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The last chapter is a round-table discussion by the speakers at the symposium of questions posed by the attendees on topics relating to the preceding papers or other topics pertinent to the field. This type of forum presented an excellent opportunity for interplay between the two groups, especially as it related to topics not covered in the formal papers. 

Each session was initiated by state-of-the-art reviews, summarizing both the theoretical and applied aspects of the subject these were followed by invited technical papers. A panel discussion among speakers/coauthors, including audience participation, concluded each session. This volume contains only the technical papers of the conference the questions and answers for the papers will be printed as a separate publication. 

Mr. Seidel Our appreciation is extended to all the speakers for their interesting papers and to the audience for their questions. We look forward to other such symposia on the development of Mossbauer Spectroscopy. 

Many contributed to the success of the symposium. The executive and members of the Macromolecular Science Division thank the following firms for fiscal support Polysar Limited Abitibi Paper Company Reichhold Limited Xerox Research Centre of Canada Limited Varian Associates of Canada Glidden Company Domtar Limited DuPont of Canada Shell Canada Gulf Oil Canada and the Dunlop Research Centre. A special vote of thanks is extended to the speakers at the symposium and to the authors for their excellent presentations and for their cooperation in putting it together. J. Comstock of the American Chemical Society showed understanding and patience in bringing this volume to print. 

Attendance was limited to 160 speakers, discussion leaders, and participants. In order for others in this and related fields to read the papers and the discussion, the entire meeting was recorded on tape and by the shorthand reporters, Suddreth, Hostetler, Lewis, and Shipley (Kansas City). The statements of the participants were sent to each individual for correction, modification, or deletion and then compiled with the papers into this book. 

Those currently actively involved in anionic polymerization will recognize that despite the extensive progress that has been made over the past 25 years, many kinetic, mechanistic, and even synthetic aspects have not been elucidated fully. Thus, it should not be surprising that there are opposing points of view. In the past, controversies have occurred, and although I tried to minimize this factor, I was not completely successful in this regard. However, I was pleased that all of the speakers came to the same room and also contributed to this volume. A few of the papers may be a bit strong however, I have decided to let the scientific community come to their own decisions on these matters. 

He is known worldwide for his expertise in the development of a broad range of products based on hydrophilic polyurethane and has authored a book on the subject. He has published a number of papers on the use of polyurethanes in medical and other applications. He has conducted seminars in the U.S. and Europe on the medical applications of specialty polyurethanes. He has been an invited speaker to a number of conferences and seminars. 

Ch. Jungen I would like to make a comment on the concept of inverse Bom-Oppenheimer approximation, which has been invoked by both speakers this morning. Here is a quotation from a paper published by R. S. Mulliken [7. Am. Chem. Soc. 86, 3183 (1964)] more than 30 years ago In most discussions on molecular wave functions,... 

On an occasion such as the present, three distinctive aims of the Solvay Conferences on Chemistry warrant special mention. First, as earlier speakers have said, they are international. Second, they are elitist in regard to the small number of invited papers on the chosen theme. Third, their themes have been chosen so far as possible because they have a riverhead character from which hopefully much further flow of chemical knowledge might be foreseen. 

The symposium program included 30 talks and 23 poster presentations. Due to space limitations, this volume contains 24 of the oral papers, whereas the authors, affiliations, and titles of the poster presentations are listed in the appendix. Sixteen of the oral papers at the symposium were invited by the Organizing Committee, with the remaining 37 papers being selected from those submitted for presentation. The 30 speakers at the symposium included five persons from industry and 12 speakers from outside North America. The symposium speakers attracted 170 participants from the United States, Canada, England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Hungary, Venezuela, Australia, and Japan. 

We are grateful to Stephen Hanessian, whose initiative led to the organization of the symposium upon which this book is based to all speakers, especially those who undertook considerable journeys to present their papers and to N. K. Kochetkov and A. A. I.indberg, whose splendid contributions to this volume were prepared under considerable time pressure. Our thanks also go to Suzanne Roethel, Robin Giroux, Susan Robinson, and their colleagues, who have made collaboration with the ACS Books Department a genuine pleasure. 

The papers in this volume are the authors own versions of their presentations. The discussion comments were taken from a transcript of the workshop. In accordance with the policies of the CSR, the workshop did not attempt to establish any conclusions or recommendations about needs and future directions, focusing instead on issues identified by the speakers. 

This collection of papers was part of a unique symposium held during the 178th Meeting of the American Chemical Society. The symposium, Diffraction Methods for Structural Determination of Fibrous Polymers, had a pronounced international character, with scientists from 12 different countries. The speakers represented both the synthetic polymer and biopolymer fields, with contributions in each of the three classes of natural polymers nucleic acids, proteins, and polysaccharides. Most important, the symposium centered on methods and techniques for studying fibrous polymers, methods that are usually taken for granted despite their inadequacies. 

In recognition of the rapid expansion of computational chemistry in the 1980s, Andre Bandrauk and Andre Michel of the University of Sherbrooke organized the First Canadian Symposium on Computational Chemistry in May 1991 in Orford, Quebec. The conference included invited papers on dynamics, density functional methods, molecular modeling, Monte Carlo methods, and topics in quantum chemistry and statistical mechanics. About half of the invited speakers were from abroad (mostly from the United States). 

Support for the symposium that served as the catalyst for this volume was obtained from the Office of Naval Research and the Division of Environmental Chemistry of the American Chemical Society. This support provided many speakers with travel allowances to present papers at the symposium. The participation of authors, many of whom would not normally attend an ACS meeting, resulted in lively discussions, a more comprehensive coverage of the subject, and new collaborative research efforts after the symposium. 

This paper has primarily discussed the latter topic and other speakers at this conference have discussed a number of the other topics. It is likely that the large pilot plants that will begin operation in 1980 will establish engineering parameters and information that will bring the production of fuels from coal to technical readiness and provide a firm engineering and environmental data base to establish the foundation for a synthetic fuels industry in the U.S. 

To help lay a new groundwork for the study of the tastes of foods, the speakers at the symposium presented papers on a variety of topics related to food taste chemistry. The problems in taste are of great complexity, involving biological as well as chemical variables. For a taste chemist, the types of sensations elicited and their measurement are as important as the nature of the compounds eliciting them. Various aspects of these problems are treated in detail in the papers in this volume. 

This book with ICHMS 2005 Proceedings brings together the research papers of invited and contributed speakers. We hope that they will serve as both a useful reference and resource material for all the participants and for those whose interest in the subject matter may develop after the event. 

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