ACS Journals Logo
Accounts of Chemical Research logo

Volume 32
Main Index

Issue 01


The Chemical Reactions of Network Structures in Elastomers
Jack L. Koenig
pp 1–8 DOI: 10.1021/ar9603118
Design and Development of Functionalized Water-Soluble Phosphines:  Catalytic and Biomedical Implications
Kattesh V. Katti, Hariprasad Gali, Charles J. Smith, and Douglas E. Berning
pp 9–17 DOI: 10.1021/ar9800082
Solid-Supported Reagent Strategies for Rapid Purification of Combinatorial Synthesis Products
R. John Booth and John C. Hodges
pp 18–26 DOI: 10.1021/ar970311n
The Unexpected Role of Vitamin E (α-Tocopherol) in the Peroxidation of Human Low-Density Lipoprotein1
Vincent W. Bowry and K. U. Ingold
pp 27–34 DOI: 10.1021/ar950059o
Solving the Riddle of Chlorophyll Breakdown
Bernhard Kräutler and Philippe Matile
pp 35–43 DOI: 10.1021/ar970225n
From Enzyme to Molecular Device. Exploring the Interdependence of Redox and Molecular Recognition
Angelika Niemz and Vincent M. Rotello
pp 44–52 DOI: 10.1021/ar980046l
Self-Assembly of [2]Catenanes Containing Metals in Their Backbones
Makoto Fujita
pp 53–61 DOI: 10.1021/ar9701068
Interplay between Molecular Recognition and Redox Chemistry
Angel E. Kaifer
pp 62–71 DOI: 10.1021/ar970335u
Electrochemistry of Phosphorus and Sulfur Compounds:  A Unique Tool for Organic Synthesis
Hatsuo Maeda and Hidenobu Ohmori
pp 72–80 DOI: 10.1021/ar970329y
Multiple Coordination and Activation of Lewis Bases by Multidentate Lewis Acids
James D. Wuest
pp 81–89 DOI: 10.1021/ar980076o

Issue 02


Toward Understanding and Tailoring the Specificity of Synthetically Useful Enzymes
J. Bryan Jones and Grace DeSantis
pp 99–107 DOI: 10.1021/ar960078d
Chemical Detoxification of Nerve Agent VX
Yu-Chu Yang
pp 109–115 DOI: 10.1021/ar970154s
Molecular Phosphonate Cages:  Model Compounds and Starting Materials for Phosphate Materials
Mrinalini G. Walawalkar and Herbert W. Roesky, Ramaswamy Murugavel
pp 117–126 DOI: 10.1021/ar980040w
Ground State and Transition State Contributions to the Rates of Intramolecular and Enzymatic Reactions
Thomas C. Bruice and Felice C. Lightstone
pp 127–136 DOI: 10.1021/ar960131y
Theoretical Studies of Electronically Excited States of Molecular Systems Using Multiconfigurational Perturbation Theory
Björn O. Roos
pp 137–144 DOI: 10.1021/ar960091y
Two-Dimensional Raman Echoes:  Femtosecond View of Molecular Structure and Vibrational Coherence
Shaul Mukamel, Andrei Piryatinski, and Vladimir Chernyak
pp 145–154 DOI: 10.1021/ar960206y
Issues Pertinent to the in Vivo in Situ Spin Trapping of Free Radicals
Sovitj Pou, Howard J. Halpern, Pei Tsai, and Gerald M. Rosen
pp 155–161 DOI: 10.1021/ar970251l
Enantioselective Free Radical Reactions
Mukund P. Sibi and Ned A. Porter
pp 163–171 DOI: 10.1021/ar9600547
Site-Selective Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Conjugated Polymers and Oligomers
Heinz Bässler and Bernd Schweitzer
pp 173–182 DOI: 10.1021/ar960228k
The β Effect of Silicon and Related Manifestations of σ Conjugation
Joseph B. Lambert, Yan Zhao, Robert W. Emblidge, Lourdes A. Salvador, Xiaoyang Liu, Jeung-Ho So, and Erik C. Chelius
pp 183–190 DOI: 10.1021/ar970296m

Issue 03


Molecular Materials in Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices
James R. Sheats Guest Editor, Paul F. Barbara Senior Editor
pp 191–192 DOI: 10.1021/ar990033n
Chemical Aspects of Polymeric Electroluminescent Devices
James R. Sheats, Ying-Lan Chang, Daniel B. Roitman, and Andrew Stocking
pp 193–200 DOI: 10.1021/ar980061q
Fundamentals in the Design of Molecular Electronic Devices:  Long-Range Charge Carrier Transport and Electronic Coupling
Marye Anne Fox
pp 201–207 DOI: 10.1021/ar9600953
Organic-Based Electronics à la Carte
Francis Garnier
pp 209–215 DOI: 10.1021/ar9800340
Interface Control of Light-Emitting Devices Based on Pyridine-Containing Conjugated Polymers
Y. Z. Wang and A. J. Epstein
pp 217–224 DOI: 10.1021/ar980052h
Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Modeling Applied to Polymer Surfaces and Interfaces in Light-Emitting Devices
Thomas Kugler, Mikael Lögdlund, and William R. Salaneck
pp 225–234 DOI: 10.1021/ar980041o
Optoelectronic Properties and Memories Based on Organic Single-Crystal Thin Films
Chong-yang Liu and Allen J. Bard
pp 235–245 DOI: 10.1021/ar980031n
Surface Analytical Studies of Interface Formation in Organic Light-Emitting Devices
Yongli Gao
pp 247–255 DOI: 10.1021/ar980030v
A Model Oligomer Approach to Light-Emitting Semiconducting Polymers
Paul F. Van Hutten, Victor V. Krasnikov, and Georges Hadziioannou
pp 257–265 DOI: 10.1021/ar980032f
Excited-State Electronic Structure of Conjugated Oligomers and Polymers:  A Quantum-Chemical Approach to Optical Phenomena
Jean-Luc Brédas, Jérôme Cornil, David Beljonne, Donizetti A. dos Santos, and Zhigang Shuai
pp 267–276 DOI: 10.1021/ar9800338

Issue 04


Reversible Encapsulation and Its Consequences in Solution
Julius Rebek, Jr.
pp 278–286 DOI: 10.1021/ar970201g
Chemical Models of Protein β-Sheets
James S. Nowick
pp 287–296 DOI: 10.1021/ar970204t
An Ionization/Recombination Mechanism for Complexity of the Fluorescence of Tryptophan in Proteins
Bruce S. Hudson
pp 297–300 DOI: 10.1021/ar960227s
Synthesis of 3‘-C- and 4‘-C-Branched Oligodeoxynucleotides and the Development of Locked Nucleic Acid (LNA)
Jesper Wengel
pp 301–310 DOI: 10.1021/ar980051p
Metal Vinylidenes in Catalysis
Christian Bruneau and Pierre H. Dixneuf
pp 311–323 DOI: 10.1021/ar980016i
Spiroepoxycyclohexa-2,4-dienones in Organic Synthesis
Vishwakarma Singh
pp 324–333 DOI: 10.1021/ar970350z
The Chemistry of Star-Forming Regions
David A. Williams and Thomas W. Hartquist
pp 334–341 DOI: 10.1021/ar970114o
Determination of Bond Dissociation Enthalpies in Solution by Photoacoustic Calorimetry
Lucas J. J. Laarhoven and Peter Mulder, Danial D. M. Wayner
pp 342–349 DOI: 10.1021/ar9703443
The Synthetic and Structural Chemistry of Heme Derivatives with Nitric Oxide Ligands
W. Robert Scheidt and Mary K. Ellison
pp 350–359 DOI: 10.1021/ar9700116
Unfolding, Refolding, and Hydration of Proteins in the Gas Phase
Martin F. Jarrold
pp 360–367 DOI: 10.1021/ar960081x
Atomic Determinants for Aminoacylation of RNA Minihelices and Relationship to Genetic Code
Karin Musier-Forsyth and Paul Schimmel
pp 368–375 DOI: 10.1021/ar970148w
Mimics of Complex Carbohydrates Recognized by Receptors
Chi-Huey Wong
pp 376–385 DOI: 10.1021/ar960237t

Issue 05


Nanoscale Materials Special Issue
pp 387–387 DOI: 10.1021/ar990060d
Nanoscale Materials
James R. Heath
pp 388–388 DOI: 10.1021/ar990059e
Spectroscopy of Single CdSe Nanocrystallites
Stephen Empedocles and Moungi Bawendi
pp 389–396 DOI: 10.1021/ar9501939
Crystal Structures of Molecular Gold Nanocrystal Arrays
Robert L. Whetten, Marat N. Shafigullin, Joseph T. Khoury, T. Gregory Schaaff, Igor Vezmar, Marcos M. Alvarez, and Angus Wilkinson
pp 397–406 DOI: 10.1021/ar970239t
Luminescence Photophysics in Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Manoj Nirmal and Louis Brus
pp 407–414 DOI: 10.1021/ar9700320
Architectonic Quantum Dot Solids
Gil Markovich, C. Patrick Collier, Sven E. Henrichs, Françoise Remacle, Raphael D. Levine, and James R. Heath
pp 415–423 DOI: 10.1021/ar980039x
Chemical Thermodynamics of the Size and Shape of Strained Ge Nanocrystals Grown on Si(001)
R. Stanley Williams*, Gilberto Medeiros-Ribeiro, Theodore I. Kamins, and Douglas A. A. Ohlberg
pp 425–433 DOI: 10.1021/ar970236g
Chemistry and Physics in One Dimension:  Synthesis and Properties of Nanowires and Nanotubes
Jiangtao Hu, Teri Wang Odom, and Charles M. Lieber
pp 435–445 DOI: 10.1021/ar9700365
Fabrication and Integration of Nanostructures on Si Surfaces
Toshio Ogino, Hiroki Hibino, Yoshikazu Homma, Yoshihiro Kobayashi, Kuniyil Prabhakaran, Koji Sumitomo, and Hiroo Omi
pp 447–454 DOI: 10.1021/ar970235o

Issue 06


Synthetic Models for Hemoglobin and Myoglobin
James P. Collman and Lei Fu
pp 455–463 DOI: 10.1021/ar9603064
Harvesting Diels and Alder's Garden: Synthetic Investigations of Intramolecular [4 + 2] Cycloadditions
Alex G. Fallis
pp 464–474 DOI: 10.1021/ar970120k
Recent Studies of Nucleophilic, General-Acid, and Metal Ion Catalysis of Phosphate Diester Hydrolysis
Andrei Blaskó and Thomas C. Bruice
pp 475–484 DOI: 10.1021/ar980060y
Structure and Nuclease Activity of Simple Dinuclear Metal Complexes:  Quantitative Dissection of the Role of Metal Ions
Nicholas H. Williams, Bryan Takasaki, Mark Wall, and Jik Chin*
pp 485–493 DOI: 10.1021/ar9500877
Planar Tetracoordination of Carbon in Groups 4 and 5 Organometallic Chemistry
Robert Choukroun and Patrick Cassoux
pp 494–502 DOI: 10.1021/ar970304z
Reactive Scattering of Oxygen and Nitrogen Atoms
Piergiorgio Casavecchia, Nadia Balucani, Michele Alagia, Laura Cartechini, and Gian Gualberto Volpi
pp 503–511 DOI: 10.1021/ar9702785
Solvent Effects on the Radiative Transitions of Singlet Oxygen
Peter R. Ogilby
pp 512–519 DOI: 10.1021/ar980005p
Cellularly Generated Inorganic Oxidants as Natural Microbicidal Agents
James K. Hurst and Sergei V. Lymar
pp 520–528 DOI: 10.1021/ar9703488
Binding of Organic Nitroso Compounds to Metalloporphyrins
George B. Richter-Addo
pp 529–536 DOI: 10.1021/ar970351r
Templated Regioselective and Stereoselective Synthesis in Fullerene Chemistry
François Diederich and Roland Kessinger
pp 537–545 DOI: 10.1021/ar970321o

Issue 07


Comments on the Mechanism of the “Fenton-Like” Reaction
Sara Goldstein, Dan Meyerstein*
pp 547–550 DOI: 10.1021/ar9800789
Ultrafast Infrared Studies of Bond Activation in Organometallic Complexes
Haw Yang, Kenneth T. Kotz, Matthew C. Asplund, Matthew J. Wilkens, and Charles B. Harris
pp 551–560 DOI: 10.1021/ar970133y
The Quest for Diphosphirenium and Diphosphirenylium Salts, Diheteroatom-Containing Cyclopropenium Analogues
Didier Bourissou and Guy Bertrand
pp 561–570 DOI: 10.1021/ar9800237
The Methylenology Principle: How Radicals Influence the Course of Ionic Reactions
H. Zipse
pp 571–578 DOI: 10.1021/ar980035s
Learning Nature's Strategies for Making Deoxy Sugars:  Pathways, Mechanisms, and Combinatorial Applications
Tina M. Hallis and Hung-wen Liu
pp 579–588 DOI: 10.1021/ar9602056
Transitions, Transition States, Transition State Analogues:  Zinc Pyrazolylborate Chemistry Related to Zinc Enzymes
Heinrich Vahrenkamp
pp 589–596 DOI: 10.1021/ar9703185
Negative Ion Photoelectron Spectroscopy Studies of Organic Reactive Intermediates
Paul G. Wenthold and W. Carl Lineberger
pp 597–604 DOI: 10.1021/ar960121x
Catalytic Asymmetric Addition Reactions of Carbonyls. A Common Catalytic Approach
Karl Anker Jørgensen, Mogens Johannsen, Sulan Yao, Hélène Audrain, and Jacob Thorhauge
pp 605–613 DOI: 10.1021/ar970347f
J-Coupling Restraints in RNA Structure Determination
John P. Marino, Harald Schwalbe, and Christian Griesinger
pp 614–623 DOI: 10.1021/ar9600392
Peptide Nucleic Acid. A Molecule with Two Identities
Peter E. Nielsen
pp 624–630 DOI: 10.1021/ar980010t
How Water Provides the Impetus for Molecular Recognition in Aqueous Solution
Raymond U. Lemieux
pp 631–631 DOI: 10.1021/ar990027r

Issue 08


NMR and ESCA Chemical Shifts in Aluminosilicates:  A Critical Discussion
Jacek Klinowski and Tery L. Barr
pp 633–640 DOI: 10.1021/ar9800486
Chemistry, Pharmacology, and Clinical Efficacy of the Chinese Nootropic Agent Huperzine A
Alan P. Kozikowski and Werner Tückmantel
pp 641–650 DOI: 10.1021/ar9800892
Modeling the Phase Behavior of Polymer/Clay Nanocomposites
Anna C. Balazs, Chandralekha Singh, Ekaterina Zhulina, and Yulia Lyatskaya
pp 651–657 DOI: 10.1021/ar970336m
Organic Materials Challenges for 193 nm Imaging
Elsa Reichmanis, Omkaram Nalamasu, and Frank M. Houlihan
pp 659–667 DOI: 10.1021/ar970150n
m-Benzyne and p-Benzyne
Wolfram Sander
pp 669–676 DOI: 10.1021/ar960153k
Attractions and Repulsions in Molecular Crystals:  What Can Be Learned from the Crystal Structures of Condensed Ring Aromatic Hydrocarbons?
Jack D. Dunitz, Angelo Gavezzotti
pp 677–684 DOI: 10.1021/ar980007+
Development of Methanol Decomposition Catalysts for Production of H2 and CO
Wu-Hsun Cheng
pp 685–691 DOI: 10.1021/ar980088+
Aspects of Peptide Folding and Aggregation
Isabella L. Karle
pp 693–701 DOI: 10.1021/ar9702942
Hydroxy Group Directivity in the Epoxidation of Chiral Allylic Alcohols:  Control of Diastereoselectivity through Allylic Strain and Hydrogen Bonding
Waldemar Adam and Thomas Wirth
pp 703–710 DOI: 10.1021/ar9800845
Ethylene Biosynthesis from 1-Aminocyclopropanecarboxylic Acid
Michael C. Pirrung
pp 711–718 DOI: 10.1021/ar960003+

Issue 09


Interaction of Sulfur with Well-Defined Metal and Oxide Surfaces:  Unraveling the Mysteries behind Catalyst Poisoning and Desulfurization
José A. Rodriguez and Jan Hrbek
pp 719–728 DOI: 10.1021/ar9801191
Homocalixarenes
Stefan Ibach, Volker Prautzsch, and Fritz Vögtle, Christine Chartroux and Karsten Gloe
pp 729–740 DOI: 10.1021/ar970231j
Water Dynamics:  Fluctuation, Relaxation, and Chemical Reactions in Hydrogen Bond Network Rearrangement
Iwao Ohmine and Shinji Saito
pp 741–749 DOI: 10.1021/ar970161g
Pn and Asn Ligands:  A Novel Chapter in the Chemistry of Phosphorus and Arsenic
Otto J. Scherer
pp 751–762 DOI: 10.1021/ar970317c
Oxygen Atom Transfer into C−H Bond in Biological and Model Chemical Systems. Mechanistic Aspects
Alexander E. Shilov and Albert A. Shteinman
pp 763–771 DOI: 10.1021/ar980009u
Gallanes, Gallenes, Cyclogallenes, and Gallynes:  Organometallic Chemistry about the Gallium−Gallium Bond
Gregory H. Robinson
pp 773–782 DOI: 10.1021/ar980135y
Intrazeolite Photochemistry:  Toward Supramolecular Control of Molecular Photochemistry
J. C. Scaiano and Hermenegildo García
pp 783–793 DOI: 10.1021/ar9702536
Nitrogen Heterofullerenes
Andreas Hirsch and Berthold Nuber
pp 795–804 DOI: 10.1021/ar980113b
What To Do while Awaiting Crystals of a Membrane Transport Protein and Thereafter
H. Ronald Kaback and Jianhua Wu
pp 805–813 DOI: 10.1021/ar970256i
Photoinduced Electron-Transfer Intramolecular Cyclization of Acyclic Dienes with Two Styrene Units
Tsutomu Miyashi, Hiroshi Ikeda, and Yasutake Takahashi
pp 815–824 DOI: 10.1021/ar960002h
What To Do while Awaiting Crystals of a Membrane Transport Protein and Thereafter
H. Ronald Kaback and Jianhua Wu
pp 825–825 DOI: 10.1021/ar990105a
Water Dynamics:  Fluctuation, Relaxation, and Chemical Reactions in Hydrogen Bond Network Rearrangement
Iwao Ohmine and Shinji Saito
pp 825–825 DOI: 10.1021/ar990107v

Issue 10


Ni(II)·Xaa-Xaa-His Metallopeptide−DNA/RNA Interactions
Eric C. Long
pp 827–836 DOI: 10.1021/ar980072j
Biocatalytic Synthesis of Optically Active α-Oxyfunctionalized Carbonyl Compounds
Waldemar Adam, Michael Lazarus, Chantu R. Saha-Möller, and Peter Schreier
pp 837–845 DOI: 10.1021/ar980062i
Transition Metals as Switches
Luigi Fabbrizzi, Maurizio Licchelli, and Piersandro Pallavicini
pp 846–853 DOI: 10.1021/ar990013l
Electron Transmission through Molecular Layers:  Numerical Simulations and Theoretical Considerations
Abraham Nitzan, Ilan Benjamin
pp 854–861 DOI: 10.1021/ar970267b
Mechanisms of Enzymatic Oxidative Decarboxylation
W. Wallace Cleland
pp 862–868 DOI: 10.1021/ar990065a
The Chemistry of S-Nitrosothiols
D. Lyn H. Williams
pp 869–876 DOI: 10.1021/ar9800439
Vibrational State Control of Bimolecular Reactions:  Discovering and Directing the Chemistry
F. Fleming Crim
pp 877–884 DOI: 10.1021/ar950046a
Molecular Recognition by Ornithine and Aspartate Transcarbamylases
Norma M. Allewell, Dashuang Shi, Hiroki Morizono, and Mendel Tuchman
pp 885–894 DOI: 10.1021/ar950262j
Copper(I)-Catalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization
Timothy E. Patten, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
pp 895–903 DOI: 10.1021/ar9501434
Combined Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical Methodologies Applied to Biomolecular Systems
Gérald Monard and Kenneth M. Merz, Jr.
pp 904–911 DOI: 10.1021/ar970218z

Issue 11


Looking for Stable Carbenes:  The Difficulty in Starting Anew
Anthony J. Arduengo, III
pp 913–921 DOI: 10.1021/ar980126p
The Interaction of Carbonyl Groups with Substituents
Kenneth B. Wiberg
pp 922–929 DOI: 10.1021/ar990008h
Molecular Characterization of Polymer and Polymer Blend Surfaces. Combined Sum Frequency Generation Surface Vibrational Spectroscopy and Scanning Force Microscopy Studies
D. H. Gracias, Z. Chen, Y. R. Shen, and G. A. Somorjai
pp 930–940 DOI: 10.1021/ar990034f
Prototropic and Water-Exchange Processes in Aqueous Solutions of Gd(III) Chelates
Silvio Aime, Mauro Botta, Mauro Fasano, and Enzo Terreno
pp 941–949 DOI: 10.1021/ar970300u
Electrical Rectification by a Molecule:  The Advent of Unimolecular Electronic Devices
Robert M. Metzger
pp 950–957 DOI: 10.1021/ar9900663
From Tars to Products:  How To Disentangle the Reactions of Nitrobenzenes with Nucleophiles
Cristina Paradisi and Gianfranco Scorrano
pp 958–968 DOI: 10.1021/ar980015q
The Fragmentation of Alkoxyhalocarbenes
Robert A. Moss
pp 969–974 DOI: 10.1021/ar9900212
Supermolecules by Design
Dana L. Caulder and Kenneth N. Raymond
pp 975–982 DOI: 10.1021/ar970224v

Issue 12


Origin of Methyl Internal Rotation Barriers
Lionel Goodman and Vojislava Pophristic, Frank Weinhold
pp 983–993 DOI: 10.1021/ar990069f
Molecular and Supramolecular Objects from Glycoluril
Alan E. Rowan, Johannes A. A. W. Elemans, and Roeland J. M. Nolte
pp 995–1006 DOI: 10.1021/ar9702684
Coherent Control of Chemical Reactions
Robert J. Gordon and Langchi Zhu, Tamar Seideman
pp 1007–1016 DOI: 10.1021/ar970119l
Multiple-Shell Clusters of Alkali Metal-Rich Phosphanides and Arsanides
Matthias Driess
pp 1017–1025 DOI: 10.1021/ar990038k
α and 310:  The Split Personality of Polypeptide Helices
Kimberly A. Bolin and Glenn L. Millhauser
pp 1027–1033 DOI: 10.1021/ar980065v
Lithium Hexamethyldisilazide:  A View of Lithium Ion Solvation through a Glass-Bottom Boat
Brett L. Lucht, David B. Collum
pp 1035–1042 DOI: 10.1021/ar960300e
Shape-Dependent Catalysis:  Insights into the Source of Catalysis for the CC-1065 and Duocarmycin DNA Alkylation Reaction
Dale L. Boger and Robert M. Garbaccio
pp 1043–1052 DOI: 10.1021/ar9800946
The Role of Inorganic Chemistry in the Development of Radiometal Agents for Cancer Therapy
Mary Jane Heeg and Silvia S. Jurisson
pp 1053–1060 DOI: 10.1021/ar980002c