Chemistry

The Chemistry and Biology of Beta-Lactams

Zerong Wang, PhD

The Chemistry and Biology of Beta-Lactams

Now on Press
Pub Date: May 2023
Hardback Price: $225.00 US
Hard ISBN: 9781774911716
E-Book ISBN: 9781003330288
Pages: 468pp w index
Binding Type: Hardback / ebook
Notes: 1 color and 240 b/w illustrations

This new volume, The Chemistry and Biology of Beta-Lactams, provides the most updated information about beta-lactams relating to both the pharmaceutical industry and synthetic chemistry. It provides valuable information regarding antibiotic activities as well as chemical reactivities of beta-lactams, which are important because they are commonly applied as antibiotics in the treatment of bacterial infections.

Presenting the most up-to-date literature information on beta-lactams, the volume provides comprehensive coverage of most of the known beta-lactam antibiotics with both structural and biological information, antibiotic mechanisms, self-defense mechanisms of bacteria, nearly all known synthetic methods for the preparation of beta-lactams, and possible reactions in which beta-lactams can participate.

Key features:
• Provides the most comprehensive collection of beta-lactam antibiotics (up to 269 molecules) with chemical structures, CAS number, IUPAC names and associated biological activities
• Offers a comprehensive collection of beta-lactamase databases, where the features of each database have been described
• Explains the self-defense mechanisms of bacteria for surviving, including the formation of biofilm and conversion into L-form, as well as secretion of beta-lactamase to deactivate the beta-lactam antibiotics
• Provides a comprehensive survey on the synthetic methods to make beta-lactams
• Gives all of the possible reactions involving beta-lactams as the starting materials
• Surveys over 1000 research works and includes all available DOI information

The important information provided here will be a valuable resource on the antibiotic activities as well as chemical reactivities of beta-lactams for researchers and scientists, faculty, and advanced students, as well as for industry professionals working in medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry, organic chemistry, organic synthesis, heterocycles, proteins and peptides.

CONTENTS:
Preface
1. beta-Lactams and Antibiotics
2. Antimicrobial Activity of beta-Lactams and Bacterial Resistance
3. Synthetic Methods of beta-Lactams
4. Reactions of beta-Lactams
Index


About the Authors / Editors:

Zerong Wang, PhD
Professor of Chemistry, College of Science and Engineering, University of Houston-Clear Lake, Texas

Zerong Wang, PhD, is a full Professor at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, Texas. Prior to that, he worked at the Institute for Biological Sciences of the National Research Council of Canada for several years. Through his career, the author has gained specific training and expertise in organic chemistry, particularly in physical organic chemistry and other subdisciplines that include photochemistry, spectroscopies, carbohydrate chemistry, sulfur chemistry, nucleosides and heterocycles, material science, reaction methodology, computational chemistry, among others. Dr. Wang has developed research projects relating to sulfur chemistry, computational chemistry, nucleoside analogs, heterocycle chemistry, materials science, and macromolecules (pillarene, calix[n]arene, and melamine-based dendrimers, etc.) and has received 22 research grants, including from NSF-MRI, NSF-STEM, Welch Research Grant, Welch Departmental Research Grant, and University of Houston-Clear Lake’s Faculty Research and Support Fund (FRSF) Grants.

The author has developed two compendiums in organic chemistry: Comprehensive Organic Named Reactions, with Detailed Mechanism Discussions and Updated Experimental Procedures (3 volumes) (Wiley, 2009) and Encyclopedia of Physical Organic Chemistry (6 volumes) (Wiley, 2017), the PROSE Award winner in 2018.

While conducting research activities, the author also teaches courses for both graduate and undergraduate students. To date, the author has taught courses on General Chemistry, General Chemistry Laboratory, Analytical Chemistry, Quantitative Chemical Analysis, Forensic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry Laboratory, Advanced Organic Chemistry, Physical Organic Chemistry, Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Organometallic Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biochemistry Laboratory, Polymer Chemistry, Introduction to Chemical Engineering, Nutrition and Diet Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Introduction to NMR Spectroscopy, Chemistry Seminar, Graduate Research, and Chemistry for nonscience majors.

Dr. Wang earned his BS degree in Chemistry from Lanzhou University, PR China, and earned his MS and PhD degrees from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He conducted his postdoctoral research at the Department of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley and York University (Canada).




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