Penny Chaloner's Books

Advanced Organic Synthesis

A Laboratory Manual

By: Dmitry V. Liskin,Penny Chaloner

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Advanced Organic Synthesis

A Laboratory Manual

By: Dmitry V. Liskin,Penny Chaloner

Laboratory experience equips students with techniques that are necessary for professional practice. Advanced Organic Synthesis: A Laboratory Manual focuses on a mechanistic background of key reactions in organic chemistry, gives insight into well-established trends, and introduces new developments in the field.The book features experiments performe

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CRC Press

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ISBN 10

1482244977

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9781482244977

Organic Chemistry

A Mechanistic Approach

By: Penny Chaloner

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Organic Chemistry

A Mechanistic Approach

By: Penny Chaloner

Offering a different, more engaging approach to teaching and learning, Organic Chemistry: A Mechanistic Approach classifies organic chemistry according to mechanism rather than by functional group. The book elicits an understanding of the material, by means of problem solving, instead of purely requiring memorization. The text enables a deep unders

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1272

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CRC Press

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1482206919

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9781482206913

A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong

The Diaries of Chaloner Alabaster, 1855–1856

By: Benjamin Penny

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A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong

The Diaries of Chaloner Alabaster, 1855–1856

By: Benjamin Penny

In August 1855, 16-year-old Chaloner Alabaster left England for Hong Kong, to take up a position as a student interpreter in the China Consular Service. He would stay for almost 40 years, climbing the rungs of the service and eventually becoming consul-general of Canton. When he retired he returned to England and received a knighthood. He died in 1898. Throughout his adult life, Alabaster kept diaries. In the first four volumes of these diaries, collected here by Benjamin Penny, the teenage Alabaster recorded his thoughts and observations, told himself anecdotes, and exploded in outbursts of anger and frustration. He was young and enthusiastic, and the everyday sights, sounds and smells of Hong Kong were novel to him. He describes how the Chinese people around him ironed clothes, dried flour and threshed rice; how they gambled, prepared their food and made bean curd; and what opera, new year festivities and the birthday of the Heavenly Empress were like. Like many a young Victorian, he was also a keen observer of natural history, fascinated by fireflies and ants, corals and sea slugs, and the volcanic origins of the landscape. Alabaster’s diaries are a unique, vibrant and riveting record of life in the young British colony on the cusp of the Second Opium War. With A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong, Penny sheds new light on the history of the region.

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234

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ANU Press

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ISBN 10

1760465925

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9781760465926

Handbook of Coordination Catalysis in Organic Chemistry

By: Penny A Chaloner

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Handbook of Coordination Catalysis in Organic Chemistry

By: Penny A Chaloner

Handbook of Coordination Catalysis in Organic Chemistry presents the increasing importance of homogeneous catalysis by metal complexes. This book highlights special selectivities that can be obtained using coordination complexes as catalysts, including a discussion of homogeneous catalysts and closely related polymer supported complexes. Other topics include hydrogenation and related reactions, reactions of carbon monoxide, and additions to carbon-carbon multiple bonds. The isomerization reactions, reactions of the carbonyl group, formation of carbon-carbon bonds, and alkene metathesis are also deliberated. This publication is intended for organic chemists, but is also useful to specialists and researchers interested in the coordination catalysis in organic chemistry.

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Butterworth-Heinemann

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1483161447

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9781483161440

Wonderful Tonight

George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me

By: Pattie Boyd,Penny Junor

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Wonderful Tonight

George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me

By: Pattie Boyd,Penny Junor

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the first time, rock music’s most famous muse tells her incredible story “A charming, lively and seductive book . . . The appeal of Wonderful Tonight is as self-evident as the seemingly simple but brash opening chord of ‘A Hard Day’s Night.’”—The New York Times Book Review Pattie Boyd, former wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton, finally breaks a forty-year silence and tells the story of how she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous musical geniuses of the twentieth century and became the most legendary muse in the history of rock and roll. The woman who inspired Harrison’s song “Something” and Clapton’s anthem “Layla,” Pattie Boyd has written a book that is rich and raw, funny and heartbreaking—and totally honest.

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