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This work was supported by the Marsden Fund managed by the Royal Society of New Zealand. Our thanks go to Detlev Figgen, Behnam Assadollahzadeh, Reuben Brown, Jon K. Laerdahl and Pekka Pyykko for helpful discussions and suggestions, and to Wojciech Grochala for letting us know in advance of the solid state results for gold fluoride. We do not claim that our review is comprehensive, and we apologize from possible omissions of any related and important work. A more complete list of references can be found in Pyykko s work [43-45]. 

Y.X. acknowledges support from the Research Excellence Fund in Biotechnology from Oakland University and R01 grant (AR 45172) from NIH while P.T. C. acknowledges financial support from the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund and Centres of Research Excellence Fund. 

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Leach, F. (1996). New Zealand and Oceanic obsidians an archaeological perspective using neutron activation analysis. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 26 79-105. 

Fig. 8.3 Warren R. Roper (born in 1938) studied chemistry at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, and completed his Ph.D. in 1963 under the supervision of Cuthbert J. Wilkins. He then undertook postdoctoral research with James P. Collman at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the US, and returned to New Zealand as Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Auckland in 1966. In 1984, he was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the University of Auckland and became Research Professor of Chemistry at the same institution in 1999. His research interests are widespread with the emphasis on synthetic and structural inorganic and organometallic chemistry. Special topics have been low oxidation state platinum group metal complexes, oxidative addition reactions, migratory insertion reactions, metal-carbon multiple bonds, metallabenzenoids and more recently compounds with bonds between platinum group metals and the main group elements boron, silicon, and tin. His achievements were recognized by the Royal Society of Chemistry through the Organometallic Chemistry Award and the Centenary Lectureship. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and of the Royal Society London, and was awarded the degree Doctor of Science (honoris causa) by the University of Canterbury in 1999 (photo by courtesy from W. R. R.)...

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This work was supported by the Marsden Fund which is administered by The Royal Society of New Zealand. 

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We thank the Royal Society of New Zealand for the award of the James Cook Fellowship to RMD, and the Biotechnological and Biological Sciences Research Council, UK, for financial support to MJD. We also thank our graduate students for their contribution over the years toward solving the problems... 

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We gratefully acknowledge funding received from the Royal Society of New Zealand through Marsden Fund Contract UOA0607. 

Supported by the Marsden Fund Council from Government funding, administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand. M.T. is the recipient of a Department of Physiology, University of Otago PhD scholarship. 

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