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Issue 01


A Novel Approach to the Efficient Oxygenation of Hydrocarbons under Mild Conditions. Superior Oxo Transfer Selectivity Using Dioxiranes
Ruggero Curci, Lucia D'Accolti, and Caterina Fusco
pp 1–9 DOI: 10.1021/ar050163y
The Chain-Length Dependence Test
Matthew T. Stone, Jennifer M. Heemstra, and Jeffrey S. Moore
pp 11–20 DOI: 10.1021/ar0501267
Nonadiabatic Dynamics of Condensed Phase Rate Processes
Gabriel Hanna and Raymond Kapral
pp 21–27 DOI: 10.1021/ar030281q
Molecular Recognition Imaging and Force Spectroscopy of Single Biomolecules
Ferry Kienberger, Andreas Ebner, Hermann J. Gruber, and Peter Hinterdorfer
pp 29–36 DOI: 10.1021/ar050084m
Structure−Function Relationships of EcDOS, a Heme-Regulated Phosphodiesterase from Escherichia coli
Yukie Sasakura, Tokiko Yoshimura-Suzuki, Hirofumi Kurokawa, and Toru Shimizu
pp 37–43 DOI: 10.1021/ar0501525
Designer Zinc Finger Proteins:  Tools for Creating Artificial DNA-Binding Functional Proteins
Muthu Dhanasekaran, Shigeru Negi, and Yukio Sugiura
pp 45–52 DOI: 10.1021/ar050158u
Benefiting from the Unique Properties of Lanthanide Ions
Jean-Claude G. Bünzli
pp 53–61 DOI: 10.1021/ar0400894

Issue 02


Computational and Theoretical Chemistry
Emily A. Carter, Peter J. Rossky
pp 71–72 DOI: 10.1021/ar050190o
Metadynamics as a Tool for Exploring Free Energy Landscapes of Chemical Reactions
Bernd Ensing, Marco De Vivo, Zhiwei Liu, Preston Moore, and Michael L. Klein
pp 73–81 DOI: 10.1021/ar040198i
Spin-Flip Equation-of-Motion Coupled-Cluster Electronic Structure Method for a Description of Excited States, Bond Breaking, Diradicals, and Triradicals
Anna I. Krylov
pp 83–91 DOI: 10.1021/ar0402006
Hydrogen Tunneling and Protein Motion in Enzyme Reactions
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
pp 93–100 DOI: 10.1021/ar040199a
Non-Born−Oppenheimer Molecular Dynamics
Ahren W. Jasper, Shikha Nangia, Chaoyuan Zhu, and Donald G. Truhlar
pp 101–108 DOI: 10.1021/ar040206v
Magnetoresistance of Nanoscale Molecular Devices
Oded Hod, Eran Rabani, and Roi Baer
pp 109–117 DOI: 10.1021/ar0401909
Insights for Light-Driven Molecular Devices from Ab Initio Multiple Spawning Excited-State Dynamics of Organic and Biological Chromophores
Todd J. Martínez
pp 119–126 DOI: 10.1021/ar040202q
Guided Gaussian Wave Packets
E. J. Heller
pp 127–134 DOI: 10.1021/ar040196y
Mechanisms of Protein Assembly:  Lessons from Minimalist Models
Yaakov Levy and José N. Onuchic
pp 135–142 DOI: 10.1021/ar040204a
Computer Simulation of Proton Solvation and Transport in Aqueous and Biomolecular Systems
Gregory A. Voth
pp 143–150 DOI: 10.1021/ar0402098
Structure and Dynamics of OH-(aq)
Mark E. Tuckerman, Amalendu Chandra, Dominik Marx
pp 151–158 DOI: 10.1021/ar040207n
Heterogeneous Reactions Important in Atmospheric Ozone Depletion:  A Theoretical Perspective
Roberto Bianco and James T. Hynes
pp 159–165 DOI: 10.1021/ar040197q
Catalytic Reduction of Dinitrogen to Ammonia at a Single Molybdenum Center
Richard R. Schrock
pp 167–167 DOI: 10.1021/ar068000c

Issue 03


Elucidation of Residue-Level Structure and Dynamics of Polypeptides via Isotope-Edited Infrared Spectroscopy
Sean M. Decatur
pp 169–175 DOI: 10.1021/ar050135f
Solid-State NMR Studies of the Structure, Dynamics, and Assembly of β-Sheet Membrane Peptides and α-Helical Membrane Proteins with Antibiotic Activities
Mei Hong
pp 176–183 DOI: 10.1021/ar040037e
Computational Studies of the Primary Phototransduction Event in Visual Rhodopsin
José A. Gascón, Eduardo M. Sproviero, and Victor S. Batista
pp 184–193 DOI: 10.1021/ar050027t
Advances in Nitrogen Transfer Reactions Involving Aziridines
Iain D. G. Watson, Lily Yu, and Andrei K. Yudin
pp 194–206 DOI: 10.1021/ar050038m
Quantum Chemistry without Wave Functions:  Two-Electron Reduced Density Matrices
David A. Mazziotti
pp 207–215 DOI: 10.1021/ar050029d
Dynamical Structure of Peptide Molecules
Yoshiyuki Kawashima, Tsuyoshi Usami, Nobukimi Ohashi, Richard D. Suenram, Jon T. Hougen, and Eizi Hirota
pp 216–220 DOI: 10.1021/ar040310c
Ligand-Modulated Palladium-Catalyzed Aerobic Alcohol Oxidations
Matthew S. Sigman and David R. Jensen
pp 221–229 DOI: 10.1021/ar040243m

Issue 04


The Chemistry of Life's Origin:  A Carbonaceous Meteorite Perspective
Sandra Pizzarello
pp 231–237 DOI: 10.1021/ar050049f
Inorganic Nanotubes:  A Novel Platform for Nanofluidics
Joshua Goldberger, Rong Fan, and Peidong Yang
pp 239–248 DOI: 10.1021/ar040274h
Large-Area Nanoscale Patterning:  Chemistry Meets Fabrication
Joel Henzie, Jeremy E. Barton, Christopher L. Stender, and Teri W. Odom
pp 249–257 DOI: 10.1021/ar050013n
Stereoelectronic Substituent Effects
Henrik Helligsø Jensen and Mikael Bols
pp 259–265 DOI: 10.1021/ar050189p
Diazirines:  Carbene Precursors Par Excellence
Robert A. Moss
pp 267–272 DOI: 10.1021/ar050155h
Toward Improved Catalytic Low-Temperature NOx Removal in Diesel-Powered Vehicles
Fredrik Klingstedt, Kalle Arve, Kari Eränen, and Dmitry Yu. Murzin
pp 273–282 DOI: 10.1021/ar050185k
Is Competition between Li+ and Mg2+ the Underlying Theme in the Proposed Mechanisms for the Pharmacological Action of Lithium Salts in Bipolar Disorder?
Duarte Mota de Freitas, M. Margarida C. A. Castro, and Carlos F. G. C. Geraldes
pp 283–291 DOI: 10.1021/ar030197a

Issue 05


Light and Singlet Oxygen in Plant Defense Against Pathogens:  Phototoxic Phenalenone Phytoalexins
Cristina Flors and Santi Nonell
pp 293–300 DOI: 10.1021/ar0402863
Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl Ruthenium(III) vs Hexamethylbenzene Ruthenium(II) in Sulfur-Centered Reactivity of Their Thioether-Thiolate and Allied Complexes
Richard Yee Cheong Shin and Lai Yoong Goh
pp 301–313 DOI: 10.1021/ar050077y
Crystals and Crystallinity in Polymeric Materials
Paolo Corradini, Finizia Auriemma, and Claudio De Rosa
pp 314–323 DOI: 10.1021/ar040288n
New Features in Pentacoordinate Phosphorus Chemistry
K. C. Kumara Swamy and N. Satish Kumar
pp 324–333 DOI: 10.1021/ar050188x
Fabricating and Controlling Molecular Self-Organization at Solid Surfaces:  Studies by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Li-Jun Wan
pp 334–342 DOI: 10.1021/ar0501929
What Anions Do to N−H-Containing Receptors
Valeria Amendola, David Esteban-Gómez, Luigi Fabbrizzi, and Maurizio Licchelli
pp 343–353 DOI: 10.1021/ar050195l
The Phomactins. A Novel Group of Terpenoid Platelet Activating Factor Antagonists Related Biogenetically to the Taxanes
William P. D. Goldring and Gerald Pattenden
pp 354–361 DOI: 10.1021/ar050186c

Issue 06


Generating Function Methods in Single-Molecule Spectroscopy
Frank L. H. Brown
pp 363–373 DOI: 10.1021/ar050028l
Nonradical Mechanism for Methane Hydroxylation by Iron-Oxo Complexes
Kazunari Yoshizawa
pp 375–382 DOI: 10.1021/ar050194t
Switchable Nonlinear Optical Metallochromophores with Pyridinium Electron Acceptor Groups
Benjamin J. Coe
pp 383–393 DOI: 10.1021/ar050225k
Photophysics and Photochemistry of Pterins in Aqueous Solution
Carolina Lorente and Andrés H. Thomas
pp 395–402 DOI: 10.1021/ar050151c
Understanding Macroscopic Diffusion of Adsorbed Molecules in Crystalline Nanoporous Materials via Atomistic Simulations
David S. Sholl
pp 403–411 DOI: 10.1021/ar0402199
Crystalline Molecular Machines:  A Quest Toward Solid-State Dynamics and Function
Tinh-Alfredo V. Khuong, Jose E. Nuñez, Carlos E. Godinez, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay
pp 413–422 DOI: 10.1021/ar0680217

Issue 07


“Host−Guest” Chemistry in the Synthesis of Ordered Nonsiliceous Mesoporous Materials
Ying Wan, Haifeng Yang, and Dongyuan Zhao
pp 423–432 DOI: 10.1021/ar050091a
Synthesis and Properties of Cyclopropane-Derived Peptidomimetics
Andreas Reichelt and Stephen F. Martin
pp 433–442 DOI: 10.1021/ar030255s
Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering in Local Optical Fields of Silver and Gold NanoaggregatesFrom Single-Molecule Raman Spectroscopy to Ultrasensitive Probing in Live Cells
Katrin Kneipp, Harald Kneipp, and Janina Kneipp
pp 443–450 DOI: 10.1021/ar050107x
Design and Synthesis of New Classes of Heterocyclic C-Glycoconjugates and Carbon-Linked Sugar and Heterocyclic Amino Acids by Asymmetric Multicomponent Reactions (AMCRs)
Alessandro Dondoni and Alessandro Massi
pp 451–463 DOI: 10.1021/ar068023r
Structural and Molecular Recognition Studies with Acyclic Anion Receptors
Philip A. Gale
pp 465–475 DOI: 10.1021/ar040237q
Snakes and Ladders. The Sigmatropic Shiftamer Concept
Dean J. Tantillo and Roald Hoffmann
pp 477–486 DOI: 10.1021/ar0680926
Bioinspired Surfaces with Special Wettability
Taolei Sun, Lin Feng, Xuefeng Gao, and Lei Jiang*
pp 487–487 DOI: 10.1021/ar068150n

Issue 08


Molecular Organogels. Soft Matter Comprised of Low-Molecular-Mass Organic Gelators and Organic Liquids
Mathew George and Richard G. Weiss
pp 489–497 DOI: 10.1021/ar0500923
Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Yoctowells
Tianyu Wang, Sheshanath Bhosale, Sidhanath Bhosale, Guangtao Li, and Jürgen-Hinrich Fuhrhop
pp 498–508 DOI: 10.1021/ar050129j
Search for Solutions to the Reactivity and Selectivity Problems in Enyne Metathesis
Eric C. Hansen and Daesung Lee
pp 509–519 DOI: 10.1021/ar050024g
Engaging Zwitterions in Carbon−Carbon and Carbon−Nitrogen Bond-Forming Reactions:  A Promising Synthetic Strategy
Vijay Nair, Rajeev S. Menon, A. R. Sreekanth, N. Abhilash, and A. T. Biju
pp 520–530 DOI: 10.1021/ar0502026
Probing the Cybotactic Region in Gas-Expanded Liquids (GXLs)
Jason P. Hallett, Christopher L. Kitchens, Rigoberto Hernandez, Charles L. Liotta, and Charles A. Eckert
pp 531–538 DOI: 10.1021/ar0501424
Applications of Total Synthesis to Problems in Neurodegeneration:  Fascinating Chemistry along the Way
Rebecca M. Wilson and Samuel J. Danishefsky
pp 539–549 DOI: 10.1021/ar068018n
Domain Relationships in Thiamine Diphosphate-Dependent Enzymes
Ronald G. Duggleby
pp 550–557 DOI: 10.1021/ar068022z
Correlating Structure with Function in Bacterial Multicomponent Monooxygenases and Related Diiron Proteins
Matthew H. Sazinsky and Stephen J. Lippard
pp 558–566 DOI: 10.1021/ar030204v

Issue 09


Amyloid FibrilsCommon Threads in the Natural History of Proteins
Ronald Wetzel
pp 567–567 DOI: 10.1021/ar0681934
The Structural Biology of Protein Aggregation Diseases:  Fundamental Questions and Some Answers
David Eisenberg, Rebecca Nelson, Michael R. Sawaya, Melinda Balbirnie, Shilpa Sambashivan, Magdalena I. Ivanova, Anders Ø. Madsen, and Christian Riekel
pp 568–575 DOI: 10.1021/ar0500618
Conformational Change and Assembly through Edge β Strands in Transthyretin and Other Amyloid Proteins
Janel Laidman, G. Jason Forse, and Todd O. Yeates
pp 576–583 DOI: 10.1021/ar050017s
Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange Mass SpectrometryA Window into Amyloid Structure
Indu Kheterpal and Ronald Wetzel
pp 584–593 DOI: 10.1021/ar050057w
α-Sheet:  The Toxic Conformer in Amyloid Diseases?
Valerie Daggett
pp 594–602 DOI: 10.1021/ar0500719
Normal and Aberrant Biological Self-Assembly:  Insights from Studies of Human Lysozyme and Its Amyloidogenic Variants
Mireille Dumoulin, Janet R. Kumita, and Christopher M. Dobson
pp 603–610 DOI: 10.1021/ar050070g
Small Molecule Oxidation Products Trigger Disease-Associated Protein Misfolding
Jan Bieschke, Qinghai Zhang, Daryl A. Bosco, Richard A. Lerner, Evan T. Powers, Paul Wentworth, Jr., and Jeffery W. Kelly
pp 611–619 DOI: 10.1021/ar0500766
Sequence and Structural Determinants of Amyloid Fibril Formation
Francesco Bemporad, Giulia Calloni, Silvia Campioni, Georgia Plakoutsi, Niccolò Taddei, and Fabrizio Chiti
pp 620–627 DOI: 10.1021/ar050067x
The Aggregation and Fibrillation of α-Synuclein
Anthony L. Fink
pp 628–634 DOI: 10.1021/ar050073t
Elucidating Amyloid β-Protein Folding and Assembly:  A Multidisciplinary Approach
David B. Teplow, Noel D. Lazo, Gal Bitan, Summer Bernstein, Thomas Wyttenbach, Michael T. Bowers, Andrij Baumketner, Joan-Emma Shea, Brigita Urbanc, Luis Cruz, Jose Borreguero, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp 635–645 DOI: 10.1021/ar050063s
Prions and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) Chemotherapeutics:  A Common Mechanism for Anti-TSE Compounds?
B. Caughey, W. S. Caughey, D. A. Kocisko, K. S. Lee, J. R. Silveira, and J. D. Morrey
pp 646–653 DOI: 10.1021/ar050068p
The Emerging Principles of Mammalian Prion Propagation and Transmissibility Barriers:  Insight from Studies in Vitro
Witold K. Surewicz, Eric M. Jones, and Adrian C. Apetri
pp 654–662 DOI: 10.1021/ar050226c
Direct Observation of Amyloid Fibril Growth, Propagation, and Adaptation
Tadato Ban, Keiichi Yamaguchi, and Yuji Goto
pp 663–670 DOI: 10.1021/ar050074l
Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Amyloid Fibril Assembly
Ronald Wetzel
pp 671–679 DOI: 10.1021/ar050069h

Issue 10


Cooperative Binding and Multiple Recognition by Bridged Bis(β-cyclodextrin)s with Functional Linkers
Yu Liu and Yong Chen
pp 681–691 DOI: 10.1021/ar0502275
α-C-Galactosylceramides:  Synthesis and Immunology
Richard W. Franck and Moriya Tsuji
pp 692–701 DOI: 10.1021/ar050006z
Polymer-Induced Flip-Flop in Biomembranes
Alexander A. Yaroslavov, Nikolay S. Melik-Nubarov, and Fredric M. Menger
pp 702–710 DOI: 10.1021/ar050078q
P-Phos:  A Family of Versatile and Effective Atropisomeric Dipyridylphosphine Ligands in Asymmetric Catalysis
Jing Wu and Albert S. C. Chan
pp 711–720 DOI: 10.1021/ar0680015
Metallo-β-lactamases:  Novel Weaponry for Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
Michael W. Crowder, James Spencer, and Alejandro J. Vila
pp 721–728 DOI: 10.1021/ar0400241
Modeling Enzymatic Reactions Involving Transition Metals
Per E. M. Siegbahn and Tomasz Borowski
pp 729–738 DOI: 10.1021/ar050123u
Catalytically Active Gold:  From Nanoparticles to Ultrathin Films
Mingshu Chen and D. Wayne Goodman
pp 739–746 DOI: 10.1021/ar040309d
Predicting the Stereochemistry of Diphenylphosphino Benzoic Acid (DPPBA)-Based Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation Reactions:  A Working Model
Barry M. Trost, Michelle R. Machacek, and Aaron Aponick
pp 747–760 DOI: 10.1021/ar040063c
Super Radical Stabilizers
Xavier Creary
pp 761–771 DOI: 10.1021/ar0680724
How Do Low-Energy (0.1−2 eV) Electrons Cause DNA-Strand Breaks?
Jack Simons
pp 772–779 DOI: 10.1021/ar0680769
Antibodies with Infinite Affinity:  Origins and Applications
Nathaniel G. Butlin and Claude F. Meares
pp 780–787 DOI: 10.1021/ar020275e
Structural and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) Studies of Mononuclear Molybdenum Enzymes from Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria
Carlos D. Brondino, María G. Rivas, Maria J. Romão, José J. G. Moura, and Isabel Moura
pp 788–796 DOI: 10.1021/ar050104k

Issue 11


Christopher Foote's Discovery of the Role of Singlet Oxygen [1O2 (1Δg)] in Photosensitized Oxidation Reactions
Alexander Greer
pp 797–804 DOI: 10.1021/ar050191g
Nucleotide Sugar Transporters of the Golgi Apparatus:  From Basic Science to Diseases
Carolina E. Caffaro and Carlos B. Hirschberg
pp 805–812 DOI: 10.1021/ar0400239
Oxidatively Induced Abstraction Reactions. A Synthetic Approach to Low-Coordinate and Reactive Early Transition Metal Complexes Containing Metal−Ligand Multiple Bonds
Daniel J. Mindiola
pp 813–821 DOI: 10.1021/ar0500113
Benchmarking State-of-the-Art ab Initio Thermochemical Predictions with Accurate Pulsed-Field Ionization Photoion−Photoelectron Measurements
Kai-Chung Lau and Cheuk-Yiu Ng
pp 823–829 DOI: 10.1021/ar0402210
Adventures in Drug Discovery:  Potent Agents Based on Ligands for Cell-Surface Receptors
Bruce E. Maryanoff
pp 831–840 DOI: 10.1021/ar040112l
Synthetic Strategies and Structural Aspects of Metal-Mediated Multiporphyrin Assemblies
Elisabetta Iengo, Ennio Zangrando, and Enzo Alessio
pp 841–851 DOI: 10.1021/ar040240+
Applications of Planar-Chiral Heterocycles as Ligands in Asymmetric Catalysis
Gregory C. Fu
pp 853–860 DOI: 10.1021/ar068115g
Excess Electrons Stabilized on Ionic Oxide Surfaces
Mario Chiesa, Maria Cristina Paganini, Elio Giamello, Damien M. Murphy, Cristiana Di Valentin, and Gianfranco Pacchioni
pp 861–867 DOI: 10.1021/ar068144r
Chemistry of Metal Thio- and Selenocarboxylates:  Precursors for Metal Sulfide/Selenide Materials, Thin Films, and Nanocrystals
Jagadese J. Vittal and Meng Tack Ng
pp 869–877 DOI: 10.1021/ar050224s
The Emerging Principles of Mammalian Prion Propagation and Transmissibility Barriers:  Insight from Studies in Vitro
Witold K. Surewicz, Eric M. Jones, and Adrian C. Apetri
pp 879–880 DOI: 10.1021/ar068279x

Issue 12


Some Novel Polymeric Nanocomposites
James E. Mark
pp 881–888 DOI: 10.1021/ar040062k
Fascination with the Conformational Analysis of Succinic Acid, as Evaluated by NMR Spectroscopy, and Why
John D. Roberts
pp 889–896 DOI: 10.1021/ar050229p
Ionic-Liquid-Supported Synthesis:  A Novel Liquid-Phase Strategy for Organic Synthesis
Weishi Miao and Tak Hang Chan
pp 897–908 DOI: 10.1021/ar030252f
“Four-Dimensional” Protein Structures:  Examples from Metalloproteins
Marco Fragai, Claudio Luchinat, and Giacomo Parigi
pp 909–917 DOI: 10.1021/ar050103s
Reversible Binding of Heme to Proteins in Cellular Signal Transduction
Shangwei Hou, Mark F. Reynolds, Frank T. Horrigan, Stefan H. Heinemann, and Toshinori Hoshi
pp 918–924 DOI: 10.1021/ar040020w
Peptide Dendrimers as Artificial Enzymes, Receptors, and Drug-Delivery Agents
Tamis Darbre and Jean-Louis Reymond
pp 925–934 DOI: 10.1021/ar050203y
Synthesis and Biological Properties of Sequence-Specific DNA-Alkylating Pyrrole−Imidazole Polyamides
Toshikazu Bando and Hiroshi Sugiyama
pp 935–944 DOI: 10.1021/ar030287f
Ground- and Excited-State Tautomerism in Porphycenes
Jacek Waluk
pp 945–952 DOI: 10.1021/ar0680365
Polymer Chain Dynamics in Solution Probed with a Fluorescence Blob Model
Jean Duhamel
pp 953–960 DOI: 10.1021/ar068096a