ROBERT A. ALBERTY, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is also a coauthor of Physical Chemistry, Third Edition (2001), also published by Wiley.

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• Preface. Chapter 1. Introduction to Apparent Equilibrium Constants.Chapter 2. Structure of Thermodynamics.Chapter 3. Chemical Equilibrium in Aqueous Solutions.Chapter 4. Thermodynamics of Biochemical Reactions at Specified pH.Chapter 5. Matrices in Chemical and Biochemical Thermodynamics.Chapter 6. Systems of Biochemical Reactions.Chapter 7. Thermodynamics of Binding of the Ligands by Proteins.Chapter 8. Phase Equilibrium in Aqueous Systems.Chapter 9. Oxidation-Reduction Reactions.Chapter 10. Calorimetry of Biochemical Reactions.Chapter 11. Use of Semigrand Partition Functions.Glossary.References.