The value of reading (Part B — $8,539.00)

One of the more expensive books offered these days is Chemical Shifts and Coupling Constants for Silicon-29, by by R.R. Gupta, M.D. Lechner, H. Marsmann, and B. Mikhova. This is Subvolume F in Springer’s Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Data series, slightly pricier ($8539.00), though not by all that much, than the preceding volumes.

Here’s where to find and congratulate three of the authors:

R.R. Gupta, Department of Chemistry, Rajasthan University, Jaipur-302004, India

M.D. Lechner, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Osnabrück, D-49069 Osnabrück, Germany

B.M. Mikhova, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Science, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria

(Thanks to investigator Mark Dionne for bringing this to our attention.)