Dedication and Acknowledgements

The hard work of all the authors has made this book possible. Their contributions, like the one above represent their own views and are not necessarily those of the organisations that employ them or with which they are affiliated. My personal thanks go to Mark Willis and Glynis Griffiths, both key members of the Food Standards Agency, for their respective work on the compilations shown in Table 1.1 and the list of Directives given above. 

My work on this book would not have been possible without the support of my wife Linda. 

FOOD STANDARDS AGENCY (2000) Working Party on Food Additives annual review of current research projects, available from lucy.foster V7f00dstandards.gsi.g0v.uk 

and watson, D. (2000) International Standards for Food Safety, Aspen Publishers Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland. 

WATSON, D. (ed.) (2001) Food Chemical Safety, Volume 1 Contaminants, Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge. 

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Acknowledgment and Dedication I am very grateful to the National Science Foundation for their support of my research group s work on heterometallic electronic effects (CHE-0745500). I would like to dedicate this review to the memory of my graduate mentor, F. Albert Cotton (1930-2007). His untimely death has been a major blow to this field and to the chemical community at large. He would have been intrigued and impassioned by some of the latest results reviewed herein. 

And last but not least, we would also like to acknowledge the patience of our families and co-workers who, even without participating in this book, have suffered from the time and dedication devoted to this goal. 

We would like to acknowledge the commitment and dedication of the 161 contributing authors and 145 reviewers of the chapters contained in this text (a list of contributors and a list of reviewers are included in the frontmatter of this book). We also extend our thanks to the McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing Division, especially Michael Brown, Maya Barahona, and Robert Pancotti, for their dedication to this project. Finally, we thank our... 

It is a pleasure to acknowledge the skillful and dedicated efforts of our co-workers whose names are to be found among the references and whose achievements have provided the basis of this review. We are also grateful to N.A.T.O. for the provision of Research Grant Number 1559 which has enabled us to collaborate in the production of this article. Our work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Petroleum Research Fund, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, Research Corporation, Western Fher Company, Eli Lilly Company, and University of Puerto Rico (WA), and by the Science Research Council (AJB). 

Acknowledgment We dedicate this account to the memory of David Gin, a wonderful person and truly inspiring scientist. We thank the NSF (CAREER Award CHE-0847061) for support of our work. This project also benefited from support through graduate fellowships to D.B.C.M. from Eli Lilly, the NSERC of Canada, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, as well as an Amgen Young Investigator... 

The authors wish to specifically acknowledge the dedicated and competent work of our laboratory technical staff. 

This work was carried out by a highly skilled and motivated team of people from all areas of GSK, and 1 would hke to thank aU of them for their commitment and dedication to the project. In addition 1 would like to acknowledge the assistance from the staff of Novasep (France) and Chiral Technologies Europe for their contributions and very helpful discussions to the development of the MCC process. It is to all of these people that this chapter is dedicated. 

It is with admiration that we acknowledge all the co-workers for their contribution to the development of this review. Their effort, enthusiasm, and dedication are responsible for our studies and have continued to generate new avenues for investigation. We are also indebted to NATO for its financial support of this review. G. Queguinerand F. Marsais thank CNRS and V. Snieckus at the NSCRC. This chapter is dedicated to professor Paul Pastour. 

G. Price (Daresbury), J. Eberth (Koln) and J. W. Olness (Brookhaven). It is a pleasure to acknowledge the excellent spirit of team work and dedication. Discussions with R. Bengtsson, K. H. Bhatt, F. Iachello, W. Nazare-wicz and T. Otsuka have been stimulating. One of the authors (KPL) acknowledges the hospitality of the State University of New York at Stony Brook vhere this article has been prepared. This work has been also funded by the German BMFT. 

The motivation and dedication of the laboratories participating in the various interlaboratory studies and certifications organised by BCR represent one of the keys to the success of the projects with a clear impact on the improvement of quality control of speciation measurements. All project coordinators and participants in the projects are gratefully acknowledged and are listed in the RSC book on speciation (Quevauviller, 1998b). 

It is a privilege to acknowledge the work of skillful and dedicated collaborators, whose names appear in the various references. The financial support of the Australian Research Council is also gratefully acknowledged. 

I am indebted to many scientists across the globe for their input into the chapter, provision of information and references, and general stimulation of my interest in this application of QSAR. In particular, I would like to thank Mike Comber, Joanna Jaworska, John Walker, Chris Watts, Andrew Worth, and Maurice Zeeman. Further, I acknowledge the hard work, effort, and dedication of many scientists and civil servants worldwide who have endeavored to apply QSAR methods to regulatory decision-making processes. 

The authors gratefully acknowledge the diligent and dedicated collaboration of all their colleagues whose names appear as coauthors in the references. Thanks are also due to Mr K. C. Bharadwaj, Mr Balakrishnan, and Mr K. N. Tiwari for their assistance in the... 

The author wishes to acknowledge the generous and continued support of Dr. Merle S. Olson during the lengthy birth of this book. A debt of gratitude is owed to Esther L. Hall, whose wise, compassionate, and dedicated help brought this book to fruition. 

I would like to thank Professor John A. Joule for his kind invitation to contribute this Review. I also gratefully acknowledge the diligent and dedicated collaboration of the graduate students whose names appear as my co-authors in the references. 

Acknowledgments We warmly thank all the members of our research group involved in this project for their enthusiasm and dedication. Financial support from the DGICYT (Spain, projects CTQ 2003-00089, 2006-03794 and 2009-07758) is acknowledged. N. K. thanks the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education for a grant. We are especially thankful to Laboratorios Almirall and Grupo Ferrer (Barcelona) for their support. 

Acknowledgement. We wish to express our gratitude to our coworkers and collaborators who made this article possible by their skill and dedication. We are grateful to Prof. Dr. Bassler, Dr. S. 

Acknowledgements We are deeply grateful to our students and collaborators, whose names appear in the references, and who made this chemistry possible through their hard work and dedication. We also thank the following organisations and companies who have provided financial support over the years Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, DGA, MNRT, the Alfred Kastler Foundation, the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, CONACyT (Mexico), MECyD (Spain), Rhodia, and Sanofi-Aventis. 

This work was carried out with the generous support of the OflSce of Naval Research, the Air Force OflSce of Scientific Research, the Rhone Poulenc Company, Union Carbide Corporation, Celanese Research Company, and AT T Bell Laboratories. I acknowledge also with thanks and admiration the skilled and dedicated efforts of my co-workers mentioned in the Epilogue and the help and guidance we have received from our ceramist friends. 

The editors first and foremost acknowledge the contribution of our authors without whose expertise and dedication this tome could not have come about. We appreciate the support of the editorial staff at Elsevier/Academic Press for their efforts in bringing this book to fruition. We thank the anonymous chapter reviewers for their suggestions and criticisms which clearly made this a better volume. Finally, we wish to acknowledge the sustained support of the Ocean Sciences section of the National Science Foundation, which has supported the editors and many of the present contributors over the years. 

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