Vanadium The Versatile Metal

摘要

This book in the ACS Symposium Series is based on the 5th International Symposium on the Chemistry and Biological Chemistry of Vanadium, which was held in San Francisco on September 10-14, 2006, as part of the National ACS Meeting, sponsored by the Division of Inorganic Chemistry. It is a somewhat unusual monograph, as it consists of about one-third original research papers and two-thirds reviews, but this is in accordance with the rules of the ACS Books Department. The average length of the 30 chapters is about 14 pages; the reviews cite on average about 40 references and the research papers about 30. The addresses of the authors reflect the fact that this Vanadium Symposium indeed had international character: of the 30 chapters, written by 114 authors, 13 have addresses from Europe, 10 from the USA, 5 from Japan, and 1 from Argentina; the remaining one is a multinational research paper authored by scientists from Germany, The Netherlands, and the USA.