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PROGRESS in Inorganic Chemistry
Hailed by professional chemists as an index of the most influential and current research being done in inorganic chemistry, Progress in Inorganic Chemistry has also enjoyed the reputation as an indispensable working reference. Featuring the work of internationally renowned chemists, this newest volume provides a clear, authoritative examination of each critical new advance and innovative development in inorganic chemistry today.
"This series is distinguished not only by its scope and breadth, but also by the depth and quality of the reviews."--Journal of the American Chemical Society
"This series is a valuable addition to the library of the practicing research chemist, and is a good starting point for students wishing to understand modern inorganic chemistry."--Canadian Chemical News
" This series] has won a deservedly honored place on the bookshelf of the chemist attempting to keep afloat in the torrent of original papers on inorganic chemistry."--Chemistry in Britain
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 43
* Oxovanadium and Oxomolybdenum Clusters and Solids Incorporating Oxygen-Donor Ligands (M. Ishaque Kahn, Illinois Institute of Technology, and Jon Zubieta, Syracuse University)
* The Application of Polychalcogenide Salts to the Exploratory Synthesis of Solid State Multinary Chalcogenides at Intermediate Temperatures (Mercouri G. Kanatzidis and Anthony C. Sutorik, Michigan State University)
* Mechanistic and Kinetic Aspects of Transition Metal Oxygen Chemistry (Andreja Bakac, Iowa State University)
* The Chemistry of Metal Complexes with Selenolate and Tellurolate Ligands (John Arnold, University of California, Berkeley)
* Coordination Chemistry with Sterically Hindered Hydrotris (pyrazolyl) borate Ligands: Organometallic and Bioinorganic Perspectives (Nobumasa Kitajima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and William B. Tolman, University of Minnesota)
* Metal Complexes of Calixarenes (D. Max Roundhill, Tulane University)

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PROGRESS in Inorganic Chemistry

Nowhere is creative scientific talent busier than in the world of inorganic chemistry. This fascinating series provides the field of inorganic chemistry with a forum for critical and authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. With contributions from internationally renowned chemists, this latest volume of Progress in Inorganic Chemistry continues to report the most recent advances with an innovative, cutting-edge style.

"This series is distinguished not only by its scope and breadth, but also by the depth and quality of the reviews."
–Journal of the American Chemical Society

"[This series] has won a deservedly honored place on the bookshelf of the chemist attempting to keep afloat in the torrent of original papers on inorganic chemistry."
–Chemistry in Britain

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 49

• Nonclassical Metal Carbonyls
  (Anthony J. Lupinetti and Steven H. Strauss, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, and Gernot Frenking, Philipps-Universitat Marburg, Germany)
• The Influence of Ligands on Dirhodium(II) on Reactivity and Selectivity in Metal Carbene Reactions
  (Michael P. Doyle, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, and Tong Ren, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida)
• Coordination Chemistry of Transition Metals with Hydrogen Chalcogenide and Hydrochalcogenido Ligands
  (Maurizio Peruzzini and Isaac De Los Rios, Instituto per lo Studio della Stereochimica ed Energetica dei Composti de Coordinazione, CNR, Firenze, Italy, and Antonio Romerosa, Universidad de Almeria, Spain)
• The Coordination Chemistry of Phosphinines, Their Polydentate and Macrocyclic Derivatives
  (Nicolas Mézailles, François Mathey, and Pascal le Floch, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France)
• Texaphyrins: Synthesis and Development of a Novel Class of Therapeutic Agents
  (Tarak D. Mody and Lei Fu, Pharmacyclics, Inc., Sunnyvale, California, and Jonathan L. Sessler, University of Texas at Austin, Texas)
• The Chemistry of Synthetic Fe-Mo-S Clusters and Their Relevance to the Structure and Function of the Fe-Mo-S Center in Nitrogenase
  (Steve M. Malinak, Albion College, Michigan, and Dimitri Coucouvanis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan)

Bioinorganic Chemistry of Copper focuses on the vital role of copper ions in biology, especially as an essential metalloenzyme cofactor. The book is highly interdisciplinary in its approach--the outstanding list of contributors includes coordination chemists, biochemists, biophysicists, and molecular biologists. Chapters are grouped into major areas of research interest in inorganic copper chemistry, spectroscopy, oxygen chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular biology. The book also discusses basic research of great potential importance to pharmaceutical scientists. This book is based on the first Johns Hopkins University Copper Symposium, held in August 1992. Researchers in chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, and medicinal chemistry will find it to be an essential reference on its subject.

This series provides inorganic chemists and materials scientists with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. Volume 58 continues to report recent advances with a significant, up-to-date selection of contributions by internationally-recognized researchers. The chapters of this volume are devoted to the following topics: - Tris(dithiolene) Chemistry: A Golden Jubilee- How to find an HNO needle in a (bio)-chemical Haystack - Photoactive Metal Nitrosyl and Carbonyl Complexes Derived from Designed Auxiliary Ligands: An Emerging Class of Photochemotherapeutics - Metal--Metal Bond-Containing Complexes as Catalysts for C--H Functionalization Iron Catalysis in Synthetic Chemistry- Reactive Transition Metal Nitride Complexes

Suitable for inorganic chemists and materials scientists in academia, government, and industries including pharmaceutical, fine chemical, biotech, and agricultural.

Covers the vastly expanding subject of oxidative processes mediated by copper ions within biological systems

Copper-mediated biological oxidations offer a broad range of fundamentally important and potentially practical chemical processes that cross many chemical and pharmaceutical disciplines. This newest volume in the "Wiley Series" on Reactive Intermediates in Chemistry and Biology is divided into three logical areas within the topic of copper/oxygen chemistry-- biological systems, theory, and bioinorganic models and applications--to explore the biosphere for its highly evolved and thus efficient oxidative transformations in the discovery of new types of interactions between molecular oxygen and copper ion. Featuring a diverse collection of subject matter unified in one complete and comprehensive resource, Copper-Oxygen Chemistry probes the fundamental aspects of copper coordination chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry, and biological chemistry to reveal both the biological and chemical aspects driving the current exciting research efforts behind copper-oxygen chemistry. In addition, Copper-Oxygen Chemistry:

Addresses the significantly increasing literature on oxygen-atom insertion and carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions as well as enantioselective oxidation chemistries

Progresses from biological systems to spectroscopy and theory, and onward to bioinorganic models and applications

Covers a wide array of reaction types such as insertion and dehydrogenation reactions that utilize the cheap, abundant, and energy-containing O2 molecule

With thorough coverage by prominent authors and researchers shaping innovations in this growing field, this valuable reference is essential reading for bioinorganic chemists, as well as organic, synthetic, and pharmaceutical chemists in academia and industry.

This comprehensive series of volumes on inorganic chemistry provides inorganic chemists with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. Every volume reports recent progress with a significant, up-to-date selection of papers by internationally recognized researchers, complemented by detailed discussions and complete documentation. Each volume features a complete subject index and the series includes a cumulative index as well.

This series provides inorganic chemists and materials scientists with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. Volume 59 continues to report recent advances with a significant, up-to-date selection of contributions by internationally-recognized researchers.

The chapters of this volume are devoted to the following topics: - Iron Catalysis in Synthetic Chemistry- A New Paradigm for Photodynamic Therapy Drug Design: Multifunctional, Supramolecular DNA Photomodification Agents Featuring Ru(II)/Os(II) Light Absorbers Coupled to Pt(II) or Rh(III) Bioactive Sites- Selective Binding of Zn2+ Complexes to Non-Canonical Thymine or Uracil in DNA or RNA.- Progress Toward the Electrocatalytic Production of Liquid Fuels from Carbon Dioxide- Monomeric Dinitrosyl Iron Complexes: Synthesis and Reactivity- Interactions of Nitrosoalkanes/arenes, Nitrosamines, Nitrosothiols, and Alkyl Nitrites with Metals- Aminopyridine Iron and Manganese Complexes as Molecular Catalysts for Challenging Oxidative Transformations

The cutting edge of scientific reporting . . .

PROGRESS in Inorganic Chemistry

Nowhere is creative scientific talent busier than in the world of inorganic chemistry experimentation. Progress in Inorganic Chemistry continues in its tradition of being the most respected avenue for exchanging innovative research. This series provides inorganic chemists and materials scientists with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. With contributions from internationally renowned chemists, this latest volume offers an in-depth, far-ranging examination of the changing face of the field, providing a tantalizing glimpse of the emerging state of the science.

"This series is distinguished not only by its scope and breadth, but also by the depth and quality of the reviews."--Journal of the American Chemical Society

"[This series] has won a deservedly honored place on the bookshelf of the chemist attempting to keep afloat in the torrent of original papers on inorganic chemistry."

--Chemistry in Britain

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 55

? Elucidation of Electron-Transfer Pathways in Copper and Iron Proteins by Pulse Radiolysis Experiments
(Ole Farver and Israel Pecht)

? Peptide- or Protein-Cleaving Agents Based on Metal Complexes

(Woo Suk Chei and Junghun Suh)

? Coordination Polymers of the Lanthanide Elements: A Structural Survey

(Daniel T. de Lill and Christopher L. Cahill)

? Supramolecular Chemistry of Gases

(Dmitry M. Rudkevich)

? The Organometallic Chemistry of Rh-, Ir-, Pd-, and Pt-based Radicals; Higher Valent Species

(Dennis G. H. Hetterscheid, Arjan J. J. Koekkoek, Hansjorg Grutzmache, and Bas de Bruin)

?Unique Metal-Diyne, -Enyne, and -Enediyne Complexes: Part of the Remarkably Diverse World of Metal-Alkyne Chemistry

(Sibaprasad Bhattacharyya, Sangita, and Jeffrey M. Zaleski)

? Oxygen Activation Chemistry of Pacman and Hangman Porphyrin Architectures Based on Xanthene and Dibenzofuran Spacers

(Joel Rosenthal and Daniel G. Nocera)

? Metal-Containing Nucleic Acid Structures Based on Synergetic Hydrogen and Coordination Bonding

(Wei He, Raphael M. Franzini, and Catalina Achim)

? Bispidine Coordination Chemistry

(Peter Comba, Marion Kerscher, and Wolfgang Schiek)

Cutting-edge research and innovative science

PROGRESS in Inorganic Chemistry

Hailed by professional chemists as an index of the most influential and current research being done in inorganic chemistry, Progress in Inorganic Chemistry has also enjoyed the reputation as an indispensable working reference. Featuring the work of internationally renowned chemists, this newest volume provides a clear, authoritative examination of each critically new advance and innovative tremor in inorganic chemistry today.

"This series is a valuable addition to the library of the practicing research chemist, and is a good starting point for students wishing to understand modern inorganic chemistry." —Canadian Chemical News

"[This series] has won a deservedly honored place on the bookshelf of the chemist attempting to keep afloat in the torrent of original papers on inorganic chemistry." --Chemistry in Britain

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 42

• Slow Proton-Transfer Reactions in Organometallic and Bioinorganic Chemistry (K. W. Kramarz and J. R. Norton, Colorado State University)
• Higher Oligopyridines as a Structural Motif in Metallosupramolecular Chemistry (Edwin C. Constable, Universität Basel)
• Ternary Transition Metal Sulfides (Bryan W. Eichhorn, University of Maryland)
• Organoimido Complexes of the Transition Metals (David E. Wigley, University of Arizona)
• Palladium Complex Catalyzed Oxidation Reactions (Andreas Heumann, Klaus-Joachim Jens, and Marius Réglier, Université d'Aix-Marseille)

This series provides inorganic chemists and materials scientists with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. Volume 56 continues to report recent advances with a significant, up-to-date selection of contributions by internationally-recognized researchers.

The cutting edge of scientific reporting . . .
PROGRESS in Inorganic Chemistry
Nowhere is creative scientific talent busier than in the world of inorganic chemistry experimentation. Progress in Inorganic Chemistry continues in its tradition of being the most respected avenue for exchanging innovative research. This series provides inorganic chemists and materials scientists with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. With contributions from internationally renowned chemists, this latest volume offers an in-depth, far-ranging examination of the changing face of the field, providing a tantalizing glimpse of the emerging state of the science.
"This series is distinguished not only by its scope and breadth, but also by the depth and quality of the reviews."
-Journal of the American Chemical Society
" This series] has won a deservedly honored place on the bookshelf of the chemist attempting to keep afloat in the torrent of original papers on inorganic chemistry."
-Chemistry in Britain
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 54
* Atomlike Building Units of Adjustable Character: Solid-State and Solution Routes to Manipulating Hexanuclear Transition Metal Chalcohalide Clusters (Eric J. Welch and Jeffrey R. Long)
* Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Synthesis, Characterization, Physical Properties, and Applications (J. Daniel Bryan and Daniel R. Gamelin)
* Stereochemical Aspects of Metal Xanthane Complexes: Molecular Structures and Supramolecular Self-Assembly (Edward R. T. Tiekink and Ionel Haiduc)
* Trivalent Uranium: A Versatile Species for Molecular Activation (Ilia Korobkov and Sandro Gambarotta)
* Comparison of the Chemical Biology of NO and HNO: An Inorganic Perspective (Katrina M. Miranda and David A. Wink)
* Alterations of Nucleobase pKa Values upon Metal Coordination: Origins and Consequences (Bernhard Lippert)
* Functionalization of Myoglobin (Yoshihito Watanabe and Takashi Hayashi)

Comprehensive coverage of the properties and applications of dithiolene complexes

Dithiolenes are sulfur-containing ligands whose complexes with transition metals represent a growing area of interest in chemistry. Recent discoveries of dithiolene complexes include magnetic materials, superconductors, nonlinear optical materials, luminescent sensors, and enzyme catalytic centers, which promise a variety of important applications.

Dithiolene Chemistry: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications is the first book devoted solely to dithiolene complexes, covering both their noteworthy properties and their potential applications. Edited by the winner of the 2000 American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry, Edward Stiefel, Dithiolene Chemistry features a selection of significant, up-to-date reviews by internationally recognized researchers. Topics include:

• Synthesis of ligands and complexes
• Structures and structural trends in dithiolene complexes
• Spectroscopic and electronic structural properties
• Chemical and electrochemical reactivity
• Luminescence and photochemistry of metal-dithiolene complexes
• Dithiolene complexes in detection
• Solid-state properties (electronic, magnetic, optical) of materials based on dithiolene complexes
• Dithiolenes in biology

Dithiolene Chemistry is Volume 52 of the Progress in Inorganic Chemistry series, which provides a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. This volume continues the successful tradition of the series by elucidating the rapidly expanding study of dithiolenes, which have applications in many areas of chemistry. Advanced students and academic and industry professionals working in inorganic chemistry, materials science, physics, sensors, and the biosciences will all find in Dithiolene Chemistry a much-needed, up-to-date resource for this important area of chemistry.

The cutting edge of scientific reporting . . .

Nowhere is creative scientific talent busier than in the world of inorganic chemistry experimentation. Progress in Inorganic Chemistry continues in its tradition of being the most respected forum for exchanging innovative research. This series provides inorganic chemists and materials scientists with a community where critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline are exchanged. With contributions from internationally renowned chemists, this latest volume offers an in-depth, far-ranging examination of the changing face of the field, providing a tantalizing glimpse of the emerging state of the science.

"This series is distinguished not only by its scope and breadth, but also by the depth and quality of the reviews."
–Journal of the American Chemical Society

"[This series] has won a deservedly honored place on the bookshelf of the chemist attempting to keep afloat in the torrent of original papers on inorganic chemistry."
–Chemistry in Britain

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 51

• Fundamental Coordination Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, and Biochemistry of Lead (II)
  (Elizabeth S. Claudio, John S. Magyar, and Hilary Arnold Godwin, Northwestern University)
• Chromium in Biology: Toxicology and Nutritional Aspects
  (Aviva Levina, Rachel Codd, Carolyn T. Dillon, and Peter A. Lay, University of Sydney)
• Laterally Non-Symetric Aza-Cryptands
  (Parimal K. Bharadwaj, Indian Institute of Technology)
• Coordination Complexes in Sol-Gel Silica Materials
  (Stephen P. Watton, Colleen M. Taylor, Grant M. Kloster, and Stephanie C. Bowman, Virginia Commonwealth University)
• Crystal Chemistry of Organically-Templated Vanadium Phosphates and Organophosphates
  (Robert C. Finn, Syracuse University; Robert C. Haushalter, Parallel Synthesis Technologies; and Jon Zubieta, Syracuse University)

Capturing today's scientific imagination...PROGRESS in Inorganic Chemistry
Nowhere is creative scientific talent busier than in the world of inorganic chemistry experimentation. And the traditional forum for exchanging innovative research has been the respected Progress in Inorganic Chemistry series. With contributions from internationally renowned chemists, this latest volume offers an in-depth, far-ranging examination of the changing face of the field, providing a tantalizing glimpse of the emerging state of the science.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 46
* Anion Binding and Recognition by Inorganic Based Receptors (Paul D. Beer and David K. Smith)
* Copper (I), Lithium and Magnesium Thiolate Complexes: An Overview with Due Mention of Selenolate and Tellurolate Analogues and Related Silver (I) and Gold (I) Species (Maurits D. Janssen, David M. Grove, and Gerard van Koten)
* The Role of the Pyrazolate Ligand in Building Polynuclear Transition Metal Systems (Girolamo La Monica and G. Attillo Ardizzoia)
* Recent Trends in Metal Alkoxide Chemistry (Ram C. Mehrotra and Anirudh Singh).

"This series is distinguished not only by its scope and breadth, but also by the depth and quality of the reviews." --Journal of the American Chemical Society.
"This series is a valuable addition to the library of the practicing research chemist, and is a good starting point for students wishing to understand modern inorganic chemistry." --Canadian Chemical News.
" This series] has won a deservedly honored place on the bookshelf of the chemist attempting to keep afloat in the torrent of original papers on inorganic chemistry." --Chemistry in Britain.

This series provides inorganic chemists and materials scientists with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. Volume 50 continues to report recent advances with a significant, up-to-date selection of contributions on topics such as the following:

• Structural and mechanistic investigations in asymmetric copper;
• Catalyzed reactions;
• Phenoxyl radical complexes;
• Synthesis of large pore zeolites and molecular sieves;
• Inorganic nanoclusters with fullerene-like structure and nanotubes

Straight from the frontier of scientific investigation . . .
PROGRESS in Inorganic Chemistry
Nowhere is creative scientific talent busier than in the world of inorganic chemistry. And the respected Progress in Inorganic Chemistry series has long served as an exciting showcase for new research in this area. With contributions from internationally renowned chemists, this latest volume reports the most recent advances in the field, providing a fascinating window on the emerging state of the science.
"This series is distinguished not only by its scope and breadth, but also by the depth and quality of the reviews." --Journal of the American Chemical Society.
" This series] has won a deservedly honored place on the bookshelf of the chemist attempting to keep afloat in the torrent of original papers on inorganic chemistry." --Chemistry in Britain.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 47
Terminal Chalcogenido Complexes of the Transition Metals (Gerard Parkin, Columbia University)
* Coordination Chemistry of Azacryptands (Jane Nelson, Vickie McKee, and Grace Morgan, The Queen's University, Northern Ireland)
* Polyoxometallate Complexes in Organic Oxidation Chemistry (Ronny Neumann, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
* Metal-Phosphonate Chemistry (Abraham Clearfield, Texas A&M University)
* Oxidation of Hydrazine in Aqueous Solution (David M. Stanbury, Auburn University)
* Metal Ion Reconstituted Hybrid Hemoglobins (B. Venkatesh, J. M. Rifkind, and P. T. Manoharan, Sophisticated Instrumentation Centre, IIT, Madras, India)
* Three-Coordinate Complexes of "Hard" Ligands: Advances in Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity (Christopher C. Cummins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
* Metal-Carbohydrate Complexes in Solution (Jean-Francois Verchere and Stella Chapelle, Universite de Rouen, France; Feibo Xin and Debbie C. Crans, Colorado State University).

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PROGRESS in Inorganic Chemistry
Today's cutting-edge chemical experimentation is a foretaste of the technical arsenal of tomorrow's chemist. Progress in Inorganic Chemistry affords instant and convenient access to every area of innovative chemical research and has long served as the professional chemist's index to the newest and influential turns in inorganic chemistry. Featuring the work of internationally renowned chemists, Volume 45 discusses:
* Selective Recognition of Organic Molecules by Metallohosts (James W. Canary and Bruce C. Gibb, New York University)
* Metallacrowns: A New Class of Molecular Recognition Agents (Vincent L. Pecoraro, Ann J. Stemmler, Brian R. Gibney, Jeffrey J. Bodwin, Hsin Wang, Jeff W. Kampf, and Almut Barwinski, University of Michigan)
* The Interpretation of Ligand Field Parameters (Adam J. Bridgeman and Malcolm Gerloch, University Chemical Laboratories)
* Chemistry of Transition Metal Cyanide Compounds: Modern Perspectives (Kim R. Dunbar and Robert A. Heintz, Michigan State University)
* Assembling Sugars and Metals: Novel Architectures and Reactivities in Transition Metal Chemistry (Umberto Piarulli and Carlo Floriani, University of Lausanne)
* Oxygen Activation Mechanism at the Binuclear Site of Heme-Copper Oxidase Superfamily as Revealed by Time-Resolved Resonance Raman Spectroscopy (Teizo Kitagawa and Takashi Ogura, Institute for Molecular Science)

"This series is distinguished not only by its scope and breadth, but also by the depth and quality of the reviews." --Journal of the American Chemical Society
"This series is a valuable addition to the library of the practicing research chemist, and is a good starting point for students wishing to understand modern inorganic chemistry." --Canadian Chemical News
" This series] has won a deservedly honored place on the bookshelf of the chemist attempting to keep afloat in the torrent of original papers on inorganic chemistry." --Chemistry in Britain