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Acknowledgement. The financial support of The Robert A. Welch Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. The author is also grateful for the opportunity of many stimulating discussions with colleagues, William B. Giles, Ernesto Silber, Jerold Feuer, Dale Otteson, Joseph Hull, and John N. Marx. 

We would like to thank our Lilly colleagues Kenneth E. Kramer Albert J. Clinton, Dr. Alvin Melliere, Dr. Robert van Lier, and Steven Spaulding for their many contributions to the development of bromethalin. We would also like to recognize the important advisory role played by Dr. William B. Jackson (Bowling Green State University). 

Many prominent colleagues who have worked in computational chemistry have passed away since about the time this book series began. These include (in alphabetical order) Jan Almlof, Russell J. Bacquet, Jeremy K. Burdett, Jean-Louis Calais, Michael J. S. Dewar, Russell S. Drago, Kenichi Fukui, Joseph Gerratt, Hans H. Jaffe, Wlodzimierz Kolos, Bowen Liu, Per-Olov Lowdin, Amatzya Y. Meyer, William E. Palke, Bernard Pullman, Robert... 

The authors wish to thank the following colleagues for their helpful comments and suggestions Dr. O. David Sparkman, Pacific University Professor Ronald Bailey, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Peter Griffiths, University of Idaho Dr. Elizabeth Williams Professor Julian Tyson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Professor Emeritus Robert Gale, LSU, who coauthored Chapter 15 for the fifth edition, is acknowledged for his substantive contributions to and review of that chapter. 

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