Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I: Product Innovations -- 1 Product Exploration and Discovery -- 1.1 Freon CFC, 1928 -- 1.2 Market-Pull, Search for Technology -- 1.3 Technology-Push, Search for Market -- 2 Product Development to Business -- 2.1 Nylon: Centralized Development -- 2.2 Penicillin: Distributed Development -- 2.3 Taxol: Distributed Development -- 2.4 Tasks and Skills in Product Innovation -- Part II: Molecular Structure-Property Relations -- 3 Search Challenges and Methods -- 3.1 Forward Search from Material to Property -- 3.2 Reverse Search from Properties to Material -- 3.3 Searches from Technology to Markets -- 3.4 Literature and Databases -- 4 Theory and Quantitative Predictions -- 4.1 Single Molecules -- 4.2 Statistical Thermodynamics -- 4.3 Gases, Solids, and Liquids -- 5 Predictions by Correlations -- 5.1 Populations, Predictors, and Functions -- 5.2 Regression with a Single Predictor -- 5.3 Regression with Several Predictors -- 5.4 Group Contribution Methods -- 5.5 Mixtures and Composite Materials -- 6 Estimation by Associations and Trends -- 6.1 Empirical Structure-Property Relations -- 6.2 Structure Effects and Ambient Influences on Properties -- 6.3 Risk Assessment -- 7 Random Searches -- 7.1 Strategies of Random Searches -- 7.2 Combinatorial Chemistry -- 8 Research Frontiers -- 8.1 Synthesis and Discovery -- 8.2 Measurement and Discovery -- 8.3 Understanding of Molecular Structure-Property Relationships -- 8.4 Prediction of Molecular Structure-Property Relationships -- Part III: Product Engineering -- 9 Product Marketing -- 9.1 The Sellers: The Chemical Processing Industries -- 9.2 The Buyers -- 9.3 Marketing Gasoline: A Mature Product -- 9.4 Marketing Ink for Inkjet Printers -- 10 Safety, Health, and Environment.

10.1 The Responsibilities of the Chemical Processing Industries -- 10.2 Health and Safety Problems -- 10.3 Environmental Problems -- 10.4 Green Engineering -- 11 Product Design -- 11.1 Bottled Drinking Water: Fluid Compound -- 11.2 Missile Fuel: Homogeneous Fluid Solution -- 11.3 Adsorbents for Separation: Solid Material -- 11.4 Controlled Drug Release: Composite Solid -- 11.5 Evaluation, Selection, and Business Plan -- 12 Product Innovation Opportunities -- 12.1 Market-Pull Opportunities -- 12.2 Technology-Push Opportunities -- Appendix -- Index.