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The book provides an exciting interwoven mosaic about the evolutionary nature of chemistry. It follows chemical evolution from the simplest elements formed in the Big Bang to the molecular diversity and complexity present today. Review chapters demonstrate the multidisciplinary use of chemical principles and techniques and how they are central to unraveling mysteries of the universe. In addition to giving concise and well-referenced reviews, the eminent authors
include recent unpublished work. Instructors will find the book useful as a text or resource for teaching how chemistry has evolved over time and shaped our world.
The first three sections review chemical evolution in astrophysics, in the Solar System and Earth, and in prebiotic chemistry. The fourth section describes how these themes can be incorporated into the curriculum. It seeks to expand and integrate new approaches to chemistry into majors and non-majors courses, and to inspire the creation of new courses at the college and high school levels.
The book promotes our modern understanding of evolution and applications of chemistry, and will be appreciated by chemists, instructors and students of chemistry, and all others with an interest in the evolution of the universe in which we live.
Contents
Preface ; Contributors ; Abbreviations ; Introduction ; 1. ; The Emergence of Chemical Complexity - Robert M. Hazen ; Part I: Chemical Evolution in Astrophysics ; 2. ; Chemical Origins: Nuclear Chemistry in the Early Universe - Keith A. Olive ; 3. ; Origin of the Elements: Nucleosynthesis in Stars - Bradley S. Meyer ; 4. ; Circumstellar Chemistry and Dust From Dead Stars in Meteorites - Katharina Lodders ; 5. ; Chemical Evolution in the Interstellar Medium: Feedstock of Solar Systems - Louis J. Allamandola ; 6. ; Identifying Molecules in Space: Exploring Astrochemistry Through High Resolution Spectroscopy - Lucy M. Ziurys ; Part II: Geochemical Evolution: Solar System and Earth ; 7. ; Chemical Diversity and Abundances across the Solar System - John S. Lewis ; 8. ; Photochemistry in the Early Solar System - Robert N. Clayton ; 9. ; Lessons from Meteorites - Michael E. Lipschutz ; 10. ; Chemistry and Composition of Planetary Atmospheres - Laura Schaefer and Bruce Fegley, Jr. ; 11. ; Hafnium-Tungsten Chronometry of Planetary Accretion and Differentiation - Thorsten Kleine ; Part III: Prebiotic Chemistry ; 12. ; Cosmic Carbon Chemistry - Pascale Ehrenfreund and Marco Spaans ; 13. ; Extraterrestrial Organic Chemistry as Recorded in Carbonaceous Chondrites - Oliver Botta ; 14. ; Earths Early Atmosphere, Biosphere, Lithosphere, and Hydrosphere - Douglas Rumble, III ; 15. ; Prebiotic Organic Synthesis in Neutral Planetary Atmospheres - H. James Cleaves, John H. Chalmers, Antonio Lazcano, Stanley L. Miller, and Jeffrey L. Bada ; 16. ; The RNA World Scenario for the Origin of Life - James P. Ferris and John W. Delano ; Summary ; 17. ; Systems Chemistry Sketches - Stuart A. Kauffman ; Part IV: Teaching Chemical Evolution ; 18. ; Science and the Concept of Evolution - Lori Zaikowski, Richard T. Wilkens, and Kurt Fisher ; 19. ; Online Tools for Understanding Galactic Chemical Evolution - Allen Parker and Bradley S. Meyer ; 20. ; Spectroscopy and the Cosmos: Applications in the Chemical Sciences - Lori Zaikowski, S. Russell Seidel, and Jon M. Friedrich ; 21. ; Development of Laboratories for Teaching Chemical Principles using Radio Astronomy - DeWayne T. Halfen, Aldo J. Apponi, and Lucy M. Ziurys ; 22. ; Chemistry of Life: Chemical Evolution as a Theme for Teaching Undergraduate Chemistry - Bhawani Venkataraman ; Afterword - Richard N. Zare ; Glossary ; Index
