Volume 123
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Issue 01

Hydration Changes for DNA Intercalation Reactions Xiaogang Qu and Jonathan B. Chaires pp 1–7 DOI: 10.1021/ja002793v Supporting Info

Phenylisoserine: A Versatile Amino Acid for the Construction of Novel β-Peptide Structures Irina A. Motorina, Christiane Huel, Eric Quiniou, Joel Mispelter, Elisabeth Adjadj, and David S. Grierson pp 8–17 DOI: 10.1021/ja002700+ Supporting Info

Encapsulation of Functional Moieties within Branched Star Polymers:  Effect of Chain Length and Solvent on Site Isolation Stefan Hecht, Nikolay Vladimirov, and Jean M. J. Fréchet pp 18–25 DOI: 10.1021/ja003304u Supporting Info

Surface Reconstruction and the Difference in Surface Acidity between γ- and η-Alumina Karl Sohlberg, Sokrates T. Pantelides, and Stephen J. Pennycook pp 26–29 DOI: 10.1021/ja002095a

The Magnesium−Ene Cyclization Stereochemically Directed by an Allylic Oxyanionic Group and Its Application to a Highly Stereoselective Synthesis of (±)-Matatabiether. Allylmagnesium Compounds by Reductive Magnesiation of Allyl Phenyl Sulfides1 Dai Cheng, Shirong Zhu, Zhifang Yu, and Theodore Cohen pp 30–34 DOI: 10.1021/ja0029782 Supporting Info

Total Syntheses of Tumor-Related Antigens N3:  Probing the Feasibility Limits of the Glycal Assembly Method Hyunjin M. Kim, In Jong Kim, and Samuel J. Danishefsky pp 35–48 DOI: 10.1021/ja0022730 Supporting Info

Chiral Studies in Amorphous Solids:  The Effect of the Polymeric Glassy State on the Racemization Kinetics of Bridged Paddled Binaphthyls Ji-Woong Park, Mark D. Ediger, and Mark M. Green pp 49–56 DOI: 10.1021/ja0023231

Dendrimeric Organochalcogen Catalysts for the Activation of Hydrogen Peroxide:  Improved Catalytic Activity through Statistical Effects and Cooperativity in Successive Generations Charles Francavilla, Michael D. Drake, Frank V. Bright, and Michael R. Detty pp 57–67 DOI: 10.1021/ja002649+ Supporting Info

Chirality Organization of Ferrocenes Bearing Podand Dipeptide Chains:  Synthesis and Structural Characterization Toshiyuki Moriuchi, Akihiro Nomoto, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Akiya Ogawa, and Toshikazu Hirao pp 68–75 DOI: 10.1021/ja002869n Supporting Info

Photophysical Properties of Long Rodlike Meso−Meso-Linked Zinc(II) Porphyrins Investigated by Time-Resolved Laser Spectroscopic Methods Yong Hee Kim, Dae Hong Jeong, Dongho Kim, Sae Chae Jeoung, Hyun Sun Cho, Seong Keun Kim, Naoki Aratani, and Atsuhiro Osuka pp 76–86 DOI: 10.1021/ja0009976 Supporting Info

Diels−Alder Topochemistry via Charge-Transfer Crystals:  Novel (Thermal) Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Transformations J. H. Kim, S. M. Hubig, S. V. Lindeman, and J. K. Kochi pp 87–95 DOI: 10.1021/ja001939n

Stark Effects in Gas-Phase Electronic Spectra. Dipole Moment of Aniline in Its Excited S1 State T. M. Korter, D. R. Borst, C. J. Butler, and D. W. Pratt pp 96–99 DOI: 10.1021/ja0021262

Light-Harvesting and Photocurrent Generation by Gold Electrodes Modified with Mixed Self-Assembled Monolayers of Boron−Dipyrrin and Ferrocene−Porphyrin−Fullerene Triad Hiroshi Imahori, Hiroyuki Norieda, Hiroko Yamada, Yoshinobu Nishimura, Iwao Yamazaki, Yoshiteru Sakata, and Shunichi Fukuzumi pp 100–110 DOI: 10.1021/ja002154k

Trapping of an Activated HF Molecule inside a Double Four-Ring Unit:  A Quantum Chemical Model of the Microporous Fluorinated Gallium Phosphate ULM-18 Francis Taulelle, Josep-M. Poblet, Gérard Férey, and Marc Bénard pp 111–120 DOI: 10.1021/ja0022167 Supporting Info

Acid−Base Chemistry of a Carbenium Ion in a Zeolite under Equilibrium Conditions:  Verification of a Theoretical Explanation of Carbenium Ion Stability Weiguo Song, John B. Nicholas, and James F. Haw pp 121–129 DOI: 10.1021/ja002775d

A Single Transition State Serves Two Mechanisms: An ab Initio Classical Trajectory Study of the Electron Transfer and Substitution Mechanisms in Reactions of Ketyl Radical Anions with Alkyl Halides Vebjørn Bakken, David Danovich, Sason Shaik, and H. Bernhard Schlegel pp 130–134 DOI: 10.1021/ja002799k

Reactions of Group V Metal Atoms with Water Molecules. Matrix Isolation FTIR and Quantum Chemical Studies Mingfei Zhou, Jian Dong, Luning Zhang, and Qizong Qin pp 135–141 DOI: 10.1021/ja003072z

Platinum Dioxide Cation:  Easy to Generate Experimentally but Difficult to Describe Theoretically Mark Brönstrup, Detlef Schröder, Ilona Kretzschmar, Helmut Schwarz, and Jeremy N. Harvey pp 142–147 DOI: 10.1021/ja003138q

Photodissociation of Ethylene Sulfide at 193 nm:  A Photofragment Translational Spectroscopy Study with VUV Synchrotron Radiation and ab Initio Calculations Fei Qi, Osman Sorkhabi, Arthur G. Suits, Siu-Hung Chien, and Wai-Kee Li pp 148–161 DOI: 10.1021/ja003314v

Long-Range Magnetic Order in Mn[N(CN)2]2(pyz) {pyz = pyrazine}. Susceptibility, Magnetization, Specific Heat, and Neutron Diffraction Measurements and Electronic Structure Calculations Jamie L. Manson, Qing-zhen Huang, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Hyun-Joo Koo, Myung-Hwan Whangbo, Rodney Bateman, Takeo Otsuka, Nobuo Wada, Dimitri N. Argyriou, and Joel S. Miller pp 162–172 DOI: 10.1021/ja0024791

Unsupported Pt(0)−Tl(I) Bonds in the Simple [Pt(PPh2Py)3Tl]+ Complexes Vincent J. Catalano, Byron L. Bennett, Stamatis Muratidis, and Bruce C. Noll pp 173–174 DOI: 10.1021/ja0055054 Supporting Info

Fabrication of Structured Porous Film by Electrophoresis Zhong-Ze Gu, Sinya Hayami, Syoichi Kubo, Qing-Bo Meng, Yasuaki Einaga, Donald A. Tryk, Akira Fujishima, and Osamu Sato pp 175–176 DOI: 10.1021/ja002739e Supporting Info

Controlling Photoinduced Electron Transfer within a Hydrogen-Bonded Porphyrin−Phenoxynaphthacenequinone Photochromic System Andrew J. Myles and Neil R. Branda pp 177–178 DOI: 10.1021/ja002733p Supporting Info

The First Intermolecular Transition Metal-Catalyzed [5+2] Cycloadditions with Simple, Unactivated, Vinylcyclopropanes Paul A. Wender, Claudia M. Barzilay, and Alaric J. Dyckman pp 179–180 DOI: 10.1021/ja0021159 Supporting Info

Isolation and Characterization of Light Actinide Metallofullerenes Kazuhiko Akiyama, Yuliang Zhao, Keisuke Sueki, Kazuaki Tsukada, Hiromitsu Haba, Yuichirou Nagame, Takeshi Kodama, Shinzou Suzuki, Tsutomu Ohtsuki, Masahiko Sakaguchi, Koichi Kikuchi, Motomi Katada, and Hiromichi Nakahara pp 181–182 DOI: 10.1021/ja005618n

Formation of High-Quality CdTe, CdSe, and CdS Nanocrystals Using CdO as Precursor Z. Adam Peng and Xiaogang Peng pp 183–184 DOI: 10.1021/ja003633m

Comparison of Protein Backbone Entropy and β-Sheet Stability:  NMR-Derived Dynamics of Protein G B1 Domain Mutants Martin J. Stone, Sonia Gupta, Neil Snyder, and Lynne Regan pp 185–186 DOI: 10.1021/ja003094l Supporting Info

The Formation of Dimensionally Ordered Silicon Nanowires within Mesoporous Silica Nicholas R. B. Coleman, M. A. Morris, Trevor R. Spalding, and Justin D. Holmes pp 187–188 DOI: 10.1021/ja005598p

The First Crystalline Alkali Metal Salt of a Benzenoid Radical Anion without a Stabilizing Substituent and of a Related Dimer:  X-ray Structures of the Toluene Radical Anion and of the Benzene Radical Anion Dimer Potassium-Crown Ether Salts Peter B. Hitchcock, Michael F. Lappert, and Andrey V. Protchenko pp 189–190 DOI: 10.1021/ja005580e Supporting Info

Physical Methods in Bioinorganic Chemistry:  Spectroscopy and Magnetism Edited by Lawrence Que, Jr. (University of Minnesota). University Science Books:  Sausalito, CA. 2000. x +556 pp. $78.00. ISBN 1-891389-02-5 Michael Hendrich p 191 DOI: 10.1021/ja004754p

Modern Chromatographic Analysis of Vitamins. 3rd Edition, Revised and Expanded Edited by Andre P. De Leenheer, Willy E. Lambert, and Jan F. Van Bocxlaer (University of Ghent, Belgium). Marcel Dekker:  New York. 2000. xii + 616 pp. $195.00. ISBN 0-8247-0316-2 Jeanne Freeland-Graves and Tracey Milani p 191 DOI: 10.1021/ja004786c

The Weak Hydrogen Bond In Structural Chemistry and Biology (International Union of Crystallography, Monographs on Crystallography, 9) By Gautam R. Desiraju (University of Hyderabad) and Thomas Steiner (Freie Universität Berlin). Oxford University Press:  Oxford and New York. 1999. xiv + 507 pp. $150. ISBN 0-19-850252-4. Jerry Perlstein pp 191–192 DOI: 10.1021/ja0047368

Forensic and Environmental Detection of Explosives By Jehuda Yinon (Weizman Institute of Science). J. Wiley and Sons:  Chichester, New York, Weinheim, Brisbane, Singapore, Toronto. 1999. xviii + 286 pp. $100.00. ISBN 0-471-98371-3 p 192 DOI: 10.1021/ja004826c

Advances in Supramolecular Chemistry. Volume 7 Edited by George W. Gokel (Washington University School of Medicine). JAI Press:  Stamford, CT. 2000. x + 289 pp. $115.00. ISBN 0-7623-0678-5 Michael J. Krische p 192 DOI: 10.1021/ja0048331

Issue 02

Metal Ion Inhibition of Nonenzymatic Pyridoxal Phosphate Catalyzed Decarboxylation and Transamination Roger F. Zabinski and Michael D. Toney pp 193–198 DOI: 10.1021/ja0026354

Lithium Diisopropylamide:  Oligomer Structures at Low Ligand Concentrations Jennifer L. Rutherford and David B. Collum pp 199–202 DOI: 10.1021/ja003104i Supporting Info

Nonstoichiometric La2-xGeO5-δ Monoclinic Oxide as a New Fast Oxide Ion Conductor Tatsumi Ishihara, Hiroshi Arikawa, Taner Akbay, Hiroyasu Nishiguchi, and Yusaku Takita pp 203–209 DOI: 10.1021/ja0014537

Catalysis of the Methanolysis of Activated Amides by Divalent and Trivalent Metal Ions. The Effect of Zn2+, Co2+, and La3+ on the Methanolysis of Acetylimidazole and Its (NH3)5CoIII Complex Alexei A. Neverov, Pedro J. Montoya-Pelaez, and R. S. Brown pp 210–217 DOI: 10.1021/ja0023940

An Ionic Liquid Form of DNA:  Redox-Active Molten Salts of Nucleic Acids Anthony M. Leone, Stephanie C. Weatherly, Mary Elizabeth Williams, H. Holden Thorp, and Royce W. Murray pp 218–222 DOI: 10.1021/ja003332c

Synthesis, Structures, and Reactivity of Weakly Coordinating Anions with Delocalized Borate Structure:  The Assessment of Anion Effects in Metallocene Polymerization Catalysts Jiamin Zhou, Simon J. Lancaster, Dennis A. Walker, Stefan Beck, Mark Thornton-Pett, and Manfred Bochmann pp 223–237 DOI: 10.1021/ja002820h Supporting Info

Spectroscopy and Reactivity of Kekulé Hydrocarbons with Very Small Singlet−Triplet Gaps Daniel R. McMasters and Jakob Wirz pp 238–246 DOI: 10.1021/ja0004377 Supporting Info

Hydrazino Peptides as Foldamers:  An Extension of the β-Peptide Concept Robert Günther and Hans-Jörg Hofmann pp 247–255 DOI: 10.1021/ja001066x Supporting Info

Reversible Diels−Alder Addition to Fullerenes:  A Study of Equilibria Using 3He NMR Spectroscopy Guan-Wu Wang, Martin Saunders, and R. James Cross pp 256–259 DOI: 10.1021/ja001346c

Charge Hopping in DNA Yuri A. Berlin, Alexander L. Burin, and Mark A. Ratner pp 260–268 DOI: 10.1021/ja001496n

Hydrogen-Bonding Interactions in the Active Sites of Cytochrome P450cam and Its Site-Directed Mutants Tian-jing Deng, Iain D. G. Macdonald, Mihaela C. Simianu, Milan Sykora, James R. Kincaid, and Stephen G. Sligar pp 269–278 DOI: 10.1021/ja001517d

High-Pressure NMR Study of cis-1,n-Disubstituted[n]paracyclophanes. Effect of Increased Pressure on the Hindered Internal Rotation Hiroaki Yamada, Shinkichi Yonehara, Sakuya Tanaka, Fumihito Muro, Aiko Watanabe, and Kazuyoshi Nishikawa pp 279–284 DOI: 10.1021/ja0016203

Mechanistic Studies on the Reversible Binding of Nitric Oxide to Metmyoglobin Leroy E. Laverman, Alicja Wanat, Janusz Oszajca, Grazyna Stochel, Peter C. Ford, and Rudi van Eldik pp 285–293 DOI: 10.1021/ja001696z

π-Topology and Spin Alignment Utilizing the Excited Molecular Field:  Observation of the Excited High-Spin Quartet (S = 3/2) and Quintet (S = 2) States on Purely Organic π-Conjugated Spin Systems Yoshio Teki, Sadaharu Miyamoto, Masaaki Nakatsuji, and Yozo Miura pp 294–305 DOI: 10.1021/ja001920k

A Novel Antiferromagnetic Organic Superconductor κ-(BETS)2FeBr4 [Where BETS = Bis(ethylenedithio)tetraselenafulvalene] Hideki Fujiwara, Emiko Fujiwara, Yasuhiro Nakazawa, Bakhyt Zh. Narymbetov, Kiyonori Kato, Hayao Kobayashi, Akiko Kobayashi, Madoka Tokumoto, and Patrick Cassoux pp 306–314 DOI: 10.1021/ja002439x Supporting Info

Complex-Induced Proximity Effects:  The Effect of Varying Directing-Group Orientation on Carbamate-Directed Lithiation Reactions Kathleen M. Bertini Gross and Peter Beak pp 315–321 DOI: 10.1021/ja002662u Supporting Info

A Crossed Molecular Beam Study of the O(1D) + C3H8 Reaction:  Multiple Reaction Pathways Jinian Shu, Jim J. Lin, Yuan T. Lee, and Xueming Yang pp 322–330 DOI: 10.1021/ja003456p

Organometallic Cobalt(II) and Nickel(II) Complexes Supported by Thioether Ligation:  Unexpected Nickel Alkylation by the Borato Ligand Phenyltris((tert-butylthio)methyl)borate Peter J. Schebler, Beaven S. Mandimutsira, Charles G. Riordan, Louise M. Liable-Sands, Christopher D. Incarvito, and Arnold L. Rheingold pp 331–332 DOI: 10.1021/ja002638g Supporting Info

Novel Cylindrical, Conical, and Macrocyclic Peptides from the Cyclooligomerization of Functionalized Thiazole Amino Acids Yogendra Singh, Nikolai Sokolenko, Michael J. Kelso, Lawrence R. Gahan, Giovanni Abbenante, and David P. Fairlie pp 333–334 DOI: 10.1021/ja002666z Supporting Info

Photoactive Three-Dimensional Monolayers:  Porphyrin−Alkanethiolate-Stabilized Gold Clusters Hiroshi Imahori, Masatoshi Arimura, Takeshi Hanada, Yoshinobu Nishimura, Iwao Yamazaki, Yoshiteru Sakata, and Shunichi Fukuzumi pp 335–336 DOI: 10.1021/ja002838s Supporting Info

Ru-Catalyzed Oxidative Coupling of Arenes with Olefins Using O2 Haim Weissman, Xiaoping Song, and David Milstein pp 337–338 DOI: 10.1021/ja003361n

Rapid and Controlled Polymerization of Lactide by Structurally Characterized Ferric Alkoxides Brendan J. O'Keefe, Susanne M. Monnier, Marc A. Hillmyer, and William B. Tolman pp 339–340 DOI: 10.1021/ja003537l Supporting Info

Formal Total Synthesis of Mycoticin A Spencer D. Dreher and James L. Leighton pp 341–342 DOI: 10.1021/ja0035102 Supporting Info

A Parallel β-Sheet Model System that Folds in Water John D. Fisk and Samuel H. Gellman pp 343–344 DOI: 10.1021/ja002493d Supporting Info

The Stereospecificity of Secondary Alcohol Dehydrogenase from Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus Is Partially Determined by Active Site Water Christian Heiss, Maris Laivenieks, J. Gregory Zeikus, and Robert S. Phillips pp 345–346 DOI: 10.1021/ja005575a

Dimers of Diaminosilylenes:  Doubly Bonded or Bridged? The Dimers of (i-Pr2N)2Si: Masae Takahashi, Shinobu Tsutsui, Kenkichi Sakamoto, Mitsuo Kira, Thomas Müller, and Yitzhak Apeloig pp 347–348 DOI: 10.1021/ja003463d Supporting Info

Enzymatic N-Dealkylation of an N-Cyclopropylamine:  An Unusual Fate for the Cyclopropyl Group Christopher L. Shaffer, Martha D. Morton, and Robert P. Hanzlik pp 349–350 DOI: 10.1021/ja003048l

The Total Synthesis of (±)-Rishirilide B John G. Allen and Samuel J. Danishefsky pp 351–352 DOI: 10.1021/ja003272a Supporting Info

Planar-Chiral Pyridine N-Oxides, a New Family of Asymmetric Catalysts:  Exploiting an η5-C5Ar5 Ligand to Achieve High Enantioselectivity1 Beata Tao, Michael M.-C. Lo, and Gregory C. Fu pp 353–354 DOI: 10.1021/ja003573k Supporting Info

Palladium-Catalyzed Formation of Aceanthrylenes:  A Simple Method for Peri-Cyclopentenelation of Aromatic Compounds Hung Dang and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay pp 355–356 DOI: 10.1021/ja002329q Supporting Info

Construction of Glyco-Clusters by Self-Organization of Site-Specifically Glycosylated Oligonucleotides and Their Cooperative Amplification of Lectin-Recognition Kazunori Matsuura, Miki Hibino, Yoshinao Yamada, and Kazukiyo Kobayashi pp 357–358 DOI: 10.1021/ja001945j

Coupling of Substrate Recognition and Catalysis by a Human Base-Excision DNA Repair Protein Derek P. G. Norman, Steven D. Bruner, and Gregory L. Verdine pp 359–360 DOI: 10.1021/ja003144m Supporting Info

Reaction Microarrays:  A Method for Rapidly Determining the Enantiomeric Excess of Thousands of Samples Gregory A. Korbel, Gojko Lalic, and Matthew D. Shair pp 361–362 DOI: 10.1021/ja0034747 Supporting Info

Issue 03

A New Family of Polymerizable Lyotropic Liquid Crystals:  Control of Feature Size in Cross-Linked Inverted Hexagonal Assemblies via Monomer Structure Mary A. Reppy, David H. Gray, Brad A. Pindzola, Juston L. Smithers, and Douglas L. Gin pp 363–371 DOI: 10.1021/ja002462i Supporting Info

Catalytic Amphiphilic Allylation via Bis-π-allylpalladium Complexes and Its Application to the Synthesis of Medium-Sized Carbocycles Hiroyuki Nakamura, Kouichi Aoyagi, Jae-Goo Shim, and Yoshinori Yamamoto pp 372–377 DOI: 10.1021/ja002931g Supporting Info

Silyl Group Insertion into the N−N Bond:  Experimental and Quantum Chemical Results Eike Gellermann, Uwe Klingebiel, Mathias Noltemeyer, and Stefan Schmatz pp 378–382 DOI: 10.1021/ja001173r Supporting Info

Cooperative Guest Inclusion by a Zeolite Analogue Coordination Polymer. Sorption Behavior with Gases and Amine and Group 1 Metal Salts Leandro C. Tabares, Jorge A. R. Navarro, and Juan M. Salas pp 383–387 DOI: 10.1021/ja002624a Supporting Info

Aromatic Ring-Flipping in Supercooled Water:  Implications for NMR-Based Structural Biology of Proteins Jack J. Skalicky, Jeffrey L. Mills, Surabhi Sharma, and Thomas Szyperski pp 388–397 DOI: 10.1021/ja003220l Supporting Info

A Synthetic Library of Cell-Permeable Molecules Kazunori Koide, Joshua M. Finkelstein, Zachary Ball, and Gregory L. Verdine pp 398–408 DOI: 10.1021/ja0023377 Supporting Info

Hierarchical Order in Supramolecular Assemblies of Hydrogen-Bonded Oligo(p-phenylene vinylene)s Albertus P. H. J. Schenning, Pascal Jonkheijm, Emiel Peeters, and E. W. Meijer pp 409–416 DOI: 10.1021/ja0033180

Rapid Colorimetric Detection of Antibody−Epitope Recognition at a Biomimetic Membrane Interface Sofiya Kolusheva, Ron Kafri, Marina Katz, and Raz Jelinek pp 417–422 DOI: 10.1021/ja0034139

Characterization of the O2-Evolving Reaction Catalyzed by [(terpy)(H2O)MnIII(O)2MnIV(OH2)(terpy)](NO3)3 (terpy = 2,2‘:6,2‘ ‘-Terpyridine) Julian Limburg, John S. Vrettos, Hongyu Chen, Julio C. de Paula, Robert H. Crabtree, and Gary W. Brudvig pp 423–430 DOI: 10.1021/ja001090a Supporting Info

Hydration of the Calcium Ion. An EXAFS, Large-Angle X-ray Scattering, and Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study Farideh Jalilehvand, Daniel Spångberg, Patric Lindqvist-Reis, Kersti Hermansson, Ingmar Persson, and Magnus Sandström pp 431–441 DOI: 10.1021/ja001533a Supporting Info

S K-edge X-ray Absorption Studies of Tetranuclear Iron−Sulfur Clusters:  μ-Sulfide Bonding and Its Contribution to Electron Delocalization Thorsten Glaser, Kendra Rose, Susan E. Shadle, Britt Hedman, Keith O. Hodgson, and Edward I. Solomon pp 442–454 DOI: 10.1021/ja002183v Supporting Info

Evidence for the Intervention of Different C−H Activating Intermediates in the Irradiation of (η5-C5Me5)(PMe3)IrH2 and the Reaction of (η5-C5Me5)(PMe3)Ir(H)(Cl) with Strong Base. Detection and Spectroscopic Characterization of (η5-C5Me5)(PMe3)Ir(Li)(Cl), an Intermediate in the Dehydrohalogenation Reaction Thomas H. Peterson, Jeffery T. Golden, and Robert G. Bergman pp 455–462 DOI: 10.1021/ja0024993

Why Is There an “Inert” Metal Center in the Active Site of Nitrile Hydratase? Reactivity and Ligand Dissociation from a Five-Coordinate Co(III) Nitrile Hydratase Model Jason Shearer, Irene Y. Kung, Scott Lovell, Werner Kaminsky, and Julie A. Kovacs pp 463–468 DOI: 10.1021/ja002642s Supporting Info

Kinetic Solvent Effects on Hydrogen-Atom Abstractions:  Reliable, Quantitative Predictions via a Single Empirical Equation1 Darren W. Snelgrove, Janusz Lusztyk, J. T. Banks, Peter Mulder, and K. U. Ingold pp 469–477 DOI: 10.1021/ja002301e Supporting Info

A New Sulfur Oxide, OSOSO, and Its Cation, Likely Present in the Io's Atmosphere:  Detection and Characterization by Mass Spectrometric and Theoretical Methods Fulvio Cacace, Romano Cipollini, Giulia de Petris, Marzio Rosi, and Anna Troiani pp 478–484 DOI: 10.1021/ja002533d

Conformational Analysis of a Flexible Oligosaccharide Using Residual Dipolar Couplings Fang Tian, Hashim M. Al-Hashimi, John L. Craighead, and James H. Prestegard pp 485–492 DOI: 10.1021/ja002900l Supporting Info

NEXAFS Study on the Orientation of Chiral P-Heptahelicene on Ni(100) Karl-Heinz Ernst, Michael Neuber, Michael Grunze, and Ursula Ellerbeck pp 493–495 DOI: 10.1021/ja003262+

Self-Assembled Columns of Stacked Lipid Bilayers Mediated by Metal Ion Recognition Tina A. Waggoner, Julie A. Last, Paul G. Kotula, and Darryl Y. Sasaki pp 496–497 DOI: 10.1021/ja002754j

On the Absence of a Diffuse Double Layer at Electronically Conductive Polymer Film Electrodes. Direct Evidence by Atomic Force Microscopy of Complete Charge Compensation Jian Wang and Allen J. Bard pp 498–499 DOI: 10.1021/ja001835c Supporting Info

(η5-C5Me5)Ru(μ2-iPrNC(Me)NiPr)Ru(X)(η5-C5Me5):  An Unusual Bonding Mode of μ2-Amidinate Ligand Providing the First Unequivocal Evidence for Coordinating Ability of π-Conjugate Electrons of the Amidinate Ligands to Transition Metals Hideo Kondo, Yoshitaka Yamaguchi, and Hideo Nagashima pp 500–501 DOI: 10.1021/ja003250o Supporting Info

Enolization and Aldol Reactions of Ketone with a La3+-Immobilized Organic Solid in Water. A Microporous Enolase Mimic Takehisa Dewa, Toshiyuki Saiki, and Yasuhiro Aoyama pp 502–503 DOI: 10.1021/ja001140b

Aplydactone, a New Sesquiterpenoid with an Unprecedented Carbon Skeleton from the Sea Hare Aplysia dactylomela, and Its Cargill-Like Rearrangement Sergey N. Fedorov, Oleg S. Radchenko, Larisa K. Shubina, Anatoly I. Kalinovsky, Andrey V. Gerasimenko, Dmitry Y. Popov, and Valentin A. Stonik pp 504–505 DOI: 10.1021/ja003254t Supporting Info

Synthesis of Crotonyl-OxyCoA:  A Mechanistic Probe of the Reaction Catalyzed by Enoyl-CoA Hydratase Miao Dai, Yuguo Feng, and Peter J. Tonge pp 506–507 DOI: 10.1021/ja003406k Supporting Info

An Efficient New Route to Plasmenyl-type Lipids:  Synthesis and Cytotoxicity of a Plasmenylcholine Analogue of the Antitumor Ether Lipid ET-18-OMe Junhwa Shin, Marquita M. Qualls, Jeremy A. Boomer, Jason Robarge, and David H. Thompson pp 508–509 DOI: 10.1021/ja005522t Supporting Info

Synthesis of Monosubstituted Phosphinic Acids:  Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions of Anilinium Hypophosphite Jean-Luc Montchamp and Yves R. Dumond pp 510–511 DOI: 10.1021/ja005721c Supporting Info

Engineering a Ligand Binding Pocket into a Four-Helix Bundle Protein Cytochrome b562 Tadayuki Uno, Akihiro Yukinari, Yoko Moriyama, Yoshinobu Ishikawa, Yoshikazu Tomisugi, James A. Brannigan, and Anthony J. Wilkinson pp 512–513 DOI: 10.1021/ja002079d

A New Type of Helix Pattern in Polyalanine Peptide Hyeon S. Son, Byung Hee Hong, Chi-Wan Lee, Sunggoo Yun, and Kwang S. Kim pp 514–515 DOI: 10.1021/ja0014640

The Sulfur Problem:  Cleaning Up Industrial Feedstocks By Diane Stirling (University of Glasgow). Royal Society of Chemistry:  Cambridge. 2000. x+ 94 pp. £55.00. ISBN 0-85404-541-4 Teresa J. Bandosz p 516 DOI: 10.1021/ja0048026

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure. Volume 29 Edited by Robert M. Stroud (University of California, San Francisco), Wilma K. Olson (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), and Michael P. Sheetz (Duke University). Annual Reviews:  Palo Alto, CA. 2000. viii + 634 pp. $163.00. ISBN 0-8243-1829-3 p 516 DOI: 10.1021/ja0048073

NMR Spectra of Polymers and Polymer Additives By Anita J. Brandolini and Deborah D. Hills (Mobil Chemical Co., Edison, NJ). Marcel Dekker:  New York. 2000. viii + 634 pp. $195.00. ISBN 0-8247-8970-9. p 516 DOI: 10.1021/ja004828x

Emulsions, Foams, and Thin Films Edited by K. L. Mittal (Hopewell Junction, New York) and Promod Kumar (Gillette Research Institute). Marcel Dekker:  New York, Basel. 2000. xxvi + 488 pp. ISBN 0-8247-0366-9 p 516 DOI: 10.1021/ja004830o

Issue 04

Structure/Energy Correlation of Bowl Depth and Inversion Barrier in Corannulene Derivatives:  Combined Experimental and Quantum Mechanical Analysis T. Jon Seiders, Kim K. Baldridge, Gunther H. Grube, and Jay S. Siegel pp 517–525 DOI: 10.1021/ja0019981 Supporting Info

Synthesis of Peptides and Proteins without Cysteine Residues by Native Chemical Ligation Combined with Desulfurization Liang Z. Yan and Philip E. Dawson pp 526–533 DOI: 10.1021/ja003265m Supporting Info

Predominant 1,2-Insertion of Styrene in the Pd-Catalyzed Alternating Copolymerization with Carbon Monoxide Kyoko Nozaki, Hatsumi Komaki, Yasutoyo Kawashima, Tamejiro Hiyama, and Toshiaki Matsubara pp 534–544 DOI: 10.1021/ja001395p Supporting Info

Kinetic Resolution Using Enantioimpure Catalysts:  Mechanistic Considerations of Complex Rate Laws Donna G. Blackmond pp 545–553 DOI: 10.1021/ja002562o Supporting Info

Isolation and Structure Elucidation of Chlorofusin, a Novel p53-MDM2 Antagonist from a Fusarium sp. Sara J. Duncan, Sabine Grüschow, Dudley H. Williams, Carole McNicholas, Ravinder Purewal, Michaela Hajek, Martin Gerlitz, Steven Martin, Stephen K. Wrigley, and Michael Moore pp 554–560 DOI: 10.1021/ja002940p Supporting Info

Total Syntheses of Thiocoraline and BE-22179 and Assessment of Their DNA Binding and Biological Properties Dale L. Boger, Satoshi Ichikawa, Winston C. Tse, Michael P. Hedrick, and Qing Jin pp 561–568 DOI: 10.1021/ja003602r Supporting Info

Synthesis of Ketonylplatinum(III) Dinuclear Complexes:  Observation of the Competitive Radical vs Electrophilic Displacement in Pt(III)-Promoted C−H Bond Activation of Ketones Yong-Shou Lin, Hanae Misawa, Jun Yamada, and Kazuko Matsumoto pp 569–575 DOI: 10.1021/ja9943041 Supporting Info

Characterization of the Copper−Sulfur Chromophores in Nitrous Oxide Reductase by Resonance Raman Spectroscopy:  Evidence for Sulfur Coordination in the Catalytic Cluster Marcela L. Alvarez, Jingyuan Ai, Walter Zumft, Joann Sanders-Loehr, and David M. Dooley pp 576–587 DOI: 10.1021/ja994322i

Superelectrophilic Tetrakis(carbonyl)palladium(II)- and -platinum(II) Undecafluorodiantimonate(V), [Pd(CO)4][Sb2F11]2 and [Pt(CO)4][Sb2F11]2:  Syntheses, Physical and Spectroscopic Properties, Their Crystal, Molecular, and Extended Structures, and Density Functional Calculations:  An Experimental, Computational, and Comparative Study Helge Willner, Matthias Bodenbinder, Raimund Bröchler, Germaine Hwang, Steven J. Rettig, James Trotter, Britta von Ahsen, Ulrich Westphal, Volker Jonas, Walter Thiel, and Friedhelm Aubke pp 588–602 DOI: 10.1021/ja002360s Supporting Info

C−D0 (D0 = π-donor, F) Cleavage in H2CCH(D0) by (Cp2ZrHCl)n:  Mechanism, Agostic Fluorines, and a Carbene of Zr(IV) Lori A. Watson, Dmitry V. Yandulov, and Kenneth G. Caulton pp 603–611 DOI: 10.1021/ja0024340

Thermal Activation of Hydrocarbon C−H Bonds by Tungsten Alkylidene Complexes Craig S. Adams, Peter Legzdins, and Elizabeth Tran pp 612–624 DOI: 10.1021/ja002457e Supporting Info

A Minimal Peptide Scaffold for β-Turn Display:  Optimizing a Strand Position in Disulfide-Cyclized β-Hairpins Andrea G. Cochran, Ricky T. Tong, Melissa A. Starovasnik, Eleanor J. Park, Robert S. McDowell, J. E. Theaker, and Nicholas J. Skelton pp 625–632 DOI: 10.1021/ja003369x Supporting Info

Field- and Phage-Induced Dipolar Couplings in a Homodimeric DNA Quadruplex:  Relative Orientation of G·(C−A) Triad and G-Tetrad Motifs and Direct Determination of C2 Symmetry Axis Orientation Hashim M. Al-Hashimi, Ananya Majumdar, Andrey Gorin, Abdelali Kettani, Eugene Skripkin, and Dinshaw J. Patel pp 633–640 DOI: 10.1021/ja003379y

Long Live Vinylidene! A New View of the H2CC:  → HCCH Rearrangement from ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Robin L. Hayes, Eyal Fattal, Niranjan Govind, and Emily A. Carter pp 641–657 DOI: 10.1021/ja000907x

[13C,13C]- and [13C,1H]-TROSY in a Triple Resonance Experiment for Ribose−Base and Intrabase Correlations in Nucleic Acids1 Roland Riek, Konstantin Pervushin, César Fernández, Masatsune Kainosho, and Kurt Wüthrich pp 658–664 DOI: 10.1021/ja9938276 Supporting Info

Ferroelectric Valence Transition and Phase Diagram of a Series of Charge-Transfer Complexes of 4,4‘-Dimethyltetrathiafulvalene and Tetrahalo-p-benzoquinones Sachio Horiuchi, Yoichi Okimoto, Reiji Kumai, and Yoshinori Tokura pp 665–670 DOI: 10.1021/ja0016654 Supporting Info

The Ultraviolet Photochemistry of Phenylacetylene and the Enthalpy of Formation of 1,3,5-Hexatriyne Osman Sorkhabi, Fei Qi, Abbas H. Rizvi, and Arthur G. Suits pp 671–676 DOI: 10.1021/ja0017312

Molecular Dynamics Study on Hydrophobic Effects in Aqueous Urea Solutions Mitsunori Ikeguchi, Shugo Nakamura, and Kentaro Shimizu pp 677–682 DOI: 10.1021/ja002064f

Intracluster Anionic Oligomerization of Acrylic Ester Molecules Initiated by Electron Transfer from an Alkali Metal Atom Hironori Tsunoyama, Keijiro Ohshimo, Fuminori Misaizu, and Koichi Ohno pp 683–690 DOI: 10.1021/ja002155c

Mesoporous Titanium Phosphate Molecular Sieves with Ion-Exchange Capacity Asim Bhaumik and Shinji Inagaki pp 691–696 DOI: 10.1021/ja002481s

[2+3] Cycloaddition of Ethylene to Transition Metal Oxo Compounds. Analysis of Density Functional Results by Marcus Theory Philip Gisdakis and Notker Rösch pp 697–701 DOI: 10.1021/ja0026915

Time-Resolved EPR, Fluorescence, and Transient Absorption Studies on Phthalocyaninatosilicon Covalently Linked to One or Two TEMPO Radicals Kazuyuki Ishii, Yoshiharu Hirose, Hiroshi Fujitsuka, Osamu Ito, and Nagao Kobayashi pp 702–708 DOI: 10.1021/ja002780h

A QM/MM Study of the Racemization of Vinylglycolate Catalyzed by Mandelate Racemase Enzyme Mireia Garcia-Viloca, Àngels González-Lafont, and José M. Lluch pp 709–721 DOI: 10.1021/ja002879o

Potential Energy Surface Crossings and the Mechanistic Spectrum for Intramolecular Electron Transfer in Organic Radical Cations Lluís Blancafort, Franck Jolibois, Massimo Olivucci, and Michael A. Robb pp 722–732 DOI: 10.1021/ja003359w Supporting Info

Chromatographic Purification of Soluble Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (s-SWNTs) S. Niyogi, H. Hu, M. A. Hamon, P. Bhowmik, B. Zhao, S. M. Rozenzhak, J. Chen, M. E. Itkis, M. S. Meier, and R. C. Haddon pp 733–734 DOI: 10.1021/ja0024439 Supporting Info

Spontaneous Formation of a Diamond-Crown Structure of Re8 Polyselenide and a Cage Structure of Re3 Polytelluride Guo-Xin Jin, Yasuhiro Arikawa, and Kazuyuki Tatsumi pp 735–736 DOI: 10.1021/ja003007p Supporting Info

Enthalpy/Entropy Compensation as a Competition between Dynamics and Bonding:  The Relevance to Melting of Crystals and Biological Aggregates Dudley H. Williams, Dominic P. O'Brien, and Ben Bardsley pp 737–738 DOI: 10.1021/ja0029230

Evidence for Associative Methane Loss Following Protonation of (Diimine)PtII(CH3)2:  Three-Coordinate 14-Electron Cations L2Pt(CH3)+ Are Not Necessarily Intermediates in C−H Activation at Cationic Pt Complexes Lars Johansson and Mats Tilset pp 739–740 DOI: 10.1021/ja002505v

Hydrothermal Processing of High-Quality Multiwall Nanotubes from Amorphous Carbon Jose Maria Calderon Moreno and Masahiro Yoshimura pp 741–742 DOI: 10.1021/ja003008h

A Helical Metal−Metal Bonded Chain via the Pt→Ag Dative Bond Tadashi Yamaguchi, Fumie Yamazaki, and Tasuku Ito pp 743–744 DOI: 10.1021/ja002906a Supporting Info

“Double Activation” of Constrained Geometry and ansa-Metallocene Group 4 Metal Dialkyls:  Synthesis, Structure, and Olefin Polymerization Study of Mono- and Dicationic Aluminate Complexes Eugene Y.-X. Chen, William J. Kruper, Gordon Roof, and David R. Wilson pp 745–746 DOI: 10.1021/ja002654d Supporting Info

Soybean Lipoxygenase-Mediated Oxygenation of Monounsaturated Fatty Acids to Enones Charles H. Clapp, Susan E. Senchak, Theodore J. Stover, Thomas C. Potter, Peter M. Findeis, and Mark J. Novak pp 747–748 DOI: 10.1021/ja0032071 Supporting Info

New Insights into the Mechanism of Ruthenium-Catalyzed Olefin Metathesis Reactions Melanie S. Sanford, Michael Ulman, and Robert H. Grubbs pp 749–750 DOI: 10.1021/ja003582t Supporting Info

The C−C Bond Activation and Skeletal Rearrangement of Cycloalkanone Imine by Rh(I) Catalysts Chul-Ho Jun, Hyuk Lee, and Sung-Gon Lim pp 751–752 DOI: 10.1021/ja0033537 Supporting Info

Multiphoton Gated Photochromic Reaction in a Diarylethene Derivative Hiroshi Miyasaka, Masataka Murakami, Akira Itaya, Dominique Guillaumont, Shinichiro Nakamura, and Masahiro Irie pp 753–754 DOI: 10.1021/ja002545z

Modular Peptide-Based Phosphine Ligands in Asymmetric Catalysis:  Efficient and Enantioselective Cu-Catalyzed Conjugate Additions to Five-, Six-, and Seven-Membered Cyclic Enones Sylvia J. Degrado, Hirotake Mizutani, and Amir H. Hoveyda pp 755–756 DOI: 10.1021/ja003698p Supporting Info

Presence of the Heme-oxo Intermediate in Oxygenation of Carbon Monoxide by Cytochrome c Oxidase Revealed by Resonance Raman Spectroscopy Younkyoo Kim, Kyoko Shinzawa-Itoh, Shinya Yoshikawa, and Teizo Kitagawa pp 757–758 DOI: 10.1021/ja0027867

Facile Allylative Dearomatization Catalyzed by Palladium Ming Bao, Hiroyuki Nakamura, and Yoshinori Yamamoto pp 759–760 DOI: 10.1021/ja003718n Supporting Info

Unusual Diboration of Allenes Catalyzed by Palladium Complexes and Organic Iodides:  A New Efficient Route to Biboronic Compounds Feng-Yu Yang and Chien-Hong Cheng pp 761–762 DOI: 10.1021/ja005589g Supporting Info

Metal Sphere Photonic Crystals by Nanomolding Lianbin Xu, Weilie Zhou, Mikhail E. Kozlov, Ilyas I. Khayrullin, Igor Udod, Anvar A. Zakhidov, Ray H. Baughman, and John B. Wiley pp 763–764 DOI: 10.1021/ja005733y

Total Synthesis of (+)-Amphidinolide K David R. Williams and Kevin G. Meyer pp 765–766 DOI: 10.1021/ja005644l Supporting Info

Real-Time Grazing Incidence X-ray Diffraction Studies of Polymerizing n-Octadecyltrimethoxysilane Langmuir Monolayers at the Air/Water Interface Stephen R. Carino, Holger Tostmann, Royale S. Underhill, Jennifer Logan, Gayanga Weerasekera, Jeffrey Culp, Mark Davidson, and Randolph S. Duran pp 767–768 DOI: 10.1021/ja0057777 Supporting Info

Effect of Laser Fluence on Laser Desorption Mass Spectra of Organothiol Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold Weihong Gong, Vassil I. Elitzin, Selvasekaran Janardhanam, Charles L. Wilkins, and Ingrid Fritsch pp 769–770 DOI: 10.1021/ja0055716 Supporting Info

A Self-Assembly Approach to the Formation of Asymmetric Dimers from Monodispersed Spherical Colloids Yadong Yin, Yu Lu, and Younan Xia pp 771–772 DOI: 10.1021/ja0031873

Fine-Tuning the Ring-Size of Metallacyclophanes:  A Rational Approach to Molecular Pentagons Cristian Saul Campos-Fernández, Rodolphe Clérac, John M. Koomen, David H. Russell, and Kim R. Dunbar pp 773–774 DOI: 10.1021/ja002960r Supporting Info

Medium-Dependent Self-Assembly of an Amphiphilic Peptide:  Direct Observation of Peptide Phase Domains at the Air−Water Interface Evan T. Powers and Jeffery W. Kelly pp 775–776 DOI: 10.1021/ja005528i Supporting Info

Conformational Stability of Collagen Relies on a Stereoelectronic Effect Lynn E. Bretscher, Cara L. Jenkins, Kimberly M. Taylor, Michele L. DeRider, and Ronald T. Raines pp 777–778 DOI: 10.1021/ja005542v

Calix[4]arenes Comprised of Aniline Units Hiroshi Katagiri, Nobuhiko Iki, Tetsutaro Hattori, Chizuko Kabuto, and Sotaro Miyano pp 779–780 DOI: 10.1021/ja005573q Supporting Info

Solid-Phase Synthesis:  A Practical Guide Edited by Steven A. Kates (Consensus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Medford, MA) and Fernando Albericio (University of Barcelona). Marcel Dekker:  New York. 2000. xx + 826 pp. $250.00. ISBN 0-8247-0359-6. Robert H. E. Hudson p 781 DOI: 10.1021/ja004770m

Silicon in Organic, Organometallic, and Polymer Chemistry By Michael A. Brook (McMaster University). J. Wiley and Sons:  New York. 2000. xxiv + 680 pp. $125.00. ISBN 0-471-19658-4 Phillip Magnus p 781 DOI: 10.1021/ja004838y

Advances in Molecular Structure Research. Volume 6 Edited by Magdolna Hargittai (Eötvös University) and István Hargittai (Budapest University of Technology). JAI Press Inc.:  Stamford, CT. 2000. ix + 471 pp. $115.00. ISBN 0-7623-0657-2 Cecil Dybowski pp 781–782 DOI: 10.1021/ja004803y

Molecular Self-Assembly Organic Versus Inorganic Approaches Edited by Makoto Fujita (Nagoya University). Springer-Verlag:  Berlin. 2000. viii + 254 pp. $165.00 ISBN 3-540-669488-5. Neil R. Branda p 782 DOI: 10.1021/ja004784s

Energy Storage Systems for Electronics. New Trends in Electrochemical Technology Edited by Tetsuya Osaka (Waseda University) and Madhav Datta (Intel Corporation). Gordon and Breach Science Publishers:  Amsterdam. 2000. xxiv + 580 pp. $145. ISBN 90-5699-176-0 Norman Hackerman p 782 DOI: 10.1021/ja004814r

Issue 05

2-Benzamidoethyl Group − A Novel Type of Phosphate Protecting Group for Oligonucleotide Synthesis Andrei P. Guzaev and Muthiah Manoharan pp 783–793 DOI: 10.1021/ja0016396 Supporting Info

Mechanistic Imperatives for Aldose−Ketose Isomerization in Water:  Specific, General Base- and Metal Ion-Catalyzed Isomerization of Glyceraldehyde with Proton and Hydride Transfer R. W. Nagorski and John P. Richard pp 794–802 DOI: 10.1021/ja003433a Supporting Info

Free-Probe Fluorescence of Light-up Probes Nicke Svanvik, Jan Nygren, Gunnar Westman, and Mikael Kubista pp 803–809 DOI: 10.1021/ja002294u

Application of Self-Organizing Maps in Conformational Analysis of Lipids Marja T. Hyvönen, Yrjö Hiltunen, Wael El-Deredy, Timo Ojala, Juha Vaara, Petri T. Kovanen, and Mika Ala-Korpela pp 810–816 DOI: 10.1021/ja0025853 Supporting Info

Mobility of the Active Site Bound Paraoxon and Sarin in Zinc-Phosphotriesterase by Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Quantum Chemical Calculation Jaroslav Koa, Chang-Guo Zhan, Robert C. Rittenhouse, and Rick L. Ornstein pp 817–826 DOI: 10.1021/ja000439r

Crystal Structures of the Soluble Methane Monooxygenase Hydroxylase from Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath) Demonstrating Geometrical Variability at the Dinuclear Iron Active Site Douglas A. Whittington and Stephen J. Lippard pp 827–838 DOI: 10.1021/ja003240n Supporting Info

Glutathione Peroxidase-like Antioxidant Activity of Diaryl Diselenides:  A Mechanistic Study G. Mugesh, Arunashree Panda, Harkesh B. Singh, Narayan S. Punekar, and Ray J. Butcher pp 839–850 DOI: 10.1021/ja994467p Supporting Info

Pd-Catalyzed Inter- and Intramolecular Carbene Transfer from Group 6 Metal−Carbene Complexes1 Miguel A. Sierra, Juan C. del Amo, María J. Mancheño, and Mar Gómez-Gallego pp 851–861 DOI: 10.1021/ja002497i

New Molybdenum Catalysts for Alkyl Olefin Epoxidation. Their Implications for the Mechanism of Oxygen Atom Transfer Judith M. Mitchell and Nathaniel S. Finney pp 862–869 DOI: 10.1021/ja002697u Supporting Info

Stereochemical Elucidation and Total Synthesis of Dihydropacidamycin D, a Semisynthetic Pacidamycin Constantine G. Boojamra, Rémy C. Lemoine, Julie C. Lee, Roger Léger, Karin A. Stein, Nicole G. Vernier, Angela Magon, Olga Lomovskaya, Patrick K. Martin, Suzanne Chamberland, May D. Lee, Scott J. Hecker, and Ving J. Lee pp 870–874 DOI: 10.1021/ja003292c Supporting Info

Gemini Surfactants with a Disaccharide Spacer Fredric M. Menger and Bessie N. A. Mbadugha pp 875–885 DOI: 10.1021/ja0033178

Polyoxometalate HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors. A New Mode of Protease Inhibition Deborah A. Judd, James H. Nettles, Neysa Nevins, James P. Snyder, Dennis C. Liotta, Jordan Tang, Jacques Ermolieff, Raymond F. Schinazi, and Craig L. Hill pp 886–897 DOI: 10.1021/ja001809e

Solution Structures and Dynamic Properties of Chelated d0 Metal Olefin Complexes {η5: η1-C5R4SiMe2NtBu}Ti(OCMe2CH2CH2CHCH2)+ (R = H, Me):  Models for the {η5: η1-C5R4SiMe2NtBu}Ti(R‘)(olefin)+ Intermediates in “Constrained Geometry” Catalysts Jean-François Carpentier, Vladimir P. Maryin, Jeffrey Luci, and Richard F. Jordan pp 898–909 DOI: 10.1021/ja003209l Supporting Info

Manipulation of the Director in Bicellar Mesophases by Sample Spinning:  A New Tool for NMR Spectroscopy Giorgia Zandomeneghi, Marco Tomaselli, Jacco D. van Beek, and Beat H. Meier pp 910–913 DOI: 10.1021/ja0019326

Orientation of Amide-Nitrogen-15 Chemical Shift Tensors in Peptides:  A Quantum Chemical Study Jeffrey R. Brender, Deanne M. Taylor, and A. Ramamoorthy pp 914–922 DOI: 10.1021/ja001980q

Influence of Hydroxyl Substitution on Benzyne Properties. Quantum Chemical Characterization of the Didehydrophenols William T. G. Johnson and Christopher J. Cramer pp 923–928 DOI: 10.1021/ja002250l Supporting Info

Trapping-Mediated Dissociative Chemisorption of Cycloalkanes on Ru(001) and Ir(111):  Influence of Ring Strain and Molecular Geometry on the Activation of C−C and C−H Bonds Christopher J. Hagedorn, Michael J. Weiss, Tae Won Kim, and W. Henry Weinberg pp 929–940 DOI: 10.1021/ja002459z

Probing Aerogels by Multiple Quantum Filtered 131Xe NMR Spectroscopy Thomas Meersmann, Michaël Deschamps, and Geoffrey Bodenhausen pp 941–945 DOI: 10.1021/ja002747v

Polyfluorenes with Polyphenylene Dendron Side Chains:  Toward Non-Aggregating, Light-Emitting Polymers Sepas Setayesh, Andrew C. Grimsdale, Tanja Weil, Volker Enkelmann, Klaus Müllen, Farideh Meghdadi, Emil J. W. List, and Günther Leising pp 946–953 DOI: 10.1021/ja0031220 Supporting Info

Polarity of Layer-by-Layer Deposited Polyelectrolyte Films As Determined by Pyrene Fluorescence Concetta Tedeschi, Helmuth Möhwald, and Stefan Kirstein pp 954–960 DOI: 10.1021/ja0031974

Electronic Spectroscopy and Photoisomerization of trans-Urocanic Acid in a Supersonic Jet Wendy L. Ryan and Donald H. Levy pp 961–966 DOI: 10.1021/ja003261h

Measurement of Slow (μs−ms) Time Scale Dynamics in Protein Side Chains by 15N Relaxation Dispersion NMR Spectroscopy:  Application to Asn and Gln Residues in a Cavity Mutant of T4 Lysozyme Frans A. A. Mulder, Nikolai R. Skrynnikov, Bin Hon, Frederick W. Dahlquist, and Lewis E. Kay pp 967–975 DOI: 10.1021/ja003447g

Mechanism-Based Inhibition of an Essential Bacterial Adenine DNA Methyltransferase:  Rationally Designed Antibiotics Daphne C. Wahnon, Vincent K. Shier, and Stephen J. Benkovic pp 976–977 DOI: 10.1021/ja003285o Supporting Info

Chemical Shielding Tensors for a Silicon−Carbon Double Bond Jarrod J. Buffy, Robert West, Michael Bendikov, and Yitzhak Apeloig pp 978–979 DOI: 10.1021/ja003389z

Dynamic Assembly of Coordination Boxes from (en)Pd(II) Unit and a Rectangular Panel-Like Ligand:  NMR, CSI-MS, and X-ray Studies Yoshinori Yamanoi, Youichi Sakamoto, Takahiro Kusukawa, Makoto Fujita, Shigeru Sakamoto, and Kentaro Yamaguchi pp 980–981 DOI: 10.1021/ja003043o Supporting Info

Intermolecular C−H Insertions and Cyclization Reactions Involving a Stable Germylene Karla A. Miller, Thomas W. Watson, John E. Bender, IV, Mark M. Banaszak Holl, and Jeff W. Kampf pp 982–983 DOI: 10.1021/ja0026408 Supporting Info

Enantioselective Synthesis of Arylamines Through Zr-Catalyzed Addition of Dialkylzincs to Imines. Reaction Development by Screening of Parallel Libraries James R. Porter, John F. Traverse, Amir H. Hoveyda, and Marc L. Snapper pp 984–985 DOI: 10.1021/ja003747y Supporting Info

Highly Efficient and Thermally Stable Nonlinear Optical Dendrimer for Electrooptics Hong Ma, Baoquan Chen, Takafumi Sassa, Larry R. Dalton, and Alex K.-Y. Jen pp 986–987 DOI: 10.1021/ja003407c

Micellization of Hydrocarbon Surfactants in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Julian Eastoe, Alison Paul, Sandrine Nave, David C. Steytler, Brian H. Robinson, Emily Rumsey, Matthew Thorpe, and Richard. K. Heenan pp 988–989 DOI: 10.1021/ja005795o

On the Reversible Nature of the Olefin Cross Metathesis Reaction Amos B. Smith, III, Christopher M. Adams, and Sergey A. Kozmin pp 990–991 DOI: 10.1021/ja003745d Supporting Info

67Zn Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy of the Minimal DNA Binding Domain of Human Nucleotide Excision Repair Protein XPA A. S. Lipton, G. W. Buchko, J. A. Sears, M. A. Kennedy, and P. D. Ellis pp 992–993 DOI: 10.1021/ja003720e

A New Strategy To Achieve Perfectly Planar Carbon Tetracoordination Zhi-Xiang Wang and Paul von Ragué Schleyer pp 994–995 DOI: 10.1021/ja0038272 Supporting Info

Stereochemistry of the Thermal Retro-Diels−Alder Reactions of cis,exo-5,6-d2-Bicyclo[2.2.1]hept-2-ene, cis-4,5-d2-Cyclohexene, and cis,exo-5,6-d2-Bicyclo[2.2.2]oct-2-ene David K. Lewis, David A. Glenar, Steven Hughes, Bansi L. Kalra, Jessica Schlier, Rajesh Shukla, and John E. Baldwin pp 996–997 DOI: 10.1021/ja003805f

A New Structural Motif for the Design of Potent Glucosidase Inhibitors Kelly S. E. Tanaka, Geoffrey C. Winters, Raymond J. Batchelor, Frederick W. B. Einstein, and Andrew J. Bennet pp 998–999 DOI: 10.1021/ja005746b Supporting Info

Catalytic Shilov Chemistry:  Platinum Chloride-Catalyzed Oxidation of Terminal Methyl Groups by Dioxygen Minren Lin, Chengyu Shen, Eduardo A. Garcia-Zayas, and Ayusman Sen pp 1000–1001 DOI: 10.1021/ja001926+

Discovery and Characterization of a Discretely Folded Homotrimeric ββα Peptide Adam R. Mezo, Jennifer J. Ottesen, and Barbara Imperiali pp 1002–1003 DOI: 10.1021/ja0038981 Supporting Info

Highly Diastereoselective and Enantioselective Carbon−Carbon Bond Formations in Conjugate Additions of Lithiated N-Boc Allylamines to Nitroalkenes:  Enantioselective Synthesis of 3,4- and 3,4,5-Substituted Piperidines Including (−)-Paroxetine Timothy A. Johnson, Michael D. Curtis, and Peter Beak pp 1004–1005 DOI: 10.1021/ja005748w Supporting Info

Simulation of an SN1 Reaction in Supercritical Water Robin E. Westacott, Keith P. Johnston, and Peter J. Rossky pp 1006–1007 DOI: 10.1021/ja005532u Supporting Info

One-Step, Chemisorbed Immobilization of Highly Stable, Polydiacetylenic Phospholipid Vesicles onto Gold Films Ivan Stanish, John P. Santos, and Alok Singh pp 1008–1009 DOI: 10.1021/ja0056623 Supporting Info

Sensitivity-Enhanced NMR of Biological Solids:  Dynamic Nuclear Polarization of Y21M fd Bacteriophage and Purple Membrane Melanie Rosay, Ana-Carolina Zeri, Nathan S. Astrof, Stanley J. Opella, Judith Herzfeld, and Robert G. Griffin pp 1010–1011 DOI: 10.1021/ja005659j

Thermodynamic Stabilization Mechanism of Block Copolymer Vesicles Laibin Luo and Adi Eisenberg pp 1012–1013 DOI: 10.1021/ja005824v

Rapid Validation of the Overall Structure of an Internal Domain-Swapped Mutant of the Anti-HIV Protein Cyanovirin-N Using Residual Dipolar Couplings Carole A. Bewley pp 1014–1015 DOI: 10.1021/ja005714o Supporting Info

Temperature Dependence of Fusion and Fragmentation Kinetics of Triton X-100 Micelles J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 6242−6251. Yahya Rharbi, Mei Li, Mitchell A. Winnik, and Kenneth G. Hahn, Jr. p 1016 DOI: 10.1021/ja004668p Supporting Info

Molecular and Supramolecular Chemistry of Natural Products and Their Model Compounds By Jürgen-Hinrich Fuhrhop (Free University of Berlin) and Claus Endisch (Berlin, Germany). Marcel Dekker:  New York. 2000. x + 602 pp. $195.00. ISBN 0-8247-8201-1 Karol S. Bruzik p 1016 DOI: 10.1021/ja0047119

Issue 06

Remarkable Synthesis of 2-(Z)-6-(E)-4H-[1,4]-Thiazepin-5-ones by Zwitterionic Rhodium-Catalyzed Chemo- and Regioselective Cyclohydrocarbonylative Ring Expansion of Acetylenic Thiazoles Bernard G. Van den Hoven and Howard Alper pp 1017–1022 DOI: 10.1021/ja003085c Supporting Info

Synthesis of Functional Ras Lipoproteins and Fluorescent Derivatives Karsten Kuhn, David J. Owen, Benjamin Bader, Alfred Wittinghofer, Jürgen Kuhlmann, and Herbert Waldmann pp 1023–1035 DOI: 10.1021/ja002723o Supporting Info

DFT Study of H−H Activation by Cp2 LnH d0 Complexes Laurent Maron and Odile Eisenstein pp 1036–1039 DOI: 10.1021/ja0033483

2.1 and 1.8 Å Average Cα RMSD Structure Predictions on Two Small Proteins, HP-36 and S15 Matthew R. Lee, David Baker, and Peter A. Kollman pp 1040–1046 DOI: 10.1021/ja003150i

Reactivity of Zinc Finger Cores:  Analysis of Protein Packing and Electrostatic Screening A. T. Maynard and D. G. Covell pp 1047–1058 DOI: 10.1021/ja0011616

C−N Bond Formation on Addition of Aryl Carbanions to the Electrophilic Nitrido Ligand in TpOs(N)Cl2 Thomas J. Crevier, Brian K. Bennett, Jake D. Soper, Julie A. Bowman, Ahmad Dehestani, David A. Hrovat, Scott Lovell, Werner Kaminsky, and James M. Mayer pp 1059–1071 DOI: 10.1021/ja0028424 Supporting Info

Immobilized Metal Complexes in Porous Organic Hosts:  Development of a Material for the Selective and Reversible Binding of Nitric Oxide Karen M. Padden, John F. Krebs, Cora E. MacBeth, Robert C. Scarrow, and A. S. Borovik pp 1072–1079 DOI: 10.1021/ja003282b Supporting Info

Direct Observation of Nucleus Structure and Nucleation Pathways in Apoferritin Crystallization S.-T. Yau and Peter G. Vekilov pp 1080–1089 DOI: 10.1021/ja003039c

Hydrogen Transfer to Carbonyls and Imines from a Hydroxycyclopentadienyl Ruthenium Hydride:  Evidence for Concerted Hydride and Proton Transfer Charles P. Casey, Steven W. Singer, Douglas R. Powell, Randy K. Hayashi, and Michael Kavana pp 1090–1100 DOI: 10.1021/ja002177z Supporting Info

Two Modes of Linear Layer-by-Layer Growth of Nanoparticle−Polylectrolyte Multilayers and Different Interactions in the Layer-by-layer Deposition John W. Ostrander, Arif A. Mamedov, and Nicholas A. Kotov pp 1101–1110 DOI: 10.1021/ja0029578 Supporting Info

Control of Magnetic Ordering by Jahn−Teller Distortions in Nd2GaMnO6 and La2GaMnO6 Edmund J. Cussen, Matthew J. Rosseinsky, Peter D. Battle, Jonathan C. Burley, Lauren E. Spring, Jaap F. Vente, Stephen J. Blundell, Amalia I. Coldea, and John Singleton pp 1111–1122 DOI: 10.1021/ja003139i Supporting Info

A Double-Functionalized Cyclen with Carbamoyl and Dansyl Groups (Cyclen = 1,4,7,10-Tetraazacyclododecane):  A Selective Fluorescent Probe for Y3+ and La3+ Shin Aoki, Hiroki Kawatani, Teruhiro Goto, Eiichi Kimura, and Motoo Shiro pp 1123–1132 DOI: 10.1021/ja0033786 Supporting Info

Synthesis and Characterization of Alkanethiolate-Coordinated Iron Porphyrins and Their Dioxygen Adducts as Models for the Active Center of Cytochrome P450:  Direct Evidence for Hydrogen Bonding to Bound Dioxygen Fumito Tani, Mikiya Matsu-ura, Shinya Nakayama, Mari Ichimura, Nobuhumi Nakamura, and Yoshinori Naruta pp 1133–1142 DOI: 10.1021/ja003430y Supporting Info

O Atom Transfer from Nitric Oxide Catalyzed by Fe(TPP) Rong Lin and Patrick J. Farmer pp 1143–1150 DOI: 10.1021/ja993643r Supporting Info

Layered Rare-Earth Gallium Antimonides REGaSb2 (RE = La−Nd, Sm) Allison M. Mills and Arthur Mar pp 1151–1158 DOI: 10.1021/ja003705+ Supporting Info

Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Hydrogen Bonded Donor−Acceptor Systems. Free Energy and Distance Dependence Studies and an Analysis of the Role of Diffusion M. A. Smitha, E. Prasad, and K. R. Gopidas pp 1159–1165 DOI: 10.1021/ja001108h

CO Oxidation on Pd(100) and Pd(111):  A Comparative Study of Reaction Pathways and Reactivity at Low and Medium Coverages C. J. Zhang and P. Hu pp 1166–1172 DOI: 10.1021/ja002432f

Predicting the Activity of Phenolic Antioxidants:  Theoretical Method, Analysis of Substituent Effects, and Application to Major Families of Antioxidants James S. Wright, Erin R. Johnson, and Gino A. DiLabio pp 1173–1183 DOI: 10.1021/ja002455u

N-Terminal Derivatization and Fragmentation of Neutral Peptides via Ion−Molecule Reactions with Acylium Ions:  Toward Gas-Phase Edman Degradation? Gavin E. Reid, Shane E. Tichy, James Pérez, Richard A. J. O'Hair, Richard J. Simpson, and Hilkka I. Kenttämaa pp 1184–1192 DOI: 10.1021/ja003070e Supporting Info

Orbital Phase Control of the Preferential Branching of Chain Molecules Jing Ma and Satoshi Inagaki pp 1193–1198 DOI: 10.1021/ja003067v

Photopolymerization of Liquid Carbon Disulfide Produces Nanoscale Polythiene Films Peter B. Zmolek, Honglae Sohn, Peter K. Gantzel, and William C. Trogler pp 1199–1207 DOI: 10.1021/ja003200j Supporting Info

Sites of Hydroxyl Radical Reaction with Amino Acids Identified by 2H NMR Detection of Induced 1H/2H Exchange Benedicta N. Nukuna, Michael B. Goshe, and Vernon E. Anderson pp 1208–1214 DOI: 10.1021/ja003342d

Two-Photon Photosensitized Production of Singlet Oxygen Peter K. Frederiksen, Mikkel Jørgensen, and Peter R. Ogilby pp 1215–1221 DOI: 10.1021/ja003468a

Protein Structural Motif Recognition via NMR Residual Dipolar Couplings Michael Andrec, Peicheng Du, and Ronald M. Levy pp 1222–1229 DOI: 10.1021/ja003979x

Atom Economy:  Aldol-Type Products by Vanadium-Catalyzed Additions of Propargyl Alcohols and Aldehydes Barry M. Trost and Shuichi Oi pp 1230–1231 DOI: 10.1021/ja003629a Supporting Info

Reductive Elimination of Aryl Halides from Palladium(II) Amy H. Roy and John F. Hartwig pp 1232–1233 DOI: 10.1021/ja0034592 Supporting Info

Regioselective Rhodium-Catalyzed Allylic Linchpin Cross-Coupling Reactions:  Diastereospecific Construction of anti-1,3-Carbon Stereogenic Centers and C2-Symmetrical Fragments P. Andrew Evans and Lawrence J. Kennedy pp 1234–1235 DOI: 10.1021/ja005689m Supporting Info

Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Duplex DNA:  Driving Force Dependence and Isotope Effects on Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Guanine Stephanie C. Weatherly, Ivana V. Yang, and H. Holden Thorp pp 1236–1237 DOI: 10.1021/ja003788u Supporting Info

New Approach to Multiply Deuterated Isoprenoids Using Triply Engineered Escherichia coli and Its Potential as a Tool for Mechanistic Enzymology Katsumi Kakinuma, Yasumasa Dekishima, Yoshitaka Matsushima, Tadashi Eguchi, Norihiko Misawa, Motoki Takagi, Tomohisa Kuzuyama, and Haruo Seto pp 1238–1239 DOI: 10.1021/ja003390y Supporting Info

Macroscopic Shear Alignment of Bulk Transparent Mesostructured Silica N. A. Melosh, P. Davidson, P. Feng, D. J. Pine, and B. F. Chmelka pp 1240–1241 DOI: 10.1021/ja003632u

Ketone Isosteres of 2-N-Acetamidosugars as Substrates for Metabolic Cell Surface Engineering Howard C. Hang and Carolyn R. Bertozzi pp 1242–1243 DOI: 10.1021/ja002962b Supporting Info

Beyond the Hydrophobic Effect:  Attractions Involving Heteroaromatic Rings in Aqueous Solution1 Sonya L. McKay, Brandy Haptonstall, and Samuel H. Gellman pp 1244–1245 DOI: 10.1021/ja003256d

Template Synthesis of Asymmetrically Mesostructured Platinum Networks Hyun June Shin, Ryong Ryoo, Zheng Liu, and Osamu Terasaki pp 1246–1247 DOI: 10.1021/ja003461t

Controlled Placement of Luminescent Molecules and Polymers in Mesostructured Sol−Gel Thin Films Raquel Hernandez, Anne-Christine Franville, Payam Minoofar, Bruce Dunn, and Jeffrey I. Zink pp 1248–1249 DOI: 10.1021/ja003634e

Electronic Structure of the Pentacene Single Crystal:  Relation to Transport Properties J. Cornil,* J. Ph. Calbert, and J. L. Brédas* pp 1250–1251 DOI: 10.1021/ja005700i

Measuring the Size and Charge of Proteins Using Protein Charge Ladders, Capillary Electrophoresis, and Electrokinetic Models of Colloids Jeffrey D. Carbeck, and Russel S. Negin pp 1252–1253 DOI: 10.1021/ja005740m

Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalyst Recycling Using Ionic Liquid and Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Richard A. Brown, Pamela Pollet, Erin McKoon, Charles A. Eckert, Charles L. Liotta, and Philip G. Jessop pp 1254–1255 DOI: 10.1021/ja005718t

Novel Multiaction of Zr Catalyst:  One-Pot Synthesis of β-Cyanohydrins from Olefins Shingo Yamasaki, Motomu Kanai, and Masakatsu Shibasaki pp 1256–1257 DOI: 10.1021/ja005794w Supporting Info

A Double-Walled Hexagonal Supermolecule Assembled by Guest Binding Young Lag Cho, Hyounsoo Uh, Sung-Youn Chang, Hong-Young Chang, Moon-Gun Choi, Injae Shin, and Kyu-Sung Jeong pp 1258–1259 DOI: 10.1021/ja005695i Supporting Info

Fluorescent Chemosensors Based on Conformational Restriction of a Biaryl Fluorophore Sherri A. McFarland and Nathaniel S. Finney pp 1260–1261 DOI: 10.1021/ja005701a Supporting Info

Telomestatin, a Novel Telomerase Inhibitor from Streptomyces anulatus Kazuo Shin-ya, Konstanty Wierzba, Ken-ichi Matsuo, Toshio Ohtani, Yuji Yamada, Kazuo Furihata, Yoichi Hayakawa, and Haruo Seto pp 1262–1263 DOI: 10.1021/ja005780q

Preferential Heterodimer Formation via Undercompensated Electrostatic Interactions Zachary S. Hendsch, Michael J. Nohaile, Robert T. Sauer, and Bruce Tidor pp 1264–1265 DOI: 10.1021/ja0032273

NO Disproportionation Reactivity of Fe Tropocoronand Complexes J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 10504−10512. Katherine J. Franz and Stephen J. Lippard p 1266 DOI: 10.1021/ja0046665

Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products. 80 Edited by W. Herz (Florida State University), H. Falk (Johannes-Kepler-Universitat), G. W. Kirby (University of Glasgow), and R. E. Moore (University of Hawaii at Manoa). Springer-Verlag:  Wien, New York. 2000. viii + 256 pp. $159.00. ISBN 3-211-83428-1. p 1266 DOI: 10.1021/ja004834t

Biodiversity. New Leads for the Pharmaceutical and Agrochemical Industries Edited by S. K. Wrigley (TerraGen Discovery Ltd., Slough, UK), Martin A. Hayes (Glaxo Wellcome Research and Development, Stevenage, UK), Robert Thomas (Biotics Ltd., Guildford, UK), Ewan J. T. Chrystal (AstraZeneca Agrochemicals, Berkshire, UK), and Neville Nicholson (SmithKline Beecham, Harlow, UK). Royal Society of Chemistry:  Cambridge. 2000. iv + 314 pp. £59.50. ISBN 0-85404-830-8. p 1266 DOI: 10.1021/ja004840p

Targets in Heterocyclic Systems. Chemistry and Properties. Volume 3 (1999). Reviews and Accounts on Heterocyclic Chemistry Edited by Orazio A. Attanasi (University of Urbino) and Domenico Spinelli (University of Bologna). Italian Society of Chemistry:  Camerino, Italy. 2000. xx + 526 pp. $89.95. ISBN 88-86208-13-8 p 1266 DOI: 10.1021/ja004841h

Perspectives in Organopalladium Chemistry for the XXI Century Edited by Jiro Tsuji (Okayama, Japan). Elsevier:  Amsterdam. 1999. viii + 324 pp. $147.00. ISBN 0-444-50197-5 p 1266 DOI: 10.1021/ja004842+

Principles and Practices of Method Validation Edited by A. Fajgelj (International Atomic Energy Agency, Seibersdorf, Austria) and A. Ambrus (Food and Agricultural Organisation/International Atomic Energy Agency, Seibersdorf, Austria). Royal Society of Chemistry:  Cambridge. 2000. x + 306 pp. £59.50. ISBN 0-85404-783-2 p 1266 DOI: 10.1021/ja0048432

Issue 07

Stability and Structure of RNA Duplexes Containing Isoguanosine and Isocytidine Xiaoying Chen, Ryszard Kierzek, and Douglas H. Turner pp 1267–1274 DOI: 10.1021/ja002623i Supporting Info

Inhibition of Cell Adhesion to Fibronectin by Oligopeptide-Substituted Polynorbornenes Heather D. Maynard, Sheldon Y. Okada, and Robert H. Grubbs pp 1275–1279 DOI: 10.1021/ja003305m Supporting Info

Identification of a Novel Class of Small-Molecule Antiangiogenic Agents through the Screening of Combinatorial Libraries Which Function by Inhibiting the Binding and Localization of Proteinase MMP2 to Integrin αVβ3 Dale L. Boger, Joel Goldberg, Steve Silletti, Torsten Kessler, and David A. Cheresh pp 1280–1288 DOI: 10.1021/ja003579+ Supporting Info

A Computational Study of the Interactions among the Nitro Groups in Octanitrocubane David A. Hrovat, Weston Thatcher Borden, Philip E. Eaton, and Bart Kahr pp 1289–1293 DOI: 10.1021/ja001636t Supporting Info

First Unsymmetrical Bisfullerene, C121:  Evidence for the Presence of Both Homofullerene and Methanofullerene Cages in One Molecule Nita Dragoe, Hidekazu Shimotani, Jian Wang, Mitsuhiro Iwaya, Ana de Bettencourt-Dias, Alan L. Balch, and Koichi Kitazawa pp 1294–1301 DOI: 10.1021/ja003350u Supporting Info

Synthesis and Structural Analysis of Two Constitutional Isomeric Libraries of AB2-Based Monodendrons and Supramolecular Dendrimers Virgil Percec, Wook-Dong Cho, Goran Ungar, and Duncan J. P. Yeardley pp 1302–1315 DOI: 10.1021/ja0037771 Supporting Info

Kinetic Analysis of the Stepwise Formation of a Long-Range DNA Interstrand Cross-link by a Dinuclear Platinum Antitumor Complex:  Evidence for Aquated Intermediates and Formation of Both Kinetically and Thermodynamically Controlled Conformers John W. Cox, Susan J. Berners-Price, Murray S. Davies, Yun Qu, and Nicholas Farrell pp 1316–1326 DOI: 10.1021/ja0012772 Supporting Info

Conformational Equilibrium Isotope Effects in Glucose by 13C NMR Spectroscopy and Computational Studies Brett E. Lewis and Vern L. Schramm pp 1327–1336 DOI: 10.1021/ja003291k Supporting Info

The Peroxidase Activity of a Hemin−DNA Oligonucleotide Complex:  Free Radical Damage to Specific Guanine Bases of the DNA Paola Travascio, Paul K. Witting, A. Grant Mauk, and Dipankar Sen pp 1337–1348 DOI: 10.1021/ja0023534

Observation of Both Thermal First-Order and Photochemical Zero-Order Kinetics in the Rearrangement of [6,5] Open Fulleroids to [6,6] Closed Fullerenes Melvin H. Hall, Huajun Lu, and Philip B. Shevlin pp 1349–1354 DOI: 10.1021/ja003042w Supporting Info

The Nature of the Active Catalyst in Late Transition Metal-Mediated Ring-Opening Polymerization (ROP) Reactions:  Mechanistic Studies of the Platinum-Catalyzed ROP of Silicon-Bridged [1]Ferrocenophanes Karen Temple, Frieder Jäkle, J. B. Sheridan, and Ian Manners pp 1355–1364 DOI: 10.1021/ja0033739 Supporting Info

Osmium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Dihydroxylation of Olefins by H2O2 Using a Biomimetic Flavin-Based Coupled Catalytic System Sandra Y. Jonsson, Katarina Färnegårdh, and Jan-E. Bäckvall pp 1365–1371 DOI: 10.1021/ja0035809

Total Synthesis and Structural Elucidation of Khafrefungin Takeshi Wakabayashi, Kouhei Mori, and Shū Kobayashi pp 1372–1375 DOI: 10.1021/ja0057272 Supporting Info

The Water/Methanol Complexation Induced Reentrant Coil-to-Globule-to-Coil Transition of Individual Homopolymer Chains in Extremely Dilute Solution Guangzhao Zhang and Chi Wu pp 1376–1380 DOI: 10.1021/ja003889s

Phosphorus-Based Ambidentate Chelating Ligands:  Pyridyl-N− and Imido-N−Metal Coordination in the Py2P(NSiMe3)2 Anion Stefan Wingerter, Matthias Pfeiffer, Alexander Murso, Christian Lustig, Thomas Stey, Vadapalli Chandrasekhar, and Dietmar Stalke pp 1381–1388 DOI: 10.1021/ja0023736 Supporting Info

Mechanisms of the Shape Evolution of CdSe Nanocrystals Z. Adam Peng and Xiaogang Peng pp 1389–1395 DOI: 10.1021/ja0027766 Supporting Info

Infrared Study of the Class II/Class III Boundary in Mixed-Valence Dinuclear Ruthenium Complexes Maria C. DeRosa, Christopher A. White, Christopher E. B. Evans, and Robert J. Crutchley pp 1396–1402 DOI: 10.1021/ja002971k Supporting Info

Hydroxylation of Camphor by Reduced Oxy-Cytochrome P450cam:  Mechanistic Implications of EPR and ENDOR Studies of Catalytic Intermediates in Native and Mutant Enzymes Roman Davydov, Thomas M. Makris, Victoria Kofman, David E. Werst, Stephen G. Sligar, and Brian M. Hoffman pp 1403–1415 DOI: 10.1021/ja003583l Supporting Info

Structural and Dynamic Analysis of Residual Dipolar Coupling Data for Proteins Joel R. Tolman, Hashim M. Al-Hashimi, Lewis E. Kay, and James H. Prestegard pp 1416–1424 DOI: 10.1021/ja002500y Supporting Info

Ring-Expansion Reaction of Cyano-Substituted Singlet Phenyl Nitrenes:  Theoretical Predictions and Kinetic Results from Laser Flash Photolysis and Chemical Trapping Experiments Nina P. Gritsan, Igor Likhotvorik, Meng-Lin Tsao, Nil Çelebi, Matthew S. Platz, William L. Karney, Carl R. Kemnitz, and Weston Thatcher Borden pp 1425–1433 DOI: 10.1021/ja002594b Supporting Info

Size Effects on the Optical Properties of Organic Nanoparticles Hong-Bing Fu and Jian-Nian Yao pp 1434–1439 DOI: 10.1021/ja0026298

The Transition State for Metal-Catalyzed Dehalogenation: C−I Bond Cleavage on Ag(111) Mark T. Buelow and Andrew J. Gellman pp 1440–1448 DOI: 10.1021/ja002819i

Molecular Structure, Bonding, and Jahn−Teller Effect in Gold Chlorides:  Quantum Chemical Study of AuCl3, Au2Cl6, AuCl4-, AuCl, and Au2Cl2 and Electron Diffraction Study of Au2Cl6 Magdolna Hargittai, Axel Schulz, Balázs Réffy, and Mária Kolonits pp 1449–1458 DOI: 10.1021/ja003038k Supporting Info

Quantum Mechanical Dynamics of Hydride Transfer in Polycyclic Hydroxy Ketones in the Condensed Phase R. Mark Nicoll, Ian H. Hillier, and Donald G. Truhlar pp 1459–1463 DOI: 10.1021/ja003075b

Competitive Photochemical Reactivity in a Self-Assembled Monolayer on a Colloidal Gold Cluster Jun Hu, Jian Zhang, Fang Liu, Kevin Kittredge, James K. Whitesell, and Marye Anne Fox pp 1464–1470 DOI: 10.1021/ja003180l Supporting Info

Chain Length Dependence and Sensing Capabilities of the Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance of Silver Nanoparticles Chemically Modified with Alkanethiol Self-Assembled Monolayers Michelle Duval Malinsky, K. Lance Kelly, George C. Schatz, and Richard P. Van Duyne pp 1471–1482 DOI: 10.1021/ja003312a

Anion Exchange in Alkyl−Zirconocene Borate Ion Pairs. Are Solvated Alkyl−Zirconocene Cations Relevant Intermediates? Stefan Beck, Susanna Lieber, Frank Schaper, Armin Geyer, and Hans-Herbert Brintzinger pp 1483–1489 DOI: 10.1021/ja003531w

Large Anhydrous Polyalanine Ions: Evidence for Extended Helices and Onset of a More Compact State Anne E. Counterman and David E. Clemmer pp 1490–1498 DOI: 10.1021/ja9940625

Infrared Spectrum of the H3N−HCl Complex in Solid Neon Lester Andrews, Xuefeng Wang, and Zofia Mielke pp 1499–1500 DOI: 10.1021/ja003872+

Elliptic Column Consolidated by Acetylide Dianion, Cyanide, and Trifluoroacetate in a Novel Quadruple Salt of Silver(I) Quan-Ming Wang and Thomas C. W. Mak pp 1501–1502 DOI: 10.1021/ja0028727 Supporting Info

Structural Studies of the Low-Valent Titanium “Solution”:  What Goes on in the Pinacol Coupling Reaction? Yuko Hashimoto, Utako Mizuno, Hideki Matsuoka, Takafumi Miyahara, Masahiro Takakura, Mamoru Yoshimoto, Koichiro Oshima, Kiitiro Utimoto, and Seijiro Matsubara pp 1503–1504 DOI: 10.1021/ja001843t

Enantioselective Biomimetic Cyclization of Homo(polyprenyl)arenes. A New Entry to (+)-Podpcarpa-8,11,13-triene Diterpenoids and (−)-Tetracyclic Polyprenoid of Sedimentary Origin Kazuaki Ishihara, Hideaki Ishibashi, and Hisashi Yamamoto pp 1505–1506 DOI: 10.1021/ja003541x Supporting Info

Synthesis, Structure, and Reactions of a Tricoordinate 1,2-Iodoxetane Takayuki Kawashima, Kazuhisa Hoshiba, and Naokazu Kano pp 1507–1508 DOI: 10.1021/ja003393a Supporting Info

New Hybrid Organic−Inorganic Solids with Helical Morphology via H-Bond Mediated Sol−Gel Hydrolysis of Silyl Derivatives of Chiral (R,R)- or (S,S)-Diureidocyclohexane Joël J. E. Moreau, Luc Vellutini, Michel Wong Chi Man, and Catherine Bied pp 1509–1510 DOI: 10.1021/ja003843z

Matrix-Assisted Biomimetic Assembly of Ferritin Core Analogues in Organosilica Sol−Gels Mukti S. Rao, Igor S. Dubenko, Sujoy Roy, Naushad Ali, and Bakul C. Dave pp 1511–1512 DOI: 10.1021/ja003229n

“Hangman” Porphyrins for the Assembly of a Model Heme Water Channel Chen-Yu Yeh, Christopher J. Chang, and Daniel G. Nocera pp 1513–1514 DOI: 10.1021/ja003245k Supporting Info

Incorporating Multiply Bonded Dirhenium Species [Re2]n+ (n = 4 or 5) into Assemblies Containing Two or More Such Units Jitendra K. Bera, Panagiotis Angaridis, F. Albert Cotton, Marina A. Petrukhina, Phillip E. Fanwick, and Richard A. Walton pp 1515–1516 DOI: 10.1021/ja003589a Supporting Info

A Novel Europium(III)-Based MRI Contrast Agent Shanrong Zhang, Patrick Winter, Kuangcong Wu, and A. Dean Sherry pp 1517–1518 DOI: 10.1021/ja005820q

Mesoporous Polystyrene Monoliths Andrew S. Zalusky, Roberto Olayo-Valles, Charles J. Taylor, and Marc A. Hillmyer pp 1519–1520 DOI: 10.1021/ja003936g Supporting Info

A Subtype-Selective Thyromimetic Designed to Bind a Mutant Thyroid Hormone Receptor Implicated in Resistance to Thyroid Hormone Hai Fen Ye, Kathryn E. O'Reilly, and John T. Koh pp 1521–1522 DOI: 10.1021/ja003442j Supporting Info

Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of the Transition- State Inhibitors of Coelenterazine Bioluminescence:  Probing the Chiral Environment of Active Site Hideshi Nakamura, Chun Wu, Satoshi Inouye, and Akio Murai pp 1523–1524 DOI: 10.1021/ja005663v Supporting Info

An Inhibitor of the Interaction of Thyroid Hormone Receptor β and Glucocorticoid Interacting Protein 1 Timothy R. Geistlinger and R. Kiplin Guy pp 1525–1526 DOI: 10.1021/ja005549c Supporting Info

Site-Specific Incorporation of Nitroxide Spin-Labels into Internal Sites of the TAR RNA; Structure-Dependent Dynamics of RNA by EPR Spectroscopy Thomas E. Edwards, Tamara M. Okonogi, Bruce H. Robinson, and Snorri Th. Sigurdsson pp 1527–1528 DOI: 10.1021/ja005649i Supporting Info

A New Family of Octahedral Molecular Sieves:  Sodium Ti/ZrIV Niobates May Nyman, Akhilesh Tripathi, John B. Parise, Robert S. Maxwell, William T. A. Harrison, and Tina M. Nenoff pp 1529–1530 DOI: 10.1021/ja005816e Supporting Info

Catalytic, Asymmetric α-Halogenation Harald Wack, Andrew E. Taggi, Ahmed M. Hafez, William J. Drury, III, and Thomas Lectka pp 1531–1532 DOI: 10.1021/ja005791j Supporting Info

Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (−)-Isolaurallene Michael T. Crimmins and Kyle A. Emmitte pp 1533–1534 DOI: 10.1021/ja005892h Supporting Info

“Reagentless” Micropatterning of Organics on Silicon Surfaces:  Control of Hydrophobic/Hydrophilic Domains1 James T. C. Wojtyk, Mauro Tomietto, Rabah Boukherroub, and Danial D. M. Wayner pp 1535–1536 DOI: 10.1021/ja005741e

Phospholipid Bicelles with Positive Anisotropy of the Magnetic Susceptibility Gyoujin Cho, B. M. Fung, and Ven B. Reddy pp 1537–1538 DOI: 10.1021/ja005605+

Synthesis, Utility, and Structure of Novel Bis(sulfinyl)imidoamidine Ligands for Asymmetric Lewis Acid Catalysis Timothy D. Owens, Frederick J. Hollander, Allen G. Oliver, and Jonathan A. Ellman pp 1539–1540 DOI: 10.1021/ja005635c Supporting Info

Determination of Protein Backbone Structure Using Only Residual Dipolar Couplings Jean-Christophe Hus, Dominique Marion, and Martin Blackledge pp 1541–1542 DOI: 10.1021/ja005590f

Theoretical Modeling of Putative Ni(III)−F430 Intermediates of Methylcoenzyme M Reductase Tebikie Wondimagegn and Abhik Ghosh pp 1543–1544 DOI: 10.1021/ja001870j Supporting Info

Recognition of a Single Guanine Bulge by 2-Acylamino-1,8-naphthyridine [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 2172−2177]. Kazuhiko Nakatani, Shinsuke Sando, and Isao Saito p 1545 DOI: 10.1021/ja004667x

Intriguing Gold TrifluorideMolecular Structure of Monomers and Dimers:  An Electron Diffraction and Quantum Chemical Study  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 3127−3134]. Balázs Réffy, Mária Kolonits, Axel Schulz, Thomas M. Klapötke, and Magdolna Hargittai p 1545 DOI: 10.1021/ja004669h

The First Catalytic Sulfoxidation of Saturated Hydrocarbons with SO2/O2 by a Vanadium Species  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 7390].  Yasutaka Ishii, Katsuhisa Matsunaka, and Satoshi Sakaguchi p 1545 DOI: 10.1021/ja004670g

An Unnatural Amino Acid that Mimics a Tripeptide β-Strand and Forms β-Sheetlike Hydrogen-Bonded Dimers [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 7654-7661].  James S. Nowick, De Michael Chung, Kalyani Maitra, Santanu Maitra, Kimberly D. Stigers, and Ye Sun pp 1545–1546 DOI: 10.1021/ja0046719

Calixarenes in Action Edited by Luigi Mandolini (Università “La Sapienza”) and Rocco Ungaro (Univsersità delgi Studi di Parma). Imperial College Press:  London. 2000. x + 272 pp. $56.00. ISBN 1-86094-194-X. Michael Lattman p 1546 DOI: 10.1021/ja004800l

Catalysis of Organic Reactions Edited by Michael E. Ford (Air Products and Chemicals, Allentown, PA). Marcel Dekker:  New York and Basel. 2000. xxvi + 630 pp. $195. ISBN 0-8247-0486-X. p 1546 DOI: 10.1021/ja004844u

The Role of Natural Products in Drug Discovery. Ernst Schering Research Foundation Workshop 32 Edited by J. Mulzer (Universität Wien) and R. Bohlmann (Preclinical Drug Research, Berlin). Springer-Verlag:  Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. 2000. xiv + 352 pp. $74.95. ISBN 3-540-67540-X p 1546 DOI: 10.1021/ja0048533

Handbook of Hydroxybenzophenones By Robert Martin (formerly of the Institut Curie, Paris). Kluwer Academic Publishers:  Dordrecht, Boston, London. 2000. xii + 650 pp. $305. ISBN 0-7923-6507-0 p 1546 DOI: 10.1021/ja004855n

Issue 08

Highly Stereoselective Reagents for β-Keto Ester Reductions by Genetic Engineering of Baker's Yeast Sonia Rodríguez, Margaret M. Kayser, and Jon D. Stewart pp 1547–1555 DOI: 10.1021/ja0027968

Bridging the Gap between Proteins and Nucleic Acids:  A Metal-Independent RNAseA Mimic with Two Protein-Like Functionalities David M. Perrin, Thérèse Garestier, and Claude Hélène pp 1556–1563 DOI: 10.1021/ja003290s Supporting Info

Correlation of Relative Rates of PdCl2 Oxidation of Functionalized Acyclic Alkenes versus Alkene Ionization Potentials, HOMOs, and LUMOs Donna J. Nelson, Ruibo Li, and Christopher Brammer pp 1564–1568 DOI: 10.1021/ja002190j

The Bicyclo[2.2.2]octyl Carbene System as a Probe for Migratory Aptitudes of Hydrogen to Carbenic Centers Xavier Creary and Mark A. Butchko pp 1569–1578 DOI: 10.1021/ja002407+ Supporting Info

Proton-Transfer Reactions between Nitroalkanes and Hydroxide Ion under Non-Steady-State Conditions. Apparent and Real Kinetic Isotope Effects Yixing Zhao, Yun Lu, and Vernon D. Parker pp 1579–1586 DOI: 10.1021/ja003607o

Chemoselective Elaboration of O-Linked Glycopeptide Mimetics by Alkylation of 3-ThioGalNAc Lisa A. Marcaurelle and Carolyn R. Bertozzi pp 1587–1595 DOI: 10.1021/ja003713q Supporting Info

Crystallographic and FTIR Spectroscopic Evidence of Changes in Fe Coordination Upon Reduction of the Active Site of the Fe-Only Hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans Yvain Nicolet, Antonio L. de Lacey, Xavier Vernède, Victor M. Fernandez, E. Claude Hatchikian, and Juan C. Fontecilla-Camps pp 1596–1601 DOI: 10.1021/ja0020963

Reaction of [P2N2]TaCH2(Me) with Ethylene:  Synthesis of [P2N2]Ta(C2H4)Et, a Neutral Species with a β-Agostic Ethyl Group in Equilibrium with an α-Agostic Ethyl Group ([P2N2] = PhP(CH2SiMe2NSiMe2CH2)2PPh) Michael D. Fryzuk, Samuel A. Johnson, and Steven J. Rettig pp 1602–1612 DOI: 10.1021/ja0021621 Supporting Info

Engineering of Efficient Panchromatic Sensitizers for Nanocrystalline TiO2-Based Solar Cells Mohammad K. Nazeeruddin, Peter Péchy, Thierry Renouard, Shaik M. Zakeeruddin, Robin Humphry-Baker, Pascal Comte, Paul Liska, Le Cevey, Emiliana Costa, Valery Shklover, Leone Spiccia, Glen B. Deacon, Carlo A. Bignozzi, and Michael Grätzel pp 1613–1624 DOI: 10.1021/ja003299u

A Homogeneous Catalyst for Selective O2 Oxidation at Ambient Temperature. Diversity-Based Discovery and Mechanistic Investigation of Thioether Oxidation by the Au(III)Cl2NO3(thioether)/O2 System Eric Boring, Yurii V. Geletii, and Craig L. Hill pp 1625–1635 DOI: 10.1021/ja0033133 Supporting Info

Reactions of VX, GB, GD, and HD with Nanosize Al2O3. Formation of Aluminophosphonates George W. Wagner, Lawrence R. Procell, Richard J. O'Connor, Shekar Munavalli, Corrie L. Carnes, Pramesh N. Kapoor, and Kenneth J. Klabunde pp 1636–1644 DOI: 10.1021/ja003518b Supporting Info

Composition Dependence of the Nucleation Energy of Iron Antimonides from Modulated Elemental Reactants Joshua R. Williams, Mark Johnson, and David C. Johnson pp 1645–1649 DOI: 10.1021/ja003791d

Synthesis of Ordered and Disordered Silicas with Uniform Pores on the Border between Micropore and Mesopore Regions Using Short Double-Chain Surfactants Ryong Ryoo, In-Soo Park, Shinae Jun, Chul Wee Lee, Michal Kruk, and Mietek Jaroniec pp 1650–1657 DOI: 10.1021/ja0038326 Supporting Info

Hydrogenolysis of Cyclohexane over Ir/SiO2 Catalyst:  A Mechanistic Study of Carbon−Carbon Bond Cleavage on Metallic Surfaces François Locatelli, Jean-Pierre Candy, Blaise Didillon, Gerald P. Niccolai, Denis Uzio, and Jean-Marie Basset pp 1658–1663 DOI: 10.1021/ja000290j Supporting Info

Understanding the Mechanism of B12-Dependent Diol Dehydratase:  A Synergistic Retro-Push−Pull Proposal David M. Smith, Bernard T. Golding, and Leo Radom pp 1664–1675 DOI: 10.1021/ja001454z Supporting Info

A Mechanistic Study of Reactions of Stable Disilenes with Haloalkanes Mitsuo Kira,* Tai Ishima, Takeaki Iwamoto, and Masaaki Ichinohe pp 1676–1682 DOI: 10.1021/ja002798s Supporting Info

Energy Analysis of Metal-Ligand Bonding in Transition Metal Complexes with Terminal Group-13 Diyl Ligands (CO)4Fe-ER, Fe(EMe)5 and Ni(EMe)4 (E = B−Tl; R = Cp, N(SiH3)2, Ph, Me) Reveals Significant π Bonding in Homoleptical Molecules Jamal Uddin and Gernot Frenking pp 1683–1693 DOI: 10.1021/ja002845g Supporting Info

In Situ X-ray Diffraction and Solid-State NMR Study of the Fluorination of γ-Al2O3 with HCF2Cl Peter J. Chupas, Michael F. Ciraolo, Jonathan C. Hanson, and Clare P. Grey pp 1694–1702 DOI: 10.1021/ja0032374

Density Functional Studies on the Pauson−Khand Reaction Masahiro Yamanaka and Eiichi Nakamura pp 1703–1708 DOI: 10.1021/ja005565+ Supporting Info

A Hybrid Potential Reaction Path and Free Energy Study of the Chorismate Mutase Reaction Sergio Martí, Juan Andrés, Vicent Moliner, Estanislao Silla, Iñaki Tuñón, Juan Bertrán, and Martin J. Field pp 1709–1712 DOI: 10.1021/ja003522n

Investigation of the Polymorphs of Dimethyl-3,6-Dichloro-2,5-Dihydroxyterephthalate by 13C Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy Mark Strohmeier, Anita M. Orendt, D. W. Alderman, and David M. Grant pp 1713–1722 DOI: 10.1021/ja003599b

Substituent Effects on the Oxidation and Reduction Potentials of Phenylthiyl Radicals in Acetonitrile Allan Godsk Larsen, Allan Hjarbæk Holm, Mark Roberson, and Kim Daasbjerg pp 1723–1729 DOI: 10.1021/ja003811b

Structural Studies of an Oligodeoxynucleotide Containing a Trimethylene Interstrand Cross-Link in a 5‘-(CpG) Motif: Model of a Malondialdehyde Cross-Link Patricia A. Dooley, Dimitrios Tsarouhtsis, Gregory A. Korbel, Lubomir V. Nechev, Jill Shearer, Irene S. Zegar, Constance M. Harris, Michael P. Stone, and Thomas M. Harris pp 1730–1739 DOI: 10.1021/ja003163w Supporting Info

Split−Pool Synthesis of 1,3-Dioxanes Leading to Arrayed Stock Solutions of Single Compounds Sufficient for Multiple Phenotypic and Protein-Binding Assays Scott M. Sternson, Joseph B. Louca, Jason C. Wong, and Stuart L. Schreiber pp 1740–1747 DOI: 10.1021/ja0036108 Supporting Info

Supramolecular Polar Thin Films Built by Surfactant Liquid Crystals:  Polarization-Tunable Multilayer Self-Assemblies with In-Plane Ferroelectric Ordering of Ion-Based Dipoles Akihiko Kanazawa, Tomiki Ikeda, and Jiro Abe pp 1748–1754 DOI: 10.1021/ja003302+

Quantum Mechanical Designs toward Planar Delocalized Cyclooctatetraene:  A New Target for Synthesis Kim K. Baldridge* and Jay S. Siegel* pp 1755–1759 DOI: 10.1021/ja003383+ Supporting Info

Reactivities of Inositol and Ribonucleoside Phosphodiesters toward P−O Bond Cleavage Robert J. Kubiak and Karol S. Bruzik* pp 1760–1761 DOI: 10.1021/ja003675a

A Novel Type of Carbon−Carbon Double Bond Cleavage of 1,1-Disubstituted Alkenes on a Triruthenium Polyhydrido Cluster Toshifumi Takemori, Akiko Inagaki, and Hiroharu Suzuki pp 1762–1763 DOI: 10.1021/ja003440z Supporting Info

Supramolecular Holoenzymes:  Activity Modulation of Endonuclease by the Use of Synthetic Bilayer Membranes as Regulatory Cofactors Nobuo Kimizuka, Atsushi Baba, and Toyoki Kunitake pp 1764–1765 DOI: 10.1021/ja0030313 Supporting Info

Enthalpy−Entropy Compensation in a Photocycle:  The K-to-L Transition in Sensory Rhodopsin II from Natronobacterium pharaonis Aba Losi, Ansgar A. Wegener, Martin Engelhard, and Silvia E. Braslavsky pp 1766–1767 DOI: 10.1021/ja002677s

Efficient Synthesis of Benzene and Planar Cyclooctatetraene Fully Annelated with Bicyclo[2.1.1]hex-2-ene Akira Matsuura and Koichi Komatsu pp 1768–1769 DOI: 10.1021/ja003512m Supporting Info

Residual Dipolar 1H−1H Couplings of Methyl Groups in Weakly Aligned Proteins Andrei Kaikkonen and Gottfried Otting pp 1770–1771 DOI: 10.1021/ja003674i Supporting Info

Metal Ion-Directed Cooperative Triple Helix Formation of Glutamic Acid−Oligonucleotide Conjugate Toshihiro Ihara, Yuka Takeda, and Akinori Jyo pp 1772–1773 DOI: 10.1021/ja0027362 Supporting Info

High-Temperature Protein Mass Mapping Using a Thermophilic Protease Steven J. Bark, Nemone Muster, John R. Yates, III, and Gary Siuzdak pp 1774–1775 DOI: 10.1021/ja002909n

A DNA Polymerase with Specificity for Five Base Pairs Alexander K. Showalter and Ming-Daw Tsai pp 1776–1777 DOI: 10.1021/ja005758x Supporting Info

Stoichiometric, Catalytic, and Enantioface-Selective Hydrogenation of CN Bonds by an Ionic Mechanism Matthew P. Magee and Jack R. Norton pp 1778–1779 DOI: 10.1021/ja003630+ Supporting Info

Xenon Difluoride Exchanges Fluoride under Mild Conditions: A Simple Preparation of [18F]Xenon Difluoride for PET and Mechanistic Studies Maria Constantinou, Franklin I. Aigbirhio, Rachel G. Smith, Christopher A. Ramsden, and Victor W. Pike pp 1780–1781 DOI: 10.1021/ja003321j

Metal Chelators Inhibit S-Nitrosation of Cysβ93 in Oxyhemoglobin Andrea A. Romeo, Angelo Filosa, John A. Capobianco, and Ann M. English pp 1782–1783 DOI: 10.1021/ja005612y

Photoregulation of Fluorescence in a Porphyrinic Dithienylethene Photochrome Tyler B. Norsten and Neil R. Branda pp 1784–1785 DOI: 10.1021/ja005639h Supporting Info

Acetyl Coenzyme A Synthesis from Unnatural Methylated Corrinoids:  Requirement for “Base-Off” Coordination at Cobalt Javier Seravalli, Kenneth L. Brown, and Stephen W. Ragsdale pp 1786–1787 DOI: 10.1021/ja005709k Supporting Info

N,N‘-Dimethylpiperazinium-2,3-dithione Triiodide, [Me2Pipdt]I3, as a Powerful New Oxidation Agent toward Metallic Platinum. Synthesis and X-ray Structures of the Reagent and the Product [Pt(Me2Pipdt)2](I3)2 Francesco Bigoli, Paola Deplano, Maria Laura Mercuri, Maria Angela Pellinghelli, Gloria Pintus, Angela Serpe, and Emanuele F. Trogu pp 1788–1789 DOI: 10.1021/ja0056015 Supporting Info

Electrophoretic Characterization of Dynamic Biochemical Microenvironments Mary Jane Gordon and Jason B. Shear pp 1790–1791 DOI: 10.1021/ja005830r

Chain Length-Dependent Affinity of Helical Foldamers for a Rodlike Guest Aya Tanatani, Matthew J. Mio, and Jeffrey S. Moore pp 1792–1793 DOI: 10.1021/ja003678n Supporting Info

X-ray Crystal Structure of Alcohol Products Bound at the Active Site of Soluble Methane Monooxygenase Hydroxylase Douglas A. Whittington, Matthew H. Sazinsky, and Stephen J. Lippard pp 1794–1795 DOI: 10.1021/ja0031725 Supporting Info

Classics in Hydrocarbon Chemistry. Syntheses, Concepts, Perspectives By Henning Hopf (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany). With a Foreword by W. von Eggers Doering. Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2000. xiii + 547 pp. Hardcover:  $79.95. ISBN 3-527-30216-6. Paperback:  $49.95. ISBN 3-527-29606-9. John E. Baldwin p 1796 DOI: 10.1021/ja0048127

Protein Structure Prediction:  Methods and Protocols Edited by David M. Webster (Southern Cross Molecular, Bath, UK). Methods in Molecular Biology 143. Humana Press:  Totowa, NJ. 2000. x + 422 pp. $89.50. ISBN 0-89603-637-5. John R. Gunn p 1796 DOI: 10.1021/ja004820n

Issue 09

A de Novo Designed Peptide Ligase:  A Mechanistic Investigation Alan J. Kennan, V. Haridas, Kay Severin, David H. Lee, and M. Reza Ghadiri pp 1797–1803 DOI: 10.1021/ja991266c

New Manzamine Alkaloids with Potent Activity against Infectious Diseases K. A. El Sayed, M. Kelly, U. A. K. Kara, K. K. H. Ang, I. Katsuyama, D. C. Dunbar, A. A. Khan, and M. T. Hamann pp 1804–1808 DOI: 10.1021/ja002073o Supporting Info

Synthesis of N,N‘-bis(Acrylamido)acetic Acid-Based T-Antigen Glycodendrimers and Their Mouse Monoclonal IgG Antibody Binding Properties René Roy, Myung-Gi Baek, and Kate Rittenhouse-Olson pp 1809–1816 DOI: 10.1021/ja002596w

Diastereoselective Tandem 6-exo Carbolithiation Intramolecular Ring Opening in (−)-8-Aminomenthol-Derived Perhydrobenzoxazines. A New Synthesis of Enantiopure 4-Substituted Tetrahydro Isoquinolines and 2-Azabenzonorbornanes Rafael Pedrosa, Celia Andrés, Jesús M. Iglesias, and Alfonso Pérez-Encabo pp 1817–1821 DOI: 10.1021/ja002864q Supporting Info

Stereospecificity of Acetylene Reduction Catalyzed by Nitrogenase Paul M. C. Benton, Jason Christiansen, Dennis R. Dean, and Lance C. Seefeldt pp 1822–1827 DOI: 10.1021/ja003662x

Oligonucleotide-Directed Assembly of Materials:  Defined Oligomers Shane M. Waybright, Chainey P. Singleton, Kimberly Wachter, Catherine J. Murphy, and Uwe H. F. Bunz pp 1828–1833 DOI: 10.1021/ja000950k Supporting Info

Disappearing and Reappearing Polymorphs. The Benzocaine:Picric Acid System Jan-Olav Henck, Joel Bernstein, Arkady Ellern, and Roland Boese pp 1834–1841 DOI: 10.1021/ja002113o

Halogenation of Cubane under Phase-Transfer Conditions:  Single and Double C−H-Bond Substitution with Conservation of the Cage Structure Andrey A. Fokin, Oliver Lauenstein, Pavel A. Gunchenko, and Peter R. Schreiner pp 1842–1847 DOI: 10.1021/ja0032677 Supporting Info

Kinetic Studies of Heck Coupling Reactions Using Palladacycle Catalysts: Experimental and Kinetic Modeling of the Role of Dimer Species Thorsten Rosner, Joel Le Bars, Andreas Pfaltz, and Donna G. Blackmond pp 1848–1855 DOI: 10.1021/ja003191e

Remarkable Control of Radical Cyclization Processes of Cyclic Enyne:  Total Syntheses of (±)-Methyl Gummiferolate, (±)-Methyl 7β-Hydroxykaurenoate, and (±)-Methyl 7-Oxokaurenoate and Formal Synthesis of (±)-Gibberellin A12 from a Common Synthetic Precursor Masahiro Toyota, Masahiro Yokota, and Masataka Ihara pp 1856–1861 DOI: 10.1021/ja0035506 Supporting Info

First and Second Generation Total Synthesis of the Teicoplanin Aglycon Dale L. Boger, Seong Heon Kim, Yoshiki Mori, Jian-Hui Weng, Olivier Rogel, Steven L. Castle, and J. Jeffrey McAtee pp 1862–1871 DOI: 10.1021/ja003835i Supporting Info

Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Eunicenone A Thomas W. Lee and E. J. Corey pp 1872–1877 DOI: 10.1021/ja004043r Supporting Info

Total Synthesis and Determination of the Absolute Configuration of Frondosin B Masayuki Inoue, Matthew W. Carson, Alison J. Frontier, and Samuel J. Danishefsky pp 1878–1889 DOI: 10.1021/ja0021060 Supporting Info

Pursuit of Optimal Carbohydrate-Based Anticancer Vaccines:  Preparation of a Multiantigenic Unimolecular Glycopeptide Containing the Tn, MBr1, and Lewisy Antigens Jennifer R. Allen, Christina R. Harris, and Samuel J. Danishefsky pp 1890–1897 DOI: 10.1021/ja002779i Supporting Info

Double-Strand Hydrolysis of Plasmid DNA by Dicerium Complexes at 37 °C Mark E. Branum, Adrianne K. Tipton, Shourong Zhu, and Lawrence Que, Jr. pp 1898–1904 DOI: 10.1021/ja0010103 Supporting Info

1H Pulsed ENDOR and ESEEM Evidence That the Bis-imidazole Complexes of Iron(III) Tetraphenylchlorin and Tetraphenylporphyrin Have the Same Order of g Values, and the Same Electronic Ground State Andrei V. Astashkin, Arnold M. Raitsimring, and F. Ann Walker pp 1905–1913 DOI: 10.1021/ja002777y

Catalysis and Inhibition of Ligand Substitution in Palladium(II) Square-Planar Complexes:  Effects of DNA Matteo Cusumano, Maria Letizia Di Pietro, Antonino Giannetto, Maria Anna Messina, and Francesco Romano pp 1914–1919 DOI: 10.1021/ja003395v Supporting Info

Bis(Dithiolene)molybdenum Analogues Relevant to the DMSO Reductase Enzyme Family:  Synthesis, Structures, and Oxygen Atom Transfer Reactions and Kinetics Booyong Shim Lim and R. H. Holm pp 1920–1930 DOI: 10.1021/ja003546u Supporting Info

Oxo Transfer Reactions Mediated by Bis(dithiolene)tungsten Analogues of the Active Sites of Molybdoenzymes in the DMSO Reductase Family:  Comparative Reactivity of Tungsten and Molybdenum Kie-Moon Sung and R. H. Holm pp 1931–1943 DOI: 10.1021/ja0036559 Supporting Info

Coordination of Lewis Acid to η2-Enonepalladium(0) Leading to Continuous Structure Variation from η2-Olefin Type to η3-Allyl Type Sensuke Ogoshi, Tomohiro Yoshida, Takuma Nishida, Masaki Morita, and Hideo Kurosawa pp 1944–1950 DOI: 10.1021/ja0036099 Supporting Info

A Laser Flash Photolysis and Quantum Chemical Study of the Fluorinated Derivatives of Singlet Phenylnitrene Nina P. Gritsan, Anna Dóra Gudmundsdóttir, Dean Tigelaar, Zhendong Zhu, William L. Karney, Christopher M. Hadad, and Matthew S. Platz pp 1951–1962 DOI: 10.1021/ja9944305 Supporting Info

Solvent and Temperature Effects on the Chiral Aggregation of Poly(alkylarylsilane)s Bearing Remote Chiral Groups Hiroshi Nakashima, Michiya Fujiki, Julian R. Koe, and Masao Motonaga pp 1963–1969 DOI: 10.1021/ja000869h Supporting Info

Quantum Chemical Investigation of Mechanisms of Silane Oxidation Mary M. Mader and Per-Ola Norrby pp 1970–1976 DOI: 10.1021/ja001400p Supporting Info

The Infrared Spectrum of the Matrix-Isolated Phenyl Radical Anders V. Friderichsen, Juliusz G. Radziszewski, Mark R. Nimlos, Paul R. Winter, David C. Dayton, Donald E. David, and G. Barney Ellison pp 1977–1988 DOI: 10.1021/ja0024338

Oligomer−Oligomer versus Oligomer−Monomer C2−C2‘ Coupling Reactions in Polypyrrole Growth Jean-Christophe Lacroix, Francois Maurel, and Pierre-Camille Lacaze pp 1989–1996 DOI: 10.1021/ja0025954

Infrared Spectrum of the Hyponitrite Dianion, N2O22-, Isolated and Insulated from Stabilizing Metal Cations in Solid Argon Lester Andrews and Binyong Liang pp 1997–2002 DOI: 10.1021/ja0029331

An NMR and ab Initio Quantum Chemical Study of Acid−Base Equilibria for Conformationally Constrained Acidic α-Amino Acids in Aqueous Solution Peter Aadal Nielsen, Jerzy W. Jaroszewski, Per-Ola Norrby, and Tommy Liljefors pp 2003–2006 DOI: 10.1021/ja002926c Supporting Info

Variational Principles for Describing Chemical Reactions. Reactivity Indices Based on the External Potential Paul W. Ayers and Robert G. Parr pp 2007–2017 DOI: 10.1021/ja002966g

On the Importance of Prereactive Complexes in Molecule−Radical Reactions:  Hydrogen Abstraction from Aldehydes by OH J. Raúl Alvarez-Idaboy, Nelaine Mora-Diez, Russell J. Boyd, and Annik Vivier-Bunge pp 2018–2024 DOI: 10.1021/ja003372g Supporting Info

Reductive Dechlorination of Hexachloroethane in the Environment: Mechanistic Studies via Computational Electrochemistry Eric V. Patterson, Christopher J. Cramer, and Donald G. Truhlar pp 2025–2031 DOI: 10.1021/ja0035349 Supporting Info

Segmental Dynamics of Interfacial Poly(methyl acrylate)-d3 in Composites by Deuterium NMR Spectroscopy Wuu-Yung Lin and Frank D. Blum pp 2032–2037 DOI: 10.1021/ja003567o

Solvent Effects on the Thioamide Rotational Barrier:  An Experimental and Theoretical Study Kenneth B. Wiberg and Daniel J. Rush pp 2038–2046 DOI: 10.1021/ja003586y Supporting Info

Hydrogen-Bond Mediated Catalysis:  The Aminolysis of 6-Chloropyrimidine as Catalyzed by Derivatives of Uracil Kathryn N. Rankin, James W. Gauld, and Russell J. Boyd pp 2047–2052 DOI: 10.1021/ja0038373 Supporting Info

How Far Do Electrons Move? A Semiempirical Investigation of Thermal Electron-Transfer Distances in Cationic Bis(hydrazine) and Bis(hydrazyl) Mixed-Valence Compounds Robert C. Johnson and Joseph T. Hupp pp 2053–2057 DOI: 10.1021/ja003848w Supporting Info

Carbon Nanotubes as Superior Sorbent for Dioxin Removal Richard Q. Long and Ralph T. Yang pp 2058–2059 DOI: 10.1021/ja003830l

Thiol-Independent DNA Alkylation by Leinamycin Leonid Breydo, Hong Zang, Kaushik Mitra, and Kent S. Gates pp 2060–2061 DOI: 10.1021/ja003309r Supporting Info

A Highly Active Well-Defined Rhenium Heterogeneous Catalyst for Olefin Metathesis Prepared via Surface Organometallic Chemistry Mathieu Chabanas, Anne Baudouin, Christophe Copéret, and Jean-Marie Basset pp 2062–2063 DOI: 10.1021/ja000900f Supporting Info

The Energetic Contribution of a Bifurcated Hydrogen Bond to the Binding of DAPI to dA-dT Rich Sequences of DNA Tao Lan and Larry W. McLaughlin pp 2064–2065 DOI: 10.1021/ja003451s Supporting Info

131Xe, a New NMR Probe of Void Space in Solids Igor L. Moudrakovski, Christopher I. Ratcliffe, and John A. Ripmeester pp 2066–2067 DOI: 10.1021/ja0035248

NMR Study of Monomer−Dimer Equilibrium of Barstar in Solution Denis S. Korchuganov, Svetlana B. Nolde, Mikhail Ya. Reibarkh, Vladislav Yu. Orekhov, Alexey A. Schulga, Yaroslav S. Ermolyuk, Mikhail P. Kirpichnikov, and Alexander S. Arseniev pp 2068–2069 DOI: 10.1021/ja0025447 Supporting Info

Catalytic Asymmetric C−H Activation of Silyl Enol Ethers as an Equivalent of an Asymmetric Michael Reaction Huw M. L. Davies* and Pingda Ren pp 2070–2071 DOI: 10.1021/ja0035607 Supporting Info

Synthetic Peptide Receptors: Molecularly Imprinted Polymers for the Recognition of Peptides Using Peptide−Metal Interactions Bradley R. Hart and Kenneth J. Shea pp 2072–2073 DOI: 10.1021/ja005661a Supporting Info

A Novel Cu-Assisted Cycloisomerization of Alkynyl Imines:  Efficient Synthesis of Pyrroles and Pyrrole-Containing Heterocycles Alexander V. Kel'in, Anna W. Sromek, and Vladimir Gevorgyan pp 2074–2075 DOI: 10.1021/ja0058684 Supporting Info

Toward Creation of a Universal NMR Database for Stereochemical Assignment:  Complete Structure of the Desertomycin/Oasomycin Class of Natural Products Yoshihisa Kobayashi, Choon-Hong Tan, and Yoshito Kishi pp 2076–2078 DOI: 10.1021/ja004154q Supporting Info

Enhanced Triple Helix Stability of Collagen Peptides with 4R-Aminoprolyl (Amp) Residues:  Relative Roles of Electrostatic and Hydrogen Bonding Effects I. Ramesh Babu and Krishna N. Ganesh pp 2079–2080 DOI: 10.1021/ja002165d Supporting Info

Sugar Nucleotide Regeneration Beads (Superbeads):  A Versatile Tool for the Practical Synthesis of Oligosaccharides Xi Chen, Jianwen Fang, Jianbo Zhang, Ziye Liu, Jun Shao, Przemyslaw Kowal, Peter Andreana, and Peng George Wang pp 2081–2082 DOI: 10.1021/ja005738v Supporting Info

Configuration-Dependent Heat Capacity of Pairwise Hydrophobic Interactions Seishi Shimizu and Hue Sun Chan pp 2083–2084 DOI: 10.1021/ja0034390

H−H Distances in Elongated Transition Metal Dihydrogen Complexes:  Effects of Temperature and Isotopic Substitution James K. Law, Heather Mellows, and D. Michael Heinekey pp 2085–2086 DOI: 10.1021/ja005536z

Formation of Unsymmetrical Polyoxotungstates via Transfer of Polyoxometalate Building Blocks. NMR Evidence Supports the Kinetic Stability of the Pentatungstate Anion, [W5O18]6-, in Aqueous Solution Nebebech Belai, Masahiro Sadakane, and Michael T. Pope pp 2087–2088 DOI: 10.1021/ja005578n

Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis of Axially Chiral Allenes:  A Synergistic Effect of Dibenzalacetone on High Enantioselectivity Masamichi Ogasawara, Hisashi Ikeda, Takashi Nagano, and Tamio Hayashi pp 2089–2090 DOI: 10.1021/ja005921o Supporting Info

Stereoselective Generation of E- and Z-Disubstituted Amide Enolates. Reductive Enolate Formation from Bicyclic Thioglycolate Lactams Jeffrey M. Manthorpe and James L. Gleason pp 2091–2092 DOI: 10.1021/ja0058280 Supporting Info

Unexpected Entropy-Driven Ring-Opening Polymerization in a Reversible Supramolecular System Brigitte J. B. Folmer, Rint P. Sijbesma, and E. W. Meijer pp 2093–2094 DOI: 10.1021/ja005754s Supporting Info

Application of Baldwin's Rules for the Preparation of Stable, β-Leaving Group-Bearing Organolithium Compounds M. Isabel Calaza, M. Rita Paleo, and F. Javier Sardina pp 2095–2096 DOI: 10.1021/ja005745j

Total Synthesis of (±)-Epoxysorbicillinol John L. Wood, Brian D. Thompson, Naeem Yusuff, Derek A. Pflum, and Mike S. P. Matthäus pp 2097–2098 DOI: 10.1021/ja0057979 Supporting Info

Synthesis of Novel Expanded Calixphyrins:  Anion Binding Properties of a Calix[6]phyrin with a Deep Cavity Christophe Bucher, Rebecca S. Zimmerman, Vincent Lynch, Vladimir Král, and Jonathan L. Sessler* pp 2099–2100 DOI: 10.1021/ja005842c Supporting Info

Growth of Ionic Crystals in Carbon Nanotubes Mark Wilson and Paul A. Madden pp 2101–2102 DOI: 10.1021/ja003737x Supporting Info

Chemical Cross-Linking, Surface Compressional Modulus, and Viscosity of n-Octadecyltrimethoxy Silane Monolayers Stephen R. Carino, Randolph S. Duran, Ronald H. Baney, Laurie A. Gower, Liu He, and Piyush K. Sheth pp 2103–2104 DOI: 10.1021/ja0055514

Electrochemical AFM “Dip-Pen” Nanolithography Yan Li, Benjamin W. Maynor, and Jie Liu pp 2105–2106 DOI: 10.1021/ja005654m Supporting Info

Conformational Restriction of Flexible Ligands Guided by the Transferred NOE Experiment:  Potent Macrocyclic Inhibitors of Farnesyltransferase Christopher J. Dinsmore, Michael J. Bogusky, J. Christopher Culberson, Jeffrey M. Bergman, Carl F. Homnick, C. Blair Zartman, Scott D. Mosser, Michael D. Schaber, Ronald G. Robinson, Kenneth S. Koblan, Hans E. Huber, Samuel L. Graham, George D. Hartman, Joel R. Huff, and Theresa M. Williams pp 2107–2108 DOI: 10.1021/ja003673q Supporting Info

Issue 10

Carbon Monoxide Binding by de Novo Heme Proteins Derived from Designed Combinatorial Libraries David A. Moffet, Martin A. Case, John C. House, Kathleen Vogel, Robert D. Williams, Thomas G. Spiro, George L. McLendon, and Michael H. Hecht pp 2109–2115 DOI: 10.1021/ja0036007

Tuning the Strain and Polymerizability of Organometallic Rings:  The Synthesis, Structure, and Ring-Opening Polymerization Behavior of [2]Ferrocenophanes with C−Si, C−P, and C−S Bridges Rui Resendes, James M. Nelson, Armin Fischer, Frieder Jäkle, Alexandra Bartole, Alan J. Lough, and Ian Manners pp 2116–2126 DOI: 10.1021/ja002750e Supporting Info

The Importance of Model Studies in Computational Organic Synthesis H. W. Whitlock pp 2127–2133 DOI: 10.1021/ja003199o Supporting Info

Electronic Control of the Bergman Cyclization:  The Remarkable Role of Vinyl Substitution Graham B. Jones and Philip M. Warner pp 2134–2145 DOI: 10.1021/ja0033032 Supporting Info

Target Analogue Imprinted Polymers with Affinity for Folic Acid and Related Compounds Milena Quaglia, Karine Chenon, Andrew J. Hall, Ersilia De Lorenzi, and Börje Sellergren pp 2146–2154 DOI: 10.1021/ja003505y Supporting Info

Unraveling Structure−Reactivity Relationships in SNV Reactions: Kinetics of the Reactions of Methoxybenzylidenemalononitrile, 2-(Methylthiobenzylidene)-1,3-indandione, 2-(Benzylthiobenzylidene)-1,3-indandione, and Methyl β-Methylthio-α-nitrocinnamate with OH- and Thiolate Ions in Aqueous DMSO Claude F. Bernasconi, Rodney J. Ketner, Mark L. Ragains, Xin Chen, and Zvi Rappoport pp 2155–2164 DOI: 10.1021/ja003536t

Effects of Metal Ions on Physicochemical Properties and Redox Reactivity of Phenolates and Phenoxyl Radicals: Mechanistic Insight into Hydrogen Atom Abstraction by Phenoxyl Radical−Metal Complexes Shinobu Itoh, Hideyuki Kumei, Shigenori Nagatomo, Teizo Kitagawa, and Shunichi Fukuzumi pp 2165–2175 DOI: 10.1021/ja0036110 Supporting Info

α-Ketocarbonyl Peptides:  A General Approach to Reactive Resin-Bound Intermediates in the Synthesis of Peptide Isosteres for Protease Inhibitor Screening on Solid Support Alexandra Papanikos, Jörg Rademann, and Morten Meldal pp 2176–2181 DOI: 10.1021/ja003690f

Dodecahydroxy-closo-dodecaborate(2−) Toralf Peymann, Carolyn B. Knobler, Saeed I. Khan, and M. Frederick Hawthorne pp 2182–2185 DOI: 10.1021/ja0014887 Supporting Info

De novo Design and Characterization of Copper Centers in Synthetic Four-Helix-Bundle Proteins Robert Schnepf, Patric Hörth, Eckhard Bill, Karl Wieghardt, Peter Hildebrandt, and Wolfgang Haehnel pp 2186–2195 DOI: 10.1021/ja001880k

Continuous Crystalline Carbonate Apatite Thin Films. A Biomimetic Approach Guofeng Xu, Ilhan A. Aksay, and John T. Groves pp 2196–2203 DOI: 10.1021/ja002537i

Ti Location in the MFI Framework of Ti−Silicalite-1:  A Neutron Powder Diffraction Study Carlo Lamberti, Silvia Bordiga, Adriano Zecchina, Gilberto Artioli, Gianluigi Marra, and Guido Spanò pp 2204–2212 DOI: 10.1021/ja003657t Supporting Info

Electronic Structure of Bis(o-iminobenzosemiquinonato)metal Complexes (Cu, Ni, Pd). The Art of Establishing Physical Oxidation States in Transition-Metal Complexes Containing Radical Ligands Phalguni Chaudhuri, Claudio Nazari Verani, Eckhard Bill, Eberhard Bothe, Thomas Weyhermüller, and Karl Wieghardt pp 2213–2223 DOI: 10.1021/ja003831d Supporting Info

The Chemical Nature of Surface Point Defects on MoO3(010):  Adsorption of Hydrogen and Methyl M. Chen, C. M. Friend, and Efthimios Kaxiras pp 2224–2230 DOI: 10.1021/ja994376s

Magnetic Susceptibility Tensor and Heme Contact Shifts Determinations in the Rhodobacter capsulatus Ferricytochrome c‘: NMR and Magnetic Susceptibility Studies Pascale Tsan, Michael Caffrey, Max Lawson Daku, Michael Cusanovich, Dominique Marion, and Pierre Gans pp 2231–2242 DOI: 10.1021/ja0011663 Supporting Info

Application of Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics for A Priori Elucidation of the Mechanism in Unimolecular Decomposition:  The Case of 5-Nitro-2,4-dihydro-3H-1,2,4-triazol-3-one (NTO) Wai-Leung Yim and Zhi-feng Liu pp 2243–2250 DOI: 10.1021/ja0019023 Supporting Info

Hindered Inversion of Chiral Ion−Dipole Pairs Antonello Filippi, Francesco Gasparrini, and Maurizio Speranza pp 2251–2254 DOI: 10.1021/ja001960o

Triplet Organometallic Reactivity under Ambient Conditions:  An Ultrafast UV Pump/IR Probe Study Preston T. Snee, Christine K. Payne, Kenneth T. Kotz, Haw Yang, and Charles B. Harris pp 2255–2264 DOI: 10.1021/ja002350r Supporting Info

Energy Distribution and Redistribution and Chemical Reactivity. The Generalized Delta Overlap-Density Method for Ground State and Electron Transfer Reactions:  A New Quantitative Counterpart of Electron-Pushing1 Howard E. Zimmerman and Igor V. Alabugin pp 2265–2270 DOI: 10.1021/ja002402c Supporting Info

Chemical Nucleation for CVD Diamond Growth Anne Giraud, Titus Jenny, Eric Leroy, Olivier M. Küttel, Louis Schlapbach, Patrice Vanelle, and Luc Giraud pp 2271–2274 DOI: 10.1021/ja002724g

Reactivity of Site-Isolated Metal Clusters:  Propylidyne on γ-Al2O3-Supported Ir4 Andrew M. Argo, Jesse F. Goellner, Brian L. Phillips, Ghansham A. Panjabi, and Bruce C. Gates pp 2275–2283 DOI: 10.1021/ja002818q Supporting Info

Triosephosphate Isomerase:  A Theoretical Comparison of Alternative Pathways Qiang Cui and Martin Karplus pp 2284–2290 DOI: 10.1021/ja002886c Supporting Info

Polymorphism in 2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene Crystallized from Solution Ranko M. Vrcelj, Hugh G. Gallagher, and John N. Sherwood pp 2291–2295 DOI: 10.1021/ja0031422

Soluble Electroluminescent Poly(phenylene vinylene)s with Balanced Electron- and Hole Injections Yuh-Zheng Lee, Xiwen Chen, Show-An Chen, Pei-Kuen Wei, and Wun-Shain Fann pp 2296–2307 DOI: 10.1021/ja003135d Supporting Info

Effects of Substituting a OH Group by a F Atom in d-Glucose. Ab Initio and DFT Analysis Marcin Hoffmann and Jacek Rychlewski pp 2308–2316 DOI: 10.1021/ja003198w Supporting Info

Electron-Rich Bonding and the Importance of s,p Mixing as One Moves Across a Period:  A Lesson from the LiSn System Andrea Ienco, Roald Hoffmann, and Garegin Papoian pp 2317–2325 DOI: 10.1021/ja0032576

Nucleophilic Substitution at the Imidoyl Carbon Atom: Intermediate Mechanistic and Reactivity Behavior between Carbonyl and Vinyl Carbon Substitution Hong Guang Li, Chang Kon Kim, Bon-Su Lee, Chan Kyung Kim, Soon Ki Rhee, and Ikchoon Lee pp 2326–2333 DOI: 10.1021/ja0033584 Supporting Info

Deconvolution and Assignment of Different Optical Transitions of the Blue Copper Protein Azurin from Optically Detected Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Birgit Börger, Jörg Gutschank, Dieter Suter, Andrew J. Thomson, and Stephen J. Bingham pp 2334–2339 DOI: 10.1021/ja003357b

The Intrinsic Stability of the Noble Gas-Coordinated Transition-Metal Complex Ions Wei-Ping Hu and Chun-Huei Huang pp 2340–2343 DOI: 10.1021/ja0033842 Supporting Info

Ab Initio Study of the Atmospheric Oxidation of CS2 Michael L. McKee and P. H. Wine pp 2344–2353 DOI: 10.1021/ja003421p Supporting Info

Size-Dependent Optical Spectroscopy of a Homologous Series of CdSe Cluster Molecules V. N. Soloviev, A. Eichhöfer, D. Fenske, and U. Banin pp 2354–2364 DOI: 10.1021/ja003598j Supporting Info

Allylic Alcohol Epoxidation by Methyltrioxorhenium: A Density Functional Study on the Mechanism and the Role of Hydrogen Bonding Cristiana Di Valentin, Remo Gandolfi, Philip Gisdakis, and Notker Rösch pp 2365–2376 DOI: 10.1021/ja003868y Supporting Info

Electron-Transfer-Induced Tautomerization in Methylindanones:  Electronic Control of the Tunneling Rate for Enolization Pawel Bednarek, Z. Zhu, Thomas Bally, Tomasz Filipiak, Andrzej Marcinek, and Jerzy Gebicki pp 2377–2387 DOI: 10.1021/ja003708m Supporting Info

Transient UV Raman Spectroscopy Finds No Crossing Barrier between the Peptide α-Helix and Fully Random Coil Conformation Igor K. Lednev, Anton S. Karnoup, Mark C. Sparrow, and Sanford A. Asher pp 2388–2392 DOI: 10.1021/ja003381p

Τhe β-Peptide Hairpin in Solution:  Conformational Study of a β-Hexapeptide in Methanol by NMR Spectroscopy and MD Simulation Xavier Daura, Karl Gademann, Heiko Schäfer, Bernhard Jaun, Dieter Seebach, and Wilfred F. van Gunsteren pp 2393–2404 DOI: 10.1021/ja003689g Supporting Info

The First Solution Structure of a Paramagnetic Copper(II) Protein:  The Case of Oxidized Plastocyanin from the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803 Ivano Bertini, Stefano Ciurli, Alexander Dikiy, Claudio O. Fernàndez, Claudio Luchinat, Niyaz Safarov, Sergiy Shumilin, and Alejandro J. Vila pp 2405–2413 DOI: 10.1021/ja0033685 Supporting Info

Microstructure Determination of AOT + Phenol Organogels Utilizing Small-Angle X-ray Scattering and Atomic Force Microscopy Blake A. Simmons, Chad E. Taylor, Forrest A. Landis, Vijay T. John, Gary L. McPherson, Daniel K. Schwartz, and Robert Moore pp 2414–2421 DOI: 10.1021/ja0037926

Formation of Alkanethiol Monolayer on Ge(111) Sang M. Han, W. Robert Ashurst, Carlo Carraro, and Roya Maboudian pp 2422–2425 DOI: 10.1021/ja993816c

Direct Observation of Protein Vibrations by Selective Incorporation of Spectroscopically Observable Carbon−Deuterium Bonds in Cytochrome c Jodie K. Chin, Ralph Jimenez, and Floyd E. Romesberg pp 2426–2427 DOI: 10.1021/ja0033741 Supporting Info

Parallel Kinetic Resolution under Catalytic Conditions:  A Three-Phase System Allows Selective Reagent Activation Using Two Catalysts Edwin Vedejs and Eriks Rozners pp 2428–2429 DOI: 10.1021/ja0035405 Supporting Info

Ab Initio Study of the Carbon-to-Carbon Identity Proton Transfer from Ketene to Its Anion in the Gas Phase Claude F. Bernasconi and Philip J. Wenzel pp 2430–2431 DOI: 10.1021/ja003858x Supporting Info

Phototriggered Ru(II)−Dimethylsulfoxide Linkage Isomerization in Crystals and Films Jeffrey J. Rack, Jay R. Winkler, and Harry B. Gray pp 2432–2433 DOI: 10.1021/ja000179d Supporting Info

A Highly Fluorescent DNA Base Analogue that Forms Watson−Crick Base Pairs with Guanine L. Marcus Wilhelmsson, Anders Holmén, Per Lincoln, Peter E. Nielsen, and Bengt Nordén pp 2434–2435 DOI: 10.1021/ja0025797 Supporting Info

Lanthanide Tags for Time-Resolved Luminescence Microscopy Displaying Improved Stability and Optical Properties Loïc Charbonnière, Raymond Ziessel, Massimo Guardigli, Aldo Roda, Nanda Sabbatini, and Michèle Cesario pp 2436–2437 DOI: 10.1021/ja003699h Supporting Info

Organic−Inorganic Composites Comprised of Ordered Stacks of Amphiphilic Molecular Disks Mutsumi Kimura, Kazumi Wada, Kazuchika Ohta, Kenji Hanabusa, Hirofusa Shirai, and Nagao Kobayashi pp 2438–2439 DOI: 10.1021/ja004034i Supporting Info

Ultrafast Molecular Logic Gate Based on Optical Switching between Two Long-Lived Radical Ion Pair States Aaron S. Lukas, Patrick J. Bushard, and Michael R. Wasielewski pp 2440–2441 DOI: 10.1021/ja0041122 Supporting Info

Rhodium(I)-Catalyzed Homologation of Aromatic Aldehydes with Trimethylsilyldiazomethane Eric L. Dias, Maurice Brookhart, and Peter S. White pp 2442–2443 DOI: 10.1021/ja003608g Supporting Info

Remote Intermolecular “Heavy-Atom Effect”:  Spin−Orbit Coupling Across the Wall of a Hemicarcerand Zinaida S. Romanova, Kurt Deshayes, and Piotr Piotrowiak pp 2444–2445 DOI: 10.1021/ja002612p

High-Resolution Macromolecular NMR Spectroscopy Inside Living Cells Zach Serber, Adrian T. Keatinge-Clay, Richard Ledwidge, Alexander E. Kelly, Susan M. Miller, and Volker Dötsch pp 2446–2447 DOI: 10.1021/ja0057528

Design of a New Cascade Reaction for the Construction of Complex Acyclic Architecture:  The Tandem Acyl-Claisen Rearrangement Vy M. Dong and David W. C. MacMillan pp 2448–2449 DOI: 10.1021/ja005925t Supporting Info

Formation of Tetrahydrofuran from Homoallylic Alcohol via a Tandem Sequence:  2-Oxonia [3,3]-Sigmatropic Rearrangement/Cyclization Catalyzed by In(OTf)3 Teck-Peng Loh, Qi-Ying Hu, and Li-Ting Ma pp 2450–2451 DOI: 10.1021/ja005831j Supporting Info

Unusual Temperature-Dependent Diastereoselectivity in the [2+2] Photocycloaddition (Paternò−Büchi Reaction) of Benzophenone to cis- and trans-Cyclooctene through Conformational Control Waldemar Adam, Veit R. Stegmann, and Stephan Weinkötz pp 2452–2453 DOI: 10.1021/ja005744r Supporting Info

Determination of the Molecular Electrical Properties of Self-Assembled Monolayers of Compounds of Interest in Molecular Electronics Fu-Ren F. Fan, Jiping Yang, Shawn M. Dirk, David W. Price, Dimitry Kosynkin, James M. Tour, and Allen J. Bard pp 2454–2455 DOI: 10.1021/ja005819r Supporting Info

Selective Anion Binding by a Macrocycle with Convergent Hydrogen Bonding Functionality Kihang Choi and Andrew D. Hamilton* pp 2456–2457 DOI: 10.1021/ja005772+ Supporting Info

Cysteine Thiolate Coordination in the Ferrous CO Complex of an Engineered Cytochrome b562 Tadayuki Uno, Akihiro Yukinari, Yoshikazu Tomisugi, Yoshinobu Ishikawa, Ryu Makino, James A. Brannigan, and Anthony J. Wilkinson pp 2458–2459 DOI: 10.1021/ja0057880

Cationic Hyperbranched Poly(amino ester):  A Novel Class of DNA Condensing Molecule with Cationic Surface, Biodegradable Three-Dimensional Structure, and Tertiary Amine Groups in the Interior Yong-beom Lim, Seon-Mi Kim, Yan Lee, Woo-kyoung Lee, Tae-gyun Yang, Min-jae Lee, Hearan Suh, and Jong-sang Park pp 2460–2461 DOI: 10.1021/ja005715g Supporting Info

Left or Right, It Is a Matter of One Methylene Unit Christopher Y. Li, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Xin Weng, Jason J. Ge, Feng Bai, John Z. Zhang, Bret H. Calhoun, Frank W. Harris, Liang-Chy Chien, and Bernard Lotz pp 2462–2463 DOI: 10.1021/ja005805l

Characterization of New Six-Membered Transition States of the Amino-Alcohol Promoted Addition of Dialkyl Zinc to Aldehydes Torben Rasmussen and Per-Ola Norrby pp 2464–2465 DOI: 10.1021/ja005841k Supporting Info

Direct Catalytic Asymmetric Aldol Reaction:  Synthesis of Either syn- or anti-α,β-Dihydroxy Ketones Naoki Yoshikawa, Naoya Kumagai, Shigeki Matsunaga, Guido Moll, Takashi Ohshima, Takeyuki Suzuki, and Masakatsu Shibasaki pp 2466–2467 DOI: 10.1021/ja015580u Supporting Info

Adsorption on Silica Surfaces. Surfactant Science Series. Volume 90 Edited by Eugène Papirer (Institute de Chimie des Surfaces et Interfaces, Mulhouse, France). Marcel Dekker:  New York. 2000. xiv + 754 pp. $235.00. ISBN 0-8247-0003-1. p 2468 DOI: 10.1021/ja0047830

Practical Capillary Electrophoresis. 2nd Edition By Robert Weinberger (CE Technologies, Inc.). Academic Press:  San Diego and London. 2000. xviii + 462 pp. $99.95. ISBN 0-12-742356-7. Lisa Holland p 2468 DOI: 10.1021/ja004819o

High Temperature Properties and Thermal Decomposition of Inorganic Salts with Oxyanions By Kurt H. Stern (National Research Laboratory). CRC Press LLC:  Boca Raton, FL. 2001. xx + 266 pp. $179.95. ISBN 0-8493-0256-0. p 2468 DOI: 10.1021/ja0048477

Structure Determination of Organic Compounds. Table of Spectral Data. Third Completely Revised and Enlarged English Edition By Ernoe Pretsch (ETH Zurich), Philippe Bühlmann (University of Tokyo), and Christian Affolter (Muenchringen, Switzerland). Springer-Verlag:  Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. 2000. xvi + 422 pp. $42.00. ISBN 3-540-67815-8 p 2468 DOI: 10.1021/ja004859s

Olefin Polymerization:  Emerging Frontiers Edited by Palanisamy Arjunan (Exxon Chemical Co., Baytown, TX), James E. McGrath (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), and Thomas L. Hanlon (Albemarle Corp., Baton Rouge, LA). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC (Distributed by Oxford University Press). 2000. x + 206 pp. $120.00. ISBN 0-8412-3614-3. p 2468 DOI: 10.1021/ja004869t

Issue 11

Recognition of Nine Base Pairs in the Minor Groove of DNA by a Tripyrrole Peptide−Hoechst Conjugate Alexander L. Satz and Thomas C. Bruice pp 2469–2477 DOI: 10.1021/ja003095d

Oxidation-Active Flavin Models: Oxidation of α-Hydroxy Acids by Benzo-dipteridine Bearing Metal-Binding Site in the Presence of Divalent Metal Ion and Base in Organic Solvents Hideaki Ohshiro, Keita Mitsui, Nobuyuki Ando, Yoichi Ohsawa, Wataru Koinuma, Hirobumi Takahashi, Shin-ichi Kondo, Tatsuya Nabeshima, and Yumihiko Yano pp 2478–2486 DOI: 10.1021/ja0009121

Tandem Ligation of Unprotected Peptides through Thiaprolyl and Cysteinyl Bonds in Water James P. Tam, Qitao Yu, and Jin-Long Yang pp 2487–2494 DOI: 10.1021/ja0035654

Precursor-Directed Biosynthesis of 16-Membered Macrolides by the Erythromycin Polyketide Synthase Kenji Kinoshita, Paul G Williard, Chaitan Khosla, and David E. Cane pp 2495–2502 DOI: 10.1021/ja004139l Supporting Info

Terthienyl and Poly-terthienyl Ligands as Redox-Switchable Hemilabile Ligands for Oxidation-State-Dependent Molecular Uptake and Release Dana A. Weinberger, Thomas B. Higgins, Chad A. Mirkin, Charlotte L. Stern, Louise M. Liable-Sands, and Arnold L. Rheingold pp 2503–2516 DOI: 10.1021/ja0030008 Supporting Info

Electrostatics of Cell Membrane Recognition:  Structure and Activity of Neutral and Cationic Rigid Push-Pull Rods in Isoelectric, Anionic, and Polarized Lipid Bilayer Membranes Naomi Sakai, David Gerard, and Stefan Matile pp 2517–2524 DOI: 10.1021/ja003141+ Supporting Info

An Application of Electronic Asymmetry to Highly Enantioselective Catalytic Diels−Alder Reactions J. W. Faller, Brian J. Grimmond, and Darlene G. D'Alliessi pp 2525–2529 DOI: 10.1021/ja003528c

Rational Design of Fluorescein-Based Fluorescence Probes. Mechanism-Based Design of a Maximum Fluorescence Probe for Singlet Oxygen Kumi Tanaka, Tetsuo Miura, Naoki Umezawa, Yasuteru Urano, Kazuya Kikuchi, Tsunehiko Higuchi, and Tetsuo Nagano pp 2530–2536 DOI: 10.1021/ja0035708

Synthesis and Characterization of Regiorandom and Regioregular Poly(3-octylfuran) Jeffrey K. Politis, Joel C. Nemes, and M. David Curtis pp 2537–2547 DOI: 10.1021/ja003588i Supporting Info

Molecular Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Protein−RNA Interactions:  Mutation of a Conserved Aromatic Residue Modifies Stacking Interactions and Structural Adaptation in the U1A−Stem Loop 2 RNA Complex Dukagjin M. Blakaj, Kevin J. McConnell, David L. Beveridge, and Anne M. Baranger pp 2548–2551 DOI: 10.1021/ja005538j

Structural Characterization of Complexes between Iminodiacetate Blocked on Styrene−Divinylbenzene Matrix (Chelex 100 Resin) and Fe(III), Cr(III), and Zn(II) in Solid Phase by Energy-Dispersive X-ray Diffraction D. Atzei, T. Ferri, C. Sadun, P. Sangiorgio, and R. Caminiti pp 2552–2558 DOI: 10.1021/ja0003728

Development of Multianalyte Sensor Arrays Composed of Chemically Derivatized Polymeric Microspheres Localized in Micromachined Cavities Adrian Goodey, John J. Lavigne, Steve M. Savoy, Marc D. Rodriguez, Theodore Curey, Andrew Tsao, Glen Simmons, John Wright, Seung-Jin Yoo, Youngsoo Sohn, Eric V. Anslyn, Jason B. Shear, Dean P. Neikirk, and John T. McDevitt pp 2559–2570 DOI: 10.1021/ja003341l Supporting Info

Catalytic Effects of Dioxygen on Intramolecular Electron Transfer in Radical Ion Pairs of Zinc Porphyrin-Linked Fullerenes Shunichi Fukuzumi, Hiroshi Imahori, Hiroko Yamada, Mohamed E. El-Khouly, Mamoru Fujitsuka, Osamu Ito, and Dirk M. Guldi pp 2571–2575 DOI: 10.1021/ja002052u

Studies of Reductive Elimination Reactions To Form Carbon−Oxygen Bonds from Pt(IV) Complexes B. Scott Williams and Karen I. Goldberg pp 2576–2587 DOI: 10.1021/ja003366k Supporting Info

Reaction of Sc+ (1D, 3D) with H2O, NH3, and CH4:  A Density Functional Study Nino Russo and Emilia Sicilia pp 2588–2596 DOI: 10.1021/ja000658c

Structure Assignment in the Solid State by the Coupling of Quantum Chemical Calculations with NMR Experiments:  A Columnar Hexabenzocoronene Derivative Christian Ochsenfeld, Steven P. Brown, Ingo Schnell, Jürgen Gauss, and Hans Wolfgang Spiess pp 2597–2606 DOI: 10.1021/ja0021823

Modulating Charge Separation and Charge Recombination Dynamics in Porphyrin−Fullerene Linked Dyads and Triads:  Marcus-Normal versus Inverted Region Hiroshi Imahori, Koichi Tamaki, Dirk M. Guldi, Chuping Luo, Mamoru Fujitsuka, Osamu Ito, Yoshiteru Sakata, and Shunichi Fukuzumi pp 2607–2617 DOI: 10.1021/ja003346i Supporting Info

Dimesitylketone O-Oxide:  Spectroscopic Characterization, Conformation, and Reaction Modes:  OH Formation and OH Capture Wolfram Sander, Klaus Block, Wilhelm Kappert, Andreas Kirschfeld, Sengodagounder Muthusamy, Kerstin Schroeder, Carlos P. Sosa, Elfi Kraka, and Dieter Cremer pp 2618–2627 DOI: 10.1021/ja003533g

p-Phenylenecarbenonitrene and Its Halogen Derivatives: How Does Resonance Interaction between a Nitrene and a Carbene Center Affect the Overall Electronic Configuration? Athanassios Nicolaides, Tomonori Enyo, Daisuke Miura, and Hideo Tomioka pp 2628–2636 DOI: 10.1021/ja003709e Supporting Info

EPR Spectroscopy of MRI-Related Gd(III) Complexes:  Simultaneous Analysis of Multiple Frequency and Temperature Spectra, Including Static and Transient Crystal Field Effects Sebastian Rast, Alain Borel, Lothar Helm, Elie Belorizky, Pascal H. Fries, and André E. Merbach pp 2637–2644 DOI: 10.1021/ja003707u Supporting Info

Transient Resonance Raman and Density Functional Theory Investigation of the 2-Fluorenylnitrenium Ion Peizhi Zhu, Shing Yau Ong, Pik Ying Chan, King Hung Leung, and David Lee Phillips pp 2645–2649 DOI: 10.1021/ja003839n Supporting Info

UDFT and MCSCF Descriptions of the Photochemical Bergman Cyclization of Enediynes Aurora E. Clark, Ernest R. Davidson, and Jeffrey M. Zaleski pp 2650–2657 DOI: 10.1021/ja0039987

35 GHz ENDOR Characterization of the “Very Rapid” Signal of Xanthine Oxidase Reacted with 2-Hydroxy-6-methylpurine (13C8):  Evidence against Direct Mo−C8 Interaction Palanichamy Manikandan, Eun-Young Choi, Russ Hille, and Brian M. Hoffman pp 2658–2663 DOI: 10.1021/ja003894w

Reaction of cis- and trans-2-Butene-1,4-dial with 2‘-Deoxycytidine to Form Stable Oxadiazabicyclooctaimine Adducts Lakshmaiah Gingipalli and Peter C. Dedon pp 2664–2665 DOI: 10.1021/ja0056421 Supporting Info

UV Resonance Raman Detection of a Ligand Vibration on Ferric Nitrosyl Heme Proteins Takeshi Tomita, Nami Haruta, Michihiko Aki, Teizo Kitagawa, and Masao Ikeda-Saito pp 2666–2667 DOI: 10.1021/ja001431k

The Origin of 1,4-Asymmetric Induction in the Additions of Chiral Alcohols to Ketenes Carina E. Cannizzaro, T. Strassner, and K. N. Houk pp 2668–2669 DOI: 10.1021/ja002576u

Maximum Communication between Coupled Oxidations of Dimetal Units F. Albert Cotton, Chun Lin, and Carlos A. Murillo pp 2670–2671 DOI: 10.1021/ja004149m Supporting Info

Phosphite Dehydrogenase:  An Unusual Phosphoryl Transfer Reaction Jennifer M. Vrtis, Andrea K. White, William W. Metcalf, and Wilfred A. van der Donk pp 2672–2673 DOI: 10.1021/ja004301k

Mechanism of Nitric Oxide Synthase. Evidence that Direct Hydrogen Atom Abstraction from the O−H Bond of NG-Hydroxyarginine Is Not Relevant to the Mechanism Hui Huang, Jung-Mi Hah, and Richard B. Silverman pp 2674–2676 DOI: 10.1021/ja005900u Supporting Info

Screening of Homogeneous Catalysts by Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer. Identification of Catalysts for Room-Temperature Heck Reactions James P. Stambuli, Shaun R. Stauffer, Kevin H. Shaughnessy, and John F. Hartwig pp 2677–2678 DOI: 10.1021/ja0058435 Supporting Info

Theoretical Determination of the Co−C Bond Energy Dissociation in Cobalamins Tadeusz Andruniow, Marek Z. Zgierski, and Pawel M. Kozlowski pp 2679–2680 DOI: 10.1021/ja0041728

Flash Photolytic Generation and Study of the Enol of 2-Hydroxy-2-cyano-N-methylacetamide in Aqueous Solution, Leading to an Empirically-Based Estimate of the Keto−Enol Equilibrium Constant for the Parent Unsubstituted Acetamide in That Medium V. A. Bakulev, Y. Chiang, A. J. Kresge, Q. Meng, Y. Y. Morzherin, and V. V. Popik pp 2681–2682 DOI: 10.1021/ja0036763 Supporting Info

Efficient Diastereoselective Syntheses of Chiral Macrocycles via Zirconocene Coupling. Synthetic Control of Size and Geometry Laurel L. Schafer and T. Don Tilley pp 2683–2684 DOI: 10.1021/ja015509o Supporting Info

Annulation of Alkenyl-Substituted Heterocycles via Rhodium-Catalyzed Intramolecular C−H Activated Coupling Reactions K. L. Tan, R. G. Bergman, and J. A. Ellman pp 2685–2686 DOI: 10.1021/ja0058738 Supporting Info

Highly Active Oligomeric (salen)Co Catalysts for Asymmetric Epoxide Ring-Opening Reactions Joseph M. Ready and Eric N. Jacobsen pp 2687–2688 DOI: 10.1021/ja005867b Supporting Info

Effect of an Internal Anthranilamide Turn Unit on the Structure and Conformational Stability of Helically Biased Intramolecularly Hydrogen-Bonded Dendrons Baohua Huang and Jon R. Parquette pp 2689–2690 DOI: 10.1021/ja0042229 Supporting Info

Validation of Protein Structure from Preparations of Encapsulated Proteins Dissolved in Low Viscosity Fluids Charles R. Babu, Peter F. Flynn, and A. Joshua Wand pp 2691–2692 DOI: 10.1021/ja005766d Supporting Info

DFT Study of the [2 + 2] Cycloreversion of Uracil Dimer Anion Radical:  Waters Matter Nicolas J. Saettel and Olaf Wiest pp 2693–2694 DOI: 10.1021/ja005775m Supporting Info

Catalytic Asymmetric Solid-Phase Cyclopropanation Tadamichi Nagashima and Huw M. L. Davies pp 2695–2696 DOI: 10.1021/ja005776e Supporting Info

The Importance of Acyl Chain Placement on Phospholipid Mixing in the Physiologically Relevant Fluid Phase Michihiro Sugahara, Maki Uragami, Nobuya Tokutake, and Steven L. Regen pp 2697–2698 DOI: 10.1021/ja005811h Supporting Info

A Self-Assembled Metallomacrocyclic Ionophore with High Affinity and Selectivity for Li+ and Na+ Holger Piotrowski, Kurt Polborn, Gerhard Hilt, and Kay Severin pp 2699–2700 DOI: 10.1021/ja005804t Supporting Info

A Chemist's Guide to Density Functional Theory By Wolfram Koch (German Chemical Society, Frankfurt am Main) and Max C. Holthausen (Humbolt University Berlin). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2000. xiv + 294 pp. $79.95. ISBN 3-527-29918-1 John F. Stanton p 2701 DOI: 10.1021/ja004799q

Dendrimers II. Architecture, Nanostructure and Supramolecular Chemistry. Topics in Current Chemistry. Volume 210 By Fritz Vögtle (University of Bonn). Springer:  Berlin, Heidelberg, and New York. 2000. x + 312 pp. $199.00. ISBN 3-540-67097-1 Jon R. Parquette pp 2701–2702 DOI: 10.1021/ja004805i

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. Volume 51, 2000 Edited by Herbert L. Strauss (University of California, Berkeley), Gerald T. Babcock (Michigan State University), and Stephen R. Leone (University of Colorado, Boulder). Annual Reviews:  Palo Alto, CA. 2000. xiv + 868 pp. $64.00 Individual Price. $134.00 Institutional Price. ISBN 0-8243-1051-9 p 2702 DOI: 10.1021/ja004865o

Capillary Electrophoresis for Food Analysis:  Method Develop-ment By Richard A. Frazier, Jennifer M. Ames, and Harry E. Nursten (The University of Reading). Royal Society of Chemistry:  Cambridge, UK. 2000. xiv + 128 pp. $99.00. ISBN 0-85404-492-2 p 2702 DOI: 10.1021/ja004866g

Organosilicon Chemistry IV:  From Molecules to Materials Edited by Norbert Auner (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt) and Johann Weis (Wacker-Chemie GmbH, München). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2000. xviii + 834 pp. $155.00. ISBN 3-527-29854-1 p 2702 DOI: 10.1021/ja0048681

Asymmetric Fluoroorganic Chemistry. Synthesis, Applications, and Future Directions Edited by P. V. Ramachandran (Purdue University). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC. 2000 (Distributed by Oxford University Press.) 2000. x + 310 pp. $125.00. ISBN 0-8412-3639-9 p 2702 DOI: 10.1021/ja004871k

Issue 12

Murrastifoline-F:  First Total Synthesis, Atropo-Enantiomer Resolution, and Stereoanalysis of an Axially Chiral N,C-Coupled Biaryl Alkaloid Gerhard Bringmann, Stefan Tasler, Heike Endress, Jürgen Kraus, Kim Messer, Michael Wohlfarth, and Wolfram Lobin pp 2703–2711 DOI: 10.1021/ja003488c Supporting Info

The Mechanism of Base-Promoted HF Elimination from 4-Fluoro-4-(4‘-nitrophenyl)butan-2-one: A Multiple Isotope Effect Study Including the Leaving Group 18F/19F KIE Per Ryberg and Olle Matsson pp 2712–2718 DOI: 10.1021/ja002513b

The First General Method for Palladium-Catalyzed Negishi Cross-Coupling of Aryl and Vinyl Chlorides:  Use of Commercially Available Pd(P(t-Bu)3)2 as a Catalyst Chaoyang Dai and Gregory C. Fu pp 2719–2724 DOI: 10.1021/ja003954y

Catalytic Asymmetric Epoxidation of Enones Using La−BINOL−Triphenylarsine Oxide Complex:  Structural Determination of the Asymmetric Catalyst Tetsuhiro Nemoto, Takashi Ohshima, Kentaro Yamaguchi, and Masakatsu Shibasaki pp 2725–2732 DOI: 10.1021/ja004201e Supporting Info

Biosynthesis of the Validamycins:  Identification of Intermediates in the Biosynthesis of Validamycin A by Streptomyces hygroscopicus var. limoneus Haijun Dong, Taifo Mahmud, Ingo Tornus, Sungsook Lee, and Heinz G. Floss pp 2733–2742 DOI: 10.1021/ja003643n

Aib-Rich Peptides Containing Lactam-Bridged Side Chains as Models of the 310-Helix Elisabetta Schievano, Alessandro Bisello, Michael Chorev, Arianna Bisol, Stefano Mammi, and Evaristo Peggion pp 2743–2751 DOI: 10.1021/ja0027261 Supporting Info

Rational Design and Assembly of M2M‘3L6 Supramolecular Clusters with C3h Symmetry by Exploiting Incommensurate Symmetry Numbers Xiankai Sun, Darren W. Johnson, Dana L. Caulder, Kenneth N. Raymond, and Edward H. Wong pp 2752–2763 DOI: 10.1021/ja0029376 Supporting Info

Relationship of Solution and Protein-Bound Structures of DNA Duplexes with the Major Intrastrand Cross-Link Lesions Formed on Cisplatin Binding to DNA Luigi G. Marzilli, Jamil S. Saad, Zsuzsanna Kuklenyik, Kelly A. Keating, and Yinghai Xu pp 2764–2770 DOI: 10.1021/ja0007915 Supporting Info

Mössbauer Characterization of the Iron−Sulfur Clusters in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hydrogenase Alice S. Pereira, Pedro Tavares, Isabel Moura, José J. G. Moura, and Boi Hanh Huynh pp 2771–2782 DOI: 10.1021/ja003176+

Syntheses and Structural and Electrochemical Characterizations of Vanadatricarbadecaboranyl Analogues of Vanadocene and the Structural Characterization of the [Li(CH3CN)2+](6-CH3-nido-5,6,9-C3B7H9-) Tricarbadecaboranyl Anion Michael D. Wasczcak, Ying Wang, Anupam Garg, William E. Geiger, Sang Ook Kang, Patrick J. Carroll, and Larry G. Sneddon pp 2783–2790 DOI: 10.1021/ja003757z Supporting Info

Catalytic Growth and Characterization of Gallium Nitride Nanowires Chia-Chun Chen, Chun-Chia Yeh, Chun-Ho Chen, Min-Yuan Yu, Hsiang-Lin Liu, Jih-Jen Wu, Kuei-Hsein Chen, Li-Chyong Chen, Jin-Yuan Peng, and Yang-Fang Chen pp 2791–2798 DOI: 10.1021/ja0040518

A Theoretical Study of the Alkylation Reaction of Toluene with Methanol Catalyzed by Acidic Mordenite Ann M. Vos, Xavier Rozanska, Robert A. Schoonheydt, Rutger A. van Santen, François Hutschka, and Juergen Hafner pp 2799–2809 DOI: 10.1021/ja001981i

ATOP Dyes. Optimization of a Multifunctional Merocyanine Chromophore for High Refractive Index Modulation in Photorefractive Materials Frank Würthner, Sheng Yao, Joachim Schilling, Rüdiger Wortmann, Mesfin Redi-Abshiro, Erwin Mecher, Francisco Gallego-Gomez, and Klaus Meerholz pp 2810–2824 DOI: 10.1021/ja002321g Supporting Info

Electron Delocalization and Magnetic State of Doubly-Reduced Polyoxometalates Hélène Duclusaud and Serguei A. Borshch pp 2825–2829 DOI: 10.1021/ja002815d

A Model for Enzyme−Substrate Interaction in Alanine Racemase Mary Jo Ondrechen, James M. Briggs, and J. Andrew McCammon pp 2830–2834 DOI: 10.1021/ja0029679

First Computational Evidence for a Catalytic Bridging Hydroxide Ion in a Phosphodiesterase Active Site Chang-Guo Zhan and Fang Zheng pp 2835–2838 DOI: 10.1021/ja005529a

Geometry of Simple Molecules:  Nonbonded Interactions, Not Bonding Orbitals, and Primarily Determine Observed Geometries Ronald F. See, Anthony D. Dutoi, Kevin W. McConnell, and Robert M. Naylor pp 2839–2848 DOI: 10.1021/ja003604b Supporting Info

Entropy Control of the Cross-Reaction between Carbon-Centered and Nitroxide Radicals Jens Sobek, Rainer Martschke, and Hanns Fischer pp 2849–2857 DOI: 10.1021/ja0036460

Measurement of 13Cα−13Cβ Dipolar Couplings in 15N,13C,2H-Labeled Proteins:  Application to Domain Orientation in Maltose Binding Protein Johan Evenäs, Anthony Mittermaier, Daiwen Yang, and Lewis E. Kay pp 2858–2864 DOI: 10.1021/ja003833y

Effect of Fluorination:  Gas-Phase Structures of N,N-Dimethylvinylamine and Perfluoro-N,N-dimethylvinylamine Frank Trautner, Takashi Abe, and Heinz Oberhammer pp 2865–2869 DOI: 10.1021/ja003942c

The Elusive Benzocyclobutenylidene:  A Combined Computational and Experimental Attempt Athanassios Nicolaides, Takeshi Matsushita, Kohichi Yonezawa, Shinji Sawai, Hideo Tomioka, Louise L. Stracener, Jonathan A. Hodges, and Robert J. McMahon pp 2870–2876 DOI: 10.1021/ja0039482 Supporting Info

Electron Self-Exchange in the Solid-State: Cocrystals of Hydroquinone and Bipyridyl Triazole Tia E. Keyes, Robert J. Forster, Alan M. Bond, and Wujian Miao pp 2877–2884 DOI: 10.1021/ja003966j

Deprotonation of Phosphonic Acids with M2+ Cations for the Design of Neutral Isostructural Organic−Inorganic Hybrids C. V. Krishnamohan Sharma and Abraham ClearfieldAurelio Cabeza, Miguel A. G. Aranda, and Sebastian Bruque pp 2885–2886 DOI: 10.1021/ja0032430 Supporting Info

Investigation of the Total Synthesis of N1999-A2:  Implication of Stereochemistry Shoji Kobayashi, Ravinder S. Reddy, Yukio Sugiura, Daisuke Sasaki, Naoko Miyagawa, and Masahiro Hirama pp 2887–2888 DOI: 10.1021/ja003982g Supporting Info

Solid-Phase Catalysis:  A Biomimetic Approach toward Ligands on Dendritic Arms to Explore Recyclable Hydroformylation Reactions Prabhat Arya, Gautam Panda, N. Venugopal Rao, Howard Alper, S. Christine Bourque, and Leo E. Manzer pp 2889–2890 DOI: 10.1021/ja003854s Supporting Info

Alkali Metal Loaded Zeolite LiA:  Evidence for Highly Symmetrical Rb- and K- Victor V. Terskikh, Igor L. Moudrakovski, Christopher I. Ratcliffe, and John A. RipmeesterCatherine J. Reinhold, Paul A. Anderson, and Peter P. Edwards pp 2891–2892 DOI: 10.1021/ja0038575

The pKa's of 2‘-Hydroxyl Group in Nucleosides and Nucleotides Irina Velikyan, Sandipta Acharya, Anna Trifonova, Andras Földesi, and Jyoti Chattopadhyaya pp 2893–2894 DOI: 10.1021/ja0036312 Supporting Info

Cross-Coupling Reaction of Oxo-π-allylnickel Complex Generated from 1,3-Diene under an Atmosphere of Carbon Dioxide Masanori Takimoto and Miwako Mori pp 2895–2896 DOI: 10.1021/ja004004f Supporting Info

An Atom-Economical Three-Carbon Chain Extension of Alkynes to Form E-Enol Silanes Barry M. Trost, Jean-Philippe Surivet, and F. Dean Toste pp 2897–2898 DOI: 10.1021/ja003870p Supporting Info

Palladium-Catalyzed Thioesterification of Alkynes with O-Methyl S-Phenyl Thiocarbonate Ruimao Hua, Hideaki Takeda, Shun-ya Onozawa, Yoshimoto Abe, and Masato Tanaka pp 2899–2900 DOI: 10.1021/ja004063t Supporting Info

Polymers Recognizing Biomolecules Based on a Combination of Molecular Imprinting and Proximity Scintillation:  A New Sensor Concept Lei Ye and Klaus Mosbach pp 2901–2902 DOI: 10.1021/ja005896m Supporting Info

NO Affinities of S-Nitrosothiols:  A Direct Experimental and Computational Investigation of RS−NO Bond Dissociation Energies Jian-Ming Lü, Joanne M. Wittbrodt, Kun Wang, Zhong Wen, H. Bernhard Schlegel, Peng George Wang, and Jin-Pei Cheng pp 2903–2904 DOI: 10.1021/ja000384t Supporting Info

Synthesis and Characterization of Polyether−Ester Dendrimers from Glycerol and Lactic Acid Michael A. Carnahan and Mark W. Grinstaff pp 2905–2906 DOI: 10.1021/ja005726+ Supporting Info

A New Asymmetric Wacker-Type Cyclization and Tandem Cyclization Promoted by Pd(II)-Spiro Bis(isoxazoline) Catalyst Midori A. Arai, Minori Kuraishi, Takayoshi Arai, and Hiroaki Sasai pp 2907–2908 DOI: 10.1021/ja005920w Supporting Info

Development of a Novel Method to Study the Rate-Determining Step during Protein Regeneration:  Application to the Oxidative Folding of RNase A at Low Temperature Reveals BPTI-like Kinetic Traps Mahesh Narayan, Ervin Welker, and Harold A. Scheraga pp 2909–2910 DOI: 10.1021/ja003934w

Enantioselective Claisen Rearrangements:  Development of a First Generation Asymmetric Acyl-Claisen Reaction Tehshik P. Yoon and David W. C. MacMillan pp 2911–2912 DOI: 10.1021/ja015612d Supporting Info

Magnetically Aligned Phospholipid Bilayers at the Parallel and Perpendicular Orientations for X-Band Spin-Label EPR Studies Thomas B. Cardon, Elvis K. Tiburu, Arun Padmanabhan, Kathleen P. Howard, and Gary A. Lorigan pp 2913–2914 DOI: 10.1021/ja005574i

A 2H-Labeling Scheme for Active-Site Counts in Metallocene-Catalyzed Alkene Polymerization Zhixian Liu, Ekasith Somsook, and Clark R. Landis pp 2915–2916 DOI: 10.1021/ja0055918 Supporting Info

The Yield of Strand Breaks Resulting from Direct-Type Effects in Crystalline DNA X-Irradiated at 4 K and Room Temperature Michael G. Debije, Yuriy Razskazovskiy, and William A. Bernhard pp 2917–2918 DOI: 10.1021/ja005790r

Catalytic Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation in Water with a Recyclable Amphiphilic Resin-Supported P,N-Chelating Palladium Complex Yasuhiro Uozumi and Kazutaka Shibatomi pp 2919–2920 DOI: 10.1021/ja005866j Supporting Info

Sensitivity Enhancement in Solid-State 13C NMR of Synthetic Polymers and Biopolymers by 1H NMR Detection with High-Speed Magic Angle Spinning Yoshitaka Ishii, James P. Yesinowski, and Robert Tycko pp 2921–2922 DOI: 10.1021/ja015505j Supporting Info

Imidotitanium Complexes as Hydroamination Catalysts:  Substantially Enhanced Reactivity from an Unexpected Cyclopentadienide/Amide Ligand Exchange Jeffrey S. Johnson and Robert G. Bergman pp 2923–2924 DOI: 10.1021/ja005685h Supporting Info

Direct Observation of Brønsted Acidic Sites in Dehydrated Zeolite H-ZSM5 Using DFS-Enhanced 27Al MQMAS NMR Spectroscopy Arno P. M. Kentgens, Dinu Iuga, Martin Kalwei, and Hubert Koller pp 2925–2926 DOI: 10.1021/ja005917c

Hyperpolarized Xenon-Mediated Cross-Polarization to Material Surfaces Observed at Room Temperature and Above Jay Smith, Luis J. Smith, Kevin Knagge, Ernesto MacNamara, and Daniel Raftery pp 2927–2928 DOI: 10.1021/ja0056670 Supporting Info

Concerted Evolution of Structure and Function in a Miniature Protein Jason W. Chin and Alanna Schepartz pp 2929–2930 DOI: 10.1021/ja0056668 Supporting Info

Steric Control of Oxygenation Regiochemistry in Soybean Lipoxygenase-1 Michael J. Knapp, Florian P. Seebeck, and Judith P. Klinman pp 2931–2932 DOI: 10.1021/ja003855k Supporting Info

A Cheap, Catalytic, Scalable, and Environmentally Benign Method for Alkene Epoxidations Benjamin S. Lane and Kevin Burgess pp 2933–2934 DOI: 10.1021/ja004000a Supporting Info

Topics in Current Chemistry. Volume 208. Organoselenium Chemistry:  Modern Developments in Organic Synthesis Edited by Thomas Wirth (University of Basel). Springer Verlag:  Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. 2000. x + 260 pp. $178.00. ISBN 3-540-66516-1 Hans J. Reich p 2935 DOI: 10.1021/ja0047471

Analysis of Environmental Endocrine Disruptors Edited by Lawrence H. Keith (Waste Policy Institute), Tammy L. Jones-Lepp (United States Environmental Protection Agency), and Larry L. Needham (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC. 2000. (Distributed by Oxford University Press.) x + 174 pp. $75.00. ISBN 0-8412-3650-X p 2935 DOI: 10.1021/ja004870s

Proton-Transfer Reactions between Nitroalkanes and Hydroxide Ion under Non-Steady-State Conditions. Apparent and Real Kinetic Isotope Effects  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 123, 1579−1586].  Yixing Zhao, Yun Lu, and Vernon D. Parker p 2935 DOI: 10.1021/ja015143f

Advances in Polymer Science. Volume 153. Biopolymers, PVA Hydrogels, Anionic Polymerisation, Nanocomposites Edited by H. Waldmann (Max-Planck-Institut für Molekular Physiologie). Springer-Verlag:  Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. 2000. 221 pp. $124.00. ISBN 3-540-67313-X. Jimmy W. Mays pp 2935–2936 DOI: 10.1021/ja0048376

Advances in Catalysis. Volume 45. Impact of Surface Science on Catalysis Edited by Bruce C. Gates (University of California, Davis) and Helmut Knozinger (University of Münich). Academic Press:  San Diego and London. 2000. 448 pp. $150.00. ISBN 0-12-007845-7. J. M. White p 2936 DOI: 10.1021/ja004810m

Unified Chromatography Edited by J. F. Parcher (University of Mississippi) and T. L. Chester (The Procter and Gamble Company). American Chemical Society:  Washington DC. 2000. (Distributed by Oxford University Press.) x + 250 pp. $110. ISBN 0-8412-3638-0 p 2936 DOI: 10.1021/ja015201x

Isotope Production and Applications in the 21st Century. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Isotopes Edited by Nigel R. Stevenson (TRIUMF, Canada). World Scientific:  Singapore, New Jersey, London, Hong Kong. 2000. xxiv + 488 pp. $112.00. ISBN 981-02-4200-X. p 2936 DOI: 10.1021/ja015207m

Issue 13

Synthesis and Reactivity of Polydisulfonimides Benjamin T. Burlingham and Theodore S. Widlanski pp 2937–2945 DOI: 10.1021/ja002465v

Asymmetric Addition of an Electrophile to Naphthalenes Promoted and Stereodirected by Alcohol Morifumi Fujita, Hironori Matsushima, Takashi Sugimura, Akira Tai, and Tadashi Okuyama pp 2946–2957 DOI: 10.1021/ja0029477 Supporting Info

Peptoid Oligomers with α-Chiral, Aromatic Side Chains:  Effects of Chain Length on Secondary Structure Cindy W. Wu, Tracy J. Sanborn, Ronald N. Zuckermann, and Annelise E. Barron pp 2958–2963 DOI: 10.1021/ja003153v Supporting Info

Synthetic Methodology for the Construction of Structurally Diverse Cyclopropanes Richard E. Taylor, F. Conrad Engelhardt, Michael J. Schmitt, and Haiqing Yuan pp 2964–2969 DOI: 10.1021/ja0037163 Supporting Info

Sequence-Dependent Correction of Random Coil NMR Chemical Shifts Stephan Schwarzinger, Gerard J. A. Kroon, Ted R. Foss, John Chung, Peter E. Wright, and H. Jane Dyson pp 2970–2978 DOI: 10.1021/ja003760i

Supramolecular Chirogenesis in Zinc Porphyrins:  Mechanism, Role of Guest Structure, and Application for the Absolute Configuration Determination Victor V. Borovkov, Juha M. Lintuluoto, and Yoshihisa Inoue pp 2979–2989 DOI: 10.1021/ja0032982

Extrinsic Precursor-Assisted Synthesis of 1,5-Hexadiene on Cu(100) H. Celio, K. C. Scheer, and J. M. White pp 2990–2996 DOI: 10.1021/ja0011414

Correlations of Structure and Electronic Properties from EPR Spectroscopy of Hydroxylamine Oxidoreductase Michael P. Hendrich, Doros Petasis, David M. Arciero, and Alan B. Hooper pp 2997–3005 DOI: 10.1021/ja002982d

Proton Migration and Tautomerism in Protonated Triglycine Christopher F. Rodriquez, Alwin Cunje, Tamer Shoeib, Ivan K. Chu, Alan C. Hopkinson, and K. W. Michael Siu pp 3006–3012 DOI: 10.1021/ja0015904 Supporting Info

Raman Spectroscopic and Electrochemical Characterization of Myoglobin Thin Film:  Implication of the Role of Histidine 64 for Fast Heterogeneous Electron Transfer Manliang Feng and Hiroyasu Tachikawa pp 3013–3020 DOI: 10.1021/ja003088p

Simulated and NMR-Derived Backbone Dynamics of a Protein with Significant Flexibility:  A Comparison of Spectral Densities for the βARK1 PH Domain Stefania Pfeiffer, David Fushman, and David Cowburn pp 3021–3036 DOI: 10.1021/ja0031117 Supporting Info

Multi-State Epoxidation of Ethene by Cytochrome P450:  A Quantum Chemical Study Sam P. de Visser, François Ogliaro, Nathan Harris, and Sason Shaik pp 3037–3047 DOI: 10.1021/ja003544+ Supporting Info

Sensitivity of Tyrosyl Radical g-Values to Changes in Protein Structure:  A High-Field EPR Study of Mutants of Ribonucleotide Reductase Sun Un,* Catherine Gerez, Eric Elleingand, and Marc Fontecave pp 3048–3054 DOI: 10.1021/ja003650b

A Structural Mode-Coupling Approach to 15N NMR Relaxation in Proteins Vitali Tugarinov, Zhichun Liang, Yury E. Shapiro, Jack H. Freed, and Eva Meirovitch pp 3055–3063 DOI: 10.1021/ja003803v Supporting Info

How Curcumin Works Preferentially with Water Soluble Antioxidants Slobodan V. Jovanovic, Charles W. Boone, Steen Steenken, Manuela Trinoga, and Robert B. Kaskey pp 3064–3068 DOI: 10.1021/ja003823x

Bridge-Dependent Electron Transfer in Porphyrin-Based Donor−Bridge−Acceptor Systems Kristine Kilså, Johan Kajanus, Alisdair N. Macpherson, Jerker Mårtensson, and Bo Albinsson pp 3069–3080 DOI: 10.1021/ja003820k

Substituent Effects in Gas-Phase Substitutions and Eliminations:  β-Halo Substituents. Solvation Reverses SN2 Substituent Effects Scott Gronert, Lawrence M. Pratt, and Shanthi Mogali pp 3081–3091 DOI: 10.1021/ja003955q

Alkali Metal Cation−π Interactions Observed by Using a Lariat Ether Model System Eric S. Meadows, Stephen L. De Wall, Leonard J. Barbour, and George W. Gokel pp 3092–3107 DOI: 10.1021/ja003059e

Insight into the Complex and Dynamic Process of Activation of Matrix Metalloproteinases Lakshmi P. Kotra, Jason B. Cross, Yoichiro Shimura, Rafael Fridman, H. Bernhard Schlegel, and Shahriar Mobashery pp 3108–3113 DOI: 10.1021/ja001896a

Signatures of β-Peptide Unfolding in Two-Dimensional Vibrational Echo Spectroscopy:  A Simulation Study C. Scheurer, A. Piryatinski, and S. Mukamel pp 3114–3124 DOI: 10.1021/ja003412g

Dissociation Dynamics and Stability of Cyclic Alkoxy Radicals and Alkoxide Anions Leah S. Alconcel, Hans-Jürgen Deyerl, Michael DeClue, and Robert E. Continetti pp 3125–3132 DOI: 10.1021/ja0042581

Spin Robustness of a New Hybrid Inorganic−Organic High-Spin Molecule Ezra C. Depperman, Scot H. Bodnar, Kira E. Vostrikova, David A. Shultz, and Martin L. Kirk pp 3133–3134 DOI: 10.1021/ja003739h Supporting Info

Synthesis and Properties of Boranocarbonate:  A Convenient in Situ CO Source for the Aqueous Preparation of [99mTc(OH2)3(CO)3]+ Roger Alberto, Kirstin Ortner, Nigel Wheatley, Roger Schibli, and August P. Schubiger pp 3135–3136 DOI: 10.1021/ja003932b Supporting Info

Triethylborane-Induced Radical Reaction with Schwartz Reagent Kazuya Fujita, Tomoaki Nakamura, Hideki Yorimitsu, and Koichiro Oshima pp 3137–3138 DOI: 10.1021/ja0032428 Supporting Info

Enantioselective Synthesis of Unsaturated Cyclic Tertiary Ethers By Mo-Catalyzed Olefin Metathesis Dustin R. Cefalo, Andrew F. Kiely, Margarita Wuchrer, Jennifer Y. Jamieson, Richard R. Schrock, and Amir H. Hoveyda pp 3139–3140 DOI: 10.1021/ja0039177 Supporting Info

Polymerization of Alkynes in the Channels of Mesoporous Materials Containing Ni and Zn Cations:  Almost Complete Filling of the Voids David J. Cardin, Steven P. Constantine, Andrew Gilbert, Alexander K. Lay, Mercedes Alvaro, Maria S. Galletero, Hermenegildo Garcia, and Francisco Marquez pp 3141–3142 DOI: 10.1021/ja002921f Supporting Info

Chirality Transfer during the [2,3]-sila-Wittig Rearrangement and Cyclopropanation Reaction of Optically Active [(sec-Allyloxy)silyl]lithiums Atsushi Kawachi, Hirofumi Maeda, Hiroshi Nakamura, Noriyuki Doi, and Kohei Tamao pp 3143–3144 DOI: 10.1021/ja003749i Supporting Info

Photolysis of Thymine Oxetanes Produces Triplet Excited Carbonyl Compounds with High Efficiency Arul Joseph and Daniel E. Falvey pp 3145–3146 DOI: 10.1021/ja0040363 Supporting Info

Fabrication of Oriented Nanoscopic Ceramic Lines from Cylindrical Micelles of an Organometallic Polyferrocene Block Copolymer Jason A. Massey, Mitchell A. Winnik, and Ian MannersVanessa Z-H. Chan, Johannes M. Ostermann, Rainer Enchelmaier, Joachim P. Spatz, and Martin Möller pp 3147–3148 DOI: 10.1021/ja003174p Supporting Info

Spin Label Enhanced NMR Screening Wolfgang Jahnke, Simon Rüdisser, and Mauro Zurini pp 3149–3150 DOI: 10.1021/ja005836g

Design and Characterization of a Heterodimeric Coiled Coil that Forms Exclusively with an Antiparallel Relative Helix Orientation Diana L. McClain, Howard L. Woods, and Martha G. Oakley pp 3151–3152 DOI: 10.1021/ja004099l Supporting Info

1,6-Anhydro-β-l-hexopyranoses as Potent Synthons in the Synthesis of the Disaccharide Units of Bleomycin A2 and Heparin Shang-Cheng Hung, Shankar R. Thopate, Fa-Chen Chi, Shu-Wen Chang, Jinq-Chyi Lee, Cheng-Chung Wang, and Yuh-Sheng Wen pp 3153–3154 DOI: 10.1021/ja003508a Supporting Info

Better Substrates for Bacterial Transglycosylases Xiang-Yang Ye, Mei-Chu Lo, Livia Brunner, Deborah Walker, Daniel Kahne, and Suzanne Walker pp 3155–3156 DOI: 10.1021/ja010028q Supporting Info

Synthesis of Pyridine-Containing Macrocycles by Cobalt-Mediated Trimerization of Triply-Bonded Species Alessandro F. Moretto, Han-Cheng Zhang, and Bruce E. Maryanoff pp 3157–3158 DOI: 10.1021/ja004049g Supporting Info

Sample Concentration and Separation for Nanoliter-Volume NMR Spectroscopy Using Capillary Isotachophoresis Roger A. Kautz, Michael E. Lacey, Andrew M. Wolters, Frantisek Foret, Andrew G. Webb, Barry L. Karger, and Jonathan V. Sweedler pp 3159–3160 DOI: 10.1021/ja005537r

The 2-Deoxyribonolactone Lesion Produced in DNA by Neocarzinostatin and Other Damaging Agents Forms Cross-links with the Base-Excision Repair Enzyme Endonuclease III Mitsumasa Hashimoto, Marc M. Greenberg, Yoke W. Kow, Jae-Taeg Hwang, and Richard P. Cunningham pp 3161–3162 DOI: 10.1021/ja003354z Supporting Info

The Importance of Solute−Solvent van der Waals Interactions with Interior Atoms of Biopolymers Jed W. Pitera and Wilfred F. van Gunsteren pp 3163–3164 DOI: 10.1021/ja0057474 Supporting Info

Direct Observation of Vapor−Liquid−Solid Nanowire Growth Yiying Wu and Peidong Yang pp 3165–3166 DOI: 10.1021/ja0059084

Unprecedented Highly cis-Diastereoselective Olefin Cyclopropanation Using Copper Homoscorpionate Catalysts M. Mar Díaz-Requejo, Tomás R. Belderraín, Swiatoslaw Trofimenko, and Pedro J. Pérez pp 3167–3168 DOI: 10.1021/ja0155736

Dinuclear Zn2+ Complexes of Synthetic Heptapeptides as Artificial Nucleases Claudia Sissi, Paola Rossi, Fulvia Felluga, Fernando Formaggio, Manlio Palumbo, Paolo Tecilla, Claudio Toniolo, and Paolo Scrimin pp 3169–3170 DOI: 10.1021/ja005675g Supporting Info

Cisplatin−Protein Adducts Are Efficiently Removed by Glutathione but Not by 5‘-Guanosine Monophosphate Tal Peleg-Shulman and Dan Gibson pp 3171–3172 DOI: 10.1021/ja005854y

Fluorescence Anisotropy as a Measure of Chiral Recognition Matthew E. McCarroll, Feresteh Haddadian Billiot, and Isiah M. Warner pp 3173–3174 DOI: 10.1021/ja005604h Supporting Info

Weak versus Strong:  A Weak Polyacid Embedded within a Multilayer of Strong Polyelectrolytes Anne F. Xie and Steve Granick pp 3175–3176 DOI: 10.1021/ja005818z

Differential Plasmon Spectroscopy as a Tool for Monitoring Molecular Binding to Ultrathin Gold Films Gregory Kalyuzhny, Marie Anne Schneeweiss, Abraham Shanzer, Alexander Vaskevich, and Israel Rubinstein pp 3177–3178 DOI: 10.1021/ja005703v

Alignment of the HTLV−I Rex Peptide Bound to Its Target RNA Aptamer from Magnetic Field-Induced Residual Dipolar Couplings and Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonds Hashim M. Al-Hashimi, Andrey Gorin, Ananya Majumdar, and Dinshaw J. Patel pp 3179–3180 DOI: 10.1021/ja004133w Supporting Info

Properties of Photogenerated Tryptophan and Tyrosyl Radicals in Structurally Characterized Proteins Containing Rhenium(I) Tricarbonyl Diimines Angel J. Di Bilio, Brian R. Crane, William A. Wehbi, Cynthia N. Kiser, Mahdi M. Abu-Omar, Rose M. Carlos, John H. Richards, Jay R. Winkler, and Harry B. Gray pp 3181–3182 DOI: 10.1021/ja0043183 Supporting Info

Selective Oxidation at Carbon Adjacent to Aromatic Systems with IBX K. C. Nicolaou, Phil S. Baran, and Yong-Li Zhong pp 3183–3185 DOI: 10.1021/ja004218x Supporting Info

Highly Effective Chiral Dipyridylphosphine Ligands:  Synthesis, Structural Determination, and Applications in the Ru-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation Reactions  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 11513−11514].  Cheng-Chao Pai, Ching-Wen Lin, Chi-Ching Lin, Chih-Chiang Chen, and Albert S. C. Chan p 3186 DOI: 10.1021/ja015141v

Efficient and Recyclable Monomeric and Dendritic Ru-Based Metathesis Catalysts  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 8168−8179].  Steven B. Garber, Jason S. Kingsbury, Brian L. Gray, and Amir H. Hoveyda p 3186 DOI: 10.1021/ja0151448

Issue 14

Novel Reactivity of Ruthenium Alkylidenes in Protic Solvents:  Degenerate Alkylidene Proton Exchange David M. Lynn and Robert H. Grubbs pp 3187–3193 DOI: 10.1021/ja0020299

Stille Couplings Catalytic in Tin:  The “Sn−O” Approach William P. Gallagher, Ina Terstiege, and Robert E. Maleczka, Jr. pp 3194–3204 DOI: 10.1021/ja0035295 Supporting Info

Modulating Artificial Membrane Morphology:  pH-Induced Chromatic Transition and Nanostructural Transformation of a Bolaamphiphilic Conjugated Polymer from Blue Helical Ribbons to Red Nanofibers Jie Song, Quan Cheng, Susanne Kopta, and Raymond C. Stevens pp 3205–3213 DOI: 10.1021/ja0035046 Supporting Info

Enantioselective Total Synthesis of a Potent Antitumor Antibiotic, Fredericamycin A Yasuyuki Kita, Kazuhiro Higuchi, Yutaka Yoshida, Kiyosei Iio, Shinji Kitagaki, Koichiro Ueda, Shuji Akai, and Hiromichi Fujioka pp 3214–3222 DOI: 10.1021/ja0035699 Supporting Info

Carbon−Carbon Bond Formation by Electrophilic Addition at the Central Carbon of the μ-η3-Allenyl/Propargyl Ligand on the Pd−Pd Bond Sensuke Ogoshi, Takuma Nishida, Ken Tsutsumi, Motohiro Ooi, Tsutomu Shinagawa, Tenpei Akasaka, Mariko Yamane, and Hideo Kurosawa pp 3223–3228 DOI: 10.1021/ja003754m

Polymerization of Lactide with Zinc and Magnesium β-Diiminate Complexes:  Stereocontrol and Mechanism Bradley M. Chamberlain, Ming Cheng, David R. Moore, Tina M. Ovitt, Emil B. Lobkovsky, and Geoffrey W. Coates pp 3229–3238 DOI: 10.1021/ja003851f Supporting Info

The First Stereoselective Total Synthesis of Quinine Gilbert Stork, Deqiang Niu, A. Fujimoto, Emil R. Koft, James M. Balkovec, James R. Tata, and Gregory R. Dake pp 3239–3242 DOI: 10.1021/ja004325r Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of Tropoloisoquinolines:  Imerubrine, Isoimerubrine, and Grandirubrine1 Jae Chol Lee and Jin Kun Cha pp 3243–3246 DOI: 10.1021/ja0101072 Supporting Info

A Synthetic Analogue of the Active Site of Fe-Containing Nitrile Hydratase with Carboxamido N and Thiolato S as Donors:  Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivities Juan C. Noveron, Marilyn M. Olmstead, and Pradip K. Mascharak pp 3247–3259 DOI: 10.1021/ja001253v Supporting Info

Alteration of the Aurophilic Interactions in Trimeric Gold(I) Compounds through Charge Transfer. Behavior of Solvoluminescent Au3(MeNCOMe)3 in the Presence of Electron Acceptors Marilyn M. Olmstead, Feilong Jiang, Saeed Attar, and Alan L. Balch pp 3260–3267 DOI: 10.1021/ja0029533 Supporting Info

Coordination Sphere Flexibility of Active-Site Models for Fe-Only Hydrogenase:  Studies in Intra- and Intermolecular Diatomic Ligand Exchange Erica J. Lyon, Irene P. Georgakaki, Joseph H. Reibenspies, and Marcetta Y. Darensbourg pp 3268–3278 DOI: 10.1021/ja003147z Supporting Info

Reactions of Halofluorocarbons with Group 6 Complexes M(C5H5)2L (M = Mo, W; L = C2H4, CO). Fluoroalkylation at Molybdenum and Tungsten, and at Cyclopentadienyl or Ethylene Ligands Russell P. Hughes, Susan M. Maddock, Ilia A. Guzei, Louise M. Liable-Sands, and Arnold L. Rheingold pp 3279–3288 DOI: 10.1021/ja003339u Supporting Info

On the Regiospecificity of Vanadium Bromoperoxidase Jennifer S. Martinez, Georgia L. Carroll, Richard A. Tschirret-Guth, Gereon Altenhoff, R. Daniel Little, and Alison Butler pp 3289–3294 DOI: 10.1021/ja004176c

Structural Dynamics and Cation Interactions of DNA Quadruplex Molecules Containing Mixed Guanine/Cytosine Quartets Revealed by Large-Scale MD Simulations Nad'a Špaková, Imre Berger, and Jiří Šponer pp 3295–3307 DOI: 10.1021/ja002656y Supporting Info

N62+ and N42+ Dications and Their N12 and N10 Azido Derivatives:  DFT/GIAO-MP2 Theoretical Studies1 George. A. Olah, G. K. Surya Prakash, and Golam Rasul pp 3308–3310 DOI: 10.1021/ja002253y Supporting Info

Structure and Conformational Behavior of Biopolymers by Density Functional Calculations Employing Periodic Boundary Conditions. I. The Case of Polyglycine, Polyalanine, and Poly-α-aminoisobutyric Acid in Vacuo Roberto Improta, Vincenzo Barone, Konstantin N. Kudin, and Gustavo E. Scuseria pp 3311–3322 DOI: 10.1021/ja003680e

Olefinic vs Aromatic π−H Interaction:  A Theoretical Investigation of the Nature of Interaction of First-row Hydrides with Ethene and Benzene P. Tarakeshwar, Hyuk Soon Choi, and Kwang S. Kim pp 3323–3331 DOI: 10.1021/ja0013531 Supporting Info

Dissecting the Photocycle of the Bacteriorhodopsin E204Q Mutant from Kinetic Multichannel Difference Spectra. Extension of the Method of Singular Value Decomposition with Self-Modeling to Five Components Ágnes Kulcsár, Jack Saltiel, and László Zimányi pp 3332–3340 DOI: 10.1021/ja0030414

Solvent Effects on Heavy Atom Nuclear Spin−Spin Coupling Constants:  A Theoretical Study of Hg−C and Pt−P Couplings Jochen Autschbach and Tom Ziegler pp 3341–3349 DOI: 10.1021/ja003481v

A Theoretical Examination of the Acid-Catalyzed and Noncatalyzed Ring-Opening Reaction of an Oxirane by Nucleophilic Addition of Acetate. Implications to Epoxide Hydrolases Edmond Y. Lau, Zachary E. Newby, and Thomas C. Bruice pp 3350–3357 DOI: 10.1021/ja0037724 Supporting Info

Assessment of the Existence of Hyper-Long Axial Co(II)−N Bonds in Cobinamide B12 Models by Using Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Jenna S. Trommel, Kurt Warncke, and Luigi G. Marzilli pp 3358–3366 DOI: 10.1021/ja004024h Supporting Info

Asymmetric Aldol Reaction via a Dinuclear Zinc Catalyst:  α-Hydroxyketones as Donors Barry M. Trost, Hisanaka Ito, and Elliad R. Silcoff pp 3367–3368 DOI: 10.1021/ja003871h Supporting Info

A New Strategy for the Stereoselective Introduction of Steroid Side Chain via α-Alkoxy Vinyl Cuprates:  Total Synthesis of a Highly Potent Antitumor Natural Product OSW-11 Wensheng Yu and Zhendong Jin pp 3369–3370 DOI: 10.1021/ja004098t Supporting Info

Construction of Persistent Phenoxyl Radical with Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding Toshihide Maki, Yoko Araki, Yukihiro Ishida, Osamu Onomura, and Yoshihiro Matsumura pp 3371–3372 DOI: 10.1021/ja002453+ Supporting Info

Novel Templating Synthesis of Necklace-Shaped Mono- and Bimetallic Nanowires in Hybrid Organic−Inorganic Mesoporous Material Atsushi Fukuoka, Yuzuru Sakamoto, Shiyou Guan, Shinji Inagaki, Noriaki Sugimoto, Yoshiaki Fukushima, Kaori Hirahara, Sumio Iijima, and Masaru Ichikawa pp 3373–3374 DOI: 10.1021/ja004067y Supporting Info

2,2‘-Bipyridine Ligandoside:  A Novel Building Block for Modifying DNA with Intra-Duplex Metal Complexes Haim Weizman and Yitzhak Tor pp 3375–3376 DOI: 10.1021/ja005785n Supporting Info

Magnetic Excitations of CsMn(SO4)2·12D2O, Measured by Inelastic Neutron Scattering Reto Basler, Philip L. W. Tregenna-Piggott, Hanspeter Andres, Christopher Dobe, Hans-Ulrich Güdel, Stefan Janssen, and Garry J. McIntyre pp 3377–3378 DOI: 10.1021/ja003801a

Glycosyl Sulfonylcarbamates:  New Glycosyl Donors with Tunable Reactivity Ronald J. Hinklin and Laura L. Kiessling pp 3379–3380 DOI: 10.1021/ja005735i Supporting Info

Reaction of a Coordinated Cysteinato Ligand with Singlet Oxygen:  Photooxidation of (Cysteinato-N,S)bis(ethylenediamine)cobalt(III) Cesar Galvez, David G. Ho, Armin Azod, and Matthias Selke pp 3381–3382 DOI: 10.1021/ja003993+

Potentiometric Sensors Based on the Inductive Effect on the pKa of Poly(aniline):  A Nonenzymatic Glucose Sensor Eiichi Shoji and Michael S. Freund pp 3383–3384 DOI: 10.1021/ja005906j Supporting Info

Cloning and Heterologous Expression of the Macrotetrolide Biosynthetic Gene Cluster Revealed a Novel Polyketide Synthase that Lacks an Acyl Carrier Protein Hyung-Jin Kwon, Wyatt C. Smith, Longkuan Xiang, and Ben Shen pp 3385–3386 DOI: 10.1021/ja0100827

5-Carbaphosphatranes:  The First Main Group Atrane Bearing a 1−5 Covalent Bond Junji Kobayashi, Kei Goto, and Takayuki Kawashima pp 3387–3388 DOI: 10.1021/ja0056264 Supporting Info

Clathrate III of Group 14 Exists After All Svilen Bobev and Slavi C. Sevov pp 3389–3390 DOI: 10.1021/ja010010f Supporting Info

Studies on the Biosynthesis of Paraherquamide:  Concerning the Mechanism of the Oxidative Cyclization of l-Isoleucine to β-Methylproline Emily M. Stocking, Rodolfo A. Martinez, Louis A. Silks, Juan F. Sanz-Cervera, and Robert M. Williams pp 3391–3392 DOI: 10.1021/ja005655e Supporting Info

Ruthenium-Catalyzed Propargylic Alkylation of Propargylic Alcohols with Ketones:  Straightforward Synthesis of γ-Keto Acetylenes Yoshiaki Nishibayashi, Issei Wakiji, Youichi Ishii, Sakae Uemura, and Masanobu Hidai pp 3393–3394 DOI: 10.1021/ja015670z Supporting Info

Residual Dipolar Coupling TOCSY for Direct Through Space Correlations of Base Protons and Phosphorus Nuclei in RNA Mirko Hennig, Teresa Carlomagno, and James R. Williamson pp 3395–3396 DOI: 10.1021/ja005835o Supporting Info

Cation−π Interactions in Sodiated Phenylalanine Complexes:  Is Phenylalanine in the Charge-Solvated or Zwitterionic Form? Fung Ming Siu, Ngai Ling Ma, and Chun Wai Tsang pp 3397–3398 DOI: 10.1021/ja0056872 Supporting Info

myo-Inositol 1,4,5,6-Tetrakisphosphate and myo-Inositol 3,4,5,6-Tetrakisphosphate, Two Second Messengers that May Act as pH-Dependent Molecular Switches Corinne Blum-Held, Philippe Bernard, and Bernard Spiess pp 3399–3400 DOI: 10.1021/ja015616i Supporting Info

Lanthanum Coordination Networks Based on Unusual Five-Connected Topologies De-Liang Long, Alexander J. Blake, Neil R. Champness, Claire Wilson, and Martin Schröder pp 3401–3402 DOI: 10.1021/ja0030461 Supporting Info

The Stereoselective Synthesis of 4‘-β-Thioribonucleosides via the Pummerer Reaction  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 7233−7243].   Takashi Naka, Noriaki Minakawa, Hiroshi Abe, Daisuke Kaga, and Akira Matsuda p 3403 DOI: 10.1021/ja015142n

Time-Resolved EPR, Fluorescence, and Transient Absorption Studies on Phthalocyaninatosilicon Covalently Linked to One or Two TEMPO Radicals  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 702−708].  Kazuyuki Ishii, Yoshiharu Hirose, Mamoru Fujitsuka, Osamu Ito, and Nagao Kobayashi p 3403 DOI: 10.1021/ja015146s

Nonionic Surfactants:  Alkyl Polyglucosides. Surfactant Science Series. Volume 91 Edited by Dieter Balzer (Haltern-Lavesum, Germany) and Harald Lüders (Rohm GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany). Marcel Dekker:  New York and Basel, Switzerland. 2000. 560 pp. $185.00. ISBN 0-8247-9390-0 Kurt D. Pennell p 3404 DOI: 10.1021/ja004831g

Issue 15

Synthesis and Characterization of DNA Duplexes Containing an N4C−Ethyl−N4C Interstrand Cross-Link David M. Noll, Anne M. Noronha, and Paul S. Miller pp 3405–3411 DOI: 10.1021/ja003340t

Reversible Pressure Deformation of A Thermophilic Cytochrome P450 Enzyme (CYP119) and Its Active-Site Mutants Richard A. Tschirret-Guth, Laura S. Koo, Gaston Hui Bon Hoa, and Paul R. Ortiz de Montellano pp 3412–3417 DOI: 10.1021/ja003947+

Energetically Most Likely Substrate and Active-Site Protonation Sites and Pathways in the Catalytic Mechanism of Dihydrofolate Reductase Peter L. Cummins and Jill E. Gready pp 3418–3428 DOI: 10.1021/ja0038474

Changing the Ortho/Para Ratio in Aromatic Acylation Reactions by Changing Reaction Conditions:  A Mechanistic Explanation from Kinetic Measurements1 Franz Effenberger* and Andreas H. Maier pp 3429–3433 DOI: 10.1021/ja0022066

The Antioxidant Profile of 2,3-Dihydrobenzo[b]furan-5-ol and Its 1-Thio, 1-Seleno, and 1-Telluro Analogues Jonas Malmström, Mats Jonsson, Ian A. Cotgreave, Leif Hammarström, Martin Sjödin, and Lars Engman pp 3434–3440 DOI: 10.1021/ja0035811

Diastereoselective Propargylations with Planar Chiral Chromiumcarbonyl Arene Complex Substituted Propargyl Cations Astrid Netz, Kurt Polborn, and Thomas J. J. Müller pp 3441–3453 DOI: 10.1021/ja0037116 Supporting Info

Methylammonium Groups at the Solid Walls of Nanometer-Sized, Water-Filled Monolayer Gaps as Binding Sites for a Tetraanionic Porphyrin Marc Skupin, Guangtao Li, Werner Fudickar, Jörg Zimmermann, Beate Röder, and Jürgen-Hinrich Fuhrhop pp 3454–3461 DOI: 10.1021/ja003882a Supporting Info

An Allyltitanium Derived from Acrolein 1,2-Dicyclohexylethylene Acetal and (η2-propene)Ti(O-i-Pr)2 as a Chiral Propionaldehyde Homoenolate Equivalent that Reacts with Imines with Excellent Stereoselectivity. An Efficient and Practical Access to Optically Active γ-Amino Carbonyl Compounds Sentaro Okamoto, Xin Teng, Shintaro Fujii, Yuuki Takayama, and Fumie Sato pp 3462–3471 DOI: 10.1021/ja004140k Supporting Info

Stereocontrolled Asymmetric Synthesis of α-Hydroxy-β-amino Acids. A Stereodivergent Approach Yutaka Aoyagi, Rajendra P. Jain, and Robert M. Williams pp 3472–3477 DOI: 10.1021/ja0042332 Supporting Info

Use of Aromatic Radical-Anions in the Absence of THF. Tandem Formation and Cyclization of Benzyllithiums Derived from the Attack of Homo- and Bishomoallyllithiums on α-Methylstyrenes:  Two-Pot Synthesis of Cuparene1 Theodore Cohen, Thanapong Kreethadumrongdat, Xiaojun Liu, and Vithalanand Kulkarni pp 3478–3483 DOI: 10.1021/ja004353+ Supporting Info

Partially Bridge-Fluorinated Dimethyl Bicyclo[1.1.1]pentane-1,3-dicarboxylates:  Preparation and NMR Spectra Alexander B. Shtarev, Evgueni Pinkhassik, Michael D. Levin, Ivan Stibor, and Josef Michl pp 3484–3492 DOI: 10.1021/ja0000495 Supporting Info

A Calix[4]arene Ureidopeptide Dimer Self-Assembled through Two Superposed Hydrogen Bond Arrays Ana M. Rincón, Pilar Prados, and Javier de Mendoza pp 3493–3498 DOI: 10.1021/ja0036054 Supporting Info

Neighboring Side Chain Effects on Asparaginyl and Aspartyl Degradation:  An Ab Initio Study of the Relationship between Peptide Conformation and Backbone NH Acidity Jennifer L. Radkiewicz, Hendrik Zipse, Steven Clarke, and K. N. Houk pp 3499–3506 DOI: 10.1021/ja0026814

Frequency Selective Heteronuclear Dipolar Recoupling in Rotating Solids:  Accurate 13C−15N Distance Measurements in Uniformly 13C,15N-labeled Peptides Christopher P. Jaroniec, Brett A. Tounge, Judith Herzfeld, and Robert G. Griffin pp 3507–3519 DOI: 10.1021/ja003266e Supporting Info

Supported Metallocene Catalysts by Surface Organometallic Chemistry. Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity in Ethylene Polymerization of Oxide-Supported Mono- and Biscyclopentadienyl Zirconium Alkyl Complexes:  Establishment of Structure/Reactivity Relationships Michelle Jezequel, Véronique Dufaud, Maria José Ruiz-Garcia, Fernando Carrillo-Hermosilla, Ute Neugebauer, Gerald P. Niccolai, Frédéric Lefebvre, François Bayard, Judith Corker, Steven Fiddy, John Evans, Jean-Pierre Broyer, Jean Malinge, and Jean-Marie Basset pp 3520–3540 DOI: 10.1021/ja000682q Supporting Info

Interfacial and Intrafacial Linkage Isomerizations of Rhenium Complexes with Aromatic Molecules Benjamin C. Brooks, Scott H. Meiere, Lee A. Friedman, Emily H. Carrig, T. Brent Gunnoe, and W. Dean Harman pp 3541–3550 DOI: 10.1021/ja003195j Supporting Info

Synthesis of [Ru(phen)2dppz]2+-Tethered Oligo-DNA and Studies on the Metallointercalation Mode into the DNA Duplex Dimitri Ossipov, P. I. Pradeepkumar, Melcer Holmer, and Jyoti Chattopadhyaya pp 3551–3562 DOI: 10.1021/ja003985t

In Situ Switching of Sorbent Functionality as Monitored with Hyperpolarized 129Xe NMR Spectroscopy Andrey V. Nossov, Dmitriy V. Soldatov, and John A. Ripmeester pp 3563–3568 DOI: 10.1021/ja002767x

High-Frequency (140-GHz) Time Domain EPR and ENDOR Spectroscopy:  The Tyrosyl Radical−Diiron Cofactor in Ribonucleotide Reductase from Yeast Galit Bar, Marina Bennati, Hiep-Hoa T. Nguyen, Jie Ge, JoAnne Stubbe, and Robert G. Griffin pp 3569–3576 DOI: 10.1021/ja003108n

Salt Bridge Stabilization of Charged Zwitterionic Arginine Aggregates in the Gas Phase Ryan R. Julian, Robert Hodyss, and J. L. Beauchamp pp 3577–3583 DOI: 10.1021/ja003105a

A Simple Rule for Classification of Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxin Congeners on the Basis of IR Frequency Patterns Byung Jin Mhin, Jina Choi, and Wonyong Choi pp 3584–3587 DOI: 10.1021/ja0055615 Supporting Info

Integration of Bulk and Interfacial Properties in a Polymeric System:  Rubber Elasticity at a Polybutadiene/Water Interface Sureurg Khongtong and Gregory S. Ferguson pp 3588–3594 DOI: 10.1021/ja003224q

One-Dimensional Polymers of Octasubstituted Phthalocyanines Anthony S. Drager, Rebecca A. P. Zangmeister, Neal R. Armstrong, and David F. O'Brien pp 3595–3596 DOI: 10.1021/ja004038n

Unusual Locking of Silicon Chains into all-transoid Conformation by Pentacoordinate Silicon Atoms Ibrahim El-Sayed, Yasuo Hatanaka,* Shun-ya Onozawa, and Masato Tanaka pp 3597–3598 DOI: 10.1021/ja0040621 Supporting Info

Water-Catalyzed Excited-State Double Proton Transfer in 3-Cyano-7-azaindole:  The Resolution of the Proton-Transfer Mechanism for 7-Azaindoles in Pure Water Pi-Tai Chou, Wei-Shan Yu, Ching-Yen Wei, Yi-Ming Cheng, and Chan-Yi Yang pp 3599–3600 DOI: 10.1021/ja002975p

Ferromagnetic Coordination Polymer Composed of Heterocyclic Thiazyl Radical, 1,3,5-Trithia-2,4,6-triazapentalenyl (TTTA), and Bis(hexafluoroacetylacetonato)copper(II) (Cu(hfac)2) Wataru Fujita and Kunio Awaga* pp 3601–3602 DOI: 10.1021/ja002873z Supporting Info

Nonenzymatic Kinetic Resolution of Secondary Alcohols:  Enantioselective SN2 Displacement of Hydroxy Groups by Halogens in the Presence of Chiral BINAP Govindasamy Sekar and Hisao Nishiyama pp 3603–3604 DOI: 10.1021/ja010029i Supporting Info

Imaging Molecular and Nanoscale Order in Conjugated Polymer Thin Films with Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy Julie A. Teetsov and David A. Vanden Bout pp 3605–3606 DOI: 10.1021/ja0155534

Conversion of Enediynes into Quinones by Antibody Catalysis and in Aqueous Buffers:  Implications for an Alternative Enediyne Therapeutic Mechanism Lyn H. Jones, Curtis W. Harwig, Paul Wentworth, Jr.,* Anton Simeonov, Anita D. Wentworth, Sandrine Py, Jon A. Ashley, Richard A. Lerner,* and Kim D. Janda* pp 3607–3608 DOI: 10.1021/ja005864z Supporting Info

Structural Characterization of a Pentadienyl Radical Intermediate Formed during Catalysis by Prostaglandin H Synthase-2 Sheng Peng, Nicole M. Okeley, Ah-Lim Tsai, Gang Wu, Richard J. Kulmacz, and Wilfred A. van der Donk pp 3609–3610 DOI: 10.1021/ja015599x Supporting Info

Stereoselective Syntheses of Epothilones A and B via Directed Nitrile Oxide Cycloaddition1 Jeffrey W. Bode and Erick M. Carreira pp 3611–3612 DOI: 10.1021/ja0155635 Supporting Info

Mn(II)−Texaphyrin as a Catalyst for the Decomposition of Peroxynitrite Roman Shimanovich, Sharon Hannah, Vincent Lynch, Nikolay Gerasimchuk, Tarak D. Mody, Darren Magda, Jonathan Sessler, and John T. Groves pp 3613–3614 DOI: 10.1021/ja005856i Supporting Info

Quadruply Bonded Dimolybdenum Atoms Surrounded by Dendrons:  Preparation, Characterization, and Electrochemistry Teerayuth Liwporncharoenvong and Rudy L. Luck pp 3615–3616 DOI: 10.1021/ja0155130 Supporting Info

31P Chemical Shift Anisotropy as an Aid in Determining Nucleic Acid Structure in Liquid Crystals Zhengrong Wu, Nico Tjandra, and Ad Bax pp 3617–3618 DOI: 10.1021/ja015650x Supporting Info

Direct Measurement of the Chiral Quaternary Structure in a π-Conjugated Polymer at Room Temperature Ken-ichi Shinohara, Satoshi Yasuda, Gen Kato, Machiko Fujita, and Hidemi Shigekawa pp 3619–3620 DOI: 10.1021/ja003023m Supporting Info

Preparation of Solid Catalysts Edited by G. Ertl (Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max Planck Society), H. Knozinger (Ludwig-Maximilian-University), and J. Weitkamp (University of Stuttgart). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 1999. xviii +622 pp. $175.00. ISBN 3-527-29826-6 p 3621 DOI: 10.1021/ja004861j

Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry. Applications, Theory and Instrumentation Edited by R. A. Meyers (RAMTECH, Ltd., USA). Wiley:  New York (www.wiley.co.uk/eac). 2000. 4344 pp. $4800.00 (15 volume set). ISBN 0-471-97670-9 p 3621 DOI: 10.1021/ja0048735

Isospecific Living Polymerization of 1-Hexene by a Readily Available Nonmetallocene C2-Symmetrical Zirconium Catalyst  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 10706−10707].  Edit Y. Tshuva, Israel Goldberg, and Moshe Kol p 3621 DOI: 10.1021/ja0151450

The First Optically Active BINOL−BINAP Copolymer Catalyst:  Highly Stereoselective Tandem Asymmetric Reactions  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 6500−6501].  Hong-Bin Yu, Qiao-Sheng Hu, and Lin Pu p 3621 DOI: 10.1021/ja015147k

Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Other Eicosanoids. From Biogenesis to Clinical Application Edited by F. Marks and G. Furstenberger (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 1999. xx + 388 pp. $154.95. ISBN 3-527-29360-4 J. Martyn Bailey pp 3621–3622 DOI: 10.1021/ja015223j

Chemical Aspects of Photodynamic Therapy By Raymond Bonnett (University of London). Gordon and Breach Science Publishers:  London and Newark. 2000. xi + 305 pp. $48.00. ISBN 90-5699-248-1 Kathryn Woodburn p 3622 DOI: 10.1021/ja0048228

Organic Synthesis Highlights IV Edited by Hans-Günther Schmalz (Universität zu Köln). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2000. xii + 364 pp. $75.00. ISBN 3-527-29916-5 p 3622 DOI: 10.1021/ja015206u

Issue 16

Product Studies and Laser Flash Photolysis on Alkyl Radicals Containing Two Different β-Leaving Groups Are Consonant with the Formation of an Olefin Cation Radical Brian C. Bales, John H. Horner, Xianhai Huang, Martin Newcomb, David Crich, and Marc M. Greenberg pp 3623–3629 DOI: 10.1021/ja0042938 Supporting Info

Enantioselective DNA Threading Dynamics by Phenazine-Linked [Ru(phen)2dppz]2+ Dimers Björn Önfelt, Per Lincoln, and Bengt Nordén pp 3630–3637 DOI: 10.1021/ja003624d Supporting Info

Photochemically Removable Silyl Protecting Groups Michael C. Pirrung, Lara Fallon, Jin Zhu, and Yong Rok Lee pp 3638–3643 DOI: 10.1021/ja002370t Supporting Info

Synthesis of Poly(styrene sulfonate) Brushes Y. Tran and P. Auroy pp 3644–3654 DOI: 10.1021/ja992562s Supporting Info

Hydrogen-Bond-Mediated Photoinduced Electron-Transfer:  Novel Dimethylaniline−Anthracene Ensembles Formed via Watson−Crick Base-Pairing Jonathan L. Sessler,* Muhunthan Sathiosatham, Christopher T. Brown, Timothy A. Rhodes, and Gary Wiederrecht* pp 3655–3660 DOI: 10.1021/ja005547s Supporting Info

How Does the Critical Point Change during a Chemical Reaction in Supercritical Fluids? A Study of the Hydroformylation of Propene in Supercritical CO2 Jie Ke, Buxing Han, Michael W. George, Haike Yan, and Martyn Poliakoff pp 3661–3670 DOI: 10.1021/ja003446o

Geminal Dicarboxylates as Carbonyl Surrogates for Asymmetric Synthesis. Part I. Asymmetric Addition of Malonate Nucleophiles Barry M. Trost and Chul Bom Lee pp 3671–3686 DOI: 10.1021/ja003774o Supporting Info

Geminal Dicarboxylates as Carbonyl Surrogates for Asymmetric Synthesis. Part II. Scope and Applications Barry M. Trost and Chul Bom Lee pp 3687–3696 DOI: 10.1021/ja003775g Supporting Info

Synthetic and Theoretical Studies on Group-Transfer Imidoylation of Organotellurium Compounds. Remarkable Reactivity of Isonitriles in Comparison with Carbon Monoxide in Radical-Mediated Reactions Shigeru Yamago,* Hiroshi Miyazoe, Ryuta Goto, Masahiro Hashidume, Takashi Sawazaki, and Jun-ichi Yoshida* pp 3697–3705 DOI: 10.1021/ja003879r Supporting Info

Thermolysis of Free-Radical Initiators:  tert-Butylazocumene and Its 1,3- and 1,4-Bisazo and 1,3,5-Trisazo Analogues Paul S. Engel, Li Pan, Yunming Ying, and Lawrence B. Alemany pp 3706–3715 DOI: 10.1021/ja003914u Supporting Info

Parallel Synthesis of a Vitamin D3 Library in the Solid-Phase Ichiro Hijikuro, Takayuki Doi, and Takashi Takahashi pp 3716–3722 DOI: 10.1021/ja003976k Supporting Info

Theoretical Study of Electron, Proton, and Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Iron Bi-imidazoline Complexes Nedialka Iordanova, Hélène Decornez, and Sharon Hammes-Schiffer pp 3723–3733 DOI: 10.1021/ja0100524

Modeling the Active Sites in Metalloenzymes. 3. Density Functional Calculations on Models for [Fe]-Hydrogenase:  Structures and Vibrational Frequencies of the Observed Redox Forms and the Reaction Mechanism at the Diiron Active Center Zexing Cao and Michael B. Hall pp 3734–3742 DOI: 10.1021/ja000116v

Highly Luminescent Silicon Nanocrystals with Discrete Optical Transitions Justin D. Holmes, Kirk J. Ziegler, R. Christopher Doty, Lindsay E. Pell, Keith P. Johnston, and Brian A. Korgel pp 3743–3748 DOI: 10.1021/ja002956f

Electronic and Magnetic Properties of α-Keggin Anions:  A DFT Study of [XM12O40]n-, (M = W, Mo; X = AlIII, SiIV, PV, FeIII, CoII, CoIII ) and [SiM11VO40]m- (M = Mo and W) Joan Miquel Maestre, Xavier Lopez, Carles Bo, Josep-M. Poblet, and Nieves Casañ-Pastor pp 3749–3758 DOI: 10.1021/ja003563j

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Mononuclear Zinc-β-lactamase from Bacillus Cereus Dimas Suárez and Kenneth M. Merz, Jr. pp 3759–3770 DOI: 10.1021/ja003796a Supporting Info

Crystalline Films of Interdigitated Structures Formed via Amidinium−Carboxylate Interactions at the Air−Water Interface Ivan Kuzmenko, Maik Kindermann, Kristian Kjaer, Paul B. Howes, Jens Als-Nielsen, Rony Granek, Gunther v. Kiedrowski, Leslie Leiserowitz, and Meir Lahav pp 3771–3783 DOI: 10.1021/ja002597o

The Secondary Structure of a Membrane-Modifying Peptide in a Supramolecular Assembly Studied by PELDOR and CW-ESR Spectroscopies A. D. Milov, Yu. D. Tsvetkov, F. Formaggio, M. Crisma, C. Toniolo, and J. Raap pp 3784–3789 DOI: 10.1021/ja0033990

The Electronic Structure of the Flavin Cofactor in DNA Photolyase Stefan Weber, Klaus Möbius, Gerald Richter, and Christopher W. M. Kay pp 3790–3798 DOI: 10.1021/ja003426m Supporting Info

Electronic Structure and Properties of Transition Metal−Benzene Complexes Ravindra Pandey, Bijan K. Rao, Purusottam Jena, and Miguel Alvarez Blanco pp 3799–3808 DOI: 10.1021/ja0035452

Phase-Transfer Catalyst-Induced Changes in the Absorption and Fluorescence Behavior of Some Electron Donor−Acceptor Molecules Rana Karmakar and Anunay Samanta pp 3809–3817 DOI: 10.1021/ja004131b

A Nano-Scale Barrel and Cube:  Transition Metal-Mediated Self-Assembly of CpCoCb-Derived Ligand Scaffolds Sarah C. Johannessen and Ronald G. BrisboisJohn P. Fischer and Paul A. GriecoAnne E. Counterman and David E. Clemmer pp 3818–3819 DOI: 10.1021/ja004007s Supporting Info

Characterization of Surface Organometallic Complexes Using High Resolution 2D Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy. Application to the Full Characterization of a Silica Supported Metal Carbyne: SiO−Mo(C−Bu-t)(CH2−Bu-t)2 Romain Petroff Saint-Arroman, Mathieu Chabanas, Anne Baudouin, Christophe Copéret, Jean-Marie Basset, Anne Lesage, and Lyndon Emsley pp 3820–3821 DOI: 10.1021/ja002259n Supporting Info

Multiple Hydrogen/Lithium Interconversions at the Same Benzene Nucleus:  Two at the Most Manfred Schlosser, Laurence Guio, and Frédéric Leroux pp 3822–3823 DOI: 10.1021/ja0032733 Supporting Info

The Role of the Leaving Group in the Dissociation of Radical Anions of 9-(Aryloxymethyl)anthracenes Norio Kimura pp 3824–3825 DOI: 10.1021/ja0028929

A Ti2Ru2Pd2 Oxo−Sulfido Cluster Synthesized by Linking Two Rationally Preorganized TiRuPdS2 Heterotrimetallic Units with an Oxo Ligand:  Its Reaction with an Alkyne Shigeki Kuwata, Shin-ichiro Kabashima, Youichi Ishii, and Masanobu Hidai pp 3826–3827 DOI: 10.1021/ja0040666 Supporting Info

A Capable Bridging Ligand for Fe-Only Hydrogenase:  Density Functional Calculations of a Low-Energy Route for Heterolytic Cleavage and Formation of Dihydrogen Hua-Jun Fan and Michael B. Hall pp 3828–3829 DOI: 10.1021/ja004120i Supporting Info

Highly Enantioselective Hetero-Diels−Alder Reactions Catalyzed by a C2-Symmetric Bis(sulfoximine) Copper(II) Complex Carsten Bolm and Oliver Simić pp 3830–3831 DOI: 10.1021/ja004261k Supporting Info

Oxidation of Isoniazid by Manganese and Mycobacterium tuberculosis Catalase−Peroxidase Yields a New Mechanism of Activation Jacques Bodiguel, Judit M. Nagy, Katherine A. Brown, and Brigitte Jamart-Grégoire pp 3832–3833 DOI: 10.1021/ja002674f Supporting Info

Validity of Using the Radius of Gyration as a Restraint in NMR Protein Structure Determination Xuemei Huang and Robert Powers pp 3834–3835 DOI: 10.1021/ja005770p Supporting Info

Activation of the C−H Bond of Methane by Intermediate Q of Methane Monooxygenase:  A Theoretical Study Benjamin F. Gherman, Barry D. Dunietz, Douglas A. Whittington, Stephen J. Lippard, and Richard A. Friesner pp 3836–3837 DOI: 10.1021/ja0055108 Supporting Info

Noncovalent Sidewall Functionalization of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Protein Immobilization Robert J. Chen, Yuegang Zhang, Dunwei Wang, and Hongjie Dai pp 3838–3839 DOI: 10.1021/ja010172b Supporting Info

Novel Class of Morphinans with Acrylonitrile Incorporated Substructures as Key Intermediates for Non-Oxygen-Bridged Opioid Ligands Elisabeth Greiner, Herwig Schottenberger, Klaus Wurst, and Helmut Schmidhammer pp 3840–3841 DOI: 10.1021/ja015550r Supporting Info

Electron Transfer Initiated Cyclizations:  Cyclic Acetal Synthesis through Carbon−Carbon σ-Bond Activation V. Satish Kumar and Paul E. Floreancig pp 3842–3843 DOI: 10.1021/ja015526d Supporting Info

Protein Side-Chain Rotamers from Dipolar Couplings in a Liquid Crystalline Phase James J. Chou and Ad Bax* pp 3844–3845 DOI: 10.1021/ja015660y

Synthesis and Size Control of Gold Nanoparticles Stabilized by Poly(methylphenylphosphazene) Caroline H. Walker, John V. St. John, and Patty Wisian-Neilson pp 3846–3847 DOI: 10.1021/ja005812+ Supporting Info

Tag-Reporter Strategy for Facile Oligosaccharide Synthesis on Polymer Support Hiromune Ando, Shino Manabe, Yoshiaki Nakahara, and Yukishige Ito pp 3848–3849 DOI: 10.1021/ja003856c Supporting Info

Generation of Highly Enantioselective Catalysts from the Pseudoenatiomeric Assembly of BINOL, F8BINOL, and Ti(OiPr)4 Subramanian Pandiaraju, Gang Chen, Alan Lough, and Andrei K. Yudin pp 3850–3851 DOI: 10.1021/ja0039942 Supporting Info

Oxidation of TTF Derivatives Using (Diacetoxyiodo)benzene:  a General Chemical Route toward Cation Radicals, Dications, and Nonstoichiometric Salts Michel Giffard, Gilles Mabon, Emmanuel Leclair, Nicolas Mercier, Magali Allain, Alain Gorgues, Philippe Molinié, Ojars Neilands, Pnina Krief, and Vladimir Khodorkovsky pp 3852–3853 DOI: 10.1021/ja0058839 Supporting Info

Helical Rosette Nanotubes:  Design, Self-Assembly, and Characterization Hicham Fenniri, Packiarajan Mathivanan, Kenrick L. Vidale, Debra M. Sherman, Klaas Hallenga, Karl V. Wood, and Joseph G. Stowell pp 3854–3855 DOI: 10.1021/ja005886l Supporting Info

Inhibition of Chain Reactions By E. T. Denisov and V. V. Azatyan (Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics). Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics University Press and Foundation for International Scientific and Education Cooperation (Realized by Gordon and Breach Publishers):  London and Moscow. 2000. xiv + 338 pp. $120.00. ISBN 90-6994-002-7. J. M. Tanko p 3856 DOI: 10.1021/ja004815j

Direct Catalytic Asymmetric Aldol Reaction:  Synthesis of Either syn- or anti-α,β-Dihydroxy Ketones  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 2466−2467]. Naoki Yoshikawa, Naoya Kumagai, Shigeki Matsunaga, Guido Moll, Takashi Ohshima, Takeyuki Suzuki, and Masakatsu Shibasaki p 3856 DOI: 10.1021/ja015148c

Issue 17

Complexation of Unsaturated Carbon−Carbon Bonds in π-Conjugated Polymers with Transition Metals Christian Huber, Felix Bangerter, Walter R. Caseri, and Christoph Weder pp 3857–3863 DOI: 10.1021/ja003727w

Perchlorophenalenyl Radical P. A. Koutentis, Y. Chen, Y. Cao, T. P. Best, M. E. Itkis, L. Beer, R. T. Oakley, A. W. Cordes, C. P. Brock, and R. C. Haddon pp 3864–3871 DOI: 10.1021/ja0018015 Supporting Info

A Self-Assembled Homooxacalix[3]arene-based Dimeric Capsule Constructed by a PdII−Pyridine Interaction Which Shows a Novel Chiral Twisting Motion in Response to Guest Inclusion Atsushi Ikeda, Hiromi Udzu, Zhenlin Zhong, Seiji Shinkai, Shigeru Sakamoto, and Kentaro Yamaguchi pp 3872–3877 DOI: 10.1021/ja003269r Supporting Info

Highly Regioselective Anaerobic Photocyclization of 3-Styrylpyridines Frederick D. Lewis, Rajdeep S. Kalgutkar, and Jye-Shane Yang pp 3878–3884 DOI: 10.1021/ja0042027 Supporting Info

Oligomerization of Uniquely Folded Mini-Protein Motifs:  Development of a Homotrimeric ββα Peptide Adam R. Mezo, Richard P. Cheng, and Barbara Imperiali* pp 3885–3891 DOI: 10.1021/ja004292f

The Potent Anti-HIV Protein Cyanovirin-N Contains Two Novel Carbohydrate Binding Sites That Selectively Bind to Man8 D1D3 and Man9 with Nanomolar Affinity:  Implications for Binding to the HIV Envelope Protein gp120 Carole A. Bewley and Sarah Otero-Quintero pp 3892–3902 DOI: 10.1021/ja004040e Supporting Info

Improving the Accuracy of NMR Structures of DNA by Means of a Database Potential of Mean Force Describing Base−Base Positional Interactions John Kuszewski, Charles Schwieters, and G. Marius Clore pp 3903–3918 DOI: 10.1021/ja010033u

Pseudopolymorphism in Tetradeca-2,6-O-methyl-β-cyclodextrin:  The Crystal Structures for Two New HydratesConformational Variability in the Alkylated β-Cyclodextrin Molecule John J. Stezowski, William Parker, Sherri Hilgenkamp, and Maria Gdaniec pp 3919–3926 DOI: 10.1021/ja002164l Supporting Info

New Fluorogenic Probes for Oxygen and Carbene Transfer:  A Sensitive Assay for Single Bead-Supported Catalysts Rayane Moreira, Miroslav Havranek, and Dalibor Sames pp 3927–3931 DOI: 10.1021/ja003786+ Supporting Info

On the Negligible Impact of Ruffling on the Electronic Spectra of Porphine, Tetramethylporphyrin, and Perfluoroalkylporphyrins Alan K. Wertsching, Andrew S. Koch, and Stephen G. DiMagno pp 3932–3939 DOI: 10.1021/ja003137y Supporting Info

Supramolecular Chemistry:  Molecular Recognition and Self-Assembly Using Rigid Spacer-Chelators Bearing Cofacial Terpyridyl Palladium(II) Complexes Separated by 7 Å Roger D. Sommer, Arnold L. Rheingold, Andrew J. Goshe, and B. Bosnich pp 3940–3952 DOI: 10.1021/ja004279v Supporting Info

Analysis of Slow Interdomain Motion of Macromolecules Using NMR Relaxation Data James L. Baber, Attila Szabo, and Nico Tjandra pp 3953–3959 DOI: 10.1021/ja0041876

New Mode of Coordination for the Dinitrogen Ligand:  Formation, Bonding, and Reactivity of a Tantalum Complex with a Bridging N2 Unit That Is Both Side-On and End-On Michael D. Fryzuk, Samuel A. Johnson, Brian O. Patrick, Alberto Albinati, Sax A. Mason, and Thomas F. Koetzle pp 3960–3973 DOI: 10.1021/ja0041371 Supporting Info

New Insight on the Origin of the Unusual Acidity of Meldrum's Acid from ab Initio and Combined QM/MM Simulation Study Kyoungrim Byun, Yirong Mo, and Jiali Gao pp 3974–3979 DOI: 10.1021/ja001369r Supporting Info

The Reaction of Protonated Dimethyl Ether with Dimethyl Ether:  Temperature and Isotope Effects on the Methyl Cation Transfer Reaction Forming Trimethyloxonium Cation and Methanol Travis D. Fridgen and Terry B. McMahon pp 3980–3985 DOI: 10.1021/ja002972c

An Analysis of the Interactions between the Sem−5 SH3 Domain and Its Ligands Using Molecular Dynamics, Free Energy Calculations, and Sequence Analysis Wei Wang, Wendell A. Lim, Araz Jakalian, Jian Wang, Junmei Wang, Ray Luo, Christopher I. Bayly, and Peter A. Kollman pp 3986–3994 DOI: 10.1021/ja003164o Supporting Info

A Theoretical Study of the Primary Oxo Transfer Reaction of a Dioxo Molybdenum(VI) Compound with Imine Thiolate Chelating Ligands:  A Molybdenum Oxotransferase Analogue Lisa M. Thomson and Michael B. Hall pp 3995–4002 DOI: 10.1021/ja003258y

Relocalization in Floppy Free Radicals:  The OCNO and OCCHO Isoelectronic Series A. L. Cooksy pp 4003–4013 DOI: 10.1021/ja0037522 Supporting Info

A DFT Study of the Interresidue Dependencies of Scalar J-Coupling and Magnetic Shielding in the Hydrogen-Bonding Regions of a DNA Triplex Michael Barfield, Andrew J. Dingley, Juli Feigon, and Stephan Grzesiek pp 4014–4022 DOI: 10.1021/ja003781c Supporting Info

Electron Affinities of the DNA and RNA Bases Steven S. Wesolowski, Matthew L. Leininger, Plamen N. Pentchev, and Henry F. Schaefer III pp 4023–4028 DOI: 10.1021/ja003814o

Kinetic and Density Functional Studies on Alkyl-Carbene Elimination from PdII Heterocylic Carbene Complexes:  A New Type of Reductive Elimination with Clear Implications for Catalysis David S. McGuinness, Nadja Saendig, Brian F. Yates, and Kingsley J. Cavell pp 4029–4040 DOI: 10.1021/ja003861g Supporting Info

Dimeric Phenalenyl-Based Neutral Radical Molecular Conductors X. Chi, M. E. Itkis, K. Kirschbaum, A. A. Pinkerton, R. T. Oakley, A. W. Cordes, and R. C. Haddon pp 4041–4048 DOI: 10.1021/ja0039785

Probing Molecular Conformations with Electron Momentum Spectroscopy: The Case of n-Butane M. S. Deleuze, W. N. Pang, A. Salam, and R. C. Shang pp 4049–4061 DOI: 10.1021/ja0039886

Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer of Cytochrome c Daniel H. Murgida and Peter Hildebrandt pp 4062–4068 DOI: 10.1021/ja004165j

CASSCF and CASPT2 Calculations on the Cleavage and Ring Inversion of Bicyclo[2.2.0]hexane Find that These Reactions Involve Formation of a Common Twist-Boat Diradical Intermediate David A. Hrovat and Weston Thatcher Borden pp 4069–4072 DOI: 10.1021/ja004209o Supporting Info

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Orbital-Mediated Tunneling Spectroscopy, and Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Metal(II) Tetraphenylporphyrins Deposited from Vapor L. Scudiero, Dan E. Barlow, Ursula Mazur, and K. W. Hipps pp 4073–4080 DOI: 10.1021/ja0100726

Facile Reductive Elimination of Ethane from Strained Dimethylpalladium(II) Complexes Steven M. Reid, Joel T. Mague, and Mark J. Fink pp 4081–4082 DOI: 10.1021/ja0056062 Supporting Info

An Efficient and Convenient Reaction Protocol to Organoimido Derivatives of Polyoxometalates Yongge Wei, Bubin Xu, Charles L. Barnes, and Zhonghua Peng pp 4083–4084 DOI: 10.1021/ja004033q Supporting Info

Peroxynitrite Isomerization Catalyzed by His64 Myoglobin Mutants Susanna Herold, Toshitaka Matsui, and Yoshihito Watanabe pp 4085–4086 DOI: 10.1021/ja010111d

Fine Tuning of the Interaction between the Copper(I) and Disulfide Bond. Formation of a Bis(μ-thiolato)dicopper(II) Complex by Reductive Cleavage of the Disulfide Bond with Copper(I) Shinobu Itoh, Motonobu Nagagawa, and Shunichi Fukuzumi pp 4087–4088 DOI: 10.1021/ja0157200 Supporting Info

Oxidation of Self-Assembled Monolayers by UV Light with a Wavelength of 254 nm Nicholas J. Brewer, Rachel E. Rawsterne, Sherry Kothari, and Graham J. Leggett pp 4089–4090 DOI: 10.1021/ja0155074

Stabilization of Ozone-like [Bi3]3- in the Heteroatomic closo-Clusters [Bi3Cr2(CO)6]3- and [Bi3Mo2(CO)6]3- Li Xu, Angel Ugrinov, and Slavi C. Sevov pp 4091–4092 DOI: 10.1021/ja0038732 Supporting Info

One-Pot Formation of Substituted Cyclopentadienyl and Indenyltricarbonyl Rhenium Complexes through in Situ Generation of Cyclopentadienyl- and Indenyltributylstannanes Richard R. Cesati III and John A. Katzenellenbogen pp 4093–4094 DOI: 10.1021/ja005585b Supporting Info

Secondary Bonding-Directed Self-Assembly of Amino Acid Derived Benziodazoles:  Synthesis and Structure of Novel Hypervalent Iodine Macrocycles Viktor V. Zhdankin, Alexey E. Koposov, and Jason T. SmartRik R. Tykwinski, Robert McDonald, and Angelina Morales-Izquierdo pp 4095–4096 DOI: 10.1021/ja0155276 Supporting Info

Stereochemical Control and Reactivity of Pd Complexes with Meso and Racemic Ligands in the Isotactic Alternating Propene−Carbon Monoxide Copolymerization Barbara Sesto and Giambattista Consiglio pp 4097–4098 DOI: 10.1021/ja015591n

Correlations among 1JNC‘ and h3JNC‘ Coupling Constants in the Hydrogen-Bonding Network of Human Ubiquitin Nenad Juranić* and Slobodan Macura pp 4099–4100 DOI: 10.1021/ja015647d Supporting Info

Selective α-Stannylated Addition of Di-n-butyliodotin Hydride Ate Complex to Simple Aliphatic Alkynes Ikuya Shibata, Toshihiro Suwa, Kyoichiro Ryu, and Akio Baba pp 4101–4102 DOI: 10.1021/ja0056973 Supporting Info

Hydroxylated Quantum Dots as Luminescent Probes for in Situ Hybridization Srikant Pathak, Soo-Kyung Choi, Norman Arnheim, and Mark E. Thompson pp 4103–4104 DOI: 10.1021/ja0058334 Supporting Info

Self-Assembly of Dendron Rodcoil Molecules into Nanoribbons Eugene R. Zubarev, Martin U. Pralle, Eli D. Sone, and Samuel I. Stupp pp 4105–4106 DOI: 10.1021/ja015653+ Supporting Info

Issue 18

Long-Range Cooperativity in Molecular Recognition of RNA by Oligodeoxynucleotides with Multiple C5-(1-Propynyl) Pyrimidines Thomas W. Barnes III and Douglas H. Turner pp 4107–4118 DOI: 10.1021/ja003208t Supporting Info

Asymmetric Inter- and Intramolecular Cyclopropanation of Alkenes Catalyzed by Chiral Ruthenium Porphyrins. Synthesis and Crystal Structure of a Chiral Metalloporphyrin Carbene Complex Chi-Ming Che, Jie-Sheng Huang, Fu-Wa Lee, Yan Li, Tat-Shing Lai, Hoi-Lun Kwong, Pang-Fei Teng, Wing-Sze Lee, Wai-Cheung Lo, Shie-Ming Peng, and Zhong-Yuan Zhou pp 4119–4129 DOI: 10.1021/ja001416f Supporting Info

Evidence of Secondary Structure by High-Resolution Magic Angle Spinning NMR Spectroscopy of a Bioactive Peptide Bound to Different Solid Supports Julien Furrer, Martial Piotto, Maryse Bourdonneau, David Limal, Gilles Guichard, Karim Elbayed, Jésus Raya, Jean-Paul Briand, and Alberto Bianco pp 4130–4138 DOI: 10.1021/ja003566w Supporting Info

Formation of Silazirconacyclopentenes from Zirconium−Silene Complex and Alkynes and Their Reactivities Shinji Kuroda, Fumiko Dekura, Yoshihiro Sato, and Miwako Mori pp 4139–4146 DOI: 10.1021/ja003334x Supporting Info

Mechanism and Stereochemistry of Diphosphate Formation from Dioxaphosphorinanes:  A Critical Reassessment Paul M. Cullis, John Fawcett, Gerald A. Griffith, Martin J. P. Harger, and Michael Lee pp 4147–4154 DOI: 10.1021/ja004084n Supporting Info

Atom-Efficient Metal-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reaction of Indium Organometallics with Organic Electrophiles Ignacio Pérez, José Pérez Sestelo, and Luis A. Sarandeses pp 4155–4160 DOI: 10.1021/ja004195m Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of Fostriecin (CI-920) Dale L. Boger, Satoshi Ichikawa, and Wenge Zhong pp 4161–4167 DOI: 10.1021/ja010195q Supporting Info

Structure, Properties, and Bonding of ZrTe (MnP Type), a Low-Symmetry, High-Temperature Modification of ZrTe (WC Type) Gissur Örlygsson and Bernd Harbrecht pp 4168–4173 DOI: 10.1021/ja004164r Supporting Info

New Organic Superconductors β-(BDA-TTP)2X [BDA-TTP = 2,5-Bis(1,3-dithian-2-ylidene)-1,3,4,6-tetrathiapentalene; X- = SbF6-, AsF6-, and PF6-] Jun-ichi Yamada, Maki Watanabe, Hiroki Akutsu, Shin'ichi Nakatsuji, Hiroyuki Nishikawa, Isao Ikemoto, and Koichi Kikuchi pp 4174–4180 DOI: 10.1021/ja002290p Supporting Info

Magnetic Susceptibility Tensor Anisotropies for a Lanthanide Ion Series in a Fixed Protein Matrix Ivano Bertini, Matthias B. L. Janik, Yong-Min Lee, Claudio Luchinat, and Antonio Rosato pp 4181–4188 DOI: 10.1021/ja0028626 Supporting Info

The Electron as a Protecting Group. 3. Generation of Acenaphthyne Radical Anion and the Determination of the Heat of Formation of a Strained Cycloalkyne Katherine M. Broadus and Steven R. Kass pp 4189–4196 DOI: 10.1021/ja003069f Supporting Info

Isodiiodomethane Is the Methylene Transfer Agent in Cyclopropanation Reactions with Olefins Using Ultraviolet Photolysis of Diiodomethane in Solutions:  A Density Functional Theory Investigation of the Reactions of Isodiiodomethane, Iodomethyl Radical, and Iodomethyl Cation with Ethylene David Lee Phillips, Wei-Hai Fang, and Xuming Zheng pp 4197–4203 DOI: 10.1021/ja003090g Supporting Info

Femtosecond Infrared Study of the Dynamics of Solvation and Solvent Caging Haw Yang, Preston T. Snee, Kenneth T. Kotz, Christine K. Payne, and Charles B. Harris pp 4204–4210 DOI: 10.1021/ja003344y Supporting Info

Structure of the   Radical Pair Intermediate in Photosystem I by High Time Resolution Multifrequency Electron Paramagnetic Resonance:  Analysis of Quantum Beat Oscillations Gerhard Link, Thomas Berthold, Michael Bechtold, Jörg-Ulrich Weidner, Ernst Ohmes, Jau Tang, Oleg Poluektov, Lisa Utschig, Sandra L. Schlesselman, Marion C. Thurnauer, and Gerd Kothe pp 4211–4222 DOI: 10.1021/ja003382h

Comparisons in the Behavior of Stable Copper(II), Silver(II), and Gold(II) Complexes in the Gas Phase:  Are There Implications for Condensed-Phase Chemistry? Nicholas R. Walker, Rossana R. Wright, Perdita E. Barran, John N. Murrell, and Anthony J. Stace pp 4223–4227 DOI: 10.1021/ja003431q

Reactions of the Alkoxy Radicals Formed Following OH-Addition to α-Pinene and β-Pinene. C−C Bond Scission Reactions Theodore S. Dibble pp 4228–4234 DOI: 10.1021/ja003553i Supporting Info

Catalytic Water Formation on Platinum:  A First-Principles Study A. Michaelides and P. Hu pp 4235–4242 DOI: 10.1021/ja003576x

Solution 1H NMR of the Molecular and Electronic Structure of the Heme Cavity and Substrate Binding Pocket of High-Spin Ferric Horseradish Peroxidase:  Effect of His42Ala Mutation Anbanandam Asokan, Jeffrey S. de Ropp, Sherri L. Newmyer, Paul R. Ortiz de Montellano, and Gerd N. La Mar pp 4243–4254 DOI: 10.1021/ja003687w Supporting Info

Cooperative Enhancement of Water Binding to Crownophane by Multiple Hydrogen Bonds:  Analysis by High Level ab Initio Calculations Seiji Tsuzuki, Hirohiko Houjou, Yoshinobu Nagawa, Midori Goto, and Kazuhisa Hiratani pp 4255–4258 DOI: 10.1021/ja0037264 Supporting Info

Steps To Demarcate the Effects of Chromophore Aggregation and Planarization in Poly(phenyleneethynylene)s. 1. Rotationally Interrupted Conjugation in the Excited States of 1,4-Bis(phenylethynyl)benzene Marcia Levitus, Kelli Schmieder, Holly Ricks, Ken D. Shimizu, Uwe H. F. Bunz, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay pp 4259–4265 DOI: 10.1021/ja003959v

Solution 1H NMR Characterization of Axial Interactions of the Proximal and Distal His in the Cyanomet Complexes of the Isolated Chains and the 65 kDa Intact Tetramer of Human Hemoglobin A Gerd N. La Mar, Urszula Kolczak, Anh-Tuyet T. Tran, and Ellen Y. T. Chien pp 4266–4274 DOI: 10.1021/ja004168w

An Investigation of the Hydrogen-Bonding Structure in Bilirubin by 1H Double-Quantum Magic-Angle Spinning Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy Steven P. Brown, Xiao Xia Zhu, Kay Saalwächter, and Hans Wolfgang Spiess pp 4275–4285 DOI: 10.1021/ja004231h Supporting Info

Dynamics of Structure and Energy of Horse Carboxymyoglobin after Photodissociation of Carbon Monoxide Masaaki Sakakura, Shinji Yamaguchi, Noboru Hirota, and Masahide Terazima pp 4286–4294 DOI: 10.1021/ja9944655

Monitoring the Conformational Fluctuations of DNA Hairpins Using Single-Pair Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Jocelyn R. Grunwell, Jennifer L. Glass, Thilo D. Lacoste, Ashok A. Deniz, Daniel S. Chemla, and Peter G. Schultz pp 4295–4303 DOI: 10.1021/ja0027620

Highly Phosphorescent Bis-Cyclometalated Iridium Complexes:  Synthesis, Photophysical Characterization, and Use in Organic Light Emitting Diodes Sergey Lamansky, Peter Djurovich, Drew Murphy, Feras Abdel-Razzaq, Hae-Eun Lee, Chihaya Adachi, Paul E. Burrows, Stephen R. Forrest, and Mark E. Thompson pp 4304–4312 DOI: 10.1021/ja003693s Supporting Info

A Unifying Electron-Counting Rule for Macropolyhedral Boranes, Metallaboranes, and Metallocenes Eluvathingal D. Jemmis, Musiri M. Balakrishnarajan, and Pattath D. Pancharatna pp 4313–4323 DOI: 10.1021/ja003233z

Polyhedral Boranes and Elemental Boron:  Direct Structural Relations and Diverse Electronic Requirements Eluvathingal D. Jemmis and Musiri M. Balakrishnarajan pp 4324–4330 DOI: 10.1021/ja0026962

The Almost Bottleable Triplet Carbene:  2,6-dibromo-4-tert-butyl-2‘,6‘-bis(trifluoromethyl)-4‘-isopropyldiphenylcarbene H. Lee Woodcock, Damian Moran, Paul von Ragué Schleyer, and Henry F. Schaefer, III pp 4331–4335 DOI: 10.1021/ja003552q

Nitrogen Abstraction from Nitriles by Osmium(IV) Complexes Brian K. Bennett, Scott Lovell, and James M. Mayer pp 4336–4337 DOI: 10.1021/ja005645d Supporting Info

13C Detected Scalar Nitrogen−Nitrogen Couplings Across the Intramolecular Symmetric NHN Hydrogen Bond of Proton Sponge Mariusz Pietrzak, Jens Wehling, Hans-Heinrich Limbach, Nikolai S. Golubev, Concepción López, Rosa María Claramunt, and Jose Elguero pp 4338–4339 DOI: 10.1021/ja005890x Supporting Info

Electrochemically Induced C−Br and C−I Bond Activation by the Pd3(dppm)3CO2+ Cluster, and Characterization of the Reactive Pd3(dppm)3CO+ Intermediate:  The First Confidently Identified Paramagnetic Pd Cluster David Brevet, Dominique Lucas, Hélène Cattey, Frédéric Lemaître, Yves Mugnier, and Pierre D. Harvey pp 4340–4341 DOI: 10.1021/ja002417a Supporting Info

Long-Distance Electron Transfer Across Molecule−Nanocrystalline Semiconductor Interfaces Elena Galoppini and Wenzhuo GuoPing Qu and Gerald J. Meyer pp 4342–4343 DOI: 10.1021/ja005932h Supporting Info

Sol−Gel Synthesis of Free-Standing Ferroelectric Lead Zirconate Titanate Nanoparticles Chao Liu, Bingsuo Zou, Adam J. Rondinone, and Z. John Zhang pp 4344–4345 DOI: 10.1021/ja001893y

The Coordination Geometry of Np(VII) in Alkaline Solution C. W. Williams, J.-P. Blaudeau, J. C. Sullivan, Mark R. Antonio, B. Bursten, and L. Soderholm pp 4346–4347 DOI: 10.1021/ja005640g Supporting Info

Cooperativity in Amide Hydrogen Bonding Chains:  Implications for Protein-Folding Models Nadya Kobko, Lillyrose Paraskevas, Emma del Rio, and J. J. Dannenberg pp 4348–4349 DOI: 10.1021/ja004271l

Enzymatic Synthesis of Carbon−Fluorine Bonds David L. Zechel, Stephen P. Reid, Oyekanmi Nashiru, Christoph Mayer, Dominik Stoll, David L. Jakeman, R. Antony J. Warren, and Stephen G. Withers pp 4350–4351 DOI: 10.1021/ja005855q

Oxidative Additions of E−E Bonds (E = Chalcogen) to Group 10 Metals:  “Tunable” Cleavage of Se−Se Bonds by Pt(0) Complexes Vincenzo G. Albano, Magda Monari, Ida Orabona, Achille Panunzi, and Francesco Ruffo pp 4352–4353 DOI: 10.1021/ja005870v Supporting Info

Creation of an Enantioselective Hydrolase by Engineered Substrate-Assisted Catalysis Anders Magnusson, Karl Hult, and Mats Holmquist pp 4354–4355 DOI: 10.1021/ja015604x

Solid-Phase Synthesis and Asymmetric Reactions of Polymer-Supported Highly Enantioenriched Allylsilanes Michinori Suginome, Taisuke Iwanami, and Yoshihiko Ito pp 4356–4357 DOI: 10.1021/ja005865r Supporting Info

Tandem Enantioselective Conjugate Addition:  Electrophile Trapping Reactions. Application in the Formation of Syn or Anti Aldols Alexandre Alexakis, Graham P. Trevitt, and Gérald Bernardinelli pp 4358–4359 DOI: 10.1021/ja005911n Supporting Info

Langmuir−Blodgett Nanorod Assembly Franklin Kim, Serena Kwan, Jennifer Akana, and Peidong Yang pp 4360–4361 DOI: 10.1021/ja0059138

A Tethered Disaccharide Trapped As Its anti Conformer Calibrates the Karplus Relationship for 3JC,H Coupling Constants Shirley A. Wacowich-Sgarbi, Chang Chun Ling, Albin Otter, and David R. Bundle pp 4362–4363 DOI: 10.1021/ja005901m Supporting Info

Enol Ether Radical Cation Reaction Kinetics. Laser Flash Photolysis Calibration of Radical Cation Clocks John H. Horner and Martin Newcomb pp 4364–4365 DOI: 10.1021/ja015639x Supporting Info

Palladium-Catalyzed Hydroamination of 1,3-Dienes:  A Colorimetric Assay and Enantioselective Additions Oliver Löber, Motoi Kawatsura, and John F. Hartwig* pp 4366–4367 DOI: 10.1021/ja005881o Supporting Info

Porous Metal−Organic Polyhedra:  25 Å Cuboctahedron Constructed from 12 Cu2(CO2)4 Paddle-Wheel Building Blocks M. Eddaoudi, Jaheon Kim, J. B. Wachter, H. K. Chae, M. O'Keeffe, and O. M. Yaghi pp 4368–4369 DOI: 10.1021/ja0104352 Supporting Info

New Strategies in Organic Catalysis:  The First Enantioselective Organocatalytic Friedel−Crafts Alkylation Nick A. Paras and David W. C. MacMillan pp 4370–4371 DOI: 10.1021/ja015717g Supporting Info

Photoionization and Photodetachment. Part I and Part II. Advanced Series in Physical Chemistry. Volumes 10A and 10B Edited by Cheuk-You Ng (Iowa State University). World Scientific:  Singapore, New Jersey, London, Hong Kong. 2000. 1416 pp. $170.00 (set). ISBN 981-02-3892-4 W. Carl Lineberger p 4372 DOI: 10.1021/ja004821f

Endohedral Alkali Metal Fullerenes  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 12905−12906].  Cheryl D. Stevenson, James R. Noyes, and Richard C. Reiter p 4372 DOI: 10.1021/ja0151495

Issue 19

A Photoactivatable Prenylated Cysteine Designed to Study Isoprenoid Recognition Tamara A. Kale, Conrad Raab, Nathan Yu, Dennis C. Dean, and Mark D. Distefano pp 4373–4381 DOI: 10.1021/ja0012016 Supporting Info

Dihydroceramide Δ4 Desaturase Initiates Substrate Oxidation at C-4 Christopher K. Savile, Gemma Fabriàs, and Peter H. Buist pp 4382–4385 DOI: 10.1021/ja010088w Supporting Info

Controlled Expansion of a Molecular Cavity in a Steroid Host Compound Kazuki Sada, Michihiro Sugahara, Kazuaki Kato, and Mikiji Miyata pp 4386–4392 DOI: 10.1021/ja0038528 Supporting Info

A Coiled Coil with a Fluorous Core Basar Bilgiçer, Alfio Fichera, and Krishna Kumar pp 4393–4399 DOI: 10.1021/ja002961j Supporting Info

Direct Observation of Radical Intermediates in Protein-Dependent DNA Charge Transport Hans-Achim Wagenknecht, Scott R. Rajski, Matthias Pascaly, Eric D. A. Stemp, and Jacqueline K. Barton pp 4400–4407 DOI: 10.1021/ja003986l

Self-Assembly and Gelation of Oxidized Glutathione in Organic Solvents Robert P. Lyon and William M. Atkins pp 4408–4413 DOI: 10.1021/ja0040417

First Synthesis of Phenylazomethine Dendrimer Ligands and Structural Studies Masayoshi Higuchi, Satoshi Shiki, Katsuhiko Ariga, and Kimihisa Yamamoto pp 4414–4420 DOI: 10.1021/ja004239r Supporting Info

The Generality of Architectural Isomerism in Designer Inclusion Frameworks K. Travis Holman, Stephen M. Martin, Daniel P. Parker, and Michael D. Ward pp 4421–4431 DOI: 10.1021/ja0030257 Supporting Info

Inclusion Compounds of Tetrakis(4-nitrophenyl)methane:  C−H···O Networks, Pseudopolymorphism, and Structural Transformations Ram Thaimattam, Feng Xue, Jagarlapudi A. R. P. Sarma, Thomas C. W. Mak, and Gautam R. Desiraju pp 4432–4445 DOI: 10.1021/ja0031826 Supporting Info

Is There Stereoelectronic Control in Hydrolysis of Cyclic Guanidinium Ions? Charles L. Perrin and David B. Young pp 4446–4450 DOI: 10.1021/ja003672y

Stereoelectronic Control in Addition of Nucleophiles to an Amidinium Ion Charles L. Perrin and David B. Young pp 4451–4458 DOI: 10.1021/ja004240q

Cis−Trans Isomerization of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Residues in Phospholipids Catalyzed by Thiyl Radicals Carla Ferreri, Cristina Costantino, Laura Perrotta, Laura Landi, Quinto G. Mulazzani, and Chryssostomos Chatgilialoglu pp 4459–4468 DOI: 10.1021/ja0040969

Total Syntheses and Biological Investigations of Tamandarins A and B and Tamandarin A Analogs Bo Liang, David J. Richard, Padma S. Portonovo, and Madeleine M. Joullié pp 4469–4474 DOI: 10.1021/ja010222c Supporting Info

Enantiospecific Synthesis of the Proposed Structure of the Antitubercular Marine Diterpenoid Pseudopteroxazole:  Revision of Stereochemistry Ted W. Johnson and E. J. Corey pp 4475–4479 DOI: 10.1021/ja010221k Supporting Info

Enantioselective and Diastereoselective Mukaiyama−Michael Reactions Catalyzed by Bis(oxazoline) Copper(II) Complexes David A. Evans, Karl A. Scheidt, Jeffrey N. Johnston, and Michael C. Willis pp 4480–4491 DOI: 10.1021/ja010302g Supporting Info

Teubrevin G and Teubrevin H:  The First Total Syntheses of Rearranged neo-Clerodanes Including Solutions to the Problems of Chirality Merger and Furan Ring Assembly Leo A. Paquette and Ivan Efremov pp 4492–4501 DOI: 10.1021/ja010313+ Supporting Info

Phase Separation in AlxGa1-xAs Nanowhiskers Grown by the Solution−Liquid−Solid Mechanism Paul D. Markowitz, Michael P. Zach, Patrick C. Gibbons, R. M. Penner, and William E. Buhro pp 4502–4511 DOI: 10.1021/ja0025907

Synthesis, Structure, and Bonding of Open-Shell Sr3In5:  An Unusual Electron Deficiency in an Indium Network, beyond the Zintl Boundary Dong-Kyun Seo and John D. Corbett pp 4512–4518 DOI: 10.1021/ja0034242 Supporting Info

Molecularly Ordered Inorganic Frameworks in Layered Silicate Surfactant Mesophases Sean C. Christiansen, Dongyuan Zhao, Michael T. Janicke, Christopher C. Landry, Galen D. Stucky, and Bradley F. Chmelka pp 4519–4529 DOI: 10.1021/ja004310t Supporting Info

Stability of Zn(II) Cations in Chabazite Studied by Periodical Density Functional Theory Luis Antonio M. M. Barbosa and Rutger A. van SantenJürgen Hafner pp 4530–4540 DOI: 10.1021/ja002175e

Covalent Modification of Iron Surfaces by Electrochemical Reduction of Aryldiazonium Salts Alain Adenier, Marie-Claude Bernard, Mohamed M. Chehimi, Eva Cabet-Deliry, Bernard Desbat, Olivier Fagebaume, Jean Pinson, and Fetah Podvorica pp 4541–4549 DOI: 10.1021/ja003276f Supporting Info

Chlorine Kinetic Isotope Effects on the Haloalkane Dehalogenase Reaction Andrzej Lewandowicz, Juliusz Rudziński, Lisa Tronstad, Mikael Widersten, Per Ryberg, Olle Matsson, and Piotr Paneth pp 4550–4555 DOI: 10.1021/ja003503d

Probing Slow Time Scale Dynamics at Methyl-Containing Side Chains in Proteins by Relaxation Dispersion NMR Measurements:  Application to Methionine Residues in a Cavity Mutant of T4 Lysozyme Nikolai R. Skrynnikov, Frans A. A. Mulder, Bin Hon, Frederick W. Dahlquist, and Lewis E. Kay pp 4556–4566 DOI: 10.1021/ja004179p

A Comprehensive Analysis of Multifield 15N Relaxation Parameters in Proteins:  Determination of 15N Chemical Shift Anisotropies Daniel Canet, Philippe Barthe, Pierre Mutzenhardt, and Christian Roumestand pp 4567–4576 DOI: 10.1021/ja0038676 Supporting Info

Elucidation of Structure and Location of V(IV) Ions in Heteropolyacid Catalysts H4PVMo11O40 as Studied by Hyperfine Sublevel Correlation Spectroscopy and Pulsed Electron Nuclear Double Resonance at W- and X-Band Frequencies Andreas Pöppl, Palanichamy Manikandan, Klaus Köhler, Peter Maas, Peter Strauch, Rolf Böttcher, and Daniella Goldfarb pp 4577–4584 DOI: 10.1021/ja004291n

Molecular Adsorption onto Metallic Quantum Wires Albert Bogozi, Osvaldo Lam, Huixin He, Chunzeng Li, Nongjian J. Tao, Larry A. Nagahara, Islamshah Amlani, and Raymond Tsui pp 4585–4590 DOI: 10.1021/ja004335s

Reactions of 1,3-Cyclohexadiene with Singlet Oxygen. A Theoretical Study Fatma Sevin and Michael L. McKee pp 4591–4600 DOI: 10.1021/ja010138x Supporting Info

β-Borylallylsilanes as a New Tool for Convenient Synthesis of Alkenylboranes Michinori Suginome, Yutaka Ohmori, and Yoshihiko Ito pp 4601–4602 DOI: 10.1021/ja0058381 Supporting Info

Ag(P4)2+:  The First Homoleptic Metal−Phosphorus Cation Ingo Krossing pp 4603–4604 DOI: 10.1021/ja002007m Supporting Info

The First Doubly Borylated Enolate as an Intermediate of the Double Aldol Reaction Atsushi Abiko, Tadashi Inoue, Hiroshi Furuno, Harald Schwalbe, Christin Fieres, and Satoru Masamune pp 4605–4606 DOI: 10.1021/ja003507i Supporting Info

Intramolecular Diels−Alder Reactions Employing Hydroxamate Tethers:  The First Examples and Promising Prospects Teruhiko Ishikawa, Mami Senzaki, Ryuuichirou Kadoya, Takashi Morimoto, Naoki Miyake, Miyoko Izawa, and Seiki SaitoHisayoshi Kobayashi pp 4607–4608 DOI: 10.1021/ja010083z Supporting Info

Regio- and Diastereoselective Tandem Rhodium-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation/Pauson−Khand Annulation Reactions P. Andrew Evans and John. E. Robinson pp 4609–4610 DOI: 10.1021/ja015531h Supporting Info

Oxidative N-Dealkylation of a Carboxylate-Bridged Diiron(II) Precursor Complex by Reaction with O2 Affords the Elusive {Fe2(μ-OH)2(μ-O2CR)}3+ Core of Soluble Methane Monooxygenase Hydroxylase Dongwhan Lee and Stephen J. Lippard pp 4611–4612 DOI: 10.1021/ja0100930 Supporting Info

Tautomerization Dynamics of a Model Base Pair in DNA Osama K. Abou-Zied, Ralph Jimenez, and Floyd E. Romesberg pp 4613–4614 DOI: 10.1021/ja003647s Supporting Info

Release of Nitric Oxide from S-Nitrosohemoglobin. Electron Transfer as a Response to Deoxygenation John Paul Pezacki, Noam J. Ship, and Ronald Kluger pp 4615–4616 DOI: 10.1021/ja015716o

Polymerization of a Phosphonium Diene Amphiphile in the Regular Hexagonal Phase with Retention of Mesostructure Bradford A. Pindzola, Benjamin P. Hoag, and Douglas L. Gin pp 4617–4618 DOI: 10.1021/ja0058583 Supporting Info

Protein Purification and Function Assignment of the Epoxidase Catalyzing the Formation of Fosfomycin Pinghua Liu, Kazuo Murakami, Takayuki Seki, Xuemei He, Siu-Man Yeung, Tomohisa Kuzuyama, Haruo Seto, and Hung-wen Liu pp 4619–4620 DOI: 10.1021/ja004153y

Observation of Unusual Kinetics in Heck Reactions of Aryl Halides:  The Role of Non-Steady-State Catalyst Concentration Thorsten Rosner, Andreas Pfaltz, and Donna G. Blackmond pp 4621–4622 DOI: 10.1021/ja005872f

Terminal Amido and Imido Complexes of Three-Coordinate Nickel Daniel J. Mindiola and Gregory L. Hillhouse pp 4623–4624 DOI: 10.1021/ja010358a Supporting Info

5-Pyrimidinols:  Novel Chain-Breaking Antioxidants More Effective than Phenols Derek A. Pratt, Gino A. DiLabio, Giovanni Brigati, Gian Franco Pedulli, and Luca Valgimigli pp 4625–4626 DOI: 10.1021/ja005679l Supporting Info

Two-Dimensional, Shell-Cross-linked Nanoparticle Arrays Qinggao Ma, Edward E. Remsen, Tomasz Kowalewski, and Karen L. Wooley pp 4627–4628 DOI: 10.1021/ja0156542

Novel [2 + 2 + 2]Annulation of 1,6-Diynes Mediated by Methallylchromate or Methallylmagnesium Chloride under CrCl3 Catalysis Toshihiro Nishikawa, Hirotada Kakiya, Hiroshi Shinokubo, and Koichiro Oshima pp 4629–4630 DOI: 10.1021/ja015746r Supporting Info

Interconversion of Monohydride Intermediates in Rh(I)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Dimethyl 1-Benzoyloxyethenephosphonate Ilya D. Gridnev, Natsuka Higashi, and Tsuneo Imamoto pp 4631–4632 DOI: 10.1021/ja015611l Supporting Info

SEA-TROSY (Solvent Exposed Amides with TROSY):  A Method to Resolve the Problem of Spectral Overlap in Very Large Proteins Maurizio Pellecchia, David Meininger, Anna L. Shen, Rick Jack, Charles B. Kasper, and Daniel S. Sem pp 4633–4634 DOI: 10.1021/ja005850t

Model Hemoprotein Reduction Potentials:  The Effects of Histidine-to-Iron Coordination Equilibrium Michelle L. Kennedy, Svetlana Silchenko, N'vida Houndonougbo, Brian R. Gibney, P. Leslie Dutton, Kenton R. Rodgers, and David R. Benson pp 4635–4636 DOI: 10.1021/ja0156441 Supporting Info

Spectroscopic Evidence for Nitric Oxide Binding with Cob(II)alamin Donghong Zheng and Ronald L. Birke pp 4637–4638 DOI: 10.1021/ja015682k Supporting Info

Kinetic Resolution of an Organozinc Reagent:  In Situ Formation of an Enantioenriched Allenylzinc Species Jean-F. Poisson and Jean F. Normant pp 4639–4640 DOI: 10.1021/ja015532+ Supporting Info

Palladium-Catalyzed Arylation of Ethyl Cyanoacetate. Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer as a Tool for Reaction Discovery Shaun R. Stauffer, Neil A. Beare, James P. Stambuli, and John F. Hartwig pp 4641–4642 DOI: 10.1021/ja0157402 Supporting Info

Tetradecafluorosexithiophene:  The First Perfluorinated Oligothiophene Youichi Sakamoto, Shingo Komatsu, and Toshiyasu Suzuki pp 4643–4644 DOI: 10.1021/ja015712j Supporting Info

Modeling of ND and NCol Phase Transitions in Discotic Side Chain Polymers by the Extended McMillan Theory Paul H. J. Kouwer, Wim J. Mijs, Wolter F. Jager, and Stephen J. Picken pp 4645–4646 DOI: 10.1021/ja015672j

Supramolecular Honeycomb by Self-Assembly of Molecular Rods in Rod−Coil Molecule Myongsoo Lee, Byoung-Ki Cho, Kyo Jin Ihn, Won-Ki Lee, Nam-Keun Oh, and Wang-Cheol Zin pp 4647–4648 DOI: 10.1021/ja004071+ Supporting Info

[Ga2(DETA)(PO4)2]·2H2O (DETA = Diethylenetriamine):  A Novel Porous Gallium Phosphate Containing 24-Ring Channels Chia-Her Lin, Sue-Lein Wang, and Kwang-Hwa Lii pp 4649–4650 DOI: 10.1021/ja0100468 Supporting Info

Signal Processing at the Molecular Level Françisco M. Raymo and Silvia Giordani pp 4651–4652 DOI: 10.1021/ja005699n Supporting Info

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Hybridization between Oxy-Peptide Nucleic Acids and DNAs:  Dependence of Hybrid Stabilities on the Chain-Lengths, Types of Base Pairs, and the Chain Directions Masayasu Kuwahara, Miki Arimitsu, Masanori Shigeyasu, Naho Saeki, and Masahiko Sisido pp 4653–4658 DOI: 10.1021/ja003881i Supporting Info

Cavitand−Porphyrins Stephen D. Starnes, Dmitry M. Rudkevich, and Julius Rebek, Jr. pp 4659–4669 DOI: 10.1021/ja010038r

Structure and Conformation of DAB Dendrimers in Solution via Multidimensional NMR Techniques Minghui Chai, Yanhui Niu, Wiley J. Youngs, and Peter L. Rinaldi pp 4670–4678 DOI: 10.1021/ja002824m Supporting Info

Computational Analysis of the Autocatalytic Posttranslational Cyclization Observed in Histidine Ammonia-Lyase. A Comparison with Green Fluorescent Protein Maria Donnelly, Flavia Fedeles, Maria Wirstam, Per E. Siegbahn, and Marc Zimmer pp 4679–4686 DOI: 10.1021/ja004009c

Evaluation of the Catalytic Mechanism of AICAR Transformylase by pH-Dependent Kinetics, Mutagenesis, and Quantum Chemical Calculations Jae Hoon Shim, Mark Wall, Stephen J. Benkovic, Natalia Díaz, Dimas Suárez, and Kenneth M. Merz, Jr. pp 4687–4696 DOI: 10.1021/ja010014k

Kinetic Mechanism of Acetyl-CoA Synthase:  Steady-State Synthesis at Variable CO/CO2 Pressures Ernest L. Maynard, Christopher Sewell, and Paul A. Lindahl pp 4697–4703 DOI: 10.1021/ja004017t Supporting Info

Nonplanar Aromatic Compounds. 5.1 A Strategy for the Synthesis of cis-10b,10c-Dimethyl-10b,10c-dihydropyrenes. First Crystal Structure of a cis-10b,10c-Dimethyl-10b,10c-dihydropyrene Graham J. Bodwell, John N. Bridson, Shu-Ling Chen, and Raymond A. Poirier pp 4704–4708 DOI: 10.1021/ja002901d Supporting Info

Tautomeric Equilibrium between Penta- and Hexacoordinate Silicon Chelates. A Chloride Bridge between Two Pentacoordinate Silicons Inna Kalikhman, Olga Girshberg, Lutz Lameyer, Dietmar Stalke, and Daniel Kost pp 4709–4716 DOI: 10.1021/ja004118r Supporting Info

A Novel Approach for the Formation of Carbon−Nitrogen Bonds:  Azidation of Alkyl Radicals with Sulfonyl Azides Cyril Ollivier and Philippe Renaud pp 4717–4727 DOI: 10.1021/ja004129k

Insertion of H2CCHX (X = F, Cl, Br, OiPr) into (tBu3SiO)3TaH2 and β-X-Elimination from (tBu3SiO)3HTaCH2CH2X (X = OR):  Relevance to Ziegler−Natta Copolymerizations Stephanie A. Strazisar and Peter T. Wolczanski pp 4728–4740 DOI: 10.1021/ja003315n Supporting Info

Solitaire and Gemini Metallocene Porphyrazines Sarah L. J. Michel, David P. Goldberg, Charlotte Stern, Anthony G. M. Barrett, and Brian M. Hoffman pp 4741–4748 DOI: 10.1021/ja003702x Supporting Info

Supramolecular Origins of Product Selectivity for Methanol-to-Olefin Catalysis on HSAPO-34 Weiguo Song, Hui Fu, and James F. Haw pp 4749–4754 DOI: 10.1021/ja0041167

CuxUTe3:  Stabilization of UTe3 in the ZrSe3 Structure Type via Copper Insertion. The Artifact of Te−Te Chains and Evidence for Distortions Due to Long Range Modulations Rhonda Patschke, Jean D. Breshears, Paul Brazis, Carl R. Kannewurf, Simon J. L. Billinge, and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis pp 4755–4762 DOI: 10.1021/ja0042534

Chiral Ansa Metallocenes with Cp Ring-Fused to Thiophenes and Pyrroles:  Syntheses, Crystal Structures, and Isotactic Polypropylene Catalysts John A. Ewen, Michael J. Elder, Robert L. Jones, Arnold L. Rheingold, Louise M. Liable-Sands, and Roger D. Sommer pp 4763–4773 DOI: 10.1021/ja004266h Supporting Info

Building Blocks for Molecule-Based Magnets:  A Theoretical Study of Triplet−Singlet Gaps in the Dianion of Rhodizonic Acid 1,4-Dimethide and Its Derivatives Andrzej W. Misiołek and James E. Jackson pp 4774–4780 DOI: 10.1021/ja0021417 Supporting Info

2-Deoxy-β-d-erythro-pentofuranose:  Hydroxymethyl Group Conformation and Substituent Effects on Molecular Structure, Ring Geometry, and NMR Spin−Spin Coupling Constants from Quantum Chemical Calculations Francis Cloran, Ian Carmichael, and Anthony S. Serianni pp 4781–4791 DOI: 10.1021/ja002525x Supporting Info

Comparison of Aqueous Molecular Dynamics with NMR Relaxation and Residual Dipolar Couplings Favors Internal Motion in a Mannose Oligosaccharide Andrew Almond, Jakob Bunkenborg, Thomas Franch, Charlotte H. Gotfredsen, and Jens Ø. Duus pp 4792–4802 DOI: 10.1021/ja0025696

Ultrahigh Field MAS NMR Dipolar Correlation Spectroscopy of the Histidine Residues in Light-Harvesting Complex II from Photosynthetic Bacteria Reveals Partial Internal Charge Transfer in the B850/His Complex Alia, Jörg Matysik, Claudia Soede-Huijbregts, Marc Baldus, Jan Raap, Johan Lugtenburg, Peter Gast, Hans J. van Gorkom, Arnold J. Hoff, and Huub J. M. de Groot pp 4803–4809 DOI: 10.1021/ja002591z

Cross-Correlated Chemical Shift Modulation:  A Signature of Slow Internal Motions in Proteins Dominique Früh, Joel R. Tolman, Geoffrey Bodenhausen, and Catherine Zwahlen pp 4810–4816 DOI: 10.1021/ja003487k Supporting Info

Elastic Bounded Diffusion and Electron Propagation:  Dynamics of the Wiring of a Self-Assembly of Immunoglobulins Bearing Terminally Attached Ferrocene Poly(ethylene glycol) Chains According to a Spatially Controlled Organization Agnès Anne, Christophe Demaille, and Jacques Moiroux pp 4817–4825 DOI: 10.1021/ja004050f Supporting Info

Zero-Point Vibrational Effects on Proton Shieldings:  Functional-Group Contributions from ab Initio Calculations Kenneth Ruud, Per-Olof Åstrand, and Peter R. Taylor pp 4826–4833 DOI: 10.1021/ja004160m Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of (+)-Phorboxazole A Amos B. Smith, III,* Patrick R. Verhoest, Kevin P. Minbiole, and Michael Schelhaas pp 4834–4836 DOI: 10.1021/ja0105055 Supporting Info

Biosynthesis of the 2H-Azepine Alkaloid Chalciporone Peter Spiteller, Dieter Hamprecht, and Wolfgang Steglich pp 4837–4838 DOI: 10.1021/ja015545n

Strongly Luminescent Three-Coordinate Gold(I) Polymers:  1D Chain-Link Fence and 2D Chickenwire Structures Marie-Claude Brandys and Richard J. Puddephatt pp 4839–4840 DOI: 10.1021/ja010128w Supporting Info

New Metal Disulfide Nanotubes Manashi Nath and C. N. R. Rao pp 4841–4842 DOI: 10.1021/ja010388d

Isolation and X-ray Crystal Structure of an Unusual Biscarbene Metal Complex and Its Reactivity toward Cyclopropanation and Allylic C−H Insertion of Unfunctionalized Alkenes Yan Li, Jie-Sheng Huang, Zhong-Yuan Zhou, and Chi-Ming Che pp 4843–4844 DOI: 10.1021/ja003184q Supporting Info

Basis for the Right-Handed Helical Sense of Double-Stranded DNA:  Formation of the Right-Handed Helix by l-Oligonucleotides Fixed in Low-anti Glycosyl Conformation Hidehito Urata, Hidetaka Miyagoshi, Tetsuya Kumashiro, Keiji Mori, Keiko Shoji, and Masao Akagi pp 4845–4846 DOI: 10.1021/ja003028j

Transfer and Amplification of Chiral Molecular Information to Polysilylene Aggregates Hiroshi Nakashima, Julian R. Koe, Keiichi Torimitsu, and Michiya Fujiki pp 4847–4848 DOI: 10.1021/ja010119n Supporting Info

The Ruthenium-Catalyzed Reductive Decarboxylation of Esters:  Catalytic Reactions Involving the Cleavage of Acyl−Oxygen Bonds of Esters Naoto Chatani, Hiroto Tatamidani, Yutaka Ie, Fumitoshi Kakiuchi, and Shinji Murai pp 4849–4850 DOI: 10.1021/ja0103501 Supporting Info

Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Shahamin K Alec D. Lebsack, Larry E. Overman, and Robert J. Valentekovich pp 4851–4852 DOI: 10.1021/ja015802o Supporting Info

Decomposition of S-Nitrosothiols:  Unimolecular versus Autocatalytic Mechanism Loris Grossi, Pier Carlo Montevecchi, and Samantha Strazzari pp 4853–4854 DOI: 10.1021/ja005761g

Efficient Photocurrent Generation in Novel Self-Assembled Multilayers Comprised of [60]Fullerene−Cationic Homooxacalix[3]arene Inclusion Complex and Anionic Porphyrin Polymer Atsushi Ikeda, Tsukasa Hatano, Seiji Shinkai, Tsuyoshi Akiyama, and Sunao Yamada pp 4855–4856 DOI: 10.1021/ja015596k Supporting Info

Ti(II)-Mediated Tandem Inter- and Intramolecular Coupling Reaction of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons:  One-Pot Preparation of Cyclopentanes and Cyclohexanes from Readily Available Acyclic Starting Materials Sentaro Okamoto, Kandasamy Subburaj, and Fumie Sato pp 4857–4858 DOI: 10.1021/ja0155837 Supporting Info

Protein Effects on the Electronic Structure of the [Fe4S4]2+ Cluster in Ferredoxin and HiPIP Thorsten Glaser, Ivano Bertini, Jose J. G. Moura, Britt Hedman, Keith O. Hodgson, and Edward I. Solomon pp 4859–4860 DOI: 10.1021/ja0155940 Supporting Info

Synthesis of Phosphonamide and Thiophosphonamide Dipeptides Sheila D. Rushing and Robert P. Hammer pp 4861–4862 DOI: 10.1021/ja015632f Supporting Info

Tryptophan Absolute Stereochemistry in Viral Coat Proteins from Raman Optical Activity Ewan W. Blanch, Lutz Hecht, Loren A. Day, Dennis M. Pederson, and Laurence D. Barron pp 4863–4864 DOI: 10.1021/ja015615q

Design and Synthesis of a Novel DNA−DNA Interstrand Adenine−Guanine Cross-Linking Agent Qun Zhou, Wenhu Duan, Denise Simmons, Yuda Shayo, Mary Ann Raymond, Robert T. Dorr, and Laurence H. Hurley pp 4865–4866 DOI: 10.1021/ja005658r Supporting Info

20 Å Cd4In16S3514- Supertetrahedral T4 Clusters as Building Units in Decorated Cristobalite Frameworks Hailian Li, Jaheon Kim, T. L. Groy, M. O'Keeffe, and O. M. Yaghi pp 4867–4868 DOI: 10.1021/ja010413f Supporting Info

The First Metalladiene of Group 14 Elements with a Silole-Type Structure with SiGe and CC Double Bonds  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 12604−12605].  Vladimir Ya. Lee, Masaaki Ichinohe, and Akira Sekiguchi p 4869 DOI: 10.1021/ja015151w

Structural Studies of the Low-Valent Titanium “Solution”:  What Goes on in the Pinacol Coupling Reaction?  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 1503−1504].  Yuko Hashimoto, Utako Mizuno, Hideki Matsuoka, Takafumi Miyahara, Masahiro Takakura, Mamoru Yoshimoto, Koichiro Oshima, Kiitiro Utimoto, and Seijiro Matsubara p 4869 DOI: 10.1021/ja015152o

Superconductivity:  Elementary Topics By Keshav N. Shrivastava (University of Hyderabad). World Scientific:  Singapore, New Jersey, London, Hong Kong. 2000. xiv + 362 pp. $52.00. ISBN 981-02-4451-7 Dietrich Belitz pp 4869–4870 DOI: 10.1021/ja004856f

Electron Spectroscopies Applied to Low-Dimensional Structures Edited by H. P. Hughes (University of Cambridge) and H. I. Starnberg (Göteborg University and Chalmers University of Technology). Kluwer Academic Publishers:  Dordrech, Boston, London. 2000. xi + 504 pp. $210.00. ISBN 0-7923-6526-7 James W. Taylor p 4870 DOI: 10.1021/ja004835l

Mass Spectral and GC Data of Drugs, Poisons, Pesticides, Pollutants and Their Metabolites, 2nd Revised and Enlarged Edition Part 4. Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2000. xii + 706 pp. $325.00. ISBN 3-527-28880-5 p 4870 DOI: 10.1021/ja004872c

Catalysis from A to Z:  A Concise Encyclopedia Edited by Boy Cornils (Hoechst AG, Frankfurt), Wolfgang A. Herrmann (Technische Universitat München), Robert Schlögl (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft), and Chi-Huey Wong (Scripps Research Institute). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2000. 640 pp. $195.00. ISBN 3-527-29855-X p 4870 DOI: 10.1021/ja0152299

Houben−Weyl. Methods in Organic Chemistry. Additional and Supplementary Volumes to the 4th Edition. Volume E 23d/Parts 1, 2, and 3. Substance Index. Aliphatic Compounds II:  Alkynes, Alkenes, Alkanes Georg Thieme Verlag:  Stuttgart, New York. 2001. Part 1:  743 pp; 3300 DM; ISBN 3-13-111634-X. Part 2:  1124 pp; 3300 DM; ISBN 3-13-126444-6. Part 3:  714 pp; 3300 DM; ISBN 3-13-128844-2. Series subscription price:  2970 DM p 4870 DOI: 10.1021/ja015238h

Houben−Weyl. Methods in Organic Chemistry. Additional and Supplementary Volumes to the 4th Edition. Volume E 23o. Synopsis of the Structure of Houben−Weyl I. General Overview and 4th Edition By S. A. Boucher (Chichester, UK) and H. G. Padeken. Managing Editor H.-G. Padeken (Stuttgart, Germany). Georg Thieme Verlag:  Stuttgart, New York. 2001. x + 872 pp. 3300 DM. ISBN 3-13-116694-0. p 4870 DOI: 10.1021/ja015239+

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A Novel Consecutive Chain Transfer Reaction to p-Methylstyrene and Hydrogen during Metallocene-Mediated Olefin Polymerization T. C. Chung and J. Y. Dong pp 4871–4876 DOI: 10.1021/ja0039280

Roles of the Proximal Heme Thiolate Ligand in Cytochrome P450cam Karine Auclair, Pierre Moënne-Loccoz, and Paul R. Ortiz de Montellano pp 4877–4885 DOI: 10.1021/ja0040262

Stepwise and Concerted Pathways in Photoinduced and Thermal Electron-Transfer/Bond-Breaking Reactions. Experimental Illustration of Similarities and Contrasts Laurence Pause, Marc Robert, and Jean-Michel Savéant pp 4886–4895 DOI: 10.1021/ja004234u

NMR Solution Structure of an Oligonucleotide Hairpin with a 2‘F-ANA/RNA Stem:  Implications for RNase H Specificity toward DNA/RNA Hybrid Duplexes Jean-François Trempe, Christopher J. Wilds, Alexei Yu. Denisov, Richard T. Pon, Masad J. Damha, and Kalle Gehring pp 4896–4903 DOI: 10.1021/ja003859p Supporting Info

Reactivity of (η6-Arene)tricarbonylchromium Complexes toward Additions of Anions, Cations, and Radicals Craig A. Merlic, Michael M. Miller, Bruce N. Hietbrink, and K. N. Houk pp 4904–4918 DOI: 10.1021/ja000600y Supporting Info

Kinetics and Mechanism of the (−)-Sparteine-Mediated Deprotonation of (E)-N-Boc-N-(p-methoxyphenyl)-3-cyclohexylallylamine Daniel J. Pippel, Gerald A. Weisenburger, Neil C. Faibish, and Peter Beak pp 4919–4927 DOI: 10.1021/ja001955k Supporting Info

Aptamer-Based Folding Fluorescent Sensor for Cocaine Milan N. Stojanovic, Paloma de Prada, and Donald W. Landry pp 4928–4931 DOI: 10.1021/ja0038171 Supporting Info

DFT Study of the Effect of σ-Ligands on the Structure of Ester Enolates in THF, as Models of the Active Center in the Anionic Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate Alexander V. Yakimansky and Axel H. E. Müller pp 4932–4937 DOI: 10.1021/ja002865i Supporting Info

Dioxygen Binding to Deoxyhemocyanin:  Electronic Structure and Mechanism of the Spin-Forbidden Two-Electron Reduction of O2 Markus Metz and Edward I. Solomon pp 4938–4950 DOI: 10.1021/ja004166b Supporting Info

Charge-Transfer Forces in the Self-Assembly of Heteromolecular Reactive Solids:  Successful Design of Unique (Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal) Diels−Alder Cycloadditions J. H. Kim, S. V. Lindeman, and J. K. Kochi pp 4951–4959 DOI: 10.1021/ja010108u Supporting Info

Photoacoustic Calorimetry and Quantum Yields of Mo(CO)6 Ligand Exchange in Linear Alkanes:  Determination of Volume of Reaction, Energetics, and Kinetics of Nucleophile Displacement of Alkane from Mo(CO)5(Alkane) Tianjie Jiao, Ging-Long Leu, Gerard J. Farrell, and Theodore J. Burkey pp 4960–4965 DOI: 10.1021/ja003165g Supporting Info

Substituent-Dictated Partitioning of Intermediates on the Sulfide Singlet Oxygen Reaction Surface. A New Mechanism for Oxidative C−S Bond Cleavage in α-Hydroperoxy Sulfides Alexei Toutchkine, David Aebisher, and Edward L. Clennan pp 4966–4973 DOI: 10.1021/ja004188y

Selective Lithium Ion Binding Involving Inositol-Based Tris(spirotetrahydrofuranyl) Ionophores:  Formation of a Rodlike Supramolecular Ionic Polymer from a Homoditopic Dimer Leo A. Paquette and Jinsung Tae pp 4974–4984 DOI: 10.1021/ja010103x Supporting Info

Luminescent μ-Ethynediyl and μ-Butadiynediyl Binuclear Gold(I) Complexes:  Observation of 3(ππ*) Emissions from Bridging Cn2- Units Chi-Ming Che, Hsiu-Yi Chao, Vincent M. Miskowski, Yanqin Li, and Kung-Kai Cheung pp 4985–4991 DOI: 10.1021/ja001706w Supporting Info

Reactions of an Amphoteric Terminal Tungsten Methylidyne Complex Alejandro E. Enriquez, Peter S. White, and Joseph L. Templeton pp 4992–5002 DOI: 10.1021/ja0035001 Supporting Info

Atomic Carbon as a Terminal Ligand:  Studies of a Carbidomolybdenum Anion Featuring Solid-State 13C NMR Data and Proton-Transfer Self-Exchange Kinetics Jane B. Greco, Jonas C. Peters, Thomas A. Baker, William M. Davis, Christopher C. Cummins, and Gang Wu pp 5003–5013 DOI: 10.1021/ja003548e Supporting Info

Mesoporous Aluminosilicates with Ordered Hexagonal Structure, Strong Acidity, and Extraordinary Hydrothermal Stability at High Temperatures Zongtao Zhang, Yu Han, Feng-Shou Xiao, Shilun Qiu, Lei Zhu, Runwei Wang, Yi Yu, Ze Zhang, Bensan Zou, Yiqian Wang, Haiping Sun, Dongyuan Zhao, and Yen Wei pp 5014–5021 DOI: 10.1021/ja004138t Supporting Info

Resonance Raman Studies of the Iron(II)−α-Keto Acid Chromophore in Model and Enzyme Complexes Raymond Y. N. Ho, Mark P. Mehn, Eric L. Hegg, Aimin Liu, Matthew J. Ryle, Robert P. Hausinger, and Lawrence Que, Jr. pp 5022–5029 DOI: 10.1021/ja0041775 Supporting Info

Extradiol Oxidative Cleavage of Catechols by Ferrous and Ferric Complexes of 1,4,7-Triazacyclononane:  Insight into the Mechanism of the Extradiol Catechol Dioxygenases Gang Lin, Gillian Reid, and Timothy D. H. Bugg pp 5030–5039 DOI: 10.1021/ja004280u

The Ferrocene−Lithium Cation Complex in the Gas Phase Arantxa Irigoras, Jose M. Mercero, Iñaki Silanes, and Jesus M. Ugalde pp 5040–5043 DOI: 10.1021/ja003103q Supporting Info

Complex of B-DNA with Polyamides Freezes DNA Backbone Flexibility Bernd Wellenzohn, Wolfgang Flader, Rudolf H. Winger, Andreas Hallbrucker, Erwin Mayer, and Klaus R. Liedl pp 5044–5049 DOI: 10.1021/ja003639b Supporting Info

Multifrequency High-Field EPR Study of the Tryptophanyl and Tyrosyl Radical Intermediates in Wild-Type and the W191G Mutant of Cytochrome c Peroxidase Anabella Ivancich, Pierre Dorlet, David B. Goodin, and Sun Un pp 5050–5058 DOI: 10.1021/ja0036514 Supporting Info

A Hydrogen Storage Mechanism in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Seung Mi Lee, Kay Hyeok An, Young Hee Lee, Gotthard Seifert, and Thomas Frauenheim pp 5059–5063 DOI: 10.1021/ja003751+

Rearrangements Involving the Phenonium Ion:  A Theoretical Investigation Emma del Río, María I. Menéndez, Ramón López, and Tomás L. Sordo* pp 5064–5068 DOI: 10.1021/ja0039132 Supporting Info

Statics and Dynamics of Ethane Molecules in AlPO4-5:  A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study P. Demontis, J. Gulín González, G. B. Suffritti, and A. Tilocca pp 5069–5074 DOI: 10.1021/ja003940s

Electron Transport through Thin Organic Films in Metal−Insulator−Metal Junctions Based on Self-Assembled Monolayers R. Erik Holmlin, Rainer Haag, Michael L. Chabinyc, Rustem F. Ismagilov, Adam E. Cohen, Andreas Terfort, Maria Anita Rampi, and George M. Whitesides pp 5075–5085 DOI: 10.1021/ja004055c Supporting Info

The Prediction, Morphology, and Mechanical Properties of the Polymorphs of Paracetamol Theresa Beyer, Graeme M. Day, and Sarah L. Price pp 5086–5094 DOI: 10.1021/ja0102787 Supporting Info

Catalyst-Based Control of [2,3]- and [3,3]-Rearrangement in α-Diazoketone-Derived Propargyloxy Enols George A. Moniz and John L. Wood pp 5095–5097 DOI: 10.1021/ja015727h Supporting Info

14N MAS NMR Spectroscopy:  The Nitrate Ion Hans J. Jakobsen, H. Bildsøe, J. Skibsted, and T. Giavani pp 5098–5099 DOI: 10.1021/ja0100118

Benzene C−H Activation at a Charge Neutral Zwitterionic Platinum(II) Complex J. Christopher Thomas and Jonas C. Peters pp 5100–5101 DOI: 10.1021/ja0058987 Supporting Info

Derivatives of Methyl 5-Methyl-4-oxo-1,2,4,5,8,8a- hexahydrocyclopropa[c]-pyrrolo[3,2-e]indole-7- carboxylate:  A Case of Inverse Electronic Effects on the Reactivity of CC-1065 Derivatives Luis Castedo, José Delamano, Juan Enjo, Jesús Fernández, Dolores G. Grávalos, Ramón Leis, Carmen López, Carlos F. Marcos, Ana Ríos, and Gabriel Tojo pp 5102–5103 DOI: 10.1021/ja005704n Supporting Info

β-Destabilizing Effect of Silicon in Regioselective Hydroxymethylation of β-Silylcycloalkanone Enol Acetates by Electrochemical Method Jih Ru Hwu, Shwu-Chen Tsay, Lung Ching Lin, and Lu Lin Chueh pp 5104–5105 DOI: 10.1021/ja0014335 Supporting Info

Metallophilicity:  The Dimerization of Bis[(triphenylphosphine)gold(I)]chloronium Cations Armin Hamel, Norbert W. Mitzel, and Hubert Schmidbaur pp 5106–5107 DOI: 10.1021/ja010398e Supporting Info

A Prototype of Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Carbothiolation of Alkynes Kunihiko Sugoh, Hitoshi Kuniyasu, Taeko Sugae, Atsushi Ohtaka, Yasutomo Takai, Aoi Tanaka, Chikako Machino, Nobuaki Kambe, and Hideo Kurosawa pp 5108–5109 DOI: 10.1021/ja010261o Supporting Info

Zirconium-Mediated Synthesis of a New Class of 1,4-Bis(diphenylphosphino)-1,3-butadiene-Bridged Diphosphine, NUPHOS:  Highly Efficient Catalysts for Palladium-Mediated Cross Couplings Simon Doherty,* Julian G. Knight,* Edward G. Robins, Tom H. Scanlan, Paul A. Champkin, and William Clegg pp 5110–5111 DOI: 10.1021/ja010090n Supporting Info

Diastereoselective Cobalt-Catalyzed Aldol and Michael Cycloreductions Tae-Gon Baik, Ana Liza Luis, Long-Cheng Wang, and Michael J. Krische pp 5112–5113 DOI: 10.1021/ja0040971 Supporting Info

Synthesis and Evaluation of Bishydroquinone Derivatives of (−)-Saframycin A:  Identification of a Versatile Molecular Template Imparting Potent Antiproliferative Activity Andrew G. Myers and Alleyn T. Plowright pp 5114–5115 DOI: 10.1021/ja0103086 Supporting Info

Noeuromycin,1 A Glycosyl Cation Mimic that Strongly Inhibits Glycosidases Huizhen Liu, Xifu Liang, Helmer Søhoel, Anne Bülow, and Mikael Bols pp 5116–5117 DOI: 10.1021/ja010240u Supporting Info

In Vivo NMR at 800 MHz to Monitor Alkaloid Metabolism in Plant Cell Cultures without Tracer Labeling Christiane Hinse, Yuri V. Sheludko, Alessandro Provenzani, and Joachim H. H. Stöckigt pp 5118–5119 DOI: 10.1021/ja003613k Supporting Info

Catalytic Dehydrogenative Coupling of Secondary Silanes Using Wilkinson's Catalyst Lisa Rosenberg, Colin W. Davis, and Junzhi Yao pp 5120–5121 DOI: 10.1021/ja015697i Supporting Info

Three-Component Aldimine Addition−Cyclopropanation. An Efficient New Methodology for Amino Cyclopropane Synthesis Peter Wipf, Christopher Kendall, and Corey R. J. Stephenson pp 5122–5123 DOI: 10.1021/ja0157494 Supporting Info

Is the Linkage Region of Sphingolipids Responsible for Lipid Raft Formation? Maki Uragami, Nobuya Tokutake, Xun Yan, and Steven L. Regen* pp 5124–5125 DOI: 10.1021/ja015715w Supporting Info

Alternative Reactivity of an α-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Iron(II) Oxygenase:  Enzyme Self-Hydroxylation Aimin Liu, Raymond Y. N. Ho, and Lawrence Que, Jr.Matthew J. Ryle, Brett S. Phinney, and Robert P. Hausinger pp 5126–5127 DOI: 10.1021/ja005879x Supporting Info

Stereochemistry of the Core Structure of the Mycolactones Andrew B. Benowitz, Steve Fidanze, P. L. C. Small, and Yoshito Kishi pp 5128–5129 DOI: 10.1021/ja0105414 Supporting Info

Synthesis of Enantioenriched Axially Chiral Anilides from Atropisomerically Enriched Tartarate Ortho-Anilides Ali Ates and Dennis P. Curran pp 5130–5131 DOI: 10.1021/ja010467p Supporting Info

Enantioselectivity in the Reactions of Chiral α-(N-Carbamoyl)alkylcuprates R. Karl Dieter, Chris M. Topping, Kishan R. Chandupatla, and Kai Lu pp 5132–5133 DOI: 10.1021/ja0156587 Supporting Info

A New Catalyst for Highly Syndiospecific Living Olefin Polymerization:  Homopolymers and Block Copolymers from Ethylene and Propylene Jun Tian, Phillip D. Hustad, and Geoffrey W. Coates pp 5134–5135 DOI: 10.1021/ja0157189 Supporting Info

Time-Resolved Step-Scan Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy of Alkyl Phenylglyoxylates Andrei V. Fedorov, Eugene O. Danilov, Michael A. J. Rodgers, and Douglas C. Neckers pp 5136–5137 DOI: 10.1021/ja0059286 Supporting Info

N-Confused Expanded Porphyrin:  First Example of a Modified Sapphyrin with an Inverted N-Confused Pyrrole Ring Simi K. Pushpan, Alagar Srinivasan, Venkataramanarao G. Anand, Sundararaman Venkatraman, Tavarekere K. Chandrashekar, Bhavani S. Joshi, Raja Roy, and Hiroyuki Furuta pp 5138–5139 DOI: 10.1021/ja010673x Supporting Info

Selenocysteine in Native Chemical Ligation and Expressed Protein Ligation Robert J. Hondal, Bradley L. Nilsson, and Ronald T. Raines pp 5140–5141 DOI: 10.1021/ja005885t Supporting Info

Myoglobin Catalyzes Its Own Nitration James L. Bourassa, Elizabeth P. Ives, Ann L. Marqueling, Roman Shimanovich, and John T. Groves pp 5142–5143 DOI: 10.1021/ja015621m Supporting Info

Iterative Approach to Polycyclic Ethers Based on Stereoselective Oxonium Ylide [2,3]-Shifts Fredrik P. Marmsäter and F. G. West pp 5144–5145 DOI: 10.1021/ja015872v Supporting Info

Fabrication of Novel Mesocellular Carbon Foams with Uniform Ultralarge Mesopores Jinwoo Lee, Kwonnam Sohn, and Taeghwan Hyeon pp 5146–5147 DOI: 10.1021/ja015510n Supporting Info

First Phenylenevinylene Based Organogels:  Self-Assembled Nanostructures via Cooperative Hydrogen Bonding and π-Stacking A. Ajayaghosh and Subi J. George pp 5148–5149 DOI: 10.1021/ja005933+ Supporting Info

Controlled Synthesis of Multi-armed CdS Nanorod Architectures Using Monosurfactant System Young-wook Jun, Sang-Min Lee, Nam-Jung Kang, and Jinwoo Cheon pp 5150–5151 DOI: 10.1021/ja0157595

New Approach to Bicyclo [5.3.0] Ring Systems Holly L. Deak, Suzanne S. Stokes, and Marc L. Snapper pp 5152–5153 DOI: 10.1021/ja015640w Supporting Info

Cloning and Functional Expression of cDNA Encoding Aphidicolan-16β-ol Synthase:  A Key Enzyme Responsible for Formation of an Unusual Diterpene Skeleton in Biosynthesis of Aphidicolin Hideaki Oikawa, Tomonobu Toyomasu, Hiroaki Toshima, Satoshi Ohashi, Hiroshi Kawaide, Yuji Kamiya, Minoru Ohtsuka, Shoko Shinoda, Wataru Mitsuhashi, and Takeshi Sassa pp 5154–5155 DOI: 10.1021/ja015747j Supporting Info

Infrared and EPR Spectroscopic Observation of Novel Open-Shell Species:  The Fluoroiminomethyl Radical (FC•NH) in Solid Argon Eugenii Ya. Misochko, Ilya U. Goldschleger, and Alexander V. AkimovCharles A. Wight pp 5156–5157 DOI: 10.1021/ja015874f

Sequence-Specific DNA Interstrand Cross-Linking by Imidazole−Pyrrole CPI Conjugate Toshikazu Bando, Hirokazu Iida, Isao Saito, and Hiroshi Sugiyama pp 5158–5159 DOI: 10.1021/ja003660c Supporting Info

Derivatives of 8-Hydroxy-2-methylquinoline Are Powerful Prototypes for Zinc Sensors in Biological Systems Dierdre A. Pearce, Nathalie Jotterand, Isaac S. Carrico, and Barbara Imperiali pp 5160–5161 DOI: 10.1021/ja0039839 Supporting Info

De Novo Design of a Monomeric Helical β-Peptide Stabilized by Electrostatic Interactions Richard P. Cheng and William F. DeGrado pp 5162–5163 DOI: 10.1021/ja010438e Supporting Info

Two-Color Labeling of Oligonucleotide Arrays via Size-Selective Scattering of Nanoparticle Probes T. Andrew Taton, Gang Lu, and Chad A. Mirkin pp 5164–5165 DOI: 10.1021/ja0102639 Supporting Info

New Developments in Polymer Analytics II. Advances in Polymer Science. Volume 151 Edited by Manfred Schmidt (University of Mainz). Springer-Verlag:  Berlin, Heidelberg. 2000. xii + 190 pp. $135.00. ISBN 3-540-66078-X. Pu Chun Ke, Christoph Naumann, and Paul Dubin p 5166 DOI: 10.1021/ja0047121

Electrophoretic Characterization of Dynamic Biochemical Microenvironments [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 1790−1791]. Mary Jane Gordon and Jason B. Shear p 5166 DOI: 10.1021/ja0151504

Ultrafast Internal Conversion of Electronically Excited RNA and DNA Nucleosides in Water   [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 9348−9349]. Jean-Marc L. Pecourt, Jorge Peon, and Bern Kohler p 5166 DOI: 10.1021/ja016042k

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Metallobleomycin-Mediated Cleavage of DNA Not Involving a Threading-Intercalation Mechanism Anil T. Abraham, Xiang Zhou, and Sidney M. Hecht pp 5167–5175 DOI: 10.1021/ja002460y Supporting Info

A Triply Templated Artificial β-Sheet James S. Nowick, Jennifer M. Cary, and James H. Tsai pp 5176–5180 DOI: 10.1021/ja010220s Supporting Info

Oxygen-Dependent DNA Damage Amplification Involving 5,6-Dihydrothymidin-5-yl in a Structurally Minimal System Keri A. Tallman and Marc M. Greenberg pp 5181–5187 DOI: 10.1021/ja010180s Supporting Info

Conrotatory Photochemical Ring Opening of Alkylcyclobutenes in Solution. A Test of the Hot Ground-State Mechanism Bruce H. O. Cook, William J. Leigh, and Robin Walsh pp 5188–5193 DOI: 10.1021/ja003860o Supporting Info

Electronic Transduction of DNA Sensing Processes on Surfaces:  Amplification of DNA Detection and Analysis of Single-Base Mismatches by Tagged Liposomes Fernando Patolsky, Amir Lichtenstein, and Itamar Willner pp 5194–5205 DOI: 10.1021/ja0036256 Supporting Info

Incorporating β-Turns and a Turn Mimetic out of Context in Loop 1 of the WW Domain Affords Cooperatively Folded β-Sheets Ramesh Kaul, Angie R. Angeles, Marcus Jäger, Evan T. Powers, and Jeffery W. Kelly pp 5206–5212 DOI: 10.1021/ja0102890 Supporting Info

Chiral Softballs:  Synthesis and Molecular Recognition Properties José M. Rivera, Tomás Martín, and Julius Rebek, Jr. pp 5213–5220 DOI: 10.1021/ja004080i Supporting Info

Use of MM-PBSA in Reproducing the Binding Free Energies to HIV-1 RT of TIBO Derivatives and Predicting the Binding Mode to HIV-1 RT of Efavirenz by Docking and MM-PBSA Junmei Wang, Paul Morin, Wei Wang, and Peter A. Kollman pp 5221–5230 DOI: 10.1021/ja003834q

Self-Assembly of β-Sheets into Nanostructures by Poly(alanine) Segments Incorporated in Multiblock Copolymers Inspired by Spider Silk Osman Rathore and Dotsevi Y. Sogah pp 5231–5239 DOI: 10.1021/ja004030d

Co-conformational Variability of Cyclodextrin Complexes Studied by Induced Circular Dichroism of Azoalkanes Bernd Mayer, Xiangyang Zhang, Werner M. Nau, and Giancarlo Marconi pp 5240–5248 DOI: 10.1021/ja004295s

Insights into Long-Range Structural Effects on the Stereochemistry of Aldol Condensations:  A Practical Total Synthesis of Desoxyepothilone F Chul Bom Lee, Zhicai Wu, Fei Zhang, Mark D. Chappell, Shawn J. Stachel, Ting-Chao Chou, Yongbiao Guan, and Samuel J. Danishefsky pp 5249–5259 DOI: 10.1021/ja010039j Supporting Info

Amino Acid Catalyzed Direct Asymmetric Aldol Reactions:  A Bioorganic Approach to Catalytic Asymmetric Carbon−Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions Kandasamy Sakthivel, Wolfgang Notz, Tommy Bui, and Carlos F. Barbas III pp 5260–5267 DOI: 10.1021/ja010037z

Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Enamides with Rh-BisP* and Rh-MiniPHOS Catalysts. Scope, Limitations, and Mechanism Ilya D. Gridnev, Masaya Yasutake, Natsuka Higashi, and Tsuneo Imamoto pp 5268–5276 DOI: 10.1021/ja010161i Supporting Info

Probing the Donor−Acceptor Proximity on the Physicochemical Properties of Porphyrin−Fullerene Dyads:  “Tail-On” and “Tail-Off” Binding Approach Francis D'Souza, Gollapalli R. Deviprasad, Mohamed E. El-Khouly, Mamoru Fujitsuka, and Osamu Ito pp 5277–5284 DOI: 10.1021/ja010356q

Solid-State NMR Detection, Characterization, and Quantification of the Multiple Aluminum Environments in US-Y Catalysts by 27Al MAS and MQMAS Experiments at Very High Field Colin A. Fyfe, Jeremy L. Bretherton, and Lau Y. Lam pp 5285–5291 DOI: 10.1021/ja003210k

Role of Alkali Metal Cation Size in the Energy and Rate of Electron Transfer to Solvent-Separated 1:1 [(M+)(Acceptor)] (M+ = Li+, Na+, K+) Ion Pairs Vladimir A. Grigoriev, Danny Cheng, Craig L. Hill, and Ira A. Weinstock pp 5292–5307 DOI: 10.1021/ja010074q Supporting Info

Surface Control of Oxidation by an Adsorbed RuIV−Oxo Complex Laurie A. Gallagher and Thomas J. Meyer pp 5308–5312 DOI: 10.1021/ja000971e

A Theoretical Study on the Origin of Cooperativity in the Formation of 310- and α-Helices Yun-Dong Wu and Yi-Lei Zhao pp 5313–5319 DOI: 10.1021/ja003482n Supporting Info

A Theoretical Investigation of the Remarkable Nuclear Spin−Spin Coupling Pattern in [(NC)5Pt−Tl(CN)]- Jochen Autschbach and Tom Ziegler pp 5320–5324 DOI: 10.1021/ja003866d

Pulsed EPR/ENDOR Characterization of Perturbations of the CuA Center Ground State by Axial Methionine Ligand Mutations Claire E. Slutter, Igor Gromov, Boris Epel, Israel Pecht, John H. Richards, and Daniella Goldfarb pp 5325–5336 DOI: 10.1021/ja003924v

Symmetry Breaking in the Relaxed S1 Excited State of Bianthryl Derivatives in Weakly Polar Solvents Jacob J. Piet, Wouter Schuddeboom, Bastiaan R. Wegewijs, Ferdinand C. Grozema, and John M. Warman* pp 5337–5347 DOI: 10.1021/ja004341o

High Dissolution and Strong Light Emission of Carbon Nanotubes in Aromatic Amine Solvents Yi Sun, Stephen R. Wilson, and David I. Schuster pp 5348–5349 DOI: 10.1021/ja0041730

Chain End-Groups Reveal Two States for Palladium-Based Polyketone Catalyst Species Wilhelmus P. Mul, Eite Drent, Pieter J. Jansens, Arris H. Kramer, and Max H. W. Sonnemans pp 5350–5351 DOI: 10.1021/ja003800i Supporting Info

α-Iminocarboxamidato−Nickel(II) Ethylene Polymerization Catalysts Bun Yeoul Lee, Guillermo C. Bazan, Javier Vela, Zachary J. A. Komon, and Xianhui Bu pp 5352–5353 DOI: 10.1021/ja004191h Supporting Info

Sensitizing DNA to Secondary Electron Damage:  Resonant Formation of Oxidative Radicals from 5-Halouracils H. Abdoul-Carime, M. A. Huels, E. Illenberger, and L. Sanche pp 5354–5355 DOI: 10.1021/ja003952d

Observation of the Predicted Negative Faraday A MCD Term in a Cyclobutadiene Dianion Kazuyuki Ishii, Nagao Kobayashi, Tsukasa Matsuo, Masanobu Tanaka, and Akira Sekiguchi pp 5356–5357 DOI: 10.1021/ja004285r

Rhodium-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions of Arylboronic Acids to Olefins in Aqueous Media Mark Lautens, Amélie Roy, Koichiro Fukuoka, Keith Fagnou, and Belén Martín-Matute pp 5358–5359 DOI: 10.1021/ja010402m Supporting Info

Critical Difference in Chiral Recognition of N-Cbz-d/l-aspartic and -glutamic Acids by Mono- and Bis(Trimethylammonio)-β-cyclodextrins Mikhail Rekharsky, Hatsuo Yamamura, Masao Kawai, and Yoshihisa Inoue pp 5360–5361 DOI: 10.1021/ja003810j Supporting Info

Lomaiviticins A and B, Potent Antitumor Antibiotics from Micromonospora lomaivitiensis Haiyin He, Wei-Dong Ding, Valerie S. Bernan, Adam D. Richardson, Chris M. Ireland, Michael Greenstein, George A. Ellestad, and Guy T. Carter pp 5362–5363 DOI: 10.1021/ja010129o Supporting Info

Plasma-Fluorination Synthesis of High Surface Area Aluminum Trifluoride from a Zeolite Precursor James L. Delattre, Peter J. Chupas, Clare P. Grey, and Angelica M. Stacy pp 5364–5365 DOI: 10.1021/ja015645t

A New Class of Chiral Lewis Acid Catalysts for Highly Enantioselective Hetero-Diels-Alder Reactions:  Exceptionally High Turnover Numbers from Dirhodium(II) Carboxamidates Michael P. Doyle, Iain M. Phillips, and Wenhao Hu pp 5366–5367 DOI: 10.1021/ja015692l

Multiple Membranes from “True” Polyelectrolyte Multilayers Stephan T. Dubas, Tarek R. Farhat, and Joseph B. Schlenoff pp 5368–5369 DOI: 10.1021/ja015774+

The First Zeolite with Three-Dimensional Intersecting Straight-Channel System of 12-Membered Rings Zheng Liu, Tetsu Ohsuna, Osamu Terasaki, Miguel A. Camblor, Maria-Jose Diaz-Cabañas, and Kenji Hiraga pp 5370–5371 DOI: 10.1021/ja0107778

A New General Method for the Preparation of Metal Carbene Complexes Mark Gandelman, Boris Rybtchinski, Nissan Ashkenazi, Régis M. Gauvin, and David Milstein pp 5372–5373 DOI: 10.1021/ja0157393 Supporting Info

Cobalt-Catalyzed Tandem Radical Cyclization and Cross-Coupling Reaction:  Its Application to Benzyl-Substituted Heterocycles Katsuyu Wakabayashi, Hideki Yorimitsu, and Koichiro Oshima pp 5374–5375 DOI: 10.1021/ja0100423 Supporting Info

The Structural and Functional Equivalence of Aurophilic and Hydrogen Bonding:  Evidence for the First Examples of Rotator Phases Induced by Aurophilic Bonding Robert E. Bachman, Michael S. Fioritto, Susan K. Fetics, and T. Matthew Cocker pp 5376–5377 DOI: 10.1021/ja0056217 Supporting Info

Substrate Dependence of Nonlinear Effects:  Mechanistic Probe and Practical Applications Young K. Chen, Anna M. Costa, and Patrick J. Walsh pp 5378–5379 DOI: 10.1021/ja0158004 Supporting Info

Nativelike Enzyme Properties Are Important for Optimum Activity in Neat Organic Solvents Kai Griebenow, Michael Vidal, Carlos Baéz, Angelica M. Santos, and Gabriel Barletta pp 5380–5381 DOI: 10.1021/ja015889d Supporting Info

Toward Proteomimetics:  Terphenyl Derivatives as Structural and Functional Mimics of Extended Regions of an α-Helix Brendan P. Orner, Justin T. Ernst, and Andrew D. Hamilton* pp 5382–5383 DOI: 10.1021/ja0025548 Supporting Info

Solid State and Surface Photochemistry. Molecular and Supramolecular Photochemistry. Volume 5 By V. Ramamurthy (Tulane University) and Kirk S. Schanze (Florida State University). Marcel Dekker:  New York and Basel. 2000. xii+328 pp. $333.33. ISBN 0-8247-0403-7 Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay p 5384 DOI: 10.1021/ja004813z

Evolutionary Algorithms in Molecular Design. Methods and Principles in Medicinal Chemistry. Volume 8 Edited by David E. Clark (Aventis Pharma Ltd.; currently at Argenta Discovery Ltd., Dagenham, England). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim and New York. 2000. xii + 276 pp. $145. ISBN 3-527-30155-0 Frédérique Barbosa and Donald B. Boyd p 5384 DOI: 10.1021/ja0048580

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Aminoglycoside−Nucleic Acid Interactions:  Remarkable Stabilization of DNA and RNA Triple Helices by Neomycin Dev P. Arya, R. Lane Coffee, Jr., Bert Willis, and Anna I. Abramovitch pp 5385–5395 DOI: 10.1021/ja003052x Supporting Info

Regiochemistry in the Pauson−Khand Reaction:  Has a Trans Effect Been Overlooked? Frédéric Robert, Anne Milet, Yves Gimbert, Denés Konya, and Andrew E. Greene pp 5396–5400 DOI: 10.1021/ja004170n Supporting Info

Molecular Umbrella-Assisted Transport of Glutathione Across a Phospholipid Membrane Vaclav Janout, Lan-hui Zhang, Irina V. Staina, Christophe Di Giorgio, and Steven L. Regen pp 5401–5406 DOI: 10.1021/ja010124r

Total Synthesis of Epothilone B, Epothilone D, and cis- and trans-9,10-Dehydroepothilone D James D. White, Rich G. Carter, Kurt F. Sundermann, and Markus Wartmann pp 5407–5413 DOI: 10.1021/ja010454b Supporting Info

Nematic Liquid Crystals with a Tetrafluoroethylene Bridge in the Mesogenic Core Structure Peer Kirsch, Matthias Bremer, Florian Huber, Harald Lannert, Andreas Ruhl, Max Lieb, and Tilman Wallmichrath pp 5414–5417 DOI: 10.1021/ja010024l Supporting Info

Total Structure Determination of Apratoxin A, a Potent Novel Cytotoxin from the Marine Cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula Hendrik Luesch, Wesley Y. Yoshida, Richard E. Moore, Valerie J. Paul, and Thomas H. Corbett pp 5418–5423 DOI: 10.1021/ja010453j Supporting Info

A Triangle−Square Equilibrium of Metallosupramolecular Assemblies Based on Pd(II) and Pt(II) Corners and Diazadibenzoperylene Bridging Ligands Armin Sautter, Dietmar G. Schmid, Günther Jung, and Frank Würthner pp 5424–5430 DOI: 10.1021/ja004360y Supporting Info

Fabrication of Micro Reaction Cages with Tailored Properties Lars Dähne, Stefano Leporatti, Edwin Donath, and Helmut Möhwald pp 5431–5436 DOI: 10.1021/ja002911e

Mechanism of Dissolution of Sparingly Soluble Electrolytes Ruikang Tang, George H. Nancollas, and Christine A. Orme pp 5437–5443 DOI: 10.1021/ja010064p Supporting Info

Sulfur K-Edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of 2Fe−2S Ferredoxin:  Covalency of the Oxidized and Reduced 2Fe Forms and Comparison to Model Complexes Elodie Anxolabéhère-Mallart, Thorsten Glaser, Patrick Frank, Alessandro Aliverti, Giuliana Zanetti, Britt Hedman, Keith O. Hodgson, and Edward I. Solomon pp 5444–5452 DOI: 10.1021/ja010472t Supporting Info

Variable-Temperature Microcrystal X-ray Diffraction Studies of Negative Thermal Expansion in the Pure Silica Zeolite IFR Luis A. Villaescusa, Philip Lightfoot, Simon J. Teat, and Russell E. Morris pp 5453–5459 DOI: 10.1021/ja015797o Supporting Info

The Conformational Origin of the Barrier to the Formation of Neighboring Group Assistance in Glycosylation Reactions:  A Dynamical Density Functional Theory Study Attila Bérces, Gary Enright, Tomoo Nukada, and Dennis M. Whitfield pp 5460–5464 DOI: 10.1021/ja001194l Supporting Info

Chemistry of the Diazeniumdiolates. 3. Photoreactivity Aloka Srinivasan, Naod Kebede, Joseph E. Saavedra, Alexander V. Nikolaitchik, Daniel A. Brady, Emily Yourd, Keith M. Davies, Larry K. Keefer, and John P. Toscano pp 5465–5472 DOI: 10.1021/ja002898y

Chemistry of the Diazeniumdiolates. 2. Kinetics and Mechanism of Dissociation to Nitric Oxide in Aqueous Solution Keith M. Davies, David A. Wink, Joseph E. Saavedra, and Larry K. Keefer pp 5473–5481 DOI: 10.1021/ja002899q Supporting Info

Endo−Exo and Facial Stereoselectivity in the Diels−Alder Reactions of 3-Substituted Cyclopropenes with Butadiene James D. Xidos, Tammy L. Gosse, E. Diane Burke, Raymond A. Poirier, and D. Jean Burnell pp 5482–5488 DOI: 10.1021/ja0030919 Supporting Info

First Synthesis and Structural Determination of a Monomeric, Unsolvated Lithium Amide, LiNH2 Douglas B. Grotjahn, P. M. Sheridan, I. Al Jihad, and L. M. Ziurys pp 5489–5494 DOI: 10.1021/ja003422h Supporting Info

Protonation-Induced Paramagnetism. Structures and Stabilities of Six- and Seven-Coordinate Complexes of Os(II) in Singlet and Triplet States:  A Density Functional Study Kausala Mylvaganam, George B. Bacskay, and Noel S. Hush pp 5495–5506 DOI: 10.1021/ja003723r Supporting Info

Spectroscopy and Reactivity of the Type 1 Copper Site in Fet3p from Saccharomyces cerevisiae:  Correlation of Structure with Reactivity in the Multicopper Oxidases Timothy E. Machonkin, Liliana Quintanar, Amy E. Palmer, Richard Hassett, Scott Severance, Daniel J. Kosman, and Edward I. Solomon pp 5507–5517 DOI: 10.1021/ja003975s Supporting Info

Oxygen−Carbon Bond Dissociation Enthalpies of Benzyl Phenyl Ethers and Anisoles. An Example of Temperature Dependent Substituent Effects1 Derek A. Pratt,* Martine I. de Heer, Peter Mulder, and K. U. Ingold pp 5518–5526 DOI: 10.1021/ja004081a Supporting Info

Solvent Effects on Electrophilicity Patricia Pérez, Alejandro Toro-Labbé, and Renato Contreras* pp 5527–5531 DOI: 10.1021/ja004105d

Thermal Reactions of anti- and syn-Dispiro[5.0.5.2]tetradeca-1,8-dienes:  Stereomutation and Fragmentation to 3-Methylenecyclohexenes. Entropy-Dictated Product Ratios from Diradical Intermediates? W. von E. Doering, Juris L. Ekmanis, Kevin D. Belfield, F.-G. Klärner, and Bernd Krawczyk pp 5532–5541 DOI: 10.1021/ja004128s Supporting Info

An Experimental and Computational Study on the Reactivity and Regioselectivity for the Nitrosoarene Ene Reaction:  Comparison with Triazolinedione and Singlet Oxygen Waldemar Adam, Nils Bottke, Bernd Engels, and Oliver Krebs pp 5542–5548 DOI: 10.1021/ja004356m Supporting Info

Fabrication and Characterization of Metal−Molecule−Metal Junctions by Conducting Probe Atomic Force Microscopy David J. Wold and C. Daniel Frisbie pp 5549–5556 DOI: 10.1021/ja0101532

The Importance of the Ene Reaction for the C2−C6 Cyclization of Enyne−Allenes Patrick W. Musch and Bernd Engels pp 5557–5562 DOI: 10.1021/ja010346p Supporting Info

Potential Energy Surface for Activation of Methane by Pt+:  A Combined Guided Ion Beam and DFT Study Xiao-Guang Zhang, Rohana Liyanage, and P. B. Armentrout pp 5563–5575 DOI: 10.1021/ja010382o

Direct Evidence for Preassociation Preceding Covalent Binding in the Reaction of cis-[Pt(NH3)2(H2O)2]2+ with Surface Immobilized Oligonucleotides Yueju Wang, Nicholas Farrell, and James D. Burgess pp 5576–5577 DOI: 10.1021/ja015870a Supporting Info

Novel Substituent and Chelating Effects in the Pd-Catalyzed Reaction of 2,3-Allenols, Aryl Iodides, and Amines. Highly Regio- and Stereoselective Synthesis of 2-Amino-3-alken-1-ols or 4-Amino-2(E)-alken-1-ols Shengming Ma and Shimin Zhao pp 5578–5579 DOI: 10.1021/ja0035553 Supporting Info

Simultaneous and Stereoselective Construction of Planar and Axial Centers of Chirality Louis Fogel, Richard P. Hsung, and William D. WulffRoger D. Sommer and Arnold L. Rheingold pp 5580–5581 DOI: 10.1021/ja010091f Supporting Info

Synthesis of Hydrogels with Extremely Low Surface Friction Jian Ping Gong, Takayuki Kurokawa, Tetsuharu Narita, Go Kagata, Yoshihito Osada, Goro Nishimura, and Masataka Kinjo pp 5582–5583 DOI: 10.1021/ja003794q

Novel Phosphonium Chloride-Catalyzed Dehydrohalogenative Si−C Coupling Reaction of Alkyl Halides with Trichlorosilane Yeon Seok Cho, Seung-Hyun Kang, Joon Soo Han, Bok Ryul Yoo, and Il Nam Jung pp 5584–5585 DOI: 10.1021/ja005814u

Supramolecular Assembly of Amide Dendrons Chulhee Kim, Kyoung Taek Kim, and Youngkyu ChangHyun Hoon Song, Tai-Yon Cho, and Hye-Jin Jeon pp 5586–5587 DOI: 10.1021/ja015687h Supporting Info

Recognition and Strand Scission at Junctions between Single- and Double-Stranded DNA by a Trinuclear Copper Complex Kristi J. Humphreys, Kenneth D. Karlin, and Steven E. Rokita pp 5588–5589 DOI: 10.1021/ja010403e Supporting Info

Formal Synthesis of (+)-Phorbol1 Kwangho Lee and Jin Kun Cha pp 5590–5591 DOI: 10.1021/ja010643u Supporting Info

DNA−Block Copolymer Conjugates Keith J. Watson, So-Jung Park, Jung-Hyuk Im, SonBinh T. Nguyen, and Chad A. Mirkin pp 5592–5593 DOI: 10.1021/ja0156845 Supporting Info

Activation of an Anilido Ligand for Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution by an Oxidizing Os(IV) Center Jake D. Soper, Werner Kaminsky, and James M. Mayer pp 5594–5595 DOI: 10.1021/ja0159214 Supporting Info

The Role of Water Bridges in Directing the Conformational Preferences of 3-Indole-propionic Acid and Tryptamine Joel R. Carney, Brian C. Dian, Gina M. Florio, and Timothy S. Zwier pp 5596–5597 DOI: 10.1021/ja015863m

Cyclometalated Complexes:  A New Class of Highly Efficient Photorefractive Materials Iolinda Aiello, Davide Dattilo, Mauro Ghedini, and Attilio Golemme pp 5598–5599 DOI: 10.1021/ja0155783

Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reaction of Alkenyldimethyl(2-pyridyl)silanes with Organic Halides:  Complete Switch from the Carbometalation Pathway to the Transmetalation Pathway Kenichiro Itami, Toshiki Nokami, and Jun-ichi Yoshida pp 5600–5601 DOI: 10.1021/ja015655u Supporting Info

Asymmetric Synthesis of β-Mercapto Carboxylic Acid Derivatives by Intramolecular Sulfur Transfer in N-Enoyl Oxazolidine-2-thiones Promoted by Lewis Acids Claudio Palomo, Mikel Oiarbide, Flavia Dias, Aurelio Ortiz, and Anthony Linden pp 5602–5603 DOI: 10.1021/ja015860+ Supporting Info

Proton−Proton Constraints in Powdered Solids from 1H−1H−1H and 1H−1H−13C Three-Dimensional NMR Chemical Shift Correlation Spectroscopy Dimitris Sakellariou, Anne Lesage, and Lyndon Emsley pp 5604–5605 DOI: 10.1021/ja005846h

Design and Synthesis of the G-Quadruplex-Specific Cleaving Reagent Perylene-EDTA·Iron(II) Wirote Tuntiwechapikul, Jeong Tae Lee, and Miguel Salazar pp 5606–5607 DOI: 10.1021/ja0156439 Supporting Info

Coordination Metallacycles of an Achiral Dendron Self-Assemble via Metal−Metal Interaction To Form Luminescent Superhelical Fibers Masashi Enomoto, Akihiro Kishimura, and Takuzo Aida pp 5608–5609 DOI: 10.1021/ja010426t Supporting Info

Gas-Phase Conformations and Folding Energetics of Oligonucleotides:  dTG- and dGT- Jennifer Gidden, John E. Bushnell, and Michael T. Bowers pp 5610–5611 DOI: 10.1021/ja015940d

Molecular Recognition of Titanium(IV) Alkoxides by 2,6-Bis(hydroxymethyl)-p-cresol in the Crystal Engineering of Hybrid Organic−Inorganic Networks Adel Rammal, Frédéric Brisach, and Marc Henry pp 5612–5613 DOI: 10.1021/ja0156136 Supporting Info

A Combinatorially-Derived Structural Phase Diagram for 42 Zwitterionic Geminis Fredric M. Menger and Andrey V. Peresypkin pp 5614–5615 DOI: 10.1021/ja003779l Supporting Info

A Theoretical Analysis of Metal−Molecule Contacts Jorge M. Seminario, Cecilia E. De La Cruz, and Pedro A. Derosa pp 5616–5617 DOI: 10.1021/ja015661q

Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials, 10th Edition. Volumes 1−3 By Richard J. Lewis, Sr. Wiley-Interscience:  New York. 2000. 4770 pp. $545.00. ISBN 0-471-35407-4 p 5618 DOI: 10.1021/ja015211y

Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy. Volume 41 Edited by G. A. Webb (University of Surrey). Academic Press:  San Diego, San Francisco, New York, Boston, London, Sydney, Tokyo. 2000. x + 322 pp. $134.95. ISBN 0-12-505341-X Angel C. de Dios p 5618 DOI: 10.1021/ja015213i

Combinatorial Chemistry:  Synthesis, Analysis, Screening Edited by Günther Jung (Univeristät Tübingen). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim and New York. 1999. vii + 601 pp. ISBN 3-527-29869-X Kevin Burgess p 5618 DOI: 10.1021/ja0152198

Issue 24

Self-Assembling, Cystine-Derived, Fused Nanotubes Based on Spirane Architecture:  Design, Synthesis, and Crystal Structure of Cystinospiranes Darshan Ranganathan, Manoj P. Samant, and Isabella L. Karle pp 5619–5624 DOI: 10.1021/ja0101734 Supporting Info

Different Mechanisms of Oxidative Stress and Neurotoxicity for Alzheimer‘s Aβ(1−42) and Aβ(25−35) Sridhar Varadarajan, Jaroslaw Kanski, Marina Aksenova, Christopher Lauderback, and D. Allan Butterfield pp 5625–5631 DOI: 10.1021/ja010452r

A Novel Single-Molecule Study To Determine Protein−Protein Association Constants Glenn C. Ratcliff and Dorothy A. Erie pp 5632–5635 DOI: 10.1021/ja005750n Supporting Info

Construction of Regulated Nanospace around a Porphyrin Core Mutsumi Kimura, Tetsuo Shiba, Megumi Yamazaki, Kenji Hanabusa, Hirofusa Shirai, and Nagao Kobayashi pp 5636–5642 DOI: 10.1021/ja004312d

Binding Site Elucidation of Hydantoin-Based Antagonists of LFA-1 Using Multidisciplinary Technologies:  Evidence for the Allosteric Inhibition of a Protein−Protein Interaction Kathleen Last-Barney, Walter Davidson, Mario Cardozo, Leah L. Frye, Christine A. Grygon, Jerry L. Hopkins, Deborah D. Jeanfavre, Susan Pav, Chungeng Qian, James M. Stevenson, Liang Tong, Renee Zindell, and Terence A. Kelly pp 5643–5650 DOI: 10.1021/ja0104249

Synthesis, Aggregation, and Adsorption Phenomena of Shape-Persistent Macrocycles with Extraannular Polyalkyl Substituents Sigurd Höger, Klaus Bonrad, Ahmed Mourran, Uwe Beginn, and Martin Möller pp 5651–5659 DOI: 10.1021/ja003990x Supporting Info

Helix Unfolding in Unsolvated Peptides Brian S. Kinnear, Matthew R. Hartings, and Martin F. Jarrold pp 5660–5667 DOI: 10.1021/ja004196e

High-Resolution Structure and Conformational Dynamics of Rigid, Cofacially Aligned Porphyrin−Bridge−Quinone Systems As Determined by NMR Spectroscopy and ab Initio Simulated Annealing Calculations Peter M. Iovine, Gianluigi Veglia, George Furst, and Michael J. Therien pp 5668–5679 DOI: 10.1021/ja010023t Supporting Info

A Quantum Chemical Survey of Metalloporphyrin−Nitrosyl Linkage Isomers:  Insights into the Observation of Multiple FeNO Conformations in a Recent Crystallographic Determination of Nitrophorin 4 Tebikie Wondimagegn and Abhik Ghosh pp 5680–5683 DOI: 10.1021/ja004314y Supporting Info

Solvent Effects on Charge Transfer Bands of Nitrogen-Centered Intervalence Compounds Stephen F. Nelsen, Dwight A. Trieber II, Rustem F. Ismagilov, and Yoshio Teki pp 5684–5694 DOI: 10.1021/ja003436n Supporting Info

Selective Intercalation of Charge Neutral Intercalators into GG and CG Steps:  Implication of HOMO-LUMO Interaction for Sequence-Selective Drug Intercalation into DNA Kazuhiko Nakatani, Takahiro Matsuno, Kaoru Adachi, Shinya Hagihara, and Isao Saito pp 5695–5702 DOI: 10.1021/ja003956i Supporting Info

Enhanced Cage Effects in Supercritical Fluid Solvents. The Behavior of Diffusive and Geminate Caged-Pairs in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide James M. Tanko and Ryszard Pacut pp 5703–5709 DOI: 10.1021/ja002800f

Dual-Mode EPR Study of Mn(III) Salen and the Mn(III) Salen-Catalyzed Epoxidation of cis-β-Methylstyrene Kristy A. Campbell, Matthew R. Lashley, Justin K. Wyatt, Michael H. Nantz, and R. David Britt pp 5710–5719 DOI: 10.1021/ja0027463

Direct Evidence for a Geometrically Constrained “Entatic State” Effect on Copper(II/I) Electron-Transfer Kinetics As Manifested in Metastable Intermediates Qiuyue Yu, Cynthia A. Salhi, Edna A. Ambundo, Mary Jane Heeg, L. A. Ochrymowycz, and D. B. Rorabacher pp 5720–5729 DOI: 10.1021/ja002995r Supporting Info

Getting a Library of Activities from a Single Compound:  Tunability and Very Large Shifts in Acidity Constants Induced by Sol−Gel Entrapped Micelles Claudio Rottman and David Avnir pp 5730–5734 DOI: 10.1021/ja004230p

Novel Microporous Europium and Terbium Silicates Duarte Ananias, Artur Ferreira, João Rocha, Paula Ferreira, José P. Rainho, Cláudia Morais, and Luís D. Carlos pp 5735–5742 DOI: 10.1021/ja010244z Supporting Info

Synthesis of “Solid Solution” and “Core-Shell” Type Cobalt−Platinum Magnetic Nanoparticles via Transmetalation Reactions Jong-Il Park and Jinwoo Cheon pp 5743–5746 DOI: 10.1021/ja0156340 Supporting Info

Improved Resolution in Proton NMR Spectroscopy of Powdered Solids Anne Lesage, Luminita Duma, Dimitris Sakellariou, and Lyndon Emsley pp 5747–5752 DOI: 10.1021/ja0039740

Trajectory Studies of SN2 Nucleophilic Substitution. 8. Central Barrier Dynamics for Gas Phase Cl- + CH3Cl Lipeng Sun, William L. Hase, and Kihyung Song pp 5753–5756 DOI: 10.1021/ja004077z

A Quantitative Description of the Ground-State Wave Function of CuA by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy:  Comparison to Plastocyanin and Relevance to Electron Transfer Serena DeBeer George, Markus Metz, Robert K. Szilagyi, Hongxin Wang, Stephen P. Cramer, Yi Lu, William B. Tolman, Britt Hedman, Keith O. Hodgson, and Edward I. Solomon pp 5757–5767 DOI: 10.1021/ja004109i Supporting Info

Rubbing-Induced Molecular Reorientation on an Alignment Surface of an Aromatic Polyimide Containing Cyanobiphenyl Side Chains Jason J. Ge, Christopher Y. Li, Gi Xue, Ian K. Mann, Dong Zhang, Shyh-Yeu Wang, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Seok-Cheol Hong, Xiaowei Zhuang, and Y. R. Shen pp 5768–5776 DOI: 10.1021/ja0042682 Supporting Info

A Theoretical Study on the Mechanism and Diastereoselectivity of the Kulinkovich Hydroxycyclopropanation Reaction Yun-Dong Wu and Zhi-Xiang Yu pp 5777–5786 DOI: 10.1021/ja010114q Supporting Info

Inversion versus Retention of Configuration for Nucleophilic Substitution at Vinylic Carbon Robert D. Bach, Anwar G. Baboul, and H. Bernhard Schlegel pp 5787–5793 DOI: 10.1021/ja010234y Supporting Info

Matrix Photochemistry of syn-(Chlorocarbonyl)sulfenyl Bromide, syn-ClC(O)SBr:  Precursor to the Novel Species anti-ClC(O)SBr, syn-BrC(O)SCl, and BrSCl Rosana M. Romano, Carlos O. Della Védova, Anthony J. Downs, and Tim M. Greene pp 5794–5801 DOI: 10.1021/ja010252f Supporting Info

The “Wired” Laccase Cathode:  High Current Density Electroreduction of O2 to Water at +0.7 V (NHE) at pH 5 Scott Calabrese Barton, Hyug-Han Kim, Gary Binyamin, Yongchao Zhang, and Adam Heller pp 5802–5803 DOI: 10.1021/ja010408b

Uracil Radicals in the Gas Phase:  Specific Generation and Energetics Jill K. Wolken, Erik A. Syrstad, Shetty Vivekananda, and František Tureek pp 5804–5805 DOI: 10.1021/ja010538k

Determining Stoichiometry in Homomultimeric Nucleic Acid Complexes Using Magnetic Field Induced Residual Dipolar Couplings Hashim M. Al-Hashimi, Joel R. Tolman, Ananya Majumdar, Andrey Gorin, and Dinshaw J. Patel pp 5806–5807 DOI: 10.1021/ja0105865 Supporting Info

tert-Butoxyl as a Model for Radicals in Biological Systems:  Caveat Emptor J. M. Tanko, Robert Friedline, N. Kamrudin Suleman, and Neal Castagnoli, Jr. pp 5808–5809 DOI: 10.1021/ja005730l

Highly Substituted ter-Cyclopentanes as Receptors for Lipid A Robert D. Hubbard, Scott R. Horner, and Benjamin L. Miller pp 5810–5811 DOI: 10.1021/ja003712y Supporting Info

The Binuclear Iridium(II) Hydride Complex [(C5Me5)Ir(μ-H)]2:  A Novel Base for Reversible Deprotonation of Acidic Organic Compounds and a Unique Catalyst for C−C Bond Cleavage of Aromatic 1,2-Diols and Michael Additions Zhaomin Hou, Take-aki Koizumi, Akira Fujita, Hiroshi Yamazaki, and Yasuo Wakatsuki pp 5812–5813 DOI: 10.1021/ja010186h Supporting Info

Generation and Reaction of Metal-Containing Carbonyl Ylides:  Tandem [3+2]-Cycloaddition−Carbene Insertion Leading to Novel Polycyclic Compounds Nobuharu Iwasawa, Masahide Shido, and Hiroyuki Kusama pp 5814–5815 DOI: 10.1021/ja010478i Supporting Info

C−C Bond-Forming Reductive Elimination of Ketones, Esters, and Amides from Isolated Arylpalladium(II) Enolates Darcy A. Culkin and John F. Hartwig pp 5816–5817 DOI: 10.1021/ja015732l Supporting Info

Novel Bis(oxazoline) Pincer Ligands:  Formation of Mononuclear Rhodium(II) Complexes Michael Gerisch, Jennifer R. Krumper, Robert G. Bergman, and T. Don Tilley pp 5818–5819 DOI: 10.1021/ja005857a Supporting Info

The Theoretical Transition State Structure of a Model Complex Bears a Striking Resemblance to the Active Site Structure of DMSO Reductase Charles Edwin Webster and Michael B. Hall pp 5820–5821 DOI: 10.1021/ja0156486

Remarkably Broad Substrate Tolerance of Malonyl-CoA Synthetase, an Enzyme Capable of Intracellular Synthesis of Polyketide Precursors Nicola L. Pohl, Marcus Hans, Hwan Young Lee, Yu Sam Kim, David E. Cane, and Chaitan Khosla pp 5822–5823 DOI: 10.1021/ja0028368

The Lesser “Burden Borne” by o-Succinylbenzoate Synthase:  An “Easy” Reaction Involving a Carboxylate Carbon Acid Erika A. Taylor, David R. J. Palmer, and John A. Gerlt pp 5824–5825 DOI: 10.1021/ja010882h

Direct Synthesis of β-Mannans. A Hexameric [→3)-β-d-Man-(1→4)-β-d-Man-(1]3 Subunit of the Antigenic Polysaccharides from Leptospira biflexa and the Octameric (1→2)-Linked β-d-Mannan of the Candida albicans Phospholipomannan. X-ray Crystal Structure of a Protected Tetramer David Crich, Hongmei Li, Qingjia Yao, Donald J. Wink, Roger D. Sommer, and Arnold L. Rheingold pp 5826–5828 DOI: 10.1021/ja015985e Supporting Info

Attachment of Gold Nanoparticles to Glassy Carbon Electrodes via a Mercaptobenzene Film Jennifer A. Harnisch, Andrew D. Pris, and Marc D. Porter pp 5829–5830 DOI: 10.1021/ja010564i

A Polymeric Chain in Which μ2,η2:η2-Ethene Symmetrically Bridges Tetra(trifluoroacetato) Dirhodium Molecules F. Albert Cotton, Evgeny V. Dikarev, Marina A. Petrukhina, and Robert E. Taylor pp 5831–5832 DOI: 10.1021/ja0160750 Supporting Info

Charge and Spin Ordering in Monoclinic Nb12O29 J. E. L. Waldron, M. A. Green, and D. A. Neumann pp 5833–5834 DOI: 10.1021/ja015506b Supporting Info

Interactions of Anionic Carboranylated Porphyrins with DNA Rosaria Lauceri, Roberto Purrello, Shankar J. Shetty, and M. Graça H. Vicente pp 5835–5836 DOI: 10.1021/ja015581m

Exceptionally Low-Temperature Carbon−Hydrogen/Carbon−Deuterium Exchange Reactions of Organic and Organometallic Compounds Catalyzed by the Cp*(PMe3)IrH(ClCH2Cl)+ Cation Jeffery T. Golden, Richard A. Andersen, and Robert G. Bergman pp 5837–5838 DOI: 10.1021/ja0155480 Supporting Info

Relativistic DFT Calculations of the Paramagnetic Intermediates of [NiFe] Hydrogenase. Implications for the Enzymatic Mechanism Matthias Stein, Erik van Lenthe, Evert Jan Baerends, and Wolfgang Lubitz pp 5839–5840 DOI: 10.1021/ja005808y Supporting Info

Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of Prostaglandin E1 Methyl Ester Using a Tandem 1,4-Addition-Aldol Reaction to a Cyclopenten-3,5-dione Monoacetal Leggy A. Arnold, Robert Naasz, Adriaan J. Minnaard, and Ben L. Feringa pp 5841–5842 DOI: 10.1021/ja015900+ Supporting Info

The First Catalytic Asymmetric Aza-Henry Reaction of Nitronates with Imines:  A Novel Approach to Optically Active β-Nitro-α-Amino Acid- and α,β-Diamino Acid Derivatives Kristian Rahbek Knudsen, Tine Risgaard, Nagatoshi Nishiwaki, Kurt V. Gothelf, and Karl Anker Jørgensen pp 5843–5844 DOI: 10.1021/ja010588p Supporting Info

Mechanism of Hydrogen Sorption in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Hansong Cheng, Guido P. Pez, and Alan C. Cooper pp 5845–5846 DOI: 10.1021/ja0155231 Supporting Info

Selective Recognition of an Alkali Halide Contact Ion-Pair Joseph M. Mahoney, Alicia M. Beatty, and Bradley D. Smith pp 5847–5848 DOI: 10.1021/ja0156082 Supporting Info

C-H···X−R (X = Cl, Br, and I) Hydrogen Bonds Drive the Complexation Properties of a Nanoscale Molecular Basket Corinne L. D. Gibb, Edwin D. Stevens, and Bruce C. Gibb pp 5849–5850 DOI: 10.1021/ja005931p Supporting Info

Attenuating and Supplanting Nonclassical Stabilization:  Cr(CO)3-Complexed Benzonorbornenyl Cations   [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 7136−7137]. Dean J. Tantillo, Bruce N. Hietbrink, Craig A. Merlic, and K. N. Houk p 5851 DOI: 10.1021/ja015153g

Stereochemical Control of Hairpin Formation in β-Peptides Containing Dinipecotic Acid Reverse Turn Segments  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 3995−4004]. Young Jun Chung, Bayard R. Huck, Laurie A. Christianson, Heather E. Stanger, Susanne Krauthäuser, Douglas R. Powell, and Samuel H. Gellman p 5851 DOI: 10.1021/ja0151549

Supramolecular Polymers Edited by Alberto Ciferri (University of Genoa, Italy). Dekker:  New York. 2000. x + 688 pp. $195.00. ISBN 0-8247-0252-2 Charles N. Moorefield pp 5851–5852 DOI: 10.1021/ja004829p

Chiral Catalyst Immobilization and Recycling Edited by D. E. De Vos, I. F. J. Vankelecom, and P. A. Jacobs (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2000. xx + 320 pp. $125.00. ISBN 3-527-29952-I. R. Bruce King p 5852 DOI: 10.1021/ja0152153

Bioorganic Chemistry:  Highlights and New Aspects Edited by U. Diederichsen (TU München), T. K. Lindhorst (Universität Hamburg), B. Westermann (Universität -GH Paderborn), L. A. Wessjohann (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 1999. xxviii + 440 pp. $79.95. ISBN:  3-527-29665-4 p 5852 DOI: 10.1021/ja0152409

Capillary Electrophoresis of Nucleic Acids. Volume 1. Introduction to the Capillary Electrophoresis of Nucleic Acids. Methods in Molecular Biology 162 Edited by Keith R. Mitchelson (University of Queensland, Brisbane, and Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Parkville, Australia) and Jing Cheng (Tsinghua University, Beijing, and Aviva Biosciences Corp., San Diego). Humana Press:  Totowa, NJ. xx + 484 pp. $125.00. ISBN 0-89603-779-7 p 5852 DOI: 10.1021/ja0152411

Issue 25

Cryoreduction of Methyl-Coenzyme M Reductase:  EPR Characterization of Forms, MCRox1 and MCRred1 Joshua Telser, Roman Davydov, Yih-Chern Horng, Stephen W. Ragsdale, and Brian M. Hoffman pp 5853–5860 DOI: 10.1021/ja010428d Supporting Info

Bicarbonate as a Proton Donor in Catalysis by Zn(II)- and Co(II)-Containing Carbonic Anhydrases Chingkuang Tu, Brian C. Tripp, James G. Ferry, and David N. Silverman pp 5861–5866 DOI: 10.1021/ja010301o

Guanine Oxidation: NMR Characterization of a Dehydro-guanidinohydantoin Residue Generated by a 2e-oxidation of d(GpT) Arkadiusz Chworos, Yannick Coppel, Igor Dubey, Geneviève Pratviel, and Bernard Meunier pp 5867–5877 DOI: 10.1021/ja003945p Supporting Info

A Simple, High-Resolution Method for Establishing DNA Binding Affinity and Sequence Selectivity Dale L. Boger, Brian E. Fink, Steven R. Brunette, Winston C. Tse, and Michael P. Hedrick pp 5878–5891 DOI: 10.1021/ja010041a Supporting Info

Synthesis of ent-Alantrypinone David J. Hart and Nabi A. Magomedov pp 5892–5899 DOI: 10.1021/ja010066+ Supporting Info

Proton Transfer Reactions of Methylanthracene Radical Cations with Pyridine Bases under Non-Steady-State Conditions. Real Kinetic Isotope Effect Evidence for Extensive Tunneling Yun Lu, Yixing Zhao, and Vernon D. Parker pp 5900–5907 DOI: 10.1021/ja010271p

Fast and Convenient Divergent Synthesis of Aliphatic Ester Dendrimers by Anhydride Coupling Henrik Ihre, Omayra L. Padilla De Jesús, and Jean M. J. Fréchet pp 5908–5917 DOI: 10.1021/ja010524e

Applications of Vinylogous Mannich Reactions. Total Syntheses of the Ergot Alkaloids Rugulovasines A and B and Setoclavine Spiros Liras, Christopher L. Lynch, Andrew M. Fryer, Binh T. Vu, and Stephen F. Martin pp 5918–5924 DOI: 10.1021/ja010577w Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of (−)-Cylindrocyclophanes A and F Exploiting the Reversible Nature of the Olefin Cross Metathesis Reaction Amos B. Smith, III, Christopher M. Adams, Sergey A. Kozmin, and Daniel V. Paone pp 5925–5937 DOI: 10.1021/ja0106164 Supporting Info

Hydrogen Bond Breaking Dynamics of the Water Trimer in the Translational and Librational Band Region of Liquid Water Frank N. Keutsch, Ray S. Fellers, Mac G. Brown, Mark R. Viant, Poul B. Petersen, and Richard J. Saykally pp 5938–5941 DOI: 10.1021/ja003683r

A Nanometer-Sized High-Spin Polyradical:  Poly(4-phenoxyl-1,2-phenylenevinylene) Planarily Extended in a Non-Kekulé Fashion and Its Magnetic Force Microscopic Images Hiroyuki Nishide, Takahiro Ozawa, Makoto Miyasaka, and Eishun Tsuchida pp 5942–5946 DOI: 10.1021/ja002944u Supporting Info

Internucleobase-Interaction-Directed Self-Assembly of Nanofibers from Homo- and Heteroditopic 1,ω-Nucleobase Bolaamphiphiles Toshimi Shimizu, Rika Iwaura, Mitsutoshi Masuda, Takeshi Hanada, and Kiyoshi Yase pp 5947–5955 DOI: 10.1021/ja010201i Supporting Info

Reactivity at the Interface of Chiral Amphiphilic Dendrimers. High Asymmetric Reduction by NaBH4 of Various Prochiral Ketones A. R. Schmitzer, S. Franceschi, E. Perez, I. Rico-Lattes, A. Lattes, L. Thion, M. Erard, and C. Vidal pp 5956–5961 DOI: 10.1021/ja000378x

Chiral Recognition by CD-Sensitive Dimeric Zinc Porphyrin Host. 1. Chiroptical Protocol for Absolute Configurational Assignments of Monoalcohols and Primary Monoamines Tibor Kurtán, Nasri Nesnas, Yuan-Qiang Li, Xuefei Huang, Koji Nakanishi, and Nina Berova pp 5962–5973 DOI: 10.1021/ja010249w Supporting Info

Chiral Recognition by CD-Sensitive Dimeric Zinc Porphyrin Host. 2. Structural Studies of Host−Guest Complexes with Chiral Alcohol and Monoamine Conjugates Tibor Kurtán, Nasri Nesnas, Frank E. Koehn, Yuan-Qiang Li, Koji Nakanishi, and Nina Berova pp 5974–5982 DOI: 10.1021/ja010250v Supporting Info

Stiff, and Sticky in the Right Places:  The Dramatic Influence of Preorganizing Guest Binding Sites on the Hydrogen Bond-Directed Assembly of Rotaxanes Francesco G. Gatti, David A. Leigh, Sergey A. Nepogodiev, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, Simon J. Teat, and Jenny K. Y. Wong pp 5983–5989 DOI: 10.1021/ja001697r Supporting Info

Heck Reaction Catalyzed by Pd-Modified Zeolites Laurent Djakovitch and Klaus Koehler pp 5990–5999 DOI: 10.1021/ja001087r Supporting Info

Equilibria between α- and β-Agostic Stabilized Rotamers of Secondary Alkyl Niobium Complexes Joëlle Jaffart, Michel Etienne, Feliu Maseras, John E. McGrady, and Odile Eisenstein pp 6000–6013 DOI: 10.1021/ja0038169 Supporting Info

Issues of Microscopic Reversibility and an Isomeric Intermediate in Ligand Substitution Reactions of Five-Coordinate Oxorhenium(V) Dithiolate Complexes David W. Lahti and James H. Espenson pp 6014–6024 DOI: 10.1021/ja004145h Supporting Info

Phenylthiyl Radical Complexes of Gallium(III), Iron(III), and Cobalt(III) and Comparison with Their Phenoxyl Analogues Shuji Kimura, Eckhard Bill, Eberhard Bothe, Thomas Weyhermüller, and Karl Wieghardt pp 6025–6039 DOI: 10.1021/ja004305p Supporting Info

Artificial Cytochrome b:  Computer Modeling and Evaluation of Redox Potentials Dragan M. Popović, Snežana D. Zarić, Björn Rabenstein, and Ernst-Walter Knapp pp 6040–6053 DOI: 10.1021/ja003878z Supporting Info

α- and 310-Helix Interconversion:  A Quantum-Chemical Study on Polyalanine Systems in the Gas Phase and in Aqueous Solvent Igor A. Topol, Stanley K. Burt, Eugen Deretey, Ting-Hua Tang, Andras Perczel, Alexander Rashin, and Imre G. Csizmadia pp 6054–6060 DOI: 10.1021/ja0038934

Carbomethoxychlorocarbene:  Spectroscopy, Theory, Chemistry and Kinetics Igor Likhotvorik, Zhendong Zhu, Eunju Lee Tae, Eric Tippmann, Brian T. Hill, and Matthew S. Platz pp 6061–6068 DOI: 10.1021/ja004235m Supporting Info

Singlet−Triplet Splittings and Barriers to Wolff Rearrangement for Carbonyl Carbenes Anthony P. Scott, Matthew S. Platz, and Leo Radom* pp 6069–6076 DOI: 10.1021/ja004236e Supporting Info

Troposelective Substitutions in Microsolvated Systems A. Filippi and M. Speranza pp 6077–6082 DOI: 10.1021/ja004265p

Polyelectrolyte Multilayers Prepared from Water-Soluble Poly(alkoxythiophene) Derivatives Jukka Lukkari, Mikko Salomäki, Antti Viinikanoja, Timo Ääritalo, Janika Paukkunen, Natalia Kocharova, and Jouko Kankare pp 6083–6091 DOI: 10.1021/ja0043486 Supporting Info

Solvent Effects on Methyl Transfer Reactions. 2. The Reaction of Amines with Trimethylsulfonium Salts Henry Castejon, Kenneth B. Wiberg, Stepan Sklenak, and Wolfgang Hinz pp 6092–6097 DOI: 10.1021/ja0042940 Supporting Info

Model-Free Approach to the Dynamic Interpretation of Residual Dipolar Couplings in Globular Proteins Jens Meiler, Jeanine J. Prompers, Wolfgang Peti, Christian Griesinger, and Rafael Brüschweiler pp 6098–6107 DOI: 10.1021/ja010002z Supporting Info

Group Epitope Mapping by Saturation Transfer Difference NMR To Identify Segments of a Ligand in Direct Contact with a Protein Receptor Moriz Mayer and Bernd Meyer pp 6108–6117 DOI: 10.1021/ja0100120

Solid-State 13C NMR Chemical Shift Anisotropy Tensors of Polypeptides Yufeng Wei, Dong-Kuk Lee, and A. Ramamoorthy pp 6118–6126 DOI: 10.1021/ja010145l

The Ozonolysis of AcetyleneA Quantum Chemical Investigation Dieter Cremer, Ramon Crehuet, and Josep Anglada pp 6127–6141 DOI: 10.1021/ja010166f Supporting Info

The Anomalous Infrared Amide I Intensity Distribution in 13C Isotopically Labeled Peptide β-Sheets Comes from Extended, Multiple-Stranded Structures. An ab Initio Study Jan Kubelka and Timothy A. Keiderling pp 6142–6150 DOI: 10.1021/ja010270x

Hypoiodous Acid as Guest Molecule in Protonated Water Clusters:  A Combined FT-ICR/DFT Study of I(H2O)n+ Uwe Achatz, Brigitte S. Fox, Martin K. Beyer, and Vladimir E. Bondybey pp 6151–6156 DOI: 10.1021/ja010381w Supporting Info

Mechanism of Olefin Cyclopropanation by Diazomethane Catalyzed by Palladium Dicarboxylates. A Density Functional Study Cristóbal Rodríguez-García, Antonio Oliva, Rosa M. Ortuño, and Vicenç Branchadell pp 6157–6163 DOI: 10.1021/ja015676o Supporting Info

Comparison of Methyl Rotation Axis Order Parameters Derived from Model-Free Analyses of 2H and 13C Longitudinal and Transverse Relaxation Rates Measured in the Same Protein Sample Rieko Ishima, Aneta P. Petkova, John M. Louis, and Dennis A. Torchia pp 6164–6171 DOI: 10.1021/ja0104711 Supporting Info

Identification of Defect Sites on MgO(100) Thin Films by Decoration with Pd Atoms and Studying CO Adsorption Properties Stéphane Abbet, Elisa Riedo, Harald Brune, Ulrich Heiz, Anna Maria Ferrari, Livia Giordano, and Gianfranco Pacchioni pp 6172–6178 DOI: 10.1021/ja0157651

First Oxadiazole-Functionalized Terbium(III) β-Diketonate for Organic Electroluminescence Jiafu Wang, Ruiyao Wang, Jun Yang, Zhiping Zheng, Michael D. Carducci, Troy Cayou, Nasser Peyghambarian, and Ghassan E. Jabbour pp 6179–6180 DOI: 10.1021/ja004113u Supporting Info

Generation of Homogeneous (sp3-C1)-Bridged Cp/Amido and Cp/Phosphido Group 4 Metal Ziegler−Natta Catalyst Systems Klaus Kunz, Gerhard Erker, Steve Döring, Roland Fröhlich, and Gerald Kehr pp 6181–6182 DOI: 10.1021/ja0029634 Supporting Info

Dioxygen Reactivity of Mononuclear Heme and Copper Components Yielding A High-Spin Heme−Peroxo−Cu Complex Reza A. Ghiladi, Karen R. Hatwell, Kenneth D. Karlin, Hong-wei Huang, Pierre Moënne-Loccoz, Carsten Krebs, Boi Hanh Huynh, Lisa A. Marzilli, Robert J. Cotter, Susan Kaderli, and Andreas D. Zuberbühler pp 6183–6184 DOI: 10.1021/ja010602y Supporting Info

Chiral Scaffolds for Enantiocontrolled Synthesis:  Enantio- and Regiocontrolled [4 + 2] Cycloaddition to 3-Alkenyl-η3-Pyranylmolybdenum Complexes Ramón Gómez Arrayás and Lanny S. Liebeskind pp 6185–6186 DOI: 10.1021/ja010612z Supporting Info

Probing the Effect of the Outer Saccharide Residues of N-Linked Glycans on Peptide Conformation Sarah E. O'Connor, Jens Pohlmann, Barbara Imperiali, Iwan Saskiawan, and Kenji Yamamoto pp 6187–6188 DOI: 10.1021/ja010094s Supporting Info

Significant Chemo- and Regioselectivies in the Ru(II)-Catalyzed [2 + 2 + 2] Cycloaddition of 1,6-Diynes with Dicyanides Yoshihiko Yamamoto, Ryuji Ogawa, and Kenji Itoh pp 6189–6190 DOI: 10.1021/ja003890r Supporting Info

Paternò−Büchi Reactions of Allylic Alcohols and Acetates with Aldehydes:  Hydrogen-Bond Interaction in the Excited Singlet and Triplet States? Axel G. Griesbeck and Samir Bondock pp 6191–6192 DOI: 10.1021/ja015656m Supporting Info

High-Pressure Synthesis of Amorphous MgNi1.02H2.2 Jun Chen, Tetsuo Sakai, Naoyuki Kitamura, Hiroyuki T. Takeshita, and Nobuhiro Kuriyama pp 6193–6194 DOI: 10.1021/ja010170r

A Highly Enantioselective Chiral Lewis Base-Catalyzed Asymmetric Cyanation of Ketones Shi-Kai Tian and Li Deng pp 6195–6196 DOI: 10.1021/ja010690m Supporting Info

Dramatic Enhancement of Activities for Living Ziegler−Natta Polymerizations Mediated by “Exposed” Zirconium Acetamidinate Initiators:  The Isospecific Living Polymerization of Vinylcyclohexane Richard J. Keaton, Kumudini C. Jayaratne, David A. Henningsen, Lisa A. Koterwas, and Lawrence R. Sita pp 6197–6198 DOI: 10.1021/ja0057326 Supporting Info

Lewis Base Activation of Lewis Acids:  Catalytic Enantioselective Allylation and Propargylation of Aldehydes Scott E. Denmark and Thomas Wynn pp 6199–6200 DOI: 10.1021/ja016017e Supporting Info

Cyclodextrin-Mediated Soft Cutting of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Jian Chen, Mark J. Dyer, and Min-Feng Yu pp 6201–6202 DOI: 10.1021/ja015766t Supporting Info

C−H Bond Activation of External Substrates with a Bis(μ-oxo)dicopper(III) Complex Masayasu Taki, Shinobu Itoh, and Shunichi Fukuzumi pp 6203–6204 DOI: 10.1021/ja015721s Supporting Info

A Simple Bifunctional Fluoroionophore Signaling Different Metal Ions Either Independently or Cooperatively Knut Rurack, Anton Koval'chuck, Julia L. Bricks, and Juri L. Slominskii pp 6205–6206 DOI: 10.1021/ja015560s Supporting Info

NH Tautomerism of N-Confused Porphyrin Hiroyuki Furuta, Tomoya Ishizuka, Atsuhiro Osuka, Hirohisa Dejima, Hidenori Nakagawa, and Yuichi Ishikawa pp 6207–6208 DOI: 10.1021/ja010237a Supporting Info

Electron-Accepting System of Si−Si Bond in Linear Framework by Combination with Strong Donor Kensuke Naka, Takashi Uemura, and Yoshiki Chujo pp 6209–6210 DOI: 10.1021/ja010441y Supporting Info

Chiral 15-Metallacrown-5 Complexes Differentially Bind Carboxylate Anions Annabel D. Cutland, Jason A. Halfen, Jeff W. Kampf, and Vincent L. Pecoraro pp 6211–6212 DOI: 10.1021/ja015610t Supporting Info

Controlled Multi-Stage Recognition of Guests Using Orthogonal Electro- and Photochemical Inputs Allan Goodman, Eric Breinlinger, Matthias Ober, and Vincent M. Rotello pp 6213–6214 DOI: 10.1021/ja0032475 Supporting Info

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Rational Approaches to the Design of Cationic Gemini Surfactants for Gene Delivery Caroline McGregor, Christele Perrin, Myrna Monck, Patrick Camilleri, and Anthony J. Kirby pp 6215–6220 DOI: 10.1021/ja005681c

Facilitated Phosphatidylcholine Flip-Flop Across Erythrocyte Membranes Using Low Molecular Weight Synthetic Translocases J. Middleton Boon and Bradley D. Smith pp 6221–6226 DOI: 10.1021/ja010160q

Direct Measurement Indicates a Slow Cis/Trans Isomerization at the Secondary Amide Peptide Bond of Glycylglycine Cordelia Schiene-Fischer and Gunter Fischer pp 6227–6231 DOI: 10.1021/ja0042480

The Role of Cation−π Interactions in Biomolecular Association. Design of Peptides Favoring Interactions between Cationic and Aromatic Amino Acid Side Chains Ekaterina V. Pletneva, Alain T. Laederach, D. Bruce Fulton, and Nenad M. Kostić pp 6232–6245 DOI: 10.1021/ja010401u Supporting Info

Calculation of Relative Binding Free Energy Differences for Fructose 1,6-Bisphosphatase Inhibitors Using the Thermodynamic Cycle Perturbation Approach M. Rami Reddy and Mark D. Erion pp 6246–6252 DOI: 10.1021/ja0103288 Supporting Info

Computing Handedness:  Quantized and Superposed Switch and Dynamic Memory of Helical Polysilylene Michiya Fujiki, Julian R. Koe, Masao Motonaga, Hiroshi Nakashima, Ken Terao, and Akio Teramoto pp 6253–6261 DOI: 10.1021/ja0026509 Supporting Info

An Enthalpic Component in Cooperativity:  The Relationship between Enthalpy, Entropy, and Noncovalent Structure in Weak Associations Christopher T. Calderone and Dudley H. Williams pp 6262–6267 DOI: 10.1021/ja003016y

Synthesis of Nitrogen Analogues of Salacinol and Their Evaluation as Glycosidase Inhibitors Ahmad Ghavami, Blair D. Johnston, Morten T. Jensen, Birte Svensson, and B. Mario Pinto pp 6268–6271 DOI: 10.1021/ja0103750

The Elusive 16-Electron Cp*M(NO)Me2 (M = Mo, W) Complexes and Their Spontaneous Conversions to Cp*M(NMe)(O)Me Isomers W. Brett Sharp, P. James Daff, W. Stephen McNeil, and Peter Legzdins pp 6272–6282 DOI: 10.1021/ja002856+ Supporting Info

Surface Recognition of a Protein Using Designed Transition Metal Complexes Md. Abul Fazal, Bidhan C. Roy, Shuguang Sun, Sanku Mallik, and Kenton R. Rodgers pp 6283–6290 DOI: 10.1021/ja003193z Supporting Info

Highly Luminescent Cu(I)−Phenanthroline Complexes in Rigid Matrix and Temperature Dependence of the Photophysical Properties Delphine Felder, Jean-François Nierengarten, Francesco Barigelletti, Barbara Ventura, and Nicola Armaroli pp 6291–6299 DOI: 10.1021/ja0043439

Effects of Systematic Methyl Substitution of Metal (III) Tris(n-Methyl-8-Quinolinolato) Chelates on Material Properties for Optimum Electroluminescence Device Performance Linda S. Sapochak, Asanga Padmaperuma, Nancy Washton, Flocerfida Endrino, Gregory T. Schmett, Jeffrey Marshall, Daniel Fogarty, Paul E. Burrows, and Stephen R. Forrest pp 6300–6307 DOI: 10.1021/ja010120m

Polynitrogen Chemistry. Synthesis, Characterization, and Crystal Structure of Surprisingly Stable Fluoroantimonate Salts of N5+ Ashwani Vij, William W. Wilson, Vandana Vij, Fook S. Tham, Jeffrey A. Sheehy, and Karl O. Christe* pp 6308–6313 DOI: 10.1021/ja010141g Supporting Info

Unexpected Nitrosyl-Group Bending in Six-Coordinate {M(NO)}6 σ-Bonded Aryl(iron) and -(ruthenium) Porphyrins George B. Richter-Addo, Ralph A. Wheeler, Christopher Adam Hixson, Li Chen, Masood A. Khan, Mary K. Ellison, Charles E. Schulz, and W. Robert Scheidt pp 6314–6326 DOI: 10.1021/ja010276m Supporting Info

Stereospecific Alkane Hydroxylation by Non-Heme Iron Catalysts:  Mechanistic Evidence for an FeVO Active Species Kui Chen and Lawrence Que, Jr. pp 6327–6337 DOI: 10.1021/ja010310x Supporting Info

Crystal Structure of ClF4+SbF6-, Normal Coordinate Analyses of ClF4+, BrF4+, IF4+, SF4, SeF4, and TeF4, and Simple Method for Calculating the Effects of Fluorine Bridging on the Structure and Vibrational Spectra of Ions in a Strongly Interacting Ionic Solid Karl O. Christe, Xiongzhi Zhang, Jeffrey A. Sheehy, and Robert Bau pp 6338–6348 DOI: 10.1021/ja003347a Supporting Info

In Situ X-ray Observation of Pedal-like Conformational Change and Dimerization of trans-Cinnamamide in Cocrystals with Phthalic Acid Shigeru Ohba, Hiroyuki Hosomi, and Yoshikatsu Ito pp 6349–6352 DOI: 10.1021/ja0034287 Supporting Info

Acidity Trends in α,β-Unsaturated Alkanes, Silanes, Germanes, and Stannanes Jean-François Gal, Michèle Decouzon, Pierre-Charles Maria, Ana I. González, Otilia Mó, Manuel Yáñez, Saloua El Chaouch, and Jean-Claude Guillemin pp 6353–6359 DOI: 10.1021/ja004079j Supporting Info

17O Multiple-Quantum MAS NMR Study of High-Pressure Hydrous Magnesium Silicates Sharon E. Ashbrook, Andrew J. Berry, and Stephen Wimperis pp 6360–6366 DOI: 10.1021/ja004290v

Direct Determination of the Permanent Dipole Moments and Structures of Al−CH3CN and Al−NH3 by Using a 2-m Electrostatic Hexapole Field Kohei Imura, Takahiro Kawashima, Hiroshi Ohoyama, and Toshio Kasai pp 6367–6371 DOI: 10.1021/ja010055g

Ruthenium(II)-Catalyzed Isomer-Selective Cyclization of 1,6-Dienes Leading to exo-Methylenecyclopentanes:  Unprecedented Cycloisomerization Mechanism Involving Ruthenacyclopentane(hydrido) Intermediate Yoshihiko Yamamoto, Yu-ichiro Nakagai, Naoki Ohkoshi, and Kenji Itoh pp 6372–6380 DOI: 10.1021/ja010134s

Effects of Molecular Structure on the Stability of a Thermotropic Liquid Crystal. Gas Electron Diffraction Study of the Molecular Structure of Phenyl Benzoate Takemasa Tsuji, Hiroshi Takeuchi, Toru Egawa, and Shigehiro Konaka pp 6381–6387 DOI: 10.1021/ja010192d Supporting Info

Chemistry on Surface-Confined Molecules:  An Approach to Anchor Isolated Functional Units to Surfaces Arianna Friggeri, Henk-Jan van Manen, Tommaso Auletta, Xue-Mei Li, Szczepan Zapotoczny, Holger Schönherr, G. Julius Vancso, Jurriaan Huskens, Frank C. J. M. van Veggel, and David N. Reinhoudt pp 6388–6395 DOI: 10.1021/ja010257c Supporting Info

Origin of Diastereofacial Selectivity in Tertiary 2-Adamantyl Cations Antonello Filippi, Neil A. Trout, Patrick Brunelle, William Adcock, Ted S. Sorensen, and Maurizio Speranza pp 6396–6403 DOI: 10.1021/ja010352l Supporting Info

Mechanism of Activation of an Immunosuppressive Drug:  Azathioprine. Quantum Chemical Study on the Reaction of Azathioprine with Cysteine Marcin Hoffmann, Jacek Rychlewski, Maria Chrzanowska, and Tadeusz Hermann pp 6404–6409 DOI: 10.1021/ja010378c

Monooxygenation Mechanism by Cytochrome P-450 Masayuki Hata, Yoshinori Hirano, Tyuji Hoshino, and Minoru Tsuda pp 6410–6416 DOI: 10.1021/ja000908p

Water-Soluble Conjugated Oligomers:  Effect of Chain Length and Aggregation on Photoluminescence-Quenching Efficiencies Brent S. Gaylord, Shujun Wang, Alan J. Heeger, and Guillermo C. Bazan pp 6417–6418 DOI: 10.1021/ja010373f Supporting Info

Deoxygenations of (silox)3WNO and R3PO by (silox)3M (M = V, Ta) and (silox)3NbL (silox = tBu3SiO):  Consequences of Electronic Effects Adam S. Veige, Lee M. Slaughter, Peter T. Wolczanski, Nikita Matsunaga, Stephen A. Decker, and Thomas R. Cundari pp 6419–6420 DOI: 10.1021/ja004329w Supporting Info

1,3,5-Tricyano-2,4,6-tris(vinyl)benzene Derivatives with Large Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties Bong Rae Cho, Soon Bong Park, Seung Jae Lee, Kyung Hwa Son, Sang Hae Lee, Myung-Ja Lee, Jun Yoo, Yun Kyong Lee, Geon Joon Lee, Tae Im Kang, Minhaeng Cho, and Seung-Joon Jeon pp 6421–6422 DOI: 10.1021/ja0025595 Supporting Info

A Stable Five-Coordinate Platinum(IV) Alkyl Complex Ulrich Fekl, Werner Kaminsky, and Karen I. Goldberg pp 6423–6424 DOI: 10.1021/ja0156690 Supporting Info

Five-Coordinate Trispyrazolylborate Dihydridosilyl Platinum(IV) Complexes Stefan Reinartz, Peter S. White, Maurice Brookhart, and Joseph L. Templeton pp 6425–6426 DOI: 10.1021/ja0104047 Supporting Info

Structural Studies of Sc Metallofullerenes by High-resolution Ion Mobility Measurements Toshiki Sugai, Masayasu Inakuma, Robert Hudgins, Philippe Dugourd, James L. Fye, Martin F. Jarrold, and Hisanori Shinohara pp 6427–6428 DOI: 10.1021/ja0039031 Supporting Info

Selective C−C Bond Activation of Methyl Pyruvate on Ni(111) to Yield Surface Methoxycarbonyl M. Castonguay, J.-R. Roy, S. Lavoie, A. Adnot, and P. H. McBreen pp 6429–6430 DOI: 10.1021/ja003719f Supporting Info

One-Electron Reduction of an Antiferromagnetically Coupled Triradical Yields a Mixed-Valent Biradical with Enhanced Ferromagnetic Coupling David A. Shultz and R. Krishna Kumar pp 6431–6432 DOI: 10.1021/ja010630g Supporting Info

A General Strategy for Absolute Stereochemical Control in Enone−Olefin [2 + 2] Photocycloaddition Reactions Chuanfeng Chen, Virginia Chang, Xiaolu Cai, Eileen Duesler, and Patrick S. Mariano pp 6433–6434 DOI: 10.1021/ja010883+ Supporting Info

Oxyindolophyrin:  A Novel Fluoride Receptor Derived from N-Confused Corrole Isomer Hiroyuki Furuta, Hiromitsu Maeda, and Atsuhiro Osuka pp 6435–6436 DOI: 10.1021/ja015892x Supporting Info

Redirection of Oxidation Reactions by a Polyoxomolybdate:  Oxydehydrogenation Instead of Oxygenation of Alkanes with tert-Butylhydroperoxide in Acetic Acid Alexander M. Khenkin and Ronny Neumann pp 6437–6438 DOI: 10.1021/ja005620e Supporting Info

Fluoride-Free Cross-Coupling of Organosilanols Scott E. Denmark and Ramzi F. Sweis pp 6439–6440 DOI: 10.1021/ja016021q Supporting Info

Stereoselective Synthesis of Isomeric Functionalized 1,3-Dienes from Cyclobutenones Masahiro Murakami,* Yasufumi Miyamoto, and Yoshihiko Ito* pp 6441–6442 DOI: 10.1021/ja010639i Supporting Info

Dimeric Triarylbismuthane Oxide:  A Novel Efficient Oxidant for the Conversion of Alcohols to Carbonyl Compounds Yoshihiro Matano and Hazumi Nomura pp 6443–6444 DOI: 10.1021/ja010584k Supporting Info

Direct Measurement of Enol Ether Radical Cation Reaction Kinetics Martin Newcomb, Neil Miranda, Mousumi Sannigrahi, Xianhia Huang, and David Crich pp 6445–6446 DOI: 10.1021/ja015602c Supporting Info

Excited-State Dynamics of Oligo(p-phenyleneethynylene):  Quadratic Coupling and Torsional Motions Mikhail I. Sluch, Adelheid Godt, Uwe H. F. Bunz, and Mark A. Berg pp 6447–6448 DOI: 10.1021/ja0159012

Mechanistic Studies on Phosphopantothenoylcysteine Decarboxylase Erick Strauss and Tadhg P. Begley pp 6449–6450 DOI: 10.1021/ja016020y Supporting Info

Polar Interactions with Aromatic Side Chains in α-Helical Peptides:  Ch···O H-Bonding and Cation−π Interactions C. Anders Olson, Zhengshuang Shi, and Neville R. Kallenbach pp 6451–6452 DOI: 10.1021/ja015590v

Mellitic Triimides:  C3-Symmetric, Three-Electron Acceptors for Supramolecular Chemistry Kathryn A. McMenimen and Darren G. Hamilton pp 6453–6454 DOI: 10.1021/ja016043c Supporting Info

Steric Stabilization of Homoleptic Bis(π-allyl) Complexes of Chromium(II) and Iron(II) J. Dominic Smith, Timothy P. Hanusa, and Victor G. Young, Jr. pp 6455–6456 DOI: 10.1021/ja015626j Supporting Info

γ-Butyrolactone Synthesis via Catalytic Asymmetric Cyclocarbonylation Sunil K. Mandal, Sk. Rasidul Amin, and William E. Crowe pp 6457–6458 DOI: 10.1021/ja005568m Supporting Info

Molecular Recognition of DNA Intercalators at Nanomolar Concentration in Water Tadashi Mizutani, Kenji Wada, and Susumu Kitagawa pp 6459–6460 DOI: 10.1021/ja015641o Supporting Info

High-Throughput Synthesis of Nanoscale Materials:  Structural Optimization of Functionalized One-Step Star Polymers Anton W. Bosman, Andreas Heumann, Gerrit Klaerner, Didier Benoit, Jean M. J. Fréchet, and Craig J. Hawker pp 6461–6462 DOI: 10.1021/ja010405z Supporting Info

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Assessing the Balance between Protein−Protein Interactions and Enzyme−Substrate Interactions in the Channeling of Intermediates between Polyketide Synthase Modules Nicholas Wu, Stuart Y. Tsuji, David E. Cane, and Chaitan Khosla pp 6465–6474 DOI: 10.1021/ja010219t

A Role for Highly Conserved Carboxylate, Aspartate-140, in Oxygen Activation and Heme Degradation by Heme Oxygenase-1 Hiroshi Fujii, Xuhong Zhang, Takeshi Tomita, Masao Ikeda-Saito, and Tadashi Yoshida pp 6475–6484 DOI: 10.1021/ja010490a Supporting Info

Differential Rates of Reversibility of Ecteinascidin 743−DNA Covalent Adducts from Different Sequences Lead to Migration to Favored Bonding Sites Maha Zewail-Foote and Laurence H. Hurley pp 6485–6495 DOI: 10.1021/ja004023p Supporting Info

Selection of Enantioselective Acyl Transfer Catalysts from a Pooled Peptide Library through a Fluorescence-Based Activity Assay:  An Approach to Kinetic Resolution of Secondary Alcohols of Broad Structural Scope Gregory T. Copeland and Scott J. Miller pp 6496–6502 DOI: 10.1021/ja0108584 Supporting Info

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Rehydration of Folded and Unfolded Cytochrome c Ions in the Vapor Phase Yi Mao, Mark A. Ratner, and Martin F. Jarrold pp 6503–6507 DOI: 10.1021/ja0030717

Importance of Planar Chirality in Chiral Catalysts with Three Chiral Elements:  The Role of Planar Chirality in 2‘-Substituted 1,1‘-P,N-Ferrocene Ligands on the Enantioselectivity in Pd-Catalyzed Allylic Substitution Wei-Ping Deng, Shu-Li You, Xue-Long Hou, Li-Xin Dai, Yi-Hua Yu, Wei Xia, and Jie Sun pp 6508–6519 DOI: 10.1021/ja002657q Supporting Info

Symmetry of N−H−N Hydrogen Bonds in 1,8-Bis(dimethylamino)naphthalene·H+ and 2,7-Dimethoxy-1,8-bis(dimethylamino)naphthalene·H+ Charles L. Perrin and Brian K. Ohta pp 6520–6526 DOI: 10.1021/ja0036965 Supporting Info

The Regioselectivity of Addition of Organolithium Reagents to Enones and Enals:  The Role of HMPA William H. Sikorski and Hans J. Reich pp 6527–6535 DOI: 10.1021/ja010053w Supporting Info

Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes by Electrochemical Reduction of Aryl Diazonium Salts:  A Bucky Paper Electrode Jeffrey L. Bahr, Jiping Yang, Dmitry V. Kosynkin, Michael J. Bronikowski, Richard E. Smalley, and James M. Tour pp 6536–6542 DOI: 10.1021/ja010462s

Mechanism and Activity of Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalysts Melanie S. Sanford, Jennifer A. Love, and Robert H. Grubbs pp 6543–6554 DOI: 10.1021/ja010624k Supporting Info

Intermediate in β-Lactam Hydrolysis Catalyzed by a Dinuclear Zinc(II) Complex:  Relevance to the Mechanism of Metallo-β-lactamase Natalia V. Kaminskaia, Bernhard Spingler, and Stephen J. Lippard pp 6555–6563 DOI: 10.1021/ja002699e Supporting Info

Molecular Structures and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Investigations of Highly Distorted Six-Coordinate Low-Spin Iron(III) Porphyrinate Complexes Hiroshi Ogura, Liliya Yatsunyk, Craig J. Medforth, Kevin M. Smith, Kathleen M. Barkigia, Mark W. Renner, Dan Melamed, and F. Ann Walker pp 6564–6578 DOI: 10.1021/ja004053s Supporting Info

Unexpected Selectivities in C−H Activations of Toluene and p-Xylene at Cationic Platinum(II) Diimine Complexes. New Mechanistic Insight into Product-Determining Factors Lars Johansson, Olav B. Ryan, Christian Rømming, and Mats Tilset pp 6579–6590 DOI: 10.1021/ja010277e Supporting Info

Decay of the Peroxide Intermediate in Laccase:  Reductive Cleavage of the O−O Bond Amy E. Palmer, Sang Kyu Lee, and Edward I. Solomon pp 6591–6599 DOI: 10.1021/ja010365z Supporting Info

Electron-Rich Rods as Building Blocks for Sb Strips and Te Sheets Garegin Papoian and Roald Hoffmann pp 6600–6608 DOI: 10.1021/ja003420x

Interactions of Hydrogen with CeO2 Karl Sohlberg, Sokrates T. Pantelides, and Stephen J. Pennycook pp 6609–6611 DOI: 10.1021/ja004008k

Nonisomerizable Non-Retinal Chromophores Initiate Light-Induced Conformational Alterations in Bacterioopsin A. Aharoni, L. Weiner, A. Lewis, M. Ottolenghi, and M. Sheves pp 6612–6616 DOI: 10.1021/ja004035a

Charge Separation in a Novel Artificial Photosynthetic Reaction Center Lives 380 ms Hiroshi Imahori, Dirk M. Guldi, Koichi Tamaki, Yutaka Yoshida, Chuping Luo, Yoshiteru Sakata, and Shunichi Fukuzumi pp 6617–6628 DOI: 10.1021/ja004123v

The Mechanism of 1,2-Addition of Disilene and Silene. 1. Water and Alcohol Addition Tamás Veszprémi, Masae Takahashi, Balázs Hajgató, and Mitsuo Kira pp 6629–6638 DOI: 10.1021/ja0040823 Supporting Info

Stability of Chiral Domains Produced by Adsorption of Tartaric Acid Isomers on the Cu(110) Surface:  A Periodic Density Functional Theory Study Luis Antonio M. M. Barbosa and Philippe Sautet pp 6639–6648 DOI: 10.1021/ja004336k

Kinetics of Histidine Deligation from the Heme in GuHCl-Unfolded Fe(III) Cytochrome c Studied by a Laser-Induced pH-Jump Technique Stefania Abbruzzetti, Cristiano Viappiani, Jeanne R. Small, Louis J. Libertini, and Enoch W. Small pp 6649–6653 DOI: 10.1021/ja010079n

Formation of a Phosphorus−Phosphorus Bond by Successive One-Electron Reductions of a Two-Phosphinines-Containing Macrocycle:  Crystal Structures, EPR, and DFT Investigations Laurent Cataldo, Sylvie Choua, Théo Berclaz, Michel Geoffroy, Nicolas Mézailles, Louis Ricard, François Mathey, and Pascal Le Floch pp 6654–6661 DOI: 10.1021/ja010331r Supporting Info

Theoretical Studies on Alkyne Addition to Molybdenum Alkylidenes:  The Preference of α- and β-Additions Ying-Hong Sheng and Yun-Dong Wu pp 6662–6668 DOI: 10.1021/ja0104756 Supporting Info

Single Two-Electron Transfers vs Successive One-Electron Transfers in Polyconjugated Systems Illustrated by the Electrochemical Oxidation and Reduction of Carotenoids Philippe Hapiot, Lowell D. Kispert, Valery V. Konovalov, and Jean-Michel Savéant pp 6669–6677 DOI: 10.1021/ja0106063

Solution Structure, Dimerization, and Dynamics of a Lipophilic α/310-Helical, Cα-Methylated Peptide. Implications for Folding of Membrane Proteins Alexander Dehner, Eckart Planker, Gerd Gemmecker, Quirinus B. Broxterman, William Bisson, Fernando Formaggio, Marco Crisma, Claudio Toniolo, and Horst Kessler pp 6678–6686 DOI: 10.1021/ja010635d Supporting Info

Corannulene as a Lewis Base:  Computational Modeling of Protonation and Lithium Cation Binding Maxim V. Frash, Alan C. Hopkinson, and Diethard K. Bohme pp 6687–6695 DOI: 10.1021/ja0021464 Supporting Info

Long-Distance Radical Cation Migration in Z-Form DNA Ibrahim M. Abdou, Valerie Sartor, Huachuan Cao, and Gary B. Schuster pp 6696–6697 DOI: 10.1021/ja004274y Supporting Info

First Divergent Strategy Using Two AB2 Unprotected Monomers for the Rapid Synthesis of Dendrimers Laurent Brauge, Germinal Magro, Anne-Marie Caminade, and Jean-Pierre Majoral pp 6698–6699 DOI: 10.1021/ja0029228 Supporting Info

Activation of a Terminal Carboxylic Acid by an Internal Oxazole:  A Novel Synthesis of Macrocyclodepsipeptide Gang Zhao, Xiaowen Sun, Hugues Bienaymé, and Jieping Zhu pp 6700–6701 DOI: 10.1021/ja015854d Supporting Info

Convergent Synthesis of Polycyclic Ethers via the Intramolecular Allylation of α-Acetoxy Ethers and Subsequent Ring-Closing Metathesis:  Synthesis of the CDEFG Ring System of Gambierol Isao Kadota, Akio Ohno, Kumiko Matsuda, and Yoshinori Yamamoto pp 6702–6703 DOI: 10.1021/ja010911o Supporting Info

Norbornyne:  A Cycloalkyne Reacting Like A Dicarbene Darin W. Laird and John C. Gilbert pp 6704–6705 DOI: 10.1021/ja010589h Supporting Info

DFT Study of the Cycloaddition Reactions of Strained Alkynes Steven M. Bachrach, John C. Gilbert, and Darin W. Laird pp 6706–6707 DOI: 10.1021/ja010590g Supporting Info

Oxygenation of Phenols to Catechols by A (μ-η2:η2-Peroxo)dicopper(II) Complex:  Mechanistic Insight into the Phenolase Activity of Tyrosinase Shinobu Itoh, Hideyuki Kumei, Masayasu Taki, Shigenori Nagatomo, Teizo Kitagawa, and Shunichi Fukuzumi pp 6708–6709 DOI: 10.1021/ja015702i Supporting Info

Enhancement of Enantiomeric Excess by Ligand Distortion Kenny B. Lipkowitz and Sabine SchefzickDavid Avnir pp 6710–6711 DOI: 10.1021/ja015903m

Mapping the Mitomycin Biosynthetic Pathway by Functional Analysis of the MitM Aziridine N-Methyltransferase Mustafa Varoglu, Yingqing Mao, and David H. Sherman pp 6712–6713 DOI: 10.1021/ja015646l Supporting Info

Photoinduced Electron Transfer and Photovoltaic Devices of a Conjugated Polymer with Pendant Fullerenes Alicia Marcos Ramos, Minze T. Rispens, Jeroen K. J. van Duren, Jan C. Hummelen, and René A. J. Janssen pp 6714–6715 DOI: 10.1021/ja015614y Supporting Info

A Diastereoselective Metal-Catalyzed [2 + 2] Cycloaddition of Bis-enones Tae-Gon Baik, Ana Liza Luis, Long-Cheng Wang, and Michael J. Krische pp 6716–6717 DOI: 10.1021/ja010800p Supporting Info

Stereochemistry of Thermal Vinylcyclobutane-to- Cyclohexene Rearrangements of cis-(1S,2R)- and trans-(1S,2S)-1-(E)-Propenyl-2-methylcyclobutanes John E. Baldwin and Richard C. Burrell pp 6718–6719 DOI: 10.1021/ja010987k Supporting Info

Electron Spin Catalysis by Xenon in an Enzyme Mark A. Anderson, Yaping Xu, and Charles B. Grissom pp 6720–6721 DOI: 10.1021/ja015949f

Modeling Rieske Dioxygenases:  The First Example of Iron-Catalyzed Asymmetric cis-Dihydroxylation of Olefins Miquel Costas, Adrianne K. Tipton, Kui Chen, Du-Hwan Jo, and Lawrence Que, Jr. pp 6722–6723 DOI: 10.1021/ja015601k Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of the Kopsia lapidilecta Alkaloid (±)-Lapidilectine B William H. Pearson, Yuan Mi, Ill Young Lee, and Patrick Stoy pp 6724–6725 DOI: 10.1021/ja016007d Supporting Info

Tuning of Superquenching in Layered and Mixed Fluorescent Polyelectrolytes Robert M. Jones, Troy S. Bergstedt, Duncan W. McBranch, and David G. Whitten pp 6726–6727 DOI: 10.1021/ja0157797

Exposing Asymmetry between Monomers in Alzheimer's Amyloid Fibrils via Reductive Alkylation of Lysine Residues Kazumichi Iwata, Stephen J. Eyles, and Jonathan P. Lee pp 6728–6729 DOI: 10.1021/ja015735y Supporting Info

Single-Chain versus Dimeric Protein Folding:  Thermodynamic and Kinetic Consequences of Covalent Linkage Huan-Xiang Zhou pp 6730–6731 DOI: 10.1021/ja015990i Supporting Info

Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamond:  An in Situ Study by Vibrational Spectroscopy Arndt Heerwagen, Martin Strobel, Michael Himmelhaus, and Manfred Buck pp 6732–6733 DOI: 10.1021/ja016056q

Oligonucleotide Detection Using Angle-Dependent Light Scattering and Fractal Dimension Analysis of Gold−DNA Aggregates Glauco R. Souza and J. Houston Miller pp 6734–6735 DOI: 10.1021/ja005919x Supporting Info

Softened Hydrophobic Attraction between Macroscopic Surfaces in Relative Motion Xueyan Zhang, Yingxi Zhu, and Steve Granick pp 6736–6737 DOI: 10.1021/ja015960f

Homochiral G-Quadruplexes with Ba2+ but Not with K+:  The Cation Programs Enantiomeric Self-Recognition Xiaodong Shi, James C. Fettinger, and Jeffery T. Davis pp 6738–6739 DOI: 10.1021/ja004330v Supporting Info

Use of Biomimetic Diversity-Oriented Synthesis to Discover Galanthamine-Like Molecules with Biological Properties beyond Those of the Natural Product Henry E. Pelish, Nicholas J. Westwood, Yan Feng, Tomas Kirchhausen, and Matthew D. Shair pp 6740–6741 DOI: 10.1021/ja016093h Supporting Info

Molecular Recognition of a RNA:DNA Hybrid Structure Jinsong Ren, Xiaogang Qu, Nanibhushan Dattagupta, and Jonathan B. Chaires pp 6742–6743 DOI: 10.1021/ja015649y Supporting Info

Solid-Phase Organic Synthesis Edited by Kevin Burgess (Texas A & M University). Wiley Interscience:  New York. 2000. xiv + 277 pp. $69.95. ISBN 0-471-31825-6. William D. Lubell p 6744 DOI: 10.1021/ja004851i

Modern Amination Methods Edited by Alfredo Ricci (University of Bologna). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2000. xvii + 268 pp. $168. ISBN 3-527-29976-9. Kenneth M. Nicholas p 6744 DOI: 10.1021/ja015212q

Flat Panel Displays. Advanced Organic Materials By S. M. Kelly (Department of Chemistry, University of Hull, U.K). Royal Society of Chemistry:  Cambridge. 2000. xvi + 232 pp. £59.50. ISBN 0-85404-567-8 Linda S. Sapochak pp 6744–6745 DOI: 10.1021/ja004864w

The Properties of Gases and Liquids, 5th Edition By Bruce E. Poling (University of Toledo), John M. Prausnitz (University of California at Berkeley), and John P. O'Connell (University of Virginia). McGraw-Hill:  New York. 2001. 768 pp. $115.00. ISBN 0-07-011682-2. Kenneth R. Cox and Walter G. Chapman p 6745 DOI: 10.1021/ja0048634

Rhodium Catalyzed Hydroformylation Edited by Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen (University of Amsterdam) and Carmen Claver (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain). Kluwer Academic Publishers:  Dordrecht/Boston/London. 2000. xii + 286 pp. $125.00. ISBN 0-7923-6551-8. George G. Stanley pp 6745–6746 DOI: 10.1021/ja0048578

New Trends in Synthetic Medicinal Chemistry Edited by Fulvio Gualtieri (Università di Firenze). Methods and Principles in Medicinal Chemistry. Volume 7. Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2000. xvi + 354 pp. $155.00. ISBN 0-527-29799-5 Christian P. Whitman p 6746 DOI: 10.1021/ja015222r

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Reevaluation of Stereoelectronic Contributions to the Conformational Properties of the Phosphodiester and N3‘-Phosphoramidate Moieties of Nucleic Acids Nilesh K. Banavali and Alexander D. MacKerell, Jr. pp 6747–6755 DOI: 10.1021/ja010295w Supporting Info

Mechanistic Investigation of UDP-Galactopyranose Mutase from Escherichia coli Using 2- and 3-Fluorinated UDP-Galactofuranose as Probes Qibo Zhang and Hung-wen Liu pp 6756–6766 DOI: 10.1021/ja010473l

Pyrolyses of Chlorodifluoromethane and Trifluoromethane in the Presence of Hydrogen. Mechanism and Optimization of Reaction Conditions Raphaele Romelaer, Virginie Kruger, J. Marshall Baker, and William R. Dolbier, Jr. pp 6767–6772 DOI: 10.1021/ja0023581 Supporting Info

Thermal Isomerization of 1,1,2,2-Tetrafluoroethane (FC-134) to 1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane (FC-134a) in the Presence of Hydrogen Raphaele Romelaer, J. Marshall Baker, and William R. Dolbier, Jr. pp 6773–6777 DOI: 10.1021/ja002359t Supporting Info

Peptoid Oligomers with α-Chiral, Aromatic Side Chains:  Sequence Requirements for the Formation of Stable Peptoid Helices Cindy W. Wu, Tracy J. Sanborn, Kai Huang, Ronald N. Zuckermann, and Annelise E. Barron pp 6778–6784 DOI: 10.1021/ja003154n Supporting Info

New Insights on the Mechanisms of the pH-Independent Reactions of Benzo[a]pyrene 7,8-Diol 9,10-Epoxides Lanxuan Doan, Bin Lin, Haruhiko Yagi, Donald M. Jerina, and Dale L. Whalen pp 6785–6791 DOI: 10.1021/ja004359z

Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Chiral Complementary Hydrogen-Bond Networks in Water:  Reconstitution of Supramolecular Membranes Takayoshi Kawasaki, Maki Tokuhiro, Nobuo Kimizuka, and Toyoki Kunitake pp 6792–6800 DOI: 10.1021/ja010035e

Catalytic Enantioselective Reissert-Type Reaction:  Development and Application to the Synthesis of a Potent NMDA Receptor Antagonist (−)-L-689,560 Using a Solid-Supported Catalyst Masahiro Takamura, Ken Funabashi, Motomu Kanai, and Masakatsu Shibasaki pp 6801–6808 DOI: 10.1021/ja010654n Supporting Info

Design of Liquid Crystalline Block Molecules with Nonconventional Mesophase Morphologies:  Calamitic Bolaamphiphiles with Lateral Alkyl Chains Marius Kölbel, Tom Beyersdorff, Xiao Hong Cheng, Carsten Tschierske, Jens Kain, and Siegmar Diele pp 6809–6818 DOI: 10.1021/ja003124k Supporting Info

Why Are the Hydroxy Groups of Partially Protected N-Acetylglucosamine Derivatives Such Poor Glycosyl Acceptors, and What Can Be Done about It? A Comparative Study of the Reactivity of N-Acetyl-, N-Phthalimido-, and 2-Azido-2-deoxy-glucosamine Derivatives in Glycosylation. 2-Picolinyl Ethers as Reactivity-Enhancing Replacements for Benzyl Ethers David Crich and Vadim Dudkin pp 6819–6825 DOI: 10.1021/ja010086b

Efficient and Selective Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols into Aldehydes and Ketones Using Ruthenium/TEMPO as the Catalytic System Arné Dijksman, Arturo Marino-González, Antoni Mairata i Payeras, Isabel W. C. E. Arends, and Roger A. Sheldon pp 6826–6833 DOI: 10.1021/ja0103804

Mechanistic Studies of the Palladium-Catalyzed Ring Opening of Oxabicyclic Alkenes with Dialkylzinc Mark Lautens, Sheldon Hiebert, and Jean-Luc Renaud pp 6834–6839 DOI: 10.1021/ja010498k Supporting Info

Size-Selective Hydrogenation of Olefins by Dendrimer-Encapsulated Palladium Nanoparticles Yanhui Niu, Lee K. Yeung, and Richard M. Crooks pp 6840–6846 DOI: 10.1021/ja0105257 Supporting Info

A Family of Zirconium Complexes Having Two Phenoxy−Imine Chelate Ligands for Olefin Polymerization Shigekazu Matsui, Makoto Mitani, Junji Saito, Yasushi Tohi, Haruyuki Makio, Naoto Matsukawa, Yukihiro Takagi, Kazutaka Tsuru, Masatoshi Nitabaru, Takashi Nakano, Hidetsugu Tanaka, Norio Kashiwa, and Terunori Fujita pp 6847–6856 DOI: 10.1021/ja0032780 Supporting Info

A New Approach To Studying the Mechanism of Catalytic Reactions:  An Investigation into the Photocatalytic Hydrogenation of Norbornadiene and Dimethylfumarate Using Polyethylene Matrices at Low Temperature and High Pressure Gavin I. Childs, Andrew I. Cooper, Trevor F. Nolan, Michael J. Carrott, Michael W. George,* and Martyn Poliakoff* pp 6857–6866 DOI: 10.1021/ja004345t

Concentration Dependence of Self-Assembled Monolayer Island Nucleation and Growth Ivo Doudevski and Daniel K. Schwartz pp 6867–6872 DOI: 10.1021/ja0042783

Packing-Density Effects on the Friction of n-Alkane Monolayers Paul T. Mikulski and Judith A. Harrison pp 6873–6881 DOI: 10.1021/ja010189u

Location of the Fluoride Ion in Tetrapropylammonium Fluoride Silicalite-1 Determined by 1H/19F/29Si Triple Resonance CP, REDOR, and TEDOR NMR Experiments Colin A. Fyfe, Darren H. Brouwer, Andrew R. Lewis, and Jean-Michel Chézeau pp 6882–6891 DOI: 10.1021/ja010532v

χ1 Torsion Angle Dynamics in Proteins from Dipolar Couplings Anthony Mittermaier and Lewis E. Kay pp 6892–6903 DOI: 10.1021/ja010595d Supporting Info

Structure Analysis of a Transient Triplet Carbene Trapped in a Crystal Masaki Kawano, Katsuyuki Hirai, Hideo Tomioka, and Yuji Ohashi pp 6904–6908 DOI: 10.1021/ja0106366 Supporting Info

Dynamics of Photosubstitution Reactions of Fe(CO)5:  An Ultrafast Infrared Study of High Spin Reactivity Preston T. Snee, Christine K. Payne, Sheryl D. Mebane, Kenneth T. Kotz, and Charles B. Harris pp 6909–6915 DOI: 10.1021/ja010648r

Interchain Delocalization of Photoinduced Neutral and Charged States in Nanoaggregates of Lengthy Oligothiophenes Joke J. Apperloo, René A. J. Janssen, Patrick R. L. Malenfant, and Jean M. J. Fréchet pp 6916–6924 DOI: 10.1021/ja015862u

Three Different Fates for Phosphinidenes Generated by Photocleavage of Phospha-Wittig Reagents ArPPMe3 Shashin Shah, M. Cather Simpson, Rhett C. Smith, and John D. Protasiewicz pp 6925–6926 DOI: 10.1021/ja015767l Supporting Info

Reversible Interconversion between Dinuclear Sandwich and Half-Sandwich Complexes:  Unique Dynamic Behavior of a Pd−Pd Moiety Surrounded by an sp2-Carbon Framework Tetsuro Murahashi, Tomoki Nagai, Yukari Mino, Eiko Mochizuki, Yasushi Kai, and Hideo Kurosawa pp 6927–6928 DOI: 10.1021/ja010027y Supporting Info

The Conformations of Discodermolide in DMSO Edith Monteagudo, Daniel O. Cicero, Ben Cornett, David C. Myles, and James P. Snyder pp 6929–6930 DOI: 10.1021/ja015569u Supporting Info

σ−π Chelation-Controlled Stereoselective Hydrosilylation of Ketones Naoki Asao, Takeshi Ohishi, Kenichiro Sato, and Yoshinori Yamamoto pp 6931–6932 DOI: 10.1021/ja0042074 Supporting Info

The Influence of Cyanide on the Carbonylation of Iron(II):  Synthesis of Fe−SR−CN−CO Centers Related to the Hydrogenase Active Sites Thomas B. Rauchfuss, Stephen M. Contakes, Sodio C. N. Hsu, Michael A. Reynolds, and Scott R. Wilson pp 6933–6934 DOI: 10.1021/ja015948n Supporting Info

Synthesis of 1,3-Difunctionalized Amine Derivatives through Selective C−H Bond Oxidation Christine G. Espino, Paul M. Wehn, Jessica Chow, and J. Du Bois pp 6935–6936 DOI: 10.1021/ja011033x Supporting Info

General Strategies for the Synthesis of the Major Classes of C-Aryl Glycosides David E. Kaelin, Jr., Omar D. Lopez, and Stephen F. Martin pp 6937–6938 DOI: 10.1021/ja0108640 Supporting Info

C2-Acyloxyglycosylation with Glycal Donors Lei Shi, Yong-Jae Kim, and David Y. Gin pp 6939–6940 DOI: 10.1021/ja015991a Supporting Info

Vibrationally Assisted Tunneling in a Hydrogen Atom Transfer Reaction Brent A. Johnson, Yunfeng Hu, K. N. Houk, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay pp 6941–6942 DOI: 10.1021/ja0157907 Supporting Info

Micropatterning Biological Molecules on a Polymer Surface Using Elastomeric Microwells Jinho Hyun and Ashutosh Chilkoti pp 6943–6944 DOI: 10.1021/ja015798g

Coupled Oxidation of Heme by Myoglobin Is Mediated by Exogenous Peroxide Jeffrey A. Sigman, Xiaotang Wang, and Yi Lu pp 6945–6946 DOI: 10.1021/ja015776u

New, General, and Stereoselective Synthesis of CF3-Containing Tri- and Tetrasubstituted Oxiranes and Tetrasubstituted Alkenes Masaki Shimizu, Takuya Fujimoto, Hiroshi Minezaki, Takeshi Hata, and Tamejiro Hiyama pp 6947–6948 DOI: 10.1021/ja016077k Supporting Info

Uni-Directional Orientation of Cyanine Dye Aggregates on a K4Nb6O17 Single Crystal: Toward Novel Supramolecular Assemblies with Three-Dimensional Anisotropy Nobuyoshi Miyamoto and Kazuyuki KurodaMakoto Ogawa pp 6949–6950 DOI: 10.1021/ja015541i

Effect of Temperature and Composition on the Formation of Nanoscale Compartments in Phospholipid Membranes Adrian S. Muresan, Haim Diamant, and Ka Yee C. Lee pp 6951–6952 DOI: 10.1021/ja015792r

Ultrafast Electron-Transfer Reactions between Thionine and Guanosine Bases Gavin D. Reid, Douglas J. Whittaker, Mark A. Day, Caitriona M. Creely, Eimer M. Tuite, John M. Kelly, and Godfrey S. Beddard pp 6953–6954 DOI: 10.1021/ja015584z

The Enantiomerization Barrier of 5-Methyl-cyclohepta-1,2,4,6-tetraene Ralf Warmuth pp 6955–6956 DOI: 10.1021/ja015743e Supporting Info

Regioselective Catalytic Allylic Alkylation Directed by Removable 2-PyMe2Si Group Kenichiro Itami, Tooru Koike, and Jun-ichi Yoshida pp 6957–6958 DOI: 10.1021/ja0157346 Supporting Info

Light-Driven Catalysis within Dendrimers:  Designing Amphiphilic Singlet Oxygen Sensitizers Stefan Hecht and Jean M. J. Fréchet pp 6959–6960 DOI: 10.1021/ja016076s Supporting Info

The Generality of DNA-Templated Synthesis as a Basis for Evolving Non-Natural Small Molecules Zev J. Gartner and David R. Liu pp 6961–6963 DOI: 10.1021/ja015873n Supporting Info

Chiral Ansa Metallocenes with Cp Ring-Fused to Thiophenes and Pyrroles:  Syntheses, Crystal Structures, and Isotactic Polypropylene Catalysts  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 4763−4773].  John A. Ewen, Michael J. Elder, Robert L. Jones, Arnold L. Rheingold, Louise M. Liable-Sands, and Roger D. Sommer p 6964 DOI: 10.1021/ja015157l

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Self-Encapsulation of Poly-2,7-fluorenes in a Dendrimer Matrix Dirk Marsitzky, Robert Vestberg, Paul Blainey, Beverly T. Tang, Craig J. Hawker, and Kenneth R. Carter pp 6965–6972 DOI: 10.1021/ja010020g

Active Site Structure and Mechanism of Human Glyoxalase IAn ab Initio Theoretical Study Uwe Richter and Morris Krauss pp 6973–6982 DOI: 10.1021/ja0105966

The Total Synthesis of Lipid I Michael S. VanNieuwenhze, Scott C. Mauldin, Mohammad Zia-Ebrahimi, James A. Aikins, and Larry C. Blaszczak pp 6983–6988 DOI: 10.1021/ja016082o Supporting Info

A Versatile Catalyst for Heck Reactions of Aryl Chlorides and Aryl Bromides under Mild Conditions Adam F. Littke and Gregory C. Fu pp 6989–7000 DOI: 10.1021/ja010988c

Enantioselective Fluorination Mediated by Cinchona Alkaloid Derivatives/Selectfluor Combinations:  Reaction Scope and Structural Information for N-Fluorocinchona Alkaloids Norio Shibata, Emiko Suzuki, Toru Asahi, and Motoo Shiro pp 7001–7009 DOI: 10.1021/ja010789t Supporting Info

Synthesis and Characterization of Dimensionally Ordered Semiconductor Nanowires within Mesoporous Silica Nicholas R. B. Coleman, Niall O'Sullivan, Kevin M. Ryan, Timothy A. Crowley, M. A. Morris, Trevor R. Spalding, David C. Steytler, and Justin D. Holmes pp 7010–7016 DOI: 10.1021/ja015833j

Rational Reprogramming of the R2 Subunit of Escherichia coli Ribonucleotide Reductase into a Self-Hydroxylating Monooxygenase Jeffrey Baldwin, Walter C. Voegtli, Nelly Khidekel, Pierre Moënne-Loccoz, Carsten Krebs, Alice S. Pereira, Brenda A. Ley, Boi Hanh Huynh, Thomas M. Loehr, Pamela J. Riggs-Gelasco, Amy C. Rosenzweig, and J. Martin Bollinger, Jr. pp 7017–7030 DOI: 10.1021/ja002114g Supporting Info

Mn K-Edge XANES and Kβ XES Studies of Two Mn−Oxo Binuclear Complexes:  Investigation of Three Different Oxidation States Relevant to the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II Hendrik Visser, Elodie Anxolabéhère-Mallart, Uwe Bergmann, Pieter Glatzel, John H. Robblee, Stephen P. Cramer, Jean-Jacques Girerd, Kenneth Sauer, Melvin P. Klein, and Vittal K. Yachandra pp 7031–7039 DOI: 10.1021/ja004306h Supporting Info

Cubic Aluminum Silicides RE8Ru12Al49Si9(AlxSi12-x) (RE = Pr, Sm) from Liquid Aluminum. Empty (Si,Al)12 Cuboctahedral Clusters and Assignment of the Al/Si Distribution with Neutron Diffraction B. Sieve, X. Z. Chen, R. Henning, P. Brazis, C. R. Kannewurf, J. A. Cowen, A. J. Schultz, and M. G. Kanatzidis pp 7040–7047 DOI: 10.1021/ja010135k Supporting Info

The Dynamics of Electron Self-Exchange between Nanoparticles Jocelyn F. Hicks, Francis P. Zamborini, Andrea J. Osisek, and Royce W. Murray pp 7048–7053 DOI: 10.1021/ja0106826 Supporting Info

Stereochemical, Structural, and Thermodynamic Origins of Stability Differences between Stereoisomeric Benzo[a]pyrene Diol Epoxide Deoxyadenosine Adducts in a DNA Mutational Hot Spot Sequence Shixiang Yan, Robert Shapiro, Nicholas E. Geacintov, and Suse Broyde pp 7054–7066 DOI: 10.1021/ja0043035 Supporting Info

Quantum Yields of Luminescent Lanthanide Chelates and Far-Red Dyes Measured by Resonance Energy Transfer Ming Xiao and Paul R. Selvin pp 7067–7073 DOI: 10.1021/ja0031669

Laser Flash Photolysis Study of Jacobsen Catalyst and Related Manganese(III) Salen Complexes. Relevance to Catalysis María J. Sabater, Mercedes Álvaro, Hermenegildo García, Emilio Palomares, and J. C. Scaiano pp 7074–7080 DOI: 10.1021/ja003371o

Self-Consistent Karplus Parametrization of 3J Couplings Depending on the Polypeptide Side-Chain Torsion χ1 Carlos Pérez, Frank Löhr, Heinz Rüterjans, and Jürgen M. Schmidt pp 7081–7093 DOI: 10.1021/ja003724j Supporting Info

A New Mechanism for Spin−Lattice Relaxation of Heavy Nuclei in the Solid State:  207Pb Relaxation in Lead Nitrate John B. Grutzner, Kevin W. Stewart, Roderick E. Wasylishen, Michael D. Lumsden, Cecil Dybowski, and Peter A. Beckmann pp 7094–7100 DOI: 10.1021/ja0040924

Ultrafast Dynamics of Cyclohexene and Cyclohexene-d10 Excited at 200 nm Werner Fuss, Wolfram E. Schmid, and Sergei A. Trushin pp 7101–7108 DOI: 10.1021/ja004115e

Temperature and Viscosity Dependence in the Stereoselective Formation of the Inverted Housane for the Photochemical Nitrogen Loss from the Deuterium-Stereolabeled Parent Diazabicyclo[2.2.1]hept-2-ene Waldemar Adam, Matthias Grüne, Manfred Diedering, and Alexei V. Trofimov pp 7109–7112 DOI: 10.1021/ja005887d Supporting Info

Interplay of Intrinsic and Environmental Effects on the Magnetic Properties of Free Radicals Issuing from H-Atom Addition to Cytosine Carlo Adamo, Marie Heitzmann, Flora Meilleur, Nadia Rega, Giovanni Scalmani, Andre Grand, Jean Cadet, and Vincenzo Barone pp 7113–7117 DOI: 10.1021/ja004284z

Investigation of Sodium Cations in Dehydrated Zeolites LSX, X, and Y by 23Na Off-Resonance RIACT Triple-Quantum and High-Speed MAS NMR Spectroscopy Stefano Caldarelli, Andreas Buchholz, and Michael Hunger pp 7118–7123 DOI: 10.1021/ja0102538

Photoswitched Singlet Energy Transfer in a Porphyrin−Spiropyran Dyad Jeffrey L. Bahr, Gerdenis Kodis, Linda de la Garza, Su Lin, Ana L. Moore, Thomas A. Moore, and Devens Gust pp 7124–7133 DOI: 10.1021/ja010058t

A Theoretical Study of the Effect of a Tetraalkylammonium Counterion on the Hydrogen Bond Strength in Z-Hydrogen Maleate Robert D. Bach, Olga Dmitrenko, and Mikhail N. Glukhovtsev pp 7134–7145 DOI: 10.1021/ja010362m Supporting Info

Carbon-to-Carbon Identity Proton Transfer from Allene, Ketene, Ketenimine, and Thioketene to Their Respective Conjugate Anions in the Gas Phase. An ab Initio Study Claude F. Bernasconi and Philip J. Wenzel pp 7146–7153 DOI: 10.1021/ja010368b Supporting Info

Strong Supramolecular-Based Magnetic Exchange in π-Stacked Radicals. Structure and Magnetism of a Hydrogen-Bonded Verdazyl Radical:Hydroquinone Molecular Solid Robin G. Hicks, Martin T. Lemaire, Lars Öhrström, John F. Richardson, Laurence K. Thompson, and Zhiqiang Xu pp 7154–7159 DOI: 10.1021/ja010725i Supporting Info

Electrodeposition of Ordered Bi2Te3 Nanowire Arrays Amy L. Prieto, Melissa S. Sander, Marisol S. Martín-González, Ronald Gronsky, Timothy Sands, and Angelica M. Stacy pp 7160–7161 DOI: 10.1021/ja015989j

A Catalytic Asymmetric Wagner−Meerwein Shift Barry M. Trost and Tatsuro Yasukata pp 7162–7163 DOI: 10.1021/ja010504c Supporting Info

Key Process in Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Transformation of Propargyl Electrophiles. Racemization of Optically Active η1-Allenylpalladium(II) Sensuke Ogoshi, Takuma Nishida, Tsutomu Shinagawa, and Hideo Kurosawa pp 7164–7165 DOI: 10.1021/ja010583s Supporting Info

1,1,3,3-Tetramethylindan-2-selone−Benzyne Adduct:  An Isolable 2H-Benzoselenete Kentaro Okuma, Ayumi Okada, Yuji Koga, and Yoshinobu Yokomori pp 7166–7167 DOI: 10.1021/ja010640h Supporting Info

High-Sensitivity 2H NMR in Solids by 1H Detection Klaus Schmidt-Rohr, Kay Saalwächter, Shu-Feng Liu, and Mei Hong pp 7168–7169 DOI: 10.1021/ja002787z

Effects of Halide Ligands and Protic Additives on Enantioselectivity and Reactivity in Rhodium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Ring-Opening Reactions Mark Lautens and Keith Fagnou pp 7170–7171 DOI: 10.1021/ja010262g Supporting Info

Intrinsic Fluorescence and Quenching Effects in Photoactivated Reactively Sputtered Silver Oxide Layers Christophe Mihalcea, Dorothea Büchel, Nobufumi Atoda, and Junji Tominaga pp 7172–7173 DOI: 10.1021/ja015932x

The First Epoxidations of 1-Amidoallenes. A General Entry to Nitrogen-Substituted Oxyallyl Cations in Highly Stereoselective [4 + 3] Cycloadditions Hui Xiong, Richard P. Hsung, Craig R. Berry, and C. Rameshkumar pp 7174–7175 DOI: 10.1021/ja0108638 Supporting Info

Electrodeposition of Epitaxial Cu(111) Thin Films on Au(111) Using Defect-Mediated Growth Seongpil Hwang, Ilwhan Oh, and Juhyoun Kwak pp 7176–7177 DOI: 10.1021/ja015666n Supporting Info

A Ribozyme Exclusively Aminoacylates the 3‘-Hydroxyl Group of the tRNA Terminal Adenosine Hirohide Saito and Hiroaki Suga pp 7178–7179 DOI: 10.1021/ja015756s Supporting Info

Efficient Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Stereocontrolled Radical Polymerization of Acrylamides Yutaka Isobe, Daigo Fujioka, Shigeki Habaue, and Yoshio Okamoto pp 7180–7181 DOI: 10.1021/ja015888l Supporting Info

The Asymmetric [3+2] Cycloaddition Reaction of Chiral Alkenyl Fischer Carbene Complexes with Imines:  Synthesis of Optically Pure 2,5-Disubstituted-3-pyrrolidinones Hirotaka Kagoshima, Taku Okamura, and Takahiko Akiyama pp 7182–7183 DOI: 10.1021/ja015866z Supporting Info

Theoretical Study of the Regiochemistry-Determining Step of the Pauson−Khand Reaction Theodorus J. M. de Bruin, Anne Milet, Frédéric Robert, Yves Gimbert, and Andrew E. Greene pp 7184–7185 DOI: 10.1021/ja015781y Supporting Info

Charge Transfer Spectroscopy in Low-Spin d6 Pentacyano and Pentaammine Complexes Leonardo D. Slep and José A. Olabe pp 7186–7187 DOI: 10.1021/ja015969h Supporting Info

Oxygenation of Nitrogen-Coordinated Palladium(0):  Synthetic, Structural, and Mechanistic Studies and Implications for Aerobic Oxidation Catalysis Shannon S. Stahl, Joseph L. Thorman, Ryan C. Nelson, and Michael A. Kozee pp 7188–7189 DOI: 10.1021/ja015683c Supporting Info

meso-Aryl-Substituted Expanded Porphyrins Ji-Young Shin, Hiroyuki Furuta, Kenji Yoza, Shinetsu Igarashi, and Atsuhiro Osuka pp 7190–7191 DOI: 10.1021/ja0106624 Supporting Info

A Well-Resolved Ice-like (H2O)8 Cluster in an Organic Supramolecular Complex Jerry L. Atwood, Leonard J. Barbour, Timothy J. Ness, Colin L. Raston, and Paul L. Raston pp 7192–7193 DOI: 10.1021/ja015757k Supporting Info

A Synthetically Useful, Self-Assembling MMO Mimic System for Catalytic Alkene Epoxidation with Aqueous H2O2 M. Christina White, Abigail G. Doyle, and Eric N. Jacobsen pp 7194–7195 DOI: 10.1021/ja015884g Supporting Info

Advances in Chromatography, Volume 40 Edited by Phyllis R. Brown (University of Rhode Island) and Eli Grushka (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). Marcel Dekker, Inc.:  New York. 2000. xxiv + 651 pp. $225.00. ISBN 0-8247-0018-X John C. Ford p 7196 DOI: 10.1021/ja004731a

Mathematica 4.1 Wolfram Research, Inc., 100 Trade Center Dr., Champaign, IL 61820-7237. www.wolfram.com. Suggested retail price:  $1495. Mathematica for Students price:  $139.95. Other academic pricing available. Kurt Sattelmeyer p 7196 DOI: 10.1021/ja004877+

Studies in Natural Products Chemistry. Volume 21. Bioactive Natural Products (Part B) Edited by Atta-ur-Rahman (University of Karachi). Elsevier:  Amsterdam. 2000. xiii + 812 pp. $432.00. ISBN 0-444-50469-9. Robert M. Williams pp 7196–7197 DOI: 10.1021/ja004804q

Greenhouse Gas Carbon Dioxide Mitigation:  Science and Technology By Martin M. Halmann (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) and Meyer Steinberg (Brookhaven National Laboratory). Lewis Publishers:  Boca Raton, FL. 1999. xix + 568 pp. $99.95. ISBN 1-56670-284-4 Philip G. Jessop p 7197 DOI: 10.1021/ja004811e

Surface and Colloid Science. Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science 116 Edited by V. Razumas (Institute of Biochemistry, Linius, Lithuania), B. Lindman (University of Lund), and T. Nylander (University of Lund). Springer-Verlag:  Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. 2001. viii + 158 pp. DM 249. ISBN 3-540-67814-X. p 7197 DOI: 10.1021/ja015242t

High-Throughput Synthesis. Principles and Practices Edited by Irving Sucholeiki (Solid Phase Sciences Corp., Medford, MA). Dekker:  New York, Basel. 2001. xxiv + 366 pp. $175 ($75 for orders of 5 or more for classroom purposes). ISBN 0-8247-0256-5 p 7197 DOI: 10.1021/ja015243l

Virtual Screening for Bioactive Molecules Edited by H.-J. Böhm and G. Schneider (F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2000. xviii + 308 pp. $125.00. ISBN 3-527-30153-4. Richard A. Day and Oscar Cuyubamba pp 7197–7198 DOI: 10.1021/ja0152052

Block Copolymers Edited by Francisco J. Balta Calleja (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, Madrid, Spain) and Zbigniew Roslaniec (Technical University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland). Marcel Dekker:  New York and Basel. 2000. xi + 584 pp. $195.00. ISBN 0-8247-0382-0 Karen I. Winey p 7198 DOI: 10.1021/ja0048329

Handbook of Molecular Descriptors. Methods and Principles in Medicinal Chemistry Series. Volume 11 By Roberto Todeschini and Viviana Consonni (Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca). Edited by R. Mannold, H. Kubinyi, and H. Timmerman. Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim and New York. 2000. xxi + 668 pp. 498 DM. ISBN 3-527-29913-O William J. Dunn, III p 7198 DOI: 10.1021/ja015204+

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Viscosity Effects on the Thermal Decomposition of Bis(perfluoro-2-N-propoxypropionyl) Peroxide in Dense Carbon Dioxide and Fluorinated Solvents W. Clayton Bunyard, John F. Kadla, and Joseph M. DeSimone pp 7199–7206 DOI: 10.1021/ja0103344

Asymmetric Synthesis of Chiral Organofluorine Compounds:  Use of Nonracemic Fluoroiodoacetic Acid as a Practical Electrophile and Its Application to the Synthesis of Monofluoro Hydroxyethylene Dipeptide Isosteres within a Novel Series of HIV Protease Inhibitors Andrew G. Myers, Joseph K. Barbay, and Boyu Zhong pp 7207–7219 DOI: 10.1021/ja010113y Supporting Info

Mechanism of β-Hydrogen Elimination from Square Planar Iridium(I) Alkoxide Complexes with Labile Dative Ligands Jing Zhao, Heather Hesslink, and John F. Hartwig pp 7220–7227 DOI: 10.1021/ja010417k

Efficient Control of the Diastereoselectivity and Regioselectivity in the Singlet-Oxygen Ene Reaction of Chiral Oxazolidine-Substituted Alkenes by a Remote Urea NH Functionality:  Comparison with Dimethyldioxirane and m-Chloroperbenzoic Acid Epoxidations Waldemar Adam, Karl Peters, Eva-Maria Peters, and Simon B. Schambony pp 7228–7232 DOI: 10.1021/ja010463k Supporting Info

Carenium−Calkyl Bond Making and Breaking:  Key Process in the Platinum-Mediated Caryl−Calkyl Bond Formation. Analogies to Organic Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution Martin Albrecht, Anthony L. Spek, and Gerard van Koten pp 7233–7246 DOI: 10.1021/ja003685b Supporting Info

An Iron Reservoir Model Based on Ferrichrome:  Iron(III)-Binding and Metal(III)-Exchange Properties of Tripodal Monotopic and Ditopic Hydroxamate Ligands with an l-Alanyl-l-alanyl-N-hydroxy-β-alanyl Sequence Yukihiro Hara and Masayasu Akiyama pp 7247–7256 DOI: 10.1021/ja003251g Supporting Info

Investigation of the Mechanism of Alkane Reductive Elimination and Skeletal Isomerization in Tp‘Rh(CNneopentyl)(R)H Complexes:  The Role of Alkane Complexes Todd O. Northcutt, Douglas D. Wick, Andrew J. Vetter, and William D. Jones pp 7257–7270 DOI: 10.1021/ja003944x Supporting Info

On the Origin of Selective Nitrous Oxide N−N Bond Cleavage by Three-Coordinate Molybdenum(III) Complexes John-Paul F. Cherry, Adam R. Johnson, Luis M. Baraldo, Yi-Chou Tsai, Christopher C. Cummins, Sergey V. Kryatov, Elena V. Rybak-Akimova, Kenneth B. Capps, Carl D. Hoff, Christopher M. Haar, and Steven P. Nolan pp 7271–7286 DOI: 10.1021/ja0031063 Supporting Info

Conformationally Tuned Large Two-Photon Absorption Cross Sections in Simple Molecular Chromophores Swapan K. Pati, Tobin J. Marks, and Mark A. Ratner pp 7287–7291 DOI: 10.1021/ja0033281

Complete Cross-Validation and R-Factor Calculation of a Solid-State NMR Derived Structure Sanguk Kim, J. R. Quine, and T. A. Cross pp 7292–7298 DOI: 10.1021/ja003380x

Me2CuLi*LiCN in Diethyl Ether Prefers a Homodimeric Core Structure [Me2CuLi]2 and Not a Heterodimeric One [Me2CuLi*LiCN]:  1H, 6Li HOE and 1H, 1H NOE Studies by NMR Ruth M. Gschwind, Xiulan Xie, Pattuparambil R. Rajamohanan, Carsten Auel, and Gernot Boche pp 7299–7304 DOI: 10.1021/ja004350x Supporting Info

Reorientational Eigenmode Dynamics:  A Combined MD/NMR Relaxation Analysis Method for Flexible Parts in Globular Proteins Jeanine J. Prompers and Rafael Brüschweiler pp 7305–7313 DOI: 10.1021/ja0107226 Supporting Info

Accurate pKa Calculations for Carboxylic Acids Using Complete Basis Set and Gaussian-n Models Combined with CPCM Continuum Solvation Methods Matthew D. Liptak and George C. Shields pp 7314–7319 DOI: 10.1021/ja010534f Supporting Info

Modeling the Action of an Antitumor Drug:  A Density Functional Theory Study of the Mechanism of Tirapazamine Fuqiang Ban, James W. Gauld, and Russell J. Boyd pp 7320–7325 DOI: 10.1021/ja010772a Supporting Info

Toward an Understanding of the Furoxan−Dinitrosoethylene Equilibrium John Stevens, Marcus Schweizer, and Guntram Rauhut pp 7326–7333 DOI: 10.1021/ja010792c Supporting Info

The Structure and Possible Catalytic Sites of Mo3S9 as a Model of Amorphous Molybdenum Trisulfide:  A Computational Study Haijun Jiao, Yong-Wang Li, B. Delmon, and Jean-François Halet pp 7334–7339 DOI: 10.1021/ja0034085

Cycloaddition of Carbonyl Compounds on Si(100):  New Mechanisms and Approaches to Selectivity for Surface Cycloaddition Reactions J. A. Barriocanal and D. J. Doren pp 7340–7346 DOI: 10.1021/ja010003r

Bonding Mechanism and Atomic Geometry of an Ordered Hydroxyl Overlayer on Pt(111) Ari P. Seitsonen, Yingjie Zhu, Kolja Bedürftig, and Herbert Over pp 7347–7351 DOI: 10.1021/ja015525l

Cyclic Transmembrane Charge Transport Mediated by Pyrylium and Thiopyrylium Ions Rafail F. Khairutdinov and James K. Hurst pp 7352–7359 DOI: 10.1021/ja010017x Supporting Info

Ice-Catalyzed Ionization of Hydrochloric Acid Kim Bolton and Jan B. C. Pettersson pp 7360–7363 DOI: 10.1021/ja010096c

Determination of Aliphatic Side-Chain Conformation Using Cross-Correlated Relaxation:  Application to an Extraordinarily Stable 2‘-aminoethoxy-Modified Oligonucleotide Triplex Teresa Carlomagno, Marcel J. J. Blommers, Jens Meiler, Bernard Cuenoud, and Christian Griesinger pp 7364–7370 DOI: 10.1021/ja002592r

Initial Nucleation of Platinum Clusters after Reduction of K2PtCl4 in Aqueous Solution:  A First Principles Study Lucio Colombi Ciacchi, Wolfgang Pompe, and Alessandro De Vita pp 7371–7380 DOI: 10.1021/ja002977+

Influence of Highly Polyunsaturated Lipid Acyl Chains of Biomembranes on the NMR Order Parameters Leonor Saiz and Michael L. Klein pp 7381–7387 DOI: 10.1021/ja003987d

Spectroscopic Studies of Substrate Interactions with Clavaminate Synthase 2, a Multifunctional α-KG-Dependent Non-Heme Iron Enzyme:  Correlation with Mechanisms and Reactivities Jing Zhou, Wendy L. Kelly, Brian O. Bachmann, Michele Gunsior, Craig A. Townsend, and Edward I. Solomon pp 7388–7398 DOI: 10.1021/ja004025+

Sequence−Structure Relationships in DNA Oligomers:  A Computational Approach Martin J. Packer and Christopher A. Hunter pp 7399–7406 DOI: 10.1021/ja003385u

Self-Association and Membrane-Binding Behavior of Melittins Containing Trifluoroleucine Angelika Niemz and David A. Tirrell pp 7407–7413 DOI: 10.1021/ja004351p Supporting Info

MD Simulations of Homomorphous PNA, DNA, and RNA Single Strands:  Characterization and Comparison of Conformations and Dynamics Srikanta Sen and Lennart Nilsson pp 7414–7422 DOI: 10.1021/ja0032632 Supporting Info

New Tantalum-Based Catalyst System for the Selective Trimerization of Ethene to 1-Hexene Cecily Andes, Seth B. Harkins, Shahid Murtuza, Karl Oyler, and Ayusman Sen pp 7423–7424 DOI: 10.1021/ja010762+

Intramolecular Rearrangements on Ultrafast Timescales:  Femtosecond Infrared Studies of Ring Slip in (η1-C5Cl5)Mn(CO)5 Christine K. Payne, Preston T. Snee, Haw Yang, Kenneth T. Kotz, Laurel L. Schafer, T. Don Tilley, and Charles B. Harris pp 7425–7426 DOI: 10.1021/ja003905l

Tungsten-Promoted [3+2]- and [3+3]-Cycloaddition of Epoxides with Alkynes. A Facile Enantiospecific Synthesis of Bicyclic Lactones Reniguntala J. Madhushaw, Chien-Le Li, Kuo-Hui Shen, Chu-Chen Hu, and Rai-Shung Liu pp 7427–7428 DOI: 10.1021/ja0106016 Supporting Info

Synthesis of 6-Aza-bicyclo[3,2,1]octan-3-ones via Vinylogous Imide Photochemistry:  An Approach to the Synthesis of the Hetisine Alkaloids Young-Shin Kwak and Jeffrey D. Winkler pp 7429–7430 DOI: 10.1021/ja010542w Supporting Info

α-l-LNA (α-i-ribo Configured Locked Nucleic Acid) Recognition of RNA. A Study by NMR Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics Simulations Michael Petersen, Anders E. Håkansson, Jesper Wengel, and Jens Peter Jacobsen pp 7431–7432 DOI: 10.1021/ja010557u Supporting Info

Dependence of the Peptide Amide III Vibration on the Φ Dihedral Angle Anatoli Ianoul, Mary N. Boyden, and Sanford A. Asher pp 7433–7434 DOI: 10.1021/ja0023128

Guest-Induced Diminishment in Fluorescence Quenching and Molecule Sensing Ability of A Novel Cyclodextrin−Peptide Conjugate Mohammed Akhter Hossain, Keita Hamasaki, Keiko Takahashi, Hisakazu Mihara, and Akihiko Ueno pp 7435–7436 DOI: 10.1021/ja0105921 Supporting Info

Kinetics of DNA Cleavage by Fe(II)·Bleomycins Shigeki Hashimoto, Bixun Wang, and Sidney M. Hecht pp 7437–7438 DOI: 10.1021/ja010558m Supporting Info

Efforts toward Expansion of the Genetic Alphabet:  Replication of DNA with Three Base Pairs Eunju Lee Tae, Yiqin Wu, Gang Xia, Peter G. Schultz, and Floyd E. Romesberg pp 7439–7440 DOI: 10.1021/ja010731e Supporting Info

A Helical Polyelectrolyte Induced by Specific Interactions with Biomolecules in Water Hisanari Onouchi, Katsuhiro Maeda, and Eiji Yashima pp 7441–7442 DOI: 10.1021/ja0160647 Supporting Info

The First Transition Metal Complex of Tetrafluorobenzyne:  Ir(η5-C5Me5)(PMe3)(η2-C6F4) Russell P. Hughes, Alex Williamson, Roger D. Sommer, and Arnold L. Rheingold pp 7443–7444 DOI: 10.1021/ja010992o Supporting Info

Evidence for Large Structural Fluctuations of the Photobleached Intermediate of Photoactive Yellow Protein in Solution Mariko Shiozawa, Masaki Yoda, Narutoshi Kamiya, Naoki Asakawa, Junichi Higo, Yoshio Inoue, and Minoru Sakurai pp 7445–7446 DOI: 10.1021/ja005922g Supporting Info

Reversible [7]-Thiahelicene Formation Using a 1,2-Dithienylcyclopentene Photochrome Tyler B. Norsten, Andrea Peters, Robert McDonald, Meitian Wang, and Neil R. Branda pp 7447–7448 DOI: 10.1021/ja015988r

Fluorous Swern Reaction David Crich and Santhosh Neelamkavil pp 7449–7450 DOI: 10.1021/ja016057i

Remarkable Electronic Effect on Rhodium-Catalyzed Carbonyl Additions and Conjugated Additions with Arylmetallic Reagents Taisheng Huang, Yue Meng, Sripathy Venkatraman, Dong Wang, and Chao-Jun Li pp 7451–7452 DOI: 10.1021/ja015561k Supporting Info

Direct Detection of Heat and Cold Denaturation for Partial Unfolding of a Protein Carma J. Nelson, Michael J. LaConte, and Bruce E. Bowler pp 7453–7454 DOI: 10.1021/ja016144a Supporting Info

RNA-Selective Coordination Complexes Identified via Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry Charles Karan and Benjamin L. Miller pp 7455–7456 DOI: 10.1021/ja010325v Supporting Info

Chemoselectivity in Metal Cation Mediated Hydrolysis of a Phosphonoformate Diester Robert A. Moss and Hugo Morales-Rojas pp 7457–7458 DOI: 10.1021/ja004156a

[4 + 1] Cycloadditions of Cyclohexadienes with Osmium Nitrides Aaron G. Maestri, Kevin S. Cherry, Joseph J. Toboni, and Seth N. Brown pp 7459–7460 DOI: 10.1021/ja016111v Supporting Info

Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Highly Functionalized Cyclopentenes by a [3 + 2] Cycloaddition Huw M. L. Davies, Bangping Xiang, Norman Kong, and Douglas G. Stafford pp 7461–7462 DOI: 10.1021/ja0160546 Supporting Info

A Conformationally Programmable Ligand Yong S. Chong, Mark D. Smith, and Ken D. Shimizu pp 7463–7464 DOI: 10.1021/ja0158713 Supporting Info

Interpenetrated 3D Polymeric Metal−Radical Networks Built from a Tetranitroxide Radical and Bis(hexafluoroacethylacetonato) Manganese(II) Fabrice Mathevet and Dominique Luneau pp 7465–7466 DOI: 10.1021/ja016133h Supporting Info

An Experimental Strategy to Dramatically Reduce the RF Power Used in Cross Polarization Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy Srinivasan C. Shekar, Dong-Kuk Lee, and Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy pp 7467–7468 DOI: 10.1021/ja016212t

Reactivity of [MoX(η3-allyl)(CO)2(N−N)] Complexes with Simple, Nonstabilized Carbanions Julio Pérez, Lucía Riera, Víctor Riera, Santiago García-Granda, and Esther García-Rodríguez pp 7469–7470 DOI: 10.1021/ja015538z Supporting Info

Highly Regio- and Enantioselective Pd-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation and Amination of Monosubstituted Allylic Acetates with Novel Ferrocene P,N-Ligands Shu-Li You, Xia-Zhen Zhu, Yu-Mei Luo, Xue-Long Hou, and Li-Xin Dai pp 7471–7472 DOI: 10.1021/ja016121w Supporting Info

Catalytic Cycle for the Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Prochiral Ketones to Chiral Alcohols:  Direct Hydride and Proton Transfer from Chiral Catalysts trans-Ru(H)2(diphosphine)(diamine) to Ketones and Direct Addition of Dihydrogen to the Resulting Hydridoamido Complexes Kamaluddin Abdur-Rashid, Michael Faatz, Alan J. Lough, and Robert H. Morris pp 7473–7474 DOI: 10.1021/ja015902u Supporting Info

Palladium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Oxidations of Alcohols Using Molecular Oxygen David R. Jensen, Jacob S. Pugsley, and Matthew S. Sigman pp 7475–7476 DOI: 10.1021/ja015827n Supporting Info

Efficient Synthesis of Benzene and Planar Cyclooctatetraene Fully Annelated with Bicyclo[2.1.1]hex-2-ene  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 1768−1769].  Akira Matsuura and Koichi Komatsu p 7477 DOI: 10.1021/ja015156t

Stimulating Concepts in Chemistry Edited by Fritz Vögtle (Universität Bonn), J. Fraser Stoddart (University of California, Los Angeles), and Masakatsu Shibasaki (University of Tokyo). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2000. xvii + 396 pp. $50.00. ISBN 3-527-299785. Luis Echegoyen p 7477 DOI: 10.1021/ja015208e

Biomedical Chemistry. Applying Chemical Principles to the Understanding and Treatment of Disease Edited by Paul F. Torrence (Northern Arizona University). Wiley-Interscience:  New York. 2000. xvi + 416 pp. $79.95. ISBN 0-471-32633-X. David G. I. Kingston pp 7477–7478 DOI: 10.1021/ja004852a

Nuclear and Radiation Chemical Approaches to Fullerene Science. Developments in Fullerene Science Edited by Tibor Braun (L. Eotvos University). Kluwer Academic Publishers:  Dordrecht, Boston, London. 2000. xvi + 204 pp. $95.00. ISBN 0-7923-6524-0. Martin Saunders and R. J. Cross p 7478 DOI: 10.1021/ja004836d

Dendrimers III:  Design, Dimension, Function. 212 Topics in Current Chemistry Edited by Fritz Vögtle (Universität Bonn). Springer Verlag:  Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. 2001. x + 198 pp. $119.00. ISBN 3-540-67828-X. Michael E. Mackay p 7478 DOI: 10.1021/ja0048679

Glycosyl Hydrolases for Biomass Conversion Edited by Michael E. Himmel, John O. Baker (both at National Renewable Energy Lab), and John N. Saddler (University of British Columbia). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC (Distributed by Oxford University Press). 2001. x + 292 pp. $120.00. ISBN 0-8412-3681-X p 7478 DOI: 10.1021/ja015264f

Imaging in Chemical Dynamics Edited by Arthur G. Suits (Berkeley Laboratory) and Robert E. Continetti (University of California). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC (Distributed by Oxford University Press). 2001. xii + 412 pp. $150.00. ISBN 0-8412-3690-9 p 7478 DOI: 10.1021/ja0152660

Chemistry for the 21st Century Edited by E. Keinan (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Scripps) and I. Schechter (Technion, Israel). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim, New York, Chichester, Brisbane, Singapore, Toronto. 2001. xiv + 294 pp. $35.00. ISBN 3-527-30235-2 p 7478 DOI: 10.1021/ja015267s

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Experimental and Theoretical Studies on the Thermal Decomposition of Heterocyclic Nitrosimines1 Richard A. Bartsch, Yeh Moon Chae, Sihyun Ham, and David M. Birney pp 7479–7486 DOI: 10.1021/ja010659k Supporting Info

Influence of Remote Substituents on the Equatorial/Axial Selectivity in the Monooxygenation of Methylene C−H Bonds of Substituted Cyclohexanes M. E. González-Núñez, Gloria Castellano, Cecilia Andreu, Jorge Royo, Minerva Báguena, Rossella Mello, and Gregorio Asensio pp 7487–7491 DOI: 10.1021/ja003667u

Primary Kinetic Isotope Effects on Hydride Transfer from 1,3-Dimethyl-2-phenylbenzimidazoline to NAD+ Analogues In-Sook Han Lee, Eun Hee Jeoung, and Maurice M. Kreevoy pp 7492–7496 DOI: 10.1021/ja004232+

Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization from Nanoparticles:  A Tool for the Preparation of Well-Defined Hybrid Nanostructures and for Understanding the Chemistry of Controlled/“Living” Radical Polymerizations from Surfaces Timothy von Werne and Timothy E. Patten pp 7497–7505 DOI: 10.1021/ja010235q Supporting Info

Amino Acid Nitrosation Products as Alkylating Agents M. del Pilar García-Santos, Emilio Calle, and Julio Casado pp 7506–7510 DOI: 10.1021/ja010348+

Tunable Swelling Kinetics in Core−Shell Hydrogel Nanoparticles Daoji Gan and L. Andrew Lyon pp 7511–7517 DOI: 10.1021/ja010609f Supporting Info

Thermodynamic Stabilities of Linear and Crinkled Tapes and Cyclic Rosettes in Melamine−Cyanurate Assemblies:  A Model Description Anna G. Bielejewska, Christopher E. Marjo, Leonard J. Prins, Peter Timmerman, Feike de Jong, and David N. Reinhoudt pp 7518–7533 DOI: 10.1021/ja010664o

Total Synthesis of Tricyclic Azaspirane Derivatives of Tyrosine:  FR901483 and TAN1251C Malika Ousmer, Norbert A. Braun, Claude Bavoux, Monique Perrin, and Marco A. Ciufolini pp 7534–7538 DOI: 10.1021/ja016030z Supporting Info

Self-Assembly and Anion Encapsulation Properties of Cavitand-Based Coordination Cages Federica Fochi, Paola Jacopozzi, Elina Wegelius, Kari Rissanen, Pietro Cozzini, Elena Marastoni, Emilia Fisicaro, Paola Manini, Roel Fokkens, and Enrico Dalcanale pp 7539–7552 DOI: 10.1021/ja0103492 Supporting Info

De Novo Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Antimicrobial β-Peptides Dahui Liu and William F. DeGrado pp 7553–7559 DOI: 10.1021/ja0107475 Supporting Info

1H NMR Investigation of Solvent Effects in Aromatic Stacking Interactions Mark S. Cubberley and Brent L. Iverson pp 7560–7563 DOI: 10.1021/ja015817m Supporting Info

Kinetics and Mechanism of the β- to α-CuAlCl4 Phase Transition:  A Time-Resolved 63Cu MAS NMR and Powder X-ray Diffraction Study Haiming Liu, Roger M. Sullivan, Jonathan C. Hanson, Clare P. Grey, and James D. Martin pp 7564–7573 DOI: 10.1021/ja010688v Supporting Info

A Theoretical Study of the Aminolysis Reaction of Lysine 199 of Human Serum Albumin with Benzylpenicillin:  Consequences for Immunochemistry of Penicillins Natalia Díaz, Dimas Suárez, Tomás L. Sordo, and Kenneth M. Merz, Jr. pp 7574–7583 DOI: 10.1021/ja010332j

Ligand-Stabilized Ruthenium Nanoparticles:  Synthesis, Organization, and Dynamics Cheng Pan, Katrin Pelzer, Karine Philippot, Bruno Chaudret, Fabrice Dassenoy, Pierre Lecante, and Marie-José Casanove pp 7584–7593 DOI: 10.1021/ja003961m Supporting Info

Argentophilicity and Solvent-Induced Structural Diversity in Double Salts of Silver Acetylide with Silver Perfluoroalkyl Carboxylates Quan-Ming Wang and Thomas C. W. Mak pp 7594–7600 DOI: 10.1021/ja0043441 Supporting Info

pH-Dependent Modulation of Relaxivity and Luminescence in Macrocyclic Gadolinium and Europium Complexes Based on Reversible Intramolecular Sulfonamide Ligation Mark P. Lowe, David Parker, Ofer Reany, Silvio Aime, Mauro Botta, Giancarlo Castellano, Eliana Gianolio, and Roberto Pagliarin pp 7601–7609 DOI: 10.1021/ja0103647 Supporting Info

Chemically Induced Magnetism and Magnetoresistance in La0.8Sr1.2Mn0.6Rh0.4O4 Peter D. Battle, Anthony M. T. Bell, Stephen J. Blundell, Amalia I. Coldea, Edmund J. Cussen, Georgina C. Hardy, Ishbel M. Marshall, Matthew J. Rosseinsky, and Christopher A. Steer pp 7610–7615 DOI: 10.1021/ja010958+ Supporting Info

Theoretical (DFT) Insights into the Mechanism of Copper-Catalyzed Cyclopropanation Reactions. Implications for Enantioselective Catalysis José M. Fraile, José I. García, Víctor Martínez-Merino, José A. Mayoral, and Luis Salvatella pp 7616–7625 DOI: 10.1021/ja003695c Supporting Info

Inhibition of DNA Transcription Using Cationic Mixed Monolayer Protected Gold Clusters Catherine M. McIntosh, Edward A. Esposito, III, Andrew K. Boal, Joseph M. Simard, Craig T. Martin, and Vincent M. Rotello pp 7626–7629 DOI: 10.1021/ja015556g Supporting Info

Unraveling the Origin of Regioselectivity in Rhodium Diphosphine Catalyzed Hydroformylation. A DFT QM/MM Study Jorge J. Carbó, Feliu Maseras, Carles Bo, and Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen pp 7630–7637 DOI: 10.1021/ja0101678 Supporting Info

Semiclassical Simulations of Azomethane Photochemistry in the Gas Phase and in Solution Paola Cattaneo and Maurizio Persico pp 7638–7645 DOI: 10.1021/ja0102843

A Two-Dimensional (Magnetic Field and Concentration) Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Method for Analysis of Multispecies Complex Equilibrium Systems. Information Content of EPR Spectra Antal Rockenbauer, Terézia Szabó-Plánka, Zsuzsanna Árkosi, and László Korecz pp 7646–7654 DOI: 10.1021/ja0102888

A Periodic DFT Study of Intramolecular Isomerization Reactions of Toluene and Xylenes Catalyzed by Acidic Mordenite Xavier Rozanska, Rutger A. van Santen, François Hutschka, and Juergen Hafner pp 7655–7667 DOI: 10.1021/ja0103795

Intramolecular Energy Hopping and Energy Trapping in Polyphenylene Dendrimers with Multiple Peryleneimide Donor Chromophores and a Terryleneimide Acceptor Trap Chromophore Michael Maus, Rina De, Marc Lor, Tania Weil, Sivaprasad Mitra, Uwe-M. Wiesler, Andreas Herrmann, Johan Hofkens, Tom Vosch, Klaus Müllen, and Frans C. De Schryver pp 7668–7676 DOI: 10.1021/ja010570e

Self-Assembly of 10-μm-Sized Objects into Ordered Three-Dimensional Arrays Thomas D. Clark, Joe Tien, David C. Duffy, Kateri E. Paul, and George M. Whitesides pp 7677–7682 DOI: 10.1021/ja010634l

Solvent-Dependent Transition States for Decarboxylations Daria Sicinska, Donald G. Truhlar, and Piotr Paneth pp 7683–7686 DOI: 10.1021/ja010791k Supporting Info

Quantum Chemical Study of Ester Aminolysis Catalyzed by a Single Adenine:  A Reference Reaction for the Ribosomal Peptide Synthesis Dimas Suárez and Kenneth M. Merz, Jr. pp 7687–7690 DOI: 10.1021/ja015909b Supporting Info

Ion Conductors Derived from Cholic Acid and Spermine:  Importance of Facial Hydrophilicity on Na+ Transport and Membrane Selectivity Prasun Bandyopadhyay, Vaclav Janout, Lan-hui Zhang, and Steven L. Regen pp 7691–7696 DOI: 10.1021/ja010926m

Potential-Dependent Vibrational Spectroscopy of Solvent Molecules at the Pt(111) Electrode in a Water/Acetonitrile Mixture Studied by Sum Frequency Generation Steve Baldelli, Gilles Mailhot, Philip N. Ross, and Gabor A. Somorjai pp 7697–7702 DOI: 10.1021/ja016063e

A Contribution to the Design of Molecular Switches:  Novel Acid-Mediated Ring-Closing−Photochemical Ring-Opening of 2,3-Bis(heteroaryl)quinones (Heteroaryl = Thienyl, Furanyl, Pyrrolyl) Xiaohu Deng and Lanny S. Liebeskind pp 7703–7704 DOI: 10.1021/ja0106220 Supporting Info

Guanidinium Ylides as a New and Recyclable Source for Aziridines and Their Roles as Chiral Auxiliaries Kihito Hada, Toshiko Watanabe, Toshio Isobe, and Tsutomu Ishikawa pp 7705–7706 DOI: 10.1021/ja0107024 Supporting Info

Copper-Catalyzed Nitrogen Transfer Mediated by Iodosylbenzene PhIO Philippe Dauban, Laurent Sanière, Aurélie Tarrade, and Robert H. Dodd pp 7707–7708 DOI: 10.1021/ja010968a Supporting Info

The Energetic Contribution of Backbone−Backbone Hydrogen Bonds to the Thermodynamic Stability of a Hyperstable P22 Arc Repressor Mutant Thomas E. Wales and Michael C. Fitzgerald pp 7709–7710 DOI: 10.1021/ja010775n Supporting Info

Double Deprotonation of a Cyclopentadienyl Alkene to Form a Polydentate Trianionic Cyclopentadienyl Allyl Ligand System William J. Evans, Jason C. Brady, and Joseph W. Ziller pp 7711–7712 DOI: 10.1021/ja004320u Supporting Info

Main Group “Constrained Geometry” Complexes Jeffrey M. Pietryga, John D. Gorden, Charles L. B. Macdonald, Andreas Voigt, Robert J. Wiacek, and Alan H. Cowley pp 7713–7714 DOI: 10.1021/ja011039m Supporting Info

Hydroperoxo−Copper(II) Complex Stabilized by N3S-Type Ligand Having a Phenyl Thioether Masahito Kodera, Toshio Kita, Izumi Miura, Noritoshi Nakayama, Tomohisa Kawata, Koji Kano, and Shun Hirota pp 7715–7716 DOI: 10.1021/ja010689n Supporting Info

Acid Catalysis in HZSM-5:  The Role of Entropy Emil Roduner and Herbert Dilger pp 7717–7718 DOI: 10.1021/ja010613r

A Novel One-Pot Reaction:  Zwitterionic Rhodium Complex-Catalyzed Hydroaminovinylation of Vinyl Sulfones and a Vinylphosphonate Yong-Shou Lin, Bassam El Ali, and Howard Alper pp 7719–7720 DOI: 10.1021/ja010923+ Supporting Info

Diversity in Short β-Peptide 12-Helices:  High-Resolution Structural Analysis in Aqueous Solution of a Hexamer Containing Sulfonylated Pyrrolidine Residues Hee-Seung Lee, Faisal A. Syud, Xifang Wang, and Samuel H. Gellman pp 7721–7722 DOI: 10.1021/ja010734r Supporting Info

Polystyrene Bead-Assisted Self-Assembly of Microstructured Silica Hollow Spheres in Highly Alkaline Media Guangshan Zhu, Shilun Qiu, Osamu Terasaki, and Yen Wei pp 7723–7724 DOI: 10.1021/ja0158758 Supporting Info

The Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Kinetic Resolution of Secondary Alcohols with Molecular Oxygen Eric M. Ferreira and Brian M. Stoltz pp 7725–7726 DOI: 10.1021/ja015791z Supporting Info

A General and Efficient Copper Catalyst for the Amidation of Aryl Halides and the N-Arylation of Nitrogen Heterocycles Artis Klapars, Jon C. Antilla, Xiaohua Huang, and Stephen L. Buchwald pp 7727–7729 DOI: 10.1021/ja016226z Supporting Info

A Conducting Polymer Nanojunction Switch Huixin He, Jisheng Zhu, Nongjian J. Tao, Larry A. Nagahara, Islamshah Amlani, and Raymond Tsui pp 7730–7731 DOI: 10.1021/ja016264i

A Stable Halosilylene at Room Temperature in THF Solution Myong Euy Lee, Hyeon Mo Cho, Min Seong Ryu, Chang Hwan Kim, and Wataru Ando pp 7732–7733 DOI: 10.1021/ja016309f Supporting Info

Novel [2,3]-Sigmatropic Rearrangement for Carbon−Nitrogen Bond Formation Teruhiko Ishikawa, Masatomo Kawakami, Miyuki Fukui, Ayako Yamashita, Jin Urano, and Seiki Saito pp 7734–7735 DOI: 10.1021/ja011128z Supporting Info

The First Structurally Characterized Hypervalent Silicon Hydride:  Unexpected Molecular Geometry and Si−H···K Interactions Michael J. Bearpark, G. Sean McGrady, Paul D. Prince, and Jonathan W. Steed pp 7736–7737 DOI: 10.1021/ja0162616 Supporting Info

Nanorainbows:  Graded Semiconductor Films from Quantum Dots Arif A. Mamedov, Artem Belov, Michael Giersig, Nataliya N. Mamedova, and Nicholas A. Kotov pp 7738–7739 DOI: 10.1021/ja015857q Supporting Info

Discrete Supramolecular Architecture vs Crystal Engineering:  The Rational Design of a Platinum-Based Bimetallic Assembly with a Chairlike Structure and Its Infinite, Copper Analogue Frank M. Tabellion, S. Russell Seidel, Atta M. Arif, and Peter J. Stang pp 7740–7741 DOI: 10.1021/ja015784a Supporting Info

Understanding the Role of Helical Chains in the Formation of Noncentrosymmetric Solids Paul A. Maggard, Charlotte L. Stern, and Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier pp 7742–7743 DOI: 10.1021/ja016055y Supporting Info

Electronic Structure and Properties of Transition Metal−Benzene Complexes   [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 3799−3808].  Ravindra Pandey, Bijan K. Rao, Purusottam Jena, and Miguel Alvarez Blanco p 7744 DOI: 10.1021/ja015158d

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Influence of the Dynamic Positions of Cations on the Structure of the DNA Minor Groove:  Sequence-Dependent Effects Donald Hamelberg, Loren Dean Williams, and W. David Wilson pp 7745–7755 DOI: 10.1021/ja010341s Supporting Info

Change in Spin State and Enhancement of Redox Reactivity of Photoexcited States of Aromatic Carbonyl Compounds by Complexation with Metal Ion Salts Acting as Lewis Acids. Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Photoaddition of Benzyltrimethylsilane and Tetramethyltin via Photoinduced Electron Transfer Shunichi Fukuzumi, Naoya Satoh, Toshihiko Okamoto, Kiyomi Yasui, Tomoyoshi Suenobu, Yasuyo Seko, Mamoru Fujitsuka, and Osamu Ito pp 7756–7766 DOI: 10.1021/ja010125j Supporting Info

Catalytic Asymmetric Ring-Opening Metathesis/Cross Metathesis (AROM/CM) Reactions. Mechanism and Application to Enantioselective Synthesis of Functionalized Cyclopentanes Daniel S. La, Elizabeth S. Sattely, J. Gair Ford, Richard R. Schrock, and Amir H. Hoveyda pp 7767–7778 DOI: 10.1021/ja010684q Supporting Info

Palladium Catalysis for the Synthesis of Hydrophobic C-6 and C-2 Aryl 2‘-Deoxynucleosides. Comparison of C−C versus C−N Bond Formation as well as C-6 versus C-2 Reactivity Mahesh K. Lakshman, John H. Hilmer, Jocelyn Q. Martin, John C. Keeler, Yen Q. V. Dinh, Felix N. Ngassa, and Larry M. Russon pp 7779–7787 DOI: 10.1021/ja0107172 Supporting Info

High-Pressure Bulk Synthesis of Crystalline C6N9H3·HCl:  A Novel C3N4 Graphitic Derivative Zhihong Zhang, Kurt Leinenweber, Matt Bauer, Laurence A. J. Garvie, Paul F. McMillan, and George H. Wolf pp 7788–7796 DOI: 10.1021/ja0103849

Synthesis of Organic Monolayer-Stabilized Copper Nanocrystals in Supercritical Water Kirk J. Ziegler, R. Christopher Doty, Keith P. Johnston, and Brian A. Korgel pp 7797–7803 DOI: 10.1021/ja010824w Supporting Info

Absence of Mn-Centered Oxidation in the S2 → S3 Transition:  Implications for the Mechanism of Photosynthetic Water Oxidation Johannes Messinger, John H. Robblee, Uwe Bergmann, Carmen Fernandez, Pieter Glatzel, Hendrik Visser, Roehl M. Cinco, Karen L. McFarlane, Emanuele Bellacchio, Shelly A. Pizarro, Stephen P. Cramer, Kenneth Sauer, Melvin P. Klein, and Vittal K. Yachandra pp 7804–7820 DOI: 10.1021/ja004307+ Supporting Info

Exciton-Mediated Hydrosilylation on Photoluminescent Nanocrystalline Silicon Michael P. Stewart and Jillian M. Buriak pp 7821–7830 DOI: 10.1021/ja011116d Supporting Info

Fluorescent Sensors for Zn2+ Based on a Fluorescein Platform:  Synthesis, Properties and Intracellular Distribution Shawn C. Burdette, Grant K. Walkup, Bernhard Spingler, Roger Y. Tsien, and Stephen J. Lippard pp 7831–7841 DOI: 10.1021/ja010059l Supporting Info

Correlation between Molecular Structure and Helicity of Induced Chiral Nematics in Terms of Short-Range and Electrostatic−Induction Interactions. The Case of Chiral Biphenyls Andrea di Matteo, Steve M. Todd, Giovanni Gottarelli, Guy Solladié, Vance E. Williams, Robert P. Lemieux, Alberta Ferrarini, and Gian Piero Spada pp 7842–7851 DOI: 10.1021/ja010406r

Dynamics of an Inclusion Complex of Chloroform and Cryptophane-E:  Evidence for a Strongly Anisotropic van der Waals Bond Jan Lang, James J. Dechter, Maria Effemey, and Jozef Kowalewski pp 7852–7858 DOI: 10.1021/ja004349y

Conformational Switching and Exciton Interactions in Hemicyanine-Based Bichromophores S. Zeena and K. George Thomas pp 7859–7865 DOI: 10.1021/ja010199v Supporting Info

Geometry, Reduction Potential, and Reorganization Energy of the Binuclear CuA Site, Studied by Density Functional Theory Mats H. M. Olsson and Ulf Ryde pp 7866–7876 DOI: 10.1021/ja010315u Supporting Info

Conformational Gating of Long Distance Electron Transfer through Wire-like Bridges in Donor−Bridge−Acceptor Molecules William B. Davis, Mark A. Ratner, and Michael R. Wasielewski pp 7877–7886 DOI: 10.1021/ja010330z Supporting Info

“Dip-Pen” Nanolithography on Semiconductor Surfaces Albena Ivanisevic and Chad A. Mirkin pp 7887–7889 DOI: 10.1021/ja010671c

High-Frequency and Field EPR Investigation of (8,12-Diethyl-2,3,7,13,17,18-hexamethylcorrolato)manganese(III) J. Krzystek, Joshua Telser, Brian M. Hoffman, Louis-Claude Brunel, and Silvia Licoccia pp 7890–7897 DOI: 10.1021/ja010947g Supporting Info

A Solid-State NMR, X-ray Diffraction, and ab Initio Computational Study of Hydrogen-Bond Structure and Dynamics of Pyrazole-4-Carboxylic Acid Chains Concepción Foces-Foces, Aurea Echevarría, Nadine Jagerovic, Ibon Alkorta, José Elguero, Uwe Langer, Oliver Klein, María Minguet-Bonvehí, and Hans-Heinrich Limbach pp 7898–7906 DOI: 10.1021/ja002688l

Helix Formation in Unsolvated Peptides:  Side Chain Entropy Is Not the Determining Factor Brian S. Kinnear and Martin F. Jarrold pp 7907–7908 DOI: 10.1021/ja010891q

Study of C-4 Deoxygenation in the Biosynthesis of Desosamine:  Evidence Implicating a Novel Mechanism Lishan Zhao, Svetlana Borisova, Siu-Man Yeung, and Hung-wen Liu pp 7909–7910 DOI: 10.1021/ja010587x Supporting Info

A New Type of Potent Inhibitors of HIV-1 TAR RNA−Tat Peptide Binding by Zinc(II)−Macrocyclic Tetraamine Complexes Emiko Kikuta, Shin Aoki, and Eiichi Kimura pp 7911–7912 DOI: 10.1021/ja0108335 Supporting Info

Facile Synthesis of Well-Defined, Biocompatible Phosphorylcholine-Based Methacrylate Copolymers via Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization at 20 °C Emma J. Lobb, Iris Ma, Norman C. Billingham, and Steven P. ArmesAndrew L. Lewis pp 7913–7914 DOI: 10.1021/ja003906d Supporting Info

CPI:  A Recipe for Improving Applicable Properties of Discotic Liquid Crystals Neville Boden, Richard J. Bushby, Graeme Cooke, Owen R Lozman, and Zhibao Lu pp 7915–7916 DOI: 10.1021/ja003443b

Conducting Polymers Incorporating Tungsten-Capped Calixarenes Arkadi Vigalok, Zhengguo Zhu, and Timothy M. Swager pp 7917–7918 DOI: 10.1021/ja0160142 Supporting Info

Isotope-Edited Raman Spectroscopy of Proteins:  A General Strategy To Probe Individual Peptide Bonds with Application to Insulin Jian Dong, Zhu-Li Wan, Ying-Chi Chu, Satoe N. Nakagawa, Panayotis G. Katsoyannis, Michael A. Weiss, and Paul R. Carey pp 7919–7920 DOI: 10.1021/ja011101f

Approach to a Single-Component Ferrimagnetism by Organic Radical Crystals Yuko Hosokoshi, Keiichi Katoh, Yasuhiro Nakazawa, Hiroki Nakano, and Katsuya Inoue pp 7921–7922 DOI: 10.1021/ja015711r Supporting Info

Synthesis and Characterization of a Distonic Nitrene Ion:  Gas-Phase Reactivity of Singlet and Triplet N-Phenyl-3-Nitrenopyridinium Ion Shane E. Tichy, Brian T. Hill, J. Larry Campbell, and Hilkka I. Kenttämaa pp 7923–7924 DOI: 10.1021/ja0157088

Metalative Reppe Reaction. Organized Assembly of Acetylene Molecules on Titanium Template Leading to a New Style of Acetylene Cyclotrimerization Daisuke Suzuki, Hirokazu Urabe, and Fumie Sato pp 7925–7926 DOI: 10.1021/ja0161913 Supporting Info

Facile Dinitrogen Reduction via Organometallic Tm(II) Chemistry William J. Evans, Nathan T. Allen, and Joseph W. Ziller pp 7927–7928 DOI: 10.1021/ja011282l Supporting Info

Enantiopure Dihydro-[5]-helicenequinones via Diels−Alder Reactions of Vinyl Dihydrophenanthrenes and (SS)-2-(p-Tolylsulfinyl)-1,4-benzoquinone M. Carmen Carreño, Susana García-Cerrada, and Antonio Urbano pp 7929–7930 DOI: 10.1021/ja010831k Supporting Info

Photorelease of HCl from o-Methylphenacyl Chloride Proceeds through the Z-Xylylenol Anna Paola Pelliccioli, Petr Klán, Miroslav Zabadal, and Jakob Wirz pp 7931–7932 DOI: 10.1021/ja016088d

Frontal Polymerization Synthesis of Temperature-Sensitive Hydrogels Randy P. Washington and Oliver Steinbock pp 7933–7934 DOI: 10.1021/ja0161103

A Gallium-Substituted Cubane-Type Cluster in Pyrococcus furiosus Ferredoxin Keith A. Johnson, Phillip S. Brereton, Marc F. J. M. Verhagen, Luigi Calzolai, Gerd N. La Mar, Michael W. W. Adams, and I. Jonathan Amster pp 7935–7936 DOI: 10.1021/ja0160795 Supporting Info

Remarkably Facile, Unidirectional Isomerization of Titanated Vinylallenes to Cyclobutenyltitanium Compounds. A Practical Construction of a Cyclobutene Framework Christophe Delas, Hirokazu Urabe, and Fumie Sato pp 7937–7938 DOI: 10.1021/ja016307v Supporting Info

The Structural Role of Cholesterol in Biological Membranes Michihiro Sugahara, Maki Uragami, Xun Yan, and Steven L. Regen pp 7939–7940 DOI: 10.1021/ja016199c Supporting Info

“Cation Flow” Method:  A New Approach to Conventional and Combinatorial Organic Syntheses Using Electrochemical Microflow Systems Seiji Suga, Masayuki Okajima, Kazuyuki Fujiwara, and Jun-ichi Yoshida pp 7941–7942 DOI: 10.1021/ja015823i Supporting Info

Reversal of Polymerization Stereoregulation in Anionic Polymerization of MMA by Chiral Metallocene and Non-metallocene Initiators:  A New Reaction Pathway for Metallocene-Initiated MMA Polymerization Andrew D. Bolig and Eugene Y.-X. Chen pp 7943–7944 DOI: 10.1021/ja016188j Supporting Info

Intramolecular, Nucleophile-Catalyzed Aldol-Lactonization (NCAL) Reactions:  Catalytic, Asymmetric Synthesis of Bicyclic β-Lactones Guillermo S. Cortez, Reginald L. Tennyson, and Daniel Romo pp 7945–7946 DOI: 10.1021/ja016134+ Supporting Info

Phosphine Ligand Exchange at a Phosphine Lewis Acceptor:  The First Structural Characterization of Homoleptic Phosphinophosphonium Salts Neil Burford, T. Stanley Cameron, and Paul J. RagognaEdgar Ocando-MavarezMyrlene Gee, Robert McDonald, and Roderick E. Wasylishen pp 7947–7948 DOI: 10.1021/ja011075l Supporting Info

Glycine Enolates:  The Large Effect of Iminium Ion Formation on α-Amino Carbon Acidity Ana Rios, Juan Crugeiras, Tina L. Amyes, and John P. Richard pp 7949–7950 DOI: 10.1021/ja016250c Supporting Info

On the Validity of the Maximum Hardness and Minimum Polarizability Principles for Nontotally Symmetric Vibrations Miquel Torrent-Sucarrat, Josep M. Luis, Miquel Duran, and Miquel Solà pp 7951–7952 DOI: 10.1021/ja015737i Supporting Info

Enantiospecific Desorption of R- and S-Propylene Oxide from a Chiral Cu(643) Surface Joshua D. Horvath and Andrew J. Gellman pp 7953–7954 DOI: 10.1021/ja015890c

Self-Organization of Large Gold Nanoparticle Arrays Beomseok Kim, Steven L. Tripp, and Alexander Wei pp 7955–7956 DOI: 10.1021/ja0160344 Supporting Info

Self-Organized Hybrid Silica with Long-Range Ordered Lamellar Structure Joël J. E. Moreau, Luc Vellutini, Michel Wong Chi Man, Catherine Bied, Jean-Louis Bantignies, Philippe Dieudonné, and Jean-Louis Sauvajol pp 7957–7958 DOI: 10.1021/ja016053d

Doping Molecular Semiconductors:  n-Type Doping of a Liquid Crystal Perylene Diimide Brian A. Gregg and Russell A. Cormier pp 7959–7960 DOI: 10.1021/ja016410k Supporting Info

DNA-Modified Core−Shell Ag/Au Nanoparticles YunWei Cao, Rongchao Jin, and Chad A. Mirkin pp 7961–7962 DOI: 10.1021/ja011342n Supporting Info

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Interconversion of (S)-Glutamate and (2S,3S)-3-Methylaspartate:  A Distinctive B12-Dependent Carbon-Skeleton Rearrangement Stacey D. Wetmore, David M. Smith, Bernard T. Golding, and Leo Radom pp 7963–7972 DOI: 10.1021/ja004246f Supporting Info

Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalysis of Mixed-Ligand Lithium Aggregates, Excellent Initiators for the Ring-Opening Polymerization of l-Lactide Bao-Tsan Ko and Chu-Chieh Lin pp 7973–7977 DOI: 10.1021/ja010604i Supporting Info

Self-Assembly of Folded m-Phenylene Ethynylene Oligomers into Helical Columns Luc Brunsveld, E. W. Meijer, Ryan B. Prince, and Jeffrey S. Moore pp 7978–7984 DOI: 10.1021/ja010751g

Photobleaching of Asymmetric Cyanines Used for Fluorescence Imaging of Single DNA Molecules Claire Kanony, Björn Åkerman, and Eimer Tuite pp 7985–7995 DOI: 10.1021/ja001047n

Palladium-Catalyzed α-Arylation of Esters Wahed A. Moradi and Stephen L. Buchwald pp 7996–8002 DOI: 10.1021/ja010797+

Biogenetically Inspired Approach to the Strychnos Alkaloids. Concise Syntheses of (±)-Akuammicine and (±)-Strychnine Masayuki Ito, Cameron W. Clark, Michael Mortimore, Jane Betty Goh, and Stephen F. Martin pp 8003–8010 DOI: 10.1021/ja010935v Supporting Info

Reactions of Tetrakis(dimethylamide)−Titanium, −Zirconium and −Hafnium with Silanes:  Synthesis of Unusual Amide Hydride Complexes and Mechanistic Studies of Titanium−Silicon−Nitride (Ti−Si−N) Formation Xiaozhan Liu, Zhongzhi Wu, Hu Cai, Yihui Yang, Tianniu Chen, Catherine E. Vallet, Ray A. Zuhr, David B. Beach, Zhi-Hui Peng, Yun-Dong Wu, Thomas E. Concolino, Arnold L. Rheingold, and Ziling Xue pp 8011–8021 DOI: 10.1021/ja010744s Supporting Info

Expanded Prussian Blue Analogues Incorporating [Re6Se8(CN)6]3-/4- Clusters:  Adjusting Porosity via Charge Balance Miriam V. Bennett, Laurance G. Beauvais, Matthew P. Shores, and Jeffrey R. Long pp 8022–8032 DOI: 10.1021/ja0110473 Supporting Info

Synthesis of Ferrocenethiols Containing Oligo(phenylenevinylene) Bridges and Their Characterization on Gold Electrodes Stephen P. Dudek, Hadley D. Sikes, and Christopher E. D. Chidsey pp 8033–8038 DOI: 10.1021/ja0043340 Supporting Info

Solution Structures and Reactivities of the Mixed Aggregates Derived from n-Butyllithium and Vicinal Amino Alkoxides Xiufeng Sun, Mark D. Winemiller, Bosong Xiang, and David B. Collum pp 8039–8046 DOI: 10.1021/ja010136c Supporting Info

Rotational Motion in Liquid Water Is Anisotropic:  A Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study J. Ropp, C. Lawrence, T. C. Farrar, and J. L. Skinner pp 8047–8052 DOI: 10.1021/ja010312h

Paramagnetic NMR Investigations of High-Spin Nickel(II) Complexes. Controlled Synthesis, Structural, Electronic, and Magnetic Properties of Dinuclear vs Mononuclear Species Catherine Belle, Catherine Bougault, Marie-Thérèse Averbuch, André Durif, Jean-Louis Pierre, Jean-Marc Latour, and Laurent Le Pape pp 8053–8066 DOI: 10.1021/ja010342k Supporting Info

Amine-Chelated Aryllithium ReagentsStructure and Dynamics Hans J. Reich, Wayne S. Goldenberg, Birgir Ö. Gudmundsson, Aaron W. Sanders, Klaus J. Kulicke, Katya Simon, and Ilia A. Guzei pp 8067–8079 DOI: 10.1021/ja010489b Supporting Info

Solution NMR Determination of the Seating(s) of Meso-nitro-etioheme-1 in Myoglobin:  Implications for Steric Constraints to Meso Position Access in Heme Degradation by Coupled Oxidation Jingtao Wang, Yiming Li, Dejian Ma, Heather Kalish, Alan L. Balch, and Gerd N. La Mar pp 8080–8088 DOI: 10.1021/ja010651a Supporting Info

Flash Photolytic Generation of ortho-Quinone Methide in Aqueous Solution and Study of Its Chemistry in that Medium Y. Chiang, A. J. Kresge, and Y. Zhu pp 8089–8094 DOI: 10.1021/ja010826g Supporting Info

Mechanism of a Novel Exchange Process in Alkali Metal Salts of 1,5-Dicyclooctatetraenylnaphthalene Dianion Stuart W. Staley and Joanne D. Kehlbeck pp 8095–8100 DOI: 10.1021/ja011059o Supporting Info

Polyphenylene Dendrimers with Different Fluorescent Chromophores Asymmetrically Distributed at the Periphery Tanja Weil, Uwe M. Wiesler, Andreas Herrmann, Roland Bauer, Johan Hofkens, Frans C. De Schryver, and Klaus Müllen pp 8101–8108 DOI: 10.1021/ja010579g Supporting Info

The 2-Norbornyl Cation via the Fragmentations of exo- and endo-2-Norbornyloxychlorocarbenes:  Distinction without Much Difference Robert A. Moss, Fengmei Zheng, Ronald R. Sauers, and John P. Toscano pp 8109–8116 DOI: 10.1021/ja010598q

Amine-Promoted Disproportionation and Redistribution of Trichlorosilane:  Formation of Tetradecachlorocyclohexasilane Dianion1 Seok-Bong Choi, Beon-Kyu Kim, Philip Boudjouk, and Dean G. Grier pp 8117–8118 DOI: 10.1021/ja002831a Supporting Info

Three-Dimensional Self-Assembly of Complex, Millimeter-Scale Structures through Capillary Bonding Scott R. J. Oliver, Thomas D. Clark, Ned Bowden, and George M. Whitesides pp 8119–8120 DOI: 10.1021/ja010845q Supporting Info

High Activity Enzyme Microcrystal Multilayer Films Wen Jin, Xiangyang Shi, and Frank Caruso pp 8121–8122 DOI: 10.1021/ja015807l Supporting Info

Synthesis and Structures of Novel Low-Valent Group 14 1,3-Dimetallacyclobutanes and a Mixed-Metal 1,3-Stanna−Plumbacyclobutane Wing-Por Leung, Zhong-Xia Wang, Hung-Wing Li, Qing-Chuan Yang, and Thomas C. W. Mak pp 8123–8124 DOI: 10.1021/ja0040619 Supporting Info

A Bioinspired Dicopper(II) Catalyst for the Transesterification of Dimethyl Phosphate Ulrike Kühn, Sabine Warzeska, Hans Pritzkow, and Roland Krämer pp 8125–8126 DOI: 10.1021/ja015562c Supporting Info

57Fe Mössbauer Investigation on Doped Nickelates ANiO3 (A = Y, Lu, Tl) Seung-Joo Kim and Gérard DemazeauIgor Presniakov, Konstantin Pokholok, and Alexey SobolevNikolay Ovanesyan pp 8127–8128 DOI: 10.1021/ja0157090 Supporting Info

Energetics: A New Field of Applications for Hydrophobic Zeolites Valentin Eroshenko, Robert-Charles Regis, Michel Soulard, and Joël Patarin pp 8129–8130 DOI: 10.1021/ja011011a

Chromium(III)-Promoted C(2) Isotopic H-Exchange in Coordinated N-Methylimidazole:  Exceptionally Rapid or Slow and Normal? Charles R. Clark, Allan G. Blackman, and Andrea J. Clarkson pp 8131–8132 DOI: 10.1021/ja0106218 Supporting Info

Resolution of 129Xe Chemical Shifts at Ultralow Magnetic Field Sunil Saxena, Annjoe Wong-Foy, Adam J. Moule, Juliette A. Seeley, Robert McDermott, John Clarke, and Alexander Pines pp 8133–8134 DOI: 10.1021/ja011064s Supporting Info

Relative Orientation of Quadrupole Tensors from Two-Dimensional Multiple-Quantum MAS NMR Nicholas G. Dowell, Sharon E. Ashbrook, Jamie McManus, and Stephen Wimperis pp 8135–8136 DOI: 10.1021/ja010681d

The Reactivity of Molecules Trapped within the SAPO-34 Cavities in the Methanol-to-Hydrocarbons Reaction Bjørnar Arstad and Stein Kolboe pp 8137–8138 DOI: 10.1021/ja010668t

Acyloxymethylzinc Reagents:  Preparation, Reactivity, and Solid-State Structure of This Novel Class of Cyclopropanating Reagents André B. Charette, André Beauchemin, and Sébastien Francoeur pp 8139–8140 DOI: 10.1021/ja0109287 Supporting Info

Preparation and Characterization of Purified Amyloid Fibrils Jesús Zurdo, J. Iñaki Guijarro, and Christopher M. Dobson pp 8141–8142 DOI: 10.1021/ja016229b

O-Protonation of a Terminal Nitrosyl Group To Form an η1-Hydroxylimido Ligand W. Brett Sharp, Peter Legzdins, and Brian O. Patrick pp 8143–8144 DOI: 10.1021/ja002738m Supporting Info

Synthesis and Proinflammatory Effects of Peptidoglycan-Derived Neoglycopeptide Polymers Aloysius Siriwardena, Malene R. Jørgensen, Margreet A. Wolfert, Michel L. Vandenplas, James N. Moore, and Geert-Jan Boons pp 8145–8146 DOI: 10.1021/ja0104655 Supporting Info

Evidence for Chemisorbed Molecular Hydrogen in Fe-ZSM5 from Inelastic Neutron Scattering Barbara L. Mojet, Juergen Eckert, Rutger A. van Santen, Alberto Albinati, and Ruep E. Lechner pp 8147–8148 DOI: 10.1021/ja016078c

Selective Functionalization of Amino Acids in Water: A Synthetic Method via Catalytic C−H Bond Activation Brian D. Dangel, James A. Johnson, and Dalibor Sames pp 8149–8150 DOI: 10.1021/ja016280f Supporting Info

Barcoded Resins:  A New Concept for Polymer-Supported Combinatorial Library Self-Deconvolution Hicham Fenniri, Lunhan Ding, Alexander E. Ribbe, and Yegor Zyrianov pp 8151–8152 DOI: 10.1021/ja016375h Supporting Info

Bifunctional Molecular Sieve Catalysts for the Benign Ammoximation of Cyclohexanone:  One-Step, Solvent-Free Production of Oxime and ε-Caprolactam with a Mixture of Air and Ammonia Robert Raja, Gopinathan Sankar, and John Meurig Thomas pp 8153–8154 DOI: 10.1021/ja011001+ Supporting Info

Accelerated Discovery of Synthetic Transfection Vectors:  Parallel Synthesis and Screening of a Degradable Polymer Library David M. Lynn, Daniel G. Anderson, David Putnam, and Robert Langer pp 8155–8156 DOI: 10.1021/ja016288p Supporting Info

Enforced Stacking in Crowded Arenes Mark L. Bushey, Austin Hwang, Peter W. Stephens, and Colin Nuckolls pp 8157–8158 DOI: 10.1021/ja0104148 Supporting Info

Switching of a Macromolecular Helicity for Visual Distinction of Molecular Recognition Events Eiji Yashima, Katsuhiro Maeda, and Osamu Sato pp 8159–8160 DOI: 10.1021/ja016393z Supporting Info

Effects of Hydration on the Electronic Structure of an Enzyme:  Implications for the Catalytic Function Kazuki Ohno, Narutoshi Kamiya, Naoki Asakawa, Yoshio Inoue, and Minoru Sakurai pp 8161–8162 DOI: 10.1021/ja015589w

The Anomalous Infrared Amide I Intensity Distribution in 13C Isotopically Labeled Peptide β-Sheets Comes from Extended, Multiple-Stranded Structures. An ab Initio Study  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 6142−6150]. Jan Kubelka and Timothy A. Keiderling p 8163 DOI: 10.1021/ja0151605

Principles and Practice of Biological Mass Spectrometry By Chhabil Dass (University of Memphis). J. Wiley & Sons, Inc.:  New York. 2001. xxviii + 416 pp. $99.95. ISBN 0-471-33053-1. Mehdi Moini pp 8163–8164 DOI: 10.1021/ja0152254

Molecular Magnetism:  New Magnetic Materials By Koichi Itoh (Osaka City University) and Minoru Kinoshita (Science University of Tokyo in Yamaguchi). Kodansha and Gordon & Breach:  Tokyo and Amsterdam. xvi + 348 pp. $120.00. ISBN 4-06-209070-1 (Kondansha) and 90-5699-307-0 (Gordon & Breach). Paul M. Lahti p 8164 DOI: 10.1021/ja0152207

Associative Polymers in Aqueous Media Edited by J. Edward Glass (North Dakota State University). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC (Distributed by Oxford University Press). 2000. xii + 418 pp. $145.00. ISBN 0-8412-3659-3. p 8164 DOI: 10.1021/ja015262v

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Acid/Azole Complexes as Highly Effective Promoters in the Synthesis of DNA and RNA Oligomers via the Phosphoramidite Method Yoshihiro Hayakawa, Rie Kawai, Akiyoshi Hirata, Jun-ichiro Sugimoto, Masanori Kataoka, Akira Sakakura, Masaaki Hirose, and Ryoji Noyori pp 8165–8176 DOI: 10.1021/ja010078v Supporting Info

Tetrahedral Onsager Crosses for Solubility Improvement and Crystallization Bypass Isabelle Aujard, Jean-Pierre Baltaze, Jean-Bernard Baudin, Emmanuelle Cogné, Fabien Ferrage, Ludovic Jullien, Éric Perez, Valéry Prévost, Lin Mao Qian, and Odile Ruel pp 8177–8188 DOI: 10.1021/ja010019h Supporting Info

Cyclic Homooligomers from Sugar Amino Acids:  Synthesis, Conformational Analysis, and Significance Elsa Locardi, Matthias Stöckle, Sibylle Gruner, and Horst Kessler pp 8189–8196 DOI: 10.1021/ja010181k

Interfacial Phase Transition of an Environmentally Responsive Elastin Biopolymer Adsorbed on Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles Studied by Colloidal Surface Plasmon Resonance Nidhi Nath and Ashutosh Chilkoti pp 8197–8202 DOI: 10.1021/ja015585r

Interfacial Nonradiative Energy Transfer in Responsive Core−Shell Hydrogel Nanoparticles Daoji Gan and L. Andrew Lyon pp 8203–8209 DOI: 10.1021/ja015974l

Theoretical and Experimental Determination of the Effects Governing the Transannular Diels−Alder Reaction of Trans−Trans−Cis Systems with or without Activation of the Dienophile Samuel Fortin, Louis Barriault, Yves L. Dory, and Pierre Deslongchamps pp 8210–8216 DOI: 10.1021/ja0109491 Supporting Info

Highly Regioselective, Sequential, and Multiple Palladium-Catalyzed Arylations of Vinyl Ethers Carrying a Coordinating Auxiliary:  An Example of a Heck Triarylation Process Peter Nilsson, Mats Larhed, and Anders Hallberg pp 8217–8225 DOI: 10.1021/ja011019k Supporting Info

Quantitative and Reversible Lectin-Induced Association of Gold Nanoparticles Modified with α-Lactosyl-ω-mercapto-poly(ethylene glycol) Hidenori Otsuka, Yoshitsugu Akiyama, Yukio Nagasaki, and Kazunori Kataoka pp 8226–8230 DOI: 10.1021/ja010437m Supporting Info

Chiral Diamines 4:  A Computational Study of the Enantioselective Deprotonation of Boc-pyrrolidine with an Alkyllithium in the Presence of a Chiral Diamine Kenneth B. Wiberg and William F. Bailey pp 8231–8238 DOI: 10.1021/ja0107733 Supporting Info

Assembly of Metal−Organic Frameworks from Large Organic and Inorganic Secondary Building Units:  New Examples and Simplifying Principles for Complex Structures Jaheon Kim, Banglin Chen, Theresa M. Reineke, Hailian Li, Mohamed Eddaoudi, David B. Moler, Michael O'Keeffe, and Omar M. Yaghi pp 8239–8247 DOI: 10.1021/ja010825o Supporting Info

Synthesis and Catalytic Antibody Functionalization of Dendrimers Armando Córdova and Kim D. Janda pp 8248–8259 DOI: 10.1021/ja001819f Supporting Info

First Direct Structural Comparison of Complexes of the Same Metal Fragment to Ketenes in Both C,C- and C,O-Bonding Modes Douglas B. Grotjahn, Laura S. B. Collins, Marcus Wolpert, Galina A. Bikzhanova, H. Christine Lo, David Combs, and John L. Hubbard pp 8260–8270 DOI: 10.1021/ja004324z Supporting Info

Spectroscopic Properties and Electronic Structure of Low-Spin Fe(III)−Alkylperoxo Complexes:  Homolytic Cleavage of the O−O Bond Nicolai Lehnert, Raymond Y. N. Ho, Lawrence Que, Jr., and Edward I. Solomon pp 8271–8290 DOI: 10.1021/ja010165n Supporting Info

Cationic Aluminum Alkyl Complexes Incorporating Aminotroponiminate Ligands Andrey V. Korolev, Eiji Ihara, Ilia A. Guzei, Victor G. Young, Jr., and Richard F. Jordan pp 8291–8309 DOI: 10.1021/ja010242e Supporting Info

Sonochemical Preparation of Supported Hydrodesulfurization Catalysts N. Arul Dhas, Arash Ekhtiarzadeh, and Kenneth S. Suslick pp 8310–8316 DOI: 10.1021/ja010516y

Oxidative Addition of the Imidazolium Cation to Zerovalent Ni, Pd, and Pt:  A Combined Density Functional and Experimental Study David S. McGuinness, Kingsley J. Cavell, Brian F. Yates, Brian W. Skelton, and Allan H. White pp 8317–8328 DOI: 10.1021/ja010628p Supporting Info

Photophysics of π-Conjugated Metal−Organic Oligomers:  Aryleneethynylenes that Contain the (bpy)Re(CO)3Cl Chromophore Keith A. Walters, Kevin D. Ley, Carla S. P. Cavalaheiro, Scott E. Miller, David Gosztola, Michael R. Wasielewski, Alejandro P. Bussandri, Hans van Willigen, and Kirk S. Schanze pp 8329–8342 DOI: 10.1021/ja015813h Supporting Info

Monodithiolene Molybdenum(V,VI) Complexes:  A Structural Analogue of the Oxidized Active Site of the Sulfite Oxidase Enzyme Family Booyong S. Lim, Michael W. Willer, Mingming Miao, and R. H. Holm pp 8343–8349 DOI: 10.1021/ja010786g Supporting Info

Use of WO42- on Layered Double Hydroxides for Mild Oxidative Bromination and Bromide-Assisted Epoxidation with H2O2 Bert F. Sels, Dirk E. De Vos, and Pierre A. Jacobs pp 8350–8359 DOI: 10.1021/ja015930c Supporting Info

Cation−π Interactions and the Gas-Phase Thermochemistry of the Na+/Phenylalanine Complex Alexei Gapeev and Robert C. Dunbar pp 8360–8365 DOI: 10.1021/ja010351t

o-Quinone Methide as Alkylating Agent of Nitrogen, Oxygen, and Sulfur Nucleophiles. The Role of H-Bonding and Solvent Effects on the Reactivity through a DFT Computational Study Cristiana Di Valentin, Mauro Freccero, Riccardo Zanaletti, and Mirko Sarzi-Amadè pp 8366–8377 DOI: 10.1021/ja010433h Supporting Info

Proton Positions in the Mn2+ Binding Site of Concanavalin A as Determined by Single-Crystal High-Field ENDOR Spectroscopy Raanan Carmieli, Palanichamy Manikandan, A. Joseph Kalb (Gilboa), and Daniella Goldfarb pp 8378–8386 DOI: 10.1021/ja0104305

Rate Constant Dependence on the Size of Aldehydes in the NO3 + Aldehydes Reaction. An Explanation via Quantum Chemical Calculations and CTST J. Raúl Alvarez-Idaboy, Annia Galano, Graciela Bravo-Pérez, and Ma. Esther Ruiz pp 8387–8395 DOI: 10.1021/ja010693z

New Thermal Reactions of Deuterium-Labeled Bicyclo[3.2.0]hept-2-enes:  Bicyclic Skeletal Inversion and Epimerization at C7 John E. Baldwin* and Phyllis A. Leber pp 8396–8397 DOI: 10.1021/ja011230w

A New Multicomponent Coupling of Aldehydes, Amides, and Dienophiles:  Atom-Efficient One-Pot Synthesis of Highly Substituted Cyclohexenes and Cyclohexadienes Helfried Neumann, Axel Jacobi von Wangelin, Dirk Gördes, Anke Spannenberg, and Matthias Beller pp 8398–8399 DOI: 10.1021/ja010503k Supporting Info

Oxa-Cope Rearrangement of Silenes Thermally Generated from 1,2-Bis[tris(trimethylsilyl)silylcarbonyl]alkanes Joji Ohshita, Kazuhiro Yoshimoto, Toshiyuki Iida, and Atsutaka Kunai pp 8400–8401 DOI: 10.1021/ja0109646 Supporting Info

A Luminescent Metalloreceptor Exhibiting Remarkably High Selectivity for Mg2+ over Ca2+ Shigeru Watanabe, Shinsuke Ikishima, Takeshi Matsuo, and Katsuhira Yoshida pp 8402–8403 DOI: 10.1021/ja010931q Supporting Info

Catalyst Design by Interpolation in the Periodic Table:  Bimetallic Ammonia Synthesis Catalysts Claus J. H. Jacobsen, Søren Dahl, Bjerne S. Clausen, Sune Bahn, Ashildur Logadottir, and Jens K. Nørskov pp 8404–8405 DOI: 10.1021/ja010963d

Diffusive Transport of Micelles and Monomeric Solutes in Supercritical CO2 Dongil Lee, John C. Hutchison, Joseph M. DeSimone, and Royce W. Murray pp 8406–8407 DOI: 10.1021/ja0162818 Supporting Info

Reaction of Lithium Aluminum Hydride with Elemental Selenium:  Its Application as a Selenating Reagent into Organic Molecules Hideharu Ishihara, Mamoru Koketsu, Yoshihisa Fukuta, and Futoshi Nada pp 8408–8409 DOI: 10.1021/ja005800o Supporting Info

Palladium-Catalyzed α-Arylation of Esters and Protected Amino Acids Sunwoo Lee, Neil A. Beare, and John F. Hartwig pp 8410–8411 DOI: 10.1021/ja016032j Supporting Info

Monitoring Chemical Transformations at Buried Organic Interfaces by Electric Force Microscopy Hajime Takano and Marc D. Porter pp 8412–8413 DOI: 10.1021/ja016353v

An Electronic Nose Transducer Array of Vapoluminescent Platinum(II) Double Salts Steven M. Drew, Daron E. Janzen, Carrie E. Buss, Daniel I. MacEwan, Kimberly M. Dublin, and Kent R. Mann pp 8414–8415 DOI: 10.1021/ja016010x Supporting Info

Regio- and Stereochemical Control in Bis-functionalization−Cyclization:  Use of Alleneyne Precursors for Carbocyclic and Heterocyclic Synthesis Seunghoon Shin and T. V. RajanBabu pp 8416–8417 DOI: 10.1021/ja011281t Supporting Info

Phase Transition of Zeolite RHO at High-Pressure Yongjae Lee, Joseph A. Hriljac, Thomas Vogt, John B. Parise, Michael J. Edmondson, Paul A. Anderson, David R. Corbin, and Takaya Nagai pp 8418–8419 DOI: 10.1021/ja0161554

Mukaiyama Aldol−Prins Cyclization Cascade Reaction:  A Formal Total Synthesis of Leucascandrolide A David J. Kopecky and Scott D. Rychnovsky* pp 8420–8421 DOI: 10.1021/ja011377n Supporting Info

Isolated Ir(V) Boryl Complexes and Their Reactions with Hydrocarbons Kazumori Kawamura and John F. Hartwig pp 8422–8423 DOI: 10.1021/ja015975d Supporting Info

Reactivity of a Tantalum−Lithium Alkylidene Supported by an Anionic Triazacyclononane Ligand Joseph A. R. Schmidt and John Arnold pp 8424–8425 DOI: 10.1021/ja016143i Supporting Info

On the Formation of the Thermotropic Cubic Phase:  Insights from Monoacetylide Complexes of Pt(II) Carole Mongin, Bertrand Donnio, and Duncan W. Bruce pp 8426–8427 DOI: 10.1021/ja015944i

The Reversible Formation of the Enolate of Benzocyclobutenone under Aqueous Conditions Richard W. Nagorski, April D. DeAtley, and Katherine M. Broadus pp 8428–8429 DOI: 10.1021/ja0161608

Biomimetic Stabilization of Helical Structure in a Synthetic Polymer by Means of Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds Ryoji Nomura, Junichi Tabei, and Toshio Masuda pp 8430–8431 DOI: 10.1021/ja015688+ Supporting Info

Methylaminomethylidyne:  A Stable Intermediate Formed on the Pt(111) Surface from the N-Protonation of Methyl Isocyanide Dae-Hyuk Kang and Michael Trenary pp 8432–8433 DOI: 10.1021/ja0162717

C-Methyltransferase and Cyclization Domain Activity at the Intraprotein PK/NRP Switch Point of Yersiniabactin Synthetase Deborah Ann Miller, Christopher T. Walsh, and Lusong Luo pp 8434–8435 DOI: 10.1021/ja016398w

Hydrogen Bonding and O2 Affinity of Hemoglobins Damián A. Scherlis and Darío A. Estrin pp 8436–8437 DOI: 10.1021/ja015665v Supporting Info

Accelerated Arene Ligand Exchange in AreneCr(CO3) Complexes M. F. Semmelhack, Anatoliy Chlenov, Lingyun Wu, and Douglas Ho pp 8438–8439 DOI: 10.1021/ja0161150 Supporting Info

Permanent Electric Dipole and Conformation of Unsolvated Tryptophan Isabelle Compagnon, Frederick C. Hagemeister, Rodolphe Antoine, Driss Rayane, Michel Broyer, Philippe Dugourd, Robert R. Hudgins, and Martin F. Jarrold pp 8440–8441 DOI: 10.1021/ja010965y

Supramolecular Stabilization of a Tris(imidazolyl) Zn−Aqua Complex Evidenced by X-ray Analysis:  A Structural Model for Mono-Zinc Active Sites of Enzymes Olivier Sénèque, Marie-Noëlle Rager, Michel Giorgi, and Olivia Reinaud pp 8442–8443 DOI: 10.1021/ja016345e Supporting Info

A New Approach to Enantiocontrol and Enantioselectivity Amplification:  Chiral Relay in Diels−Alder Reactions Mukund P. Sibi, Lakshmanan Venkatraman, Mei Liu, and Craig P. Jasperse pp 8444–8445 DOI: 10.1021/ja016396b Supporting Info

First Divergent Strategy Using Two AB2 Unprotected Monomers for the Rapid Synthesis of Dendrimers  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 6698−6699].  Laurent Brauge, Germinal Magro, Anne-Marie Caminade, and Jean-Pierre Majoral p 8446 DOI: 10.1021/ja0151596

Analysis of Surfactants. Second Edition, Revised and Expanded By Thomas M. Schmitt (BASF Corp.). Marcel Dekker:  New York. x + 638 pp. $225.00. ISBN 0-8247-0449-5 p 8446 DOI: 10.1021/ja0152557

Issue 35

Direct pKa Measurement of the Active-Site Cytosine in a Genomic Hepatitis Delta Virus Ribozyme Andrej Lupták, Adrian R. Ferré-D'Amaré, Kaihong Zhou, Kurt W. Zilm, and Jennifer A. Doudna pp 8447–8452 DOI: 10.1021/ja016091x Supporting Info

Noncovalently Functionalized Dendrimers as Recyclable Catalysts Debby de Groot, Bas F. M. de Waal, Joost N. H. Reek, Albertus P. H. J. Schenning, Paul C. J. Kamer, E. W. Meijer, and Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen pp 8453–8458 DOI: 10.1021/ja005774u Supporting Info

Photoalkylation of 10-Alkylacridinium Ion via a Charge-Shift Type of Photoinduced Electron Transfer Controlled by Solvent Polarity Shunichi Fukuzumi, Kei Ohkubo, Tomoyoshi Suenobu, Kouta Kato, Mamoru Fujitsuka, and Osamu Ito pp 8459–8467 DOI: 10.1021/ja004311l Supporting Info

A Silica-Supported, Switchable, and Recyclable Hydroformylation−Hydrogenation Catalyst Albertus J. Sandee, Joost N. H. Reek, Paul C. J. Kamer, and Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen pp 8468–8476 DOI: 10.1021/ja010150p

2-(Hydroxycarbonyl)benzyl Glycosides:  A Novel Type of Glycosyl Donors for Highly Efficient β-Mannopyranosylation and Oligosaccharide Synthesis by Latent-Active Glycosylation Kwan Soo Kim, Jin Hwan Kim, Yong Joo Lee, Yong Jun Lee, and Jin Park pp 8477–8481 DOI: 10.1021/ja015842s Supporting Info

Formation, Isolation, Spectroscopic Properties, and Calculated Properties of Some Isomers of C60H36 Jamie Nossal, Rajesh K. Saini, Anil K. Sadana, Holger F. Bettinger, Lawrence B. Alemany, Gustavo E. Scuseria, W. E. Billups, Martin Saunders, Anthony Khong, and Ruediger Weisemann pp 8482–8495 DOI: 10.1021/ja0108180 Supporting Info

Synthesis of Propionate Motifs:  Diastereoselective Tandem Reactions Involving Anionic and Free Radical Based Processes Yvan Guindon, Karine Houde, Michel Prévost, Benoit Cardinal-David, Serge R. Landry, Benoit Daoust, Mohammed Bencheqroun, and Brigitte Guérin pp 8496–8501 DOI: 10.1021/ja010805m Supporting Info

N-Dealkylation of an N-Cyclopropylamine by Horseradish Peroxidase. Fate of the Cyclopropyl Group Christopher L. Shaffer, Martha D. Morton, and Robert P. Hanzlik pp 8502–8508 DOI: 10.1021/ja0111479 Supporting Info

Synthesis and Absolute Stereochemistry of Roseophilin Paul E. Harrington and Marcus A. Tius pp 8509–8514 DOI: 10.1021/ja011242h Supporting Info

Asymmetric Total Synthesis of ent-(−)-Roseophilin:  Assignment of Absolute Configuration Dale L. Boger and Jiyong Hong pp 8515–8519 DOI: 10.1021/ja011271s Supporting Info

Novel Bifunctional Periodic Mesoporous Organosilicas, BPMOs:  Synthesis, Characterization, Properties and in-Situ Selective Hydroboration−Alcoholysis Reactions of Functional Groups Tewodros Asefa, Michal Kruk, Mark J. MacLachlan, Neil Coombs, Hiltrud Grondey, Mietek Jaroniec, and Geoffrey A. Ozin pp 8520–8530 DOI: 10.1021/ja0037320 Supporting Info

Electron and Oxygen Transfer in Polyoxometalate, H5PV2Mo10O40, Catalyzed Oxidation of Aromatic and Alkyl Aromatic Compounds:  Evidence for Aerobic Mars−van Krevelen-Type Reactions in the Liquid Homogeneous Phase Alexander M. Khenkin, Lev Weiner, Yan Wang, and Ronny Neumann pp 8531–8542 DOI: 10.1021/ja004163z

Octahedral Coordination of Halide Ions (I-, Br-, Cl-) Sandwich Bonded with Tridentate Mercuracarborand-3 Receptors Hans Lee, Carolyn B. Knobler, and M. Frederick Hawthorne pp 8543–8549 DOI: 10.1021/ja010755l Supporting Info

Modeling the Bacterial Photosynthetic Reaction Center. 4. The Structural, Electrochemical, and Hydrogen-Bonding Properties of 22 Mutants of Rhodobacter sphaeroides Jason M. Hughes, Michael C. Hutter, Jeffrey R. Reimers, and Noel S. Hush pp 8550–8563 DOI: 10.1021/ja0035710 Supporting Info

Interaction of the Substrate Radical and the 5‘-Deoxyadenosine-5‘-Methyl Group in Vitamin B12 Coenzyme-Dependent Ethanolamine Deaminase Kurt Warncke and Andrew S. Utada pp 8564–8572 DOI: 10.1021/ja003658l

Fullerometallic Ion Chemistry:  Reactions of C60Fe+ and C20H10Fe+ in the Gas Phase Doina Caraiman, Gregory K. Koyanagi, Lawrence T. Scott, Dorin V. Preda, and Diethard K. Bohme pp 8573–8582 DOI: 10.1021/ja0104857 Supporting Info

Paramagnetic Cobalt(II) as an NMR Probe of Dendrimer Structure:  Mobility and Cooperativity of Dendritic Arms Jon D. Epperson, Li-June Ming, Gregory R. Baker, and George R. Newkome pp 8583–8592 DOI: 10.1021/ja015856y Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of the Marine Toxin Polycavernoside A via Selective Macrolactonization of a Trihydroxy Carboxylic Acid James D. White, Paul R. Blakemore, Cindy C. Browder, Jian Hong, Christopher M. Lincoln, Pavel A. Nagornyy, Lonnie A. Robarge, and Duncan J. Wardrop pp 8593–8595 DOI: 10.1021/ja011256n Supporting Info

The Nitrous Oxide Complex, RuCl2(η1-N2O)(P−N)(PPh3) (P−N = [o-(N,N-Dimethylamino)phenyl]diphenylphosphine); Low Temperature Conversion of N2O to N2 and O2 Craig B. Pamplin, Erin S. F. Ma, Nasser Safari, Steven J. Rettig, and Brian R. James pp 8596–8597 DOI: 10.1021/ja0106319 Supporting Info

Layered Lithium Iron Nitride:  A Promising Anode Material for Li-Ion Batteries Jesse L. C. Rowsell, Valérie Pralong, and Linda F. Nazar pp 8598–8599 DOI: 10.1021/ja0112745

Cleavage of Carbon−Carbon Triple Bond of Alkyne via Hydroiminoacylation by Rh(I) Catalyst Chul-Ho Jun, Hyuk Lee, Choong Woon Moon, and Hye-Sook Hong pp 8600–8601 DOI: 10.1021/ja011053z Supporting Info

A Unified Approach to Differentially Linked β-C-Disaccharides by Ring-Closing Metathesis Lei Liu and Maarten H. D. Postema pp 8602–8603 DOI: 10.1021/ja010641+ Supporting Info

QM/MM Studies Show Substantial Tunneling for the Hydrogen-Transfer Reaction in Methylamine Dehydrogenase Paul F. Faulder, Gary Tresadern, Kamaldeep K. Chohan, Nigel S. Scrutton, Michael J. Sutcliffe, Ian H. Hillier, and Neil A. Burton pp 8604–8605 DOI: 10.1021/ja016219a

A Strong Preference for a Salt-Bridge Structure in the Gas Phase:  Reactions of Deprotonated Amino Acids with Borane Scott Gronert and Renee Huang pp 8606–8607 DOI: 10.1021/ja010966q Supporting Info

Arsenate Zeolite Analogues with 11 Topological Types Pingyun Feng, Tianzhi Zhang, and Xianhui Bu pp 8608–8609 DOI: 10.1021/ja0114658 Supporting Info

A More Stable Configuration of HArF in Solid Argon Leonid Khriachtchev, Mika Pettersson, Antti Lignell, and Markku Räsänen pp 8610–8611 DOI: 10.1021/ja016197s

Highly Enantioselective Atom-Transfer Radical Cyclization Reactions Catalyzed by Chiral Lewis Acids Dan Yang, Shen Gu, Yi-Long Yan, Nian-Yong Zhu, and Kung-Kai Cheung pp 8612–8613 DOI: 10.1021/ja016383y Supporting Info

Extreme Zinc-Binding Thermodynamics of the Metal Sensor/Regulator Protein, ZntR Yutaka Hitomi, Caryn E. Outten, and Thomas V. O'Halloran pp 8614–8615 DOI: 10.1021/ja016146v

Detection of a Conformational Change in Maltose Binding Protein by 129Xe NMR Spectroscopy Seth M. Rubin, Megan M. Spence, Ivan E. Dimitrov, E. Janette Ruiz, Alexander Pines, and David E. Wemmer pp 8616–8617 DOI: 10.1021/ja0110325

Nucleic Acid Template-Directed Assembly of Metallosalen−DNA Conjugates Jennifer L. Czlapinski and Terry L. Sheppard pp 8618–8619 DOI: 10.1021/ja0162212 Supporting Info

34π Octaphyrin:  First Structural Characterization of a Planar, Aromatic [1.0.1.0.1.0.1.0] Octaphyrin with Inverted Heterocyclic Rings Venkataramanarao G. Anand, Simi K. Pushpan, Sundararaman Venkatraman, Abhishek Dey, Tavarekere K. Chandrashekar, Bhavani S. Joshi, Raja Roy, Weijie Teng, and Karin Ruhlandt Senge pp 8620–8621 DOI: 10.1021/ja011265w Supporting Info

Tri-tert-butylsilyl(triisopropylsilyl)silylene (tBu)3Si−Si−Si(iPr)3 and Chemical Evidence for Its Reactions from a Triplet Electronic State Ping Jiang and Peter P. Gaspar pp 8622–8623 DOI: 10.1021/ja016325c Supporting Info

Preparing Carbon Nanotubes and Nested Fullerenes from Supercritical CO2 by a Chemical Reaction Menachem Motiei, Yaron Rosenfeld Hacohen, Jose Calderon-Moreno, and Aharon Gedanken pp 8624–8625 DOI: 10.1021/ja015859a

Novel Role of Carbon Monoxide as a Lewis Acid Catalyst for Friedel−Crafts Reaction Sensuke Ogoshi, Hiromitsu Nakashima, Kazumasa Shimonaka, and Hideo Kurosawa pp 8626–8627 DOI: 10.1021/ja0165032

Sensitive NMR Detection of Cationic-Polymer-Based Gene Delivery Systems Using Saturation Transfer via Proton Exchange Nicholas Goffeney, Jeff W. M. Bulte, Jeff Duyn, L. Henry BryantJr., and Peter C. M. van Zijl pp 8628–8629 DOI: 10.1021/ja0158455

A Miniature Biofuel Cell Ting Chen, Scott Calabrese Barton, Gary Binyamin, Zhiqiang Gao, Yongchao Zhang, Hyug-Han Kim, and Adam Heller pp 8630–8631 DOI: 10.1021/ja0163164

Synthetic Transformations of Eleutherobin Reveal New Features of Its Microtubule-Stabilizing Pharmacophore Robert Britton, E. Dilip de Silva, Cristina M. Bigg, Lianne M. McHardy, Michel Roberge, and Raymond J. Andersen pp 8632–8633 DOI: 10.1021/ja016459q Supporting Info

Rapid Identification of Medium- to Large-Scale Interdomain Motion in Modular Proteins Using Dipolar Couplings Demetrios T. Braddock, Mengli Cai, James L. Baber, Ying Huang, and G. Marius Clore pp 8634–8635 DOI: 10.1021/ja016234f

Synthesis of Oligonucleotides Containing Fapy·dG (N6- (2-Deoxy-α,β-d-erythro-pentofuranosyl)-2,6- diamino-4-hydroxy-5-formamidopyrimidine) Kazuhiro Haraguchi and Marc M. Greenberg pp 8636–8637 DOI: 10.1021/ja0160952 Supporting Info

Simulation of the Spontaneous Aggregation of Phospholipids into Bilayers Siewert J. Marrink, Erik Lindahl, Olle Edholm, and Alan E. Mark pp 8638–8639 DOI: 10.1021/ja0159618 Supporting Info

A New Structure for the Substrate-Binding Antibiotic Ramoplanin Mei-Chu Lo, Jeremiah S. Helm, Gopal Sarngadharan, István Pelczer, and Suzanne Walker pp 8640–8641 DOI: 10.1021/ja011080p Supporting Info

Accurate Orientation of the Functional Groups of Asparagine and Glutamine Side Chains Using One- and Two-Bond Dipolar Couplings Mengli Cai, Ying Huang, and G. Marius Clore pp 8642–8643 DOI: 10.1021/ja0164475

The First Stereoselective Total Synthesis of Quinine [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123 (14), 3239−3242]. Gilbert Stork, Deqiang Niu, Roger A. Fujimoto, Emil R. Koft, James M. Balkovec, James R. Tata, and Gregory R. Dake p 8644 DOI: 10.1021/ja015138b

Effect of Temperature and Composition on the Formation of Nanoscale Compartments in Phospholipid Membranes [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 6951−6952]. Adrian S. Muresan, Haim Diamant, and Ka Yee C. Lee p 8644 DOI: 10.1021/ja0151394

Computing Handedness:  Quantized and Superposed Switch and Dynamic Memory of Helical Polysilylene  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 6253−6261]. Michiya Fujiki, Julian R. Koe, Masao Montonaga, Hiroshi Nakashima, Ken Terao, and Akio Teramoto p 8644 DOI: 10.1021/ja0151403

Qsaris SciVision, 200 Wheeler Road, Burlington, MA 01803. www.scivision.com. Suggested Retail Price:  $1495.00; Mathematica 4.1 for Students Price:  $139.95. Other Academic Pricing Available. Dale R. Cameron pp 8644–8645 DOI: 10.1021/ja015228g

The Chemical Thesaurus V2.0 Created by Mark R. Leach. Meta-Synthesis, 56 Downland Road, Brighton, BN2 6DJ, England. 2001. £ 19.95 (Approximately $29.00). Kimberley R. Cousins pp 8645–8646 DOI: 10.1021/ja015288m

Recent Theoretical and Experimental Advances in Hydrogen Bonded Clusters. NATO ASI Series C:  Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 561 Edited by S. S. Xantheas (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory). Kluwer Academic Publishers:  Dordrecht, Boston, London. 2000. x + 430 pp. $196.00. ISBN 0-7923-6703-0 p 8646 DOI: 10.1021/ja015244d

Combinatorial Chemistry. A Practical Approach Edited by Willi Bannwarth (Universität Freiburg, Germany) and Eduard Felder (Pharmacia & Upjohn S.p.A., Nervino, Italy). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2000. xx + 430 pp. $145.00. ISBN 3-527-30186-0. Richard B. van Breemen pp 8646–8647 DOI: 10.1021/ja004880t

Self-Assembly in Supramolecular Systems By Leonard F. Lindoy (University of Sydney) and Ian M. Atkinson (James Cook University). Monographs in Supramolecular Chemistry. Volume 7. Series edited by J. Fraser Stoddart. Royal Society of Chemistry:  Cambridge. 2000. x + 224 pp. £69.70. ISBN 0-85404-512-0. Hicham Fenniri p 8647 DOI: 10.1021/ja015233k

Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry:  Practices and Techniques By Howard E. Taylor (U.S. Geological Survey, Boulder, CO). Academic Press:  San Diego. 2001. xii + 294 pp. $69.95. ISBN 0-12-683865. Diane Beauchemin pp 8647–8648 DOI: 10.1021/ja0152308

Reviews in Computational Chemistry. Volume 16 Edited by Kenny B. Lipkowitz and Donald B. Boyd (Indiana UniversityPurdue University). Wiley-VCH:  New York. 2000. xxviii + 342 pp. $135.00. ISBN 0-471-38667-7. Yvonne C. Martin p 8648 DOI: 10.1021/ja015226w

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Influence of Intervening Mismatches on Long-Range Guanine Oxidation in DNA Duplexes Pratip K. Bhattacharya and Jacqueline K. Barton pp 8649–8656 DOI: 10.1021/ja010996t

Sequence-Specific Trapping of Topoisomerase I by DNA Binding Polyamide−Camptothecin Conjugates Clay C. C. Wang and Peter B. Dervan pp 8657–8661 DOI: 10.1021/ja010392p Supporting Info

Photochemical Generation of Nitric Oxide from 6-Nitrobenzo[a]pyrene Kiyoshi Fukuhara, Masaaki Kurihara, and Naoki Miyata pp 8662–8666 DOI: 10.1021/ja0109038 Supporting Info

Interstrand Side Chain−Side Chain Interactions in a Designed β-Hairpin:  Significance of Both Lateral and Diagonal Pairings Faisal A. Syud, Heather E. Stanger, and Samuel H. Gellman pp 8667–8677 DOI: 10.1021/ja0109803

Enzyme Catalysis of 1,2-Amino Shifts:  The Cooperative Action of B6, B12, and Aminomutases Stacey D. Wetmore, David M. Smith, and Leo Radom pp 8678–8689 DOI: 10.1021/ja010211j Supporting Info

Chemical and Structural Characterization of the Interaction of Bleomycin A2 with d(CGCGAATTCGCG)2. Efficient, Double-Strand DNA Cleavage Accessible without Structural Reorganization Michael V. Keck, Richard A. Manderville, and Sidney M. Hecht pp 8690–8700 DOI: 10.1021/ja003795i Supporting Info

Understanding Solid/Solid Organic Reactions Gadi Rothenberg, Andrew P. Downie, Colin L. Raston, and Janet L. Scott pp 8701–8708 DOI: 10.1021/ja0034388 Supporting Info

Catalytic Amplification of the Soft Lithographic Patterning of Si. Nonelectrochemical Orthogonal Fabrication of Photoluminescent Porous Si Pixel Arrays Yoshiko Harada, Xiuling Li, Paul W. Bohn, and Ralph G. Nuzzo pp 8709–8717 DOI: 10.1021/ja010367j Supporting Info

Template-Assisted Self-Assembly:  A Practical Route to Complex Aggregates of Monodispersed Colloids with Well-Defined Sizes, Shapes, and Structures Yadong Yin, Yu Lu, Byron Gates, and Younan Xia pp 8718–8729 DOI: 10.1021/ja011048v

Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics-Based Assignment of the Protonation State of Pepstatin A/HIV-1 Protease Cleavage Site Stefano Piana, Daniel Sebastiani, Paolo Carloni, and Michele Parrinello pp 8730–8737 DOI: 10.1021/ja003145e

Single-Site β-Diiminate Zinc Catalysts for the Alternating Copolymerization of CO2 and Epoxides:  Catalyst Synthesis and Unprecedented Polymerization Activity Ming Cheng, David R. Moore, Joseph J. Reczek, Bradley M. Chamberlain, Emil B. Lobkovsky, and Geoffrey W. Coates pp 8738–8749 DOI: 10.1021/ja003850n Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of Cyclic ADP-carbocyclic-ribose, a Stable Mimic of Ca2+-Mobilizing Second Messenger Cyclic ADP-Ribose1 Satoshi Shuto, Masayoshi Fukuoka, Andrzej Manikowsky, Yoshihito Ueno, Takashi Nakano, Ritsu Kuroda, Hideyo Kuroda, and Akira Matsuda pp 8750–8759 DOI: 10.1021/ja010756d Supporting Info

Thermal and Photochemical Solvolysis of (E)- and (Z)-2-Phenyl-1-propenyl(phenyl)iodonium Tetrafluoroborate:  Benzenium and Primary Vinylic Cation Intermediates Roel Gronheid, Gerrit Lodder, Masahito Ochiai, Takuya Sueda, and Tadashi Okuyama pp 8760–8765 DOI: 10.1021/ja010861n

Sulfide-Mediated Dehydrative Glycosylation Hien M. Nguyen, Yanning Chen, Sergio G. Duron, and David Y. Gin pp 8766–8772 DOI: 10.1021/ja015968p Supporting Info

Unusually Accelerated Silylmethyl Transfer from Tin in Stille Coupling:  Implication of Coordination-Driven Transmetalation Kenichiro Itami, Toshiyuki Kamei, and Jun-ichi Yoshida pp 8773–8779 DOI: 10.1021/ja0160593 Supporting Info

Remarkable Spectator Ligand Effect on the Rate Constant of Ligand Substitution of (Aqua)ruthenium(II) Complexes My Hang V. Huynh, Joanne M. Lasker, Modi Wetzler, Brendan Mort, Lisa F. Szczepura, Laura M. Witham, Jose M. Cintron, Amy C. Marschilok, Lily J. Ackerman, Ronald K. Castellano, Donald L. Jameson, Melvyn Rowen Churchill, Alan J. Jircitano, and Kenneth J. Takeuchi pp 8780–8784 DOI: 10.1021/ja0041977 Supporting Info

Helical Ribbon Aggregate Composed of a Crown-Appended Cholesterol Derivative Which Acts as an Amphiphilic Gelator of Organic Solvents and as a Template for Chiral Silica Transcription Jong Hwa Jung, Hedeki Kobayashi, Mitsutoshi Masuda, Toshimi Shimizu, and Seiji Shinkai pp 8785–8789 DOI: 10.1021/ja010508h

Growth of Sr6Rh5O15 Single Crystals from High-Temperature Solutions:  Structure Determination Using the Traditional 3-D and the 4-D Superspace Group Methods and Magnetic Measurements on Oriented Single Crystals Katharine E. Stitzer, Ahmed El Abed, Jacques Darriet, and Hans-Conrad zur Loye pp 8790–8796 DOI: 10.1021/ja011071g Supporting Info

The Location and Ordering of Fluoride Ions in Pure Silica Zeolites with Framework Types IFR and STF; Implications for the Mechanism of Zeolite Synthesis in Fluoride Media Luis A. Villaescusa, Paul S. Wheatley, Ivor Bull, Philip Lightfoot, and Russell E. Morris pp 8797–8805 DOI: 10.1021/ja016113f Supporting Info

A New Oxoanion:  [IO4]3- Containing I(V) with a Stereochemically Active Lone-Pair in the Silver Uranyl Iodate Tetraoxoiodate(V), Ag4(UO2)4(IO3)2(IO4)2O2 Amanda C. Bean, Charles F. Campana, Ohyun Kwon, and Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt pp 8806–8810 DOI: 10.1021/ja011204y Supporting Info

Conformational Studies of Methyl 3-O-Methyl-α-d-arabinofuranoside:  An Approach for Studying the Conformation of Furanose Rings Justin B. Houseknecht, Patrick R. McCarren, Todd L. Lowary, and Christopher M. Hadad pp 8811–8824 DOI: 10.1021/ja003768s Supporting Info

On the Aromaticity of Square Planar Ga42- and In42- in Gaseous NaGa4- and NaIn4- Clusters Aleksey E. Kuznetsov, Alexander I. Boldyrev, Xi Li, and Lai-Sheng Wang pp 8825–8831 DOI: 10.1021/ja0106117

Theoretical Evaluation of the Origin of the Regio- and Stereoselectivity in the Diels−Alder Reactions of Dialkylvinylboranes:  Studies on the Reactions of Vinylborane, Dimethylvinylborane, and Vinyl-9-BBN with trans-Piperylene and Isoprene Silvina C. Pellegrinet, María A. Silva, and Jonathan M. Goodman pp 8832–8837 DOI: 10.1021/ja015838g Supporting Info

Adsorption Configuration and Local Ordering of Silicotungstate Anions on Ag(100) Electrode Surfaces Lien Lee, Jia X. Wang, Radoslav R. Adžić, Ian K. Robinson, and Andrew A. Gewirth pp 8838–8843 DOI: 10.1021/ja0161352

Photochemical Instability of CdSe Nanocrystals Coated by Hydrophilic Thiols Jose Aldana, Y. Andrew Wang, and Xiaogang Peng pp 8844–8850 DOI: 10.1021/ja016424q

Stereoselective Total Synthesis of the Cyanobacterial Hepatotoxin 7-Epicylindrospermopsin:  Revision of the Stereochemistry of Cylindrospermopsin Geoffrey R. Heintzelman, Wen-Kui Fang, Stephen P. Keen, Grier A. Wallace, and Steven M. Weinreb pp 8851–8853 DOI: 10.1021/ja011291u Supporting Info

Chemically Induced Spin Transfer to an Encased Molecular Cluster:  an EPR Study of Sc3N@C80 Radical Anions Peter Jakes and Klaus-Peter Dinse pp 8854–8855 DOI: 10.1021/ja016047h

Heterolytic and Homolytic Activation of Dihydrogen at an Unusual Iridium (II) Sulfide Rachel C. Linck, Robert J. Pafford, and Thomas B. Rauchfuss pp 8856–8857 DOI: 10.1021/ja010603q Supporting Info

A Homodinuclear CrV−CrV Complex Forms from the Chromate−Glutathione Reaction in Water Elena Gaggelli, Francesco Berti, Nicola Gaggelli, Antonella Maccotta, and Gianni Valensin pp 8858–8859 DOI: 10.1021/ja004327b Supporting Info

Electrochemistry of CdS Nanoparticles:  A Correlation between Optical and Electrochemical Band Gaps Santosh K. Haram, Bernadette M. Quinn, and Allen J. Bard pp 8860–8861 DOI: 10.1021/ja0158206 Supporting Info

An Unusual Ruthenium-Catalyzed Dimerization of Propargyl Alcohols Barry M. Trost and Michael T. Rudd pp 8862–8863 DOI: 10.1021/ja0111636 Supporting Info

Catalytic Solvent-Free Arsination:  First Catalytic Application of Pd−Ar/As−Ph Exchange in the Syntheses of Functionalized Aryl Arsines Fuk Yee Kwong, Chi Wai Lai, and Kin Shing Chan pp 8864–8865 DOI: 10.1021/ja005875s Supporting Info

Transferring a Biosynthetic Cycle into a Productive Escherichia coli Strain:  Large-Scale Synthesis of Galactosides Xi Chen, Jianbo Zhang, Przemek Kowal, Ziye Liu, Peter R. Andreana, Yuquan Lu, and Peng George Wang pp 8866–8867 DOI: 10.1021/ja016187r Supporting Info

S−N Dissociation Energies of S-Nitrosothiols:  On the Origins of Nitrosothiol Decomposition Rates Michael D. Bartberger, Joseph D. Mannion, Steven C. Powell, Jonathan S. Stamler, K. N. Houk, and Eric J. Toone pp 8868–8869 DOI: 10.1021/ja0109390 Supporting Info

X-ray Excited Optical Luminescence Studies of Tris-(2,2‘-bipyridine)ruthenium(II) at the C, N K-edge and Ru L3,2-edge Pil-Sook Kim, Tsun-Kong Sham, Peng Zhang, Man-Kang Fung, Shuit-Tong Lee, Yong-Feng Hu, and Brian W. Yates pp 8870–8871 DOI: 10.1021/ja015619v

A New Synthesis of Cyclobutanones:  Highly Selective Carbonylation of Titanacyclobutane Complexes Prepared by Free Radical Alkylation Charles A. G. Carter, Grace Greidanus, Jian-Xin Chen, and Jeffrey M. Stryker pp 8872–8873 DOI: 10.1021/ja0158657 Supporting Info

Local Dynamics of the CpG Step in a DNA Crystal Mary E. Hatcher, Isolde LeTrong, Ron Stenkamp, and Gary P. Drobny pp 8874–8875 DOI: 10.1021/ja005771h

A New Cyclic Pseudopeptide Receptor for Li+ from a Dynamic Combinatorial Library Ricardo L. E. Furlan, Yiu-Fai Ng, Sijbren Otto, and Jeremy K. M. Sanders pp 8876–8877 DOI: 10.1021/ja0160703 Supporting Info

Chiral Imidazolylidine Ligands for Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Aryl Alkenes Mark T. Powell, Duen-Ren Hou, Marc C. Perry, Xiuhua Cui, and Kevin Burgess pp 8878–8879 DOI: 10.1021/ja016011p Supporting Info

Bioorganic Chemistry of Biological Signal Transduction. Topics in Current Chemistry. Volume 211 Edited by H. Waldmann (Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Physiologie, Universität Dortmund). Springer-Verlag:  Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. 2001. x + 230 pp. $139.00. ISBN 3-540-67746-1. Kevin Dalby p 8880 DOI: 10.1021/ja004862b

Organic Electrochemistry, Fourth Edition, Revised and Expanded Edited by Henning Lund (Aarhus University) and Ole Hammerich (University of Copenhagen). Marcel Dekker:  New York and Basel. 2001. x + 1394 pp. $275.00. ISBN 0-8247-0430-4. Albert J. Fry p 8880 DOI: 10.1021/ja015214a

Green Chemical Syntheses and Processes Edited by Paul T. Anastas (White House Office of Science), Lauren G. Heine (International Sustainable Development Foundation), and Tracy C. Williamson (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC (Distributed by Oxford University Press). 2000. xii + 354 pp. $115.00. ISBN 0-8412-3678-X. p 8880 DOI: 10.1021/ja015263n

Stimuli-Responsive Water Soluble and Amphiphilic Polymers Edited by Charles L. McCormick (University of Southern Mississippi). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC (Distributed by Oxford University Press). 2001. xii + 352 pp. $125.00. ISBN 0-8412-3725-5. p 8880 DOI: 10.1021/ja0152714

Wood and Cellulosic Chemistry. Second Edition, Revised and Expanded Edited by David N.-S. Hon (Clemson University) and Nubuo Shiraishi (Kyoto University). Marcel Dekker:  New York and Basel. 2001. vii + 914 pp. $250.00. ISBN 0-8247-0024-4. Dimitris S. Argyropoulos pp 8880–8881 DOI: 10.1021/ja015237p

Interfacial Properties on the Submicrometer Scale Edited by Jane Frommer (IBM Research Division) and Rene M. Overney (University of Washington). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC (Distributed by Oxford University Press). 2001. xii + 344 pp. $130.00. ISBN 0-8412-3691-7. p 8881 DOI: 10.1021/ja015268k

Agrochemical Discovery:  Insect, Weed, and Fungal Control Edited by Don R. Baker (Berkeley Discovery) and Noriharu Ken Umetsu (Otsuka Chemical Co.). American Chemical Society: Washington, DC (Distributed by Oxford University Press). 2001. x + 318 pp. $135.00. ISBN 0-8412-3724-7. p 8881 DOI: 10.1021/ja0152761

Enzymes in Nonaqueous Solvents:  Methods and Protocols Edited by Evgeny N. Vulfson (Institute of Food Research, Norwich, UK), Peter J. Halling (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK), and Herbert L. Holland (Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada). Humana Press:  Totowa, NJ. 2001. xx + 680 pp. $139.50. ISBN 0-89603-929-3. p 8881 DOI: 10.1021/ja015279d

Statistical Methods in Analytical Chemistry. 2nd Edition By Peter C. Meier (Cilag A.G.) and Richard F. Zünd (Teranol A.G.). Wiley-Interscience:  New York. 2000. xxvi + 424 pp. $99.95. ISBN 0-471-29363-6 Steven D. Brown pp 8881–8882 DOI: 10.1021/ja015227o

Biocatalysis Edited by H. Griengl (Technical University of Graz). Springer-Verlag:  Wein, New York. 2000. viii + 180 pp. $119.00. ISBN 3-211-83527-X. Carl R. Johnson p 8882 DOI: 10.1021/ja015232s

Fluorinated Surfactants and Repellents:  Second Edition, Revised and Expanded Surfactant Science Series. Volume 97. By Erik Kissa (Consultant, Wilmington, DE). Marcel Dekker:  New York. 2001. xiv + 616 pp. $195.00. ISBN 0-8247-0472-X. Jimmie R. Baran, Jr. p 8882 DOI: 10.1021/ja015260a

Organoboranes for Syntheses Edited by P. V. Ramachandran and Herbert C. Brown (Purdue University). American Chemical Society (Distributed by Oxford University Press):  Washington, DC. 2001. x +254 pp. $115.00. ISBN 0-8412-3708-5. p 8882 DOI: 10.1021/ja015274g

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Protein Tyrosine Kinase Csk-Catalyzed Phosphorylation of Src Containing Unnatural Tyrosine Analogues Dongxia Wang and Philip A. Cole pp 8883–8886 DOI: 10.1021/ja010540b

In Situ Synthesis of Oligonucleotide Arrays by Using Surface Tension John H. Butler, Maureen Cronin, Keith M. Anderson, Giles M. Biddison, Francois Chatelain, Michael Cummer, Deborah J. Davi, Lawson Fisher, Albrecht W. Frauendorf, Felix W. Frueh, Carmen Gjerstad, Theresa F. Harper, Stephanie D. Kernahan, Danny Q. Long, Mylan Pho, John A. Walker, II, and Thomas M. Brennan pp 8887–8894 DOI: 10.1021/ja003758r Supporting Info

Evaluation of Parameters Critical to Observing Proteins Inside Living Escherichia coli by In-Cell NMR Spectroscopy Zach Serber, Richard Ledwidge, Susan M. Miller, and Volker Dötsch pp 8895–8901 DOI: 10.1021/ja0112846

Selective Interactions of Cationic Porphyrins with G-Quadruplex Structures Haiyong Han, David R. Langley, Anupama Rangan, and Laurence H. Hurley pp 8902–8913 DOI: 10.1021/ja002179j Supporting Info

Orthogonal, Convergent Syntheses of Dendrimers Based on Melamine with One or Two Unique Surface Sites for Manipulation Wen Zhang, Daniel T. Nowlan, III, Lisa M. Thomson, William M. Lackowski, and Eric E. Simanek pp 8914–8922 DOI: 10.1021/ja0041369

Design, Formation and Properties of Tetrahedral M4L4 and M4L6 Supramolecular Clusters1 Dana L. Caulder, Christian Brückner, Ryan E. Powers, Stefan König, Tatjana N. Parac, Julie A. Leary, and Kenneth N. Raymond pp 8923–8938 DOI: 10.1021/ja0104507 Supporting Info

Stereochemistry of Aldols:  Configuration and Conformation of Aldols Derived from Cycloalkanones and Aldehydes Masato Kitamura, Keiji Nakano, Takashi Miki, Masato Okada, and Ryoji Noyori pp 8939–8950 DOI: 10.1021/ja0110978 Supporting Info

Minimizing Tocopherol-Mediated Radical Phase Transfer in Low-Density Lipoprotein Oxidation with an Amphiphilic Unsymmetrical Azo Initiator Sean M. Culbertson, Melinda R. Vinqvist, L. Ross C. Barclay, and Ned A. Porter pp 8951–8960 DOI: 10.1021/ja010060k Supporting Info

Determining Absolute Configuration in Flexible Molecules: A Case Study Kimberly Musa Specht, Joonwoo Nam, Douglas M. Ho, Nina Berova, Rama K. Kondru, David N. Beratan, Peter Wipf, Robert A. Pascal, Jr., and Daniel Kahne pp 8961–8966 DOI: 10.1021/ja0104406

Methanol Addition to Dihapto-Coordinated Rhenium Complexes of Furan Lee A. Friedman and W. Dean Harman pp 8967–8973 DOI: 10.1021/ja010513l

Bifunctional Abietadiene Synthase:  Free Diffusive Transfer of the (+)-Copalyl Diphosphate Intermediate between Two Distinct Active Sites Reuben J. Peters, Matthew M. Ravn, Robert M. Coates, and Rodney B. Croteau pp 8974–8978 DOI: 10.1021/ja010670k Supporting Info

Keto−Enol/Enolate Equilibria in the N-Acetylamino-p-methylacetophenone System. Effect of a β-Nitrogen Substituent Y. Chiang, A. G. Griesbeck, H. Heckroth, B. Hellrung, A. J. Kresge, Q. Meng, A. C. O'Donoghue, J. P. Richard, and J. Wirz pp 8979–8984 DOI: 10.1021/ja0107529 Supporting Info

Mechanism of Inner-Sphere Electron Transfer via Charge-Transfer (Precursor) Complexes. Redox Energetics of Aromatic Donors with the Nitrosonium Acceptor Sergiy V. Rosokha and Jay K. Kochi pp 8985–8999 DOI: 10.1021/ja010859w Supporting Info

Olefin Metathesis in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Alois Fürstner, Lutz Ackermann, Karsten Beck, Hisao Hori, Daniel Koch, Klaus Langemann, Monika Liebl, Christian Six, and Walter Leitner pp 9000–9006 DOI: 10.1021/ja010952k

Fenton Chemistry of 1,3-Dimethyluracil Jacob A. Theruvathu, Charuvila T. Aravindakumar, Roman Flyunt, Justus von Sonntag, and Clemens von Sonntag pp 9007–9014 DOI: 10.1021/ja0109794

1-Benzenesulfinyl Piperidine/Trifluoromethanesulfonic Anhydride:  A Potent Combination of Shelf-Stable Reagents for the Low-Temperature Conversion of Thioglycosides to Glycosyl Triflates and for the Formation of Diverse Glycosidic Linkages David Crich and Mark Smith pp 9015–9020 DOI: 10.1021/ja0111481 Supporting Info

Total Asymmetric Synthesis of the Putative Structure of the Cytotoxic Diterpenoid (−)-Sclerophytin A and of the Authentic Natural Sclerophytins A and B Patrick Bernardelli, Oscar M. Moradei, Dirk Friedrich, Jiong Yang, Fabrice Gallou, Brian P. Dyck, Raymond W. Doskotch, Tim Lange, and Leo A. Paquette pp 9021–9032 DOI: 10.1021/ja011285y Supporting Info

A General Strategy for the Synthesis of Cladiellin Diterpenes:  Enantioselective Total Syntheses of 6-Acetoxycladiell-7(16),11-dien-3-ol (Deacetoxyalcyonin Acetate), Cladiell-11-ene-3,6,7-triol, Sclerophytin A, and the Initially Purported Structure of Sclerophytin A David W. C. MacMillan, Larry E. Overman, and Lewis D. Pennington pp 9033–9044 DOI: 10.1021/ja016351a Supporting Info

Spontaneous Generation of Stable Pnictinyl Radicals from “Jack-in-the-Box” Dipnictines:  A Solid-State, Gas-Phase, and Theoretical Investigation of the Origins of Steric Stabilization1 Sarah L. Hinchley, Carole A. Morrison, David W. H. Rankin,* Charles L. B. Macdonald, Robert J. Wiacek, Andreas Voigt, Alan H. Cowley, Michael F. Lappert, Grete Gundersen, Jason A. C. Clyburne, and Philip P. Power pp 9045–9053 DOI: 10.1021/ja010615b Supporting Info

Novel Families of Three-Component Reversible Redox Cycles Involving Cage Deformation via Intramolecular Redox Reaction:  Tetrathiolate-Bridged Dinuclear Molybda- and Tungstacarboranes Jeong-Wook Hwang, Jae-Hak Kim, Hangil Lee, Hochun Lee, Sehun Kim, Juhyoun Kwak, and Youngkyu Do pp 9054–9063 DOI: 10.1021/ja0106265 Supporting Info

Comparison of Steric and Electronic Requirements for C−C and C−H Bond Activation. Chelating vs Nonchelating Case Boris Rybtchinski, Stephan Oevers, Michael Montag, Arkadi Vigalok, Haim Rozenberg, Jan M. L. Martin, and David Milstein pp 9064–9077 DOI: 10.1021/ja016126t Supporting Info

Alkyl Exchange Reactions of Organocobalt Porphyrins. A Bimolecular Homolytic Substitution Reaction Alan M. Stolzenberg and Yang Cao pp 9078–9090 DOI: 10.1021/ja002954v

Facile Synthesis of Cyclopropene Analogues of Aluminum and an Aluminum Pinacolate, and the Reactivity of LAl[η2-C2(SiMe3)2] toward Unsaturated Molecules (L = HC[(CMe)(NAr)]2, Ar = 2,6-i-Pr2C6H3) Chunming Cui, Sinje Köpke, Regine Herbst-Irmer, Herbert W. Roesky, Mathias Noltemeyer, Hans-Georg Schmidt, and Bernd Wrackmeyer pp 9091–9098 DOI: 10.1021/ja003185i Supporting Info

Al22Cl20·12L (L = THF, THP):  The First Polyhedral Aluminum Chlorides Christoph Klemp, Michael Bruns, Jürgen Gauss, Ulrich Häussermann, Gregor Stösser, Leo van Wüllen, Martin Jansen, and Hansgeorg Schnöckel pp 9099–9106 DOI: 10.1021/ja004022x Supporting Info

Atomistic Brownian Dynamics Simulation of Peptide Phosphorylation Tongye Shen, Chung F. Wong, and J. Andrew McCammon pp 9107–9111 DOI: 10.1021/ja010190t

Synthesis, Cyclic Voltammetric Studies, and Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence of a New DonorAcceptor Molecule:  3,7-[Bis[4-phenyl-2-quinolyl]]-10-methylphenothiazine Rebecca Y. Lai, Eve F. Fabrizio, Liangde Lu, Samson A. Jenekhe, and Allen J. Bard pp 9112–9118 DOI: 10.1021/ja0102235 Supporting Info

Two-Dimensional 17O Multiple Quantum Magic-Angle Spinning NMR of Organic Solids Gang Wu and Shuan Dong pp 9119–9125 DOI: 10.1021/ja0102181

Metal−Metal Bond Length Variability in Co3(dipyridylamide)4Cl2:  Bond-Stretch Isomerism, Crystal Field Effects, or Spin Transition Process? A DFT Study Marie-Madeleine Rohmer, Alain Strich, Marc Bénard, and Jean-Paul Malrieu pp 9126–9134 DOI: 10.1021/ja0103142 Supporting Info

NMR Spectroscopic Investigations of Mixed Aggregates Underlying Highly Enantioselective 1,2-Additions of Lithium Cyclopropylacetylide to Quinazolinones Rodney L. Parsons, Jr., Joseph M. Fortunak, Roberta L. Dorow, Gregory D. Harris, Goss S. Kauffman, William A. Nugent, Mark D. Winemiller, Timothy F. Briggs, Bosong Xiang, and David B. Collum pp 9135–9143 DOI: 10.1021/ja0105616 Supporting Info

Weak Intramolecular Proton−Hydride and Proton−Fluoride Interactions:  Experimental (NMR, X-ray) and DFT Studies of the Bis(NBH3) and Bis(NBF3) Adducts of 1,3-Dimethyl-1,3-diazolidine Marisol Güizado-Rodríguez, Armando Ariza-Castolo, Gabriel Merino, Alberto Vela, Heinrich Noth, Vladimir I. Bakhmutov, and Rosalinda Contreras pp 9144–9152 DOI: 10.1021/ja0111232 Supporting Info

Beyond Butadiene II:  Thermal Isomerization of the [2 + 2] Photodimer of an all-trans-Tetraene, (R)-4,4aβ,5,6,10,10a-Hexahydro-10aβ-methyl-2(3H)-methyleneanthracene, to a 16-Membered [8 + 8] Cycle W. von E. Doering, Jianing He, and Liming Shao pp 9153–9161 DOI: 10.1021/ja011135n Supporting Info

Through-Bond and Through-Space JFF Spin−Spin Coupling in Peridifluoronaphthalenes:  Accurate DFT Evaluation of the Four Contributions Juan E. Peralta, Verónica Barone, and Rubén H. ContrerasDaniel G. ZaccariJames P. Snyder pp 9162–9163 DOI: 10.1021/ja011164y

Neutron Diffraction Study of a Phenol·Nitroxide Radical Adduct:  A Structural Model for Hydrogen Atom Abstraction by Peroxyl Radicals from Vitamin E and Related Phenolic Antioxidants Birte Ahrens, Matthew G. Davidson, V. Trevor Forsyth, Mary F. Mahon, Andrew L. Johnson, Sax A. Mason, Richard D. Price, and Paul R. Raithby pp 9164–9165 DOI: 10.1021/ja015849+ Supporting Info

Parallel (Face-to-Face) Versus Perpendicular (Edge-to-Face) Alignment of Electron Donors and Acceptors in Fullerene Porphyrin Dyads:  The Importance of Orientation in Electron Transfer Dirk M. Guldi, Chuping Luo, Maurizio Prato, Alessandro Troisi, Francesco Zerbetto, Michael Scheloske, Elke Dietel, Walter Bauer, and Andreas Hirsch pp 9166–9167 DOI: 10.1021/ja004104l Supporting Info

The First and Highly Enantioselective Crotylation of Aldehydes via an Allyl-Transfer Reaction from a Chiral Crotyl-Donor Junzo Nokami, Masanori Ohga, Hitoshi Nakamoto, Tadahiro Matsubara, Iqbal Hussain, and Kazuhide Kataoka pp 9168–9169 DOI: 10.1021/ja011257f Supporting Info

Formation and O-Atom Reactivity of the Os(IV)−Sulfilimido and Os(IV)−Sulfoximido Complexes, cis-/trans-[OsIV(tpy)(Cl)2(NSC6H3Me2)] and cis-/trans-[OsIV(tpy)(Cl)2(NS(O)C6H3Me2)] My Hang V. Huynh,* Peter S. White, and Thomas J. Meyer* pp 9170–9171 DOI: 10.1021/ja002874r Supporting Info

Four- and Five-Coordinate CO Insertion Mechanisms in d8-Nickel(II) Complexes C. Scott Shultz, Joseph M. DeSimone, and Maurice Brookhart pp 9172–9173 DOI: 10.1021/ja0160896 Supporting Info

Novel Use of Ring Strain to Control Regioselectivity:  Alkene-Directed, Palladium-Catalyzed Allylation Marie E. Krafft, Masaharu Sugiura, and Khalil A. Abboud pp 9174–9175 DOI: 10.1021/ja016446c Supporting Info

Formation of Streptavidin-Supported Lipid Bilayers on Porous Anodic Alumina:  Electrochemical Monitoring of Triggered Vesicle Fusion Vanessa Proux-Delrouyre, Jean-Marc Laval, and Christian Bourdillon pp 9176–9177 DOI: 10.1021/ja010361u Supporting Info

Strained Intermediates in Intramolecular Dehydro Diels−Alder Reactions:  Rearrangement of Cyclic Allenes via 1,2-Dehydro[10]annulenes David Rodríguez, Armando Navarro-Vázquez, Luis Castedo, Domingo Domínguez,* and Carlos Saá* pp 9178–9179 DOI: 10.1021/ja016157o Supporting Info

A Rotaxane Exciplex Mark J. MacLachlan, Aimee Rose, and Timothy M. Swager pp 9180–9181 DOI: 10.1021/ja016228j Supporting Info

Dibenzofulvene, a 1,1-Diphenylethylene Analogue, Gives a π-Stacked Polymer by Anionic, Free-Radical, and Cationic Catalysts Tamaki Nakano, Kazuyuki Takewaki, Tohru Yade, and Yoshio Okamoto pp 9182–9183 DOI: 10.1021/ja0111131 Supporting Info

Single-Molecule Conformational Dynamics of Fluctuating Noncovalent DNA−Protein Interactions in DNA Damage Recognition H. Peter Lu, Lilia M. Iakoucheva, and Eric J. Ackerman pp 9184–9185 DOI: 10.1021/ja0058942 Supporting Info

Long-Range Cooperativity Due to C5-Propynylation of Oligopyrimidines Enhances Specific Recognition by Uridine of ribo-Adenosine over ribo-Guanosine Thomas W. Barnes III and Douglas H. Turner pp 9186–9187 DOI: 10.1021/ja0157752 Supporting Info

Synthesis and Characterization of Bicapped Hexagonal Bipyramidal 2,3-Cl2-1,8-{Cp*Re}2B6H4 [{Cp*Re}2{μ-η6:η6-1,2-B6H4Cl2}, Cp* = η5-C5Me5]:  The Missing Link Connecting (p − 2) Skeletal Electron Pair Hypoelectronic Rhenaboranes and 24-Valence Electron Triple-Decker Complexes Sundargopal Ghosh, Alicia M. Beatty, and Thomas P. Fehlner pp 9188–9189 DOI: 10.1021/ja0111840 Supporting Info

Mechanism of Racemization in the Reaction of 4-Methylcyclohexylidenemethyliodonium Salt with Sulfonate Ions:  Formation of Intermediate Cycloheptyne Morifumi Fujita, Yuichi Sakanishi, and Tadashi Okuyama pp 9190–9191 DOI: 10.1021/ja016414p Supporting Info

Chlorine Kinetic Isotope Effect on the Fluoroacetate Dehalogenase Reaction Andrzej Lewandowicz, Daria Sicinska, Juliusz Rudzinski, Susumu Ichiyama, Tatsuo Kurihara, Nobuyoshi Esaki, and Piotr Paneth pp 9192–9193 DOI: 10.1021/ja0160400

Dioxygen Activation by a Nickel Thioether Complex:  Characterization of a NiIII2(μ-O)2 Core Beaven S. Mandimutsira, Jennifer L. Yamarik, Thomas C. Brunold, Weiwei Gu, Stephen P. Cramer, and Charles G. Riordan pp 9194–9195 DOI: 10.1021/ja016209+ Supporting Info

Chromium Vinylidene Carbenoids:  Generation, Characterization, and Reactivity. First Evidence for an Internal Proton Return Phenomenon with Vinylidene Carbenoids Rachid Baati, D. K. Barma, J. R. Falck, and C. Mioskowski pp 9196–9197 DOI: 10.1021/ja016515n Supporting Info

Heterogeneous Seeded Growth:  A Potentially General Synthesis of Monodisperse Metallic Nanoparticles Heng Yu, Patrick C. Gibbons, K. F. Kelton, and William E. Buhro pp 9198–9199 DOI: 10.1021/ja016529t Supporting Info

Biochemical Analysis Using High-Resolution Magic Angle Spinning NMR Spectroscopy Distinguishes Lipoma-Like Well-Differentiated Liposarcoma from Normal Fat Jin-Hong Chen, Brian M. Enloe, Christopher D. Fletcher, D. G. Cory, and Samuel Singer pp 9200–9201 DOI: 10.1021/ja016182u Supporting Info

A Facile Debromination Reaction:  Can Bromide Now Be Used as a Protective Group in Aromatic Systems? Han Young Choi and Dae Yoon Chi pp 9202–9203 DOI: 10.1021/ja0164374 Supporting Info

Preparation and Characterization of Novel Inorganic−Organic Mesoscopic Ordered Composites with Bridges Formed by Coordination Compounds Zongtao Zhang and Sheng Dai pp 9204–9205 DOI: 10.1021/ja0158556 Supporting Info

EMDee:  An Enzymatic Method for Determining Enantiomeric Excess Paul Abato and Christopher T. Seto pp 9206–9207 DOI: 10.1021/ja016177q Supporting Info

Colloidal Imprinting:  A Novel Approach to the Synthesis of Mesoporous Carbons Zuojiang Li and Mietek Jaroniec pp 9208–9209 DOI: 10.1021/ja0165178

Phosphonium Sila-ylide:  Reaction Pathway Different from Ammonium Sila-ylide but Similar to Phosphonium Ylide Akio Toshimitsu, Tomoyuki Saeki, and Kohei Tamao pp 9210–9211 DOI: 10.1021/ja0160602 Supporting Info

Stabilization of a Cationic Ti Center by a Ferrocene Moiety:  A Remarkably Short Ti−Fe Interaction in the Diamide {[(η5-C5H4NSiMe3)2Fe]TiCl}22+ Alexandr Shafir and John Arnold pp 9212–9213 DOI: 10.1021/ja0161857 Supporting Info

High Field-Effect Mobility Oligofluorene Derivatives with High Environmental Stability Hong Meng, Zhenan Bao, Andrew J. Lovinger, Bo-Cheng Wang, and Anthony M. Mujsce pp 9214–9215 DOI: 10.1021/ja016525o Supporting Info

(Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)samarium(II) Alkyl Complex with the Neutral “C5Me5K” Ligand:  A Precursor to the First Dihydrido Lanthanide(III) Complex and a Precatalyst for Hydrosilylation of Olefins Zhaomin Hou, Yugen Zhang, Olivier Tardif, and Yasuo Wakatsuki pp 9216–9217 DOI: 10.1021/ja010555+ Supporting Info

The Structure and Spin Coupling of Catalase Compound I:  A Study of Noncovalent Effects Michael T. Green pp 9218–9219 DOI: 10.1021/ja010105h

Catalytic Asymmetric Dihydroxylation of Olefins with New Catalysts:  The First Example of Heterogenization of OsO42- by Ion-Exchange Technique Boyapati M. Choudary, Naidu S. Chowdari, Mannepalli L. Kantam, and Kondapuram V. Raghavan pp 9220–9221 DOI: 10.1021/ja016101u Supporting Info

Stepwise Reduction of Dinitrogen Bond Order by a Low-Coordinate Iron Complex Jeremy M. Smith, Rene J. Lachicotte, Karl A. Pittard, Thomas R. Cundari, Gudrun Lukat-Rodgers, Kenton R. Rodgers, and Patrick L. Holland pp 9222–9223 DOI: 10.1021/ja016094+ Supporting Info

Periodic Tiling of Pentagons:  The First Example of a Two-Dimensional ( )-net Brian Moulton, Jianjiang Lu, and Michael J. Zaworotko pp 9224–9225 DOI: 10.1021/ja016637f

Ultrafast Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy. Practical Spectroscopy Series Volume 26 Edited by M. D. Fayer (Stanford University). Dekker:  New York, Basel. 2001. xii + 710 pp. $195.00. ISBN 0-8247-0451-7 Anne Myers Kelley p 9226 DOI: 10.1021/ja0152512

Oxidative Delignification Chemistry:  Fundamentals and Catalysis Edited by Dimitris S. Argyropoulos (McGill University). American Chemical Society (Distributed by Oxford University Press):  Washington, DC. 2001. x + 534 pp. $175.00. ISBN 0-8412-3738-7. p 9226 DOI: 10.1021/ja015273o

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Dimerizable Cationic Detergents with a Low cmc Condense Plasmid DNA into Nanometric Particles and Transfect Cells in Culture Emmanuel Dauty, Jean-Serge Remy, Thomas Blessing, and Jean-Paul Behr pp 9227–9234 DOI: 10.1021/ja015867r Supporting Info

Temperature-Dependent Helix−Coil Transition of an Alanine Based Peptide Cheng-Yen Huang, Jason W. Klemke, Zelleka Getahun, William F. DeGrado, and Feng Gai pp 9235–9238 DOI: 10.1021/ja0158814

Dynamics of Alkene Radical Cation/Phosphate Anion Pair Formation from Nucleotide C4‘ Radicals. The DNA/RNA Paradox Revisited David Crich and Wenhua Huang pp 9239–9245 DOI: 10.1021/ja010841l

Hydrolysis of Phosphotriesters:  Determination of Transition States in Parallel Reactions by Heavy-Atom Isotope Effects Mark A. Anderson, Hyunbo Shim, Frank M. Raushel, and W. W. Cleland pp 9246–9253 DOI: 10.1021/ja011025g Supporting Info

On the Stability of Double Stranded Nucleic Acids David N. Dubins, Adrian Lee, Robert B. Macgregor, Jr., and Tigran V. Chalikian* pp 9254–9259 DOI: 10.1021/ja004309u

A Distal Histidine Mutant (H52Q) of Yeast Cytochrome c Peroxidase Catalyzes the Oxidation of H2O2 Instead of Its Reduction Libei Bateman, Christophe Léger, David B. Goodin, and Fraser A. Armstrong pp 9260–9263 DOI: 10.1021/ja0158612

The Magnitude of [C−H···O] Hydrogen Bonding in Molecular and Supramolecular Assemblies Françisco M. Raymo, Michael D. Bartberger, K. N. Houk, and J. Fraser Stoddart pp 9264–9267 DOI: 10.1021/ja010443i

Extensive Investigations on Oxidized Amino Acid Residues in H2O2-Treated Cu,Zn-SOD Protein with LC-ESI-Q-TOF-MS, MS/MS for the Determination of the Copper-Binding Site Takuya Kurahashi, Asaka Miyazaki, Sathorn Suwan, and Minoru Isobe pp 9268–9278 DOI: 10.1021/ja015953r Supporting Info

Conformational Analysis of Singlet−Triplet State Mixing in Paternò−Büchi Diradicals Andrei G. Kutateladze pp 9279–9282 DOI: 10.1021/ja016092p Supporting Info

Direct Photocleavage of HIV−DNA by Quinacridine Derivatives Triggered by Triplex Formation Marie-Paule Teulade-Fichou, David Perrin, Alexandre Boutorine, David Polverari, Jean-Pierre Vigneron, Jean-Marie Lehn, Jian-Sheng Sun, Thérèse Garestier, and Claude Hélène pp 9283–9292 DOI: 10.1021/ja0109040 Supporting Info

A Study of C−F···M+ Interaction:  Metal Complexes of Fluorine-Containing Cage Compounds Hiroyuki Takemura, Sachiko Nakashima, Noriyoshi Kon, Mikio Yasutake, Teruo Shinmyozu, and Takahiko Inazu pp 9293–9298 DOI: 10.1021/ja0043587 Supporting Info

Metal Cation Complexation and Activation of Reversed CPyI Analogues of CC-1065 and Duocarmycin SA:  Partitioning the Effects of Binding and Catalysis David A. Ellis, Scott E. Wolkenberg, and Dale L. Boger pp 9299–9306 DOI: 10.1021/ja010769r Supporting Info

Synthesis of Porphobilinogen via a Novel Ozonide Cleavage Reaction Peter A. Jacobi and Yongkai Li pp 9307–9312 DOI: 10.1021/ja016303q Supporting Info

Chemical Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of cis- and trans-12,13-Cyclopropyl and 12,13-Cyclobutyl Epothilones and Related Pyridine Side Chain Analogues K. C. Nicolaou, Kenji Namoto, Andreas Ritzén, Trond Ulven, Mitsuru Shoji, Jim Li, Gina D'Amico, Dennis Liotta, Christopher T. French, Markus Wartmann, Karl-Heinz Altmann, and Paraskevi Giannakakou pp 9313–9323 DOI: 10.1021/ja011338b Supporting Info

Approaches to the Synthesis of (±)-Strychnine via the Cobalt-Mediated [2 + 2 + 2] Cycloaddition:  Rapid Assembly of a Classic Framework Michael J. Eichberg, Rosa L. Dorta, Douglas B. Grotjahn, Kai Lamottke, Martin Schmidt, and K. Peter C. Vollhardt pp 9324–9337 DOI: 10.1021/ja016333t Supporting Info

Isotope Effects and Medium Effects on Sulfuryl Transfer Reactions Richard H. Hoff, Paul Larsen, and Alvan C. Hengge pp 9338–9344 DOI: 10.1021/ja0163974 Supporting Info

A Rare Example of Three Abundant Conformers in One Retro Model of the Cisplatin−DNA d(GpG) Intrastrand Cross Link. Unambiguous Evidence That Guanine O6 to Carrier Amine Ligand Hydrogen Bonding Is Not Important. Possible Effect of the Lippard Base Pair Step Adjacent to the Lesion on Carrier Ligand Hydrogen Bonding in DNA Adducts Sharon T. Sullivan, Antonella Ciccarese, Francesco P. Fanizzi, and Luigi G. Marzilli pp 9345–9355 DOI: 10.1021/ja010483m Supporting Info

Novel [2]Catenane Structures Introducing Communication between Transition Metal Centers via π···π Interactions Bohdan Korybut-Daszkiewicz, Agnieszka Wickowska, Renata Bilewicz, Sławomir Domagała, and Krzysztof Woźniak pp 9356–9366 DOI: 10.1021/ja0108537 Supporting Info

2H MAS NMR Studies of the Manganese Dioxide Tunnel Structures and Hydroxides Used as Cathode Materials in Primary Batteries Younkee Paik, John P. Osegovic, Francis Wang, William Bowden, and Clare P. Grey pp 9367–9377 DOI: 10.1021/ja015999k

Hydrolysis Theory for Cisplatin and Its Analogues Based on Density Functional Studies Yong Zhang, Zijian Guo, and Xiao-Zeng You pp 9378–9387 DOI: 10.1021/ja0023938 Supporting Info

The Dissociation Kinetics of Energy-Selected CpMn(CO)3+ Ions Studied by Threshold Photoelectron−Photoion Coincidence Spectroscopy Yue Li, Bálint Sztáray, and Tomas Baer pp 9388–9396 DOI: 10.1021/ja004019d

Selective Binding of the Cyano Group in Acrylonitrile Adsorption on Si(100)-2 × 1 Feng Tao, Wee Sun Sim, Guo Qin Xu, and Ming Hua Qiao pp 9397–9403 DOI: 10.1021/ja010574j

Light-Emitting Carbazole Derivatives:  Potential Electroluminescent Materials K. R. Justin Thomas, Jiann T. Lin, Yu-Tai Tao, and Chung-Wen Ko pp 9404–9411 DOI: 10.1021/ja010819s Supporting Info

The Energy Gap Law for Triplet States in Pt-Containing Conjugated Polymers and Monomers Joanne S. Wilson, Nazia Chawdhury, Muna R. A. Al-Mandhary, M. Younus, Muhammad S. Khan, Paul R. Raithby, Anna Köhler, and Richard H. Friend pp 9412–9417 DOI: 10.1021/ja010986s

A Plethora of Carbene Interconversions on the C5H4S Energy Surface:  A Computational Study Michael L. McKee, Philip B. Shevlin, and Mark Zottola pp 9418–9425 DOI: 10.1021/ja0110269 Supporting Info

Density Functional Study of the Retrocyclization of Norbornadiene and Norbornene Catalyzed by Fe+ Michael L. McKee pp 9426–9435 DOI: 10.1021/ja011165q

Tervalent Conducting Polymers with Tailor-Made Work Functions:  Preparation, Characterization, and Applications as Cathodes in Electroluminescent Devices Corey J. Bloom, C. Michael Elliott, Paul G. Schroeder, C. Brian France, and Bruce A. Parkinson pp 9436–9442 DOI: 10.1021/ja011333e Supporting Info

A Cross-Reactive, Class-Selective Enzymatic Array Assay Caroline L. Schauer, Frank J. Steemers, and David R. Walt pp 9443–9444 DOI: 10.1021/ja010509+

Synthesis of Well-Defined Block Copolymers Tethered to Polysilsesquioxane Nanoparticles and Their Nanoscale Morphology on Surfaces Jeffrey Pyun, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Tomasz Kowalewski, Daniel Savin, Gary Patterson, Guido Kickelbick, and Nicola Huesing pp 9445–9446 DOI: 10.1021/ja010241m Supporting Info

Synthesis of the First Corrolazine:  A New Member of the Porphyrinoid Family Bobby Ramdhanie, Charlotte L. Stern, and David P. Goldberg pp 9447–9448 DOI: 10.1021/ja011229x Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of Deschlorocallipeltoside A Barry M. Trost and Janet L. Gunzner pp 9449–9450 DOI: 10.1021/ja011424b Supporting Info

Metal-Assisted Organization of Shortened Carbon Nanotubes in Monolayer and Multilayer Forest Assemblies Debjit Chattopadhyay, Izabela Galeska, and Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos pp 9451–9452 DOI: 10.1021/ja0160243 Supporting Info

Novel Synthetic Route to Allyl Cyanamides:  Palladium-Catalyzed Coupling of Isocyanides, Allyl Carbonate, and Trimethylsilyl Azide Shin Kamijo, Tienan Jin, and Yoshinori Yamamoto pp 9453–9454 DOI: 10.1021/ja016355f Supporting Info

Synthesis of (Z)-2-Acyl-2-enals via Retrocycloadditions of 5-Acyl-4-alkyl-4H-1,3-dioxins:  Application in the Total Synthesis of the Cytotoxin (±)-Euplotin A Ronald A. Aungst, Jr. and Raymond L. Funk pp 9455–9456 DOI: 10.1021/ja011470b Supporting Info

Controlled Polymerization of β-Lactams Using Metal−Amido Complexes:  Synthesis of Block Copoly(β-peptides) Jianjun Cheng and Timothy J. Deming pp 9457–9458 DOI: 10.1021/ja0110022 Supporting Info

Phenazine Biosynthesis in Pseudomonas fluorescens:  Branchpoint from the Primary Shikimate Biosynthetic Pathway and Role of Phenazine-1,6-dicarboxylic Acid Matthew McDonald, Dmitri V. Mavrodi, Linda S. Thomashow, and Heinz G. Floss pp 9459–9460 DOI: 10.1021/ja011243+

Oxazolidinone Protected 2-Amino-2-deoxy-d-glucose Derivatives as Versatile Intermediates in Stereoselective Oligosaccharide Synthesis and the Formation of α-Linked Glycosides Kamel Benakli, Congxiang Zha, and Robert J. Kerns pp 9461–9462 DOI: 10.1021/ja0162109 Supporting Info

Thermally and Photochemically Triggered Self-Assembly of Peptide Hydrogels Joel H. Collier, Bi−Huang Hu, Jeffrey W. Ruberti, Jerry Zhang, Pochi Shum, David H. Thompson, and Phillip B. Messersmith pp 9463–9464 DOI: 10.1021/ja011535a Supporting Info

Enantioselective Total Syntheses of Ditryptophenaline and ent-WIN 64821 Larry E. Overman and Daniel V. Paone pp 9465–9467 DOI: 10.1021/ja0166141 Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of Asperazine Steven P. Govek and Larry E. Overman pp 9468–9469 DOI: 10.1021/ja016616l Supporting Info

Different Surface-Restructuring Behaviors of Poly(methacrylate)s Detected by SFG in Water Jie Wang, Sara E. Woodcock, Sarah M. Buck, Chunyan Chen, and Zhan Chen pp 9470–9471 DOI: 10.1021/ja0164071 Supporting Info

Enantioselective Tandem Radical Reactions:  Vicinal Difunctionalization in Acyclic Systems with Control over Relative and Absolute Stereochemistry Mukund P. Sibi and Jianxie Chen pp 9472–9473 DOI: 10.1021/ja016633a Supporting Info

Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of α,β-Epoxy Esters, Aldehydes, Amides, and γ,δ-Epoxy β-Keto Esters:  Unique Reactivity of α,β-Unsaturated Carboxylic Acid Imidazolides Tetsuhiro Nemoto, Takashi Ohshima, and Masakatsu Shibasaki pp 9474–9475 DOI: 10.1021/ja0164879 Supporting Info

Biomimetic Hydrogen Evolution Catalyzed by an Iron Carbonyl Thiolate Frédéric Gloaguen, Joshua D. Lawrence, and Thomas B. Rauchfuss pp 9476–9477 DOI: 10.1021/ja016516f Supporting Info

Asymmetric Catalysis with the Normally Unresolvable, Conformationally Dynamic 2,2‘-Bis(diphenylphosphino)-1,1‘-biphenyl (Biphep) Jennifer J. Becker, Peter S. White, and Michel R. Gagné pp 9478–9479 DOI: 10.1021/ja016167p Supporting Info

A Novel Biodegradable Gene Carrier Based on Polyphosphoester Jun Wang, Hai-Quan Mao, and Kam W. Leong pp 9480–9481 DOI: 10.1021/ja016062m Supporting Info

Functionalized Pentacene:  Improved Electronic Properties from Control of Solid-State Order John E. Anthony, James S. Brooks, David L. Eaton, and Sean R. Parkin pp 9482–9483 DOI: 10.1021/ja0162459 Supporting Info

Dynamics of Water Molecules in the Br- Solvation Shell:  An ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study Simone Raugei and Michael L. Klein pp 9484–9485 DOI: 10.1021/ja011030k

Solid-State Evidence for Pi-Complexation of Sodium and Potassium Cations by Carbon−Carbon Triple Bonds Jiaxin Hu, Leonard J. Barbour, and George W. Gokel pp 9486–9487 DOI: 10.1021/ja0112137

Catalytic, Enantioselective Addition of Substituted Allylic Trichlorosilanes Using a Rationally-Designed 2,2‘-Bispyrrolidine-Based Bisphosphoramide Scott E. Denmark and Jiping Fu pp 9488–9489 DOI: 10.1021/ja016552e Supporting Info

Single-Step Determination of Protein Substructures Using Dipolar Couplings:  Aid to Structural Genomics Markus Zweckstetter and Ad Bax pp 9490–9491 DOI: 10.1021/ja016496h Supporting Info

Detergency of Specialty Surfactants. Surfactant Science Series. Volume 98 Edited by Floyd E. Friedli (Goldschmidt Chemical Corp., Dublin, OH). Marcel Dekker, Inc.:  New York, Basel. 2001. x + 284 pp. $150. ISBN 0-8247-0491-6. Ray von Wandruszka p 9492 DOI: 10.1021/ja015250+

Flavor Release Edited by Deborah D. Roberts (Nestlé Research Center) and Andrew J. Taylor (University of Nottingham). American Chemical Society (Distributed by Oxford University Press):  Washington, DC. 2000. xii + 484 pp. $145.00. ISBN 0-8412-3692-5. p 9492 DOI: 10.1021/ja0152759

Transition Metal Catalysis in Macromolecular Design Edited by Lisa Saunders Boffa (Exxon Research and Engineering Co.) and Bruce M. Novak (North Carolina State University). American Chemical Society (Distributed by Oxford University Press):  Washington, DC. 2000. x + 300 pp. $115.00. ISBN 0-8412-3673-9. p 9492 DOI: 10.1021/ja015277t

Chemical and Biological Sensors for Environmental Monitoring Edited by Ashok Mulchandani (University of California, Riverside) and Omowunmi A. Sadik (State University of New York, Binghamton). American Chemical Society (distributed by Oxford University Press). 2000. xii + 340 pp. $115.00. ISBN:  0-8412-3687-9. p 9492 DOI: 10.1021/ja015278l

Issue 39

Highly Stereoselective Synthesis of Homoallylic Amines Based on Addition of Allyltrichlorosilanes to Benzoylhydrazones Ryoji Hirabayashi, Chikako Ogawa, Masaharu Sugiura, and Shū Kobayashi pp 9493–9499 DOI: 10.1021/ja011125m Supporting Info

Reference Scales for the Characterization of Cationic Electrophiles and Neutral Nucleophiles, Herbert Mayr, Thorsten Bug, Matthias F. Gotta, Nicole Hering, Bernhard Irrgang, Brigitte Janker, Bernhard Kempf, Robert Loos, Armin R. Ofial, Grigoriy Remennikov, and Holger Schimmel pp 9500–9512 DOI: 10.1021/ja010890y Supporting Info

Radical Polymerization of Styrene Controlled by Half-Sandwich Mo(III)/Mo(IV) Couples:  All Basic Mechanisms Are Possible Erwan Le Grognec, Jérôme Claverie, and Rinaldo Poli pp 9513–9524 DOI: 10.1021/ja010998d Supporting Info

Iridium Complex-Catalyzed Allylic Amination of Allylic Esters Ryo Takeuchi, Naoki Ue, Keisuke Tanabe, Kengo Yamashita, and Norihito Shiga pp 9525–9534 DOI: 10.1021/ja0112036 Supporting Info

A Practical Synthesis of (+)-Discodermolide and Analogues: Fragment Union by Complex Aldol Reactions Ian Paterson, Gordon J. Florence, Kai Gerlach, Jeremy P. Scott, and Natascha Sereinig pp 9535–9544 DOI: 10.1021/ja011211m Supporting Info

Oligosaccharide Synthesis with Glycosyl Phosphate and Dithiophosphate Triesters as Glycosylating Agents Obadiah J. Plante, Emma R. Palmacci, Rodrigo B. Andrade, and Peter H. Seeberger pp 9545–9554 DOI: 10.1021/ja016227r Supporting Info

Alternating Stereospecific Copolymerization of Ethylene and Propylene with Metallocene Catalysts Wendy Fan, Margarete K. Leclerc, and Robert M. Waymouth pp 9555–9563 DOI: 10.1021/ja0100773

Acidity of Carboxylic Acids:  A Rebuttal and Redefinition Otto Exner and Petr Čársky pp 9564–9570 DOI: 10.1021/ja003665+

Electronic Properties of Polyoxometalates:  A DFT Study of α/β-[XM12O40]n- Relative Stability (M = W, Mo and X a Main Group Element) Xavier López, Joan Miquel Maestre, Carles Bo, and Josep-M. Poblet pp 9571–9576 DOI: 10.1021/ja010768z

Intramolecular, Intermolecular, and Heterogeneous Nonadiabatic Dissociative Electron Transfer to Peresters Sabrina Antonello, Fernando Formaggio, Alessandro Moretto, Claudio Toniolo, and Flavio Maran pp 9577–9584 DOI: 10.1021/ja010799u

Negative-Ion Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Gas-Phase Acidity, and Thermochemistry of the Peroxyl Radicals CH3OO and CH3CH2OO Stephen J. Blanksby, Tanya M. Ramond, Gustavo E. Davico, Mark R. Nimlos, Shuji Kato, Veronica M. Bierbaum, W. Carl Lineberger, G. Barney Ellison, and Mitchio Okumura pp 9585–9596 DOI: 10.1021/ja010942j Supporting Info

Chemistry of NO2 on Oxide Surfaces:  Formation of NO3 on TiO2(110) and NO2↔O Vacancy Interactions José A. Rodriguez, Tomas Jirsak, Gang Liu, Jan Hrbek, Joseph Dvorak, and Amitesh Maiti pp 9597–9605 DOI: 10.1021/ja011131i

Catalytic Turnover of Benzylamine by a Model for the Lysine Tyrosylquinone (LTQ) Cofactor of Lysyl Oxidase Ke-Qing Ling, Jisook Kim, and Lawrence M. Sayre pp 9606–9611 DOI: 10.1021/ja011141j

Hybridization of PNA to Structured DNA Targets:  Quadruplex Invasion and the Overhang Effect Bhaskar Datta and Bruce A. Armitage pp 9612–9619 DOI: 10.1021/ja016204c Supporting Info

Fluoroaromatic−Fluoroaromatic Interactions between Inhibitors Bound in the Crystal Lattice of Human Carbonic Anhydrase II Chu-Young Kim, Pooja P. Chandra, Ahamindra Jain, and David W. Christianson pp 9620–9627 DOI: 10.1021/ja011034p

Dihedral Angles of Trialanine in D2O Determined by Combining FTIR and Polarized Visible Raman Spectroscopy Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner, Fatma Eker, Qing Huang, and Kai Griebenow pp 9628–9633 DOI: 10.1021/ja016202s Supporting Info

Self-Assembly with Postmodification:  Kinetically Stabilized Metalla-Supramolecular Rectangles Christopher J. Kuehl, Songping D. Huang, and Peter J. Stang pp 9634–9641 DOI: 10.1021/ja0114355 Supporting Info

Chemistry−Structure−Simulation or Chemistry−Simulation−Structure Sequences? The Case of MIL-34, a New Porous Aluminophosphate Thierry Loiseau, Caroline Mellot-Draznieks, Capucine Sassoye, Stéphanie Girard, Nathalie Guillou, Clarisse Huguenard, Francis Taulelle, and Gérard Férey* pp 9642–9651 DOI: 10.1021/ja010575b Supporting Info

A Comparison of the Influences of Alkoxide and Thiolate Ligands on the Electronic Structure and Reactivity of Molybdenum(3+) and Tungsten(3+) Complexes. Preparation and Structures of M2(OtBu)2(StBu)4, [Mo(StBu)3((NO)]2, and W(StBu)3(NO)(py) Malcolm H. Chisholm, Ernest R. Davidson, John C. Huffman, and Kristine B. Quinlan pp 9652–9664 DOI: 10.1021/ja001208n Supporting Info

Theoretical Study of the Mechanisms of Substrate Recognition by Catalase Susana G. Kalko, Josep Lluis Gelpí, Ignacio Fita, and Modesto Orozco pp 9665–9672 DOI: 10.1021/ja010512t

Real Time Reaction Dynamics in Carbon Nanotubes Toshiya Okazaki, Kazutomo Suenaga, Kaori Hirahara, Shunji Bandow, Sumio Iijima, and Hisanori Shinohara pp 9673–9674 DOI: 10.1021/ja016415h Supporting Info

Mg2+-Induced Thermal Enediyne Cyclization at Ambient Temperature Diwan S. Rawat and Jeffrey M. Zaleski pp 9675–9676 DOI: 10.1021/ja011215r Supporting Info

Chain Length-Dependent Three-Dimensional Organization of Molecular Rods with Flexible Coils Byoung-Ki Cho and Myongsoo LeeNam-Keun Oh and Wang-Cheol Zin pp 9677–9678 DOI: 10.1021/ja011313c Supporting Info

EELS and 13C NMR Characterization of Pure Ti2@C80 Metallofullerene Baopeng Cao, Masaki Hasegawa, Kozue Okada, Tetsuo Tomiyama, Toshiya Okazaki, Kazutomo Suenaga, and Hisanori Shinohara pp 9679–9680 DOI: 10.1021/ja016484w Supporting Info

Design of a Hole-Trapping Nucleobase:  Termination of DNA-Mediated Hole Transport at N2-Cyclopropyldeoxyguanosine Kazuhiko Nakatani, Chikara Dohno, and Isao Saito pp 9681–9682 DOI: 10.1021/ja010479a Supporting Info

Stopped-Flow Infrared Spectroscopy Reveals a Six-Coordinate Intermediate in the Formation of the Proximally Bound Five-Coordinate NO Adduct of Cytochrome c‘ Simon J. George, Colin R. Andrew, David M. Lawson, Roger N. F. Thorneley, and Robert R. Eady pp 9683–9684 DOI: 10.1021/ja0158307

Magnetic Behavior of a 3:2 Mixture of Bis(hexafluoroacetylacetonato)copper(II) and 1,3,5-Benzenetriyltris(4-pyridyldiazomethane) in a Frozen Solution after Irradiation:  Photochemical Formation of a Solid Solution Magnet Satoru Karasawa, Harumi Kumada, Noboru Koga, and Hiizu Iwamura pp 9685–9686 DOI: 10.1021/ja010936n

A Simple, Mild, Catalytic, Enantioselective Addition of Terminal Acetylenes to Aldehydes Neel K. Anand and Erick M. Carreira pp 9687–9688 DOI: 10.1021/ja016378u Supporting Info

Chemistry and Optoelectronic Properties of Stacked Supramolecular Entities of Trinuclear Gold(I) Complexes Sandwiching Small Organic Acids Manal A. Rawashdeh-Omary, Mohammad A. Omary, and John P. Fackler, Jr.Rossana Galassi, Bianca R. Pietroni, and Alfredo Burini pp 9689–9691 DOI: 10.1021/ja016279g Supporting Info

Annulation of Aromatic Imines via Directed C−H Activation with Wilkinson's Catalyst R. K. Thalji, K. A. Ahrendt, R. G. Bergman, and J. A. Ellman pp 9692–9693 DOI: 10.1021/ja016642j Supporting Info

Hydrozirconation of Stannylacetylenes:  A Novel and Highly Efficient Synthesis of 1,1-Diiodo-, 1,1-Dibromo-, and Mixed (Z)- or (E)-1-Iodo-1-bromo-1-alkenes Using 1,1-Hetero-Bimetallic Reagents Miguel J. Dabdoub, Vânia B. Dabdoub, and Adriano C. M. Baroni pp 9694–9695 DOI: 10.1021/ja0114660 Supporting Info

Synthesis of α-Amido Ketones via Organic Catalysis:  Thiazolium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Aldehydes with Acylimines Jerry A. Murry, Doug E. Frantz, Arash Soheili, Richard Tillyer, Edward J. J. Grabowski, and Paul J. Reider pp 9696–9697 DOI: 10.1021/ja0165943 Supporting Info

Nucleophilic Substitutions on Silane Cation Radicals: Stepwise or Concerted? H. J. Peter de Lijser, Darren W. Snelgrove, and Joseph P. Dinnocenzo pp 9698–9699 DOI: 10.1021/ja011207a

Scandium Cycloheptanitride, ScN7:  A Predicted High-Energy Molecule Containing an [η7-N7]3- Ligand Laura Gagliardi and Pekka Pyykkö pp 9700–9701 DOI: 10.1021/ja016298q

High Oxidation-State (Formally d0) Tungsten Silylene Complexes via Double Si−H Bond Activation Benjamin V. Mork and T. Don Tilley pp 9702–9703 DOI: 10.1021/ja0165436 Supporting Info

Gas-Phase Catalytic Oxidation of CO by Au2- Hannu Häkkinen and Uzi Landman pp 9704–9705 DOI: 10.1021/ja0165180

Total Synthesis of Kaitocephalin, the First Naturally Occurring AMPA/KA Receptor Antagonist Dawei Ma and Jiade Yang pp 9706–9707 DOI: 10.1021/ja016403w Supporting Info

Enantioselective Conjugate Addition of Organomagnesium Amides to Enamidomalonates:  Synthesis of Either Enantiomer of β-Amino Acid Derivatives Mukund P. Sibi and Yasutomi Asano pp 9708–9709 DOI: 10.1021/ja016492c Supporting Info

H/D Exchange Reactions in Dinuclear Iron Thiolates as Activity Assay Models of Fe−H2ase Xuan Zhao, Irene P. Georgakaki, Matthew L. Miller, Jason C. Yarbrough, and Marcetta Y. Darensbourg pp 9710–9711 DOI: 10.1021/ja0167046 Supporting Info

Sol−Gel Derived Nitric-Oxide Releasing Materials that Reduce Bacterial Adhesion Brian J. Nablo, Ta-Yung Chen, and Mark H. Schoenfisch pp 9712–9713 DOI: 10.1021/ja0165077 Supporting Info

MMo3Se3 (M = Li+, Na+, Rb+, Cs+, NMe4+) Nanowire Formation via Cation Exchange in Organic Solution Jae Hee Song, Benjamin Messer, Yiying Wu, Hannes Kind, and Peidong Yang pp 9714–9715 DOI: 10.1021/ja016220+

First Cryptand-Like Calixpyrrole:  Synthesis, X-ray Structure, and Anion Binding Properties of a Bicyclic[3,3,3]nonapyrrole Christophe Bucher, Rebecca S. Zimmerman, Vincent Lynch, and Jonathan L. Sessler pp 9716–9717 DOI: 10.1021/ja016629z Supporting Info

Carbon−Carbon Bond Activation in Pt(0)−Diphenylacetylene Complexes Bearing Chelating P,N- and P,P-Ligands Christian Müller, Carl N. Iverson, Rene J. Lachicotte, and William D. Jones pp 9718–9719 DOI: 10.1021/ja016675z Supporting Info

Synthesis and Characterization of the “Missing” Oxide of C60:  [5,6]-Open C60O R. Bruce Weisman, Dieter Heymann, and Sergei M. Bachilo pp 9720–9721 DOI: 10.1021/ja016267v Supporting Info

Determination of Electron-Transfer Reorganization Energy in Nanometer-Separated Radical Ion Pair by Time-Resolved EPR Spectroscopy Yasuhiro Kobori, Tomoaki Yago, Kimio Akiyama, and Shozo Tero-Kubota pp 9722–9723 DOI: 10.1021/ja015752n Supporting Info

Progress in Inorganic Chemistry. Volume 49 Edited by Kenneth D. Karlin (Johns Hopkins University). Wiley Interscience:  New York. 2001. viii + 700 pp. $125.00. ISBN:  0-471-40223-0. Brian E. Hanson p 9724 DOI: 10.1021/ja015258j

Organometallic Catalysts and Olefin Polymerization. Catalysts for a New Millennium. Edited by Richard Blom (Sintef Applied Chemistry, Norway), Arild Follestad (Borealis AS, Norway), Erling Rytter (NTNU, Norway), Mats Tilset (University of Oslo, Norway), and Martin Ystenes (NTNU, Norway). Springer-Verlag:  Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. 2001. xii + 444 pp. $149.00. ISBN:  3-540-41402-9. p 9724 DOI: 10.1021/ja015283p

Novel [2,3]-Sigmatropic Rearrangement for Carbon−Nitrogen Bond Formation [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 7734−7735]. Teruhiko Ishikawa, Masatomo Kawakami, Miyuki Fukui, Ayako Yamashita, Jin Urano, and Seiki Saito p 9724 DOI: 10.1021/ja0167912

Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization. Progress in ATRP, NMP, and RAFT Edited by Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (Carnegie Mellon University). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC (Distributed by Oxford University Press). 2000. xii + 484 pp. $150.00. ISBN:  0-8412-3707-7. pp 9724–9725 DOI: 10.1021/ja015285+

Carbohydrates in Chemistry and Biology. Volumes 1−4 Edited by Beat Ernst (Universität Basel), Gerald W. Hart (Johns Hopkins University), and Pierre Sinaÿ (École Normale Supérieure). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2000. 2418 Pages. $785.00. ISBN 3-527-29511-9. Hung-wen Liu p 9725 DOI: 10.1021/ja004881l

Scanning Probe Microscopy and Spectroscopy. Theory, Techniques, and Applications. 2nd Edition Edited by D. W. Bonnell (University of Pennsylvania). Wiley-VCH:  New York. 2001. xiv + 494 pp. $130. ISBN 0-471-24824-X. Paul S. Weiss p 9725 DOI: 10.1021/ja015224b

Calixarenes for Separations Edited by Gregg J. Lumetta (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Robin D. Rogers (University of Alabama), and Aravamudan S. Gopalan (New Mexico State University). American Chemical Society (distributed by Oxford University Press). 2000. x + 366 pp. $125.00. ISBN 0-8412-3660-7. p 9725 DOI: 10.1021/ja015280c

Chemical Modeling:  Applications and Theory. Volume 1 Senior Reporter:  A. Hinchcliffe (UMIST, Manchester, U.K.). Royal Society of Chemistry:  Cambridge. 2000. xviii + 506 pp. £109.50. ISBN:  0-85404-254-7. Olaf Wiest pp 9725–9726 DOI: 10.1021/ja015218f

Carbohydrates:  The Sweet Molecules of Life By Robert V. Stick (The University of Western Australia). Academic Press:  San Diego, San Francisco, New York, Boston, London, Sydney, Tokyo. 2001. xiv + 256 pp. $64.95. ISBN:  0-12-670960-2. Todd L. Lowary p 9726 DOI: 10.1021/ja0152862

Combinatorial Chemistry. A Practical Approach Edited by Hicham Fenniri (Purdue University). Oxford University Press:  Oxford. 2000. xxxii + 476 pp. $70.00. ISBN:  0-19-963754-7. p 9726 DOI: 10.1021/ja015290d

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Switch-Over in Photochemical Reaction Mechanism from Hydrogen Abstraction to Exciplex-Induced Quenching:  Interaction of Triplet-Excited versus Singlet-Excited Acetone versus Cumyloxyl Radicals with Amines Uwe Pischel and Werner M. Nau pp 9727–9737 DOI: 10.1021/ja011212e

Enantioconvergent Synthesis by Sequential Asymmetric Horner−Wadsworth−Emmons and Palladium-Catalyzed Allylic Substitution Reactions Torben M. Pedersen, E. Louise Hansen, John Kane, Tobias Rein, Paul Helquist, Per-Ola Norrby, and David Tanner pp 9738–9742 DOI: 10.1021/ja005809q Supporting Info

Amphiphilic Diblock Dendrimers:  Synthesis and Incorporation in Langmuir and Langmuir−Blodgett Films Jean-François Nierengarten, Jean-François Eckert, Yannick Rio, Maria del Pilar Carreon, Jean-Louis Gallani, and Daniel Guillon pp 9743–9748 DOI: 10.1021/ja010155m Supporting Info

Studies on the Inactivation of Bovine Liver Enoyl-CoA Hydratase by (Methylenecyclopropyl)formyl-CoA:  Elucidation of the Inactivation Mechanism and Identification of Cysteine-114 as the Entrapped Nucleophile Srikanth Dakoji, Ding Li, Gautam Agnihotri, Hui-qiang Zhou, and Hung-wen Liu pp 9749–9759 DOI: 10.1021/ja011226k

NMR Studies of Ru3(CO)10(PMe2Ph)2 and Ru3(CO)10(PPh3)2 and Their H2 Addition Products:  Detection of New Isomers with Complex Dynamic Behavior Damir Blazina, Simon B. Duckett, Paul J. Dyson, Brian F. G. Johnson, Joost A. B. Lohman, and Christopher J. Sleigh pp 9760–9768 DOI: 10.1021/ja004245n Supporting Info

Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Zeolite Crystals on Glass with Polyelectrolytes as Ionic Linkers Goo Soo Lee, Yun-Jo Lee, and Kyung Byung Yoon pp 9769–9779 DOI: 10.1021/ja010517q Supporting Info

Kinetics and Mechanism of the Reversible Binding of Nitric Oxide to Reduced Cobalamin B12r (Cob(II)alamin) Maria Wolak, Achim Zahl, Thorsten Schneppensieper, Grazyna Stochel, and Rudi van Eldik pp 9780–9791 DOI: 10.1021/ja010530a Supporting Info

Kinetic Intermediates in the Folding of Gaseous Protein Ions Characterized by Electron Capture Dissociation Mass Spectrometry David M. Horn, Kathrin Breuker, Aaron J. Frank, and Fred W. McLafferty pp 9792–9799 DOI: 10.1021/ja003143u

The RS-·HSR Hydrogen Bond:  Acidities of α,ω-Dithiols and Electron Affinities of Their Monoradicals Joel M. Karty, Yongsheng Wu, and John I. Brauman pp 9800–9805 DOI: 10.1021/ja0039684

A Theoretical Study of the Dynamic Behavior of Alkane Hydroxylation by a Compound I Model of Cytochrome P450 Kazunari Yoshizawa, Takashi Kamachi, and Yoshihito Shiota pp 9806–9816 DOI: 10.1021/ja010593t Supporting Info

A TD-DFT Study of the Photochemistry of Urocanic Acid in Biologically Relevant Ionic, Rotameric, and Protomeric Forms Jonas Danielsson, Jozef Uliný, and Aatto Laaksonen pp 9817–9821 DOI: 10.1021/ja0158051 Supporting Info

Minimum Energy Structure of Hydridotris(pyrazolyl)borato Iridium(V) Tetrahydride Is Not a C3v Capped Octahedron Charles Edwin Webster, Daniel A. Singleton, Michael J. Szymanski, Michael B. Hall, Cunyuan Zhao, Guochen Jia, and Zhenyang Lin pp 9822–9829 DOI: 10.1021/ja001233t Supporting Info

Optical Properties of Single-Walled 4 Å Carbon Nanotubes WanZhen Liang, Satoshi Yokojima, Man-Fai Ng, GuanHua Chen, and Guozhong He pp 9830–9836 DOI: 10.1021/ja0160445 Supporting Info

Characterization of Stereochemistry and Molecular Conformation Using Solid-State NMR Tensors James K. Harper, Anna E. Mulgrew, Jia Yao Li, Dewey H. Barich, Gary A. Strobel, and David M. Grant pp 9837–9842 DOI: 10.1021/ja010997l

Structural Characterization of Proteins with an Attached ATCUN Motif by Paramagnetic Relaxation Enhancement NMR Spectroscopy Logan W. Donaldson, Nikolai R. Skrynnikov, Wing-Yiu Choy, D. Ranjith Muhandiram, Bibudhendra Sarkar, Julie D. Forman-Kay, and Lewis E. Kay pp 9843–9847 DOI: 10.1021/ja011241p Supporting Info

Infrared Spectra of cis- and trans-Peroxynitrite Anion, OONO-, in Solid Argon Binyong Liang and Lester Andrews pp 9848–9854 DOI: 10.1021/ja0114299

Complicated Goings-On in the Metal-Manipulated Ring-Opening of Cyclobutene Dean J. Tantillo and Roald Hoffmann pp 9855–9859 DOI: 10.1021/ja0107935

Site-Specific Amide Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange in E. coli Thioredoxins Measured by Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry Moo-Young Kim, Claudia S. Maier, Donald J. Reed, and Max L. Deinzer pp 9860–9866 DOI: 10.1021/ja010901n

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Mononuclear Zinc-β-lactamase from Bacillus cereus Complexed with Benzylpenicillin and a Quantum Chemical Study of the Reaction Mechanism Natalia Díaz, Dimas Suárez, and Kenneth M. Merz, Jr. pp 9867–9879 DOI: 10.1021/ja0113246 Supporting Info

Molecular Recognition in Cyclodextrin Complexes of Amino Acid Derivatives. 1. Crystallographic Studies of β-Cyclodextrin Complexes with N-Acetyl-l-phenylalanine Methyl Ester and N-Acetyl-l-phenylalanine Amide Pseudopeptides Joanna L. Clark and John J. Stezowski pp 9880–9888 DOI: 10.1021/ja003717v Supporting Info

Molecular Recognition in Cyclodextrin Complexes of Amino Acid Derivatives. 2.1 A New Perturbation:  The Room-Temperature Crystallographic Structure Determination for the N-Acetyl-p-methoxy-l-phenylalanine Methyl Ester/β-Cyclodextrin Complex Joanna L. Clark, Billy R. Booth, and John J. Stezowski pp 9889–9895 DOI: 10.1021/ja0100221 Supporting Info

Photoswitching of Intramolecular Magnetic Interaction Using a Diarylethene Dimer Kenji Matsuda and Masahiro Irie pp 9896–9897 DOI: 10.1021/ja0110123

A Dual Fluorescence Temperature Sensor Based on Perylene/Exciplex Interconversion Nirmala Chandrasekharan and Lisa A. Kelly pp 9898–9899 DOI: 10.1021/ja016153j

The Guanacastepenes:  A Highly Diverse Family of Secondary Metabolites Produced by an Endophytic Fungus Sean F. Brady, Shana M. Bondi, and Jon Clardy pp 9900–9901 DOI: 10.1021/ja016176y Supporting Info

Aromatic Polyethers with Low Polydispersities from Chain-Growth Polycondensation Tsutomu Yokozawa, Yukimitsu Suzuki, and Shuichi Hiraoka pp 9902–9903 DOI: 10.1021/ja011499f Supporting Info

Bismuth Nanotubes:  A Rational Low-Temperature Synthetic Route Yadong Li, Junwei Wang, Zhaoxiang Deng, Yiying Wu, Xiaoming Sun, Dapeng Yu, and Peidong Yang pp 9904–9905 DOI: 10.1021/ja016435j

Complete Thermodynamic Characterization of Reduction and Protonation of the bc1-type Rieske [2Fe-2S] Center of Thermus thermophilus Yanbing Zu, James A Fee, and Judy Hirst pp 9906–9907 DOI: 10.1021/ja016532c

Switching Enantiofacial Selectivities Using One Chiral Source:  Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of the Key Intermediate for (20S)-Camptothecin Family by (S)-Selective Cyanosilylation of Ketones Kazuo Yabu, Shuji Masumoto, Shingo Yamasaki, Yoshitaka Hamashima, Motomu Kanai, Wu Du, Dennis P. Curran, and Masakatsu Shibasaki pp 9908–9909 DOI: 10.1021/ja016682n Supporting Info

The Facile One-Pot Synthesis of Shell Cross-Linked Micelles in Aqueous Solution at High Solids Shiyong Liu and Steven P. Armes pp 9910–9911 DOI: 10.1021/ja011206i Supporting Info

Selective Catalysis of Elementary Steps by Asp-99 and Tyr-14 of 3-Oxo-Δ5-Steroid Isomerase Lora D. Thornburg, Yael R. Goldfeder, Thomas C. Wilde, and Ralph M. Pollack pp 9912–9913 DOI: 10.1021/ja016683f

Single-Molecule Magnets:  Ligand-Induced Core Distortion and Multiple Jahn−Teller Isomerism in [Mn12O12(O2CMe)8(O2PPh2)8(H2O)4] Colette Boskovic, Maren Pink, John C. Huffman, David N. Hendrickson, and George Christou pp 9914–9915 DOI: 10.1021/ja016341+ Supporting Info

An Efficient Chemoenzymatic Strategy for the Synthesis of Wild-Type and Vancomycin-Resistant Bacterial Cell-Wall Precursors:  UDP-N-acetylmuramyl-peptides Haitian Liu, Reiko Sadamoto, Pamela S. Sears, and Chi-Huey Wong pp 9916–9917 DOI: 10.1021/ja011708w Supporting Info

Rhodium-Catalyzed Hydroarylation of Alkynes with Arylboronic Acids:  1,4-Shift of Rhodium from 2-Aryl-1-alkenylrhodium to 2-Alkenylarylrhodium Intermediate Tamio Hayashi, Kazuya Inoue, Nobukazu Taniguchi, and Masamichi Ogasawara pp 9918–9919 DOI: 10.1021/ja0165234 Supporting Info

Di-π-methane Reactions Promoted by SET from Electron-Donor Sensitizers Diego Armesto, Maria J. Ortiz, Antonia R. Agarrabeitia, and Mar Martin-Fontecha pp 9920–9921 DOI: 10.1021/ja0164428 Supporting Info

Intermolecular Alkyl Radical Addition to Chiral N-Acylhydrazones Mediated by Manganese Carbonyl Gregory K. Friestad and Jun Qin pp 9922–9923 DOI: 10.1021/ja011312k Supporting Info

Dual-Mode X-Band EPR Study of Two Isomers of the Endohedral Metallofullerene Er@C82 Y. Sanakis, N. Tagmatarchis, E. Aslanis, N. Ioannidis, V. Petrouleas, H. Shinohara, and K. Prassides pp 9924–9925 DOI: 10.1021/ja016636n

Evidence for an Umbrella Mechanism of Bilayer Transport Vaclav Janout, Irina V. Staina, Punam Bandyopadhyay, and Steven L. Regen pp 9926–9927 DOI: 10.1021/ja016265a Supporting Info

Physical Chemistry of Polyelectrolytes. Surfactant Science Series. Volume 99 Edited by Tsetska Radeva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences). Marcel Dekker:  New York, Basel. 2001. xvi + 882 pp. $250.00. ISBN:  0-8247-0463-0. Michael Rubinstein and Andrey Dobrynin p 9928 DOI: 10.1021/ja015247q

Advances in Chromatography. Volume 41 Edited by Phyllis R. Brown (University of Rhode Island) and Eli Grushka (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). Marcel Dekker:  New York, Basel. 2001. xxvi + 426 pp. $195.00. ISBN:  0-8247-0509-2. Prof. C. F. Poole, D.Sc. p 9928 DOI: 10.1021/ja015253m

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A Self-Folding Metallocavitand Ulrich Lücking, Jian Chen, Dmitry M. Rudkevich, and Julius Rebek, Jr. pp 9929–9934 DOI: 10.1021/ja011488m

Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Analogues of the Antibiotic Pantocin B Amanda E. Sutton and Jon Clardy pp 9935–9946 DOI: 10.1021/ja003770j Supporting Info

Asymmetric Mono-oxazine:  An Inevitable Product from Mannich Reaction of Benzoxazine Dimers Apirat Laobuthee, Suwabun Chirachanchai, Hatsuo Ishida, and Kohji Tashiro pp 9947–9955 DOI: 10.1021/ja004048o Supporting Info

Bimolecular Kinetic Studies with High-Temperature Gas-Phase 19F NMR:  Cycloaddition Reactions of Fluoroolefins Alexander B. Shtarov, Paul J. Krusic, Bruce E. Smart, and William R. Dolbier, Jr. pp 9956–9962 DOI: 10.1021/ja0111277 Supporting Info

Electropolymerization of Pd(II) Complexes Containing Phosphinoterthiophene Ligands Olivier Clot, Michael O. Wolf, and Brian O. Patrick pp 9963–9973 DOI: 10.1021/ja016465m Supporting Info

FR901464:  Total Synthesis, Proof of Structure, and Evaluation of Synthetic Analogues Christopher F. Thompson, Timothy F. Jamison, and Eric N. Jacobsen pp 9974–9983 DOI: 10.1021/ja016615t Supporting Info

Theoretical, Thermodynamic, Spectroscopic, and Structural Studies of the Consequences of One-Electron Oxidation on the Fe−X Bonds in 17- and 18-Electron Cp*Fe(dppe)X Complexes (X = F, Cl, Br, I, H, CH3) Mats Tilset, Irene Fjeldahl, Jean-René Hamon, Paul Hamon, Loïc Toupet, Jean-Yves Saillard, Karine Costuas, and Anthony Haynes pp 9984–10000 DOI: 10.1021/ja0106927 Supporting Info

Adsorption Dynamics of Gases and Vapors on the Nanoporous Metal Organic Framework Material Ni2(4,4‘-Bipyridine)3(NO3)4:  Guest Modification of Host Sorption Behavior Ashleigh J. Fletcher, Edmund J. Cussen, Timothy J. Prior, Matthew J. Rosseinsky, Cameron J. Kepert, and K. Mark Thomas pp 10001–10011 DOI: 10.1021/ja0109895 Supporting Info

Experimental Evidence for the Noninnocence of o-Aminothiophenolates:  Coordination Chemistry of o-Iminothionebenzosemiquinonate(1-) π-Radicals with Ni(II), Pd(II), Pt(II) Diran Herebian, Eberhard Bothe, Eckhard Bill, Thomas Weyhermüller, and Karl Wieghardt pp 10012–10023 DOI: 10.1021/ja011155p Supporting Info

Steric Barrier to Bathorhodopsin Decay in 5-Demethyl and Mesityl Analogues of Rhodopsin James W. Lewis, Gui-Bao Fan, Mordechai Sheves, Istvan Szundi, and David S. Kliger pp 10024–10029 DOI: 10.1021/ja010724q

Modeling Furanose Ring Dynamics in DNA Gary A. Meints, Torgny Karlsson, and Gary P. Drobny pp 10030–10038 DOI: 10.1021/ja010721d

Two Photon Absorption Properties of 1,3,5-Tricyano-2,4,6-tris(styryl)benzene Derivatives Bong Rae Cho, Kyung Hwa Son, Sang Hae Lee, Young-Suk Song, Yun-Kyoung Lee, Seung-Joon Jeon, Jun Ho Choi, Hochan Lee, and Minhaeng Cho pp 10039–10045 DOI: 10.1021/ja010770q

On the Apparently Anomalous Distance Dependence of Charge-Transfer Rates in 9-Amino-6-chloro-2-methoxyacridine-Modified DNA Stephan Hess, Mirco Götz, William B. Davis, and Maria-Elisabeth Michel-Beyerle pp 10046–10055 DOI: 10.1021/ja010976r Supporting Info

Conformational Dynamics of the Transcriptional Regulator CooA Protein Studied by Subpicosecond Mid-Infrared Vibrational Spectroscopy Igor V. Rubtsov, Tieqiao Zhang, Hiroshi Nakajima, Shigetoshi Aono, Grigorii I. Rubtsov, Shigeichi Kumazaki, and Keitaro Yoshihara pp 10056–10062 DOI: 10.1021/ja011023w

1H and 13C NMR Investigation of the Influence of Nonligated Residue Contacts on the Heme Electronic Structure in Cyanometmyoglobin Complexes Reconstituted with Centro- and Pseudocentrosymmetric Hemins Bing Hu, Jón. B. Hauksson, Anh-Tuyet T. Tran, Urzula Kolczak, Ravindra K. Pandey, Irene N. Rezzano, Kevin M. Smith, and Gerd N. La Mar pp 10063–10070 DOI: 10.1021/ja011175r Supporting Info

Is There a Minimum Size for Aqueous Doubly Charged Metal Cations? Alexandre A. Shvartsburg and K. W. Michael Siu pp 10071–10075 DOI: 10.1021/ja011267g

Negative Differential Resistance Behavior in Conjugated Molecular Wires Incorporating Spacers:  A Quantum-Chemical Description Y. Karzazi, J. Cornil, and J. L. Brédas pp 10076–10084 DOI: 10.1021/ja010152+

[2+2] versus [3+2] Addition of Metal Oxides Across CC Double Bonds:  Toward an Understanding of the Surprising Chemo- and Periselectivity of Transition-Metal-Oxide Additions to Ketene Dirk V. Deubel, Sabine Schlecht, and Gernot Frenking pp 10085–10094 DOI: 10.1021/ja003733s Supporting Info

Single-Molecule Vibrations, Conformational Changes, and Electronic Conductivity of Five-Membered Heterocycles J. Gaudioso and W. Ho pp 10095–10098 DOI: 10.1021/ja016363w

Room-Temperature Alkyl−Alkyl Suzuki Cross-Coupling of Alkyl Bromides that Possess β Hydrogens Matthew R. Netherton, Chaoyang Dai, Klaus Neuschütz, and Gregory C. Fu pp 10099–10100 DOI: 10.1021/ja011306o Supporting Info

Dehydration Reactions in Water. Surfactant-Type Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Direct Esterification of Carboxylic Acids with Alcohols in an Emulsion System Kei Manabe, Xiang-Min Sun, and Shū Kobayashi pp 10101–10102 DOI: 10.1021/ja016338q Supporting Info

Origins of Asymmetric Amplification in Autocatalytic Alkylzinc Additions Donna G. Blackmond, Christopher R. McMillan, Shailesh Ramdeehul, Andrea Schorm, and John M. Brown pp 10103–10104 DOI: 10.1021/ja0165133

Guest Intercalation at Corrugated Surface of Host Monolayer Crystal on Water:  Cholesteryl-l-Glutamate and Water-Soluble Amino Acids Coralie Alonso, Ran Eliash, Torben R. Jensen, Kristian Kjaer, Meir Lahav, and Leslie Leiserowitz pp 10105–10106 DOI: 10.1021/ja016732o Supporting Info

Detection of Aminium Ion Intermediates:  N-Cyclopropyl versus N-Carboxymethyl Groups as Reporters Rheem A. Totah and Robert P. Hanzlik pp 10107–10108 DOI: 10.1021/ja011648u Supporting Info

Using a Synthetic Receptor to Create an Optical-Sensing Ensemble for a Class of Analytes:  A Colorimetric Assay for the Aging of Scotch Sheryl L. Wiskur and Eric V. Anslyn pp 10109–10110 DOI: 10.1021/ja011800s

An Experimental and Computational Analysis of the Formation of the Terminal Nitrido Complex (η3-Cp*)2Mo(N)(N3) by Elimination of N2 from Cp*2Mo(N3)2:  The Barrier to Elimination Is Strongly Influenced by the exo versus endo Configuration of the Azide Ligand Jun Ho Shin, Brian M. Bridgewater, David G. Churchill, Mu-Hyun Baik, Richard A. Friesner, and Gerard Parkin pp 10111–10112 DOI: 10.1021/ja011416v Supporting Info

Nanomolar E-Selectin Inhibitors:  700-Fold Potentiation of Affinity by Multivalent Ligand Presentation Gebhard Thoma, Rudolf O. Duthaler, John L. Magnani, and John T. Patton pp 10113–10114 DOI: 10.1021/ja0164430 Supporting Info

Toward the Biaxial Nematic Phase of Low Molar Mass Thermotropic Mesogens:  Substantial Molecular Biaxiality in Covalently Linked Rod−Disk Dimers Jonathan J. Hunt, Richard W. Date, Bakir A. Timimi, Geoffrey R. Luckhurst, and Duncan W. Bruce pp 10115–10116 DOI: 10.1021/ja015943q Supporting Info

Complete Structure of the Mycolactones Steve Fidanze, Fengbin Song, Magali Szlosek-Pinaud, P. L. C. Small, and Yoshito Kishi pp 10117–10118 DOI: 10.1021/ja011824z Supporting Info

Fluorous Triphasic Reactions:  Transportative Deprotection of Fluorous Silyl Ethers with Concomitant Purification Hiroyuki Nakamura, Bruno Linclau, and Dennis P. Curran pp 10119–10120 DOI: 10.1021/ja011716c Supporting Info

Human Cytosolic Iron Regulatory Protein 1 Contains a Linear Iron−Sulfur Cluster Jürgen Gailer, Graham N. George, Ingrid J. Pickering, Roger C. Prince, Peter Kohlhepp, Dianzhang Zhang, F. Ann Walker, and Joy J. Winzerling pp 10121–10122 DOI: 10.1021/ja0158915

High-Field EPR Characterization of Manganese Reconstituted Superoxide Dismutase from Rhodobacter capsulatus Sun Un, Pierre Dorlet, Guillaume Voyard, Leandro C. Tabares, and Néstor Cortez pp 10123–10124 DOI: 10.1021/ja016258m Supporting Info

Discovery of a Catalytic Asymmetric Phosphorylation through Selection of a Minimal Kinase Mimic:  A Concise Total Synthesis of d-myo-Inositol-1-Phosphate Bianca R. Sculimbrene and Scott J. Miller pp 10125–10126 DOI: 10.1021/ja016779+ Supporting Info

Design, Synthesis, and Utility of a Support-Bound tert-Butanesulfinamide Dean R. Dragoli, Matthew T. Burdett, and Jonathan A. Ellman pp 10127–10128 DOI: 10.1021/ja016349j Supporting Info

A Crystallographically Characterized Nine-Coordinate Calcium−Phosphocitrate Complex as Calcification Inhibitor in Vivo Konstantinos D. Demadis, John D. Sallis, Raphael G. Raptis, and Peter Baran pp 10129–10130 DOI: 10.1021/ja016384q Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of Pamamycin-607 Eun Lee, Eun Jeong Jeong, Eun Joo Kang, Lee Taek Sung, and Sung Kil Hong pp 10131–10132 DOI: 10.1021/ja016272z Supporting Info

An Efficient, Single-Source Molecular Precursor to Silicoaluminophosphates Kyle L. Fujdala and T. Don Tilley pp 10133–10134 DOI: 10.1021/ja0167295 Supporting Info

Biological Relevance of Metal Binding before Protein Folding Irina Pozdnyakova and Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede pp 10135–10136 DOI: 10.1021/ja016252x

A Hot Molecule as an Intermediate in Multiphoton Reactions:  First Photoinduced Reactions of Biphenylene Tomoyuki Yatsuhashi, Tsuyoshi Akiho, and Nobuaki Nakashima pp 10137–10138 DOI: 10.1021/ja015803g

Are Heterogeneous Catalysts Precursors to Homogeneous Catalysts? Ian W. Davies, Louis Matty, David L. Hughes, and Paul J. Reider pp 10139–10140 DOI: 10.1021/ja016877v Supporting Info

Chemistry and Physics of Carbon. Volume 27 Edited by Ljubisa R. Radovic (Pennsylvania State University). Marcel Dekker:  New York, Basel. 2001. xviii + 416 pp. $225.00. ISBN 0-8247-0246-8. Robert Hurt p 10141 DOI: 10.1021/ja015236x

Templated Organic Synthesis Edited by F. Diederich (ETH-Zürich) and P. J. Stang (University of Utah). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2000. xx + 410 pp. $170.00. ISBN:  3-527-29666-2. Samuel H. Gellman and Brian Clare pp 10141–10142 DOI: 10.1021/ja015221z

Supramolecular Organometallic Chemistry By Ionel Haiduc (Universitatea Babes-Bolyai, Roumania) and Frank T. Edelmann (Universität Magdeburg, Germany). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 1999. xiv + 472. $165.00. ISBN 3-527-29533-X. Steven C. Haefner p 10142 DOI: 10.1021/ja004874x

Computational Chemistry:  A Practical Guide for Applying Techniques to Real World Problems By David Young (Cytoclonal Pharmaceutics Inc.). Wiley-Interscience:  New York. 2001. xxvi + 382 pp. $69.95. ISBN:  0-471-33368-9. James B. Foresman pp 10142–10143 DOI: 10.1021/ja015246y

Liquid Interfaces in Chemical, Biological, and Pharmaceutical Applications. Surfactant Science Series. Volume 95 Edited by Alexander G. Volkov (Oakwood College). Marcel Dekker, Inc.:  New York and Basel. 2001. xiv + 854 pp. $250.00. ISBN 0-8247-0457-6. Mary Jane Shultz p 10143 DOI: 10.1021/ja015249a

Theoretical Methods in Condensed Phase Chemistry. Progress in Theoretical Chemistry and Physics. Volume 5 Edited by Steven D. Schwartz (Albert Einstein College of Medicine). Kluwer Academic:  Dordrecht, Boston, London. 2000. xii + 304 pp. $125.00. ISBN:  0-7923-6697-5. Deborah G. Evans pp 10143–10144 DOI: 10.1021/ja0152613

Quantitative Chromatographic Analysis By Thomas E. Beesley (Advanced Separation Technologies, Inc., Whippany, NJ), Benjamin Buglio (Hoffman-La Roche, Nutley, NJ), and Raymond P. W. Scott (Georgetown University, Washington, DC and Birkbeck College, University of London, U.K.). Marcel Dekker:  New York, Basel. 2001. xi + 378 pp. $150.00. ISBN:  0-8247-0503-3 Peter Uden p 10144 DOI: 10.1021/ja015234c

Metal Clusters in Chemistry. Volumes 1−3 Edited by Pierre Braunstein (Université Louis Pasteur), Luis A. Oro (I.C.M.A., Zaragoza), and Paul R. Raithby (University of Cambridge, U.K.). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 1999. 1846 pp. $1050 (for Set). ISBN:  3-527-29549-6 (Set). Kenton H. Whitmire pp 10144–10145 DOI: 10.1021/ja0048782

Optical Control of Molecular Dynamics By Stuart A. Rice and Meishan Zhao (University of Chicago). John Wiley & Sons:  New York. 2000. xvi + 438 pp. $89.95. ISBN 0-471-35423-6. Robert R. Birge p 10145 DOI: 10.1021/ja015259b

Mechanisms of Protein Folding, 2nd ed Edited by R. H. Pain (Jozef Stefan Institute, Liubljana, Slovenia). Part of the Frontiers in Molecular Biology Series. Oxford University Press:  Oxford. 2001. xxvi + 434 pp. $120.00. ISBN:  0-19-963788-1. Kara L. Bren pp 10145–10146 DOI: 10.1021/ja015282x

Semiconductor Electrochemistry By Rüdiger Memming (Rellingen, Germany). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2001. x + 400 pp. $99.95. ISBN 3-527-30147-X. Krishnan Rajeshwar p 10146 DOI: 10.1021/ja0152658

Issue 42

Is Benzene Oxide Homoaromatic? A Microcalorimetric Study Zhi Sheng Jia, Peter Brandt, and Alf Thibblin pp 10147–10152 DOI: 10.1021/ja010226h Supporting Info

Amplification of Chirality:  The “Sergeants and Soldiers” Principle Applied to Dynamic Hydrogen-Bonded Assemblies Leonard J. Prins, Peter Timmerman, and David N. Reinhoudt pp 10153–10163 DOI: 10.1021/ja010610e Supporting Info

Structural Features of Aliphatic N-Nitrosamines of 7-Azabicyclo[2.2.1]heptanes That Facilitate N−NO Bond Cleavage Tomohiko Ohwada, Motoko Miura, Haruko Tanaka, Shigeru Sakamoto, Kentaro Yamaguchi, Hirotaka Ikeda, and Satoshi Inagaki pp 10164–10172 DOI: 10.1021/ja010917d Supporting Info

Hydroaromatic Equilibration During Biosynthesis of Shikimic Acid David R. Knop, K. M. Draths, Sunil S. Chandran, Jessica L. Barker, Ralph von Daeniken, Wolfgang Weber, and J. W. Frost pp 10173–10182 DOI: 10.1021/ja0109444

Efficient, High-Yield Route to Long, Functionalized p-Phenylene Oligomers Containing Perfluorinated Segments, and Their Cyclodimerizations by Zirconocene Coupling Jonathan R. Nitschke and T. Don Tilley pp 10183–10190 DOI: 10.1021/ja011018s Supporting Info

Metal Ion-Catalyzed Cycloaddition vs Hydride Transfer Reactions of NADH Analogues with p-Benzoquinones Shunichi Fukuzumi, Yoshinori Fujii, and Tomoyoshi Suenobu pp 10191–10199 DOI: 10.1021/ja016370k Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of Bafilomycin A1 Relying on Iterative 1,2-Induction in Acyclic Precursors Stephen Hanessian, Jianguo Ma, and Wengui Wang pp 10200–10206 DOI: 10.1021/ja011452u Supporting Info

Synthesis, Characterization, and Applicability of Neutral Polyhydroxy Phospholane Derivatives and Their Rhodium(I) Complexes for Reactions in Organic and Aqueous Media T. V. RajanBabu, Yuan-Yong Yan, and Seunghoon Shin pp 10207–10213 DOI: 10.1021/ja011500a Supporting Info

Innovative Synthesis of 4-Carbaldehydepyrrolin-2-ones by Zwitterionic Rhodium Catalyzed Chemo- and Regioselective Tandem Cyclohydrocarbonylation/CO Insertion of α-Imino Alkynes Bernard G. Van den Hoven and Howard Alper pp 10214–10220 DOI: 10.1021/ja011710n Supporting Info

Intramolecular Hydrophosphination/Cyclization of Phosphinoalkenes and Phosphinoalkynes Catalyzed by Organolanthanides:  Scope, Selectivity, and Mechanism Michael R. Douglass, Charlotte L. Stern, and Tobin J. Marks pp 10221–10238 DOI: 10.1021/ja010811i Supporting Info

First Successful Molecular Design of an Artificial Lewis Oligosaccharide Binding System Utilizing Positive Homotropic Allosterism Atsushi Sugasaki, Kazunori Sugiyasu, Masato Ikeda, Masayuki Takeuchi, and Seiji Shinkai pp 10239–10244 DOI: 10.1021/ja010806e Supporting Info

Optimal N-Caps for N-Terminal Helical Templates:  Effects of Changes in H-Bonding Efficiency and Charge Wolfgang Maison, Eva Arce, Peter Renold, Robert J. Kennedy, and Daniel S. Kemp pp 10245–10254 DOI: 10.1021/ja010812a Supporting Info

Helix−Loop−Helix Peptides as Scaffolds for the Construction of Bridged Metal Assemblies in Proteins:  The Spectroscopic A-Cluster Structure in Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenase Catalina E. Laplaza and R. H. Holm pp 10255–10264 DOI: 10.1021/ja010851m

Enantiomerically Pure Chiral Coordination Polymers:  Synthesis, Spectroscopy, and Electrochemistry in Solution and on Surfaces Stefan Bernhard, Kazutake Takada, Diego J. Díaz, Héctor D. Abruña, and Hansruedi Mürner pp 10265–10271 DOI: 10.1021/ja011020j

Bond Energies and Attachments Sites of Sodium and Potassium Cations to DNA and RNA Nucleic Acid Bases in the Gas Phase Nino Russo, Marirosa Toscano, and André Grand pp 10272–10279 DOI: 10.1021/ja010660j Supporting Info

Catalytic Mechanism of Glyoxalase I:  A Theoretical Study Fahmi Himo and Per E. M. Siegbahn pp 10280–10289 DOI: 10.1021/ja010715h

A Model for Sequential Threading of α-Cyclodextrin onto a Guest:  A Complete Thermodynamic and Kinetic Study in Water Christophe Saudan, Frank A. Dunand, Amira Abou-Hamdan, Pascal Bugnon, Peter G. Lye, Stephen F. Lincoln, and André E. Merbach pp 10290–10298 DOI: 10.1021/ja010946o Supporting Info

Tetrameric Fluorophosphazene, (NPF2)4, Planar or Puckered? Anil J. Elias, Brendan Twamley, Ralph Haist, Heinz Oberhammer, Gerald Henkel, Bernt Krebs, Enno Lork, Ruediger Mews, and Jean'ne M. Shreeve pp 10299–10303 DOI: 10.1021/ja016015u Supporting Info

Syntheses, Structural Characterizations, and Optical and Electrochemical Properties of Directly Fused Diporphyrins Akihiko Tsuda, Hiroyuki Furuta, and Atsuhiro Osuka pp 10304–10321 DOI: 10.1021/ja0110933 Supporting Info

Butalene and Related Compounds:  Aromatic or Antiaromatic? Philip M. Warner and Graham B. Jones pp 10322–10328 DOI: 10.1021/ja011134v Supporting Info

Dynamics of Mononuclear Cadmium β-Lactamase Revealed by the Combination of NMR and PAC Spectroscopy Lars Hemmingsen, Christian Damblon, Jens Antony, Mikael Jensen, Hans Werner Adolph, Sandra Wommer, Gordon C. K. Roberts, and Rogert Bauer pp 10329–10335 DOI: 10.1021/ja0112240

Ultrafast Excited-State Energy Migration Dynamics in an Efficient Light-Harvesting Antenna Polymer Based on Ru(II) and Os(II) Polypyridyl Complexes Cavan N. Fleming, Kimberly A. Maxwell, Joseph M. DeSimone, Thomas J. Meyer, and John M. Papanikolas pp 10336–10347 DOI: 10.1021/ja016304i

Mechanistic Aspects of the Abstraction of an Allylic Hydrogen in the Chlorine Atom Reaction with 2-Methyl-1,3-Butadiene (Isoprene) Pedro Braña and José A. Sordo pp 10348–10353 DOI: 10.1021/ja011302j Supporting Info

Heteronuclear Recoupling in Solid-State Magic-Angle-Spinning NMR via Overtone Irradiation Sungsool Wi and Lucio Frydman pp 10354–10361 DOI: 10.1021/ja0113798 Supporting Info

An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of the Chemical Shielding Tensors of 13Cα of Alanine, Valine, and Leucine Residues in Solid Peptides and in Proteins in Solution Robert H. Havlin, David D. Laws, Hans-Marcus L. Bitter, Lori K. Sanders, Haihong Sun, Joshua S. Grimley, David E. Wemmer, Alexander Pines, and Eric Oldfield pp 10362–10369 DOI: 10.1021/ja0115060

DNA Excited-State Dynamics:  Ultrafast Internal Conversion and Vibrational Cooling in a Series of Nucleosides Jean-Marc L. Pecourt, Jorge Peon, and Bern Kohler pp 10370–10378 DOI: 10.1021/ja0161453

On the Origin of Cytotoxicity of the Natural Product Varacin. A Novel Example of a Pentathiepin Reaction That Provides Evidence for a Triatomic Sulfur Intermediate Alexander Greer pp 10379–10386 DOI: 10.1021/ja016495p Supporting Info

The Formation of a Surprisingly Stable HO2−H2SO4 Complex Charles E. Miller and Joseph S. Francisco pp 10387–10388 DOI: 10.1021/ja016268n

Thermally Driven Intramolecular Charge Transfer in an Oxo-Molybdenum Dithiolate Complex Matthew E. Helton, Nouvelle L. Gebhart, E. Stephen Davies, Jonathan McMaster, C. David Garner, and Martin L. Kirk pp 10389–10390 DOI: 10.1021/ja0100470 Supporting Info

An Unusual Reduction of an Imine Bond:  The Isolation of a Stable π-Iminium Intermediate Eric W. Ainscough, Andrew M. Brodie, Anthony K. Burrell, and Steven M. F. Kennedy pp 10391–10392 DOI: 10.1021/ja0109996 Supporting Info

Chemically Reversible Organogels:  Aliphatic Amines as “Latent” Gelators with Carbon Dioxide Mathew George and Richard G. Weiss pp 10393–10394 DOI: 10.1021/ja016819+ Supporting Info

Chiral Porous Solids Based on Lamellar Lanthanide Phosphonates Owen R. Evans, Helen L. Ngo, and Wenbin Lin pp 10395–10396 DOI: 10.1021/ja0163772 Supporting Info

Metal Nanowire Formation Using Mo3Se3- as Reducing and Sacrificing Templates Jae Hee Song, Yiying Wu, Benjamin Messer, Hannes Kind, and Peidong Yang pp 10397–10398 DOI: 10.1021/ja016818h Supporting Info

The 129Xe Chemical Shift Tensor in a Silicalite Single Crystal from Hyperpolarized 129Xe NMR Spectroscopy Victor V. Terskikh, Igor L. Moudrakovski, Hongbin Du, Christopher I. Ratcliffe, and John A. Ripmeester pp 10399–10400 DOI: 10.1021/ja0114106

Strikingly Simple Direct α-Allylation of Aldehydes with Allyl Alcohols:  Remarkable Advance in the Tsuji−Trost Reaction Masanari Kimura, Yoshikazu Horino, Ryutaro Mukai, Shuji Tanaka, and Yoshinao Tamaru pp 10401–10402 DOI: 10.1021/ja011656a Supporting Info

Observation of a Hysteretic Phase Transition in a Crystalline Dinitroxide Biradical That Leads to Magnetic Bistability David A. Shultz, Rosario M. Fico, Jr., Paul D. Boyle, and Jeff W. Kampf pp 10403–10404 DOI: 10.1021/ja011341v Supporting Info

Asymmetric Catalysis of Planar-Chiral Cyclopentadienylruthenium Complexes in Allylic Amination and Alkylation Yuji Matsushima, Kiyotaka Onitsuka, Teruyuki Kondo, Take-aki Mitsudo, and Shigetoshi Takahashi pp 10405–10406 DOI: 10.1021/ja016334l Supporting Info

Palladium-Catalyzed Arylative Carbon−Carbon Bond Cleavage of α,α-Disubstituted Arylmethanols Yoshito Terao, Hiroyuki Wakui, Tetsuya Satoh, Masahiro Miura, and Masakatsu Nomura pp 10407–10408 DOI: 10.1021/ja016914i Supporting Info

Three-Component Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Aliphatic Amines James R. Porter, John F. Traverse, Amir H. Hoveyda, and Marc L. Snapper pp 10409–10410 DOI: 10.1021/ja0118744 Supporting Info

Polymer-Stabilized Gold Nanoparticles and Their Incorporation into Polymer Matrices Muriel K. Corbierre, Neil S. Cameron, Mark Sutton, Simon G. J. Mochrie, Laurence B. Lurio, Adrian Rühm, and R. Bruce Lennox pp 10411–10412 DOI: 10.1021/ja0166287

LaPdO3: The First PdIII Oxide with the Perovskite Structure Seung-Joo Kim, Sylvain Lemaux, Gérard Demazeau, Jong-Young Kim, and Jin-Ho Choy pp 10413–10414 DOI: 10.1021/ja016522b Supporting Info

Nonactin Biosynthesis:  Disruption of the Polyketide Synthase Genes, nonKJ, in Streptomyces griseus Leads to an Overall 96 Decrease in Macrotetrolide Production, Yet a Net Increase in Nonactin Analogues Which Incorporate Isobutyrate Robbie J. Walczak, Michael E. Nelson, and Nigel D. Priestley pp 10415–10416 DOI: 10.1021/ja005749o

Olefin Metathesis Involving Ruthenium Enoic Carbene Complexes Tae-Lim Choi, Choon Woo Lee, Arnab K. Chatterjee, and Robert H. Grubbs pp 10417–10418 DOI: 10.1021/ja016386a Supporting Info

Highly Regio- and Stereoselective 1,1-Cycloaddition of Carbon Monoxide with 1,4-Dilithio-1,3-dienes. Novel Synthetic Methods for 3-Cyclopenten-1-one Derivatives Qiuling Song, Jinglong Chen, Xianglin Jin, and Zhenfeng Xi pp 10419–10420 DOI: 10.1021/ja0165638 Supporting Info

Unmasking of Deuterium Kinetic Isotope Effects on the Methane Monooxygenase Compound Q Reaction by Site-Directed Mutagenesis of Component B Brian J. Brazeau, Bradley J. Wallar, and John D. Lipscomb pp 10421–10422 DOI: 10.1021/ja016632i

The Syntheses of Amphiphilic Camouflaged Carboranes as Modules for Supramolecular Construction A. Maderna, A. Herzog, Carolyn B. Knobler, and M. Frederick Hawthorne pp 10423–10424 DOI: 10.1021/ja016768g Supporting Info

The Photochemistry of Pyrylium Salts:  New Photohydrations and Photoamidations of Heterocycles Leading to Bicyclic Oxazolines and Functionalized Cyclopentenes Matthew A. Clark, Ryan C. Schoenfeld, and Bruce Ganem pp 10425–10426 DOI: 10.1021/ja0166040 Supporting Info

Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy of Biological Materials. Practical Spectroscopy Series. Volume 24 Edited by Hans-Ulrich Gremlich (Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland) and Bing Yan (ChemRx Advanced Technologies, Inc., South San Francisco, California). Marcel Dekker:  New York and Basel. 2001. xii + 582 pp. $195.00. ISBN 0-8247-0409-6. Alan Campion p 10427 DOI: 10.1021/ja004845m

Catalytic Polymerization of Cycloolefins:  Ionic, Ziegler−Natta and Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization. Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis. Volume 131 By Valerian Dragutan (Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania) and Roland Streck (Hüls AG, Marl, Germany). Elsevier:  Amsterdam. 2000. xx + 1272 pp. $406. ISBN 0-444-89519-1. Charles P. Casey p 10427 DOI: 10.1021/ja004879u

Capillary Electrochromatography Edited by Keith D. Bartle (University of Leeds, U.K.) and Peter Myers (X-tec Consulting Ltd., U.K.). Royal Society of Chemistry:  Cambridge. 2001. xiv + 150 pp. £ 49.50. ISBN:  0-85404-530-9. p 10427 DOI: 10.1021/ja015287u

Computational Organometallic Chemistry Edited by Thomas R. Cundari (University of Memphis). Marcel Dekker:  New York, Basel. 2001. xii + 428 pp. $185.00. ISBN:  0-8247-0478-9. Thomas A. Albright pp 10427–10428 DOI: 10.1021/ja015252u

From Bench to Market:  The Evolution of Chemical Synthesis By Walter Cabri and Romano Di Fabio (Milan, Italy). Oxford University Press:  Oxford and New York. 2000. xvi + 266 pp. $100.00 hardback. $24.95 paperback. ISBN:  0-19-850383-0. p 10428 DOI: 10.1021/ja015289e

Molecular Material and Functional Polymers Edited by Werner J. Blau (Trinity College, Ireland), Panagiotis Lianos (University of Patras, Greece), and Ulrich Schubert (Vienna University of Technology). Springer-Verlag:  Wien, New York. 2001. vi + 192 pp. $119.00. ISBN:  3-211-83597-0. p 10428 DOI: 10.1021/ja0152916

Issue 43

Rational Design of Diflunisal Analogues with Reduced Affinity for Human Serum Albumin Hongyuan Mao, Philip J. Hajduk, Richard Craig, Randy Bell, Tony Borre, and Stephen W. Fesik pp 10429–10435 DOI: 10.1021/ja015955b Supporting Info

Mechanism of Inhibition of the Class C β-Lactamase of Enterobacter cloacae P99 by Cyclic Acyl Phosph(on)ates:  Rescue by Return Kamaljit Kaur, Martin J. K. Lan, and R. F. Pratt pp 10436–10443 DOI: 10.1021/ja011094v

Hydrophobic Interactions in a Cyanobacterial Plastocyanin−Cytochrome f Complex Peter B. Crowley, Gottfried Otting, Beatrix G. Schlarb-Ridley, Gerard W. Canters, and Marcellus Ubbink pp 10444–10453 DOI: 10.1021/ja0112700 Supporting Info

Cavity-Directed Synthesis of Labile Silanol Oligomers within Self-Assembled Coordination Cages Michito Yoshizawa, Takahiro Kusukawa, Makoto Fujita, Shigeru Sakamoto, and Kentaro Yamaguchi pp 10454–10459 DOI: 10.1021/ja010875t Supporting Info

Stable Colloidal Dispersions of Fullerenes in Polar Organic Solvents Rossitza G. Alargova, Shigeru Deguchi, and Kaoru Tsujii pp 10460–10467 DOI: 10.1021/ja010202a

Proton Relay in a One-Dimensional Hydrogen-Bonded Chain Composed of Water Molecules and a Squaric Acid Derivative Hiroshi Terao, Tadashi Sugawara, Yasuo Kita, Naoki Sato, Eriko Kaho, and Sadamu Takeda pp 10468–10474 DOI: 10.1021/ja010519a Supporting Info

Complexation-Induced Unfolding of Heterocyclic Ureas. Simple Foldamers Equilibrate with Multiply Hydrogen-Bonded Sheetlike Structures1 Perry S. Corbin, Steven C. Zimmerman, Paul A. Thiessen, Natalie A. Hawryluk, and Thomas J. Murray pp 10475–10488 DOI: 10.1021/ja010638q Supporting Info

Palladium Complex Catalyzed Acylation of Allylic Esters with Acylsilanes Yasushi Obora, Yasuhiro Ogawa, Yuji Imai, Takashi Kawamura, and Yasushi Tsuji pp 10489–10493 DOI: 10.1021/ja010674p Supporting Info

Diastereo- and Enantioselective Cyclopropanation with Chromium Fischer Carbene Complexes:  Alkenyl Oxazolines as Useful Achiral and Chiral Substrates José Barluenga, Angel L. Suárez-Sobrino, Miguel Tomás, Santiago García-Granda, and Rafael Santiago-García pp 10494–10501 DOI: 10.1021/ja010719m Supporting Info

Platinum-Containing Hyper-Cross-Linked Polystyrene as a Modifier-Free Selective Catalyst for l-Sorbose Oxidation S. N. Sidorov, I. V. Volkov, V. A. Davankov, M. P. Tsyurupa, P. M. Valetsky, L. M. Bronstein, R. Karlinsey, J. W. Zwanziger, V. G. Matveeva, E. M. Sulman, N. V. Lakina, E. A. Wilder, and R. J. Spontak pp 10502–10510 DOI: 10.1021/ja0107834

Cyclizations of Enynes Catalyzed by PtCl2 or Other Transition Metal Chlorides:  Divergent Reaction Pathways María Méndez, M. Paz Muñoz, Cristina Nevado, Diego J. Cárdenas, and Antonio M. Echavarren pp 10511–10520 DOI: 10.1021/ja0112184 Supporting Info

Preparation of New Catalysts by the Immobilization of Palladium(II) Species onto Silica:  An Investigation of Their Catalytic Activity for the Cyclization of Aminoalkynes Matthew K. Richmond, Susannah L. Scott, and Howard Alper pp 10521–10525 DOI: 10.1021/ja0113450

Mechanistic Aspects of Samarium-Mediated σ-Bond Activations of Arene C−H and Arylsilane Si−C Bonds Ivan Castillo and T. Don Tilley pp 10526–10534 DOI: 10.1021/ja011472w Supporting Info

Mechanistic Implications of Proton Transfer Coupled to Electron Transfer Estelle L. Lebeau, Robert A. Binstead, and Thomas J. Meyer pp 10535–10544 DOI: 10.1021/ja000517a

Cu(0) Nanoclusters Derived from Poly(propylene imine) Dendrimer Complexes of Cu(II) Pierre N. Floriano, Charles O. Noble, IV, J. Michael Schoonmaker, E. D. Poliakoff, and Robin L. McCarley pp 10545–10553 DOI: 10.1021/ja010549d Supporting Info

A Remarkable Skeletal Rearrangement of a Coordinated Tetrapyrrole:  Chemical Consequences of Palladium π-Coordination to a Bilindione Pamela A. Lord, Bruce C. Noll, Marilyn M. Olmstead, and Alan L. Balch pp 10554–10559 DOI: 10.1021/ja010647z Supporting Info

Dopamine Interaction in the Absence and in the Presence of Cu2+ Ions with Macrocyclic and Macrobicyclic Polyamines Containing Pyrazole Units. Crystal Structures of [Cu2(L1)(H2O)2](ClO4)4 and [Cu2(H-1L3)](ClO4)3·2H2O Laurent Lamarque, Pilar Navarro, Carlos Miranda, Vicente J. Arán, Carmen Ochoa, Francisco Escartí, Enrique García-España, Julio Latorre, Santiago V. Luis, and Juan F. Miravet pp 10560–10570 DOI: 10.1021/ja010956p Supporting Info

Synthesis of (tBu3SiNH)2ClWWCl(NHSitBu3)2 and Its Degradation via NH Bond Activation Stephen M. Holmes, Daniel F. Schafer II, Peter T. Wolczanski, and Emil B. Lobkovsky pp 10571–10583 DOI: 10.1021/ja010957h Supporting Info

Layered Cobalt Hydroxysulfates with Both Rigid and Flexible Organic Pillars:  Synthesis, Structure, Porosity, and Cooperative Magnetism Apinpus Rujiwatra, Cameron J. Kepert, John B. Claridge, Matthew J. Rosseinsky, Hitoshi Kumagai, and Mohamedally Kurmoo pp 10584–10594 DOI: 10.1021/ja0109848 Supporting Info

Stepwise Hapticity Changes in Sequential One-Electron Redox Reactions of Indenyl-Molybdenum Complexes:  Combined Electrochemical, ESR, X-ray, and Theoretical Studies Michael E. Stoll, Paola Belanzoni, Maria J. Calhorda, Michael G. B. Drew, Vitor Félix, William E. Geiger, Carla A. Gamelas, Isabel S. Gonçalves, Carlos C. Romão, and Luís F. Veiros pp 10595–10606 DOI: 10.1021/ja0109951 Supporting Info

Ion-Induced Rectification of Nanoparticle Quantized Capacitance Charging in Aqueous Solutions Shaowei Chen and Renjun Pei pp 10607–10615 DOI: 10.1021/ja011394c

Chiral Recognition of Helical Metal Complexes by Modified Cyclodextrins Koji Kano and Hideki Hasegawa pp 10616–10627 DOI: 10.1021/ja0112644 Supporting Info

Estimation of Carbon−Carbon Bond Lengths and Medium-Range Internuclear Distances by Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Marina Carravetta, Mattias Edén, Ole G. Johannessen, Henrik Luthman, Peter J. E. Verdegem, Johan Lugtenburg, Angelika Sebald, and Malcolm H. Levitt pp 10628–10638 DOI: 10.1021/ja016027f

Crystallographically Oriented Mesoporous WO3 Films:  Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications Clara Santato, Marek Odziemkowski, Martine Ulmann, and Jan Augustynski pp 10639–10649 DOI: 10.1021/ja011315x

Ab Initio and Experimental Study on Thermally Degradable Polycarbonates:  The Effect of Substituents on the Reaction Rates V. Van Speybroeck, Y. Martelé, M. Waroquier, and E. Schacht pp 10650–10657 DOI: 10.1021/ja004075e Supporting Info

Two-Photon Absorption and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Octupolar Molecules Won-Ho Lee, Hochan Lee, Jin-A Kim, Jun-Ho Choi, Minhaeng Cho, Seung-Joon Jeon, and Bong Rae Cho pp 10658–10667 DOI: 10.1021/ja004226d

Cyanoacetylene Adsorption on Amorphous and Crystalline Water Ice Films:  Investigation through Matrix Isolation and Quantum Study Fabien Borget, Thierry Chiavassa, Alain Allouche, Francis Marinelli, and Jean-Pierre Aycard pp 10668–10675 DOI: 10.1021/ja0104498 Supporting Info

Photochemical and Electrochemical Properties of Zinc Chlorin−C60 Dyad as Compared to Corresponding Free-Base Chlorin−C60, Free-Base Porphyrin−C60, and Zinc Porphyrin−C60 Dyads Shunichi Fukuzumi, Kei Ohkubo, Hiroshi Imahori, Jianguo Shao, Zhongping Ou, Gang Zheng, Yihui Chen, Ravindra K. Pandey, Mamoru Fujitsuka, Osamu Ito, and Karl M. Kadish pp 10676–10683 DOI: 10.1021/ja015738a Supporting Info

Generalization of Ionic Partition Diagrams to Lipophilic Compounds and to Biphasic Systems with Variable Phase Volume Ratios Véronique Gobry, Sorina Ulmeanu, Frédéric Reymond, Géraldine Bouchard, Pierre-Alain Carrupt, Bernard Testa, and Hubert H. Girault pp 10684–10690 DOI: 10.1021/ja015914f

Model Studies of Hydrogen Atom Addition and Abstraction Processes Involving ortho-, meta-, and para-Benzynes Aurora E. Clark and Ernest R. Davidson pp 10691–10698 DOI: 10.1021/ja0159620

Oxygen-Containing Functional Groups on Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes:  NEXAFS and Vibrational Spectroscopic Studies Anya Kuznetsova, Irene Popova, John T. Yates, Jr., Michael J. Bronikowski, Chad B. Huffman, Jie Liu, Richard E. Smalley, Henry H. Hwu, and Jingguang G. Chen pp 10699–10704 DOI: 10.1021/ja011021b

Molecular Recognition of Sialyl Lewisx and Related Saccharides by Two Lectins Thomas Haselhorst, Thomas Weimar, and Thomas Peters pp 10705–10714 DOI: 10.1021/ja011156h Supporting Info

Derivatization of Fullerene Dimer C120 by the Bingel Reaction and a 3He NMR Study of 3He@C120 Monoadducts Koichi Fujiwara, Koichi Komatsu, Guan-Wu Wang, Toru Tanaka, Kazuhisa Hirata, Kazunori Yamamoto, and Martin Saunders pp 10715–10720 DOI: 10.1021/ja011181n

Effect of Solute Size and Solute−Water Attractive Interactions on Hydration Water Structure around Hydrophobic Solutes Henry S. Ashbaugh and Michael E. Paulaitis pp 10721–10728 DOI: 10.1021/ja016324k

Chemical Insights from High-Resolution X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and ab Initio Theory:  Propyne, Trifluoropropyne, and Ethynylsulfur Pentafluoride Leif J. Sæthre, Nora Berrah, John D. Bozek, Knut J. Børve, Thomas X. Carroll, Edwin Kukk, Gary L. Gard, Rolf Winter, and T. Darrah Thomas pp 10729–10737 DOI: 10.1021/ja016395j

Halophilic Reactions:  Anomalies in Bromine Transfer Reactions Judith Grinblat, Moshe Ben-Zion, and Shmaryahu Hoz pp 10738–10739 DOI: 10.1021/ja011014n

Extremely Non-Planar Phthalocyanines with Saddle or Helical Conformation:  Synthesis and Structural Characterizations Nagao Kobayashi, Takamitsu Fukuda, Keiji Ueno, and Hiroshi Ogino pp 10740–10741 DOI: 10.1021/ja0113753 Supporting Info

Electron Transfer in the [Pt(NH3)4]2+ [W(CN)8]3- Donor−Acceptor System. The Environment Effect:  A Time-Dependent Density Functional Study Vincenzo Barone, Fabrizia Fabrizi de Biani,* Eliseo Ruiz,* and Barbara Sieklucka pp 10742–10743 DOI: 10.1021/ja015695y

Electron Transfer Through-Space or Through-Bonds? A Novel System that Permits a Direct Evaluation Takashi Arimura, Seiji Ide, Yasuhiro Suga, Takuya Nishioka, Shigeo Murata, M. Tachiya, Toshihiko Nagamura, and Hiroshi Inoue pp 10744–10745 DOI: 10.1021/ja010711c Supporting Info

Cationic Hafnium Alkyl Complexes that Are Stable toward β-Hydride Elimination below 10 °C and Active as Initiators for the Living Polymerization of 1-Hexene Parisa Mehrkhodavandi and Richard R. Schrock pp 10746–10747 DOI: 10.1021/ja0114198 Supporting Info

Self-Assembled Arrays of Organic Nanotubes with Infinitely Long One-Dimensional H-Bond Chains Byung Hee Hong, Jin Yong Lee, Chi-Wan Lee, Jong Chan Kim, Sung Chul Bae, and Kwang S. Kim pp 10748–10749 DOI: 10.1021/ja016526g Supporting Info

Spontaneously Resolved Chiral Interpenetrating 3-D Nets with Two Different Zinc Coordination Polymers Masaaki Sasa, Kentaro Tanaka, Xian-He Bu, Motoo Shiro, and Mitsuhiko Shionoya pp 10750–10751 DOI: 10.1021/ja0116324 Supporting Info

Self-Powered Enzyme-Based Biosensors Eugenii Katz, Andreas F. Bückmann, and Itamar Willner pp 10752–10753 DOI: 10.1021/ja0167102

Direct Methyl Group Exchange between Cationic Zirconium Ziegler−Natta Initiators and Their Living Polymers:  Ramifications for the Production of Stereoblock Polyolefins Kumudini C. Jayaratne and Lawrence R. Sita pp 10754–10755 DOI: 10.1021/ja016184e Supporting Info

A Facile Diels−Alder Reaction with Benzene:  Synthesis of the Bicyclo[2.2.2]octene Skeleton Promoted by Rhenium Mahendra D. Chordia, Philip L. Smith, Scott H. Meiere, Michal Sabat, and W. Dean Harman pp 10756–10757 DOI: 10.1021/ja011689q Supporting Info

Optimization of the Relaxivity of MRI Contrast Agents:  Effect of Poly(ethylene glycol) Chains on the Water-Exchange Rates of GdIII Complexes Dan M. J. Doble, Mauro Botta, Jay Wang, Silvio Aime, Alessandro Barge, and Kenneth N. Raymond pp 10758–10759 DOI: 10.1021/ja011085m Supporting Info

Cyclodextrin-Based Artificial Acyltransferase:  Substrate-Specific Catalytic Amidation of Carboxylic Acids in Aqueous Solvent Munetaka Kunishima, Kazuma Yoshimura, Hiroshi Morigaki, Reiko Kawamata, Keiji Terao, and Shohei Tani pp 10760–10761 DOI: 10.1021/ja011660m Supporting Info

Direct Observation of a Nonchelated Metal−Alkyl−Alkene Complex and Measurement of the Rate of Alkyl Migration to a Coordinated Alkene Charles P. Casey, Ting-Yu Lee, Jon A. Tunge, and Donald W. Carpenetti II pp 10762–10763 DOI: 10.1021/ja011510b Supporting Info

Macrocyclization via Allyl Transfer:  Total Synthesis of Laulimalide Valentin S. Enev, Hanspeter Kaehlig, and Johann Mulzer pp 10764–10765 DOI: 10.1021/ja016752q Supporting Info

A Novel S = 7/2 Configuration of the Mn Cluster of Photosystem II Yiannis Sanakis, Nikolaos Ioannidis, George Sioros, and Vasili Petrouleas pp 10766–10767 DOI: 10.1021/ja016418u

Reduced Polarity in Protic Solvents near Hydrophobic Solid Surfaces Xiaoyi Zhang, Okan Esenturk, and Robert A. Walker pp 10768–10769 DOI: 10.1021/ja016804b

An Efficient Intermolecular Palladium-Catalyzed Synthesis of Aryl Ethers Karen E. Torraca, Xiaohua Huang, Cynthia A. Parrish, and Stephen L. Buchwald pp 10770–10771 DOI: 10.1021/ja016863p Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of (+)-Ambruticin Ping Liu and Eric N. Jacobsen pp 10772–10773 DOI: 10.1021/ja016893s Supporting Info

Hydroxorhodium Complex-Catalyzed Carbon−Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions of Silanediols with α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds. Mizoroki-Heck-Type Reaction vs Conjugate Addition Atsunori Mori, Yasuaki Danda, Toshinari Fujii, Kazunori Hirabayashi, and Kohtaro Osakada pp 10774–10775 DOI: 10.1021/ja015928l Supporting Info

Selective Photocatalysis by Means of Molecular Recognition Sudeshna Ghosh-Mukerji, Hossam Haick, Mark Schvartzman, and Yaron Paz pp 10776–10777 DOI: 10.1021/ja0117635

Reversible Photocontrol of the Coordination Number of Silicon in a Tetrafluorosilicate Bearing a 2-(Phenylazo)phenyl Group Naokazu Kano, Fuminori Komatsu, and Takayuki Kawashima pp 10778–10779 DOI: 10.1021/ja0165739 Supporting Info

Electrophoretic Characterization of Transient Photochemical Reaction Products Mary Jane Gordon, Eric Okerberg, Michael L. Gostkowski, and Jason B. Shear pp 10780–10781 DOI: 10.1021/ja016898p

Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Batzelladine F:  Structural Revision and Stereochemical Definition Frederick Cohen and Larry E. Overman pp 10782–10783 DOI: 10.1021/ja017067m Supporting Info

Enantioselective Construction of Quaternary Stereocenter through a Reissert-Type Reaction Catalyzed by an Electronically Tuned Bifunctional Catalyst:  Efficient Synthesis of Various Biologically Significant Compounds Ken Funabashi, Hassen Ratni, Motomu Kanai, and Masakatsu Shibasaki pp 10784–10785 DOI: 10.1021/ja016935c Supporting Info

Indirect High-Resolution Observation of 14N NMR in Rotating Solids K. Takegoshi, Tomomi Yano, Kazuyuki Takeda, and Takehiko Terao pp 10786–10787 DOI: 10.1021/ja016789a

myo-Inositol 1,4,5,6-Tetrakisphosphate and myo-Inositol 3,4,5,6-Tetrakisphosphate, Two Second Messengers that May Act as pH-Dependent Molecular Switches  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 3399−4000]. Corinne Blum-Held, Philippe Bernard, Gilbert Schlewer, and Bernard Spiess p 10788 DOI: 10.1021/ja015137j

Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis Edited by Karl Kirchner (Vienna University of Technology) and Walter Weissensteiner (University of Vienna). Springer-Verlag:  Wien, New York. 2001. x + 158 pp. $119.00. ISBN:  3-211-83599-7. p 10788 DOI: 10.1021/ja015292y

Open Problems in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems Edited by Janez Bona, Peter Prelovšek, Anton Ramšak (Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia), and Sarben Sarker (King's College London, London, U.K.). Kluwer Academic Publishers:  Dordrecht, Boston, London. 2001. xvi + 462 pp. $175.00. ISBN:  0-7923-6895-9. p 10788 DOI: 10.1021/ja015297v

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Effects of pH on Protein Association:  Modification of the Proton-Linkage Model and Experimental Verification of the Modified Model in the Case of Cytochrome c and Plastocyanin Milan M. Crnogorac, G. Matthias Ullmann, and Nenad M. Kostić pp 10789–10798 DOI: 10.1021/ja003818t Supporting Info

Folding of the Thrombin Aptamer into a G-Quadruplex with Sr2+:  Stability, Heat, and Hydration Besik I. Kankia and Luis A. Marky pp 10799–10804 DOI: 10.1021/ja010008o

Effect of Secondary Structure on the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of PNA Hybridization to DNA Hairpins Stuart A. Kushon, Jason P. Jordan, Jennifer L. Seifert, Henrik Nielsen, Peter E. Nielsen, and Bruce A. Armitage pp 10805–10813 DOI: 10.1021/ja016310e Supporting Info

Three-Dimensional Structure of a Purple Lipoxygenase Ewa Skrzypczak-Jankun, Rebecca A. Bross, Richard T. Carroll, Willam R. Dunham, and Max O. Funk, Jr. pp 10814–10820 DOI: 10.1021/ja011759t

CO2 Fixation by Rubisco:  Computational Dissection of the Key Steps of Carboxylation, Hydration, and C−C Bond Cleavage Harald Mauser, William A. King, Jill E. Gready, and T. John Andrews pp 10821–10829 DOI: 10.1021/ja011362p

Selective Nucleation and Discovery of Organic Polymorphs through Epitaxy with Single Crystal Substrates Christine A. Mitchell, Lian Yu, and Michael D. Ward pp 10830–10839 DOI: 10.1021/ja004085f Supporting Info

The Exceptional Chelating Ability of Dimethylaluminum Chloride and Methylaluminum Dichloride. The Merged Stereochemical Impact of α- and β-Stereocenters in Chelate-Controlled Carbonyl Addition Reactions with Enolsilane and Hydride Nucleophiles David A. Evans, Brett D. Allison, Michael G. Yang, and Craig E. Masse pp 10840–10852 DOI: 10.1021/ja011337j Supporting Info

Asymmetric Catalysis on Sequentially-Linked Columns Ahmed M. Hafez, Andrew E. Taggi, Travis Dudding, and Thomas Lectka pp 10853–10859 DOI: 10.1021/ja016556j Supporting Info

Multiplicity Control in the Polygeminal Diazeniumdiolation of Active Hydrogen Bearing Carbons:  Chemistry of a New Type of Trianionic Molecular Propeller Navamoney Arulsamy and D. Scott Bohle pp 10860–10869 DOI: 10.1021/ja002634b Supporting Info

Halipeptins A and B:  Two Novel Potent Anti-inflammatory Cyclic Depsipeptides from the Vanuatu Marine Sponge Haliclona species Antonio Randazzo, Giuseppe Bifulco, Clelia Giannini, Mariarosaria Bucci, Cécile Debitus, Giuseppe Cirino, and Luigi Gomez-Paloma pp 10870–10876 DOI: 10.1021/ja010015c Supporting Info

Is the tert-Butyl Chloride Solvolysis the Most Misunderstood Reaction in Organic Chemistry? Evidence Against Nucleophilic Solvent Participation in the tert-Butyl Chloride Transition State and for Increased Hydrogen Bond Donation to the 1-Adamantyl Chloride Solvolysis Transition State Joseph J. Gajewski pp 10877–10883 DOI: 10.1021/ja010600d Supporting Info

Invisible but Common Motion in Organic Crystals:  A Pedal Motion in Stilbenes and Azobenzenes Jun Harada and Keiichiro Ogawa pp 10884–10888 DOI: 10.1021/ja011197d Supporting Info

A Kinetic Isotope Effect Study on the Hydrolysis Reactions of Methyl Xylopyranosides and Methyl 5-Thioxylopyranosides:  Oxygen versus Sulfur Stabilization of Carbenium Ions Deepani Indurugalla and Andrew J. Bennet pp 10889–10898 DOI: 10.1021/ja011232g Supporting Info

Lewis Acid Catalyzed Stereoselective Carbosilylation. Intramolecular trans-Vinylsilylation and trans-Arylsilylation of Unactivated Alkynes Naoki Asao, Tomohiro Shimada, Takashi Shimada, and Yoshinori Yamamoto pp 10899–10902 DOI: 10.1021/ja011316p Supporting Info

Concise Asymmetric Syntheses of Radicicol and Monocillin I Robert M. Garbaccio, Shawn J. Stachel, Daniel K. Baeschlin, and Samuel J. Danishefsky pp 10903–10908 DOI: 10.1021/ja011364+ Supporting Info

Microbial Glycosyltransferases for Carbohydrate Synthesis:  α-2,3-Sialyltransferase from Neisseria gonorrheae Masayuki Izumi, Gwo-Jenn Shen, Shirley Wacowich-Sgarbi, Takuji Nakatani, Oliver Plettenburg, and Chi-Huey Wong pp 10909–10918 DOI: 10.1021/ja011382r Supporting Info

Synthesis of an Extremely Crowded Naphthalene via a Stable Norbornadienone Jiajia Zhang, Douglas M. Ho, and Robert A. Pascal, Jr. pp 10919–10926 DOI: 10.1021/ja011453m Supporting Info

Benzene-Free Synthesis of Hydroquinone Ningqing Ran, David R. Knop, K. M. Draths, and J. W. Frost pp 10927–10934 DOI: 10.1021/ja016460p Supporting Info

Ru3(CO)12-Catalyzed Coupling Reaction of sp3 C−H Bonds Adjacent to a Nitrogen Atom in Alkylamines with Alkenes Naoto Chatani, Taku Asaumi, Shuhei Yorimitsu, Tsutomu Ikeda, Fumitoshi Kakiuchi, and Shinji Murai pp 10935–10941 DOI: 10.1021/ja011540e Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of (+)-Phorboxazole A Exploiting the Petasis−Ferrier Rearrangement Amos B. Smith, III, Kevin P. Minbiole, Patrick R. Verhoest, and Michael Schelhaas pp 10942–10953 DOI: 10.1021/ja011604l Supporting Info

Synthesis, Structure, and Reactions of (Acylimino)triaryl-λ5-bismuthanes:  First Comparative Study of the (Acylimino)pnictorane Series Yoshihiro Matano, Hazumi Nomura, Hitomi Suzuki, Motoo Shiro, and Haruyuki Nakano pp 10954–10965 DOI: 10.1021/ja003623l Supporting Info

Polymer-Assisted Formation of Giant Polyoxomolybdate Structures Tianbo Liu, Quan Wan, Yi Xie, Christian Burger, Li-Zhi Liu, and Benjamin Chu pp 10966–10972 DOI: 10.1021/ja010366r

Aliphatic and Aromatic Carbon−Fluorine Bond Activation with Cp*2ZrH2:  Mechanisms of Hydrodefluorination Bradley M. Kraft, Rene J. Lachicotte, and William D. Jones pp 10973–10979 DOI: 10.1021/ja016087l Supporting Info

Synthesis of Silicon-Based Infrared Semiconductors in the Ge−Sn System Using Molecular Chemistry Methods Jennifer Taraci, S. Zollner, M. R. McCartney, Jose Menendez, M. A. Santana-Aranda, D. J. Smith, Arne Haaland, Andrey V. Tutukin, Grete Gundersen, G. Wolf, and J. Kouvetakis pp 10980–10987 DOI: 10.1021/ja0115058

Silicon Surfaces as Electron Acceptors:  Dative Bonding of Amines with Si(001) and Si(111) Surfaces Xiaoping Cao and Robert J. Hamers pp 10988–10996 DOI: 10.1021/ja0100322

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Pressure Effects on Hydrophobic Interactions Tuhin Ghosh, Angel E. García, and Shekhar Garde pp 10997–11003 DOI: 10.1021/ja010446v

Understanding the Relative Acyl-Transfer Reactivity of Oxoesters and Thioesters:  Computational Analysis of Transition State Delocalization Effects Wei Yang and Dale G. Drueckhammer pp 11004–11009 DOI: 10.1021/ja010726a Supporting Info

Sonochemistry of Surfactants in Aqueous Solutions:  An EPR Spin-Trapping Study Joe Z. Sostaric and Peter Riesz pp 11010–11019 DOI: 10.1021/ja010857b

Solution Structure Investigation of Ru(II) Complex Ion Pairs:  Quantitative NOE Measurements and Determination of Average Interionic Distances Cristiano Zuccaccia, Gianfranco Bellachioma, Giuseppe Cardaci, and Alceo Macchioni pp 11020–11028 DOI: 10.1021/ja015959g Supporting Info

Triplet Excitation Transfer through the Walls of Hemicarcerands:  Dependence of the Electronic Coupling on the Size of the Molecular Cage Zinaida S. Romanova, Kurt Deshayes, and Piotr Piotrowiak pp 11029–11036 DOI: 10.1021/ja011325y Supporting Info

Effect of Solvation on Induce-Fit Molecular Recognition in Supercritical Fluid to Organic Crystals Immobilized on a Quartz Crystal Microbalance Masanobu Naito, Yusuke Sasaki, Takehisa Dewa, Yasuhiro Aoyama, and Yoshio Okahata pp 11037–11041 DOI: 10.1021/ja0164935

The Effect of Axial Mg Ligation on the Geometry and Spin Density Distribution of Chlorophyll and Bacteriochlorophyll Cation Free Radical Models:  A Density Functional Study Patrick J. O'Malley and Simon J. Collins pp 11042–11046 DOI: 10.1021/ja010522u Supporting Info

Dielectric Relaxation in an Enzyme Active Site:  Molecular Dynamics Simulations Interpreted with a Macroscopic Continuum Model Georgios Archontis and Thomas Simonson pp 11047–11056 DOI: 10.1021/ja010716+

Commensurate and Incommensurate Hydrogen Bonds. An Exercise in Crystal Engineering Tam Luong Nguyen, Frank W. Fowler, and Joseph W. Lauher pp 11057–11064 DOI: 10.1021/ja016635v Supporting Info

Carbonyl CSA Restraints from Solution NMR for Protein Structure Refinement Rebecca S. Lipsitz and Nico Tjandra pp 11065–11066 DOI: 10.1021/ja016854g

Three-Point versus Two-Point Attachment of (R)- and (S)-Amino Acid Methyl Esters to a Cobalt(III) Chiroporphyrin:  Implications for the Analysis of Amino Acid Enantiomers by 1H NMR Spectroscopy Magalie Claeys-Bruno, Dawn Toronto, Jacques Pécaut, Michel Bardet, and Jean-Claude Marchon pp 11067–11068 DOI: 10.1021/ja016494x Supporting Info

Fluorine-Containing Donor−Acceptor Complex:  Infinite Chain Formed by Oxygen···Iodine Interaction Qianli Chu, Zhemin Wang, Qichen Huang, Chunhua Yan, and Shizheng Zhu pp 11069–11070 DOI: 10.1021/ja015786v Supporting Info

Meta-Activated Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution Reaction:  Poly(biphenylene oxide)s with Trifluoromethyl Pendent Groups via Nitro Displacement Im Sik Chung and Sang Youl Kim pp 11071–11072 DOI: 10.1021/ja0115114 Supporting Info

Quasidegeneracy of Zwitterionic and Canonical Tautomers of Arginine Solvated by an Excess Electron Piotr Skurski, Janusz Rak, Jack Simons, and Maciej Gutowski pp 11073–11074 DOI: 10.1021/ja011358d

Reversible Michael Reaction−Enzymatic Hydrolysis:  A New Variant of Dynamic Resolution Jaan A. Pesti, Jianguo Yin, Lin-hua Zhang, and Luigi Anzalone pp 11075–11076 DOI: 10.1021/ja011811l Supporting Info

Parallel Sheet Secondary Structure in γ-Peptides Matthew G. Woll, Jonathan R. Lai, Ilia A. Guzei, Stephen J. C. Taylor, Mark E. B. Smith, and Samuel H. Gellman pp 11077–11078 DOI: 10.1021/ja011719p

Geometric Dependence of 3hJ(31P−15N) and 2hJ(31P−1H) Scalar Couplings in Protein−Nucleotide Complexes Jiri Czernek and Rafael Brüschweiler pp 11079–11080 DOI: 10.1021/ja011618r Supporting Info

Coiled-Coil Formation Governed by Unnatural Hydrophobic Core Side Chains Nathan A. Schnarr and Alan J. Kennan pp 11081–11082 DOI: 10.1021/ja015912v Supporting Info

Meta-Stable Enamines:  Synthesis of Simple Enamines via Catalytic Isomerization of Allylic Amine Substrates and Their Polymerization Behavior Bruce M. Novak and Jeffrey T. Cafmeyer pp 11083–11084 DOI: 10.1021/ja011609i

Similarities and Differences between (C60)22- and (C59N)2 Conformers Kee Hag Lee, Sung Soo Park, Youngsun Suh, Tokio Yamabe, Eiji Osawa, Hans P. Lüthi, Pradeep Gutta, and Changhoon Lee pp 11085–11086 DOI: 10.1021/ja005671b

Magnetic Resonance Elastography:  A Method for the Noninvasive and Spatially Resolved Observation of Phase Transitions in Gels Ingolf Sack, Gerd Buntkowsky, Johannes Bernarding, and Juergen Braun pp 11087–11088 DOI: 10.1021/ja016141y

Biosynthesis of a Highly Stable Coiled-Coil Protein Containing Hexafluoroleucine in an Engineered Bacterial Host Yi Tang and David A. Tirrell pp 11089–11090 DOI: 10.1021/ja016652k Supporting Info

Synthesis of Nanoscale Ce1-xFexO2 Solid Solutions via a Low-Temperature Approach Guangshe Li, Richard L. Smith, Jr., and Hiroshi Inomata pp 11091–11092 DOI: 10.1021/ja016502+

Neomycin-Induced Hybrid Triplex Formation Dev P. Arya, R. Lane Coffee, Jr., and I. Charles pp 11093–11094 DOI: 10.1021/ja016481j Supporting Info

Free-standing Single Crystal Silicon Nanoribbons Wensheng Shi, Hongying Peng, Ning Wang, Chi Pui Li, Lu Xu, Chun Sing Lee, Rafi Kalish, and Shuit-Tong Lee pp 11095–11096 DOI: 10.1021/ja0162966 Supporting Info

Measurement of NH Bond Lengths by Fast Magic-Angle Spinning Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy:  A New Method for the Quantification of Hydrogen Bonds Xin Zhao, James L. Sudmeier, William W. Bachovchin, and Malcolm H. Levitt pp 11097–11098 DOI: 10.1021/ja016328p Supporting Info

Catalase-Like Activity of a Non-Heme Dibenzotetraaza[14]annulene−Fe(III) Complex under Physiological Conditions Jörg Paschke, Michael Kirsch, Hans-Gert Korth, Herbert de Groot, and Reiner Sustmann pp 11099–11100 DOI: 10.1021/ja015544v

Reactivity of (η6-Arene)tricarbonylchromium Complexes with Carbenoids:  Arene Activation or Protection? Craig A. Merlic, Andrea L. Zechman, and Michael M. Miller pp 11101–11102 DOI: 10.1021/ja011767+ Supporting Info

Sulfur Transfer from IscS to IscU:  The First Step in Iron−Sulfur Cluster Biosynthesis Archer D. Smith, Jeffrey N. Agar, Keith A. Johnson, Jeverson Frazzon, I. Jonathan Amster, Dennis R. Dean, and Michael K. Johnson pp 11103–11104 DOI: 10.1021/ja016757n Supporting Info

Nonpolar Polymers for Metal Sequestration and Ligand and Catalyst Recovery in Thermomorphic Systems David E. Bergbreiter, Philip L. Osburn, and Jonathon D. Frels pp 11105–11106 DOI: 10.1021/ja016853o Supporting Info

Can Agostic Interaction Affect Regiochemistry of Carbopalladation? Reverse Regioselectivity in the Palladium-Catalyzed Dimerization of Aryl Acetylenes Marina Rubina and Vladimir Gevorgyan pp 11107–11108 DOI: 10.1021/ja016934k Supporting Info

Facile Synthesis of Acylsilanes via Aerobic Oxidation of gem-Disilylalkylcopper Compounds Atsushi Inoue, Junichi Kondo, Hiroshi Shinokubo, and Koichiro Oshima pp 11109–11110 DOI: 10.1021/ja016716r Supporting Info

Ground-State versus Transition-State Effects on the α-Effect as Expressed by Solvent Effects Ik-Hwan Um and Erwin Buncel pp 11111–11112 DOI: 10.1021/ja016917v Supporting Info

New Reaction Pathways for Fischer Carbene Complexes:  [6 + 3] Cycloaddition of Chromium Alkenyl Carbene Complexes with Fulvenes José Barluenga, Silvia Martínez, Angel L. Suárez-Sobrino, and Miguel Tomás pp 11113–11114 DOI: 10.1021/ja011600g Supporting Info

Adsorption Geometry of Modifiers as Key in Imparting Chirality to Platinum Catalysts Jun Kubota and Francisco Zaera pp 11115–11116 DOI: 10.1021/ja016722n

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Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Sialylated Glycopeptides Derived from Mucins and T-Cell Stimulating Peptides Shaji K. George, Tilo Schwientek, Björn Holm, Celso A. Reis, Henrik Clausen, and Jan Kihlberg pp 11117–11125 DOI: 10.1021/ja015570t Supporting Info

Thermodynamic versus Kinetic Products of DNA Alkylation as Modeled by Reaction of Deoxyadenosine Willem F. Veldhuyzen, Anthony J. Shallop, Roger A. Jones, and Steven E. Rokita pp 11126–11132 DOI: 10.1021/ja011686d Supporting Info

Mechanistic Studies of the Cycloisomerization of Dimethyl Diallylmalonate Catalyzed by a Cationic Palladium Phenanthroline Complex Laurel A. Goj and Ross A. Widenhoefer pp 11133–11147 DOI: 10.1021/ja0108685 Supporting Info

Phase Transfer of Hydrophilic, Cyclodextrin-Modified Gold Nanoparticles to Chloroform Solutions Jian Liu, Julio Alvarez, Winston Ong, Esteban Román, and Angel E. Kaifer pp 11148–11154 DOI: 10.1021/ja003957a Supporting Info

Electronic Detection of Single-Base Mismatches in DNA with Ferrocene-Modified Probes C. J. Yu, Yanjian Wan, Handy Yowanto, Jie Li, Chunlin Tao, Matthew D. James, Christine L. Tan, Gary F. Blackburn, and Thomas J. Meade pp 11155–11161 DOI: 10.1021/ja010045f

Synthesis and Properties of a Germanium(II) Metalloheterocycle Derived from 1,8-Di(isopropylamino)naphthalene. A Novel Ligand Leading to Formation of Ni{Ge[(iPrN)2C10H6]}4 Patrick Bazinet, Glenn P. A. Yap, and Darrin S. Richeson pp 11162–11167 DOI: 10.1021/ja0100569 Supporting Info

Formation, Characterization, and Reactivity of Bis(μ-oxo)dinickel(III) Complexes Supported by A Series of Bis[2-(2-pyridyl)ethyl]amine Ligands Shinobu Itoh, Hideki Bandoh, Motonobu Nakagawa, Shigenori Nagatomo, Teizo Kitagawa, Kenneth D. Karlin, and Shunichi Fukuzumi pp 11168–11178 DOI: 10.1021/ja0104094 Supporting Info

Metallic Behavior and Periodical Valence Ordering in a MMX Chain Compound, Pt2(EtCS2)4I Minoru Mitsumi, Tomoko Murase, Hideyuki Kishida, Tetsuya Yoshinari, Yoshiki Ozawa, Koshiro Toriumi, Takuya Sonoyama, Hiroshi Kitagawa, and Tadaoki Mitani pp 11179–11192 DOI: 10.1021/ja010900v Supporting Info

Kinetics of Initiation, Propagation, and Termination for the [rac-(C2H4(1-indenyl)2)ZrMe][MeB(C6F5)3]-Catalyzed Polymerization of 1-Hexene Zhixian Liu, Ekasith Somsook, Curtis B. White, Kimberly A. Rosaaen, and Clark R. Landis pp 11193–11207 DOI: 10.1021/ja016072n

Substrate Recognition and Selection by the Initiation Module PheATE of Gramicidin S Synthetase Lusong Luo, Michael D. Burkart, Torsten Stachelhaus, and Christopher T. Walsh pp 11208–11218 DOI: 10.1021/ja0166646

Arene−Mercury Complexes Stabilized Aluminum and Gallium Chloride:  Synthesis and Structural Characterization Alexander S. Borovik, Simon G. Bott, and Andrew R. Barron pp 11219–11228 DOI: 10.1021/ja011003u Supporting Info

Simple and Accurate Computations of Solvatochromic Shifts in π → π* Transitions of Aromatic Chromophores Hendrik Heinz, Ulrich W. Suter, and Epameinondas Leontidis pp 11229–11236 DOI: 10.1021/ja010396u

Excited-State Interactions for [Au(CN)2-]n and [Ag(CN)2-]n Oligomers in Solution. Formation of Luminescent Gold−Gold Bonded Excimers and Exciplexes Manal A. Rawashdeh-Omary, Mohammad A. Omary, Howard H. Patterson, and John P. Fackler, Jr. pp 11237–11247 DOI: 10.1021/ja011176j

Molecule-Induced Alkane Homolysis with Dioxiranes Andrey A. Fokin, Boryslav A. Tkachenko, Oleg I. Korshunov, Pavel A. Gunchenko, and Peter R. Schreiner pp 11248–11252 DOI: 10.1021/ja0158096 Supporting Info

Vibrations of the Phenoxyl Radical Jens Spanget-Larsen, Michał Gil, Alexandr Gorski, Daniel M. Blake, Jacek Waluk, and J. George Radziszewski pp 11253–11261 DOI: 10.1021/ja0113596

Hydride Transfer in Liver Alcohol Dehydrogenase:  Quantum Dynamics, Kinetic Isotope Effects, and Role of Enzyme Motion Salomon R. Billeter, Simon P. Webb, Pratul K. Agarwal, Tzvetelin Iordanov, and Sharon Hammes-Schiffer pp 11262–11272 DOI: 10.1021/ja011384b

Transition States of Amine-Catalyzed Aldol Reactions Involving Enamine Intermediates:  Theoretical Studies of Mechanism, Reactivity, and Stereoselectivity S. Bahmanyar and K. N. Houk pp 11273–11283 DOI: 10.1021/ja011403h Supporting Info

Temperature-Jump Investigations of the Kinetics of Hydrogel Nanoparticle Volume Phase Transitions Jianping Wang, Daoji Gan, L. Andrew Lyon, and Mostafa A. El-Sayed pp 11284–11289 DOI: 10.1021/ja016610w Supporting Info

Palladium-Catalyzed Intramolecular Addition of 1,3-Diones to Unactivated Olefins Tao Pei and Ross A. Widenhoefer pp 11290–11291 DOI: 10.1021/ja011764x Supporting Info

Effect of Rehybridization on the Electronic Structure of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes M. A. Hamon, M. E. Itkis, S. Niyogi, T. Alvaraez, C. Kuper, M. Menon, and R. C. Haddon pp 11292–11293 DOI: 10.1021/ja0109702

The First Total Synthesis of N1999-A2:  Absolute Stereochemistry and Stereochemical Implications into DNA Cleavage Shoji Kobayashi, Shukuko Ashizawa, Yusuke Takahashi, Yukio Sugiura, Makoto Nagaoka, Martin J. Lear, and Masahiro Hirama pp 11294–11295 DOI: 10.1021/ja011779v Supporting Info

Achieving Large Color Changes in Response to the Presence of Amino Acids:  A Molecular Sensing Ensemble with Selectivity for Aspartate Hassan Aït-Haddou, Sheryl L. Wiskur, Vincent M. Lynch, and Eric V. Anslyn pp 11296–11297 DOI: 10.1021/ja011905v Supporting Info

Excited-State Lifetime Modulation in Triphenylene-Based Conjugated Polymers Aimee Rose, Claus G. Lugmair, and Timothy M. Swager pp 11298–11299 DOI: 10.1021/ja016662l Supporting Info

Optical Limiting Behavior of Nanosized Polyicosahedral Gold−Silver Clusters Based on Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Effects Hong Zhang, David E. Zelmon, Luogen Deng, Hua-Kuang Liu, and Boon K. Teo pp 11300–11301 DOI: 10.1021/ja010412n Supporting Info

Parallel Kinetic Resolutions of Monosubstituted Succinic Anhydrides Catalyzed by a Modified Cinchona Alkaloid Yonggang Chen and Li Deng pp 11302–11303 DOI: 10.1021/ja011766h Supporting Info

A New Function of the (μ3-S) Ligand in an Fe4S4 Cluster:  Synthesis and Structure of the High- Nuclearity Mo/Fe/S Cluster, Fe(DMF)Cl(Cl4-cat)2- Mo2Fe2S4(PEt3)2ClFe4S4(PEt3)3(CO)6Cl Jaehong Han and Dimitri Coucouvanis pp 11304–11305 DOI: 10.1021/ja0110776 Supporting Info

1H−31P CPMG-Correlated Experiments for the Assignment of Nucleic Acids Burkhard Luy and John P. Marino pp 11306–11307 DOI: 10.1021/ja0166747

Total Synthesis of the NF-κB Inhibitor (−)-Cycloepoxydon:  Utilization of Tartrate-Mediated Nucleophilic Epoxidation Chaomin Li, Emily A. Pace, Mei-Chih Liang, Emil Lobkovsky, Thomas D. Gilmore, and John A. Porco, Jr. pp 11308–11309 DOI: 10.1021/ja0169769 Supporting Info

GaCl3-Catalyzed Arylation of Cycloalkanes Fumi Yonehara, Yoshiyuki Kido, Satoshi Morita, and Masahiko Yamaguchi pp 11310–11311 DOI: 10.1021/ja0164172 Supporting Info

Tandem Catalysis:  The Sequential Mediation of Olefin Metathesis, Hydrogenation, and Hydrogen Transfer with Single-Component Ru Complexes Janis Louie, Christopher W. Bielawski, and Robert H. Grubbs pp 11312–11313 DOI: 10.1021/ja016431e Supporting Info

Electrocatalytic Intermolecular Olefin Cross-Coupling by Anodically Induced Formal [2+2] Cycloaddition between Enol Ethers and Alkenes Kazuhiro Chiba, Teppei Miura, Shokaku Kim, Yoshikazu Kitano, and Masahiro Tada pp 11314–11315 DOI: 10.1021/ja016885b Supporting Info

Encapsulation of N2, O2, Methanol, or Acetonitrile by Decamethylcucurbit[5]uril(NH4+)2 Complexes in the Gas Phase:  Influence of the Guest on “Lid” Tightness Katherine A. Kellersberger, Joseph D. Anderson, Sarah M. Ward, Krzysztof E. Krakowiak, and David V. Dearden pp 11316–11317 DOI: 10.1021/ja017031u

A Stable Dirhodium Tetracarboxylate Carbenoid:  Crystal Structure, Bonding Analysis, and Catalysis James P. Snyder, Albert Padwa, and Thomas StengelAnthony J. Arduengo, III, Alexander Jockisch, and Hyo-Joong Kim pp 11318–11319 DOI: 10.1021/ja016928o Supporting Info

Ab Initio VCD Calculation of a Transition-Metal Containing Molecule and a New Intensity Enhancement Mechanism for VCD Yanan He, Xiaolin Cao, Laurence A. Nafie, and Teresa B. Freedman pp 11320–11321 DOI: 10.1021/ja016218i

Radical Cation-Mediated Annulation. Stereoselective Construction of Bicyclo[5.3.0]decan-3-ones by Aerobic Oxidation of Cyclopropylamines Hee Bong Lee, Moo Je Sung, Silas C. Blackstock, and Jin Kun Cha pp 11322–11324 DOI: 10.1021/ja017043f Supporting Info

Contribution of Phosphate Intrinsic Binding Energy to the Enzymatic Rate Acceleration for Triosephosphate Isomerase Tina L. Amyes, AnnMarie C. O'Donoghue, and John P. Richard pp 11325–11326 DOI: 10.1021/ja016754a

Enhanced Hydrogen Bonding Induced by Optical Excitation:  Unexpected Subnanosecond Photoinduced Dynamics in a Peptide-Based [2]Rotaxane George W. H. Wurpel, Albert M. Brouwer, Ivo H. M. van Stokkum, Angeles Farran, and David A. Leigh pp 11327–11328 DOI: 10.1021/ja015919c Supporting Info

Reactions of Nitrenium Ions with Arenes:  Laser Flash Photoylsis Detection of a σ-Complex between N,N-Diphenylnitrenium Ion and Alkoxybenzenes Sean McIlroy and Daniel E. Falvey pp 11329–11330 DOI: 10.1021/ja016557b

Extremely Slow Long-Range Electron Transfer Reactions Across Zeolite−Solution Interface Shunichi Fukuzumi, Yutaka Yoshida, Tsutomu Urano, Tomoyoshi Suenobu, and Hiroshi Imahori pp 11331–11332 DOI: 10.1021/ja015751v Supporting Info

Proton Inventory of the Genomic HDV Ribozyme in Mg2+-Containing Solutions Shu-ichi Nakano and Philip C. Bevilacqua pp 11333–11334 DOI: 10.1021/ja0166850

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New Editor Information p viii DOI: 10.1021/ja015102j

Enzyme-Modulated Cleavage of dsDNA for Studying Interfacial Biomolecular Interactions Fei Yan and Omowunmi A. Sadik pp 11335–11340 DOI: 10.1021/ja005719l Supporting Info

Slow Dynamics in Folded and Unfolded States of an SH3 Domain Martin Tollinger, Nikolai R. Skrynnikov, Frans A. A. Mulder, Julie D. Forman-Kay, and Lewis E. Kay pp 11341–11352 DOI: 10.1021/ja011300z Supporting Info

Biosynthesis of Vitamin B6 in Yeast:  Incorporation Pattern of Glucose Ram Nath Gupta, Thomas Hemscheidt, Brian G. Sayer, and Ian D. Spenser pp 11353–11359 DOI: 10.1021/ja0113201 Supporting Info

UV Laser Photolysis of DNA:  Effect of Duplex Stability on Charge-Transfer Efficiency T. Douki, D. Angelov, and J. Cadet pp 11360–11366 DOI: 10.1021/ja016426a

Engineering Orthogonal Ligand−Receptor Pairs from “Near Drugs” Donald F. Doyle, Dwaine A. Braasch, Laurie K. Jackson, Harald E. Weiss, Marcus F. Boehm, David J. Mangelsdorf, and David R. Corey pp 11367–11371 DOI: 10.1021/ja0164632

Colorimetric Fluoride Ion Sensing by Boron-Containing π-Electron Systems Shigehiro Yamaguchi, Seiji Akiyama, and Kohei Tamao pp 11372–11375 DOI: 10.1021/ja015957w Supporting Info

A New Mode of Stereochemical Control Revealed by Analysis of the Biosynthesis of Dihydrogranaticin in Streptomyces violaceoruber Tü22 Takaaki Taguchi, Yutaka Ebizuka, David A. Hopwood, and Koji Ichinose pp 11376–11380 DOI: 10.1021/ja015981+ Supporting Info

Stereoselective Total Synthesis of (±)-Thielocin Alβ Yves Génisson, Peter C. Tyler, R. G. Ball, and Robert N. Young pp 11381–11387 DOI: 10.1021/ja0112341 Supporting Info

Efficient Light Harvesting by Sequential Energy Transfer across Aggregates in Polymers of Finite Conjugational Segments with Short Aliphatic Linkages Kang-Yung Peng, Show-An Chen, and Wun-Shain Fann pp 11388–11397 DOI: 10.1021/ja011493q Supporting Info

Synthesis and Structure Determination of Kahalalide F1,2 Àngel López-Macià, Jose Carlos Jiménez, Miriam Royo, Ernest Giralt, and Fernando Albericio pp 11398–11401 DOI: 10.1021/ja0116728 Supporting Info

Daphnicyclidins A−H, Novel Hexa- or Pentacyclic Alkaloids from Two Species of Daphniphyllum Jun'ichi Kobayashi, Yasutada Inaba, Motoo Shiro, Naotoshi Yoshida, and Hiroshi Morita pp 11402–11408 DOI: 10.1021/ja016955e Supporting Info

Vibrational Structure of Titanium Silicate Catalysts. A Spectroscopic and Theoretical Study Gabriele Ricchiardi, Alessandro Damin, Silvia Bordiga, Carlo Lamberti, Guido Spanò, Franco Rivetti, and Adriano Zecchina pp 11409–11419 DOI: 10.1021/ja010607v

Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Composites from Cubic Silsesquioxanes Jiwon Choi, Jason Harcup, Albert F. Yee, Quan Zhu, and Richard M. Laine pp 11420–11430 DOI: 10.1021/ja010720l

UV−Visible Absorption Spectra of [Ru(E)(E‘)(CO)2(iPr-DAB)] (E = E‘ = SnPh3 or Cl; E = SnPh3 or Cl, E‘ = CH3; iPr-DAB = N,N‘-Di-isopropyl-1,4-diaza-1,3-butadiene):  Combination of CASSCF/CASPT2 and TD-DFT Calculations Mohamed Turki, Chantal Daniel, Stanislav Záliš, Antonín Vlek, Jr., Joris van Slageren, and Derk J. Stufkens pp 11431–11440 DOI: 10.1021/ja010782b

Hole Traps in DNA E. M. Conwell and D. M. Basko pp 11441–11445 DOI: 10.1021/ja015947v

Grotthus-Type and Diffusive Proton Transfer in 7-Hydroxyquinoline·(NH3)n Clusters Markus Meuwly, Andreas Bach, and Samuel Leutwyler pp 11446–11453 DOI: 10.1021/ja010893a

Two Phase Morphology Limits Lithium Diffusion in TiO2 (Anatase):  A 7Li MAS NMR Study Marnix Wagemaker, Roel van de Krol, Arno P. M. Kentgens, Ad A. van Well, and Fokko M. Mulder pp 11454–11461 DOI: 10.1021/ja0161148

Supramolecular Staircase via Self-Assembly of Disklike Molecules at the Solid−Liquid Interface Paolo Samorí, Andreas Fechtenkötter, Frank Jäckel, Thilo Böhme, Klaus Müllen, and Jürgen P. Rabe pp 11462–11467 DOI: 10.1021/ja0111380 Supporting Info

Novel Distance Dependence of Diffusion Constants in Hyaluronan Aqueous Solution Resulting from Its Characteristic Nano-Microstructure Akiko Masuda, Kiminori Ushida, Hiroyuki Koshino, Koichi Yamashita, and Thomas Kluge pp 11468–11471 DOI: 10.1021/ja016401b

Quantitative Analysis of the Effect of Salt Concentration on Enzymatic Catalysis Chiwook Park and Ronald T. Raines pp 11472–11479 DOI: 10.1021/ja0164834 Supporting Info

H2D3:  A Cationic Porphyrin Designed to Intercalate into B-Form DNA (H2D3 = trans-Di(N-methylpyridium-3-yl)porphyrin) Rebecca K. Wall, Alexander H. Shelton, Lisa C. Bonaccorsi, Stephanie A. Bejune, Dean Dubé, and David R. McMillin pp 11480–11481 DOI: 10.1021/ja010005b

Tertiary Building Units:  Synthesis, Structure, and Porosity of a Metal−Organic Dendrimer Framework (MODF-1) Hee K. Chae, Mohamed Eddaoudi, Jaheon Kim, Sheila I. Hauck, John F. Hartwig, Michael O'Keeffe, and Omar M. Yaghi pp 11482–11483 DOI: 10.1021/ja011692+ Supporting Info

Analysis of NMR Relaxation Data of Biomolecules with Slow Domain Motions Using Wobble-in-a-Cone Approximation Shou-Lin Chang and Nico Tjandra pp 11484–11485 DOI: 10.1021/ja016862x

Conducting Probe-Mediated Electrochemical Nanopatterning of Molecular Materials Olivier Schneegans, Alec Moradpour, Frédéric Houzé, Angelina Angelova, Catherine Henry de Villeneuve, Philippe Allongue, and Pascal Chrétien pp 11486–11487 DOI: 10.1021/ja016607c Supporting Info

Directing Energy Transfer within Conjugated Polymer Thin Films Jinsang Kim, D. Tyler McQuade, Aimee Rose, Zhengguo Zhu, and Timothy M. Swager pp 11488–11489 DOI: 10.1021/ja016693g

Fluorous Catalysis without Fluorous Solvents:  A Friendlier Catalyst Recovery/Recycling Protocol Based upon Thermomorphic Properties and Liquid/Solid Phase Separation Marc Wende, Ralf Meier, and J. A. Gladysz pp 11490–11491 DOI: 10.1021/ja011444d

A Versatile New Method for the Synthesis of Cyclopentenones via an Unusual Rhodium-Catalyzed Intramolecular Trans Hydroacylation of an Alkyne Ken Tanaka and Gregory C. Fu pp 11492–11493 DOI: 10.1021/ja011907f Supporting Info

Hydrofunctionalization of Alkenes Promoted by Diruthenium Complexes [{(η5-C5H3)2(SiMe2)2}Ru2(CO)3(η2-CH2CH-R)(μ-H)]+ Featuring a Kinetically Inert Proton on a Metal−Metal Bond Maxim V. Ovchinnikov, Eric LeBlanc, Ilia A. Guzei, and Robert J. Angelici pp 11494–11495 DOI: 10.1021/ja0116573 Supporting Info

Bridging the Ruddlesden−Popper and the Aurivillius Phases:  Synthesis and Structure of a Novel Series of Layered Perovskite Oxides, (BiO)LnTiO4 (Ln = La, Nd, Sm) Thathan Sivakumar, Ram Seshadri, and Jagannatha Gopalakrishnan pp 11496–11497 DOI: 10.1021/ja011941u

Chemical CO2 Fixation:  Cr(III) Salen Complexes as Highly Efficient Catalysts for the Coupling of CO2 and Epoxides Robert L. Paddock and SonBinh T. Nguyen pp 11498–11499 DOI: 10.1021/ja0164677 Supporting Info

Single-Crystalline Nanowires of Ag2Se Can Be Synthesized by Templating against Nanowires of Trigonal Se Byron Gates, Yiying Wu, Yadong Yin, Peidong Yang, and Younan Xia pp 11500–11501 DOI: 10.1021/ja0166895 Supporting Info

Isotope Labeling of Carbon Nanotubes and Formation of 12C−13C Nanotube Junctions Liang Liu and Shoushan Fan pp 11502–11503 DOI: 10.1021/ja0167304 Supporting Info

Catalytic System for Heck Reactions Involving Insertion into Pd−(Perfluoro-organyl) Bonds Ana C. Albéniz, Pablo Espinet, Blanca Martín-Ruiz, and David Milstein pp 11504–11505 DOI: 10.1021/ja016315b

Three-Dimensional Superlattices Built from (M4In16S33)10- (M = Mn, Co, Zn, Cd) Supertetrahedral Clusters Cheng Wang, Yuqi Li, Xianhui Bu, Nanfeng Zheng, Olivera Zivkovic, Chung-Sung Yang, and Pingyun Feng pp 11506–11507 DOI: 10.1021/ja011739r Supporting Info

Binding of Chlorohydrocarbons to Metal Centers:  Quantitative Evaluation of Relative Binding Constants and Structural Characterization of the First Isolable Transition Metal−Chloromethane Adduct David M. Tellers and Robert G. Bergman pp 11508–11509 DOI: 10.1021/ja0164982 Supporting Info

Molecular Recognition Inside of Multifunctionalized Mesoporous Silicas:  Toward Selective Fluorescence Detection of Dopamine and Glucosamine Victor S.-Y. Lin, Cheng-Yu Lai, Jianguo Huang, Se-Ahn Song, and Shu Xu pp 11510–11511 DOI: 10.1021/ja016223m Supporting Info

Polymer Functionalization for Air-Stable n-Type Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors Moonsub Shim, Ali Javey, Nadine Wong Shi Kam, and Hongjie Dai pp 11512–11513 DOI: 10.1021/ja0169670

Highly Regioselective and Diastereoselective Directed Hydroformylation of Allylic Ethers:  A New Approach to Propionate Aldol Synthesis Isaac J. Krauss, Charles C.-Y. Wang, and James L. Leighton pp 11514–11515 DOI: 10.1021/ja016978t Supporting Info

Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis. Second Edition Edited by Iwao Ojima (State University of New York at Stony Brook). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim, New York, Chichester, Brisbane, Singapore, Toronto. 2000. xiv + 864 pp. $125.00. ISBN 0-471-29805-0 Charles Garner p 11516 DOI: 10.1021/ja015216v

Systematic Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry:  A Directory to Comprehension and Application of Its Basic Principles By D. Hellwinkel (Universität Heidelberg). Springer-Verlag:  Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. 2001. vi + 228 pp. $19.95. ISBN:  3-540-41138-0. Patton M. Giles, Jr. p 11516 DOI: 10.1021/ja015293q

Dictionary of Renewable Resources:  Second, Revised and Enlarged Edition Edited by Hans Zoebelein (Schliersee, Germany). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2001. xx + 408 pp. $125.00. ISBN:  3-527-30114-3. p 11516 DOI: 10.1021/ja0153013

CE and CEC Reviews 2001 Edited by Ziad El Rassi (Oklahoma State University). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2001. x + 596 pp. $80.00. ISBN:  3-527-30255-7. p 11516 DOI: 10.1021/ja015302v

Surface and Colloid Science. Volume 16 Edited by Egon Matijevic (Clarkson University). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers:  New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow. 2001. xiv + 408 pp. $115.00. ISBN:  0-306-46456-X. John F. Scamehorn pp 11516–11517 DOI: 10.1021/ja015272w

Chemical Sciences in the 20th Century:  Bridging Boundaries Edited by Carsten Reinhardt (Universitat Regensburg). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2001. xviii + 282 pp. $75.00. ISBN:  3-527-30271-9. p 11517 DOI: 10.1021/ja015307s

Metabolic Maps. Pesticides, Environmentally Relevant Mole-cules, Biologically Active Molecules By Hiroyasu Aizawa (HRCI Hiro Research Consultancy Inc., Tokyo, Japan). Academic Press:  San Diego. 2001. xiv + 330 pp. $119.95. ISBN:  0-12-045605-2. p 11517 DOI: 10.1021/ja015308k

Photonic Crystals and Light Localization in the 21st Century Edited by Costas M. Soukoulis (Iowa State University). Kluwer Academic Publishers:  Dordrecht, Boston, London. 2001. xii + 606 pp. $191.00. ISBN:  0-7923-6947-5. p 11517 DOI: 10.1021/ja0153114

Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry. Volume 12 Edited by Gordon W. Gribble (Dartmouth College) and Thomas L. Gilchrist (University of Liverpool). Pergamon (an Imprint of Elsevier Science):  Amsterdam, New York. 2000. x + 376 pp. $231.50. ISBN:  0-08-043882-2. p 11517 DOI: 10.1021/ja015313o

Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations By Uwe Erb (University of Toronto) and Harald Keller (Technical Translator and Writer, affiliation unknown). Wiley-Interscience:  New York. 2001. xvi + 2100 pp. $250.00. ISBN:  0-471-38802-5. p 11517 DOI: 10.1021/ja0153262

Encyclopedia of Chromatography Edited by Jack Cazes (Florida Atlantic University). Marcel Dekker:  New York, Basel. 2001. xxx + 928 pp. $250.00. ISBN:  0-8247-0511-4. p 11517 DOI: 10.1021/ja015327u

Metal Ions in Biological Systems. Volume 38. Probing of Pro-teins by Metal Ions and Their Low-Molecular-Weight Com-plexes Edited by Astrid Sigel and Helmut Sigel (University of Basel, Switzerland). Dekker:  New York and Basel. 2001. xlviii + 690 pp. $250. ISBN 0-8247-0289-1 A. L. Crumbliss pp 11517–11518 DOI: 10.1021/ja015248i

Asymmetric Oxidation Reactions Edited by Tsutomu Katsuki (Kyushu University). Oxford University Press:  Oxford. 2001. Xviii + 244 pp. $125.00. ISBN:  0-19-850201-X. Michael J. Krische p 11518 DOI: 10.1021/ja0153159

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“Flexiball” Toolkit:  A Modular Approach to Self-Assembling Capsules Brendan M. O'Leary, Tomas Szabo, Niels Svenstrup, Christoph A. Schalley, Arne Lützen, Mathias Schäfer, and Julius Rebek, Jr. pp 11519–11533 DOI: 10.1021/ja011651d

Unsaturated Thiacrown Ethers:  Synthesis, Physical Properties, and Formation of a Silver Complex Takahiro Tsuchiya, Toshio Shimizu, and Nobumasa Kamigata pp 11534–11538 DOI: 10.1021/ja0102742 Supporting Info

Palladium(II) β-Agostic Alkyl Cations and Alkyl Ethylene Complexes:  Investigation of Polymer Chain Isomerization Mechanisms Leigh H. Shultz, Daniel J. Tempel, and Maurice Brookhart pp 11539–11555 DOI: 10.1021/ja011055j Supporting Info

Acid-Catalyzed Isomerization of Pivalaldehyde to Methyl Isopropyl Ketone via a Reactive Protosolvated Carboxonium Ion Intermediate George A. Olah, Thomas Mathew, Eric R. Marinez, Pierre M. Esteves, Markus Etzkorn, Golam Rasul, and G. K. Surya Prakash pp 11556–11561 DOI: 10.1021/ja011253a Supporting Info

Keto−Enol/Enolate Equilibria in the Isochroman-4-one System. Effect of a β-Oxygen Substituent Y. Chiang, A. J. Kresge, Q. Meng, R. A. More O'Ferrall, and Y. Zhu pp 11562–11569 DOI: 10.1021/ja0112801 Supporting Info

Topological Polymer Chemistry:  Systematic Classification of Nonlinear Polymer Topologies Yasuyuki Tezuka and Hideaki Oike pp 11570–11576 DOI: 10.1021/ja0114409 Supporting Info

Diversity-Oriented Synthesis of Multisubstituted Olefins through the Sequential Integration of Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions. 2-Pyridyldimethyl(vinyl)silane as a Versatile Platform for Olefin Synthesis Kenichiro Itami, Toshiki Nokami, Yoji Ishimura, Koichi Mitsudo, Toshiyuki Kamei, and Jun-ichi Yoshida pp 11577–11585 DOI: 10.1021/ja016790+ Supporting Info

Total Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of the Nakijiquinones Petra Stahl, Lars Kissau, Ralph Mazitschek, Axel Huwe, Pascal Furet, Athanassios Giannis, and Herbert Waldmann pp 11586–11593 DOI: 10.1021/ja011413i Supporting Info

Mechanism of Enantioselective Ti-Catalyzed Strecker Reaction:  Peptide-Based Metal Complexes as Bifunctional Catalysts Nathan S. Josephsohn, Kevin W. Kuntz, Marc L. Snapper, and Amir H. Hoveyda pp 11594–11599 DOI: 10.1021/ja011875w Supporting Info

Oligothiophene Isothiocyanates as a New Class of Fluorescent Markers for Biopolymers Giovanna Barbarella, Massimo Zambianchi, Olga Pudova, Vanessa Paladini, Alfredo Ventola, Francesco Cipriani, Giuseppe Gigli, Roberto Cingolani, and Gennaro Citro pp 11600–11607 DOI: 10.1021/ja011209v Supporting Info

Design of Allele-Specific Protein Methyltransferase Inhibitors Qing Lin, Fanyi Jiang, Peter G. Schultz, and Nathanael S. Gray pp 11608–11613 DOI: 10.1021/ja011423j Supporting Info

Mechanistic Studies of Nitric Oxide Reactions with Water Soluble Iron(II), Cobalt(II), and Iron(III) Porphyrin Complexes in Aqueous Solutions:  Implications for Biological Activity Leroy E. Laverman and Peter C. Ford pp 11614–11622 DOI: 10.1021/ja0113910 Supporting Info

Electron Tunneling in Single Crystals of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Azurins Brian R. Crane, Angel J. Di Bilio, Jay R. Winkler, and Harry B. Gray pp 11623–11631 DOI: 10.1021/ja0115870 Supporting Info

Synthesis and Molecular Structures of Some New Titanium(IV) Aryloxides Karine Gigant, Adel Rammal, and Marc Henry pp 11632–11637 DOI: 10.1021/ja016930f Supporting Info

Lipid II:  Total Synthesis of the Bacterial Cell Wall Precursor and Utilization as a Substrate for Glycosyltransfer and Transpeptidation by Penicillin Binding Protein (PBP) 1b of Eschericia coli Benjamin Schwartz, Jay A. Markwalder, and Yi Wang pp 11638–11643 DOI: 10.1021/ja0166848 Supporting Info

Iron(III) Spin-Crossover Compounds with a Wide Apparent Thermal Hysteresis around Room Temperature Shinya Hayami, Zhong-ze Gu, Hajime Yoshiki, Akira Fujishima, and Osamu Sato pp 11644–11650 DOI: 10.1021/ja0017920 Supporting Info

Organic-Capped ZnO Nanocrystals:  Synthesis and n-Type Character Moonsub Shim and Philippe Guyot-Sionnest pp 11651–11654 DOI: 10.1021/ja0163321

Using Structures Formed by Dirhodium Tetra(trifluoroacetate) with Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons to Prospect for Maximum π-Electron Density:  Hückel Calculations Get It Right F. Albert Cotton, Evgeny V. Dikarev, and Marina A. Petrukhina pp 11655–11663 DOI: 10.1021/ja016801z Supporting Info

Resonance Raman Spectroscopic Study of Nitrophorin 1, a Nitric Oxide-Binding Heme Protein from Rhodnius prolixus, and Its Nitrosyl and Cyano Adducts Estelle M. Maes, F. Ann Walker, William R. Montfort, and Roman S. Czernuszewicz pp 11664–11672 DOI: 10.1021/ja0031927

Chromatographic Purification and Properties of Soluble Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Bin Zhao, Hui Hu, Sandip Niyogi, Mikhail E. Itkis, Mark A. Hamon, Paragranjita Bhowmik, Mark S. Meier, and Robert C. Haddon pp 11673–11677 DOI: 10.1021/ja010488j

Axial Ligand Modulation of the Electronic Structures of Binuclear Copper Sites:  Analysis of Paramagnetic 1H NMR Spectra of Met160Gln CuA Claudio O. Fernández, Julia A. Cricco, Claire E. Slutter, John H. Richards, Harry B. Gray, and Alejandro J. Vila pp 11678–11685 DOI: 10.1021/ja0162515

Origin of Substituent Effects in the Absorption Spectra of Peroxy Radicals:  Time Dependent Density Functional Theory Calculations Jennifer L. Weisman and Martin Head-Gordon pp 11686–11694 DOI: 10.1021/ja011368e Supporting Info

Low-Energy Tautomers and Conformers of Neutral and Protonated Arginine Janusz Rak, Piotr Skurski, Jack Simons, and Maciej Gutowski pp 11695–11707 DOI: 10.1021/ja011357l Supporting Info

Theoretical Studies To Understand Surface Chemistry on Carbon Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries:  Reduction Mechanisms of Ethylene Carbonate Yixuan Wang, Shinichiro Nakamura, Makoto Ue, and Perla B. Balbuena pp 11708–11718 DOI: 10.1021/ja0164529 Supporting Info

Reactivity of Mono-Meso-Substituted Iron(II) Octaethylporphyrin Complexes with Hydrogen Peroxide in the Absence of Dioxygen. Evidence for Nucleophilic Attack on the Heme Heather Kalish, Jason E. Camp, Marcin Stpień, Lechosław Latos-Grażyński, and Alan L. Balch pp 11719–11727 DOI: 10.1021/ja011545b

Valence Bond Concepts Applied to the Molecular Mechanics Description of Molecular Shapes. 4. Transition Metals with π-Bonds Timothy K. Firman and Clark R. Landis pp 11728–11742 DOI: 10.1021/ja002586v Supporting Info

Computational Analysis of the Potential Energy Surfaces of Glycerol in the Gas and Aqueous Phases:  Effects of Level of Theory, Basis Set, and Solvation on Strongly Intramolecularly Hydrogen-Bonded Systems Christopher S. Callam, Sherwin J. Singer, Todd L. Lowary, and Christopher M. Hadad pp 11743–11754 DOI: 10.1021/ja011785r Supporting Info

Solvent Effects on the Reaction Coordinate of the Hydrolysis of Phosphates and Sulfates:  Application of Hammond and Anti-Hammond Postulates to Understand Hydrolysis in Solution Xabier Lopez, Annick Dejaegere, and Martin Karplus pp 11755–11763 DOI: 10.1021/ja010683y

Plane-Wave Density Functional Theoretic Study of Formation of Clay-Polymer Nanocomposite Materials by Self-Catalyzed in Situ Intercalative Polymerization Stephen Stackhouse, Peter V. Coveney, and Eric Sandré pp 11764–11774 DOI: 10.1021/ja015808d

Dihedral ψ Angle Dependence of the Amide III Vibration:  A Uniquely Sensitive UV Resonance Raman Secondary Structural Probe Sanford A. Asher, Anatoli Ianoul, Guido Mix, Mary N. Boyden, Anton Karnoup, Max Diem, and Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner pp 11775–11781 DOI: 10.1021/ja0039738

Investigation of Aromatic-Backbone Amide Interactions in the Model Peptide Acetyl-Phe-Gly-Gly-N-Methyl Amide Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Protein Database Search Gergely Tóth, Richard F. Murphy, and Sándor Lovas pp 11782–11790 DOI: 10.1021/ja011245u

A Dipolar Coupling Based Strategy for Simultaneous Resonance Assignment and Structure Determination of Protein Backbones Fang Tian, Homayoun Valafar, and James H. Prestegard pp 11791–11796 DOI: 10.1021/ja011806h Supporting Info

Identification of Gram Negative Bacteria Using Nanoscale Silicon Microcavities Selena Chan, Scott R. Horner, Philippe M. Fauchet, and Benjamin L. Miller pp 11797–11798 DOI: 10.1021/ja016555r Supporting Info

Chromium(V)−Sialic (Neuraminic) Acid Species Are Formed from Mixtures of Chromium(VI) and Saliva Rachel Codd and Peter A. Lay pp 11799–11800 DOI: 10.1021/ja0160501

Synthesis and Structural Properties of the First Macrocyclic Selenoether Complex of Arsenic(III):  A Rare Example of Exo and Endo Coordination in a Single Species Andrew J. Barton, Nicholas J. Hill, William Levason, and Gillian Reid pp 11801–11802 DOI: 10.1021/ja0110527 Supporting Info

Strong Ion Pairing Effects on Single-Site Olefin Polymerization:  Mechanistic Insights in Syndiospecific Propylene Enchainment Ming-Chou Chen and Tobin J. Marks pp 11803–11804 DOI: 10.1021/ja011558p Supporting Info

Ultrathin, Ion-Selective Polyimide Membranes Prepared from Layered Polyelectrolytes Daniel M. Sullivan and Merlin L. Bruening pp 11805–11806 DOI: 10.1021/ja016536h

Direct Imaging of Catalytically Important Processes in the Oxidation of CO over RuO2(110) H. Over, A. P. Seitsonen, E. Lundgren, M. Schmid, and P. Varga pp 11807–11808 DOI: 10.1021/ja016408t

Unexpected Assembly of a Unique Cyano-Bridged Three-Dimensional Cu3Cr2 Ferromagnet Hui-Zhong Kou, Song Gao, Jing Zhang, Ge-Hui Wen, Gang Su, R. K. Zheng, and X. X. Zhang pp 11809–11810 DOI: 10.1021/ja016656p Supporting Info

Sequence Context and Thermodynamic Stability of a Single Base Pair Mismatch in Short Deoxyoligonucleotide Duplexes Timothy S. Hall, Petr Pancoska, Peter V. Riccelli, Kathleen Mandell, and Albert S. Benight pp 11811–11812 DOI: 10.1021/ja016360j

Electrochemical Hydrogen Storage in MoS2 Nanotubes Jun Chen, Nobuhiro Kuriyama, Huatang Yuan, Hiroyuki T. Takeshita, and Tetsuo Sakai pp 11813–11814 DOI: 10.1021/ja017121z

Programmed Self-Sorting of Coiled Coils with Leucine and Hexafluoroleucine Cores Basar Bilgiçer, Xuechao Xing, and Krishna Kumar pp 11815–11816 DOI: 10.1021/ja016767o Supporting Info

Molecular Assembly and Gelating Behavior of Didodecanoylamides of α,ω-Alkylidenediamines Kiyoshi Tomioka, Takaaki Sumiyoshi, Shinobu Narui, Yasuo Nagaoka, Akira Iida, Yoshihisa Miwa, Tooru Taga, Minoru Nakano, and Tetsuro Handa pp 11817–11818 DOI: 10.1021/ja0169318 Supporting Info

Is the Bis-μ-Oxo Cu2(III,III) State an Intermediate in Tyrosinase? Per E. M. Siegbahn and Maria Wirstam pp 11819–11820 DOI: 10.1021/ja010829t

The PASADENA Effect at a Solid Surface:  High-Sensitivity Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Hydrogen Chemisorption Paul J. Carson, C. Russell Bowers, and Daniel P. Weitekamp pp 11821–11822 DOI: 10.1021/ja010572z

Single-Component Molecule-Based Ferrimagnetics Daisuke Shiomi, Takayasu Kanaya, Kazunobu Sato, Masaki Mito, Kazuyoshi Takeda, and Takeji Takui pp 11823–11824 DOI: 10.1021/ja016827q Supporting Info

Enzymatic Polymerization to Artificial Hyaluronan:  A Novel Method to Synthesize a Glycosaminoglycan Using a Transition State Analogue Monomer Shiro Kobayashi, Hidekazu Morii, Ryosuke Itoh, Shunsaku Kimura, and Masashi Ohmae pp 11825–11826 DOI: 10.1021/ja017104+ Supporting Info

Kinetic Products of Linoleate Peroxidation:  Rapid β-Fragmentation of Nonconjugated Peroxyls Keri A. Tallman, Derek A. Pratt, and Ned A. Porter pp 11827–11828 DOI: 10.1021/ja0169724 Supporting Info

Practical and Highly Regio- and Stereoselective Synthesis of 2-Substituted Dihydropyridines and Piperidines:  Application to the Synthesis of (−)-Coniine André B. Charette, Michel Grenon, Alexandre Lemire, Mehrnaz Pourashraf, and Jonathan Martel pp 11829–11830 DOI: 10.1021/ja017136x Supporting Info

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New Editor Information p viii DOI: 10.1021/ja0151044

Intermediate Q from Soluble Methane Monooxygenase Hydroxylates the Mechanistic Substrate Probe Norcarane:  Evidence for a Stepwise Reaction Brian J. Brazeau, Rachel N. Austin, Carly Tarr, John T. Groves, and John D. Lipscomb pp 11831–11837 DOI: 10.1021/ja016376+

Mechanism of Reaction of Hydrogen Peroxide with Horseradish Peroxidase:  Identification of Intermediates in the Catalytic Cycle Jose Neptuno Rodríguez-López, David J. Lowe, Josefa Hernández-Ruiz, Alexander N. P. Hiner, Francisco García-Cánovas, and Roger N. F. Thorneley pp 11838–11847 DOI: 10.1021/ja011853+

Kinetic Evidence for Hydrophobically Stabilized Encounter Complexes Formed by Hydrophobic Esters in Aqueous Solutions Containing Monohydric Alcohols Niklaas J. Buurma, Laura Pastorello, Michael J. Blandamer, and Jan B. F. N. Engberts pp 11848–11853 DOI: 10.1021/ja010617w

Effect of Peracylation of β-Cyclodextrin on the Molecular Structure and on the Formation of Inclusion Complexes:  An X-ray Study Maribel Añibarro, Katrin Gessler, Isabel Usón, George M. Sheldrick, Kazuaki Harata, Kaneto Uekama, Fumitoshi Hirayama, Yutaka Abe, and Wolfram Saenger pp 11854–11862 DOI: 10.1021/ja010696b

Platinum-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization Reactions of Enynes Alois Fürstner, Frank Stelzer, and Hauke Szillat pp 11863–11869 DOI: 10.1021/ja0109343 Supporting Info

Highly α- and β-Selective Radical C-Glycosylation Reactions Using a Controlling Anomeric Effect Based on the Conformational Restriction Strategy. A Study on the Conformation−Anomeric Effect− Stereoselectivity Relationship in Anomeric Radical Reactions Hiroshi Abe, Satoshi Shuto, and Akira Matsuda pp 11870–11882 DOI: 10.1021/ja011321t Supporting Info

Temperature-Dependent Photochemistry of 1,3-Diphenylpropenes. The Di-π-Methane Reaction Revisited Frederick D. Lewis, Xiaobing Zuo, Rajdeep S. Kalgutkar, Jill M. Wagner-Brennan, Miguel A. Miranda, Enrique Font-Sanchis, and Julia Perez-Prieto pp 11883–11889 DOI: 10.1021/ja0113652 Supporting Info

Physical Organic Chemistry of Transition Metal Carbene Complexes. 23.1 Kinetic and Thermodynamic Acidities of Cationic Benzothienyl- and Selenylcarbene Complexes of Rhenium in Aqueous Acetonitrile Claude F. Bernasconi and Mark L. Ragains pp 11890–11898 DOI: 10.1021/ja011568q Supporting Info

Synthesis and Properties of an Aggregating Heterocyclic Helicene Karen E. S. Phillips, Thomas J. Katz, Steffen Jockusch, Andrew J. Lovinger, and Nicholas J. Turro pp 11899–11907 DOI: 10.1021/ja011706b Supporting Info

Stabilities of Ion/Radical Adducts in the Liquid Phase as Derived from the Dependence of Electrochemical Cleavage Reactivities upon Solvent Laurence Pause, Marc Robert, and Jean-Michel Savéant pp 11908–11916 DOI: 10.1021/ja0117985 Supporting Info

Ruthenium-Catalyzed Hydration of 1-Alkynes to Give Aldehydes:  Insight into anti-Markovnikov Regiochemistry Makoto Tokunaga, Toshiaki Suzuki, Nobuaki Koga, Tomoaki Fukushima, Akira Horiuchi, and Yasuo Wakatsuki pp 11917–11924 DOI: 10.1021/ja0119292 Supporting Info

Transmission of Trans Effects in Dinuclear Complexes Eduardo Sola, Francisco Torres, M. Victoria Jiménez, Jose A. López, Silvia E. Ruiz, Fernando J. Lahoz, Anabel Elduque, and Luis A. Oro pp 11925–11932 DOI: 10.1021/ja016213l Supporting Info

Chalcogen-Rich Lanthanide Clusters:  Cluster Reactivity and the Influence of Ancillary Ligands on Structure Anna Y. Kornienko, Thomas J. Emge, and John G. Brennan pp 11933–11939 DOI: 10.1021/ja011487u Supporting Info

Spectrothermodynamic Relationship of Cationic vs Anionic Species Derived from Protonation vs Deprotonation of Pyrrolo-aza-Aromatic Bases in Homologous Series J. Catalán pp 11940–11944 DOI: 10.1021/ja003886f Supporting Info

Entanglement of Protons in Organic Molecules:  An Attosecond Neutron Scattering Study of C−H Bond Breaking C. Aris Chatzidimitriou-Dreismann, Tyno Abdul-Redah, and Branko Kolarić pp 11945–11951 DOI: 10.1021/ja004186d

Dynamic Structures of Horse Liver Alcohol Dehydrogenase (HLADH):  Results of Molecular Dynamics Simulations of HLADH-NAD+-PhCH2OH, HLADH-NAD+-PhCH2O-, and HLADH-NADH-PhCHO Jia Luo and Thomas C. Bruice pp 11952–11959 DOI: 10.1021/ja0109747

Diphtheria Toxin Catalyzed Hydrolysis of NAD+:  Molecular Dynamics Study of Enzyme-Bound Substrate, Transition State, and Inhibitor Kalju Kahn and Thomas C. Bruice pp 11960–11969 DOI: 10.1021/ja0113807 Supporting Info

Tubular Hydrogen-Bonded Networks Sustained by Water Molecules Héctor Carrasco, Concepción Foces-Foces, Cirilo Pérez, Matías L. Rodríguez, and Julio D. Martín pp 11970–11981 DOI: 10.1021/ja011028t Supporting Info

A Novel, Tunable Manganese Coordination System Based on a Flexible “Spacer” Unit:  Noncovalent Templation Effects Frank M. Tabellion, S. Russell Seidel, Atta M. Arif, and Peter J. Stang pp 11982–11990 DOI: 10.1021/ja0114310 Supporting Info

Hydrophobic Hydration Is an Important Source of Elasticity in Elastin-Based Biopolymers Bin Li, Darwin O. V. Alonso, Brian J. Bennion, and Valerie Daggett pp 11991–11998 DOI: 10.1021/ja010363e

The Mechanism for Water Exchange in [UO2(H2O)5]2+ and [UO2(oxalate)2(H2O)]2-, as Studied by Quantum Chemical Methods Valérie Vallet, Ulf Wahlgren, Bernd Schimmelpfennig, Zoltán Szabó, and Ingmar Grenthe pp 11999–12008 DOI: 10.1021/ja015935+ Supporting Info

Structural Characterization of MAO and Related Aluminum Complexes. 1. Solid-State 27Al NMR with Comparison to EFG Tensors from ab Initio Molecular Orbital Calculations Pamela L. Bryant, Chris R. Harwell, Anthony A. Mrse, Earl F. Emery, Zhehong Gan, Tod Caldwell, Arneil P. Reyes, Philip Kuhns, David W. Hoyt, Larry S. Simeral, Randall W. Hall, and Leslie G. Butler pp 12009–12017 DOI: 10.1021/ja011092a

Theoretical Studies of d(A:T)-Based Parallel-Stranded DNA Duplexes Elena Cubero, F. Javier Luque, and Modesto Orozco pp 12018–12025 DOI: 10.1021/ja011200t

Natural J-Coupling Analysis:  Interpretation of Scalar J-Couplings in Terms of Natural Bond Orbitals Steven J. Wilkens, William M. Westler, John L. Markley, and Frank Weinhold pp 12026–12036 DOI: 10.1021/ja016284k

An Analytical Solution to the Problem of the Orientation of Rigid Particles by Planar Obstacles. Application to Membrane Systems and to the Calculation of Dipolar Couplings in Protein NMR Spectroscopy Miguel X. Fernandes, Pau Bernadó, Miquel Pons, and José García de la Torre pp 12037–12047 DOI: 10.1021/ja011361x Supporting Info

Differentiation of β-Sheet-Forming Structures:  Ab Initio-Based Simulations of IR Absorption and Vibrational CD for Model Peptide and Protein β-Sheets Jan Kubelka and Timothy A. Keiderling pp 12048–12058 DOI: 10.1021/ja0116627

NMR Experimental Evidence of the Differentiation of Enantiotopic Directions in Cs and C2v Molecules Using Partially Oriented, Chiral Media Christie Aroulanda, Denis Merlet, Jacques Courtieu, and Philippe Lesot pp 12059–12066 DOI: 10.1021/ja011685l

Theoretical Studies of Mechanisms and Kinetic Isotope Effects on the Decarboxylation of Orotic Acid and Derivatives Linda M. Phillips and Jeehiun K. Lee pp 12067–12073 DOI: 10.1021/ja0117332 Supporting Info

An in Situ Attenuated Total Reflection Infrared Study of a Chiral Catalytic Solid−Liquid Interface:  Cinchonidine Adsorption on Pt Davide Ferri and Thomas Bürgi pp 12074–12084 DOI: 10.1021/ja011769u

Synthesis of Monodisperse Nanoparticles of Barium Titanate:  Toward a Generalized Strategy of Oxide Nanoparticle Synthesis Stephen O'Brien, Louis Brus, and Christopher B. Murray pp 12085–12086 DOI: 10.1021/ja011414a Supporting Info

Oxidative Cyclization of Bis(biaryl)acetylenes:  Synthesis and Photophysics of Dibenzo[g,p]chrysene-Based Fluorescent Polymers Shigehiro Yamaguchi and Timothy M. Swager pp 12087–12088 DOI: 10.1021/ja016692o Supporting Info

The Formation of Cubic Pmn Mesostructure by an Epitaxial Phase Transformation from Hexagonal p6mm Mesophase Shunai Che, Satoshi Kamiya, Osamu Terasaki, and Takashi Tatsumi pp 12089–12090 DOI: 10.1021/ja0118237

New Cationic Iridium(III) Complexes of Diiodobenzene as Electrophilic Catalysts:  Using Chelation and Lability in Concert Paul J. Albietz, Jr., Brian P. Cleary, Witold Paw, and Richard Eisenberg pp 12091–12092 DOI: 10.1021/ja016127l Supporting Info

Titanium-Mediated Syndiospecific Styrene Polymerizations:  Role of Oxidation State Mahesh K. Mahanthappa and Robert M. Waymouth pp 12093–12094 DOI: 10.1021/ja016521j

Highly Enantioselective Syntheses of Homopropargylic Alcohols and Dihydrofurans Catalyzed by a Bis(oxazolinyl)pyridine−Scandium Triflate Complex David A. Evans, Zachary K. Sweeney, Tomislav Rovis, and Jason S. Tedrow pp 12095–12096 DOI: 10.1021/ja011983i Supporting Info

Self-Assembly of Unlike Homopolymers into Hollow Spheres in Nonselective Solvent Hongwei Duan, Daoyong Chen, Ming Jiang, Wenjun Gan, Shanjun Li, Min Wang, and Jie Gong pp 12097–12098 DOI: 10.1021/ja011502v Supporting Info

Novel Approach to Sodium Hydroxide Separation:  Synergistic Pseudo-Hydroxide Extraction by a Fluorinated Alcohol and Cage-Functionalized Crown Ethers Tatiana G. Levitskaia, Bruce A. Moyer, Peter V. Bonnesen, Alan P. Marchand, Kasireddy Krishnudu, Zhibing Chen, Zilin Huang, Hendrik G. Kruger, and Artie S. McKim pp 12099–12100 DOI: 10.1021/ja016590y Supporting Info

Ag5PV2Mo10O40, a Heterogeneous Catalyst for Air-Based Selective Oxidation at Ambient Temperature Jeffrey T. Rhule, Wade A. Neiwert, Kenneth I. Hardcastle, Bao T. Do, and Craig L. Hill pp 12101–12102 DOI: 10.1021/ja015812p Supporting Info

Detection of Localized Water Clusters in a Charged Peptidyl Resin Gianni Chessari, Jean-Michel Wieruszeski, and Guy Lippens pp 12103–12104 DOI: 10.1021/ja011311s Supporting Info

Photoresponsive Coordination Assembly with a Versatile Logs-Stacking Channel Structure Based on Redox-Active Ligand and Cupric Ion Jie Zhang, Michio M. Matsushita, Xiang X. Kong, Jiro Abe, and Tomokazu Iyoda pp 12105–12106 DOI: 10.1021/ja0111030 Supporting Info

Cascade Cyclization:  Carbopalladative Cyclization Followed by Electrocyclic Closure as a Route to Complex Polycycles Jean Suffert, Bahâa Salem, and Philippe Klotz pp 12107–12108 DOI: 10.1021/ja0170495 Supporting Info

Chemistry of [FeII(CN)5(CO)]3- New Observations for a 19th Century Compound Jianfeng Jiang, Andrew Acunzo, and Stephen A. Koch pp 12109–12110 DOI: 10.1021/ja016434r Supporting Info

Time-Resolved Infrared Study of the Helix−Coil Transition Using 13C-Labeled Helical Peptides Cheng-Yen Huang, Zelleka Getahun, Ting Wang, William F. DeGrado, and Feng Gai pp 12111–12112 DOI: 10.1021/ja016631q

Mesotunnels on the Silica Wall of Ordered SBA-15 to Generate Three-Dimensional Large-Pore Mesoporous Networks Jie Fan, Chengzhong Yu, Limin Wang, Bo Tu, Dongyuan Zhao, Yasuhiro Sakamoto, and Osamu Terasaki pp 12113–12114 DOI: 10.1021/ja011564l Supporting Info

Conversion of Acid Chloride into Homoallylic Alcohol via Allylic C−H Bond Activation of Alkene with a Zirconocene Complex Kazuya Fujita, Hideki Yorimitsu, Hiroshi Shinokubo, Seijiro Matsubara, and Koichiro Oshima pp 12115–12116 DOI: 10.1021/ja0167194 Supporting Info

Regioselective Proton Abstraction and 1,3-Migration of a Phosphorus Group in 1,3-Dienes by Iron Coordination:  A New Method for the Synthesis of α-Phosphono-α,β-unsaturated Ketones Tatsuo Okauchi, Takao Teshima, Keishi Hayashi, Nobuo Suetsugu, and Toru Minami pp 12117–12118 DOI: 10.1021/ja016958r Supporting Info

Dual Excitation Behavior of Double Proton Transfer versus Charge Transfer in 4-(N-Substituted Amino)-1H-pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridines Tuned by Dielectric and Hydrogen-bonding Perturbation Pi-Tai Chou, Yun-I Liu, Hsiao-Wei Liu, and Wei-Shan Yu pp 12119–12120 DOI: 10.1021/ja011881s

Substituent Effects on Microstructure and Polymerization of Polyalkylsilsesquioxanes Hie-Joon Kim, Jin-Kyu Lee, Jin-Bum Kim, Eun Su Park, Sung-Jun Park, Dae Young Yoo, and Do Y. Yoon pp 12121–12122 DOI: 10.1021/ja0168099

Site-Specific Incorporation of Fluorescent Probes into Protein:  Hexahistidine-Tag-Mediated Fluorescent Labeling with (Ni2+:Nitrilotriacetic Acid)n−Fluorochrome Conjugates Achillefs N. Kapanidis, Yon W. Ebright, and Richard H. Ebright pp 12123–12125 DOI: 10.1021/ja017074a Supporting Info

Technetium:  Chemistry and Radiopharmaceutical Applications By K. Schwochau (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2000. xii + 446 pp. DM 348. ISBN:  3-527-29496-1. Lynn Francesconi p 12126 DOI: 10.1021/ja004875p

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Alamethicin−Leucine Zipper Hybrid Peptide:  A Prototype for the Design of Artificial Receptors and Ion Channels Shiroh Futaki, Masayuki Fukuda, Masayuki Omote, Kayoko Yamauchi, Takeshi Yagami, Mineo Niwa, and Yukio Sugiura pp 12127–12134 DOI: 10.1021/ja011166i Supporting Info

Refinement of Local and Long-Range Structural Order in Theophylline-Binding RNA Using 13C−1H Residual Dipolar Couplings and Restrained Molecular Dynamics Nathalie Sibille, Arthur Pardi, Jean-Pierre Simorre, and Martin Blackledge pp 12135–12146 DOI: 10.1021/ja011646+ Supporting Info

A Novel Nitroimidazole Compound Formed during the Reaction of Peroxynitrite with 2‘,3‘,5‘-Tri-O-Acetyl-Guanosine Jacquin C. Niles, John S. Wishnok, and Steven R. Tannenbaum pp 12147–12151 DOI: 10.1021/ja004296k

Artificial Ion Channels Showing Rectified Current Behavior Chigusa Goto, Mika Yamamura, Akiharu Satake, and Yoshiaki Kobuke pp 12152–12159 DOI: 10.1021/ja010761h

Stability, Reactivity, Solution, and Solid-State Structure of Halomethylzinc Alkoxides André B. Charette, Carmela Molinaro, and Christian Brochu pp 12160–12167 DOI: 10.1021/ja010837+ Supporting Info

Catalytic Asymmetric Cyclopropanation of Allylic Alcohols with Titanium-TADDOLate:  Scope of the Cyclopropanation Reaction André B. Charette, Carmela Molinaro, and Christian Brochu pp 12168–12175 DOI: 10.1021/ja0108382 Supporting Info

Synchronized Propagation Mechanism for Crystalline-State Polymerization of p-Xylylenediammonium Disorbate Sadamu Nagahama and Akikazu Matsumoto pp 12176–12181 DOI: 10.1021/ja011575e Supporting Info

New Efficient Calixarene Amide Ionophores for the Selective Removal of Strontium Ion from Nuclear Waste:  Synthesis, Complexation, and Extraction Properties Alessandro Casnati, Silvia Barboso, Hélène Rouquette, Marie-José Schwing-Weill, Françoise Arnaud-Neu, Jean-François Dozol, and Rocco Ungaro pp 12182–12190 DOI: 10.1021/ja016597f

gem-Diacetates as Carbonyl Surrogates for Asymmetric Synthesis. Total Syntheses of Sphingofungins E and F Barry M. Trost and Chulbom Lee pp 12191–12201 DOI: 10.1021/ja0118338 Supporting Info

Palladium-Catalyzed Intramolecular C−O Bond Formation Shin-itsu Kuwabe, Karen E. Torraca, and Stephen L. Buchwald pp 12202–12206 DOI: 10.1021/ja012046d Supporting Info

Electronic Absorption Spectroscopy of Cobalt Ions in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Dots:  Demonstration of an Isocrystalline Core/Shell Synthetic Method Pavle V. Radovanovic and Daniel R. Gamelin pp 12207–12214 DOI: 10.1021/ja0115215 Supporting Info

Octahedral Fe(II) and Ru(II) Complexes Based on a New Bis 1,10-Phenanthroline Ligand That Imposes a Well Defined Axis Didier Pomeranc, Valérie Heitz, Jean-Claude Chambron, and Jean-Pierre Sauvage pp 12215–12221 DOI: 10.1021/ja011250y Supporting Info

Transition-Metal-Promoted Reactions of Boron Hydrides. 17.1 Titanium-Catalyzed Decaborane−Olefin Hydroborations Mark J. Pender, Patrick J. Carroll, and Larry G. Sneddon pp 12222–12231 DOI: 10.1021/ja011432s Supporting Info

Photochromic Atropisomer Generation and Conformation Determination in a Ruthenium Bis(bipyridine) Phosphonite γ-Cyclodextrin System Dusan Hesek, Guy A. Hembury, Michael G. B. Drew, Victor V. Borovkov, and Yoshihisa Inoue pp 12232–12237 DOI: 10.1021/ja0116167 Supporting Info

Involvement of Water in Carbohydrate−Protein Binding Christopher Clarke, Robert J. Woods, John Gluska, Alan Cooper, Margaret A. Nutley, and Geert-Jan Boons pp 12238–12247 DOI: 10.1021/ja004315q

The Unexpected and Large Enhancement of the Dipole Moment in the 3,4-Bis(dimethylamino)-3-cyclobutene-1,2-dione (DMACB) Molecule upon Crystallization:  A New Role of the Intermolecular CH···O Interactions Emanuela May, Riccardo Destro, and Carlo Gatti pp 12248–12254 DOI: 10.1021/ja010316m

Effect of Metal Ion and Water Coordination on the Structure of a Gas-Phase Amino Acid Rebecca A. Jockusch, Andrew S. Lemoff, and Evan R. Williams pp 12255–12265 DOI: 10.1021/ja0106873

DFT Studies on the Copolymerization of α-Olefins with Polar Monomers:  Ethylene−Methyl Acrylate Copolymerization Catalyzed by a Pd-Based Diimine Catalyst Artur Michalak and Tom Ziegler pp 12266–12278 DOI: 10.1021/ja010876l Supporting Info

Influence of Sodium Ions on the Dynamics and Structure of Single-Stranded DNA Oligomers:  A Molecular Dynamics Study José M. Martínez, Sofi K. C. Elmroth, and Lars Kloo pp 12279–12289 DOI: 10.1021/ja0108786 Supporting Info

The Nature of Improper, Blue-Shifting Hydrogen Bonding Verified Experimentally Benjamin J. van der Veken, Wouter A. Herrebout, Roman Szostak, Dimitrij N. Shchepkin, Zdenek Havlas, and Pavel Hobza pp 12290–12293 DOI: 10.1021/ja010915t

A Theoretical Study of Steric and Electronic Effects in the Rhodium-Catalyzed Carbonylation Reactions Luigi Cavallo and Miquel Solà pp 12294–12302 DOI: 10.1021/ja016468z Supporting Info

Interplay of the Main Chain, Chiral Side Chains, and Solvent in Conformational Transitions:  Poly{[(R)-3,7-dimethyloctyl]-[(S)-3-methylpentyl]silylene} Akio Teramoto, Ken Terao, Yoshimi Terao, Naotake Nakamura, Takahiro Sato, and Michiya Fujiki pp 12303–12310 DOI: 10.1021/ja011550f Supporting Info

Triradical Thermochemistry from Collision-Induced Dissociation Threshold Energy Measurements. The Heat of Formation of 1,3,5-Trimethylenebenzene Loubna A. Hammad and Paul G. Wenthold pp 12311–12317 DOI: 10.1021/ja011630j Supporting Info

Effects of Amino Acid ,ψ Propensities and Secondary Structure Interactions in Modulating Hα Chemical Shifts in Peptide and Protein β-Sheet Gary J. Sharman, Samuel R. Griffiths-Jones, Muriel Jourdan, and Mark S. Searle pp 12318–12324 DOI: 10.1021/ja0116369

Conformation and Protonation of 2,2‘-Bipyridine and 4,4‘-Bipyridine in Acidic Aqueous Media and Acidic ZSM-5 Zeolites: A Raman Scattering Study Alain Moissette, Yann Batonneau, and Claude Brémard pp 12325–12334 DOI: 10.1021/ja011787b

Electroosmotic Flow in Template-Prepared Carbon Nanotube Membranes Scott A. Miller, Vaneica Y. Young, and Charles R. Martin pp 12335–12342 DOI: 10.1021/ja011926p

Morphology of Three Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Biological NMR Media Studied by Translational Diffusion Anisotropy Sander Gaemers and Ad Bax pp 12343–12352 DOI: 10.1021/ja011967l Supporting Info

Microwave Spectra and Molecular Structures of (Z)-Pent-2-en-4-ynenitrile and Maleonitrile Robert J. Halter, Ryan L. Fimmen, Robert J. McMahon, Sean A. Peebles, Robert L. Kuczkowski, and John F. Stanton pp 12353–12363 DOI: 10.1021/ja011195t Supporting Info

Structure of a Copper-Mediated Base Pair in DNA Shane Atwell, Eric Meggers, Glen Spraggon, and Peter G. Schultz pp 12364–12367 DOI: 10.1021/ja011822e

Remarkable Stability of Hairpins Containing 2‘,5‘-Linked RNA Loops Rami N. Hannoush and Masad J. Damha pp 12368–12374 DOI: 10.1021/ja011336r Supporting Info

Unique Metallic Wires in a Novel Quasi-1D Compound. Synthesis, Crystal and Electronic Structure, and Properties of Ni8Bi8SI Alexey I. Baranov, Lars Kloo, Andrei V. Olenev, Boris A. Popovkin, Anatolii I. Romanenko, and Andrei V. Shevelkov pp 12375–12379 DOI: 10.1021/ja0167001 Supporting Info

Lattice-Boltzmann Simulations of Self-Assembly of a Binary Water−Surfactant System into Ordered Bicontinuous Cubic and Lamellar Phases Maziar Nekovee and Peter V. Coveney pp 12380–12382 DOI: 10.1021/ja015555o

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Lipid Diamond Cubic Phase Siewert-Jan Marrink and D. Peter Tieleman pp 12383–12391 DOI: 10.1021/ja016012h

FeMo Cofactor of Nitrogenase:  A Density Functional Study of States MN, MOX, MR, and MI Timothy Lovell, Jian Li, Tiqing Liu, David A. Case, and Louis Noodleman pp 12392–12410 DOI: 10.1021/ja011860y Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of Teicoplanin Aglycon David A. Evans, Jeffrey L. Katz, Gretchen S. Peterson, and Tobias Hintermann pp 12411–12413 DOI: 10.1021/ja011943e Supporting Info

Topographical Imaging of an Intermembrane Junction by Combined Fluorescence Interference and Energy Transfer Microscopies Amy P. Wong and Jay T. Groves pp 12414–12415 DOI: 10.1021/ja016677j Supporting Info

Octa(aminophenyl)silsesquioxane as a Nanoconstruction Site Ryo Tamaki, Yasuyuki Tanaka, Michael Z. Asuncion, Jiwon Choi, and Richard M. Laine pp 12416–12417 DOI: 10.1021/ja011781m Supporting Info

Molecular Gain in a Thiotolane System Jorge M. Seminario and Pedro A. Derosa pp 12418–12419 DOI: 10.1021/ja0162313

Generation of New Enzyme Inhibitors Using Imprinted Binding Sites:  The Anti-Idiotypic Approach, a Step toward the Next Generation of Molecular Imprinting Klaus Mosbach, Yihua Yu, Jens Andersch, and Lei Ye pp 12420–12421 DOI: 10.1021/ja017096x Supporting Info

First Unequivocal Observation of the Whole Bell-Shaped Energy Gap Law in Intramolecular Charge Separation from S2 Excited State of Directly Linked Porphyrin−Imide Dyads and Its Solvent-Polarity Dependencies Noboru Mataga, Haik Chosrowjan, Yutaka Shibata, Naoya Yoshida, Atsuhiro Osuka, Takeshi Kikuzawa, and Tadashi Okada pp 12422–12423 DOI: 10.1021/ja010865s Supporting Info

Redox-Controlled Orthogonal Assembly of Charged Nanostructures Albena Ivanisevic, Jung-Hyuk Im, Ki-Bum Lee, So-Jung Park, Linette M. Demers, Keith J. Watson, and Chad A. Mirkin pp 12424–12425 DOI: 10.1021/ja011933d Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of (+)-Zampanolide Amos B. Smith, III, Igor G. Safonov, and R. Michael Corbett pp 12426–12427 DOI: 10.1021/ja012220y Supporting Info

Formation of Protein−Protein Complexes in Vacuo J. Mitchell Wells, Paul A. Chrisman, and Scott A. McLuckey pp 12428–12429 DOI: 10.1021/ja0170403

The Prime Reactive Intermediate in the Iron(III) Porphyrin Complex Catalyzed Oxidation Reactions by tert-Butyl Hydroperoxide Parvesh Wadhwani, Monalisa Mukherjee, and Debkumar Bandyopadhyay pp 12430–12431 DOI: 10.1021/ja010730m Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of (+)-Ambruticin S Thomas A. Kirkland, John Colucci, Leo S. Geraci, Matthew A. Marx, Matthias Schneider, David E. Kaelin, Jr., and Stephen F. Martin pp 12432–12433 DOI: 10.1021/ja011867f Supporting Info

Low-Temperature Hydrogenation of Triplet Carbenes and Diradicaloid BiscarbenesElectronic State Selectivity Peter S. Zuev and Robert S. Sheridan pp 12434–12435 DOI: 10.1021/ja016826y Supporting Info

Cyclotetrasilenyl:  The First Isolable Silyl Radical Akira Sekiguchi, Tadahiro Matsuno, and Masaaki Ichinohe pp 12436–12437 DOI: 10.1021/ja011617z Supporting Info

Proton Positions in the Mn2+ Binding Site of Concanavalin A as Determined by Single-Crystal High-Field ENDOR Spectroscopy  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 8378−8386]. Raanan Carmieli, Palanichamy Manikandan, A. Joseph Kalb (Gilboa), and Daniella Goldfarb p 12438 DOI: 10.1021/ja015136r

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure. Volume 30, 2001 Edited by Robert M. Stroud (University of California). Associate Editors:  Wilma K. Olson (Rutgers University) and Michael P. Sheetz (Columbia University). Annual Reviews:  Palo Alto. 2001. xiv + 506 pp. Individual Price:  $75.00. Institutional Price:  $155.00. ISBN:  0-8243-1830-7. p 12438 DOI: 10.1021/ja015323p

Nomenclature of Organic Compounds:  Principles and Practice. 2nd Edition By Robert B. Fox (Naval Research Laboratory) and Warren H. Powell (consultant to IUPAC Organic Nomenclature Commission). Oxford University Press:  Oxford. (Developed and distributed in partnership with the American Chemical Society). 2001. xx + 438 pp. $195.00. ISBN:  0-8412-3648-8. p 12438 DOI: 10.1021/ja015325+

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Quantitative Studies on the Peroxidation of Human Low-Density Lipoprotein Initiated by Superoxide and by Charged and Neutral Alkylperoxyl Radicals1 Leanne Bedard, Mary Jane Young, David Hall, Thomas Paul, and K. U. Ingold pp 12439–12448 DOI: 10.1021/ja011076d Supporting Info

Stereospecificity and Stereoselectivity in Electrophilic Substitution Reactions of Non-α-Heterosubstituted Organolithiums and Stannanes:  A Rotationally Restricted Amide as an Internal Stereochemical Marker Jonathan Clayden, Madeleine Helliwell, Jennifer H. Pink, and Neil Westlund pp 12449–12457 DOI: 10.1021/ja0112590 Supporting Info

Scandium Ion-Promoted Photoinduced Electron-Transfer Oxidation of Fullerenes and Derivatives by p-Chloranil and p-Benzoquinone Shunichi Fukuzumi, Hisahiro Mori, Hiroshi Imahori, Tomoyoshi Suenobu, Yasuyuki Araki, Osamu Ito, and Karl M. Kadish pp 12458–12465 DOI: 10.1021/ja016335d Supporting Info

Ruthenium-Catalyzed Two-Component Addition To Form 1,3-Dienes:  Optimization, Scope, Applications, and Mechanism Barry M. Trost, Anthony B. Pinkerton, and Martin Seidel pp 12466–12476 DOI: 10.1021/ja011428g Supporting Info

Enantiocontrolled Synthesis of 2,3,6-Trisubstituted Piperidines Using (η3-Dihydropyridinyl)molybdenum Complexes as Chiral Scaffolds. Total Synthesis of (−)-Indolizidine 209B Chutian Shu, Ana Alcudia, Jingjun Yin, and Lanny S. Liebeskind pp 12477–12487 DOI: 10.1021/ja011635g Supporting Info

Cyclodextrin Dimers as Cleavable Carriers of Photodynamic Sensitizers Simon D. P. Baugh, Zhiwei Yang, David K. Leung, David M. Wilson, and Ronald Breslow pp 12488–12494 DOI: 10.1021/ja011709o Supporting Info

Spirodienone Route for the Stereoselective Methylene Functionalization of p-tert-Butylcalix[4]arene Kasim Agbaria and Silvio E. Biali pp 12495–12503 DOI: 10.1021/ja0117480 Supporting Info

Synthesis of 1,1-Disubstituted Alkenes via a Ru-Catalyzed Addition Barry M. Trost, Anthony B. Pinkerton, F. Dean Toste, and Martin Sperrle pp 12504–12509 DOI: 10.1021/ja012009m Supporting Info

Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Ring-Opening Reactions of Semicyclic N,O-Acetals Possessing an Exocyclic Nitrogen Atom:  Mechanistic Aspect and Application to Piperidine Alkaloid Synthesis Masaharu Sugiura, Hiroyuki Hagio, Ryoji Hirabayashi, and Shū Kobayashi pp 12510–12517 DOI: 10.1021/ja0170448 Supporting Info

Synthetic and Structural Studies on [Fe2(SR)2(CN)x(CO)6-x]x- as Active Site Models for Fe-Only Hydrogenases Frédéric Gloaguen, Joshua D. Lawrence, Michael Schmidt, Scott R. Wilson, and Thomas B. Rauchfuss pp 12518–12527 DOI: 10.1021/ja016071v Supporting Info

Photochemical Incorporation of Silver Quantum Dots in Monodisperse Silica Colloids for Photonic Crystal Applications Wei Wang and Sanford A. Asher pp 12528–12535 DOI: 10.1021/ja011262j

Photoinduced Ferrimagnetic Systems in Prussian Blue Analogues CIxCo4[Fe(CN)6]y (CI = Alkali Cation). 3. Control of the Photo- and Thermally Induced Electron Transfer by the [Fe(CN)6] Vacancies in Cesium Derivatives Virginie Escax, Anne Bleuzen, Christophe Cartier dit Moulin, Françoise Villain, Antoine Goujon, François Varret, and Michel Verdaguer pp 12536–12543 DOI: 10.1021/ja011296r Supporting Info

Photoinduced Ferrimagnetic Systems in Prussian Blue Analogues CIxCo4[Fe(CN)6]y (CI = Alkali Cation). 4. Characterization of the Ferrimagnetism of the Photoinduced Metastable State in Rb1.8Co4[Fe(CN)6]3.3·13H2O by K Edges X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism Guillaume Champion, Virginie Escax, Christophe Cartier dit Moulin, Anne Bleuzen, Françoise Villain, François Baudelet, Elisabeth Dartyge, and Michel Verdaguer pp 12544–12546 DOI: 10.1021/ja011297j

Real Time Observation of the Hydrothermal Crystallization of Barium Titanate Using in Situ Neutron Powder Diffraction Richard I. Walton, Franck Millange, Ronald I. Smith, Thomas C. Hansen, and Dermot O'Hare pp 12547–12555 DOI: 10.1021/ja011805p

Charge Transport in DNA Via Thermally Induced Hopping Mordechai Bixon and Joshua Jortner pp 12556–12567 DOI: 10.1021/ja010018p

Understanding the Role of Stereoelectronic Effects in Determining Collagen Stability. 1. A Quantum Mechanical Study of Proline, Hydroxyproline, and Fluoroproline Dipeptide Analogues in Aqueous Solution Roberto Improta, Caterina Benzi, and Vincenzo Barone pp 12568–12577 DOI: 10.1021/ja010599i Supporting Info

Effect of a Charge Relay on the Vibrational Frequencies of Carbonmonoxy Iron Porphine Adducts:  The Coupling of Changes in Axial Ligand Bond Strength and Porphine Core Size Stefan Franzen pp 12578–12589 DOI: 10.1021/ja0108988 Supporting Info

Oxidation Potentials of α-Hydroxyalkyl Radicals in Acetonitrile Obtained by Photomodulated Voltammetry Torben Lund, Danial D. M. Wayner, Mats Jonsson, Allan G. Larsen, and Kim Daasbjerg pp 12590–12595 DOI: 10.1021/ja011217b

An Insight into Alkali Promotion:  A Density Functional Theory Study of CO Dissociation on K/Rh(111) Zhi-Pan Liu and P. Hu pp 12596–12604 DOI: 10.1021/ja011446y

Solvent Effect on the Isomeric Equilibrium of Carbohydrates:  The Superior Ability of 2,2,2-Trifluoroethanol for Intramolecular Hydrogen Bond Stabilization Antonio Molinaro, Cristina De Castro, Rosa Lanzetta, Emiliano Manzo, and Michelangelo Parrilli pp 12605–12610 DOI: 10.1021/ja016471i

Structural Properties of Docosahexaenoyl Phospholipid Bilayers Investigated by Solid-State 2H NMR Spectroscopy Horia I. Petrache, Amir Salmon, and Michael F. Brown pp 12611–12622 DOI: 10.1021/ja011745n

Structure and Conformational Properties of Diacetyl Sulfide in the Gaseous and Condensed Phases Explored by Gas Electron Diffraction, Single-Crystal X-ray Diffraction, Vibrational Spectroscopy, and Quantum Chemical Calculations Rosana M. Romano, Carlos O. Della Védova, Anthony J. Downs, Heinz Oberhammer, and Simon Parsons pp 12623–12631 DOI: 10.1021/ja0117884 Supporting Info

Molecular-Based Electronically Switchable Tunnel Junction Devices C. Patrick Collier, Jan O. Jeppesen, Yi Luo, Julie Perkins, Eric W. Wong, James R. Heath, and J. Fraser Stoddart pp 12632–12641 DOI: 10.1021/ja0114456 Supporting Info

Very Strong C−H···O, N−H···O, and O−H···O Hydrogen Bonds Involving a Cyclic Phosphate K. C. Kumara Swamy, Sudha Kumaraswamy, and Praveen Kommana pp 12642–12649 DOI: 10.1021/ja010713x Supporting Info

Recognition of Guanine−Guanine Mismatches by the Dimeric Form of 2-Amino-1,8-naphthyridine Kazuhiko Nakatani, Shinsuke Sando, Hiroyuki Kumasawa, Jun Kikuchi, and Isao Saito pp 12650–12657 DOI: 10.1021/ja0109186 Supporting Info

Cooperativity in Drug−DNA Recognition:  A Molecular Dynamics Study Sarah A. Harris, Evripidis Gavathiotis, Mark S. Searle, Modesto Orozco, and Charles A. Laughton pp 12658–12663 DOI: 10.1021/ja016233n

Conformational Analysis of the Eight-Membered Ring of the Oxidized Cysteinyl-Cysteine Unit Implicated in Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Ligand Recognition Christopher J. Creighton, Charles H. Reynolds, Daniel H. S. Lee, Gregory C. Leo, and Allen B. Reitz pp 12664–12669 DOI: 10.1021/ja016505m Supporting Info

Solvation Enthalpies of Free Radicals:  O−O Bond Strength in Di-tert-butylperoxide Rui M. Borges dos Santos, Vânia S. F. Muralha, Catarina F. Correia, and José A. Martinho Simões pp 12670–12674 DOI: 10.1021/ja010703w

Effects of Alkyl Substitution on the Energetics of Enolate Anions and Radicals Leah S. Alconcel, Hans-Jürgen Deyerl, and Robert E. Continetti pp 12675–12681 DOI: 10.1021/ja0120431 Supporting Info

Fine-Tuning the Crystal Morphology of Tunnel Inclusion Compounds:  A General Strategy Natalie E. Kelly, Sang-Ok Lee, and Kenneth D. M. Harris pp 12682–12683 DOI: 10.1021/ja011477t

A New Type of Layered Structure for Urea Inclusion Compounds Containing Local Segments of Tunnels Sang-Ok Lee, Benson M. Kariuki, Angela L. Richardson, and Kenneth D. M. Harris pp 12684–12685 DOI: 10.1021/ja011467s

Catalytic Carbonylation Reactions of Benzyne Derivatives Naoto Chatani, Akihito Kamitani, Masayuki Oshita, Yoshiya Fukumoto, and Shinji Murai pp 12686–12687 DOI: 10.1021/ja011923c Supporting Info

Observation of Hole Transfer through DNA by Monitoring the Transient Absorption of Pyrene Radical Cation Kiyohiko Kawai, Tadao Takada, Sachiko Tojo, Nobuyuki Ichinose, and Tetsuro Majima pp 12688–12689 DOI: 10.1021/ja0158152 Supporting Info

Helical-Sense Programming through Polysilane-Poly(triphenylmethyl methacrylate) Block Copolymers Takanobu Sanji, Katsuyuki Takase, and Hideki Sakurai pp 12690–12691 DOI: 10.1021/ja0167250 Supporting Info

Thermodynamic Aspects of Triplex DNA Formation in Crowded Environments Rivka Goobes and Abraham Minsky pp 12692–12693 DOI: 10.1021/ja016577d

A Luminescent Anion Sensor Based on a Europium Hybrid Complex Marco Montalti, Luca Prodi, Nelsi Zaccheroni, Loïc Charbonnière, Laurent Douce, and Raymond Ziessel pp 12694–12695 DOI: 10.1021/ja0118688 Supporting Info

Asymmetric Synthesis of α-Amino Acids via Cinchona Alkaloid-Catalyzed Kinetic Resolution of Urethane-Protected α-Amino Acid N-Carboxyanhydrides Jianfeng Hang, Shi-Kai Tian, Liang Tang, and Li Deng pp 12696–12697 DOI: 10.1021/ja011936q Supporting Info

The 5-Thioglucopyranosyl Carbenium Ion Is a Solvent-Equilibrated Cation Blair D. Johnston, Deepani Indurugalla, B. Mario Pinto, and Andrew J. Bennet pp 12698–12699 DOI: 10.1021/ja017118f Supporting Info

Chirality-Transfer Control Using a Heterotopic Zinc(II) Porphyrin Dimer Yuji Kubo, Takamoto Ohno, Jun-ichi Yamanaka, Sumio Tokita, Takeaki Iida, and Yoshihiro Ishimaru pp 12700–12701 DOI: 10.1021/ja0113448 Supporting Info

The First Detection of a Clar's Hydrocarbon, 2,6,10-Tri-tert-Butyltriangulene:  A Ground-State Triplet of Non-Kekulé Polynuclear Benzenoid Hydrocarbon Jun Inoue, Kozo Fukui, Takashi Kubo, Shigeaki Nakazawa, Kazunobu Sato, Daisuke Shiomi, Yasushi Morita, Kagetoshi Yamamoto, Takeji Takui, and Kazuhiro Nakasuji pp 12702–12703 DOI: 10.1021/ja016751y Supporting Info

Yb9Zn4Bi9:  Extension of the Zintl Concept to the Mixed-Valent Spectator Cations Sung-Jin Kim, Jim Salvador, Daniel Bilc, S. D. Mahanti, and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis pp 12704–12705 DOI: 10.1021/ja0168965 Supporting Info

A Flexible Germanate Structure Containing 24-Ring Channels and with Very Low Framework Density Jacques Plévert, Travis M. Gentz, Aaron Laine, Hailian Li, Victor G. Young, Omar M. Yaghi, and Michael O'Keeffe pp 12706–12707 DOI: 10.1021/ja016996a Supporting Info

Fully Flexible Low-Mode Docking:  Application to Induced Fit in HIV Integrase György M. Keserû and István Kolossváry pp 12708–12709 DOI: 10.1021/ja0160086

Template-Constrained Somatostatin Analogues:  A Biphenyl Linker Induces a Type-V‘ Turn Richard P. Cheng, Daniel J. Suich, Hong Cheng, Heinrich Roder, and William F. DeGrado pp 12710–12711 DOI: 10.1021/ja0116932 Supporting Info

A Synthetic Membrane-Anchored Antigen Efficiently Promotes Uptake of Antifluorescein Antibodies and Associated Protein A by Mammalian Cells Stephen L. Hussey, Enfei He, and Blake R. Peterson pp 12712–12713 DOI: 10.1021/ja017087o Supporting Info

Vibrational Control in the Reaction of Methane with Atomic Chlorine Zee Hwan Kim, Hans A. Bechtel, and Richard N. Zare pp 12714–12715 DOI: 10.1021/ja017180c

New “Cholapod” Anionophores; High-Affinity Halide Receptors Derived from Cholic Acid Alan J. Ayling, M. Nieves Pérez-Payán, and Anthony P. Davis pp 12716–12717 DOI: 10.1021/ja016796z Supporting Info

A Steroid Cap Adjusts the Selectivity and Accelerates the Rates of Nonenzymatic Single Nucleotide Extensions of an Oligonucleotide Jan A. Rojas Stütz and Clemens Richert pp 12718–12719 DOI: 10.1021/ja011448i Supporting Info

Facile Nucleophilic Addition to Salophen Coordinated to Nitridoosmium(VI) Sze-Man Chiu, Tsz-Wing Wong, Wai-Lun Man, Wing-Tak Wong, Shie-Ming Peng, and Tai-Chu Lau pp 12720–12721 DOI: 10.1021/ja011152c Supporting Info

Hybrid Glycopeptide Antibiotics Binyuan Sun, Zhong Chen, Ulrike S. Eggert, Simon J. Shaw, John V. LaTour, and Daniel Kahne pp 12722–12723 DOI: 10.1021/ja0166693 Supporting Info

Structural Characterization of an Intermediate in Arene C−H Bond Activation and Measurement of the Barrier to C−H Oxidative Addition:  A Platinum(II) η2-Benzene Adduct Stefan Reinartz, Peter S. White, Maurice Brookhart, and Joseph L. Templeton pp 12724–12725 DOI: 10.1021/ja011765p Supporting Info

Markovnikov Alkyne Hydrosilylation Catalyzed by Ruthenium Complexes Barry M. Trost and Zachary T. Ball pp 12726–12727 DOI: 10.1021/ja0121033 Supporting Info

Kubas Complexes Revisited:  Novel Dihydride Complexes of Tungsten D. Michael Heinekey, James K. Law, and Steven M. Schultz pp 12728–12729 DOI: 10.1021/ja016766w

The First 1,3-Disilabicyclo[1.1.0]butane with Long-Bridge Silicon−Silicon Bond Takeaki Iwamoto, Dongzhu Yin, Chizuko Kabuto, and Mitsuo Kira pp 12730–12731 DOI: 10.1021/ja011658v Supporting Info

First Structural Investigation of a Super-Hydrated Zeolite Yongjae Lee, Joseph A. Hriljac, Thomas Vogt, John B. Parise, and Gilberto Artioli pp 12732–12733 DOI: 10.1021/ja017098h Supporting Info

Nanopatterns by Free-Standing Monolayer Films of Diblock Copolymer Micelles with in Situ Core−Corona Inversion Byeong-Hyeok Sohn, Seong-Il Yoo, Byung-Wook Seo, Sang-Hyun Yun, and Sang-Min Park pp 12734–12735 DOI: 10.1021/ja0170549

Atom Economy. Aldol-Type Products by Vanadium-Catalyzed Additions of Allenic Alcohols and Aldehydes Barry M. Trost, Catrin Jonasson, and Margarita Wuchrer pp 12736–12737 DOI: 10.1021/ja011351w Supporting Info

Copper-Mediated Controlled Copolymerization of Methyl Acrylate with 1-Alkenes under Mild Conditions Shengsheng Liu, Sharon Elyashiv, and Ayusman Sen pp 12738–12739 DOI: 10.1021/ja011331u Supporting Info

Novel Stilbenes as Probes for Amyloid Plaques Hank F. Kung, Chi-Wan Lee, Zhi-Ping Zhuang, Mei-Ping Kung, Catherine Hou, and Karl Plössl pp 12740–12741 DOI: 10.1021/ja0167147 Supporting Info

ENDOR Determination of the Distance between Bleomycin-Bound Iron and 19F of 2‘-Fluorocytidine in a DNA Target Sequence Dmitriy Lukoyanov, Richard M. Burger, and Charles P. Scholes pp 12742–12743 DOI: 10.1021/ja016943t Supporting Info

Synthesis of Novel Expanded Calixphyrins:  Anion Binding Properties of a Calix[6]phyrin with a Deep Cavity  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 2099−2100].  Christophe Bucher, Rebecca S. Zimmerman, Vincent Lynch, Vladimir Král, and Jonathan L. Sessler p 12744 DOI: 10.1021/ja0151347

Chemistry-Structure-Simulation or Chemistry-Simulation-Structure Sequences? The Case of MIL-34, a New Porous Aluminophosphate [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 9642−9651]. Thierry Loiseau, Caroline Mellot-Draznieks, Capucine Sassoye, Stéphanie Girard, Nathalie Guillou, Clarisse Huguenard, Francis Taulelle, and Gérard Férey p 12744 DOI: 10.1021/ja015135z

Computational Biochemistry and Biophysics Edited by Oren M. Becker (Tel Aviv University), Alexander D. MacKerell, Jr. (Uni-versity of Maryland), Benoît Roux (Cornell University), and Masa-katsu Watanabe (Wavefunction, Inc.). Marcel Dekker:  New York and Basel. 2001. xii + 512 pp. $195.00. ISBN:  0-8247-0455-X. Eric Jakobsson p 12745 DOI: 10.1021/ja015256z

Computational Chemistry:  Reviews of Current Trends. Volume 5 Edited by Jerzy Leszczynski (Jackson State University). World Scientific:  Singapore, New Jersey, London, Hong Kong. 2000. x + 326 pp. $68.00. 981-02-4371-5. John Stanton pp 12745–12746 DOI: 10.1021/ja015203h

Transition Metal and Rare Earth Compounds:  Excited States, Transitions, Interactions I and II. Topics in Current Chemistry. Volumes 213 and 214 Edited by Harmut Yersin (University of Regensburg). Springer-Verlag:  Berlin. 2001. Information for Volume 213:  x +186 pp. $109.00. ISBN:  3-540-67986-3. Information for Volume 214:  x + 190 pp. $109.00. ISBN:  3-540-67976-6. Peter C. Ford p 12746 DOI: 10.1021/ja015257r

Localized to Itinerant Electronic Transition in Perovskite Oxides. Structure and Bonding, Volume 98 Edited by J. B. Goodenough (University of Texas at Austin). Springer-Verlag:  Heidelberg, New York. 2001. xii + 240 pp. $149.00. ISBN 3-540-67522-1. C. N. R. Rao p 12746 DOI: 10.1021/ja015284h

Near-Infrared Applications in Biotechnology Edited by R. Raghavachari (Corning Microarray Technology, Corning, NY). Marcel Dekker:  New York and Basel. 2001. xviii + 382 pp. $165.00. ISBN 0-8247-0009-0. Mark A. Arnold pp 12746–12747 DOI: 10.1021/ja0152355

Chemiluminescence in Analytical Chemistry Edited by Ana M. Garcia-Campana (University of Granada) and Willy R. G. Baeyens (Ghent University). Marcel Dekker:  New York and Basel. 2001. xiv + 621 pp. $225.00. ISBN 0-8247-0464-9. Neil D. Danielson p 12747 DOI: 10.1021/ja015269c

Molecular Switches Edited by Ben L. Feringa (University of Groningen). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim and New York. 2001. xxii + 454 pp. $187.95. ISBN 3-527-29965-3. Angel E. Kaifer pp 12747–12748 DOI: 10.1021/ja0153058

Handbook on Metalloproteins Edited by Ivano Bertini (University of Florence), Astrid Sigel, and Helmut Sigel (University of Basel). Marcel Dekker:  New York, Basel. 2001. xxx + 1182 pp (plus 16 color plates). $265.00. ISBN:  0-8247-0520-3. p 12748 DOI: 10.1021/ja015322x

Fluorine Chemistry at the Millennium. Fascinated by Fluorine Edited by R. E. Banks (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, U.K.). Elsevier:  Amsterdam, New York. 2000. xvi + 644 pp. $259.00. ISBN:  0-08-043405-3. p 12748 DOI: 10.1021/ja015324h

Issue 51

Toward the de Novo Design of a Catalytically Active Helix Bundle:  A Substrate-Accessible Carboxylate-Bridged Dinuclear Metal Center Luigi Di Costanzo, Herschel Wade, Silvano Geremia, Lucio Randaccio, Vincenzo Pavone, William F. DeGrado, and Angela Lombardi pp 12749–12757 DOI: 10.1021/ja010506x

Use of MCSS to Design Small Targeted Libraries:  Application to Picornavirus Ligands Diane Joseph-McCarthy, Simon K. Tsang, David J. Filman, James M. Hogle, and Martin Karplus pp 12758–12769 DOI: 10.1021/ja003972f

Embracing C60 with Multiarmed Geodesic Partners Shehadeh Mizyed, Paris E. Georghiou, Mihail Bancu, Bernardo Cuadra, Amarjit K. Rai, Peichao Cheng, and Lawrence T. Scott pp 12770–12774 DOI: 10.1021/ja016761z

Water Exchange Rates in the Diruthenium μ-Oxo Ion cis,cis-[(bpy)2Ru(OH2)]2O4+ Hiroshi Yamada, Tohru Koike, and James K. Hurst pp 12775–12780 DOI: 10.1021/ja010594l

A Study of Heat-Treatment Induced Framework Contraction in Strontium-ETS-4 by Powder Neutron Diffraction and Vibrational Spectroscopy Sankar Nair, Michael Tsapatsis, Brian H. Toby, and Steven M. Kuznicki pp 12781–12790 DOI: 10.1021/ja011703z Supporting Info

Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity of closo-2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11-Decahydroxy-1,12-bis(sulfonic acid)-1,12-dicarbadodecaborane(12) Axel Herzog, Carolyn B. Knobler, and M. Frederick Hawthorne pp 12791–12797 DOI: 10.1021/ja011917g Supporting Info

Synthesis of Highly Crystalline and Monodisperse Maghemite Nanocrystallites without a Size-Selection Process Taeghwan Hyeon, Su Seong Lee, Jongnam Park, Yunhee Chung, and Hyon Bin Na pp 12798–12801 DOI: 10.1021/ja016812s Supporting Info

Electronic Structure of High-Spin Iron(III)−Alkylperoxo Complexes and Its Relation to Low-Spin Analogues:  Reaction Coordinate of O−O Bond Homolysis Nicolai Lehnert, Raymond Y. N. Ho, Lawrence Que, Jr., and Edward I. Solomon pp 12802–12816 DOI: 10.1021/ja011450+ Supporting Info

Periodic Trends in Electrode−Chemisorbate Bonding:  Benzonitrile on Platinum-Group and Other Noble Metals As Probed by Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Combined with Density Functional Theory Melissa F. Mrozek, Sally A. Wasileski, and Michael J. Weaver pp 12817–12825 DOI: 10.1021/ja010049k

Time-Resolved in Situ Neutron Diffraction Studies of Gas Hydrate:  Transformation of Structure II (sII) to Structure I (sI) Yuval Halpern, Vu Thieu, Robert W. Henning, Xiaoping Wang, and Arthur J. Schultz pp 12826–12831 DOI: 10.1021/ja010280y

Pulse Radiolysis Studies of Dendritic Macromolecules with Biphenyl Peripheral Groups and a Ruthenium Tris-bipyridine Core Tarek H. Ghaddar, James F. Wishart, James P. Kirby, James K. Whitesell, and Marye Anne Fox pp 12832–12836 DOI: 10.1021/ja011615e

An Alternative Explanation for the Catalytic Proficiency of Orotidine 5‘-Phosphate Decarboxylase Tai-Sung Lee, Lillian T. Chong, John D. Chodera, and Peter A. Kollman pp 12837–12848 DOI: 10.1021/ja011096f Supporting Info

Thermochemistry of Fluorinated Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes Holger F. Bettinger, Konstantin N. Kudin, and Gustavo E. Scuseria pp 12849–12856 DOI: 10.1021/ja010977j Supporting Info

Experimental Determination of the Cr−C2Cl4 Bond Dissociation Enthalpy in Cr(CO)5(C2Cl4):  Quantifying Metal−Olefin Bonding Interactions David L. Cedeño and Eric Weitz pp 12857–12865 DOI: 10.1021/ja011643x Supporting Info

Lanthanide Macrocyclic Quinolyl Conjugates as Luminescent Molecular-Level Devices Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Dónall A. Mac Dónaill, and David Parker pp 12866–12876 DOI: 10.1021/ja004316i Supporting Info

Ultrafast Dynamics in Aqueous Polyacrylamide Solutions Hideaki Shirota and Edward W. Castner, Jr. pp 12877–12885 DOI: 10.1021/ja010290z Supporting Info

Conformational Preferences and Vibrational Frequency Distributions of Short Peptides in Relation to Multidimensional Infrared Spectroscopy S. Gnanakaran and R. M. Hochstrasser pp 12886–12898 DOI: 10.1021/ja011088z

Gold Hydrides AuH and (H2)AuH and the AuH3 Transition State Stabilized in (H2)AuH3:  Infrared Spectra and DFT Calculations Xuefeng Wang and Lester Andrews pp 12899–12900 DOI: 10.1021/ja012261u

Construction of Circular Oligodeoxyribonucleotides on the New Structural Basis of i-Motif Tianhu Li, Dongsheng Liu, Jian Chen, Alex H. F. Lee, Jianying Qi, and Albert S. C. Chan pp 12901–12902 DOI: 10.1021/ja011401x

Structural Conversion and Spin Separation in Bis(ferrocenylethynyl)anthraquinones Triggered by Proton-Coupled Intramolecular Electron Transfer Masaki Murata, Mami Yamada, Takako Fujita, Kohei Kojima, Masato Kurihara, Kenya Kubo, Yoshio Kobayashi, and Hiroshi Nishihara pp 12903–12904 DOI: 10.1021/ja0113504 Supporting Info

Mechanism of Aryl Chloride Amination:  Base-Induced Oxidative Addition Luis M. Alcazar-Roman and John F. Hartwig pp 12905–12906 DOI: 10.1021/ja016491k Supporting Info

Atom Economic Asymmetric Creation of Quaternary Carbon:  Regio- and Enantioselective Reactions of a Vinylepoxide with a Carbon Nucleophile Barry M. Trost and Chunhui Jiang pp 12907–12908 DOI: 10.1021/ja012104v Supporting Info

Multivalent Inhibition of AB5 Toxins Joseph M. Gargano, Thao Ngo, Ji Young Kim, David W. K. Acheson, and Watson J. Lees pp 12909–12910 DOI: 10.1021/ja016305a Supporting Info

The Origin of Stereoselectivity in Proline-Catalyzed Intramolecular Aldol Reactions S. Bahmanyar and K. N. Houk pp 12911–12912 DOI: 10.1021/ja011714s Supporting Info

Experimental Determination of Interaction Energies in a Porous Molecular Solid Sang-Ok Lee, Kenneth D. M. Harris, Peter E. Jupp, and Lily Yeo pp 12913–12914 DOI: 10.1021/ja011649m

Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrosilylation of 4-Substituted 1-Buten-3-ynes. Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Axially Chiral Allenylsilanes Jin Wook Han, Norihito Tokunaga, and Tamio Hayashi pp 12915–12916 DOI: 10.1021/ja017138h Supporting Info

Ligand-Accelerated, Copper-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrosilylations of Aryl Ketones Bruce H. Lipshutz, Kevin Noson, and Will Chrisman pp 12917–12918 DOI: 10.1021/ja011529e Supporting Info

A Parallel Synthetic Approach for the Analysis of Membrane Interactive Copolypeptides Michael D. Wyrsta, Anna L. Cogen, and Timothy J. Deming pp 12919–12920 DOI: 10.1021/ja017307y Supporting Info

Surfactant-Induced Lysis of Lipid-Modified Microgels Mary L. Kraft and Jeffrey S. Moore pp 12921–12922 DOI: 10.1021/ja016975g Supporting Info

Triple Fluorescence Energy Transfer in Covalently Trichromophore-Labeled DNA Anthony K. Tong, Steffen Jockusch, Zengmin Li, Han-Ru Zhu, Daniel L. Akins, Nicholas J. Turro, and Jingyue Ju pp 12923–12924 DOI: 10.1021/ja016904h Supporting Info

Redox-Dependent Hydration of Cytochrome c and Cytochrome b5 Studied through 17O NMRD Ivano Bertini, Parvana Hajieva, Claudio Luchinat, and Kirill Nerinovski pp 12925–12926 DOI: 10.1021/ja0163624

Coupled, Consecutive Reconstructions at a Polymer/Air Interface Stephen J. Grunzinger and Gregory S. Ferguson pp 12927–12928 DOI: 10.1021/ja0165279 Supporting Info

Measurement of Dipolar Couplings in a Uniformly 13C,15N-Labeled Membrane Protein:  Distances between the Schiff Base and Aspartic Acids in the Active Site of Bacteriorhodopsin Christopher P. Jaroniec, Jonathan C. Lansing, Brett A. Tounge, Marina Belenky, Judith Herzfeld, and Robert G. Griffin pp 12929–12930 DOI: 10.1021/ja016923r Supporting Info

A Synthetic Model for the Putative FeIV2O2 Diamond Core of Methane Monooxygenase Intermediate Q Miquel Costas, Jan-Uwe Rohde, Audria Stubna, Raymond Y. N. Ho, Luca Quaroni, Eckard Münck, and Lawrence Que, Jr. pp 12931–12932 DOI: 10.1021/ja017204f Supporting Info

Oxazolidinone Protected 2-Amino-2-deoxy-d-glucose Derivatives as Versatile Intermediates in Stereoselective Oligosaccharide Synthesis and the Formation of α-Linked Glycosides [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123 (38), 9461−9462].  Kamel Benakli, Congxiang Zha, and Robert J. Kerns p 12933 DOI: 10.1021/ja015132m

Protein Structure, Stability, and Folding. Methods in Molecular Biology. Volume 168 Edited by Kenneth P. Murphy (University of Iowa College of Medicine). Humana Press:  Totowa, New Jersey. 2001. ix + 252 pp. $89.50. ISBN 0-89603-682-0. Niels H. Andersen pp 12933–12934 DOI: 10.1021/ja0152815