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The second problem seems to be more interesting. Though ionic reactions and transport processes in solutions are much slower than electron transport in solids, the investigation of the realisability of electric circuits by chemical tools might be important from the point of view of theoretical biology. Furthermore, the possibility of constructing molecular computing devices can increase our interest in a theory of dynamic chemotronics . A few concept introduced more or less in connection with circuits will be studied in terms of chemistry. 

The second fundamental theorem of theoretical biology states that the sequential acquisition of biological function by proteins and nucleic acids is a reflection of the evolutionary sequence of development. Sim-... 

In the first part of the present review, new techniques of preparation of modified electrodes and their electrochemical properties are presented. The second part is devoted to applications based on electrochemical reactions of solute species at modified electrodes. Special focus is given to the general requirements for the use of modified electrodes in synthetic and analytical organic electrochemistry. The subject has been reviewed several times Besides the latest general review by Murray a number of more recent overview articles have specialized on certain aspects macro-molecular electronics theoretical aspects of electrocatalysis organic applicationssensor electrodes and applications in biological and medicinal chemistry. 

SIMS imaging was theoretically invented in 1949 by Herzog and Viehb of the Vienna University in Austria. The first SIMS device was completed by Liebel and Herzog in 1961 with the support of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and was used to analyze metal surfaces. However, it was not suitable for analyzing biological macromolecules because the second electronic ion beam breaks the molecules into atoms. 

Like the 1994-issue of the series "Electron Transfer", the second volume again covers various aspects of this fundamental process. The articles are concerned with the experimental and theoretical aspects of electron transfer in chemistry and biology. In the latter, emphasis is given to energy transfer, which is also part of photosynthesis. 

The second proposal is a bit more imaginative and arises from the above arguments that 0—0 bond homolysis is much too slow to be involved in oxidations by peroxynitrate. Pryor and coworkers invoked the intermediacy of a metastable form of peroxynitrous acid (HO—ONO ) in equilibrium with its ground state. This so-called excited state of peroxynitrous acid has, to date, eluded detection or characterization by the experimental community. However, recent high-level theoretical calculations by Bach and his collaborators have presented plausible evidence for the intermediacy of such a shortlived species with a highly elongated 0—0 bond and have confirmed its involvement in the oxidation of hydrocarbons (see below). The discovery of this novel series of biologically important oxidants has fostered a new area of research in both the experimental and theoretical communities. In this chapter we will describe many of the more pertinent theoretical studies on both the physical properties and chemical reactivity of peroxynitrous acid. 

The discussion in the previous section was helpful in identifying the factors at the molecular level which are involved when electron transfer occurs. Two different theoretical approaches have been developed which incorporate these features and attempt to account for electron transfer rate constants quantitatively. The first, by Marcus34 and Hush,35 is classical in nature, and the second is based on quantum mechanics and time dependent perturbation theory. The theoretical aspects of electron transfer in chemical36-38 and biological systems39 have been discussed in a series of reviews. 

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