Diese stark praxisbezogene Reihe in 5 Bänden schließt eine Lücke in der verfügbaren Fachliteratur. Alle international wichtigen Aminosäureforscher diskutieren hier Vorkommen, Verwendungsmöglichkeiten und bereits existierende Anwendungen von Aminosäuren und ihren Polymeren, Peptiden und Proteinen.

Andrew Hughes is a reader and Head of the Department of Chemistry at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. He obtained his degrees from the University of Western Australia, before taking up post-doctoral appointments at the University of Cambridge starting 1989. After three years working with Professor Andrew Holmes, he joined Professor Steven Ley´s group. While at Cambridge he was appointed the Shell Research Fellow at Robinson College. His interests lie in the general field of asymmetric synthesis and methodology, with a recent focus on amino acid chemistry.