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Issue 01


Photoinduced Ortho [2 + 2] Cycloaddition of Double Bonds to Triplet Benzenes
Peter J. Wagner
pp 1–8 DOI: 10.1021/ar000113n
Photoresponsive Polypeptides
Osvaldo Pieroni, Adriano Fissi, Nicola Angelini, and Francesco Lenci
pp 9–17 DOI: 10.1021/ar990141+
The Development of L2X2RuCHR Olefin Metathesis Catalysts:  An Organometallic Success Story
Tina M. Trnka and Robert H. Grubbs
pp 18–29 DOI: 10.1021/ar000114f
Bichromophoric Paracyclophanes:  Models for Interchromophore Delocalization
Glenn P. Bartholomew and Guillermo C. Bazan
pp 30–39 DOI: 10.1021/ar9901568
Mimicking Photosynthetic Solar Energy Transduction
Devens Gust, Thomas A. Moore, and Ana L. Moore
pp 40–48 DOI: 10.1021/ar9801301
Pyridoxal 5‘-Phosphate-Dependent α,β-Elimination Reactions:  Mechanism of O-Acetylserine Sulfhydrylase
Chia-Hui Tai and Paul F. Cook
pp 49–59 DOI: 10.1021/ar990169l
Structure−Property Relationships in Dendritic Encapsulation
Christopher B. Gorman and Jennifer C. Smith
pp 60–71 DOI: 10.1021/ar000044c
Elucidating the Nature of Enzyme Catalysis Utilizing a New Twist on an Old Methodology:  Quantum Mechanical−Free Energy Calculations on Chemical Reactions in Enzymes and in Aqueous Solution
Peter A. Kollman, Bernd Kuhn, Oreola Donini, Mikael Perakyla, Rob Stanton, and Dirk Bakowies
pp 72–79 DOI: 10.1021/ar000032r
Aufbau Principle of Complex Open-Framework Structures of Metal Phosphates with Different Dimensionalities
C. N. R. Rao, Srinivasan Natarajan, Amitava Choudhury, S. Neeraj, and A. A. Ayi
pp 80–87 DOI: 10.1021/ar000135+

Issue 02


Recent Highlights in Hemicarcerand Chemistry
Ralf Warmuth, Juyoung Yoon
pp 95–105 DOI: 10.1021/ar980082k
Metric Engineering of Soft Molecular Host Frameworks
K. Travis Holman, Adam M. Pivovar, Jennifer A. Swift, and Michael D. Ward
pp 107–118 DOI: 10.1021/ar970272f
Copper Delivery by Metallochaperone Proteins
Amy C. Rosenzweig
pp 119–128 DOI: 10.1021/ar000012p
Substituent Effects on the Reactivity of the Silicon−Carbon Double Bond
Tracy L. Morkin and William J. Leigh
pp 129–136 DOI: 10.1021/ar960252y
Is the CO Adduct of Myoglobin Bent, and Does It Matter?
Thomas G. Spiro and Pawel M. Kozlowski
pp 137–144 DOI: 10.1021/ar000108j
The Crotonase Superfamily:  Divergently Related Enzymes That Catalyze Different Reactions Involving Acyl Coenzyme A Thioesters
Hazel M. Holden, Matthew M. Benning, Toomas Haller, and John A. Gerlt
pp 145–157 DOI: 10.1021/ar000053l
Dynamics of Photoinduced Charge Transfer and Hole Transport in Synthetic DNA Hairpins
Frederick D. Lewis, Robert L. Letsinger, and Michael R. Wasielewski
pp 159–170 DOI: 10.1021/ar0000197
Model Studies for Molecular Recognition of Carbonic Anhydrase and Carboxypeptidase
Eiichi Kimura
pp 171–179 DOI: 10.1021/ar000001w

Issue 03


Dendrimer-Encapsulated Metal Nanoparticles:  Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications to Catalysis
Richard M. Crooks, Mingqi Zhao, Li Sun, Victor Chechik, and Lee K. Yeung
pp 181–190 DOI: 10.1021/ar000110a
Molecular Sieve Catalysts for the Regioselective and Shape- Selective Oxyfunctionalization of Alkanes in Air
John Meurig Thomas, Robert Raja, Gopinathan Sankar, and Robert G. Bell
pp 191–200 DOI: 10.1021/ar970020e
Is Water a Friend or Foe in Organometallic Chemistry? The Case of Group 13 Organometallic Compounds
Herbert W. Roesky, Mrinalini G. Walawalkar and Ramaswamy Murugavel
pp 201–211 DOI: 10.1021/ar0001158
Experimental Strategies for Combinatorial and High-Throughput Materials Development
James N. Cawse
pp 213–221 DOI: 10.1021/ar000117s
Behavioral Patterns of Heterometallic Cuboidal Derivatives of [M3Q4(H2O)9]4+ (M = Mo, W; Q = S, Se)
Rita Hernandez-Molina, Maxim N. Sokolov, and A. Geoffrey Sykes
pp 223–230 DOI: 10.1021/ar960152s
Molecule-Mimetic Chemistry and Mesoscale Self-Assembly
Ned B. Bowden, Marcus Weck, Insung S. Choi, and George M. Whitesides
pp 231–238 DOI: 10.1021/ar0000760
New Materials in Hydrothermal Synthesis
Shouhua Feng and Ruren Xu
pp 239–247 DOI: 10.1021/ar0000105
Formation of Novel Polymeric Nanoparticles
Guangzhao Zhang, Aizhen Niu, Shufu Peng, Ming Jiang, Yingfeng Tu, Mei Li, and Chi Wu
pp 249–256 DOI: 10.1021/ar000011x

Issue 04


Some Interesting Properties of Metals Confined in Time and Nanometer Space of Different Shapes
Mostafa A. El-Sayed
pp 257–264 DOI: 10.1021/ar960016n
Subpicosecond Solvent Dynamics in Charge-Transfer Transitions:  Challenges and Opportunities in Resonance Raman Spectroscopy
Jeanne L. McHale
pp 265–272 DOI: 10.1021/ar000007l
Theoretical Perspectives on Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
pp 273–281 DOI: 10.1021/ar9901117
Multiple Isotope Effects on the Acyl Group Transfer Reactions of Amides and Esters
John F. Marlier
pp 283–290 DOI: 10.1021/ar000054d
The Quantum World of Cold Electron Collisions
David Field, Stuart L. Lunt, and Jean-Pierre Ziesel
pp 291–298 DOI: 10.1021/ar0000962
Substrate Dehydrogenation by Flavoproteins
Paul F. Fitzpatrick
pp 299–307 DOI: 10.1021/ar0000511
Homogeneous Single-Component Betaine Ziegler−Natta Catalysts Derived from (Butadiene)zirconocene Precursors
Gerhard Erker
pp 309–317 DOI: 10.1021/ar9800183
Modular Chemistry:  Secondary Building Units as a Basis for the Design of Highly Porous and Robust Metal−Organic Carboxylate Frameworks
Mohamed Eddaoudi, David B. Moler, Hailian Li, Banglin Chen, Theresa M. Reineke, Michael O'Keeffe, and Omar M. Yaghi
pp 319–330 DOI: 10.1021/ar000034b

Issue 05


The Reaction of Cl with CH4:  A Connection between Kinetics and Dynamics
Hope A. Michelsen
pp 331–337 DOI: 10.1021/ar000066z
The Central Enzymes of the Aspartate Family of Amino Acid Biosynthesis
Ronald E. Viola
pp 339–349 DOI: 10.1021/ar000057q
Large-Scale ab Initio Quantum Chemical Calculations on Biological Systems
Richard A. Friesner and Barry D. Dunietz
pp 351–358 DOI: 10.1021/ar980111r
Synthetic Chemistry for Ultrapure, Processable, and High-Mobility Organic Transistor Semiconductors
Howard E. Katz, Zhenan Bao, and Sylvain L. Gilat
pp 359–369 DOI: 10.1021/ar990114j
Electrochemical Nanostructuring with Ultrashort Voltage Pulses
Viola Kirchner, Xinghua Xia, and Rolf Schuster
pp 371–377 DOI: 10.1021/ar000133p
NMR Relaxation Studies of the Role of Conformational Entropy in Protein Stability and Ligand Binding
Martin J. Stone
pp 379–388 DOI: 10.1021/ar000079c
Design in Topographical Space of Peptide and Peptidomimetic Ligands That Affect Behavior. A Chemist's Glimpse at the Mind−Body Problem
Victor J. Hruby
pp 389–397 DOI: 10.1021/ar990063q
Enzymology, Structure, and Dynamics of Acetohydroxy Acid Isomeroreductase
Renaud Dumas, Valérie Biou, Frédéric Halgand, Roland Douce, and Ronald G. Duggleby
pp 399–408 DOI: 10.1021/ar000082w

Issue 06


Molecular Machines Special Issue
pp 409–409 DOI: 10.1021/ar0100881
Molecular Machines
J. Fraser Stoddart
pp 410–411 DOI: 10.1021/ar010084w
The Physics of Molecular Motors
Carlos Bustamante, David Keller, and George Oster
pp 412–420 DOI: 10.1021/ar0001719
Electronically Transduced Molecular Mechanical and Information Functions on Surfaces
Andrew N. Shipway and Itamar Willner
pp 421–432 DOI: 10.1021/ar000180h
Switching Devices Based on Interlocked Molecules
Anthony R. Pease, Jan O. Jeppesen, J. Fraser Stoddart, Yi Luo, C. Patrick Collier, and James R. Heath
pp 433–444 DOI: 10.1021/ar000178q
Artificial Molecular-Level Machines:  Which Energy To Make Them Work?
Roberto Ballardini, Vincenzo Balzani, Alberto Credi, Maria Teresa Gandolfi, and Margherita Venturi
pp 445–455 DOI: 10.1021/ar000170g
Cyclodextrin-Based Molecular Machines
Akira Harada
pp 456–464 DOI: 10.1021/ar000174l
On the Way to Rotaxane-Based Molecular Motors:  Studies in Molecular Mobility and Topological Chirality
Christoph A. Schalley, Kaweh Beizai, and Fritz Vögtle
pp 465–476 DOI: 10.1021/ar000179i
Shuttles and Muscles: Linear Molecular Machines Based on Transition Metals
Jean-Paul Collin, Christiane Dietrich-Buchecker, Pablo Gaviña, Maria Consuelo Jimenez-Molero, and Jean-Pierre Sauvage
pp 477–487 DOI: 10.1021/ar0001766
Molecular Machines Based on Metal Ion Translocation
Valeria Amendola, Luigi Fabbrizzi, Carlo Mangano, and Piersandro Pallavicini
pp 488–493 DOI: 10.1021/ar010011c
Positive Allosteric Systems Designed on Dynamic Supramolecular Scaffolds:  Toward Switching and Amplification of Guest Affinity and Selectivity
Seiji Shinkai, Masato Ikeda, Atsushi Sugasaki, and Masayuki Takeuchi
pp 494–503 DOI: 10.1021/ar000177y
In Control of Motion:  From Molecular Switches to Molecular Motors
Ben L. Feringa
pp 504–513 DOI: 10.1021/ar0001721
Progress toward a Rationally Designed Molecular Motor
T. Ross Kelly
pp 514–522 DOI: 10.1021/ar000167x

Issue 07


The Synthetic Potential of Phthalimide SET Photochemistry
Ung Chan Yoon*, Patrick S. Mariano*
pp 523–533 DOI: 10.1021/ar010004o
Reactions of Electron-Deficient Alkynes and Allenes under Phosphine Catalysis
Xiyan Lu, Chunming Zhang, and Zhenrong Xu
pp 535–544 DOI: 10.1021/ar000253x
Studies of Polar Stratospheric Cloud Formation
Anthony J. Prenni and Margaret A. Tolbert
pp 545–553 DOI: 10.1021/ar950186k
Photoisomerization by Hula-Twist:  A Fundamental Supramolecular Photochemical Reaction
Robert S. H. Liu
pp 555–562 DOI: 10.1021/ar000165c
Designer Magnets Containing Cyanides and Nitriles
Joel S. Miller and Jamie L. Manson
pp 563–570 DOI: 10.1021/ar0000354
The Role of Synchrotron-Based Studies in the Elucidation and Design of Active Sites in Titanium−Silica Epoxidation Catalysts
John Meurig Thomas and Gopinathan Sankar
pp 571–581 DOI: 10.1021/ar010003w
Structural Elucidation of Microporous and Mesoporous Catalysts and Molecular Sieves by High-Resolution Electron Microscopy
John Meurig Thomas, Osamu Terasaki, Pratibha L. Gai, Wuzong Zhou, and Jose Gonzalez-Calbet
pp 583–594 DOI: 10.1021/ar970352j
Exploration of Fundamental and Synthetic Aspects of the Intramolecular 4 + 3 Cycloaddition Reaction
Michael Harmata
pp 595–605 DOI: 10.1021/ar000064e
Why Is It So Difficult To Simulate Entropies, Free Energies, and Their Differences?
William P. Reinhardt, Mark A. Miller, and Lynn M. Amon
pp 607–614 DOI: 10.1021/ar950181n

Issue 08


Stereoselective Total Synthesis of Axially Chiral Natural Products via Biaryl Lactones
Gerhard Bringmann and Dirk Menche
pp 615–624 DOI: 10.1021/ar000106z
Competitive Pathways via Nonadiabatic Transitions in Photodissociation
David Conroy, Victor Aristov, Lin Feng, Andrei Sanov, and Hanna Reisler
pp 625–632 DOI: 10.1021/ar970047y
Catalytic Functionalization of Arenes and Alkanes via C−H Bond Activation
Chengguo Jia, Tsugio Kitamura, and Yuzo Fujiwara
pp 633–639 DOI: 10.1021/ar000209h
1,1-Dimetallic Reagents for the Elaboration of Stereoselectively Di- or Trisubstituted Linear Substrates
Jean F. Normant
pp 640–644 DOI: 10.1021/ar000043k
Mass-Independent Isotopic Compositions in Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Solids and Their Applications
Mark H. Thiemens, Joel Savarino, James Farquhar, and Huiming Bao
pp 645–652 DOI: 10.1021/ar960224f
The Gas-Phase Chemistry of Cyclodextrin Inclusion Complexes
Carlito B. Lebrilla
pp 653–661 DOI: 10.1021/ar980125x
Hexafluorobenzene Photochemistry:  Wellspring of Fluorocarbon Structures
David M. Lemal
pp 662–671 DOI: 10.1021/ar960057j
Chiral Studies across the Spectrum of Polymer Science
Mark M. Green, Kap-Soo Cheon, Sung-Yun Yang, Ji-Woong Park, Susan Swansburg, and Weihong Liu
pp 672–680 DOI: 10.1021/ar010009l
Cobalamin-Dependent Methyltransferases
Rowena G. Matthews
pp 681–689 DOI: 10.1021/ar0000051

Issue 09


Understanding the Phase-Dependent Reactivity of Chlorine Dioxide Using Resonance Raman Spectroscopy
Philip J. Reid
pp 691–698 DOI: 10.1021/ar010064u
The Formation of Nitriles in Hydrocarbon-Rich Atmospheres of Planets and Their Satellites:  Laboratory Investigations by the Crossed Molecular Beam Technique
Ralf I. Kaiser, Nadia Balucani
pp 699–706 DOI: 10.1021/ar000112v
A Mechanistic Investigation of Gelation. The Sol−Gel Polymerization of Precursors to Bridged Polysilsesquioxanes
Kenneth J. Shea and Douglas A. Loy
pp 707–716 DOI: 10.1021/ar000109b
One- vs Two-Photon Processes in the Photochemistry of 1,n-Dihaloalkanes
Miguel A. Miranda, Julia Pérez-Prieto, Enrique Font-Sanchis, and J. C. Scaiano
pp 717–726 DOI: 10.1021/ar000107r
Chemoselective Approaches to Glycoprotein Assembly
Howard C. Hang and Carolyn R. Bertozzi
pp 727–736 DOI: 10.1021/ar9901570
The Unique Chemistry of Hydrogen beneath the Surface:  Catalytic Hydrogenation of Hydrocarbons
S. T. Ceyer
pp 737–744 DOI: 10.1021/ar970030f
The Gif Paradox
Pericles Stavropoulos, Remle Çelenligil-Çetin, and Amy E. Tapper
pp 745–752 DOI: 10.1021/ar000100+
The Effect of Limited Monomer Solubility in Heterogeneous Step-Growth Polymerization
Ying-Hung So
pp 753–758 DOI: 10.1021/ar0100069

Issue 10


Supramolecular Arrays Based on Dimetal Building Units
F. Albert Cotton, Chun Lin, and Carlos A. Murillo
pp 759–771 DOI: 10.1021/ar010062+
A Mimicking Enzyme Analogue for Chemical Sensors
Jyh-Myng Zen and Annamalai Senthil Kumar
pp 772–780 DOI: 10.1021/ar000073n
Time Reversal and Molecular Properties
Laurence D. Barron, A. David Buckingham
pp 781–789 DOI: 10.1021/ar0100576
Follow the Protons:  A Low-Barrier Hydrogen Bond Unifies the Mechanisms of the Aspartic Proteases
Dexter B. Northrop
pp 790–797 DOI: 10.1021/ar000184m
Advances in Metal Chemistry of Quinonoid Compounds:  New Types of Interactions between Metals and Aromatics
Arkadi Vigalok and David Milstein
pp 798–807 DOI: 10.1021/ar970316k
Using Resonance Raman Spectroscopy To Examine Vibrational Barriers to Electron Transfer and Electronic Delocalization
Joseph T. Hupp and Robert D. Williams
pp 808–817 DOI: 10.1021/ar9602720
Investigations of the Roles of the Distal Heme Environment and the Proximal Heme Iron Ligand in Peroxide Activation by Heme Enzymes via Molecular Engineering of Myoglobin
Shin-ichi Ozaki, Mark P. Roach, Toshitaka Matsui, and Yoshihito Watanabe
pp 818–825 DOI: 10.1021/ar9502590
Solid-Phase Syntheses of β-Turn Analogues To Mimic or Disrupt Protein−Protein Interactions
Kevin Burgess
pp 826–835 DOI: 10.1021/ar9901523
Targeting RNA with Small-Molecule Drugs:  Therapeutic Promise and Chemical Challenges
José Gallego and Gabriele Varani
pp 836–843 DOI: 10.1021/ar000118k

Issue 11


Chirality Transfer in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals
Robert P. Lemieux
pp 845–853 DOI: 10.1021/ar9901164
Self-Assembled Monolayers of 4-Mercaptobiphenyls
Abraham Ulman
pp 855–863 DOI: 10.1021/ar0001564
Molecular Design of Artificial Molecular and Ion Recognition Systems with Allosteric Guest Responses
Masayuki Takeuchi, Masato Ikeda, Atsushi Sugasaki, and Seiji Shinkai
pp 865–873 DOI: 10.1021/ar0000410
Persulfoxide:  Key Intermediate in Reactions of Singlet Oxygen with Sulfides
Edward L. Clennan
pp 875–884 DOI: 10.1021/ar0100879
Attractive Intramolecular Edge-to-Face Aromatic Interactions in Flexible Organic Molecules
W. Brian Jennings, Brid M. Farrell, and John F. Malone
pp 885–894 DOI: 10.1021/ar0100475
Wide Bite Angle Diphosphines:  Xantphos Ligands in Transition Metal Complexes and Catalysis
Paul C. J. Kamer, Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen, and Joost N. H. Reek
pp 895–904 DOI: 10.1021/ar000060+
Ruthenium Polypyridine Complexes. On the Route to Biomimetic Assemblies as Models for the Photosynthetic Reaction Center
Heinz Dürr and Stefan Bossmann
pp 905–917 DOI: 10.1021/ar9901220
Designer Hybrid Cyclopeptides for Membrane Ion Transport and Tubular Structures
Darshan Ranganathan
pp 919–930 DOI: 10.1021/ar000147v

Issue 12


Solvent Size vs Cohesive Energy as the Origin of Hydrophobicity
Themis Lazaridis
pp 931–937 DOI: 10.1021/ar010058y
The Depth of Chemical Time and the Power of Enzymes as Catalysts
Richard Wolfenden and Mark J. Snider
pp 938–945 DOI: 10.1021/ar000058i
Chiral Autocatalysis, Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, and Stochastic Behavior
Dilip K. Kondepudi and Kouichi Asakura
pp 946–954 DOI: 10.1021/ar010089t
Dual Enantioselective Control in Asymmetric Synthesis
Yong Hae Kim
pp 955–962 DOI: 10.1021/ar000187z
Teaching Old Indicators New Tricks
Sheryl L. Wiskur, Hassan Ait-Haddou, John J. Lavigne, and Eric V. Anslyn
pp 963–972 DOI: 10.1021/ar9600796
Polymerized Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Assemblies for Materials Applications
Douglas L. Gin, Weiqiang Gu, Bradford A. Pindzola, and Wen-Jing Zhou
pp 973–980 DOI: 10.1021/ar000140d
Formation and Stability of Carbocations and Carbanions in Water and Intrinsic Barriers to Their Reactions
John P. Richard, Tina L. Amyes, and Maria M. Toteva
pp 981–988 DOI: 10.1021/ar0000556
Sapphyrins:  Versatile Anion Binding Agents
Jonathan L. Sessler and Julian M. Davis
pp 989–997 DOI: 10.1021/ar980117g
Poly(p-phenyleneethynylene)s by Alkyne Metathesis
Uwe H. F. Bunz
pp 998–1010 DOI: 10.1021/ar010092c