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The Chemistry of the Actinide and Transactinide Elements
A team of international experts, including a substantial number from Los Alamos, has coauthored the third edition of a classic text, The Chemistry of the Actinide and Transactinide Elements. Edited by Lester Morss, Norman Edelstein, and Jean Fuger, with Joseph Katz as honorary editor, the book will be released this summer by Springer Publishers. The five volume set is critically acclaimed as the most authoritative and comprehensive compilation to date of the chemical properties of the actinide and transactinide elements and is anticipated to be the definitive work on actinides for the next 25 years.
The first edition of The Chemistry of the Actinide Elements, edited by Joseph Katz and Glenn Seaborg, was published in 1957 before the discovery of nobelium, lawrencium, and the transactinide elements. The second edition, edited by Katz, Seaborg, and Morss, was published in 1986 by Chapman and Hall, London and New York.
The third edition, containing 31 chapters, will include a contemporary and definitive compilation of the chemical properties of the elements from actinium (atomic number 89) to hassium (atomic number 108). Also included are authoritative review chapters on specialized topics such as thermodynamics, electronic theory, spectroscopy, magnetic properties organoactinide chemistry, coordination chemistry, solution chemistry separations science and technology, environmental science, analysis, and future-element predictions.
Los Alamos authors and the chapters to which they contributed include David L. Clark, Siegfried Hecker, Gordon Jarvinen, and Mary Neu (Plutonium); Wolfgang Runde (Americium); Robert Penneman and P. Gary Eller, both retired (Curium); David Hobart (Berkelium); P. Jeffrey Hay (Theoretical Studies of the Electronic Structure of Compounds of the Actinide Elements); A.J. Arko, retired, and John Joyce (The Metallic State of the Actinides); Carol Burns (Organoactinide Chemistry: Synthesis and Characterization and Organoactinide Chemistry: Reactivity in Catalytic Processes); and Jerry Stakebake (Handling, Storage, and Disposition of Uranium and Plutonium).
For the complete table of contents and author listing, see the web site at http://www.springeronline.com.
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