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discussions with Robert N. Goldberg (NIST). The new nomenclature that is used
here was recommended by an IUPAC-IUBMB report by Alberty, Cornish-
Bowden, Gibson, Goldberg, Hammes, Jencks, Tipton, and Veech in 1994. The use
of Legendre transforms in chemical thermodynamics is the subject of an IUPAC
Technical Report by Alberty, Barthel, Cohen, Ewing, Goldberg, and Wilhelm
(2001). I am indebted to NIH for award 5-R01-GM48458 for support of my
research on biochemical thermodynamics. My Associate Managing Editor,
Kristin Cooke Fasano of John Wiley and Sons, was very helpful.
Robert A. Alberty
Cambridge, Massachusetts
