The trio made outstanding contributions in organic chemistry, a field whose basis is carbon, one of the essential atoms of life and also of innumerable industrial synthetics.

三位科学家为有机化学做出了杰出的贡献，有机化学是一个基于碳原子的领域，而碳原子是生活中和无数工业合成制品中必不可少的原子之一。

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Several chapters discuss broad areas of chemistry including organic chemistry, biochemistry, environmental chemistry, and industrial chemistry.

几章讨论包括有机化学，生物化学，环境化学和工业化学的化学的辽阔的领域。

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In the past year, for example, Dr Seddon and Tom Welton, a chemist at Imperial College London, have shown that one of the most important and difficult processes in industrial organic chemistry, the Diels-Alder reaction (which links carbon atoms together and thus allows big molecules to be assembled) can work better in ionic than in conventional solvents.

ECONOMIST: Ionic solvent