978-0-471-73015-6, £71.50, €101.50

Reviewed by Kaushik Mallick

Advanced Materials Division, Mintek, Private Bag X3015, Randburg 2125, South Africa;

Building a Thermodynamic Database for Platinum-Based Superalloys: Part III

J. Preußner

Metals and Alloys, Universität Bayreuth, Ludwig-Thoma-Straße 36b, D-95447 Bayreuth, Germany;

S. N. Prins

National Metrology Institute of South Africa, Private Bag X34, Lynwood Ridge 0040, South Africa
and Phases Research Lab, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, U.S.A.

M. Wenderoth

Siemens AG, Medical Solutions, Vacuum Technology Division, Röntgenstraße 2, D-07407 Rudolstadt, Germany

R. Völkl

Metals and Alloys, Universität Bayreuth, Ludwig-Thoma-Straße 36b, D-95447 Bayreuth, Germany

U. Glatzel

Metals and Alloys, Universität Bayreuth, Ludwig-Thoma-Straße 36b, D-95447 Bayreuth, Germany;

“Adventures at the Bench”

BY JURGEN J. MAERZ (Platinum Guild International USA)
MJSA Press, Providence, U.S.A., 2006, 112 pages, ISBN 978-0-9713495-7-5, U.S.$34.95

Reviewed by Christopher Corti

COReGOLD Technology Consultancy, Reading, U.K.;

Platinum 2007 Interim Review

ABSTRACTS: January 2008

NEW PATENTS: January 2008

FINAL ANALYSIS: January 2008

D. Ozkaya

Johnson Matthey Technology Centre, Blounts Court, Sonning Common, Reading, RG4 9NH, U.K.;

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