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The present volume marks the last in the series to be edited by Professor A.G. Sykes FRS in whose capable hands it has been since he took up the position of Editor in 1985 with responsibility for Volume 32. Prior to this, he edited four volumes of the Academic Press series Advances in Inorganic and Bioinorganic Mechanisms 1982-1986. The acclaim for the Advances in Inorganic Chemistry series and the large number of citations it has received are reflected in the high standards he set and the quality of the authors he was able to enlist to write reviews on topics of interest to inorganic and bioinorganic chemists. 

This volume marks the last in the series to be edited by Dr. Herbert Spiegel, in whose able hands it has been since he took on the position in 1983 from Dr. Morton K. Schwartz and Dr. A. L. Latner. In the period since then, beginning with Volume 24 until now with Volume 37, Dr. Spiegel has successfully commissioned top quality reviews from world-renowned experts. This quality is reflected in the ongoing acclaim there is for the Advances in Clinical Chemistry series and the large number of citations that the series receives annually. 

Because of the large number of papers published in the period under review (1977 and 1978 calendar years), and the limited time and space available, many references herein are very brief. West European, Japanese, and North American literature has been covered fairly thoroughly, but those references to the East European and Russian literature appearing here do so mainly by virtue of a citation in Chemical Abstracts. For earlier years, the reader is referred to the chapters on Synthetic Macromolecules in the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance volumes published annually in this Specialist Periodical Reports series, beginning in 1972. 

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