Gratefully acknowledged

The financial support of the EU Commission to the in-plant testing and validation work packages, in the frame ofthe BRITE-EURAM Project 6056 "SIMON" is gratefully acknowledged. 

The financial support of the UE Commission to the work presented in this paper, in the frame of the BRFTE-EURAM Project 6056 "SIMON", is gratefully acknowledged. 

The cooperation and support of the ENEL S.p. A. Production Division, that made extensive in-plant monitoring possible, is also gratefully acknowledged. 

Acknowledgements. Helpful conversations with Dr. H.Aben are gratefully acknowledged. 

The development of UTDefect has been sponsored by the Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate (SKI) and this is gratefully acknowledged. 

The work described in this paper was undertaken as part of a project funded by the European Community under the Industrial and Materials technologies Programme (Brite/EuRam III). The contributions of other partners in the project, AIB-Vinfotte asbl, Tecnatom SA and SLV Mifrichen GmbH) is gratefully acknowledged. 

The author is grateful for discussions with D. E. Manolopoulos. The hospitality of the Joint Institute for Astrophysics at the University of Colorado during the final preparation of the manuscript is gratefully acknowledged. 

Acknowledgments. This work was supported by the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society (grant 29566-G4), by a K STAR EPSCoR FIRST Award, and by the University of Kansas General Research Fund. The use of the Origin 2000 computer at the Kansas Center for Advanced Scientific Computing is gratefully acknowledged. 

TES gratefully acknowledges the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for support and the National Science Foundation for support (CHE-9632236) and computational resources at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (CHE-960010N). 

The authors gratefully acknowledge support of this research by the Austrian Fond zur Forderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF) under grant P11516-MAT. 

Niek Buurma and Theo Rispens are most gratefully acknowledged for the inspiring discussions on hydrophobic effects. These discussions have contributed significantly to a better understanding of this topic and form the basis of what is described in Section 1.3. 

Federica Bertoncin is gratefully acknowledged for the synthesis and purification of 2.4b-e and some equilibrium constant measurements with these compounds. 

Giovanni Boocaletti is gratefully acknowledged for the large number of experiments that paved the way to enantioselective Lewis-acid catalysis in water. Furthermore, we kindly thank the Syncom company for the use of the chiral HPLC column. 

J. C. T. Kwak at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. We gratefully acknowledge the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for a travel grant to S.O. Theo Rispens is most gratefully acknowledged for the synthesis and purification of 5.5a-c. 

Grateful acknowledgment is hereby made of an indebtedness to those who have contributed to previous editions and whose compilations continue in use in this edition. In particular, acknowledgment is made of the contribution of L. P. Buseth, who prepared the conversion tables for the thirteenth edition and who prepared the table on the U.S. Standard Sieve Series. 

The contribution of the section on coproduct acetylene by P.Cl. Haehn of Linde AG is gratefully acknowledged. 

The contributions of William F, Ames (retired), Georgia Institute of Technology Arthur E, Hoerl (deceased). University of Delaware and M, Zuhair Nashed, University of Delaware, to material that was used from the sixth edition is gratefully acknowledged,... 

The financial support of INTAS (00-273) and RFBR (05-03-33162) is gratefully acknowledged. 

CCPS also gratefully acknowledges the comments and the suggestions submitted by the following peer reviewers ... 

The authors wish to thank 1. C. Lewis and the UCAR Carbon Company for their assistance in the preparation and characterization of the coal-derived graphites. This work was partially funded by a grant from the U. S. Department of F.nergy DE-FG02-91NP00159. This support is gratefully acknowledged. 

Acknowledgements—Financial support from the National Science Foundation, Grant No. DMR-9106374, is gratefully acknowledged. 

Acknowledgements—We are grateful to A. Patashinski for useful discussions. This work was performed under the support of NSF grant 9320520 and DMR-9357513 (NYI award for VPD). The use of MRC central facilities supported by NSF is gratefully acknowledged. 

Acknowledgements—The authors gratefully acknowledge much help from M.S. Dresselhaus and G. Dresselhaus in the preparation of this article. 

We wish to thank Professor Carl Djerassi for suggesting that we undertake this effort. We are especially grateful to Drs. N. Dyson, C. Djerassi, I. T. Harrison and J. Pfister, each of whom reviewed the final draft of one of the chapters. Secretarial help by Miss Mary Jakubauskus is also gratefully acknowledged. 

The authors gratefully acknowledge the communication of many technical details and useful information by Dr. M. Akhtar, University of Southampton, England. 

We gratefully acknowledge the comments and suggestions submitted by the following companies and peer reviewers Henry Blunt (Shell Oil) Arthur F. Burk (DuPont) Charles Dancer (Allied Signal) J. A. Hoffmeister (Martin Marietta Energy Systems) Robert Ormsby (Air Products and Chemicals) Duane Sanderson (3M) Anthony A. Thompson (Monsanto) and Guy Van Cleve (Petrocon). 

Other contributions from the following individuals are gratefully acknowledged ... 

The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Jason Ragona in researclung, reviewing, and editing this chapter. 

Tlie autliors gratefully acknowledge tlie assistance of Rebecca Hobden in researching, reviewing, and editing tliis cliapter. 

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