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Accounts of Chemical Research vol. 33, 2000 R3 A. Badia, R. B. Lennox and L. Reven, A Dynamic View of Self-Assembled Monolayers , p. 475 

Cotton and D. G. Nocera, The Whole Story of the Two-Electron Bond, with the 5 Bond as a Paradigm , p. 483 R5 A. Bagno and G. Scorrano, Selectivity in Proton Transfer, Hydrogen Bonding, and Solvation , p. 609 vol. 34, 2001 

Roesky, M. G. Walawalkar and R. Murugavel, Is Water a Friend or Foe in Organometallic Chemistry The Case of Group 13 Organometallic Compounds , p. 201 

Design in Topographical Space of Peptide and Peptidomi-metic Ligands that Affect Behavior. A Chemist s Glimpse at the Mind-Body Problem , p. 389 

Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy, ed. G. A. Webb, Academic Press Ltd., London vol. 41, 2000 

Accounts of Chemical Research, American Chemical Society, Vol. 36,2003 R 1 P.B. Crowley and M. Ubbink, Close Encounters of the Transient Kind Protein Interactions in the Photosynthetic Redox Chain Investigated by NMR Spectroscopy , p. 723 

Heise and M. Baldus, High-Resolution Solid-State NMR Applied to Polypeptides and Membrane Proteins , p. 858 R 3 F.-G. Klaerner and B. Kahlert, Molecular Tweezers and Clips as Syn- 

Advances in Supramolecular Chemistry, Cerberus Press Inc., Vol. 8,2002 R 4 W.L. Duax, B.M. Burkhart, W.A. Pangborn, V. Pletnev, Z. Wawrzak and 

Glowka, Ion Association, Transport, and Gating in Gramicidin Channels in Lipid Bilayers , p. 245 

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This major section of the review is subdivided in a manner similar to that of the previous review in the series, (1) the main difference being that Overhauser phenomena have not been included since they are regularly reviewed elsewhere. (48) The section dealing with biological systems is very much more extensive than in previous reviews and is a reflection of the enormous growth of interest in this area. 

Since the isolation of the first cularine alkaloid, more than 40 years ago, two reviews in Vols. 4 and 10 of this treatise (7, 2) and chapters in the books of Shamma 3a, 3b) and Kametani 4a, 4b) have dealt with four representative alkaloids of the cularine group. In the last decade, more than 25 other alkaloids have been isolated and characterized, including several with modified structures and different oxidation states. This group of alkaloids is regularly reviewed in the Specialist Reports of the Chemical Society (Alkaloid Series) (5). A complete listing of cularine alkaloids was published in 1984 6). It is now accepted that the dibenzoxepine skeleton is the characteristic structure of cularine alkaloids, although these may have evolved from several well-differentiated biogenic routes. The cularine-morphine dimer cancentrine and its derivatives have been excluded from this chapter as there have been no reports since the last review in Vol. 14 of this treatise (7). 

Regular reviews on HPLC methodology and applications including amino acid determination appear in the Fundamental Reviews (even years) and Application Reviews (odd years) series, respectively, of Analytical Chemistry in the first June issue of each year. 

A comprehensive review of clove was published as part of Lawrence s Major Tropical Series [99]. The analysis of clove bud oils from different growing regions has been published [100], and the composition of clove oils has been regularly reviewed [101-108]. 

AME publishes a series of analytical and statistical reports, and offers several computerised database services. These include regular reviews of the Australian mining industry, and detailed and comprehensive World Analytical Commodity Yeaiixtoks, covering a range of metals and minerals, including lead and zinc. 

A number of scientific journals regularly publish papers reviewing the state of the art in the RM business as well as original contributions on certification, inter-laboratory comparisons, and on RM/CRM applications. Table 8.2 lists the most popular and widely cited. The most prolific journals are Fresenius Journal, JAAS, Science of the Total Environment and Water, Air, Soil Pollution, all with around or even more than 50 papers mentioning reference materials from 1998 and 1999. Of these, Fresenius Journal led in 1998, with more than 80 papers. This was partly because it traditionally publishes, so far in six special issues, a series of papers presented at the International Biological and Environmental Reference Materials Symposia (BERM) series. The role and contribution of the BERM series of meetings is reviewed below. 

This author is perfectly aware that he could add very little to the work done by these workers if an attempt was made to focus on intramolecular catalysis phenomena or on the relevance to cyclisation of available models of chain conformation and chain dynamics instead, the aim will be the presentation of a general treatment of the subject, namely, one that includes the cyclisation of very short chains as well as that of very long chains of, say, 100 atoms or more. With a subject as vast as this, an encyclopaedic review would be a hopeless task. Therefore, the subject will be treated in a systematic and critical way, with more concentration on reaction series with regular and wide variations in structure, rather than on scattered examples. The aim will be to show that the field of intramolecular reactions is a mature area in which the merging of concepts from both physical organic chemistry and polymer chemistry leads to a unified treatment of cyclisation rates and equilibria in terms of a few simple generalisations and theories. 

Very recently, highly regular, highly controlled, dense branching has been developed. The resulting dendrimers often have a spherical shape with special interior and surface properties. The synthesis and properties of dendrimers has been reviewed (see e.g. G.R. Newkome et al. Dendritic Molecules , VCH, 1996). In this series, a chapter deals with the molecular dimensions of dendrimers and with dendrimer-polymer hybrids. One possible development of such materials may be in the fields of biochemistry and biomaterials. The less perfect hyper-branched polymers synthesized from A2B-type monomers offer a real hope for large scale commercialization. A review of the present status of research on hyperbranched polymers is included. 

As a consequence the contributions to this series do not claim to be complete or conventional reviews of the literature nor to provide regular surveys of particular fields. Instead, they seek to explore developing new frontiers in borderline areas. 

Applications of NMR are well established in all areas of science and new ones are being regularly reported. Annual Reports on NMR reflect developments in all areas of science. Contained within Volume 51 of this series are reviews from... 

The industrial movement has been bolstered by two decades of advances in materials science, electronics, and chemometrics. Since the inception of CPAC, the pace of innovation in sensors, instrumentation, and analytics has quickened dramatically. The development of more robust, sensitive photodetector materials, microelectromechanical systems (MEMSs), and fiber optics and the perpetual advancement of computing power (as predicted by Moore s law) have both increased the performance and reduced the cost of . As a result, is now a critical part of routine operations within the realm of industrial chemistry. Many general reviews on the subject of (and PAT) have been published [6—10]. A series of literature reviews on the subject of have been published regularly in Analytical Chemistry. 

In this series the review by Mdbius103 covered the literature on PS I up to early 1994. Since that time a very large number of paper (>200) appeared in this narrow field that cannot be covered here in detail. The work on the FeS centres in PS I and related structures has been reviewed regularly by Hiittermann and Kappl.181"184 The interested reader is also referred to a special issue of Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (Bioenergetics) entirely devoted to PS I27 that contains six reviews in which EPR techniques are in the focus of research87,185"1851 In the following the key results obtained from EPR techniques applied to PS I will be highlighted. 

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