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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 MesoMeso-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
5-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.
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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 13Cα13Cβ 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

Issue 20


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+

Issue 21


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 (FCNH) 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

Issue 22


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

Issue 23


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 μ222-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

Issue 26


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
IUPAC Name Pro 4.5 with Name to Structure Module Advanced Chemistry Development, 133 Richmond Street West, Suite 605, Toronto, Ontario M5H 2L3, Canada. http://www.acdlabs.com. Industry price $3900.00; academic price $995.00.
Robert D. Selliah
p 6463 DOI: 10.1021/ja004756+
Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry. Applications, Theory and Instrumentation  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 3621]. 
p 6463 DOI: 10.1021/ja0151551
Organic Synthesis on Solid Phase. Supports, Linkers, Reactions By Florencio Zaragoza Dörwald (Novo Nordisk A/S MedChem Research, Malov, Denmark). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2000. xx + 474 pp. DM 268 (approximately $125.00). ISBN 3-527-29950-5.
Dennis G. Hall
pp 6463–6464 DOI: 10.1021/ja004860r
Introduction to Perturbation Theory in Quantum Mechanics By Francisco M. Fernandez (University of La Plata, Argentina). CRC Press LLC:  Boca Raton, FL. 2001. xii + 272 pp. $99.95. ISBN 0-8493-1877-7.
Artëm Masunov
p 6464 DOI: 10.1021/ja004848z
Modern Carbonyl Chemistry Edited by Junzo Otera (Okayama University of Science). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2000. xx + 614 pp. $169.95. ISBN 3-527-29871-1.
Brian L. Pagenkopf
p 6464 DOI: 10.1021/ja004876h

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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-η22-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

Issue 28


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

Issue 32


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

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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, RuCl21-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

Issue 37


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-η66-1,2-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

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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

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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
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p 10788 DOI: 10.1021/ja015292y
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p 10788 DOI: 10.1021/ja015297v

Issue 44


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
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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)32-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
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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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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 phi,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.
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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

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Niels H. Andersen
pp 12933–12934 DOI: 10.1021/ja0152815