Contents Martin Banwell Scientific Sketch Robert G. Bergman Scientific Sketch Dale L. Boger Scientific Sketch Carsten Bolm Scientific Sketch Ronald Breslow Scientific Sketch Reinhard Brückner Scientific Sketch Gianfranco Cainelli Scientific Sketch Erick M. Carreira Scientific Sketch Armin de Meijere Scientific Sketch Scott E. Denmark Scientific Sketch Ulf Diederichsen Scientific Sketch Alessandro Dondoni Scientific Sketch Dieter Enders Scientific Sketch David A. Evans Scientific Sketch Marye Anne Fox Scientific Sketch Burchard Franck Scientific Sketch Robin L. Garrell Kendall N. Houk Scientific Sketch Scientific Sketch Cesare Gennari Scientific Sketch Robert H. Grubbs Scientific Sketch John F. Hartwig Scientific Sketch Clayton H. Heathcock Scientific Sketch Wolfgang Anton Herrmann Scientific Sketch Donald Hilvert Scientific Sketch Reinhard W. Hoffmann Scientific Sketch Dieter Hoppe Scientific Sketch Hiriyakkanavar Ila Scientific Sketch Karl Anker Jørgensen Scientific Sketch Alan Roy Katritzky Scientific Sketch Horst Kessler Scientific Sketch Horst Kunz Scientific Sketch Richard C. Larock Scientific Sketch Steven Victor Ley Scientific Sketch Lewis N. Mander Scientific Sketch Johann Mulzer Scientific Sketch Ei-ichi Negishi Scientific Sketch Kyriacos C. Nicolaou Scirntific Sketch Leo Armand Paquette Scientific Sketch Manfred T. Reetz Scientific Sketch Daniel H. Rich Scientific Sketch Herbert W. Roesky Scientific Sketch Gyula Schneider Scientific Sketch Lawrence T. Scott Scientific Sketch Victor Snieckus Scientific Sketch Martin Suhm Scientific Sketch Marcello Tiecco Scientific Sketch Lutz Friedjan Tietze Scientific Sketch Claudio Trombini Scientific Sketch Rocco Ungaro Scientific Sketch Edwin Vedejs Scientific Sketch K. Peter C. Vollhardt Scientific Sketch Herbert Waldmann Scientific Sketch Ekkehard Winterfeldt Scientific Sketch Peter Wipf Scientific Sketch Yoshinori Yamamoto Scientific Sketch Axel Zeeck Scientific Sketch Index Related Titles Froböse, R. Wenn Frösche vom Himmel fallen Die verrücktesten Naturphänomene 2009 ISBN 978-3-527-32619-8 Voss-de Haan, P. Physik auf der Spur Kriminaltechnik heute 2009 ISBN 978-3-527-40944-0 Emsley, J. Fritten, Fett und Faltencreme Noch mehr Chemie im Alltag 2009 ISBN 978-3-527-32620-4 Koolman,J., Moeller, H., Röhm, K. H. (eds.) Kaffee, Käse, Karies ... Biochemie im Alltag 2009 ISBN 978-3-527-32622-8 All books published by Wiley-VCH are carefully produced. Nevertheless, authors, editors, and publisher do not warrant the information contained in these books, including this book, to be free of errors. Readers are advised to keep in mind that statements, data, illustrations, procedural details or other items may inadvertently be inaccurate. Library of Congress Card No.: applied for British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. © 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim All rights reserved (including those of translation into other languages). No part of this book may be reproduced in any form – by photoprinting, microfilm, or any other means – nor transmitted or translated into a machine language without written permission from the publishers. Registered names, trademarks, etc. used in this book, even when not specifically marked as such, are not to be considered unprotected by law. ISBN978-3-527-32621-1 Druck und Bindung: Ebner & Spiegel GmbH, Ulm Cover: Himmelfarb, Eppelheim, www.himmelfarb.de