Volume 124
Main Index

Issue 01

2002 JACS Editorial Peter J. Stang, Editor pp 1–2 DOI: 10.1021/ja015113c

Strong Electron-Acceptor Methylviologen Dications Confined in a 2D Inorganic Host:  Synthesis, Structural Characterization, Charge Transport and Electrochemical Properties of (MV)0.25V2O5 Anima Bose, Pingang He, Charles Liu, Brett D. Ellman, Robert J. Twieg, and Songping D. Huang pp 4–5 DOI: 10.1021/ja016865+ Supporting Info

Simple Cu(I) Complexes with Unprecedented Excited-State Lifetimes Douglas G. Cuttell, Shan-Ming Kuang, Phillip E. Fanwick, David R. McMillin, and Richard A. Walton pp 6–7 DOI: 10.1021/ja012247h Supporting Info

Laterally Stabilized Complexes of DNA with Linear Reducible Polycations:  Strategy for Triggered Intracellular Activation of DNA Delivery Vectors David Oupický, Alan L. Parker, and Leonard W. Seymour pp 8–9 DOI: 10.1021/ja016440n

Discovery of Exceptionally Efficient Catalysts for Solvent-Free Enantioselective Hetero-Diels−Alder Reaction Jiang Long, Jieyu Hu, Xiaoqiang Shen, Baoming Ji, and Kuiling Ding pp 10–11 DOI: 10.1021/ja0172518 Supporting Info

Catalytic Asymmetric Intramolecular Aminopalladation:  Enantioselective Synthesis of Vinyl-Substituted 2-Oxazolidinones, 2-Imidazolidinones, and 2-Pyrrolidinones Larry E. Overman and Travis P. Remarchuk pp 12–13 DOI: 10.1021/ja017198n Supporting Info

Self-Terminating, Oxidative Radical Cyclizations:  A Novel Reaction of Acyloxyl Radicals Uta Wille pp 14–15 DOI: 10.1021/ja017006o Supporting Info

Synthesis and Characterization of a Disulfide-Linked C5-Symmetric [5]Carceplex Christoph Naumann, Samuel Place, and John C. Sherman pp 16–17 DOI: 10.1021/ja017271+ Supporting Info

Design of Three-Dimensional, Millimeter-Scale Models for Molecular Folding Thomas D. Clark, Mila Boncheva, Jennifer M. German, Marcus Weck, and George M. Whitesides pp 18–19 DOI: 10.1021/ja0120633 Supporting Info

Didehydrogeranylgeranyl (ΔΔGG):  A Fluorescent Probe for Protein Prenylation Xiao-hui Liu and Glenn D. Prestwich pp 20–21 DOI: 10.1021/ja0119144 Supporting Info

Large Third-Order Optical Nonlinearity of Self-Assembled Porphyrin Oligomers Kazuya Ogawa, Tieqiao Zhang, Keitaro Yoshihara, and Yoshiaki Kobuke pp 22–23 DOI: 10.1021/ja0169015 Supporting Info

Internal Derivatization of Oligonucleotides with Selenium for X-ray Crystallography Using MAD Quan Du, Nicolas Carrasco, Marianna Teplova, Christopher J. Wilds, Martin Egli, and Zhen Huang pp 24–25 DOI: 10.1021/ja0171097 Supporting Info

Redox Thermodynamics of the Fe3+/Fe2+ Couple in Horseradish Peroxidase and Its Cyanide Complex Gianantonio Battistuzzi, Marco Borsari, Antonio Ranieri, and Marco Sola pp 26–27 DOI: 10.1021/ja017188m

Ruthenium-Catalyzed Cycloaddition of 1,6-Diynes with Isothiocyanates and Carbon Disulfide:  First Transition-Metal Catalyzed [2 + 2 + 2] Cocyclotrimerization Involving CS Double Bond Yoshihiko Yamamoto, Hideyuki Takagishi, and Kenji Itoh pp 28–29 DOI: 10.1021/ja016510q Supporting Info

Reduction of a “Cation Pool”:  A New Approach to Radical Mediated C−C Bond Formation Seiji Suga, Shinkiti Suzuki, and Jun-ichi Yoshida pp 30–31 DOI: 10.1021/ja0171759 Supporting Info

Factors Involved in the Formation of Amorphous and Crystalline Calcium Carbonate:  A Study of an Ascidian Skeleton Joanna Aizenberg, Gretchen Lambert, Steve Weiner, and Lia Addadi pp 32–39 DOI: 10.1021/ja016990l

The Rate of Homolysis of Adducts of Peroxynitrite to the CO Double Bond Gábor Merényi, Johan Lind, and Sara Goldstein pp 40–48 DOI: 10.1021/ja011799x

Structure and Chemistry of 1-Silafluorenyl Dianion, Its Derivatives, and an Organosilicon Diradical Dianion Yuxia Liu, Thomas C. Stringfellow, David Ballweg, Ilia A. Guzei, and Robert West pp 49–57 DOI: 10.1021/ja011821m Supporting Info

“@-Tides”:  The 1,2-Dihydro-3(6H)-pyridinone Unit as a β-Strand Mimic Scott T. Phillips, Miroslav Rezac, Ulrich Abel, Michael Kossenjans, and Paul A. Bartlett pp 58–66 DOI: 10.1021/ja0168460 Supporting Info

Catalytic, Enantioselective Alkylation of α-Imino Esters:  The Synthesis of Nonnatural α-Amino Acid Derivatives Dana Ferraris, Brandon Young, Christopher Cox, Travis Dudding, William J. Drury, III, Lev Ryzhkov, Andrew E. Taggi, and Thomas Lectka pp 67–77 DOI: 10.1021/ja016838j Supporting Info

The Elusive Vanadate (V3O9)3-:  Isolation, Crystal Structure, and Nonaqueous Solution Behavior Elizabeth E. Hamilton, Phillip E. Fanwick, and Jonathan J. Wilker pp 78–82 DOI: 10.1021/ja010820r Supporting Info

C−H Bond Activation by a Ferric Methoxide Complex:  Modeling the Rate-Determining Step in the Mechanism of Lipoxygenase Christian R. Goldsmith, Robert T. Jonas, and T. Daniel P. Stack pp 83–96 DOI: 10.1021/ja016451g Supporting Info

Role of Framework Sodium versus Local Framework Structure in Determining the Hydrothermal Stability of MCM-41 Mesostructures Thomas R. Pauly, Valeri Petkov, Yu Liu, Simon J. L. Billinge, and Thomas J. Pinnavaia pp 97–103 DOI: 10.1021/ja0118183

Origin of Attraction and Directionality of the π/π Interaction:  Model Chemistry Calculations of Benzene Dimer Interaction Seiji Tsuzuki, Kazumasa Honda, Tadafumi Uchimaru, Masuhiro Mikami, and Kazutoshi Tanabe pp 104–112 DOI: 10.1021/ja0105212 Supporting Info

Structure and Magnetic Properties of Nitroxide Molecular Crystals by Density Functional Calculations Employing Periodic Boundary Conditions Roberto Improta, Konstantin N. Kudin, Gustavo E. Scuseria, and Vincenzo Barone pp 113–120 DOI: 10.1021/ja011704r

Structure Rationalization and Topology Prediction of Two-Distinct-Component Organic Crystals:  The Role of Volume Fraction and Interface Topology Zhengtao Xu, Stephen Lee, Emil B. Lobkovsky, and Y.-H. Kiang pp 121–135 DOI: 10.1021/ja0115518 Supporting Info

One Step Pd(0)-Catalyzed Synthesis, X-ray Analysis, and Photophysical Properties of Cyclopent[hi]aceanthrylene:  Fullerene-like Properties in a Nonalternant Cyclopentafused Aromatic Hydrocarbon Hung Dang, Marcia Levitus, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay pp 136–143 DOI: 10.1021/ja016189b Supporting Info

Understanding the Congener-Specific Toxicity in Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins:  Chlorination Pattern and Molecular Quadrupole Moment Byung Jin Mhin, Jung Eun Lee, and Wonyong Choi pp 144–148 DOI: 10.1021/ja016913q Supporting Info

Structure and Photophysics of an Old, New Molecule:  1,3,6,8-Tetraazatricyclo[4.4.1.13,8]dodecane Jurriaan M. Zwier, Albert M. Brouwer, Wybren Jan Buma, Alessandro Troisi, and Francesco Zerbetto pp 149–158 DOI: 10.1021/ja016971b

Electron Delocalization in the Radical Cation of 1,3,6,8-Tetraazatricyclo[4.4.1.13,8]dodecane, a 4-Nitrogen-7-Electron System Jurriaan M. Zwier, Albert M. Brouwer, Tamás Keszthelyi, Gurusamy Balakrishnan, Jesper F. Offersgaard, Robert Wilbrandt, Frédérique Barbosa, Urs Buser, Jérôme Amaudrut, Georg Gescheidt, Stephen F. Nelsen, and Charles D. Little pp 159–167 DOI: 10.1021/ja016999n Supporting Info

Synthesis of Propionate Motifs:  Diastereoselective Tandem Reactions Involving Anionic and Free Radical Based Processes  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123 (35), 8496−8501].  Yvan Guindon*, Karine Houde, Michel Prévost, Benoit Cardinal-David, Serge R. Landry, Benoit Daoust, Mohammed Bencheqroun, and Brigitte Guérin p 168 DOI: 10.1021/ja015131u

New Editor Information p 169 DOI: 10.1021/ja0151089

Issue 02

Direct Observation of Host−Guest Hydrogen Bonding in the Zeolite NaY/Chloroform System by Neutron Scattering Juergen Eckert, Caroline Mellot Draznieks, and Anthony K. Cheetham pp 170–171 DOI: 10.1021/ja011740q

Single-Molecule Precipitation of Transition Metal(I) Chlorides in Water Clusters Brigitte S. Fox, O. Petru Balaj, Iulia Balteanu, Martin K. Beyer, and Vladimir E. Bondybey pp 172–173 DOI: 10.1021/ja017157r Supporting Info

A Mild and Efficient Catalytic Alkylative Monofunctionalization of Cyclic Anhydrides Eric A. Bercot and Tomislav Rovis pp 174–175 DOI: 10.1021/ja017086w Supporting Info

A New and Efficient Method for the Selective Olefination of Aldehydes with Ethyl Diazoacetate Catalyzed by an Iron(II) Porphyrin Complex Gholam A. Mirafzal, Guilong Cheng, and L. Keith Woo pp 176–177 DOI: 10.1021/ja016721v

Novel Synthesis and Characterization of Five Isomers of (C70)2 Fullerene Dimers Grant S. Forman, Nikos Tagmatarchis, and Hisanori Shinohara pp 178–179 DOI: 10.1021/ja0168662 Supporting Info

A General Strategy To Determine a Target DNA Sequence of a Short Peptide:  Application to a d-Peptide Takashi Morii, Tomohisa Tanaka, Shin-ichi Sato, Masaki Hagihara, Yasunori Aizawa, and Keisuke Makino pp 180–181 DOI: 10.1021/ja017078f Supporting Info

Crystallographic Evidence for Oxygen Acceptor Directionality in Oxyanion Hydrogen Bonds Benjamin P. Hay, David A. Dixon, Jeffrey C. Bryan, and Bruce A. Moyer pp 182–183 DOI: 10.1021/ja0173775 Supporting Info

A Highly Enantioselective Intramolecular Heck Reaction with a Monodentate Ligand Rosalinde Imbos, Adriaan J. Minnaard, and Ben L. Feringa pp 184–185 DOI: 10.1021/ja017200a Supporting Info

Ruthenium-Catalyzed Intramolecular Oxidative Amination of Aminoalkenes Enables Rapid Synthesis of Cyclic Imines Teruyuki Kondo, Takumi Okada, and Take-aki Mitsudo pp 186–187 DOI: 10.1021/ja017012k Supporting Info

Oxidative Addition of Water to Novel Ir(I) Complexes Stabilized by Dimethyl Sulfoxide Ligands Reto Dorta, Haim Rozenberg, Linda J. W. Shimon, and David Milstein pp 188–189 DOI: 10.1021/ja016625u Supporting Info

An Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (+)- and (−)-Saudin. Determination of the Absolute Configuration Robert K. Boeckman, Jr., Maria del Rosario Rico Ferreira, Lorna H. Mitchell, and Pengcheng Shao pp 190–191 DOI: 10.1021/ja017194i Supporting Info

Effects of the Protein Environment on the Structure and Energetics of Active Sites of Metalloenzymes. ONIOM Study of Methane Monooxygenase and Ribonucleotide Reductase Maricel Torrent, Thom Vreven, Djamaladdin G. Musaev, and Keiji MorokumaÖdön Farkas and H. Bernhard Schlegel pp 192–193 DOI: 10.1021/ja016589z Supporting Info

Structural Characterization of a Photoinduced Molecular Switch Mathieu Marchivie, Philippe Guionneau, Judith A. K. Howard, Guillaume Chastanet, Jean-François Létard, Andres E. Goeta, and Daniel Chasseau pp 194–195 DOI: 10.1021/ja016980k Supporting Info

Dimers of Dipyrrometheneboron Difluoride (BODIPY) with Light Spectroscopic Applications in Chemistry and Biology Fredrik Bergström, Ilya Mikhalyov, Peter Hägglöf, Rüdiger Wortmann, Tor Ny, and Lennart B.-Å. Johansson pp 196–204 DOI: 10.1021/ja010983f

Calorimetric and Structural Studies of 1,2,3-Trisubstituted Cyclopropanes as Conformationally Constrained Peptide Inhibitors of Src SH2 Domain Binding James P. Davidson, Olga Lubman, Thierry Rose, Gabriel Waksman, and Stephen F. Martin pp 205–215 DOI: 10.1021/ja011746f Supporting Info

Synthesis and Characterization of Sulfur-Voided Cubanes. Structural Analogues for the MoFe3S3 Subunit in the Nitrogenase Cofactor Dimitri Coucouvanis, Jaehong Han, and Namdoo Moon pp 216–224 DOI: 10.1021/ja0110832 Supporting Info

The Effect of Mechanical Interlocking on Crystal Packing:  Predictions and Testing Fabio Biscarini, Massimiliano Cavallini, David A. Leigh, Salvador León, Simon J. Teat, Jenny K. Y. Wong, and Francesco Zerbetto pp 225–233 DOI: 10.1021/ja0159362 Supporting Info

Product Distribution of Peroxynitrite Decay as a Function of pH, Temperature, and Concentration Reinhard Kissner and Willem H. Koppenol pp 234–239 DOI: 10.1021/ja010497s Supporting Info

Mediated Electrochemistry of Horseradish Peroxidase. Catalysis and Inhibition Murielle Dequaire, Benoît Limoges, Jacques Moiroux, and Jean-Michel Savéant pp 240–253 DOI: 10.1021/ja0170706 Supporting Info

A Joint Structural, Kinetic, and Thermodynamic Investigation of Substituent Effects on Host−Guest Complexation of Bicyclic Azoalkanes by β-Cyclodextrin Xiangyang Zhang, Gabriela Gramlich, Xiaojuan Wang, and Werner M. Nau pp 254–263 DOI: 10.1021/ja011866n

Consequences of Correlated Solvation on the Structures and Reactivities of RLi-Diamine Complexes:  1,2-Addition and α-Lithiation Reactions of Imines by TMEDA-Solvated n-Butyllithium and Phenyllithium Jennifer L. Rutherford, Daniele Hoffmann, and David B. Collum pp 264–271 DOI: 10.1021/ja002979u Supporting Info

Cu(II)-Mediated Intramolecular Carbene Cation Radical Formation:  Relevance to Unimolecular Metal−Ligand Radical Intermediates Brian J. Kraft, Hilary J. Eppley, John C. Huffman, and Jeffrey M. Zaleski pp 272–280 DOI: 10.1021/ja0120072 Supporting Info

17O ENDOR Detection of a Solvent-Derived Ni−(OHx)−Fe Bridge That Is Lost upon Activation of the Hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio gigas Marta Carepo, David L. Tierney, Carlos D. Brondino, Tran Chin Yang, Ana Pamplona, Joshua Telser, Isabel Moura, José J. G. Moura, and Brian M. Hoffman pp 281–286 DOI: 10.1021/ja010204v

Computational Assessment of the Electronic Structures of Cyclohexa-1,2,4-triene, 1-Oxacyclohexa-2,3,5-triene (3δ2-Pyran), Their Benzo Derivatives, and Cyclohexa-1,2-diene. An Experimental Approach to 3δ2-Pyran Bernd Engels, Jan C. Schöneboom, Arno F. Münster, Stefan Groetsch, and Manfred Christl pp 287–297 DOI: 10.1021/ja011227c Supporting Info

Structure of Docosahexaenoic Acid-Containing Phospholipid Bilayers as Studied by 2H NMR and Molecular Dynamics Simulations Thomas Huber, Kannan Rajamoorthi, Volker F. Kurze, Klaus Beyer, and Michael F. Brown pp 298–309 DOI: 10.1021/ja011383j Supporting Info

Formation of a Stable Surface Oxametallacycle that Produces Ethylene Oxide Suljo Linic and Mark A. Barteau pp 310–317 DOI: 10.1021/ja0118136

Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Lipid Bilayers:  Intrinsic and Environmental Contributions to Their Unique Physical Properties Scott E. Feller, Klaus Gawrisch, and Alexander D. MacKerell, Jr. pp 318–326 DOI: 10.1021/ja0118340 Supporting Info

An Ab Initio Study of Amide Proton Shift Tensor Dependence on Local Protein Structure Yugal Sharma, Oh Young Kwon, Bernie Brooks, and Nico Tjandra pp 327–335 DOI: 10.1021/ja016859d

Dynamics of the Gas-Phase Reactions of Chloride Ion with Fluoromethane:  High Excess Translational Activation Energy for an Endothermic SN2 Reaction Laurence A. Angel, Sandra P. Garcia, and Kent M. Ervin pp 336–345 DOI: 10.1021/ja012031f

Experimental and Theoretical Studies on the Reaction of H2 with NiO:  Role of O Vacancies and Mechanism for Oxide Reduction José A. Rodriguez, Jonathan C. Hanson, Anatoly I. Frenkel, Jae Y. Kim, and Manuel Pérez pp 346–354 DOI: 10.1021/ja0121080

An Experimental and Computational Evaluation of the Energetics of the Isomeric Methoxyphenylcarbenes Generated in Carbon Atom Reactions C. Michael Geise, Christopher M. Hadad, Fengmei Zheng, and Philip B. Shevlin pp 355–364 DOI: 10.1021/ja012079t Supporting Info

Issue 03

The Electric Dipole Polarity of the Ground and Low-Lying Metastable Excited States of NF Gerard S. Harbison pp 366–367 DOI: 10.1021/ja0159261

Translocation of a β-Peptide Across Cell Membranes Naoki Umezawa, Michael A. Gelman, Marcia C. Haigis, Ronald T. Raines, and Samuel H. Gellman pp 368–369 DOI: 10.1021/ja017283v Supporting Info

The Effect of Lewis Bases on the 13C NMR of Iodoalkynes Pankaj D. Rege, Olga L. Malkina, and Nancy S. Goroff pp 370–371 DOI: 10.1021/ja016290g Supporting Info

Identification of Protein Surfaces by NMR Measurements with a Paramagnetic Gd(III) Chelate Guido Pintacuda and Gottfried Otting pp 372–373 DOI: 10.1021/ja016985h Supporting Info

Lanthanide Modulation of the Orientation of Macromolecules Induced by Purple Membrane Pau Bernadó, Renato Barbieri, Esteve Padrós, Claudio Luchinat, and Miquel Pons pp 374–375 DOI: 10.1021/ja0170192 Supporting Info

Cu2[o-Br-C6H3(CO2)2]2(H2O)2·(DMF)8(H2O)2:  A Framework Deliberately Designed To Have the NbO Structure Type Mohamed Eddaoudi, Jaheon Kim, Michael O'Keeffe, and Omar M. Yaghi pp 376–377 DOI: 10.1021/ja017154e Supporting Info

Petrobactin, a Photoreactive Siderophore Produced by the Oil-Degrading Marine Bacterium Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus Katherine Barbeau, Guangping Zhang, David H. Live, and Alison Butler pp 378–379 DOI: 10.1021/ja0119088 Supporting Info

Activation Parameters for Three Reactions Interconverting Isomeric 4- and 6-Deuteriobicyclo[3.1.0]hex-2-enes John E. Baldwin and Edmund J. Keliher pp 380–381 DOI: 10.1021/ja012258a Supporting Info

Coordination Chemistry Umpolung:  A Gallane Ligand on a Phosphine Lewis Acceptor Neil Burford, Paul J. Ragogna, Katherine N. Robertson, and T. Stanley CameronNed J. Hardman and Philip P. Power pp 382–383 DOI: 10.1021/ja012081k

Lasonolide A:  Structural Revision and Synthesis of the Unnatural (−)-Enantiomer Eun Lee, Ho Young Song, Jung Won Kang, Dae-Shik Kim, Cheol-Kyu Jung, and Jung Min Joo pp 384–385 DOI: 10.1021/ja017265d Supporting Info

First Evidence for the Formation of a Geminal Dizinc Carbenoid:  A Highly Stereoselective Synthesis of 1,2,3-Substituted Cyclopropanes André B. Charette, Alexandre Gagnon, and Jean-François Fournier pp 386–387 DOI: 10.1021/ja017230d Supporting Info

Reaction of a Double Bond of Zirconacyclopentadienes:  Formation of 1,2,3,5-Tetrasubstituted Benzenes via the C−C Bond Cleavage Tamotsu Takahashi, Masanori Ishikawa, and Shoquan Huo pp 388–389 DOI: 10.1021/ja017163n Supporting Info

Mild Iridium-Catalyzed Borylation of Arenes. High Turnover Numbers, Room Temperature Reactions, and Isolation of a Potential Intermediate Tatsuo Ishiyama, Jun Takagi, Kousaku Ishida, and Norio MiyauraNatia R. Anastasi and John F. Hartwig pp 390–391 DOI: 10.1021/ja0173019 Supporting Info

Diastereoselective Magnesium Halide-Catalyzed anti-Aldol Reactions of Chiral N-Acyloxazolidinones David A. Evans, Jason S. Tedrow, Jared T. Shaw, and C. Wade Downey pp 392–393 DOI: 10.1021/ja0119548 Supporting Info

High-Spin Ni(II), a Surprisingly Good Structural Model for [NiFe] Hydrogenase Hua-Jun Fan and Michael B. Hall pp 394–395 DOI: 10.1021/ja0171310 Supporting Info

Stereoselective Synthesis of 2-Aminocyclobutanols via Photocyclization of α-Amido Alkylaryl Ketones:  Mechanistic Implications for the Norrish/Yang Reaction Axel G. Griesbeck and Heike Heckroth pp 396–403 DOI: 10.1021/ja0111941

Evidence for HOOO Radicals in the Formation of Alkyl Hydrotrioxides (ROOOH) and Hydrogen Trioxide (HOOOH) in the Ozonation of C−H Bonds in Hydrocarbons1 Janez Cerkovnik, Evgen Eržen, Jože Koller, and Božo Plesniar pp 404–409 DOI: 10.1021/ja017320i Supporting Info

67Zn Solid-State and Single-Crystal NMR Spectroscopy and X-ray Crystal Structure of Zinc Formate Dihydrate Andrew S. Lipton, Mark D. Smith, Richard D. Adams, and Paul D. Ellis pp 410–414 DOI: 10.1021/ja011701e Supporting Info

Synthesis, Structure, and Bonding of BaTl3:  An Unusual Competition between Cluster and Classical Bonding in the Thallium Layers Dong-Kyun Seo and John D. Corbett pp 415–420 DOI: 10.1021/ja011728y Supporting Info

Reaction of a Superoxochromium(III) Ion with Nitrogen Monoxide:  Kinetics and Mechanism Attila Nemes, Oleg Pestovsky, and Andreja Bakac pp 421–427 DOI: 10.1021/ja016840a

Oligomeric ββα Miniprotein Motifs:  Pivotal Role of Single Hinge Residue in Determining the Oligomeric State Kevin A. McDonnell and Barbara Imperiali pp 428–433 DOI: 10.1021/ja016991d

Time-Resolved Spectroscopic Studies of B12 Coenzymes:  A Comparison of the Primary Photolysis Mechanism in Methyl-, Ethyl-, n-Propyl-, and 5‘-Deoxyadenosylcobalamin Allwyn G. Cole, Laurie M. Yoder, Joseph J. Shiang, Neil A. Anderson, Larry A. Walker, II, Mark M. Banaszak Holl, and Roseanne J. Sension pp 434–441 DOI: 10.1021/ja011628s Supporting Info

Carboxylates Stacked over Aromatic Rings Promote Salt Bridge Formation in Water Samuel E. Thompson and David B. Smithrud pp 442–449 DOI: 10.1021/ja011973h Supporting Info

Theoretical Studies of Magnetic Interactions in Mn(II)(hfac)2{di(4-pyridyl)phenylcarbene} and Cu(II)(hfac)2{di(4-pyridyl)phenylcarbene} Yu Takano, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Taku Onishi, Yasunori Yoshioka, Kizashi Yamaguchi, Noboru Koga, and Hiizu Iwamura pp 450–461 DOI: 10.1021/ja015967x Supporting Info

Magnetic Field-Controlled Microfluidic Transport Kyle M. Grant, Jared W. Hemmert, and Henry S. White pp 462–467 DOI: 10.1021/ja016544y

An NMR Investigation of CO Tolerance in a Pt/Ru Fuel Cell Catalyst YuYe Tong, Hee Soo Kim, Panakkattu K. Babu, Piotr Waszczuk, Andrzej Wieckowski, and Eric Oldfield pp 468–473 DOI: 10.1021/ja011729q

Generation, Reactions, and Kinetics of Sterically Congested Triplet Diphenylcarbenes. Effects of Bromine Groups Hideo Tomioka, Tetsuya Watanabe, Makoto Hattori, Naoki Nomura, and Katsuyuki Hirai pp 474–482 DOI: 10.1021/ja010658s Supporting Info

Superquenching in Cyanine Pendant Poly(l-lysine) Dyes:  Dependence on Molecular Weight, Solvent, and Aggregation Liangde Lu, Roger Helgeson, Robert M. Jones, Duncan McBranch, and David Whitten pp 483–488 DOI: 10.1021/ja011517t

Photoinduced Ultrafast Dye-to-Semiconductor Electron Injection from Nonthermalized and Thermalized Donor States Gábor Benkö, Jani Kallioinen, Jouko E. I. Korppi-Tommola, Arkady P. Yartsev, and Villy Sundström pp 489–493 DOI: 10.1021/ja016561n Supporting Info

Infrared Spectra of C3H3+-N2 Dimers:  Identification of Proton-Bound c-C3H3+-N2 and H2CCCH+-N2 Isomers Otto Dopfer, Doris Roth, and John P. Maier pp 494–502 DOI: 10.1021/ja012004p

From Local Adsorption Stresses to Chiral Surfaces:  (R,R)-Tartaric Acid on Ni(110) Vincent Humblot, Sam Haq, Chris Muryn, Werner A. Hofer, and Rasmita Raval pp 503–510 DOI: 10.1021/ja012021e

NMR Imaging of Materials By Bernhard Blümich (Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Hochschule). Oxford University Press:  Oxford. 2000. xxiv + 542 pp. $120.00. ISBN 0-19-850683-X. A. Ted Watson p 511 DOI: 10.1021/ja015270b

Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products. Vol. 81 Edited by W. Herz (Florida State University), H. Falk (Johannes-Kepler-Universität), G. W. Kirby (University of Glasgow), and R. E. Moore (University of Hawaii). Featuring the Title:  New Results on the Chemistry of Lichen Substances. by Siegfried Huneck (Langenbogen/Saalkreis, Germany). Springer-Verlag:  Wien and New York. 2001. viii + 314 pp. $179.00. ISBN 3-211-83518-0. Chicita F. Culberson p 511 DOI: 10.1021/ja015295a

Electrochemical Sensors in Bioanalysis By Raluca-Ioana Stefan and Jacobus Frederick Van Staden (University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa) and Hassan Y. Aboul-Enein (King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia). Marcel Dekker Inc:  New York and Basel. 2001. xxii + 288 pp. $150.00. ISBN 0-8247-0662-5 Stephen Creager pp 511–512 DOI: 10.1021/ja015348o

Issue 04

A Surface-Reactive Rod-Coil Diblock Copolymer:  Nano- and Micropatterned Polymer Brushes Ji-Woong Park and Edwin L. Thomas pp 514–515 DOI: 10.1021/ja017116v

Phosphorus Phenyl-Group Activation by Reduced Zirconium and Niobium Complexes Stabilized by the [P2N2] Macrocycle Michael D. Fryzuk, Christopher M. Kozak, Parisa Mehrkhodavandi, Lara Morello, Brian O. Patrick, and Steven J. Rettig pp 516–517 DOI: 10.1021/ja012100q Supporting Info

Reactions of Iodinated Vinylidene Complexes Generated from 1-Iodo-1-alkynes and W(CO)5(thf) Tomoya Miura and Nobuharu Iwasawa pp 518–519 DOI: 10.1021/ja0113091 Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of Ustiloxin D Bin Cao, Haengsoon Park, and Madeleine M. Joullié pp 520–521 DOI: 10.1021/ja017277z Supporting Info

Direct-Writing of Polymer Nanostructures:  Poly(thiophene) Nanowires on Semiconducting and Insulating Surfaces Benjamin W. Maynor, Shaun F. Filocamo, Mark W. Grinstaff, and Jie Liu pp 522–523 DOI: 10.1021/ja017365j Supporting Info

A Symmetric Derivative of the Trimetallic Nitride Endohedral Metallofullerene, Sc3N@C80 Erick B. Iezzi, James C. Duchamp, Kim Harich, Tom E. Glass, Hon Man Lee, Marilyn M. Olmstead, Alan L. Balch, and Harry C. Dorn pp 524–525 DOI: 10.1021/ja0171005 Supporting Info

Chromium- and Tungsten-Triggered Valence Isomerism of cis-1-Acyl-2-ethynylcyclopropanes via [3,3]Sigmatropy of (2-Acylcyclopropyl)vinylidene−Metal Intermediates Kouichi Ohe, Tomomi Yokoi, Koji Miki, Fumiaki Nishino, and Sakae Uemura pp 526–527 DOI: 10.1021/ja017037j Supporting Info

Biosynthesis of 1-Deoxy-1-imino-d-erythrose 4-Phosphate:  A Defining Metabolite in the Aminoshikimate Pathway Jiantao Guo and J. W. Frost pp 528–529 DOI: 10.1021/ja016963v Supporting Info

Practical Olefin Aziridination with a Broad Substrate Scope Tung Siu and Andrei K. Yudin pp 530–531 DOI: 10.1021/ja0172215 Supporting Info

Large Photocurrent Generation of Gold Electrodes Modified with [60]Fullerene-Linked Oligothiophenes Bearing a Tripodal Rigid Anchor Daigo Hirayama, Kazuo Takimiya, Yoshio Aso, Tetsuo Otsubo, Taku Hasobe, Hiroko Yamada, Hiroshi Imahori, Shunichi Fukuzumi, and Yoshiteru Sakata pp 532–533 DOI: 10.1021/ja016703d Supporting Info

Novel Coordinatively Unsaturated Bimetallic Complexes, [(η5-C5Me5)Ru(μ2-iPrNC(Me)NiPr)Ru(η5-C5Me5)]+:  A Bridging Amidinate Ligand Perpendicular to the Metal−Metal Axis Effectively Stabilizes the Highly Reactive Cationic Diruthenium Species Hideo Kondo, Kouki Matsubara, and Hideo Nagashima pp 534–535 DOI: 10.1021/ja016899h Supporting Info

Lewis Base-Promoted Aldol Reaction of Dimethylsilyl Enolates in Aqueous Dimethylformamide:  Use of Calcium Chloride as a Lewis Base Catalyst Katsukiyo Miura, Takahiro Nakagawa, and Akira Hosomi pp 536–537 DOI: 10.1021/ja017218l Supporting Info

A Novel Strategy by the Action of Ricin that Connects Phenotype and Genotype without Loss of the Diversity of Libraries Jing-Min Zhou, Satoshi Fujita, Masaki Warashina, Tadashi Baba, and Kazunari Taira pp 538–543 DOI: 10.1021/ja011885x

Erythropoietin Mimetics Derived from Solution Phase Combinatorial Libraries Joel Goldberg, Qing Jin, Yves Ambroise, Shigeki Satoh, Joel Desharnais, Kevin Capps, and Dale L. Boger pp 544–555 DOI: 10.1021/ja0118789 Supporting Info

A Fluorescence-Based Method for Direct Measurement of Submicrosecond Intramolecular Contact Formation in Biopolymers:  An Exploratory Study with Polypeptides Robert R. Hudgins, Fang Huang, Gabriela Gramlich, and Werner M. Nau pp 556–564 DOI: 10.1021/ja010493n

Inelastic Incoherent Neutron Scattering Studies of Water Interacting with Biological Macromolecules Stuart V. Ruffle, Ilias Michalarias, Ji-Chen Li, and Robert C. Ford pp 565–569 DOI: 10.1021/ja016277w

Spectroscopic Anatomy of Molecular-Imprinting of Cyclodextrin. Evidence for Preferential Formation of Ordered Cyclodextrin Assemblies Takayuki Hishiya, Hiroyuki Asanuma, and Makoto Komiyama pp 570–575 DOI: 10.1021/ja011305w Supporting Info

Coupling Reaction of Zirconacyclopentadienes with Dihalonaphthalenes and Dihalopyridines:  A New Procedure for the Preparation of Substituted Anthracenes, Quinolines, and Isoquinolines Tamotsu Takahashi, Yanzhong Li, Petr Stepnicka, Masanori Kitamura, Yanjun Liu, Kiyohiko Nakajima, and Martin Kotora pp 576–582 DOI: 10.1021/ja016848k Supporting Info

A Convergent Approach to Cyclopeptide Alkaloids:  Total Synthesis of Sanjoinine G1 Taoues Temal-Laïb, Jacqueline Chastanet, and Jieping Zhu pp 583–590 DOI: 10.1021/ja0170807 Supporting Info

Unprecedented Chiral Molecular Recognition in a C3-Symmetric Environment Sung-Gon Kim, Kyung-Hyun Kim, Junyang Jung, Seung Koo Shin, and Kyo Han Ahn pp 591–596 DOI: 10.1021/ja0119696 Supporting Info

pH-Dependent H2-Activation Cycle Coupled to Reduction of Nitrate Ion by Cp*Ir Complexes Seiji Ogo, Hidetaka Nakai, and Yoshihito Watanabe pp 597–601 DOI: 10.1021/ja011846l Supporting Info

Spectroscopic and Electronic Structure Studies of Protocatechuate 3,4-Dioxygenase:  Nature of Tyrosinate−Fe(III) Bonds and Their Contribution to Reactivity Mindy I. Davis, Allen M. Orville, Frank Neese, Jeffrey M. Zaleski, John D. Lipscomb, and Edward I. Solomon pp 602–614 DOI: 10.1021/ja011945z Supporting Info

Architectural Control of Magnetic Semiconductor Nanocrystals Young-wook Jun, Yoon-young Jung, and Jinwoo Cheon pp 615–619 DOI: 10.1021/ja016887w

Magnetism and Structural Chemistry of the n = 1 Ruddlesden−Popper Phases La4LiMnO8 and La3SrLiMnO8 Jonathan C. Burley, Peter D. Battle, Daniel J. Gallon, Jeremy Sloan, Clare P. Grey, and Matthew J. Rosseinsky pp 620–628 DOI: 10.1021/ja012023z Supporting Info

Spontaneous Resolution Induced by Self-Organization of Chiral Self-Complementary Cobalt(III) Complexes with Achiral Tripod-Type Ligands Containing Three Imidazole Groups Ikuko Katsuki, Yuri Motoda, Yukinari Sunatsuki, Naohide Matsumoto, Toshio Nakashima, and Masaaki Kojima pp 629–640 DOI: 10.1021/ja0123960 Supporting Info

Interplay of Orbital Symmetry and Nonstatistical Dynamics in the Thermal Rearrangements of Bicyclo[n.1.0]polyenes Mayra B. Reyes, Emil B. Lobkovsky, and Barry K. Carpenter pp 641–651 DOI: 10.1021/ja017083j Supporting Info

Construction of Mixed Mercaptopropionic Acid/Alkanethiol Monolayers of Controlled Composition by Structural Control of a Gold Substrate with Underpotentially Deposited Lead Atoms Katsuaki Shimazu, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, and Takao Isomura pp 652–661 DOI: 10.1021/ja004091b

Effect of Geminal Substitution at Silicon on 1-Sila- and 1,3-Disilacyclobutanes' Strain Energies, Their 2+2 Cycloreversion Enthalpies, and SiC π-Bond Energies in Silenes Leonid E. Gusel'nikov, Vitaly G. Avakyan, and Stephan L. Guselnikov pp 662–671 DOI: 10.1021/ja011287i Supporting Info

Top Down Characterization of Larger Proteins (45 kDa) by Electron Capture Dissociation Mass Spectrometry Ying Ge, Brian G. Lawhorn, Mariam ElNaggar, Erick Strauss, Joo-Heon Park, Tadhg P. Begley, and Fred W. McLafferty pp 672–678 DOI: 10.1021/ja011335z

Density Functional Study of the σ and π Bond Activation at the PdX (X = Sn, Si, C) Bonds of the (H2PC2H4PH2)PdXH2 Complexes. Is the Bond Cleavage Homolytic or Heterolytic? Toshiaki Matsubara and Kazuyuki Hirao pp 679–689 DOI: 10.1021/ja0113495 Supporting Info

Electrochemical Characterization of Polyacetylene Ionomers and Polyelectrolyte-Mediated Electrochemistry toward Interfaces between Dissimilarly Doped Conjugated Polymers Mark C. Lonergan, Calvin H. Cheng, Brandi L. Langsdorf, and X. Zhou pp 690–701 DOI: 10.1021/ja016715z

Ni/Pt(111) Bimetallic Surfaces:  Unique Chemistry at Monolayer Ni Coverage Henry H. Hwu, Joseph Eng, Jr., and Jingguang G. Chen pp 702–709 DOI: 10.1021/ja011847d

How Does Internal Motion Influence the Relaxation of the Water Protons in LnIIIDOTA-like Complexes? Frank A. Dunand, Alain Borel, and André E. Merbach pp 710–716 DOI: 10.1021/ja016873q Supporting Info

Flash Photolytic Generation of o-Quinone α-Phenylmethide and o-Quinone α-(p-Anisyl)methide in Aqueous Solution and Investigation of Their Reactions in that Medium. Saturation of Acid-Catalyzed Hydration Y. Chiang, A. J. Kresge, and Y. Zhu pp 717–722 DOI: 10.1021/ja0120375 Supporting Info

CalculationCenter 1.0 Wolfram Research, Inc., 100 Trade Center Dr., Champaign, IL 61820-7237. http://www.wolfram.com. Suggested Retail Price:  $295.00. Timothy J. Smith and Keith J. Stevenson pp 723–724 DOI: 10.1021/ja015310b

Issue 05

New Editor Information p xvi DOI: 10.1021/ja015112k

Iron Carbonyl Sulfides, Formaldehyde, and Amines Condense To Give the Proposed Azadithiolate Cofactor of the Fe-Only Hydrogenases Hongxiang Li and Thomas B. Rauchfuss pp 726–727 DOI: 10.1021/ja016964n Supporting Info

Length Separation of Zwitterion-Functionalized Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes by GPC Debjit Chattopadhyay, Sarah Lastella, Sejong Kim, and Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos pp 728–729 DOI: 10.1021/ja0172159 Supporting Info

New Organic Superconductors Consisting of an Unprecedented π-Electron Donor Hiroyuki Nishikawa, Takanobu Morimoto, Takeshi Kodama, Isao Ikemoto, Koichi Kikuchi, Jun-ichi Yamada, Harukazu Yoshino, and Keizo Murata pp 730–731 DOI: 10.1021/ja011114t Supporting Info

Atomic Properties of N2O4 Based on Its Experimental Charge Density Marc Messerschmidt, Armin Wagner, Ming Wah Wong, and Peter Luger pp 732–733 DOI: 10.1021/ja011802c Supporting Info

Tunable Ligands for Asymmetric Catalysis:  Readily Available Carbohydrate-Derived Diarylphosphinites Induce High Selectivity in the Hydrovinylation of Styrene Derivatives Haengsoon Park and T. V. RajanBabu pp 734–735 DOI: 10.1021/ja0172013 Supporting Info

Highly Enantioselective Nickel-Catalyzed Hydrovinylation with Chiral Phosphoramidite Ligands Giancarlo Franciò, Felice Faraone, and Walter Leitner pp 736–737 DOI: 10.1021/ja012099v Supporting Info

Microporous Crystal 12CaO·7Al2O3 Encaging Abundant O- Radicals Katsuro Hayashi, Masahiro Hirano, Satoru Matsuishi, and Hideo Hosono pp 738–739 DOI: 10.1021/ja016112n

Enantioselective Adsorption of Phenylalanine onto Self-Assembled Monolayers of 1,1‘-Binaphthalene-2,2‘-dithiol on Gold Takuya Nakanishi, Naoko Yamakawa, Toru Asahi, Tetsuya Osaka, Bunsho Ohtani, and Kohei Uosaki pp 740–741 DOI: 10.1021/ja012084x

The Sodium Ions Inside a Lipophilic G-Quadruplex Channel as Probed by Solid-State 23Na NMR Alan Wong, James C. Fettinger, Scott L. Forman, Jeffery T. Davis, and Gang Wu pp 742–743 DOI: 10.1021/ja0120330 Supporting Info

Electronic Structure Description of the μ4-Sulfide Bridged Tetranuclear CuZ Center in N2O Reductase Peng Chen, Serena DeBeer George, Inês Cabrito, William E. Antholine, José J. G. Moura, Isabel Moura, Britt Hedman, Keith O. Hodgson, and Edward I. Solomon pp 744–745 DOI: 10.1021/ja0169623 Supporting Info

DNA-Catalyzed Polymerization Xiaoyu Li, Zheng-Yun J. Zhan, Rachel Knipe, and David G. Lynn pp 746–747 DOI: 10.1021/ja017319j Supporting Info

Aziridinomitosenes by Anionic Cyclization:  Deuterium as a Removable Blocking Group Edwin Vedejs and Jeremy Little pp 748–749 DOI: 10.1021/ja0120835 Supporting Info

A Novel Chelation-Assisted Hydroesterification of Alkenes via Ruthenium Catalysis Sangwon Ko, Youngim Na, and Sukbok Chang pp 750–751 DOI: 10.1021/ja017076v Supporting Info

Sequential C−H Activation and Dinuclear Insertion of Ethylene Promoted by a Diiridium Complex Yaofeng Yuan, M. Victoria Jiménez, Eduardo Sola, Fernando J. Lahoz, and Luis A. Oro pp 752–753 DOI: 10.1021/ja016753i Supporting Info

6-Bromomethyl-4H-1,3-dioxin:  A Versatile Bromomethyl Vinyl Ketone Equivalent for Heterocycle and Carbocycle Construction Thomas J. Greshock and Raymond L. Funk pp 754–755 DOI: 10.1021/ja0123554 Supporting Info

An Analogue System Displaying All the Important Processes of the Catalytic Cycles Involving Monooxomolybdenum(VI) and Desoxomolybdenum(IV) Centers Victor N. Nemykin, Scott R. Davie, Sujit Mondal, Nick Rubie, Martin L. Kirk, Arpad Somogyi, and Partha Basu pp 756–757 DOI: 10.1021/ja017178l Supporting Info

Room-Temperature Assembly of Directional Carbon Nanotube Strings Jian Chen and Wayne A. Weimer pp 758–759 DOI: 10.1021/ja017384t Supporting Info

Organic Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes Vasilios Georgakilas, Konstantinos Kordatos, Maurizio Prato, Dirk M. Guldi, Michael Holzinger, and Andreas Hirsch pp 760–761 DOI: 10.1021/ja016954m Supporting Info

Pd-Catalyzed Ring-Opening Copolymerization of 2-Aryl-1-methylenecyclopropanes with CO to Afford Polyketones via Alternating Insertion of the Two Monomers and C−C Bond Activation of the Three-Membered Ring Sunwook Kim, Daisuke Takeuchi, and Kohtaro Osakada pp 762–763 DOI: 10.1021/ja017460s Supporting Info

Pd(II) Acts Simultaneously as a Lewis Acid and as a Transition-Metal Catalyst:  Synthesis of Cyclic Alkenyl Ethers from Acetylenic Aldehydes Naoki Asao, Tsutomu Nogami, Kumiko Takahashi, and Yoshinori Yamamoto pp 764–765 DOI: 10.1021/ja017366b Supporting Info

Mechanistic Study of Alcohol Oxidation by the Pd(OAc)2/O2/DMSO Catalyst System and Implications for the Development of Improved Aerobic Oxidation Catalysts Bradley A. Steinhoff, Shannon R. Fix, and Shannon S. Stahl pp 766–767 DOI: 10.1021/ja016806w Supporting Info

Determination and Tailoring the Pore Entrance Size in Ordered Silicas with Cage-like Mesoporous Structures Michal Kruk, Valentyn Antochshuk, Jivaldo R. Matos, Lucildes P. Mercuri, and Mietek Jaroniec pp 768–769 DOI: 10.1021/ja0170854

Redox-Active Nucleic-Acid Replica for the Amplified Bioelectrocatalytic Detection of Viral DNA Fernando Patolsky, Yossi Weizmann, and Itamar Willner pp 770–772 DOI: 10.1021/ja0119752

Biomimetic Synthesis of (−)-Longithorone A Mark E. Layton, Carl A. Morales, and Matthew D. Shair pp 773–775 DOI: 10.1021/ja016585u Supporting Info

Detection and Imaging of Zinc Secretion from Pancreatic β-Cells Using a New Fluorescent Zinc Indicator Kyle R. Gee, Zhang-Lin Zhou, Wei-Jun Qian, and Robert Kennedy pp 776–778 DOI: 10.1021/ja011774y Supporting Info

Cu-Catalyzed Asymmetric Conjugate Additions of Alkylzinc Reagents to Acyclic Aliphatic Enones Hirotake Mizutani, Sylvia J. Degrado, and Amir H. Hoveyda pp 779–781 DOI: 10.1021/ja0122849 Supporting Info

Binding of Hydrophobic Hydroxamic Acids Enhances Peroxidase's Stereoselectivity in Nonaqueous Sulfoxidations Prasanta Kumar Das, Jose M. M. Caaveiro, Susana Luque, and Alexander M. Klibanov pp 782–787 DOI: 10.1021/ja012075o

Spectroscopic Studies of Pyrococcus furiosus Superoxide Reductase:  Implications for Active-Site Structures and the Catalytic Mechanism Michael D. Clay, Francis E. Jenney, Jr., Peter L. Hagedoorn, Graham N. George, Michael W. W. Adams, and Michael K. Johnson pp 788–805 DOI: 10.1021/ja016889g Supporting Info

Dependence of the Rate of an Interfacial Diels−Alder Reaction on the Steric Environment of the Immobilized Dienophile:  An Example of Enthalpy−Entropy Compensation Youngeun Kwon and Milan Mrksich pp 806–812 DOI: 10.1021/ja010740n

Complexation and Chiral Recognition Thermodynamics of 6-Amino-6-deoxy-β-cyclodextrin with Anionic, Cationic, and Neutral Chiral Guests:  Counterbalance between van der Waals and Coulombic Interactions Mikhail V. Rekharsky and Yoshihisa Inoue pp 813–826 DOI: 10.1021/ja010889z Supporting Info

The Proline-Catalyzed Direct Asymmetric Three-Component Mannich Reaction:  Scope, Optimization, and Application to the Highly Enantioselective Synthesis of 1,2-Amino Alcohols Benjamin List, Peter Pojarliev, William T. Biller, and Harry J. Martin pp 827–833 DOI: 10.1021/ja0174231 Supporting Info

Structural Analysis of Metal Ion Ligation to Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids Using Pulsed EPR Spectroscopy Charles G. Hoogstraten, Christopher V. Grant, Thomas E. Horton, Victoria J. DeRose, and R. David Britt pp 834–842 DOI: 10.1021/ja0112238 Supporting Info

X-ray Structure Analysis and the Intervalent Electron Transfer in Organic Mixed-Valence Crystals with Bridged Aromatic Cation Radicals Sergey V. Lindeman, Sergiy V. Rosokha, Duoli Sun, and Jay K. Kochi pp 843–855 DOI: 10.1021/ja011579j Supporting Info

Ferrocene Encapsulated within Symmetric Dendrimers:  A Deeper Understanding of Dendritic Effects on Redox Potential Diane L. Stone, David K. Smith, and P. Terry McGrail pp 856–864 DOI: 10.1021/ja0117478

Determination of Carbon-13 Chemical Shielding Tensor in the Liquid State by Combining NMR Relaxation Experiments and Quantum Chemical Calculations O. Walker, P. Mutzenhardt, P. Tekely, and D. Canet pp 865–873 DOI: 10.1021/ja0166702 Supporting Info

Membrane Protein Topology Probed by 1H Spin Diffusion from Lipids Using Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy Daniel Huster, Xiaolan Yao, and Mei Hong pp 874–883 DOI: 10.1021/ja017001r

The Chemistry of Contrast Agents in Medical Magnetic Resonance Imaging Edited by André E. Merbach and Éva Tóth (University of Lausanne). J. Wiley & Sons:  Chichester, New York, Weinheim, Brisbane, Singapore, Toronto. 2001. xii + 472 pp. $160.00. ISBN:  0-471-60778-9 Michael F. Tweedle pp 884–885 DOI: 10.1021/ja0152963

Valid Analytical Methods and Procedures By Chris-topher Burgess (Burgess Consultancy, County Durham, U.K.). Royal Society of Chemistry:  Cambridge. 2000. viii + 88 pp. £29.50. ISBN:  0-85404-482-5. p 885 DOI: 10.1021/ja015330d

Medicinal Chemistry:  Into the Millennium Edited by Malcolm M. Campbell and Ian S. Blagbrough (University of Bath, U.K.). Royal Society of Chemistry:  Cambridge. 2001. x + 398 pp. £69.50. ISBN:  0-85404-769-7. p 885 DOI: 10.1021/ja0153316

Supported Catalysts and Their Applications Edited by D. C. Sherrington (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K.) and A. P. Kybett (Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, U.K.). Royal Society of Chemistry:  Cambridge. 2001. x + 270 pp. £69.70. ISBN:  0-85404-880-4 pp 885–886 DOI: 10.1021/ja015332y

Emerging Themes in Polymer Science. ETiPS Edited by A. J. Ryan (University of Sheffield). Royal Society of Chemistry:  Cambridge. 2001. x + 324 pp. £59.50. ISBN:  0-85404-890-1. p 886 DOI: 10.1021/ja015333q

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. Volume 52, 2001 Edited by Stephen R. Leone (University of Colorado at Boulder), Paul Alivisators (University of California, Berkeley), and Ann E. McDermott (Columbia University). Annual Reviews:  Palo Alto, CA. 2001. xvi + 942 pp. ISBN:  0-8243-1052-7 p 886 DOI: 10.1021/ja015334i

Plasma Source Mass Spectrometry:  The New Millennium Edited by Grenville Holland (University of Durham, UK) and Scott D. Tanner (PE-Sciex, Concord, Ontario, Canada). Royal Society of Chemistry:  Cambridge. 2001. x + 428 pp. £69.50. ISBN:  0-85404-895-2. p 886 DOI: 10.1021/ja015335a

Issue 06

Hydrothermally Stable Ordered Mesoporous Titanosilicates with Highly Active Catalytic Sites Feng-Shou Xiao, Yu Han, Yi Yu, Xiangju Meng, Miao Yang, and Shuo Wu pp 888–889 DOI: 10.1021/ja0170044 Supporting Info

Cold Denaturation of the Hammerhead Ribozyme Peter J. Mikulecky and Andrew L. Feig pp 890–891 DOI: 10.1021/ja016878n Supporting Info

Recognition-Mediated Assembly of Nanoparticles into Micellar Structures with Diblock Copolymers Benjamin L. Frankamp, Oktay Uzun, Faysal Ilhan, Andrew K. Boal, and Vincent M. Rotello pp 892–893 DOI: 10.1021/ja0170605 Supporting Info

From Achiral Porphyrins to Template-Imprinted Chiral Aggregates and Further. Self-Replication of Chiral Memory from Scratch Rosaria Lauceri, Antonio Raudino, Luigi Monsù Scolaro, Norberto Micali, and Roberto Purrello pp 894–895 DOI: 10.1021/ja017159b Supporting Info

Intermolecular Copper-Catalyzed Carbon−Hydrogen Bond Activation via Carbene Insertion M. Mar Díaz-Requejo, Tomás R. Belderraín, M. Carmen Nicasio, Swiatoslaw Trofimenko, and Pedro J. Pérez pp 896–897 DOI: 10.1021/ja016798j

Novel Isomerically Pure Tetrasubstituted Allylboronates:  Stereocontrolled Synthesis of α-Exomethylene γ-Lactones as Aldol-Like Adducts with a Stereogenic Quaternary Carbon Center Jason W. J. Kennedy and Dennis G. Hall pp 898–899 DOI: 10.1021/ja016391e Supporting Info

Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization from Cellulose Fibers at Ambient Temperature Anna Carlmark and Eva Malmström pp 900–901 DOI: 10.1021/ja016582h

NMR Characterization of Bronsted Acid Sites in Faujasitic Zeolites with Use of Perdeuterated Trimethylphosphine Oxide Murthy D. Karra, Kevin J. Sutovich, and Karl T. Mueller pp 902–903 DOI: 10.1021/ja017172w Supporting Info

Photoswitching of Cation Complexation with A Monoaza-crown Dithienylethene Photochrome Jean-Pierre Malval, Isabelle Gosse, Jean-Pierre Morand, and René Lapouyade pp 904–905 DOI: 10.1021/ja0167203

Indium(III) Chloride−Sodium Borohydride System:  A Convenient Radical Reagent for an Alternative to Tributyltin Hydride System Katsuyuki Inoue, Akemi Sawada, Ikuya Shibata, and Akio Baba pp 906–907 DOI: 10.1021/ja017537c Supporting Info

A Reduced Polyoxomolybdenum Borophosphate Anion Related to the Wells−Dawson Clusters Eddy Dumas, Catherine Debiemme-Chouvy, and Slavi C. Sevov pp 908–909 DOI: 10.1021/ja012352r Supporting Info

Differential Minor Groove Interactions between DNA Polymerase and Sugar Backbone of Primer and Template Strands Daniel Summerer and Andreas Marx pp 910–911 DOI: 10.1021/ja017244j Supporting Info

Coordination of Adenosylmethionine to a Unique Iron Site of the [4Fe-4S] of Pyruvate Formate-Lyase Activating Enzyme:  A Mössbauer Spectroscopic Study Carsten Krebs, William E. Broderick, Timothy F. Henshaw, Joan B. Broderick, and Boi Hanh Huynh pp 912–913 DOI: 10.1021/ja017562i

First Example of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes as Catalysts for Living Polymerization:  Organocatalytic Ring-Opening Polymerization of Cyclic Esters Eric F. Connor, Gregory W. Nyce, Matthew Myers, Andreas Möck, and James L. Hedrick pp 914–915 DOI: 10.1021/ja0173324

Kinetic Control of Proline Amide Rotamers:  Total Synthesis of trans,trans- and cis,cis-Ceratospongamide Shaojiang Deng and Jack Taunton pp 916–917 DOI: 10.1021/ja017160a Supporting Info

Production of Meiosis-Activating Sterols from Metabolically Engineered Yeast Ran Xu, William K. Wilson, and Seiichi P. T. Matsuda pp 918–919 DOI: 10.1021/ja0175542 Supporting Info

Cycloheptatrienyl Oxyallyl. An Observable Oxyallyl? B. Andes Hess, Jr. pp 920–921 DOI: 10.1021/ja0172823 Supporting Info

The Synthesis and Reactivity of a Molybdenum (IV) Stretched-Dihydrogen Complex Thomas M. Cameron, Carlos. G. Ortiz, Ion Ghiviriga, Khalil A. Abboud, and James M. Boncella pp 922–923 DOI: 10.1021/ja0169365 Supporting Info

Synthesis of (E)-1,2-Divinyl-1,2-diethynylethene (DVDEE) via the Palladium-Catalyzed Reaction of Conjugated Diynes. A New Building Block for Molecular Scaffolding Drexel H. Camacho, Shinichi Saito, and Yoshinori Yamamoto pp 924–925 DOI: 10.1021/ja017626p Supporting Info

CO2 Capture by a Task-Specific Ionic Liquid Eleanor D. Bates, Rebecca D. Mayton, Ioanna Ntai, and James H. Davis, Jr. pp 926–927 DOI: 10.1021/ja017593d

Crystal Structure of Double Helical Hexitol Nucleic Acids Ruben Declercq, Arthur Van Aerschot, Randy J. Read, Piet Herdewijn, and Luc Van Meervelt pp 928–933 DOI: 10.1021/ja016570w

Consistent Helicities from CD and Template t/c Data for N-Templated Polyalanines:  Progress toward Resolution of the Alanine Helicity Problem Robert J. Kennedy, Kwok-Yin Tsang, and Daniel S. Kemp pp 934–944 DOI: 10.1021/ja016285c Supporting Info

Solubilized, Spaced Polyalanines:  A Context-Free System for Determining Amino Acid α-Helix Propensities Justin S. Miller, Robert J. Kennedy, and Daniel S. Kemp pp 945–962 DOI: 10.1021/ja011726d Supporting Info

Fast Reduction of a Copper Center in Laccase by Nitric Oxide and Formation of a Peroxide Intermediate Jaume Torres, Dimitri Svistunenko, Bo Karlsson, Chris E. Cooper, and Michael T. Wilson pp 963–967 DOI: 10.1021/ja016107j

Quantitative Measurements of Recombinant HIV Surface Glycoprotein 120 Binding to Several Glycosphingolipids Expressed in Planar Supported Lipid Bilayers John C. Conboy, Katherine D. McReynolds, Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague, and S. Scott Saavedra pp 968–977 DOI: 10.1021/ja011225s Supporting Info

Copper(I)−Homoscorpionate Catalysts for the Preferential, Kinetically Controlled Cis Cyclopropanation of α-Olefins with Ethyl Diazoacetate M. Mar Díaz-Requejo, Ana Caballero, Tomás R. Belderraín, M. Carmen Nicasio, Swiatoslaw Trofimenko, and Pedro J. Pérez pp 978–983 DOI: 10.1021/ja011895y Supporting Info

The Role of the Achiral Template in Enantioselective Transformations. Radical Conjugate Additions to α-Methacrylates Followed by Hydrogen Atom Transfer Mukund P. Sibi and Justin B. Sausker pp 984–991 DOI: 10.1021/ja016839b Supporting Info

Langmuir−Blodgett Films of a Clay Mineral and Ruthenium(II) Complexes with a Noncentrosymmetric Structure Yasushi Umemura, Akihiko Yamagishi, Robert Schoonheydt, André Persoons, and Frans De Schryver pp 992–997 DOI: 10.1021/ja016005t

Oxo-Transfer Reaction from a Bis(μ-oxo)dicopper(III) Complex to Sulfides Masayasu Taki, Shinobu Itoh, and Shunichi Fukuzumi pp 998–1002 DOI: 10.1021/ja016023a Supporting Info

Metallacycles of Porphyrins as Building Blocks in the Construction of Higher Order Assemblies through Axial Coordination of Bridging Ligands:  Solution- and Solid-State Characterization of Molecular Sandwiches and Molecular Wires Elisabetta Iengo, Ennio Zangrando, Romina Minatel, and Enzo Alessio pp 1003–1013 DOI: 10.1021/ja016162s Supporting Info

Rhodium Chemzymes:  Michaelis−Menten Kinetics in Dirhodium(II) Carboxylate-Catalyzed Carbenoid Reactions Michael C. Pirrung, Hao Liu, and Andrew T. Morehead, Jr. pp 1014–1023 DOI: 10.1021/ja011599l Supporting Info

Synthesis and Spectroscopic Properties of Elongated Ruthenium Dihydrogen Complexes:  Temperature and Isotope Dependence of H−H Distances James K. Law, Heather Mellows, and D. Michael Heinekey pp 1024–1030 DOI: 10.1021/ja0118284

Synthesis and Characterization of Pt(CN-p-(C2H5)C6H4)2(CN)2, a Crystalline Vapoluminescent Compound That Detects Vapor-Phase Aromatic Hydrocarbons Carrie E. Buss and Kent R. Mann pp 1031–1039 DOI: 10.1021/ja011986v Supporting Info

Framework Stability of Nanoporous Inorganic Structures upon Template Extraction and Calcination:  A Theoretical Study of Gallophosphate Polymorphs Stéphanie Girard, Julian D. Gale, Caroline Mellot-Draznieks, and Gérard Férey pp 1040–1051 DOI: 10.1021/ja011378f

Synthesis of Zigzag-Chain and Cyclic-Octanuclear Calcium Complexes and Hexanuclear Bulky Aryl-Phosphate Sodium Complexes with Ortho-Amide Groups:  Structural Transformation Involving a Network of Inter- and Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds Akira Onoda, Yusuke Yamada, Taka-aki Okamura, Mototsugu Doi, Hitoshi Yamamoto, and Norikazu Ueyama pp 1052–1059 DOI: 10.1021/ja011457r Supporting Info

Mechanism of the Palladium-Catalyzed Metal−Carbon Bond Formation. A Dual Pathway for the Transmetalation Step Antonella Ricci, Francesco Angelucci, Mauro Bassetti, and Claudio Lo Sterzo pp 1060–1071 DOI: 10.1021/ja011644p Supporting Info

Selective Detection and Assignment of the Solution NMR Signals of Bacteriochlorophyll a in a Reconstituted Subunit of a Light-Harvesting Complex Zheng-Yu Wang, Yoshiyuki Muraoka, Masahiro Shimonaga, Masayuki Kobayashi, and Tsunenori Nozawa pp 1072–1078 DOI: 10.1021/ja0112994 Supporting Info

Nd−Fe−B Permanent Magnet Electrodes. Theoretical Evaluation and Experimental Demonstration of the Paramagnetic Body Forces Nicholas Leventis and Xuerong Gao pp 1079–1088 DOI: 10.1021/ja0121991 Supporting Info

Electronic Determinants of Photoacidity in Cyanonaphthols Noam Agmon, Wolfgang Rettig, and Christian Groth pp 1089–1096 DOI: 10.1021/ja003875m

Hybridization of DNA and PNA Molecular Beacons to Single-Stranded and Double-Stranded DNA Targets Heiko Kuhn, Vadim V. Demidov, James M. Coull, Mark J. Fiandaca, Brian D. Gildea, and Maxim D. Frank-Kamenetskii pp 1097–1103 DOI: 10.1021/ja0041324 Supporting Info

Solid-State Reaction Study of the Trans-to-cis Isomerization of (η5-C5H4Me)Re(CO)[P(OPh)3]Br2:  A New Mechanism for the Isomerization Reaction Robert S. Bogadi, Demetrius C. Levendis, and Neil J. Coville pp 1104–1110 DOI: 10.1021/ja010695j Supporting Info

Generalized Correlation NMR Spectroscopy Charles D. Eads and Isao Noda pp 1111–1118 DOI: 10.1021/ja011819v

A Fresh Look at Aromatic Dianions Thomas Sommerfeld pp 1119–1124 DOI: 10.1021/ja012013y

Relative Orientation of Quadrupole Tensors from Two-Dimensional Multiple-Quantum MAS NMR  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 8135−8136].  Nicholas G. Dowell, Sharon E. Ashbrook, Jamie McManus, and Stephen Wimperis p 1125 DOI: 10.1021/ja0151293

Lewis Acids in Organic Synthesis. Volumes 1 and 2 Edited by Hisashi Yamamoto (Nagoya University). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2000. xviii + 995 pp. $375.00. ISBN 3-527-29579-8. Tarek Sammakia p 1126 DOI: 10.1021/ja0152097

Reactions and Synthesis in Surfactant Systems. Surfactant Science Series. Volume 100 Edited by John Texter (Strider Research Corporation, Rochester, NY). Marcel Dekker:  New York, Basel. 2001. xii + 909 pp. $250.00. ISBN:  0-8247-0255-7 Ray von Wandruszka pp 1126–1127 DOI: 10.1021/ja015319d

The Law of Mass Action By Andrei B. Koudriavtsev (D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia), Reginald F. Jameson (University of Dundee), and Wolfgang Linert (Technical University Vienna). Springer-Verlag:  Berlin, Heidelberg, and New York. 2001. xiv + 328 pp. $74.95. ISBN 3-540-41078-3. Carl David p 1127 DOI: 10.1021/ja015294i

Chemical Properties of Material Surfaces By Marek Kosmulski (Technical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland). Surfactant Science Series. Volume 102. Edited by Arthur T. Hubbard (Santa Barbara Science Project, Santa Barbara, CA). Marcel Dekker, Inc.:  New York, Basel. 2001. viii + 754 pp. $225.00. ISBN:  0-8247-0560-2. p 1127 DOI: 10.1021/ja015337v

Calixarenes 2001 Edited by Zouhair Asfari (ECPM-ULP-CNRS, Strasbourg, France), Volker Böhmer (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany), Jack Harrowfield (UNA-ECPM, Perth, Australia), and Jacques Vicens (ECPM-ULP-CNRS, Strasbourg, France). Kluwer Academic Publishers:  Dordrecht. 2001. x + 684 pp. $182.00. ISBN:  0-7923-6960-2. Michael Lattman pp 1127–1128 DOI: 10.1021/ja015299f

Basic Organic Stereochemistry By Ernest L. Eliel (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Samuel H. Wilen (Formerly of City College of the City University of New York), Michael P. Doyle (University of Arizona). Wiley-Interscience:  New York. 2001. xvi + 688 pp. $79.95. 0-471-37499-7. Joseph J. Gajewski p 1128 DOI: 10.1021/ja015303n

Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology. 3rd edition Edited by Robert A. Meyers (Ramtech Limited, Tarzana, CA). Academic Press:  San Diego. 2001. 17 volume set plus a separate index volume. $2900 introductory price through January 31, 2002. $3750 list price thereafter. ISBN:  0-12-227410-5. p 1128 DOI: 10.1021/ja015309c

Issue 07

An Unexpected Bispericyclic Transition Structure Leading to 4+2 and 2+4 Cycloadducts in the Endo Dimerization of Cyclopentadiene Pierluigi Caramella, Paolo Quadrelli, and Lucio Toma pp 1130–1131 DOI: 10.1021/ja016622h Supporting Info

The Fate of Sulfur-Bound Hydrogen on Formation of Self-Assembled Thiol Monolayers on Gold:  1H NMR Spectroscopic Evidence from Solutions of Gold Clusters Masihul Hasan, Donald Bethell, and Mathias Brust pp 1132–1133 DOI: 10.1021/ja0120577 Supporting Info

Phenanthroline Complexes Bearing Fused Dipyrrolylquinoxaline Anion Recognition Sites:  Efficient Fluoride Anion Receptors. Toshihisa Mizuno, Wen-Hao Wei, Leah Renee Eller, and Jonathan L. Sessler pp 1134–1135 DOI: 10.1021/ja017298t Supporting Info

Isolation of Monomeric MnIII/II−OH and MnIII−O Complexes from Water:  Evaluation of O−H Bond Dissociation Energies Rajeev Gupta, Cora E. MacBeth, Victor G. Young, Jr., and A. S. Borovik pp 1136–1137 DOI: 10.1021/ja016741x Supporting Info

A New Fluorescent Biosensor for Inositol Trisphosphate Takashi Morii, Kenji Sugimoto, Keisuke Makino, Masami Otsuka, Keiji Imoto, and Yasuo Mori pp 1138–1139 DOI: 10.1021/ja016824d Supporting Info

Gemini-Induced Columnar Jointing in Vitreous Ice. Cryo-HRSEM as a Tool for Discovering New Colloidal Morphologies Fredric M. Menger, Hong Zhang, Kevin L. Caran, Victor A. Seredyuk, and Robert P. Apkarian pp 1140–1141 DOI: 10.1021/ja011754w

Ordered Morphologies in Polymeric Films Produced by Replication of Convection Patterns Shengqing Xu and Eugenia Kumacheva pp 1142–1143 DOI: 10.1021/ja011958c

Reactions of Zirconacyclopentadienes with CO, CN, and NN Moieties with Electron-Withdrawing Groups:  Formation of Six-Membered Heterocycles Tamotsu Takahashi, Yanzhong Li, Taichi Ito, Feng Xu, Kiyohiko Nakajima, and Yuanhong Liu pp 1144–1145 DOI: 10.1021/ja010678u Supporting Info

Bilayer Sample for Fast or Slow Magic Angle Oriented Sample Spinning Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy Christina Sizun and Burkhard Bechinger pp 1146–1147 DOI: 10.1021/ja016571o

Optimizing the Least Nucleophilic Anion. A New, Strong Methyl+ Reagent Daniel Stasko and Christopher A. Reed pp 1148–1149 DOI: 10.1021/ja0118800 Supporting Info

Room Temperature Solution Synthesis of Alkyl-Capped Tetrahedral Shaped Silicon Nanocrystals Richard K. Baldwin, Katherine A. Pettigrew, Jayne C. Garno, Phillip P. Power, Gang-yu Liu, and Susan M. Kauzlarich pp 1150–1151 DOI: 10.1021/ja017170b

The Direct Detection of a Hydrogen Bond in the Solid State by NMR through the Observation of a Hydrogen-Bond Mediated 15N−15N J Coupling Steven P. Brown, Marta Pérez-Torralba, Dionísia Sanz, Rosa María Claramunt, and Lyndon Emsley pp 1152–1153 DOI: 10.1021/ja0172262

Peptide Pinwheels David T. Kaleta and Martin F. Jarrold pp 1154–1155 DOI: 10.1021/ja012399c

Synthesis of Mesoporous Silicas of Controlled Pore Wall Thickness and Their Replication to Ordered Nanoporous Carbons with Various Pore Diameters Jae-Seung Lee, Sang Hoon Joo, and Ryong Ryoo pp 1156–1157 DOI: 10.1021/ja012333h Supporting Info

The First Halogen-Substituted Cyclotrigermenes:  A Unique Halogen Walk over the Three-Membered Ring Skeleton and Facial Stereoselectivity in the Diels−Alder Reaction Akira Sekiguchi, Yutaka Ishida, Norihisa Fukaya, and Masaaki IchinoheNozomi Takagi and Shigeru Nagase pp 1158–1159 DOI: 10.1021/ja012216m Supporting Info

A Site-Specific Low-Enrichment 15N,13C Isotope-Labeling Approach to Unambiguous NMR Spectral Assignments in Nucleic Acids Anh Tuân Phan and Dinshaw J. Patel pp 1160–1161 DOI: 10.1021/ja011977m Supporting Info

A Highly Active Suzuki Catalyst for the Synthesis of Sterically Hindered Biaryls:  Novel Ligand Coordination Jingjun Yin, Matthew P. Rainka, Xiao-Xiang Zhang, and Stephen L. Buchwald pp 1162–1163 DOI: 10.1021/ja017082r Supporting Info

Rhodium-Catalyzed, Regiospecific Functionalization of Polyolefins in the Melt Yuichiro Kondo, Domingo García-Cuadrado, John F. Hartwig, Nicole K. Boaen, Nicole L. Wagner, and Marc A. Hillmyer pp 1164–1165 DOI: 10.1021/ja016763j Supporting Info

A New Pathway for Hydroamination. Mechanism of Palladium-Catalyzed Addition of Anilines to Vinylarenes Ulrike Nettekoven and John F. Hartwig pp 1166–1167 DOI: 10.1021/ja017521m Supporting Info

A Concise Synthesis of the Fully Functional Lactide Core of Cycloviracin B with Implications for the Structural Assignment of Related Glycolipids Alois Fürstner, Martin Albert, Jacek Mlynarski, and Maribel Matheu pp 1168–1169 DOI: 10.1021/ja0175791 Supporting Info

Toward Inorganic Electrides Andrew S. Ichimura and James L. DyeMiguel A. Camblor and Luis A. Villaescusa pp 1170–1171 DOI: 10.1021/ja016554z

Enantioselective Organocatalytic Indole Alkylations. Design of a New and Highly Effective Chiral Amine for Iminium Catalysis Joel F. Austin and David W. C. MacMillan pp 1172–1173 DOI: 10.1021/ja017255c Supporting Info

Synthesis of β-Lactones:  A Highly Active and Selective Catalyst for Epoxide Carbonylation Yutan D. Y. L. Getzler, Viswanath Mahadevan, Emil B. Lobkovsky, and Geoffrey W. Coates pp 1174–1175 DOI: 10.1021/ja017434u Supporting Info

Catalytic Regioselective Introduction of Allyl Alcohol into the Nonpolar Polyolefins:  Development of One-Pot Synthesis of Hydroxyl-Capped Polyolefins Mediated by a New Metallocene IF Catalyst Jun-ichi Imuta and Norio KashiwaYoshihisa Toda pp 1176–1177 DOI: 10.1021/ja0174377 Supporting Info

Fluorescent Signaling Based on Control of Excited State Dynamics. Biarylacetylene Fluorescent Chemosensors Sherri A. McFarland and Nathaniel S. Finney pp 1178–1179 DOI: 10.1021/ja017309i Supporting Info

Direct Assignment of the Absolute Configuration of a Distinct Class of Deoxyribonucleoside Cyclic N-Acylphosphoramidites at Phosphorus by M-GOESY Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Andrzej Wilk, Andrzej Grajkowski, Thomas E. Bull, Ann M. Dixon, Darón I. Freedberg, and Serge L. Beaucage pp 1180–1181 DOI: 10.1021/ja017190d Supporting Info

Light-Harvesting Heptadecameric Porphyrin Assemblies Kenji Sugou, Ken Sasaki, Koji Kitajima, Toru Iwaki, and Yasuhisa Kuroda pp 1182–1183 DOI: 10.1021/ja017470t Supporting Info

Recognition of Polarized Lipid Bilayers by p-Oligophenyl Ion Channels:  From Push−Pull Rods to Push−Pull Barrels Naomi Sakai and Stefan Matile pp 1184–1185 DOI: 10.1021/ja017497c Supporting Info

Synthesis of Single-Crystalline Perovskite Nanorods Composed of Barium Titanate and Strontium Titanate Jeffrey J. Urban, Wan Soo Yun, Qian Gu, and Hongkun Park pp 1186–1187 DOI: 10.1021/ja017694b

Reversible Control of Enzymatic Transglycosylations in Supercritical Fluoroform Using a Lipid-Coated β-d-Galactosidase Toshiaki Mori, Ming Li, Atsushi Kobayashi, and Yoshio Okahata pp 1188–1189 DOI: 10.1021/ja0169522 Supporting Info

Trans-Hydrogen-Bond h2JNN and h1JNH Couplings in the DNA A−T Base Pair:  Natural Bond Orbital Analysis Steven J. Wilkens, William M. Westler, Frank Weinhold, and John L. Markley pp 1190–1191 DOI: 10.1021/ja017169c

The Molecular Mechanism of Stabilization of Proteins by TMAO and Its Ability to Counteract the Effects of Urea Qin Zou, Brian J. Bennion, Valerie Daggett, and Kenneth P. Murphy pp 1192–1202 DOI: 10.1021/ja004206b

Probing the Structural Determinants of Type II‘ β-Turn Formation in Peptides and Proteins Alan C. Gibbs, Trent C. Bjorndahl, Robert S. Hodges, and David S. Wishart pp 1203–1213 DOI: 10.1021/ja011005e Supporting Info

The Nature of the Intermediates in the Reactions of Fe(III)- and Mn(III)-Microperoxidase-8 with H2O2:  a Rapid Kinetics Study Jean-Louis Primus, Sylvie Grunenwald, Peter-Leon Hagedoorn, Anne-Marie Albrecht-Gary, Dominique Mandon, and Cees Veeger pp 1214–1221 DOI: 10.1021/ja016907u Supporting Info

Stability and Selectivity of Unnatural DNA with Five-Membered-Ring Nucleobase Analogues Markus Berger, Scott D. Luzzi, Allison A. Henry, and Floyd E. Romesberg pp 1222–1226 DOI: 10.1021/ja012090t

Phosphonate Lipid Tubules II Britt N. Thomas, Christopher M. Lindemann, Robert C. Corcoran, Casey L. Cotant, Janet E. Kirsch, and Phillip J. Persichini pp 1227–1233 DOI: 10.1021/ja012137a

A Novel Approach for Characterizing Protein Ligand Complexes:  Molecular Basis for Specificity of Small-Molecule Bcl-2 Inhibitors Alexey A. Lugovskoy, Alexei I. Degterev, Amr F. Fahmy, Pei Zhou, John D. Gross, Junying Yuan, and Gerhard Wagner pp 1234–1240 DOI: 10.1021/ja011239y

TreeDock:  A Tool for Protein Docking Based on Minimizing van der Waals Energies Amr Fahmy and Gerhard Wagner pp 1241–1250 DOI: 10.1021/ja011240x

First Systematic Band-Filling Control in Organic Conductors Hatsumi Mori, Masakazu Kamiya, Masamitsu Haemori, Hideaki Suzuki, Shoji Tanaka, Yutaka Nishio, Kohji Kajita, and Hiroshi Moriyama pp 1251–1260 DOI: 10.1021/ja010567v

An Improved Catalyst for the Asymmetric Arylation of Ketone Enolates Takayuki Hamada, André Chieffi, Jens Åhman, and Stephen L. Buchwald pp 1261–1268 DOI: 10.1021/ja011122+ Supporting Info

Supramolecular Organization of α,α‘-Disubstituted Sexithiophenes A. P. H. J. Schenning, A. F. M. Kilbinger, F. Biscarini, M. Cavallini, H. J. Cooper, P. J. Derrick, W. J. Feast, R. Lazzaroni, Ph. Leclère, L. A. McDonell, E. W. Meijer, and S. C. J. Meskers pp 1269–1275 DOI: 10.1021/ja0113403

Ring Scission of Diastereomeric 4-Butylspiropentylcarbinyl Radicals as a Chemical Model for Identifying Enzyme-Catalyzed FAD Adducts Resulting from Spiropentylacetyl-CoA Lev Lis, Elena S. Koltun, Hung-wen Liu, and Steven R. Kass pp 1276–1287 DOI: 10.1021/ja0114862 Supporting Info

Controlling Chemoselectivity in Vinyl and Allylic C−X Bond Activation with Palladium Catalysis:  A pKa-Based Electronic Switch Michael G. Organ, Elena A. Arvanitis, Craig E. Dixon, and Jeremy T. Cooper pp 1288–1294 DOI: 10.1021/ja011508k Supporting Info

Mechanistic Studies on the B(C6F5)3 Catalyzed Allylstannation of Aromatic Aldehydes with Ortho Donor Substituents James M. Blackwell, Warren E. Piers, and Robert McDonald pp 1295–1306 DOI: 10.1021/ja012028w Supporting Info

Highly Selective Hydrolytic Kinetic Resolution of Terminal Epoxides Catalyzed by Chiral (salen)CoIII Complexes. Practical Synthesis of Enantioenriched Terminal Epoxides and 1,2-Diols Scott E. Schaus, Bridget D. Brandes, Jay F. Larrow, Makoto Tokunaga, Karl B. Hansen, Alexandra E. Gould, Michael E. Furrow, and Eric N. Jacobsen pp 1307–1315 DOI: 10.1021/ja016737l Supporting Info

Stereochemistry of Lactide Polymerization with Chiral Catalysts:  New Opportunities for Stereocontrol Using Polymer Exchange Mechanisms Tina M. Ovitt and Geoffrey W. Coates pp 1316–1326 DOI: 10.1021/ja012052+ Supporting Info

Synthesis and Structural Characterization of the First Quaternary Plutonium Thiophosphates:  K3Pu(PS4)2 and APuP2S7 (A = K, Rb, Cs) Ryan F. Hess, Pamela L. Gordon, C. Drew Tait, Kent D. Abney, and Peter K. Dorhout pp 1327–1333 DOI: 10.1021/ja0108133 Supporting Info

Calix[6]arene-Based Cuprous “Funnel Complexes”:  A Mimic for the Substrate Access Channel to Metalloenzyme Active Sites Yannick Rondelez, Marie-Nolle Rager, Arthur Duprat, and Olivia Reinaud pp 1334–1340 DOI: 10.1021/ja0161958 Supporting Info

Calix[4]tubes:  A New Class of Potassium-Selective Ionophore Susan E. Matthews, Phillipe Schmitt, Vitor Felix, Michael G. B. Drew, and Paul D. Beer pp 1341–1353 DOI: 10.1021/ja011856m Supporting Info

Diversity-Oriented Synthesis of Biaryl-Containing Medium Rings Using a One Bead/One Stock Solution Platform David R. Spring, Shyam Krishnan, Helen E. Blackwell, and Stuart L. Schreiber pp 1354–1363 DOI: 10.1021/ja017248o Supporting Info

A New Class of Functionalized Terpyridyl Ligands as Building Blocks for Photosensitized Supramolecular Architectures. Synthesis, Structural, and Electronic Characterizations Philippe Lainé, Fethi Bedioui, Philippe Ochsenbein, Valérie Marvaud, Michel Bonin, and Edmond Amouyal pp 1364–1377 DOI: 10.1021/ja011069p Supporting Info

C−H Bond Activation by Cationic Platinum(II) Complexes:  Ligand Electronic and Steric Effects H. Annita Zhong, Jay A. Labinger, and John E. Bercaw pp 1378–1399 DOI: 10.1021/ja011189x Supporting Info

Electronic and Medium Effects on the Rate of Arene C−H Bond Activation by Cationic Ir(III) Complexes David M. Tellers, Cathleen M. Yung, Bruce A. Arndtsen, Dan R. Adamson, and Robert G. Bergman pp 1400–1410 DOI: 10.1021/ja011809u Supporting Info

Artificial Lamellar Mesostructures to WS2 Nanotubes Yadong D. Li, Xiaolin L. Li, Rongrui R. He, Jing Zhu, and Zhaoxiang X. Deng pp 1411–1416 DOI: 10.1021/ja012055m

Vibrational Progressions in the Valence Ionizations of Transition Metal Hydrides:  Evaluation of Metal-Hydride Bonding and Vibrations in (η5-C5R5)Re(NO)(CO)H [R = H, CH3] Dennis L. Lichtenberger, Nadine E. Gruhn, Anjana Rai-Chaudhuri, Sharon K. Renshaw, John A. Gladysz, Haijun Jiao, Jeff Seyler, and Alain Igau pp 1417–1423 DOI: 10.1021/ja0120227

Nucleation and Growth of Germanium Nanowires Seeded by Organic Monolayer-Coated Gold Nanocrystals Tobias Hanrath and Brian A. Korgel pp 1424–1429 DOI: 10.1021/ja016788i

Proton-Transfer Dynamics in the Activation of Cytochrome P450eryF Victor Guallar, Danni L. Harris, Victor S. Batista, and William H. Miller pp 1430–1437 DOI: 10.1021/ja016474v

Binding of Aminoglycoside Antibiotics to the Small Ribosomal Subunit:  A Continuum Electrostatics Investigation Chiansan Ma, Nathan A. Baker, Simpson Joseph, and J. Andrew McCammon pp 1438–1442 DOI: 10.1021/ja016830+ Supporting Info

Slow Internal Dynamics in Proteins:  Application of NMR Relaxation Dispersion Spectroscopy to Methyl Groups in a Cavity Mutant of T4 Lysozyme Frans A. A. Mulder, Bin Hon, Anthony Mittermaier, Frederick W. Dahlquist, and Lewis E. Kay pp 1443–1451 DOI: 10.1021/ja0119806

Structural Study of Three Isomers of Tm@C82 by 13C NMR Spectroscopy Takeshi Kodama, Norio Ozawa, Yoko Miyake, Koichi Sakaguchi, Hiroyuki Nishikawa, Isao Ikemoto, Koichi Kikuchi, and Yohji Achiba pp 1452–1455 DOI: 10.1021/ja005839t Supporting Info

Dihydroazulene/Vinylheptafulvene Photochromism:  A Model for One-Way Photochemistry via a Conical Intersection Martial Boggio-Pasqua, Michael J. Bearpark, Patricia A. Hunt, and Michael A. Robb pp 1456–1470 DOI: 10.1021/ja0161655 Supporting Info

Theoretical Study of Ammonia and Methane Activation by First-Row Transition Metal Cations M+ (M = Ti, V, Cr) Emilia Sicilia and Nino Russo pp 1471–1480 DOI: 10.1021/ja0112487

Carbon−Hydrogen Bond Activation by Titanium Imido Complexes. Computational Evidence for the Role of Alkane Adducts in Selective C−H Activation Thomas R. Cundari, Thomas R. Klinckman, and Peter T. Wolczanski pp 1481–1487 DOI: 10.1021/ja016248l

Self-Discrimination of Enantiomers in Hydrogen-Bonded Dimers Ibon Alkorta and Jose Elguero pp 1488–1493 DOI: 10.1021/ja011348c Supporting Info

On the Hardness Evaluation in Solvent for Neutral and Charged Systems G. De Luca, E. Sicilia, N. Russo, and T. Mineva pp 1494–1499 DOI: 10.1021/ja0116977

The Short N−F Bond in N2F+ and How Pauli Repulsion Influences Bond Lengths. Theoretical Study of N2X+, NF3X+, and NH3X+ (X = F, H) F. Matthias Bickelhaupt, Roger L. DeKock, and Evert Jan Baerends pp 1500–1505 DOI: 10.1021/ja0117837

Hydrogen Bond versus Polar Effects:  An Ab Initio Analysis on n → π* Absorption Spectra and N Nuclear Shieldings of Diazines in Solution Benedetta Mennucci pp 1506–1515 DOI: 10.1021/ja0118542 Supporting Info

How To Insulate a Reactive Site from a Perfluoroalkyl Group:  Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Calorimetric, and Computational Studies of Long-Range Electronic Effects in Fluorous Phosphines P((CH2)m(CF2)7CF3)3 Haijun Jiao, Sylvie Le Stang, Tibor Soós, Ralf Meier, Klaus Kowski, Paul Rademacher, Laleh Jafarpour, Jean-Benoit Hamard, Steven P. Nolan, and J. A. Gladysz pp 1516–1523 DOI: 10.1021/ja011877g Supporting Info

Dynamics of Energy Transfer in Peptide−Surface Collisions Oussama Meroueh and William L. Hase pp 1524–1531 DOI: 10.1021/ja011987n

Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Metallohosts To Give Discrete Nanostructures Johannes A. A. W. Elemans, Alan E. Rowan, and Roeland J. M. Nolte pp 1532–1540 DOI: 10.1021/ja012061i Supporting Info

Phosphorus Chemical Shift Tensors of Phosphido Ligands in Ruthenium Carbonyl Compounds:  31P NMR Spectroscopy of Single-Crystal and Powder Samples and ab Initio Calculations Klaus Eichele, Roderick E. Wasylishen, John F. Corrigan, Nicholas J. Taylor, Arthur J. Carty, Kirk W. Feindel, and Guy M. Bernard pp 1541–1552 DOI: 10.1021/ja0122041

Novel Role of Carbon Monoxide as a Lewis Acid Catalyst for Friedel-Crafts Reaction  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 8626−8627].  Sensuke Ogoshi, Hiromitsu Nakashima, Kazumasa Shimonaka, and Hideo Kurosawa p 1553 DOI: 10.1021/ja015126q

A Versatile New Method for the Synthesis of Cyclopentenones via an Unusual Rhodium-Catalyzed Intramolecular Trans Hydroacylation of an Alkyne  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 11492−11493].   Ken Tanaka and Gregory C. Fu p 1553 DOI: 10.1021/ja015128a

Multiple Electrochemical Impedance Spectra Parameterization (MEISP+). Version 2.0 Kumho Petrochemical Co. Ltd., Kumho Chemical Laboratories, P.O. Box 64, Yuseong, Taejeon, 305-600, Korea. Fax:  82 42 862 5651. http://powergraphy.com. Contact Kumho for price. David Harrington pp 1554–1555 DOI: 10.1021/ja015328m

KnowItAll Analytical System Bio-Rad Laboratories, Sadtler Division, 3316 Spring Garden St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104. www.sadtler.com. Courtney Sherman and Jennifer Brodbelt pp 1555–1556 DOI: 10.1021/ja015371+

Issue 08

Dramatic 5‘-Residue Effect on Conformer Distribution of Short Oligonucleotide Retro Models of the Cisplatin−DNA Cross-Link:  Implications for the Lippard and Cross-Link Distorted Base Pair Steps Present in Cisplatin−DNA Duplex Adducts Sharon T. Sullivan, Jamil S. Saad, Francesco P. Fanizzi, and Luigi G. Marzilli pp 1558–1559 DOI: 10.1021/ja0121742 Supporting Info

Moving beyond Molecules:  Patterning Solid-State Features via Dip-Pen Nanolithography with Sol-Based Inks Ming Su, Xiaogang Liu, Shu-You Li, Vinayak P. Dravid, and Chad A. Mirkin pp 1560–1561 DOI: 10.1021/ja012502y

Infrared Spectra of Gas-Phase V+−(Benzene) and V+−(Benzene)2 Complexes D. van Heijnsbergen, G. von Helden, G. Meijer, P. Maitre, and M. A. Duncan pp 1562–1563 DOI: 10.1021/ja0175340

Copper-Based Bioinspired Oxygenation and Glyoxalase-Like Reactivity Dana Diaconu, Zhengbo Hu, and Sergiu M. Gorun pp 1564–1565 DOI: 10.1021/ja0168458 Supporting Info

Influence of Regio- and Stereoregularity of Propene Insertion on Crystallization Behavior and Elasticity of Ethene−Propene Copolymers Gaetano Guerra, Maurizio Galimberti, Fabrizio Piemontesi, and Odda Ruiz de Ballesteros pp 1566–1567 DOI: 10.1021/ja017199f Supporting Info

Redox-Active Metal-Containing Nucleotides:  Synthesis, Tunability, and Enzymatic Incorporation into DNA Haim Weizman and Yitzhak Tor pp 1568–1569 DOI: 10.1021/ja017193q Supporting Info

A Theoretical Study of β-Sheet Models:  Is the Formation of Hydrogen-Bond Networks Cooperative? Yi-Lei Zhao and Yun-Dong Wu pp 1570–1571 DOI: 10.1021/ja016230a Supporting Info

Two Unusual, Competitive Mechanisms for (2-Ethynylphenyl)triazene Cyclization:  Pseudocoarctate versus Pericyclic Reactivity David B. Kimball, Rainer Herges, and Michael M. Haley pp 1572–1573 DOI: 10.1021/ja017227u Supporting Info

Pentacyclic Laddersiloxane Masafumi Unno, Akiko Suto, and Hideyuki Matsumoto pp 1574–1575 DOI: 10.1021/ja0173876 Supporting Info

Self-Assembled Monolayers of Alkanethiolates on Palladium Are Good Etch Resists J. Christopher Love, Daniel B. Wolfe, Michael L. Chabinyc, Kateri E. Paul, and George M. Whitesides pp 1576–1577 DOI: 10.1021/ja012569l Supporting Info

Enantioselective Staudinger Synthesis of β-Lactams Catalyzed by a Planar-Chiral Nucleophile1 Brian L. Hodous and Gregory C. Fu pp 1578–1579 DOI: 10.1021/ja012427r Supporting Info

The Metathesis-Facilitated Synthesis of Terminal Ruthenium Carbide Complexes:  A Unique Carbon Atom Transfer Reaction Robert G. Carlson, Melanie A. Gile, Joseph A. Heppert, Mark H. Mason, Douglas R. Powell, David Vander Velde, and Joseph M. Vilain pp 1580–1581 DOI: 10.1021/ja017088g Supporting Info

A Smart Photochromophore through Synergistic Coupling of Photochromic Subunits Weili Zhao and Erick M. Carreira pp 1582–1583 DOI: 10.1021/ja017291b Supporting Info

Asymmetric Synthesis of 1-Aryl-1,2-ethanediols from Arylacetylenes by Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrosilylation as a Key Step Toyoshi Shimada, Kotaro Mukaide, Akihiro Shinohara, Jin Wook Han, and Tamio Hayashi pp 1584–1585 DOI: 10.1021/ja017617g Supporting Info

Selective Pd-Catalyzed Oxidative Coupling of Anilides with Olefins through C−H Bond Activation at Room Temperature Maarten D. K. Boele, Gino P. F. van Strijdonck, André H. M. de Vries, Paul C. J. Kamer, Johannes G. de Vries, and Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen pp 1586–1587 DOI: 10.1021/ja0176907 Supporting Info

Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy and Structurally Encoded Imaging by Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy of Quadrupolar Spin Systems Rieko Verhagen, Alexander Wittlin, Cees W. Hilbers, Herman van Kempen, and Arno P. M. Kentgens pp 1588–1589 DOI: 10.1021/ja017693j

Development of a Highly Efficient Catalytic Method for Synthesis of Vinyl Ethers Yoshio Okimoto, Satoshi Sakaguchi, and Yasutaka Ishii pp 1590–1591 DOI: 10.1021/ja0173932 Supporting Info

Mesostructured Forms of γ-Al2O3 Zhaorong Zhang, Randall W. Hicks, Thomas R. Pauly, and Thomas J. Pinnavaia pp 1592–1593 DOI: 10.1021/ja016974o

A Combinatorial Scaffold Approach toward Kinase-Directed Heterocycle Libraries Sheng Ding, Nathanael S. Gray, Xu Wu, Qiang Ding, and Peter G. Schultz pp 1594–1596 DOI: 10.1021/ja0170302 Supporting Info

Novel Superstructure of Nondiscoid Mesogens:  Uneven-Parallel Association of Half-Disk Molecules, 3,4,5-Trialkoxybenzoic Anhydrides, to a Columnar Structure and Its One-Directionally Geared Interdigitation Keiki Kishikawa, Shigetaka Furusawa, Takahiro Yamaki, Shigeo Kohmoto, Makoto Yamamoto, and Kentaro Yamaguchi pp 1597–1605 DOI: 10.1021/ja012156k Supporting Info

Ketopremithramycins and Ketomithramycins, Four New Aureolic Acid-Type Compounds Obtained upon Inactivation of Two Genes Involved in the Biosynthesis of the Deoxysugar Moieties of the Antitumor Drug Mithramycin by Streptomyces Argillaceus, Reveal Novel Insights into Post-PKS Tailoring Steps of the Mithramycin Biosynthetic Pathway Lily L. Remsing, Jose Garcia-Bernardo, Ana Gonzalez, Eva Künzel, Uwe Rix, Alfredo F. Braña, Daniel W. Bearden, Carmen Méndez, Jose A. Salas, and Jürgen Rohr pp 1606–1614 DOI: 10.1021/ja0105156

Control of Multivalent Interactions by Binding Epitope Density Christopher W. Cairo, Jason E. Gestwicki, Motomu Kanai, and Laura L. Kiessling pp 1615–1619 DOI: 10.1021/ja016727k Supporting Info

Design of a Conformationally Restricted Analogue of the Antiepilepsy Drug Vigabatrin that Directs Its Mechanism of Inactivation of γ-Aminobutyric Acid Aminotransferase Sun Choi, Paola Storici, Tilman Schirmer, and Richard B. Silverman pp 1620–1624 DOI: 10.1021/ja011968d

Site-Specific Probing of Oxidative Reactivity and Telomerase Function Using 7,8-Dihydro-8-oxoguanine in Telomeric DNA Veronika A. Szalai, Melissa J. Singer, and H. Holden Thorp pp 1625–1631 DOI: 10.1021/ja0119651 Supporting Info

Efficient Sialyltransferase Inhibitors Based on Glycosides of N-Acetylglucosamine Ralf Schwörer and Richard R. Schmidt pp 1632–1637 DOI: 10.1021/ja017370n Supporting Info

Investigation of the Mechanism of n-Butane Oxidation on Vanadium Phosphorus Oxide Catalysts:  Evidence from Isotopic Labeling Studies Bin Chen and Eric J. Munson pp 1638–1652 DOI: 10.1021/ja010285v

Design and Synthesis of an Enzyme-Cleavable Sensor Molecule for Phosphodiesterase Activity Based on Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Hideo Takakusa, Kazuya Kikuchi, Yasuteru Urano, Shigeru Sakamoto, Kentaro Yamaguchi, and Tetsuo Nagano pp 1653–1657 DOI: 10.1021/ja011251q

The Formation of Polymer Vesicles or “Peptosomes” by Polybutadiene-block-poly(l-glutamate)s in Dilute Aqueous Solution Hildegard Kukula, Helmut Schlaad, Markus Antonietti, and Stephan Förster pp 1658–1663 DOI: 10.1021/ja012091l

Stereocontrolled Synthesis of (−)-Macrolactin A Joseph P. Marino, Michael S. McClure, David P. Holub, João V. Comasseto, and Fabío C. Tucci pp 1664–1668 DOI: 10.1021/ja017177t Supporting Info

Substituent Effects in Carbon−Nitrogen Cleavage of Thiamin Derivatives. Fragmentation Pathways and Enzymic Avoidance of Cofactor Destruction Ian F. Moore and Ronald Kluger pp 1669–1673 DOI: 10.1021/ja0173627

Direct Observation of Aldehyde Insertion into Rhodium−Aryl and −Alkoxide Complexes Christopher Krug and John F. Hartwig pp 1674–1679 DOI: 10.1021/ja017401e Supporting Info

Six-Coordinate and Five-Coordinate FeII(CN)2(CO)x Thiolate Complexes (x = 1, 2):  Synthetic Advances for Iron Sites of [NiFe] Hydrogenases Wen-Feng Liaw, Jiun-Hung Lee, Hung-Bin Gau, Chien-Hong Chen, Shiou-Ju Jung, Chen-Hsiung Hung, Wen-Yuan Chen, Ching-Han Hu, and Gene-Hsiang Lee pp 1680–1688 DOI: 10.1021/ja011504f Supporting Info

Re2(CO)10-Promoted S-Binding, C−S Bond Cleavage, and Hydrogenation of Benzothiophenes:  Organometallic Models for the Hydrodesulfurization of Thiophenes Michael A. Reynolds, Ilia A. Guzei, and Robert J. Angelici pp 1689–1697 DOI: 10.1021/ja011725l Supporting Info

Reaction of Nitrogen Monoxide with a Macrocyclic Superoxorhodium(III) Complex Produces an Observable Nitratorhodium Intermediate Oleg Pestovsky and Andreja Bakac pp 1698–1703 DOI: 10.1021/ja016747m

Sandia Octahedral Molecular Sieves (SOMS):  Structural and Property Effects of Charge-Balancing the MIV-Substituted (M = Ti, Zr) Niobate Framework May Nyman, Akhilesh Tripathi, John B. Parise, Robert S. Maxwell, and Tina M. Nenoff pp 1704–1713 DOI: 10.1021/ja017081z

Bimetallic Reactivity. One-Site Addition Two-Metal Oxidation Reaction of Dioxygen with a Bimetallic Dicobalt(II) Complex Bearing Five- and Six-Coordinate Sites Anna L. Gavrilova, C. Jin Qin, Roger D. Sommer, Arnold L. Rheingold, and B. Bosnich pp 1714–1722 DOI: 10.1021/ja012386z Supporting Info

A Supramolecular Microfluidic Optical Chemosensor Christina M. Rudzinski, Albert M. Young, and Daniel G. Nocera pp 1723–1727 DOI: 10.1021/ja010176g Supporting Info

Carbene Formation in Its Lower Singlet State from Photoexcited 3H-Diazirine or Diazomethane. A Combined CASPT2 and ab Initio Direct Dynamics Trajectory Study Juan F. Arenas, Isabel López-Tocón, Juan C. Otero, and Juan Soto pp 1728–1735 DOI: 10.1021/ja010750o Supporting Info

Coherent Effects in Energy Transport in Model Dendritic Structures Investigated by Ultrafast Fluorescence Anisotropy Spectroscopy Oleg P. Varnavski, Jacek C. Ostrowski, Ludmila Sukhomlinova, Robert J. Twieg, Guillermo C. Bazan, and Theodore Goodson III pp 1736–1743 DOI: 10.1021/ja011038u

Exchange Interactions in the Three Phases of Vanadyl Pyrophosphate (VO)2P2O7 Sébastien Petit, Serguei A. Borshch, and Vincent Robert pp 1744–1749 DOI: 10.1021/ja011812d

Modeling the Active Site of Cytochrome Oxidase:  Synthesis and Characterization of a Cross-Linked Histidine−Phenol Jenny A. Cappuccio, Idelisa Ayala, Gregory I. Elliott, Istvan Szundi, James Lewis, Joseph P. Konopelski, Bridgette A. Barry, and Ólöf Einarsdóttir pp 1750–1760 DOI: 10.1021/ja011852h

Solvent Dependence of the 2-Naphthyl(carbomethoxy)carbene Singlet−Triplet Energy Gap Yuhong Wang, Christopher M. Hadad, and John P. Toscano pp 1761–1767 DOI: 10.1021/ja012139v Supporting Info

A Solid-State 17O Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of Nucleic Acid Bases Gang Wu, Shuan Dong, Ramsey Ida, and Nitin Reen pp 1768–1777 DOI: 10.1021/ja011625f

Oxygen as a Paramagnetic Probe of Membrane Protein Structure by Cysteine Mutagenesis and 19F NMR Spectroscopy Paul A. Luchette, R. Scott Prosser, and Charles R. Sanders pp 1778–1781 DOI: 10.1021/ja016748e

Supramolecular Gold Nanoparticles for the Redox Recognition of Oxoanions:  Syntheses, Titrations, Stereoelectronic Effects, and Selectivity Agnès Labande, Jaime Ruiz, and Didier Astruc pp 1782–1789 DOI: 10.1021/ja017015x Supporting Info

A Molecular Electrostatic Potential Bond Critical Point Model for Atomic and Group Electronegativities Cherumuttathu H. Suresh and Nobuaki Koga pp 1790–1797 DOI: 10.1021/ja017122r

Catalytic Mechanism of Heme Oxygenase through EPR and ENDOR of Cryoreduced Oxy-Heme Oxygenase and Its Asp 140 Mutants Roman Davydov, Viktoria Kofman, Hiroshi Fujii, Tadashi Yoshida, Masao Ikeda-Saito, and Brian M. Hoffman pp 1798–1808 DOI: 10.1021/ja0122391

Role of Protein Flexibility in Enzymatic Catalysis:  Quantum Mechanical−Molecular Mechanical Study of the Deacylation Reaction in Class A β-Lactamases Raquel Castillo, Estanislao Silla, and Iñaki Tuñón pp 1809–1816 DOI: 10.1021/ja017156z

Molten Gallium as a Catalyst for the Large-Scale Growth of Highly Aligned Silica Nanowires Zheng Wei Pan, Zu Rong Dai, Chris Ma, and Zhong L. Wang pp 1817–1822 DOI: 10.1021/ja017284n

On the Regioselectivity of the Cyclization of Enyne−Ketenes:  A Computational Investigation and Comparison with the Myers-Saito and Schmittel Reaction Patrick W. Musch, Christian Remenyi, Holger Helten, and Bernd Engels pp 1823–1828 DOI: 10.1021/ja017532f Supporting Info

Applications of Reference Materials in Analytical Chemistry By Vicki Barwick, Shaun Burke, Richard Lawn, Peter Roper, and Ron Walker (Laboratory of the Government Chemist, Teddington, U.K.). Royal Society of Chemistry:  Cambridge. 2001. xii + 148 pp. £59.50. ISBN:  0-85404-448-5. p 1829 DOI: 10.1021/ja015345b

Advances in Quantum Chemistry. New Perspectives in Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics, Part 1. Volume 39 Edited by John R. Sabin (University of Florida) and Erkki Brändas (Uppsala University). Academic Press:  San Diego. 2001. xxxii + 382 pp. $155.00. ISBN:  0-12-034839-X. p 1829 DOI: 10.1021/ja015349g

Organic Reactions. Vol. 57 Editor-in-Chief:  Larry E. Overman (University of California, Irvine). Wiley:  New York. 2001. x + 694 pp. $125.00. ISBN:  0-471-43511-2. p 1829 DOI: 10.1021/ja015353s

Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry II. Recommendations 2000 Edited by J. A. McCleverty and N. G. Connelly (University of Bristol). Royal Society of Chemistry (for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry):  Cambridge. 2001. x + 130 pp. £39.50. ISBN 0-85404-487-6. p 1829 DOI: 10.1021/ja015354k

Bioactive Fibers and Polymers Edited by J. Vincent Edwards and Tyrone L. Bigo (U.S. Department of Agriculture). American Chemical Society:  Washington DC (Distributed by Oxford Univ. Press). 2001. x + 332 pp. $125.00. ISBN:  0-8412-3714-X. pp 1829–1830 DOI: 10.1021/ja0153565

Infrared and Raman Characteristic Group Frequencies:  Tables and Charts. 3rd ed By George Socrates (The University of West London, Middlesex, U.K.). J. Wiley and Sons:  Chichester. 2001. xviii + 348 pp. $185.00. ISBN:  0-471-85298-8. p 1830 DOI: 10.1021/ja0153520

Issue 09

Calculations of the Contribution of Ring Currents to the Chemical Shielding Anisotropy Jonathan Boyd and Nikolai R. Skrynnikov pp 1832–1833 DOI: 10.1021/ja016476f

New Phosphate Fluorosurfactants for Carbon Dioxide Jason S. Keiper, Ruma Simhan, and Joseph M. DeSimoneGeorge D. Wignall and Yuri B. MelnichenkoHenrich Frielinghaus pp 1834–1835 DOI: 10.1021/ja0122142 Supporting Info

Adding l-3-(2-Naphthyl)alanine to the Genetic Code of E. coli Lei Wang, Ansgar Brock, and Peter G. Schultz pp 1836–1837 DOI: 10.1021/ja012307j

Toward Synthetic Transcription Activators:  Recruitment of Transcription Factors to DNA by a PNA-Peptide Chimera Bo Liu, Ying Han, David R. Corey, and Thomas Kodadek pp 1838–1839 DOI: 10.1021/ja0164226 Supporting Info

The Effect of Varied Ion Distributions on Long-Range DNA Charge Transport Tashica T. Williams and Jacqueline K. Barton pp 1840–1841 DOI: 10.1021/ja012217e

A Highly Enantioselective Amino Acid-Catalyzed Route to Functionalized α-Amino Acids Armando Córdova, Wolfgang Notz, Guofu Zhong, Juan M. Betancort, and Carlos F. Barbas III pp 1842–1843 DOI: 10.1021/ja017270h Supporting Info

Microsomal P450-Catalyzed N-Dealkylation of N,N-Dialkylanilines:  Evidence for a Cα−H Abstraction Mechanism Mehul N. Bhakta and Kandatege Wimalasena pp 1844–1845 DOI: 10.1021/ja011041d

Protein Dynamics and Cytochrome c:  Correlations between Ligand Vibrations and Redox Activity Jodie K. Chin, Ralph Jimenez, and Floyd E. Romesberg pp 1846–1847 DOI: 10.1021/ja012312n Supporting Info

SCMTR:  A Chloride-Selective, Membrane-Anchored Peptide Channel that Exhibits Voltage Gating Paul H. Schlesinger, Riccardo Ferdani, Jun Liu, Jolanta Pajewska, Robert Pajewski, Mitsuyoshi Saito, Hossein Shabany, and George W. Gokel pp 1848–1849 DOI: 10.1021/ja016784d

Biocatalytic Route to Well-Defined Macromers Built around a Sugar Core Rajesh Kumar and Richard A. Gross pp 1850–1851 DOI: 10.1021/ja012262m Supporting Info

An Effective Method for the Discrimination of Motional Anisotropy and Chemical Exchange Julie M. Kneller, Min Lu, and Clay Bracken pp 1852–1853 DOI: 10.1021/ja017461k Supporting Info

Diazo Group Electrophilicity in Kinamycins and Lomaiviticin A:  Potential Insights into the Molecular Mechanism of Antibacterial and Antitumor Activity Radoslaw S. Laufer and Gary I. Dmitrienko pp 1854–1855 DOI: 10.1021/ja0167809 Supporting Info

The Synthesis and Biological Characterization of a Ceramide Library Young-Tae Chang, Jaehwa Choi, Sheng Ding, Eva E. Prieschl, Thomas Baumruker, Jae-Mok Lee, Sung-Kee Chung, and Peter G. Schultz pp 1856–1857 DOI: 10.1021/ja017576o Supporting Info

Can Chiral Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes Be Used as Enantiospecific Adsorbents? Timothy D. Power, Anastasios I. Skoulidas, and David S. Sholl pp 1858–1859 DOI: 10.1021/ja017585x

Unexpected Substituent Effects in Offset π−π Stacked Interactions in Water Mark J. Rashkin and Marcey L. Waters pp 1860–1861 DOI: 10.1021/ja016508z Supporting Info

A Rationally Designed Genotoxin that Selectively Destroys Estrogen Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer Cells Kaushik Mitra, John C. Marquis, Shawn M. Hillier, Peter T. Rye, Beatriz Zayas, Annie S. Lee, John M. Essigmann, and Robert G. Croy pp 1862–1863 DOI: 10.1021/ja017344p Supporting Info

Catalytic Dealkylation of Phosphates with Binuclear Boron Compounds Timothy S. Keizer, Lauren J. De Pue, Sean Parkin, and David A. Atwood pp 1864–1865 DOI: 10.1021/ja017360m Supporting Info

A Highly Enantioselective Route to Either Enantiomer of Both α- and β-Amino Acid Derivatives Armando Córdova, Shin-ichi Watanabe, Fujie Tanaka, Wolfgang Notz, and Carlos F. Barbas, III pp 1866–1867 DOI: 10.1021/ja017833p Supporting Info

Genius:  A Genetic Algorithm for Automated Structure Elucidation from 13C NMR Spectra Jens Meiler and Martin Will pp 1868–1870 DOI: 10.1021/ja0109388

Nonaqueous Biocatalytic Synthesis of New Cytotoxic Doxorubicin Derivatives:  Exploiting Unexpected Differences in the Regioselectivity of Salt-Activated and Solubilized Subtilisin David H. Altreuter, Jonathan S. Dordick, and Douglas S. Clark pp 1871–1876 DOI: 10.1021/ja015977y Supporting Info

Photoregulation of DNA Triplex Formation by Azobenzene Xingguo Liang, Hiroyuki Asanuma, and Makoto Komiyama pp 1877–1883 DOI: 10.1021/ja011988f Supporting Info

Influence of Backbone Conformation on Protein Aggregation Sampath Srisailam, Thallampuranam Krishnaswamy S. Kumar, Thiagarajan Srimathi, and Chin Yu pp 1884–1888 DOI: 10.1021/ja012070r

An Experimental and Computational Investigation of the Enantioselective Deprotonation of Boc-piperidine William F. Bailey, Peter Beak, Shawn T. Kerrick, Sunghoon Ma, and Kenneth B. Wiberg pp 1889–1896 DOI: 10.1021/ja012169y Supporting Info

Efficient Photoacids Based upon Triarylamine Dialkylsulfonium Salts Wenhui Zhou, Stephen M. Kuebler, Dave Carrig, Joseph W. Perry, and Seth R. Marder pp 1897–1901 DOI: 10.1021/ja011186k Supporting Info

Quantitative Evaluation of Weak Nonbonded Se···F Interactions and Their Remarkable Nature as Orbital Interactions Michio Iwaoka, Hiroto Komatsu, Takayuki Katsuda, and Shuji Tomoda pp 1902–1909 DOI: 10.1021/ja016348r

Bioinspired Growth of Crystalline Carbonate Apatite on Biodegradable Polymer Substrata William L. Murphy and David J. Mooney pp 1910–1917 DOI: 10.1021/ja012433n

Measurement of the Hydride Donor Abilities of [HM(diphosphine)2]+ Complexes (M = Ni, Pt) by Heterolytic Activation of Hydrogen Calvin J. Curtis, Alex Miedaner, William W. Ellis, and Daniel L. DuBois pp 1918–1925 DOI: 10.1021/ja0116829

Hydride Donor Abilities and Bond Dissociation Free Energies of Transition Metal Formyl Complexes William W. Ellis, Alex Miedaner, Calvin J. Curtis, Dorothy H. Gibson, and Daniel L. DuBois pp 1926–1932 DOI: 10.1021/ja0116831

Interaction of Biotin with Mg−O Bonds:  Bifunctional Binding and Recognition of Biotin and Related Ligands by the Mg(15-crown-5)2+ Unit Elizabeth R. Sanchez, Mary C. Gessel, Thomas L. Groy, and M. Tyler Caudle pp 1933–1940 DOI: 10.1021/ja016641r Supporting Info

Formation and Characterization of Carbon Monoxide Adducts of Iron “Twin Coronet” Porphyrins. Extremely Low CO Affinity and a Strong Negative Polar Effect on Bound CO Mikiya Matsu-ura, Fumito Tani, and Yoshinori Naruta pp 1941–1950 DOI: 10.1021/ja011963g Supporting Info

Structural Modulation of Molybdenyl Iodate Architectures by Alkali Metal Cations in AMoO3(IO3) (A = K, Rb, Cs):  A Facile Route to New Polar Materials with Large SHG Responses Richard E. Sykora, Kang Min Ok, P. Shiv Halasyamani, and Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt pp 1951–1957 DOI: 10.1021/ja012190z Supporting Info

Hydrogen and Higher Shell Contributions in Zn2+, Ni2+, and Co2+ Aqueous Solutions:  An X-ray Absorption Fine Structure and Molecular Dynamics Study Paola D'Angelo, Vincenzo Barone, Giovanni Chillemi, Nico Sanna, Wolfram Meyer-Klaucke, and Nicolae Viorel Pavel pp 1958–1967 DOI: 10.1021/ja015685x

Development and Validation of an Integrated Computational Approach for the Study of Ionic Species in Solution by Means of Effective Two-Body Potentials. The Case of Zn2 +, Ni2 +, and Co2 + in Aqueous Solutions Giovanni Chillemi, Paola D'Angelo, Nicolae Viorel Pavel, Nico Sanna, and Vincenzo Barone pp 1968–1976 DOI: 10.1021/ja015686p

Preparation and Photophysical Studies of a Fluorous Phase-Soluble Fullerene Derivative Stephen R. Wilson, Michael E. Yurchenko, David I. Schuster, Eduard N. Yurchenko, Olga Sokolova, Silvia E. Braslavsky, and Gudrun Klihm pp 1977–1981 DOI: 10.1021/ja0119200

Modern Spectrum Analysis in Multidimensional NMR Spectroscopy:  Comparison of Linear-Prediction Extrapolation and Maximum-Entropy Reconstruction Alan S. Stern, Kuo-Bin Li, and Jeffrey C. Hoch pp 1982–1993 DOI: 10.1021/ja011669o

Production, Analysis, and Application of Spatially Resolved Shells in Solid-Phase Polymer Spheres Richard A. Farrer, Gregory T. Copeland, Michael J. R. Previte, Mariko M. Okamoto, Scott J. Miller, and John T. Fourkas pp 1994–2003 DOI: 10.1021/ja011675k

Multichannel Digital Transmission in an Optical Network of Communicating Molecules Françisco M. Raymo and Silvia Giordani pp 2004–2007 DOI: 10.1021/ja016920e

The Leap-Frog Effect of Ring Currents in Benzene Andrea Ligabue, Alessandro Soncini, and Paolo Lazzeretti pp 2008–2014 DOI: 10.1021/ja015952z

Efficient Photocyclization of Dithienylethene Dimer, Trimer, and Tetramer:  Quantum Yield and Reaction Dynamics Teruaki Kaieda, Seiya Kobatake, Hiroshi Miyasaka, Masataka Murakami, Nobuyuki Iwai, Yasushi Nagata, Akira Itaya, and Masahiro Irie pp 2015–2024 DOI: 10.1021/ja0115722

pH and pK Determinations by High-Resolution Solid-State 13C NMR:  Acid−Base and Tautomeric Equilibria of Lyophilized l-Histidine Bernard Henry, Piotr Tekely, and Jean-Jacques Delpuech pp 2025–2034 DOI: 10.1021/ja011638t Supporting Info

An ab Initio Quantum-Chemical Study of the Blue-Copper Site of Azurin M. van Gastel, J. W. A. Coremans, H. Sommerdijk, M. C. van Hemert, and E. J. J. Groenen pp 2035–2041 DOI: 10.1021/ja0028166 Supporting Info

Multiexponential Electronic Spin Relaxation and Redfield's Limit in Gd(III) Complexes in Solution:  Consequences for 17O/1H NMR and EPR Simultaneous Analysis Alain Borel, Fabrice Yerly, Lothar Helm, and André E. Merbach pp 2042–2048 DOI: 10.1021/ja016919f Supporting Info

Control of Photoluminescence Properties of CdSe Nanocrystals in Growth Lianhua Qu and Xiaogang Peng pp 2049–2055 DOI: 10.1021/ja017002j Supporting Info

Noncovalent Binding of Sensitizers for Lanthanide(III) Luminescence in an EDTA-bis(β-cyclodextrin) Ligand Jasper J. Michels, Jurriaan Huskens, and David N. Reinhoudt pp 2056–2064 DOI: 10.1021/ja017025y

The Aromaticity of Pyracylene:  An Experimental and Computational Study of the Energetics of the Hydrogenation of Acenaphthylene and Pyracylene Hermínio P. Diogo, Tetsu Kiyobayashi, Manuel E. Minas da Piedade, Natan Burlak, Donald W. Rogers, Daniel McMasters, Gabriele Persy, Jakob Wirz, and Joel F. Liebman pp 2065–2072 DOI: 10.1021/ja012541+ Supporting Info

Issue 10

Abrupt Interfacial Transitions of Hydrophobic Polysilanes As Probed via Liquid Crystal-Assisted Stepwise Deposition Shusaku Nagano and Takahiro Seki pp 2074–2075 DOI: 10.1021/ja012105n Supporting Info

Highly Selective Excitation in Biomolecular NMR by Frequency-Switched Single-Transition Cross-Polarization Fabien Ferrage, Thomas R. Eykyn, and Geoffrey Bodenhausen pp 2076–2077 DOI: 10.1021/ja012452x

A Polar Effects Controlled Enantioselective 1,2-Chlorine Atom Migration via a Chlorine-Bridged Radical Intermediate Eng Wui Tan, Bun Chan, and Allan G. Blackman pp 2078–2079 DOI: 10.1021/ja011129r Supporting Info

The Total Synthesis of (±)-Merrilactone A Vladimir B. Birman and Samuel J. Danishefsky pp 2080–2081 DOI: 10.1021/ja012495d Supporting Info

Salt Effects on Solute Exchange in Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate Micelles Yahya Rharbi and Mitchell A. Winnik pp 2082–2083 DOI: 10.1021/ja0123397

An Engineered Azurin Variant Containing a Selenocysteine Copper Ligand Steven M. Berry, Matt D. Gieselman, Mark J. Nilges, Wilfred A. van der Donk, and Yi Lu pp 2084–2085 DOI: 10.1021/ja0169163 Supporting Info

Photoreactivity of 5-Iodouracil-Containing DNA-Sso7d Complex in Solution:  The Protein-Induced DNA Kink Causes Intrastrand Hydrogen Abstraction from the 5-Methyl of Thymine at the 5‘ Side Takanori Oyoshi, Andrew H.-J. Wang, and Hiroshi Sugiyama pp 2086–2087 DOI: 10.1021/ja016968s Supporting Info

A Practical Enantioselective Fluorescent Sensor for Mandelic Acid Jing Lin, Qiao-Sheng Hu, Ming-Hua Xu, and Lin Pu pp 2088–2089 DOI: 10.1021/ja011971x Supporting Info

Site and Oxidation-State Specificity Yielding Dimensional Control in Perovskite Ruthenates Job T. Rijssenbeek, Sylvie Malo, Vincent Caignaert, and Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier pp 2090–2091 DOI: 10.1021/ja017586p Supporting Info

Iridium-Catalyzed H/D Exchange into Organic Compounds in Water Steven R. Klei, Jeffrey T. Golden, T. Don Tilley, and Robert G. Bergman pp 2092–2093 DOI: 10.1021/ja017219d Supporting Info

Unanticipated Guest Motion during a Phase Transition in a Ferroelastic Inclusion Compound Mark D. Hollingsworth, Matthew L. Peterson, Kevin L. Pate, Brian D. Dinkelmeyer, and Michael E. Brown pp 2094–2095 DOI: 10.1021/ja010327f Supporting Info

Quencher as Leaving Group:  Efficient Detection of DNA-Joining Reactions Shinsuke Sando and Eric T. Kool pp 2096–2097 DOI: 10.1021/ja017328s Supporting Info

Telomestatin, a Potent Telomerase Inhibitor That Interacts Quite Specifically with the Human Telomeric Intramolecular G-Quadruplex Mu-Yong Kim, Hariprasad Vankayalapati, Kazuo Shin-ya, Konstanty Wierzba, and Laurence H. Hurley pp 2098–2099 DOI: 10.1021/ja017308q Supporting Info

Micropatterning of Polymer Thin Films with pH-Sensitive and Cross-linkable Hydrogen-Bonded Polyelectrolyte Multilayers Sung Yun Yang and Michael F. Rubner pp 2100–2101 DOI: 10.1021/ja017681y Supporting Info

Intramolecular Silicon-Assisted Cross-Coupling Reactions:  General Synthesis of Medium-Sized Rings Containing a 1,3-cis-cis Diene Unit Scott E. Denmark and Shyh-Ming Yang pp 2102–2103 DOI: 10.1021/ja0178158 Supporting Info

Structures of Protein−Protein Complexes Are Docked Using Only NMR Restraints from Residual Dipolar Coupling and Chemical Shift Perturbations Mark A. McCoy and Daniel F. Wyss pp 2104–2105 DOI: 10.1021/ja017242z

A New Two-Step Four-Component Synthesis of Highly Functionalized Cyclohexenols by Sequential Nickel-Catalyzed Couplings Mario Lozanov and John Montgomery pp 2106–2107 DOI: 10.1021/ja0175845 Supporting Info

β-Diketiminate Ligand Backbone Structural Effects on Cu(I)/O2 Reactivity:  Unique Copper−Superoxo and Bis(μ-oxo) Complexes Douglas J. E. Spencer, Nermeen W. Aboelella, Anne M. Reynolds, Patrick L. Holland, and William B. Tolman pp 2108–2109 DOI: 10.1021/ja017820b Supporting Info

Cyanide-Limited Complexation of Molybdenum(III): Synthesis of Octahedral [Mo(CN)6]3- and Cyano-Bridged [Mo2(CN)11]5- Laurance G. Beauvais and Jeffrey R. Long pp 2110–2111 DOI: 10.1021/ja0175901 Supporting Info

Yellow-Green and Red Firefly Bioluminescence from 5,5-Dimethyloxyluciferin Bruce R. Branchini, Martha H. Murtiashaw, Rachelle A. Magyar, Nathan C. Portier, Maria C. Ruggiero, and Justin G. Stroh pp 2112–2113 DOI: 10.1021/ja017400m Supporting Info

Remarkable Remote Chiral Recognition in a Reaction Mediated by a Catalytic Antibody Lawrence J. D'Souza, Benoît Gigant, Marcel Knossow, and Bernard S. Green pp 2114–2115 DOI: 10.1021/ja0170504 Supporting Info

Metastable One-Dimensional AgCl1-xIx Solid-Solution Wurzite “Tunnel” Crystals Formed within Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Jeremy Sloan, Mauricio Terrones, Stefan Nufer, Steffi Friedrichs, Sam R. Bailey, Hee-Gweon Woo, Manfred Rühle, John L. Hutchison, and Malcolm L. H. Green pp 2116–2117 DOI: 10.1021/ja0173270 Supporting Info

Photochemistry of Benzophenone Immobilized in a Major Groove of DNA:  Formation of Thermally Reversible Interstrand Cross-link Kazuhiko Nakatani, Takashi Yoshida, and Isao Saito pp 2118–2119 DOI: 10.1021/ja017611r Supporting Info

Electrical Contacting of Glucose Oxidase by Surface-Reconstitution of the Apo-Protein on a Relay-Boronic Acid-FAD Cofactor Monolayer Maya Zayats, Eugenii Katz, and Itamar Willner pp 2120–2121 DOI: 10.1021/ja025503e

Supramolecular Stabilization of N2H7+ Jerry L. Atwood, Leonard J. Barbour, and Agoston Jerga pp 2122–2123 DOI: 10.1021/ja017722q Supporting Info

Photoswitchable Multivalent Sugar Ligands:  Synthesis, Isomerization, and Lectin Binding Studies of Azobenzene−Glycopyranoside Derivatives Oruganti Srinivas, Nivedita Mitra, Avadhesha Surolia, and Narayanaswamy Jayaraman pp 2124–2125 DOI: 10.1021/ja0173066 Supporting Info

A Self-Organized 2-Dimensional Bifunctional Structure Formed by Supramolecular Design K. W. Hipps, Louis Scudiero, Dan E. Barlow, and Manning P. Cooke, Jr. pp 2126–2127 DOI: 10.1021/ja017561q

Probing Pentacene Polymorphs by Lattice Dynamics Calculations Elisabetta Venuti, Raffaele Guido Della Valle, Aldo Brillante, Matteo Masino, and Alberto Girlando pp 2128–2129 DOI: 10.1021/ja0166949

Novel Zinc (II)-Mediated Epimerization of 2‘-Carbonylalkyl-α-C-glycopyranosides to Their β-Anomers Huawu Shao, Zerong Wang, Edith Lacroix, Shih-Hsiung Wu, Harold J. Jennings, and Wei Zou pp 2130–2131 DOI: 10.1021/ja017430p Supporting Info

Cationic Scandium Methyl Complexes Supported by a β-Diketiminato (“Nacnac”) Ligand Framework Paul G. Hayes, Warren E. Piers, and Robert McDonald pp 2132–2133 DOI: 10.1021/ja017128g Supporting Info

Asymmetric Azidation−Cycloaddition with Open-Chain Peptide-Based Catalysts. A Sequential Enantioselective Route to Triazoles David J. Guerin and Scott J. Miller pp 2134–2136 DOI: 10.1021/ja0177814 Supporting Info

Stereocontrolled Total Synthesis of (+)-Vinblastine Satoshi Yokoshima, Toshihiro Ueda, Satoshi Kobayashi, Ayato Sato, Takeshi Kuboyama, Hidetoshi Tokuyama, and Tohru Fukuyama pp 2137–2139 DOI: 10.1021/ja0177049 Supporting Info

Designed Self-Assembly of Molecular Necklaces Ki-Min Park, Soo-Young Kim, Jungseok Heo, Dongmok Whang, Shigeru Sakamoto, Kentaro Yamaguchi, and Kimoon Kim pp 2140–2147 DOI: 10.1021/ja011654q Supporting Info

Hairpin versus Extended DNA Binding of a Substituted β-Alanine Linked Polyamide Craig R. Woods, Takahiro Ishii, Bing Wu, Kenneth W. Bair, and Dale L. Boger pp 2148–2152 DOI: 10.1021/ja0122039 Supporting Info

Influence of a Terminal Formamido Group on the Sequence Recognition of DNA by Polyamides Eilyn R. Lacy, N. Minh Le, Carly A. Price, Moses Lee, and W. David Wilson pp 2153–2163 DOI: 10.1021/ja016154b Supporting Info

α-l-ribo-Configured Locked Nucleic Acid (α-L-LNA):  Synthesis and Properties Mads D. Sørensen, Lisbet Kværnø, Torsten Bryld, Anders E. Håkansson, Birgit Verbeure, Gilles Gaubert, Piet Herdewijn, and Jesper Wengel pp 2164–2176 DOI: 10.1021/ja0168763 Supporting Info

Reactivity of Amino Acids in Nitrosation Reactions and Its Relation to the Alkylating Potential of Their Products M. del Pilar García-Santos, Samuel González-Mancebo, Jesús Hernández-Benito, Emilio Calle, and Julio Casado pp 2177–2182 DOI: 10.1021/ja0119503

Total Synthesis of the CP-Molecules (CP-263,114 and CP-225,917, Phomoidrides B and A). 1. Racemic and Asymmetric Synthesis of Bicyclo[4.3.1] Key Building Blocks K. C. Nicolaou, J. Jung, W. H. Yoon, K. C. Fong, H.-S. Choi, Y. He, Y.-L. Zhong, and P. S. Baran pp 2183–2189 DOI: 10.1021/ja012010l Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of the CP-Molecules (CP-263,114 and CP-225,917, Phomoidrides B and A). 2. Model Studies for the Construction of Key Structural Elements and First-Generation Strategy K. C. Nicolaou, P. S. Baran, Y.-L. Zhong, K. C. Fong, and H.-S. Choi pp 2190–2201 DOI: 10.1021/ja012011d Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of the CP-Molecules (CP-263,114 and CP-225,917, Phomoidrides B and A). 3. Completion and Synthesis of Advanced Analogues K. C. Nicolaou, Y.-L. Zhong, P. S. Baran, J. Jung, H.-S. Choi, and W. H. Yoon pp 2202–2211 DOI: 10.1021/ja0120126 Supporting Info

Iodine(V) Reagents in Organic Synthesis. Part 1. Synthesis of Polycyclic Heterocycles via Dess−Martin Periodinane-Mediated Cascade Cyclization:  Generality, Scope, and Mechanism of the Reaction K. C. Nicolaou, P. S. Baran, Y.-L. Zhong, and K. Sugita pp 2212–2220 DOI: 10.1021/ja012124x Supporting Info

Iodine(V) Reagents in Organic Synthesis. Part 2. Access to Complex Molecular Architectures via Dess−Martin Periodinane-Generated o-Imidoquinones K. C. Nicolaou, K. Sugita, P. S. Baran, and Y.-L. Zhong pp 2221–2232 DOI: 10.1021/ja012125p Supporting Info

Iodine(V) Reagents in Organic Synthesis. Part 3. New Routes to Heterocyclic Compounds via o-Iodoxybenzoic Acid-Mediated Cyclizations:  Generality, Scope, and Mechanism K. C. Nicolaou, P. S. Baran, Y.-L. Zhong, S. Barluenga, K. W. Hunt, R. Kranich, and J. A. Vega pp 2233–2244 DOI: 10.1021/ja012126h Supporting Info

Iodine(V) Reagents in Organic Synthesis. Part 4. o-Iodoxybenzoic Acid as a Chemospecific Tool for Single Electron Transfer-Based Oxidation Processes K. C. Nicolaou, T. Montagnon, P. S. Baran, and Y.-L. Zhong pp 2245–2258 DOI: 10.1021/ja012127+ Supporting Info

Hydroxide as General Base in the Saponification of Ethyl Acetate Julio F. Mata-Segreda pp 2259–2262 DOI: 10.1021/ja011931t

Confirmation of the Connectivity of 4,8,12,16,20-Pentamethylpentacosylphoshoryl β-d-Mannopyranoside, an Unusual β-Mannosyl Phosphoisoprenoid from Mycobacterium avium, through Synthesis David Crich and Vadim Dudkin pp 2263–2266 DOI: 10.1021/ja0123958 Supporting Info

Ion Channel Formation from a Calix[4]arene Amide That Binds HCl Vladimir Sidorov, Frank W. Kotch, Galya Abdrakhmanova, Robert Mizani, James C. Fettinger, and Jeffery T. Davis pp 2267–2278 DOI: 10.1021/ja012338e Supporting Info

Nickel(II)−Molybdenum(III)−Cyanide Clusters:  Synthesis and Magnetic Behavior of Species Incorporating [(Me3tacn)Mo(CN)3] Matthew P. Shores, Jennifer J. Sokol, and Jeffrey R. Long pp 2279–2292 DOI: 10.1021/ja011645h Supporting Info

Stabilization of Inorganic Nanocrystals by Organic Dendrons Y. Andrew Wang, J. Jack Li, Haiyan Chen, and Xiaogang Peng pp 2293–2298 DOI: 10.1021/ja016711u Supporting Info

Physical Organic Chemistry of Transition Metal Carbene Complexes. 24. Thermodynamic and Kinetic Acidities of Phenyl-Substituted (Benzylmethoxycarbene)pentacarbonylchromium(0) Complexes. Is There a Transition-State Imbalance? Claude F. Bernasconi and Weitao Sun pp 2299–2304 DOI: 10.1021/ja012000k Supporting Info

Gram-Scale Synthesis of Monodisperse Gold Colloids by the Solvated Metal Atom Dispersion Method and Digestive Ripening and Their Organization into Two- and Three-Dimensional Structures Savka Stoeva, Kenneth J. Klabunde, Christopher M. Sorensen, and Iovka Dragieva pp 2305–2311 DOI: 10.1021/ja012076g

Size-Dependent Melting of Silica-Encapsulated Gold Nanoparticles Kimberly Dick, T. Dhanasekaran, Zhenyuan Zhang, and Dan Meisel pp 2312–2317 DOI: 10.1021/ja017281a

EPR Study of Substrate Binding to the Mn(II) Active Site of the Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance Enzyme FosA:  A Better Way To Examine Mn(II) Stoyan K. Smoukov, Joshua Telser, Bryan A. Bernat, Chris L. Rife, Richard N. Armstrong, and Brian M. Hoffman pp 2318–2326 DOI: 10.1021/ja012480f Supporting Info

Remarkable Variations in the Luminescence of Frozen Solutions of [Au{C(NHMe)2}2](PF6)·0.5(Acetone). Structural and Spectroscopic Studies of the Effects of Anions and Solvents on Gold(I) Carbene Complexes Rochelle L. White-Morris, Marilyn M. Olmstead, Feilong Jiang, Dino S. Tinti, and Alan L. Balch pp 2327–2336 DOI: 10.1021/ja012397s Supporting Info

Identification of Ligand Binding Sites on Proteins Using a Multi-Scale Approach Meir Glick, Daniel D. Robinson, Guy H. Grant, and W. Graham Richards pp 2337–2344 DOI: 10.1021/ja016490s

Solid-State NMR and Calorimetry of Structural Waters in Helical Peptides Maxim S. Pometun, Usha M. Gundusharma, John F. Richardson, and Richard J. Wittebort pp 2345–2351 DOI: 10.1021/ja017364r

Conformational Changes of 2,11-Dithia[3.3]metacyclophane. A New Look Using VT NMR and Calculation Reginald H. Mitchell pp 2352–2357 DOI: 10.1021/ja0173977 Supporting Info

An Alternative Method for Pucker Determination in Carbohydrates from Residual Dipolar Couplings:  A Solution NMR Study of the Fructofuranosyl Ring of Sucrose Darón I. Freedberg pp 2358–2362 DOI: 10.1021/ja010981v Supporting Info

Stability and Aromaticity of the Cyclopenta-Fused Pyrene Congeners Remco W. A. Havenith, Haijun Jiao, Leonardus W. Jenneskens, Joop H. van Lenthe, Martin Sarobe, Paul von Ragué Schleyer, Masahiro Kataoka, Atena Necula, and Lawrence T. Scott pp 2363–2370 DOI: 10.1021/ja011538n Supporting Info

Methyl Substituent Effects in [HnXXHn]+ Three-Electron-Bonded Radical Cations (X = F, O, N, Cl, S, P; n = 1−3). An ab Initio Theoretical Study Benoît Braïda, Sandrine Hazebroucq, and Philippe C. Hiberty pp 2371–2378 DOI: 10.1021/ja0165887

Proton Diffusion at Phospholipid Assemblies Jie Zhang and Patrick R. Unwin pp 2379–2383 DOI: 10.1021/ja012074w

Enantiospecific Desorption of Chiral Compounds from Chiral Cu(643) and Achiral Cu(111) Surfaces Joshua D. Horvath and Andrew J. Gellman pp 2384–2392 DOI: 10.1021/ja012182i

Issue 11

Membrane Protein Microarrays Ye Fang, Anthony G. Frutos, and Joydeep Lahiri pp 2394–2395 DOI: 10.1021/ja017346+ Supporting Info

Method for Detection of Single-Base Mismatches Using Bimolecular Beacons Anthony G. Frutos, Santona Pal, Mark Quesada, and Joydeep Lahiri pp 2396–2397 DOI: 10.1021/ja012374d

Molecular “Compasses” and “Gyroscopes”. I. Expedient Synthesis and Solid State Dynamics of an Open Rotor with a Bis(triarylmethyl) Frame Zaira Dominguez, Hung Dang, M. Jane Strouse, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay pp 2398–2399 DOI: 10.1021/ja0119447 Supporting Info

Further Insight in the Photochemistry of DNA:  Structure of a 2-Imidazolone (5−4) Pyrimidone Adduct Derived from the Mutagenic Pyrimidine (6−4) Pyrimidone Photolesion by UV Irradiation Martial Thomas, Dominique Guillaume, Jean-Louis Fourrey, and Pascale Clivio pp 2400–2401 DOI: 10.1021/ja011292m Supporting Info

Organocatalytic Michael Cycloisomerization of Bis(enones): The Intramolecular Rauhut−Currier Reaction Long-Cheng Wang, Ana Liza Luis, Kyriacos Agapiou, Hye-Young Jang, and Michael J. Krische pp 2402–2403 DOI: 10.1021/ja0121686 Supporting Info

The Vinylogous Intramolecular Morita−Baylis−Hillman Reaction:  Synthesis of Functionalized Cyclopentenes and Cyclohexenes with Trialkylphosphines as Nucleophilic Catalysts Scott A. Frank, Dustin J. Mergott, and William R. Roush pp 2404–2405 DOI: 10.1021/ja017123j Supporting Info

An Experimental Test of C−N Bond Twisting in the TICT State: Syn−Anti Photoisomerization in 2-(N-Methyl-N-isopropylamino)-5-cyanopyridine Jacek Dobkowski, Jacek Wójcik, Witold Koźmiński, Robert Kołos, Jacek Waluk, and Josef Michl pp 2406–2407 DOI: 10.1021/ja012326t

SERS Detection of the Vibrational Stark Effect from Nitrile-Terminated SAMs to Probe Electric Fields in the Diffuse Double-Layer Vanessa Oklejas, Chris Sjostrom, and Joel M. Harris pp 2408–2409 DOI: 10.1021/ja017656s

CsMBi3Te6 and CsM2Bi3Te7 (M = Pb, Sn):  New Thermoelectric Compounds with Low-Dimensional Structures Kuei-Fang Hsu, Duck-Young Chung, Sangeeta Lal, Antje Mrotzek, Theodora Kyratsi, Tim Hogan, and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis pp 2410–2411 DOI: 10.1021/ja017602i Supporting Info

Methine (CH) Transfer via a Chlorine Atom Abstraction/Benzene-Elimination Strategy:  Molybdenum Methylidyne Synthesis and Elaboration to a Phosphaisocyanide Complex Theodor Agapie, Paula L. Diaconescu, and Christopher C. Cummins pp 2412–2413 DOI: 10.1021/ja017278r Supporting Info

Nanoscale Molecular Patterns Fabricated by Using Scanning Near-Field Optical Lithography Shuqing Sun, Karen S. L. Chong, and Graham J. Leggett pp 2414–2415 DOI: 10.1021/ja017673h Supporting Info

Catalytic Oxidation by a Carboxylate-Bridged Non-Heme Diiron Complex Edit Y. Tshuva, Dongwhan Lee, Weiming Bu, and Stephen J. Lippard pp 2416–2417 DOI: 10.1021/ja017890i Supporting Info

Intramolecular Förster Energy Transfer in a Dendritic System at the Single Molecule Level Roel Gronheid, Johan Hofkens, Fabian Köhn, Tanja Weil, Erik Reuther, Klaus Müllen, and Frans C. De Schryver pp 2418–2419 DOI: 10.1021/ja017442a Supporting Info

Catalytic Asymmetric Direct α-Amination Reactions of 2-Keto Esters:  A Simple Synthetic Approach to Optically Active syn-β-Amino-α-hydroxy Esters Karsten Juhl and Karl Anker Jørgensen pp 2420–2421 DOI: 10.1021/ja0175486 Supporting Info

Distance-Dependent Activation Energies for Hole Injection from Protonated 9-Amino-6-chloro-2-methoxyacridine into Duplex DNA William B. Davis, Stephan Hess, Izabela Naydenova, Reinhard Haselsberger, Alexander Ogrodnik, Marshall D. Newton, and Maria-E. Michel-Beyerle pp 2422–2423 DOI: 10.1021/ja017304l

Synthesis of a Novel, Highly Symmetric Bis-Oxa-Bridged Compound Faiz Ahmed Khan and Jyotirmayee Dash pp 2424–2425 DOI: 10.1021/ja017371f Supporting Info

Tracking Alignment from the Moment of Inertia Tensor (TRAMITE) of Biomolecules in Neutral Dilute Liquid Crystal Solutions Hugo F. Azurmendi and C. Allen Bush pp 2426–2427 DOI: 10.1021/ja017524z Supporting Info

Transition Metal-Coated Nanoparticle Films:  Vibrational Characterization with Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Sungho Park, Pengxiang Yang, Piedad Corredor, and Michael J. Weaver pp 2428–2429 DOI: 10.1021/ja017406b

A General Stereocontrolled, Convergent Synthesis of Oligoprenols That Parallels the Biosynthetic Pathway Branko Radetich and E. J. Corey pp 2430–2431 DOI: 10.1021/ja0127537 Supporting Info

A Novel Chiral Sulfonium Yilde:  Highly Enantioselective Synthesis of Vinylcyclopropanes Song Ye, Zheng-Zheng Huang, Chun-An Xia, Yong Tang, and Li-Xin Dai pp 2432–2433 DOI: 10.1021/ja0172969 Supporting Info

Hydrotris(pyrazolyl)borate Metallacycles:  Conversion of a Late-Metal Metallacyclopentene to a Stable Metallacyclopentadiene−Alkene Complex Joseph M. O'Connor, Adam Closson, and Peter Gantzel pp 2434–2435 DOI: 10.1021/ja0255296 Supporting Info

Corynebactin and Enterobactin:  Related Siderophores of Opposite Chirality Martin E. Bluhm, Sanggoo S. Kim, Emily A. Dertz, and Kenneth N. Raymond pp 2436–2437 DOI: 10.1021/ja016651s Supporting Info

Ultrafast Bidirectional Dihydroazulene/Vinylheptafulvene (DHA/VHF) Molecular Switches:  Photochemical Ring Closure of Vinylheptafulvene Proven by a Two-Pulse Experiment Vincent De Waele, Uli Schmidhammer, Thomas Mrozek, Jörg Daub, and Eberhard Riedle pp 2438–2439 DOI: 10.1021/ja017132s Supporting Info

A New Strategy for Caging Proteins Regulated by Kinases Mousumi Ghosh, Ilia Ichetovkin, Xiaoyan Song, John S. Condeelis, and David S. Lawrence pp 2440–2441 DOI: 10.1021/ja017592l Supporting Info

[Ph2Bi−(Ge9)−BiPh2]2-:  A Deltahedral Zintl Ion Functionalized by Exo-Bonded Ligands Angel Ugrinov and Slavi C. Sevov pp 2442–2443 DOI: 10.1021/ja017813n Supporting Info

Sensitive and Rapid Analysis of Protein Palmitoylation with a Synthetic Cell-Permeable Mimic of Src Oncoproteins Steffen P. Creaser and Blake R. Peterson pp 2444–2445 DOI: 10.1021/ja017671x Supporting Info

Site-Selective Screening by NMR Spectroscopy with Labeled Amino Acid Pairs Johan Weigelt, Maria van Dongen, Jonas Uppenberg, Johan Schultz, and Mats Wikström pp 2446–2447 DOI: 10.1021/ja0178261 Supporting Info

Quantum Dot on a Rope Sebastian Westenhoff and Nicholas A. Kotov pp 2448–2449 DOI: 10.1021/ja0173728

Micelle-Induced Curvature in a Water-Insoluble HIV-1 Env Peptide Revealed by NMR Dipolar Coupling Measurement in Stretched Polyacrylamide Gel James J. Chou, Joshua D. Kaufman, Stephen J. Stahl, Paul T. Wingfield, and Ad Bax pp 2450–2451 DOI: 10.1021/ja017875d Supporting Info

Molecular “Wiring” Enzymes in Organized Nanostructures Ernesto J. Calvo, Claudia Danilowicz, and Alejandro Wolosiuk pp 2452–2453 DOI: 10.1021/ja017802u

Spin Surface Crossing in Chromium-Mediated Olefin Epoxidation with O2 James S. Hess, Somying Leelasubcharoen, Arnold L. Rheingold, Douglas J. Doren, and Klaus H. Theopold pp 2454–2455 DOI: 10.1021/ja0167553 Supporting Info

A Direct Method for the Conversion of Terminal Epoxides into γ-Butanolides Mohammad Movassaghi and Eric N. Jacobsen pp 2456–2457 DOI: 10.1021/ja025604c Supporting Info

The First General Enantioselective Catalytic Diels−Alder Reaction with Simple α,β-Unsaturated Ketones Alan B. Northrup and David W. C. MacMillan pp 2458–2460 DOI: 10.1021/ja017641u Supporting Info

High-Resolution X-ray Structure of an Acyl-Enzyme Species for the Class D OXA-10 β-Lactamase Laurent Maveyraud, Dasantila Golemi-Kotra, Akihiro Ishiwata, Oussama Meroueh, Shahriar Mobashery, and Jean-Pierre Samama pp 2461–2465 DOI: 10.1021/ja016736t Supporting Info

Noncovalent Domino Effect on Helical Screw Sense of Chiral Peptides Possessing C-Terminal Chiral Residue Yoshihito Inai, Yuya Ishida, Kenichi Tagawa, Akinori Takasu, and Tadamichi Hirabayashi pp 2466–2473 DOI: 10.1021/ja017126w

Effect of Sequence on Peptide Geometry in 5-tert-Butylprolyl Type VI β-Turn Mimics Liliane Halab and William D. Lubell pp 2474–2484 DOI: 10.1021/ja012442w Supporting Info

Definitive Evidence for Monoanionic Binding of 2,3-Dihydroxybiphenyl to 2,3-Dihydroxybiphenyl 1,2-Dioxygenase from UV Resonance Raman Spectroscopy, UV/Vis Absorption Spectroscopy, and Crystallography Frédéric H. Vaillancourt, Christopher J. Barbosa, Thomas G. Spiro, Jeffrey T. Bolin, Michael W. Blades, Robin F. B. Turner, and Lindsay D. Eltis pp 2485–2496 DOI: 10.1021/ja0174682

Collagen Stability:  Insights from NMR Spectroscopic and Hybrid Density Functional Computational Investigations of the Effect of Electronegative Substituents on Prolyl Ring Conformations Michele L. DeRider, Steven J. Wilkens, Michael J. Waddell, Lynn E. Bretscher, Frank Weinhold, Ronald T. Raines, and John L. Markley pp 2497–2505 DOI: 10.1021/ja0166904 Supporting Info

Synthesis and Rearrangement of Diphosphorus Analogues of Amidinium Salts Tsuyoshi Kato, Heinz Gornitzka, Antoine Baceiredo, Wolfgang W. Schoeller, and Guy Bertrand pp 2506–2512 DOI: 10.1021/ja010347h Supporting Info

CO2-Expanded Solvents:  Unique and Versatile Media for Performing Homogeneous Catalytic Oxidations Ming Wei, Ghezai T. Musie, Daryle H. Busch, and Bala Subramaniam pp 2513–2517 DOI: 10.1021/ja0114411

Fluorescence Enhancement of trans-4-Aminostilbene by N-Phenyl Substitutions:  The “Amino Conjugation Effect” Jye-Shane Yang, Shih-Yi Chiou, and Kang-Ling Liau pp 2518–2527 DOI: 10.1021/ja016416+ Supporting Info

A Ru Catalyzed Divergence:  Oxidative Cyclization vs Cycloisomerization of Bis-homopropargylic Alcohols Barry M. Trost and Young Ho Rhee pp 2528–2533 DOI: 10.1021/ja011840w Supporting Info

Application of Serine- and Threonine-Derived Cyclic Sulfamidates for the Preparation of S-Linked Glycosyl Amino Acids in Solution- and Solid-Phase Peptide Synthesis Scott B. Cohen and Randall L. Halcomb pp 2534–2543 DOI: 10.1021/ja011932l Supporting Info

Evidence for a Nonradical Pathway in the Photoracemization of Aryl Sulfoxides1 Brian W. Vos and William S. Jenks pp 2544–2547 DOI: 10.1021/ja017228m

Chain Epimerization during Propylene Polymerization with Metallocene Catalysts:  Mechanistic Studies Using a Doubly Labeled Propylene Jeffrey C. Yoder and John E. Bercaw pp 2548–2555 DOI: 10.1021/ja0123296 Supporting Info

Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (−)-VM55599:  Establishment of the Absolute Stereochemistry and Biogenetic Implications Juan F. Sanz-Cervera and Robert M. Williams pp 2556–2559 DOI: 10.1021/ja017425l Supporting Info

Ammonium Chloride-Promoted Four-Component Synthesis of Pyrrolo[3,4-b]pyridin-5-one Pierre Janvier, Xiaowen Sun, Hugues Bienaymé, and Jieping Zhu pp 2560–2567 DOI: 10.1021/ja017563a Supporting Info

Framework Engineering by Anions and Porous Functionalities of Cu(II)/4,4‘-bpy Coordination Polymers Shin-ichiro Noro, Ryo Kitaura, Mitsuru Kondo, Susumu Kitagawa, Tomohiko Ishii, Hiroyuki Matsuzaka, and Masahiro Yamashita pp 2568–2583 DOI: 10.1021/ja0113192 Supporting Info

Formation of cis-Enediyne Complexes from Rhenium Alkynylcarbene Complexes Charles P. Casey, Stefan Kraft, and Douglas R. Powell pp 2584–2594 DOI: 10.1021/ja011962o Supporting Info

Electron−Nuclear Double Resonance Spectroscopic Evidence for a Hydroxo-Bridge Nucleophile Involved in Catalysis by a Dinuclear Hydrolase Stoyan K. Smoukov, Luca Quaroni, Xuedong Wang, Peter E. Doan, Brian M. Hoffman, and Lawrence Que, Jr. pp 2595–2603 DOI: 10.1021/ja003169l Supporting Info

Platinum Chalcogenido MCM-41 Analogues. High Hexagonal Order in Mesostructured Semiconductors Based on Pt2+ and [Ge4Q10]4- (Q = S, Se) and [Sn4Se10]4- Adamantane Clusters Pantelis N. Trikalitis, Krishnaswamy K. Rangan, and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis pp 2604–2613 DOI: 10.1021/ja017245b

S-Alkylation and S-Amination of Methyl Thioethers − Derivatives of closo-[B12H12]2-. Synthesis of a Boronated Phosphonate, gem-Bisphosphonates, and Dodecaborane-ortho-carborane Oligomers Roman G. Kultyshev, Jianping Liu, Shengming Liu, Werner Tjarks, Albert H. Soloway, and Sheldon G. Shore pp 2614–2624 DOI: 10.1021/ja0123857 Supporting Info

Genesis of Nanostructured, Magnetically Tunable Ceramics from the Pyrolysis of Cross-Linked Polyferrocenylsilane Networks and Formation of Shaped Macroscopic Objects and Micron Scale Patterns by Micromolding Inside Silicon Wafers Madlen Ginzburg, Mark J. MacLachlan, San Ming Yang, Neil Coombs, Thomas W. Coyle, Nandyala P. Raju, John E. Greedan, Rolfe H. Herber, Geoffrey A. Ozin, and Ian Manners pp 2625–2639 DOI: 10.1021/ja0107273 Supporting Info

Hydrothermal Oxidation−Reduction Methods for the Preparation of Pure and Single Crystalline Alunites:  Synthesis and Characterization of a New Series of Vanadium Jarosites Daniel Grohol and Daniel G. Nocera pp 2640–2646 DOI: 10.1021/ja016832u Supporting Info

Magnetic Properties of a Homologous Series of Vanadium Jarosite Compounds Dimitris Papoutsakis, Daniel Grohol, and Daniel G. Nocera pp 2647–2656 DOI: 10.1021/ja016833m

Product Binding to the Diiron(III) and Mixed-Valence Diiron Centers of Methane Monooxygenase Hydroxylase Studied by 1,2H and 19F ENDOR Spectroscopy Stoyan K. Smoukov, Daniel A. Kopp, Ann M. Valentine, Roman Davydov, Stephen J. Lippard, and Brian M. Hoffman pp 2657–2663 DOI: 10.1021/ja010123z Supporting Info

Molecular Structures and Excited States of CpM(CO)2 (Cp = η5-C5H5; M = Rh, Ir) and [Cl2Rh(CO)2]-. Theoretical Evidence for a Competitive Charge Transfer Mechanism Zhenming Hu, Russell J. Boyd, and Hiroshi Nakatsuji pp 2664–2671 DOI: 10.1021/ja0108178 Supporting Info

The Nature of Superacid Electrophilic Species in HF/SbF5:   A Density Functional Theory Study Pierre M. Esteves, Alejandro Ramírez-Solís, and Claudio J. A. Mota pp 2672–2677 DOI: 10.1021/ja011151k Supporting Info

Influence of d Orbital Occupation on the Binding of Metal Ions to Adenine M. T. Rodgers and P. B. Armentrout pp 2678–2691 DOI: 10.1021/ja011278+ Supporting Info

Mechanism of OH Formation from Ozonolysis of Isoprene:  A Quantum-Chemical Study Dan Zhang and Renyi Zhang pp 2692–2703 DOI: 10.1021/ja011518l Supporting Info

Tunneling and Sterically Induced Ring Puckering in a Substituted [8]Annulene Anion Radical Cheryl D. Stevenson, Lance J. Heinle, John P. Davis, and Richard C. Reiter pp 2704–2708 DOI: 10.1021/ja0117128

Density Functional Calculations of Electronic g-Tensors for Semiquinone Radical Anions. The Role of Hydrogen Bonding and Substituent Effects Martin Kaupp, Christian Remenyi, Juha Vaara, Olga L. Malkina, and Vladimir G. Malkin pp 2709–2722 DOI: 10.1021/ja0162764 Supporting Info

De Novo Determination of Protein Backbone Structure from Residual Dipolar Couplings Using Rosetta Carol A. Rohl and David Baker pp 2723–2729 DOI: 10.1021/ja016880e Supporting Info

Determination of Cα Chemical Shift Tensor Orientation in Peptides by Dipolar-Modulated Chemical Shift Recoupling NMR Spectroscopy Xiaolan Yao and Mei Hong pp 2730–2738 DOI: 10.1021/ja017137p

Weak, Improper, C−O···H−C Hydrogen Bonds in the Dimethyl Ether Dimer Yoshio Tatamitani, Bingxin Liu, Jun Shimada, Teruhiko Ogata, Paolo Ottaviani, Assimo Maris, Walther Caminati, and José L. Alonso pp 2739–2743 DOI: 10.1021/ja0164069 Supporting Info

Theoretical Determination of Chromophores in the Chromogenic Effects of Aromatic Neurotoxicants Chang-Guo Zhan, David A. Dixon, Mohammad I. Sabri, Min-Sun Kim, and Peter S. Spencer pp 2744–2752 DOI: 10.1021/ja0113394 Supporting Info

Theoretical Studies of the Cross-Linking Mechanisms between Cytosine and Tyrosine Fuqiang Ban, Maria J. Lundqvist, Russell J. Boyd, and Leif A. Eriksson pp 2753–2761 DOI: 10.1021/ja011528m Supporting Info

Relativistic Spin−Orbit Coupling Effects on Secondary Isotope Shifts of 13C Nuclear Shielding in CX2 (X = O, S, Se, Te) Perttu Lantto, Juha Vaara, Anu M. Kantola, Ville-Veikko Telkki, Bernd Schimmelpfennig, Kenneth Ruud, and Jukka Jokisaari pp 2762–2771 DOI: 10.1021/ja016537+

Adsorption Geometry of 4-Picoline Chemisorbed on the Cu(110) Surface:  A Study of Forces Controlling Molecular Self-Assembly J.-G. Lee, J. Ahner, and J. T. Yates, Jr. pp 2772–2780 DOI: 10.1021/ja011898a

Reaction of Phenyl Radicals with Propyne Luc Vereecken, Jozef Peeters, Holger F. Bettinger, Ralf I. Kaiser, Paul v. R. Schleyer, and Henry F. Schaefer, III pp 2781–2789 DOI: 10.1021/ja017018+ Supporting Info

Formation of a 1-Bicyclo[1.1.1]pentyl Anion and an Experimental Determination of the Acidity and C−H Bond Dissociation Energy of 3-tert-Butylbicyclo[1.1.1]pentane Dana R. Reed, Steven R. Kass, Kathleen R. Mondanaro, and William P. Dailey pp 2790–2795 DOI: 10.1021/ja0121890

Field-Dependent Electrode−Chemisorbate Bonding:  Sensitivity of Vibrational Stark Effect and Binding Energetics to Nature of Surface Coordination Sally A. Wasileski, Marc T. M. Koper, and Michael J. Weaver, pp 2796–2805 DOI: 10.1021/ja012200w

Searching for the Second Oxidant in the Catalytic Cycle of Cytochrome P450:  A Theoretical Investigation of the Iron(III)-Hydroperoxo Species and Its Epoxidation Pathways François Ogliaro, Sam P. de Visser, Shimrit Cohen, Pankaz K. Sharma, and Sason Shaik pp 2806–2817 DOI: 10.1021/ja0171963 Supporting Info

Quantitative Cavities and Reactivity in Stages of Crystal Lattices:  Mechanistic and Exploratory Organic Photochemistry1,2 Howard E. Zimmerman and Evgueni E. Nesterov pp 2818–2830 DOI: 10.1021/ja0124562 Supporting Info

Nucleophilic or Electrophilic Phosphinidene Complexes MLnPH; What Makes the Difference? Andreas W. Ehlers, Evert Jan Baerends, and Koop Lammertsma pp 2831–2838 DOI: 10.1021/ja017445n Supporting Info

Vinyl−Vinyl Coupling on Late Transition Metals through C−C Reductive Elimination Mechanism. A Computational Study Valentine P. Ananikov, Djamaladdin G. Musaev, and Keiji Morokuma pp 2839–2852 DOI: 10.1021/ja017476i Supporting Info

Issue 12

Water-Stabilized Cavitands Adel Rafai Far, Alexander Shivanyuk, and Julius Rebek, Jr. pp 2854–2855 DOI: 10.1021/ja012453p Supporting Info

DNA-Based Magnetic Nanoparticle Assembly Acts as a Magnetic Relaxation Nanoswitch Allowing Screening of DNA-Cleaving Agents J. Manuel Perez, Terence O'Loughin, F. Joseph Simeone, Ralph Weissleder, and Lee Josephson pp 2856–2857 DOI: 10.1021/ja017773n

Use of Chirally Modified Zeolites and Crystals in Photochemical Asymmetric Synthesis Kenneth C. W. Chong, J. Sivaguru, Tetsuya Shichi, Yasuharu Yoshimi, V. Ramamurthy, and John R. Scheffer pp 2858–2859 DOI: 10.1021/ja016989m Supporting Info

Direct H Atom Abstraction from Spore Photoproduct C-6 Initiates DNA Repair in the Reaction Catalyzed by Spore Photoproduct Lyase:  Evidence for a Reversibly Generated Adenosyl Radical Intermediate Jennifer Cheek and Joan B. Broderick pp 2860–2861 DOI: 10.1021/ja017784g

Receptor-Bound Conformation of an α5β1 Integrin Antagonist by 15N-Edited 2D Transferred Nuclear Overhauser Effects Li Zhang, Ralph-Heiko Mattern, Timothy I. Malaney, Michael D. Pierschbacher, and Murray Goodman pp 2862–2863 DOI: 10.1021/ja016773k Supporting Info

Changing DNA Grooves − A 1,4,5,8-Naphthalene Tetracarboxylic Diimide Bis-Intercalator with the Linker (β-Ala)3-Lys in the Minor Groove Vladimir Guelev, Steven Sorey, David W. Hoffman, and Brent L. Iverson pp 2864–2865 DOI: 10.1021/ja016834e Supporting Info

χ1 Rotamer Populations and Angles of Mobile Surface Side Chains Are Accurately Predicted by a Torsion Angle Database Potential of Mean Force G. Marius Clore and John Kuszewski pp 2866–2867 DOI: 10.1021/ja017712p Supporting Info

Enantioselective Synthesis of Medium-Ring Heterocycles, Tertiary Ethers, and Tertiary Alcohols by Mo−Catalyzed Ring-Closing Metathesis Andrew F. Kiely, Jesper A. Jernelius, Richard R. Schrock, and Amir H. Hoveyda pp 2868–2869 DOI: 10.1021/ja012679s Supporting Info

Dynamic Kinetic Resolution via Dual-Function Catalysis of Modified Cinchona Alkaloids:  Asymmetric Synthesis of α-Hydroxy Carboxylic Acids Liang Tang and Li Deng pp 2870–2871 DOI: 10.1021/ja0255047 Supporting Info

The First Fullerene−Metal Sandwich Complex:  An Unusually Strong Electronic Communication between Two C60 Cages Kwangyeol Lee, Hyunjoon Song, Bongsoo Kim, Joon T. Park, Sangwoo Park, and Moon-Gun Choi pp 2872–2873 DOI: 10.1021/ja017496k Supporting Info

Organotellurium Compounds as Novel Initiators for Controlled/Living Radical Polymerizations. Synthesis of Functionalized Polystyrenes and End-Group Modifications Shigeru Yamago, Kazunori Iida, and Jun-ichi Yoshida pp 2874–2875 DOI: 10.1021/ja025554b Supporting Info

Three-Component Cycloadditions:  The First Transition Metal-Catalyzed [5+2+1] Cycloaddition Reactions Paul A. Wender, Gabriel G. Gamber, Robert D. Hubbard, and Lei Zhang pp 2876–2877 DOI: 10.1021/ja0176301 Supporting Info

A Pseudo-Jahn−Teller Distortion in an Mo2(μ2-O)2 Ring Having the Shortest MoIV−MoIV Double Bond F. Albert Cotton, Lee M. Daniels, Carlos A. Murillo, and J. Garrett Slaton pp 2878–2879 DOI: 10.1021/ja025713r Supporting Info

Selected-Control Hydrothermal Synthesis of α- and β-MnO2 Single Crystal Nanowires Xun Wang and Yadong Li pp 2880–2881 DOI: 10.1021/ja0177105

Asymmetric Catalysis of Hetero-Ene Reactions with Tridentate Schiff Base Chromium(III) Complexes Rebecca T. Ruck and Eric N. Jacobsen pp 2882–2883 DOI: 10.1021/ja025588j Supporting Info

Polymer Mediated Self-Assembly of Magnetic Nanoparticles Shouheng Sun, Simone Anders, Hendrik F. Hamann, Jan-U. Thiele, J. E. E. Baglin, Thomas Thomson, Eric E. Fullerton, C. B. Murray, and Bruce D. Terris pp 2884–2885 DOI: 10.1021/ja0176503

Effect of Molecule−Metal Electronic Coupling on Through-Bond Hole Tunneling across Metal−Organic Monolayer−Semiconductor Junctions Yoram Selzer, Adi Salomon, and David Cahen pp 2886–2887 DOI: 10.1021/ja0177511

Enantioselective Addition of Ketene Silyl Acetals to Nitrones Catalyzed by Chiral Titanium Complexes. Synthesis of Optically Active β-Amino Acids Shun-Ichi Murahashi, Yasushi Imada, Toru Kawakami, Kazuhito Harada, Yoshiharu Yonemushi, and Naomi Tomita pp 2888–2889 DOI: 10.1021/ja0176649 Supporting Info

Interactions of Aziridines with Nickel Complexes:  Oxidative-Addition and Reductive-Elimination Reactions that Break and Make C−N Bonds Beatrice L. Lin, Christopher R. Clough, and Gregory L. Hillhouse pp 2890–2891 DOI: 10.1021/ja017652n Supporting Info

Dynamic Kinetic Resolution via Asymmetric Conjugate Reduction:  Enantio- and Diastereoselective Synthesis of 2,4-Dialkyl Cyclopentanones Valdas Jurkauskas and Stephen L. Buchwald pp 2892–2893 DOI: 10.1021/ja025603k Supporting Info

Nonactin Biosynthesis:  The Initial Committed Step Is the Condensation of Acetate (Malonate) and Succinate Michael E. Nelson and Nigel D. Priestley pp 2894–2902 DOI: 10.1021/ja016965f

A Noncovalent Approach to Antiparallel β-Sheet Formation Huaqiang Zeng, Xiaowu Yang, Robert A. Flowers, II, and Bing Gong pp 2903–2910 DOI: 10.1021/ja010701b Supporting Info

Measurement of Electrostatic Interactions in Protein Folding with the Use of Protein Charge Ladders Russell S. Negin and Jeffrey D. Carbeck pp 2911–2916 DOI: 10.1021/ja0169567

Influence of Silaproline on Peptide Conformation and Bioactivity Florine Cavelier, Bertrand Vivet, Jean Martinez, André Aubry, Claude Didierjean, André Vicherat, and Michel Marraud pp 2917–2923 DOI: 10.1021/ja017440q Supporting Info

Acyclic Diastereoselection in Prochiral Radical Addition to Prochiral Olefins Mukund P. Sibi, Tara R. Rheault, Sithamalli V. Chandramouli, and Craig P. Jasperse pp 2924–2930 DOI: 10.1021/ja017510t Supporting Info

Using Equilibrium Isotope Effects To Detect Intramolecular OH/OH Hydrogen Bonds:  Structural and Solvent Effects Thomas E. Vasquez, Jr., Jon M. Bergset, Matthew B. Fierman, Alshakim Nelson, Joshua Roth, Saeed I. Khan, and Daniel J. O'Leary pp 2931–2938 DOI: 10.1021/ja016879f Supporting Info

Switching “On” and “Off” the Expression of Chirality in Peptide Rotaxanes Masumi Asakawa, Giuseppe Brancato, Marianna Fanti, David A. Leigh, Toshimi Shimizu, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, Jenny K. Y. Wong, Francesco Zerbetto, and Songwei Zhang pp 2939–2950 DOI: 10.1021/ja015995f Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of (−)-Tetrazomine. Determination of the Stereochemistry of Tetrazomine and the Synthesis and Biological Activity of Tetrazomine Analogues Jack D. Scott and Robert M. Williams pp 2951–2956 DOI: 10.1021/ja0174027 Supporting Info

Formation and Stability of Enolates of Acetamide and Acetate Anion:  An Eigen Plot for Proton Transfer at α-Carbonyl Carbon John P. Richard, Glenn Williams, AnnMarie C. O'Donoghue, and Tina L. Amyes pp 2957–2968 DOI: 10.1021/ja0125321 Supporting Info

Two-Dimensional (2D) Pulsed Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Study of VO2+−Triphosphate Interactions:  Evidence for Tridentate Triphosphate Coordination, and Relevance To Bone Uptake and Insulin Enhancement by Vanadium Pharmaceuticals Sergei A. Dikanov, Barry D. Liboiron, and Chris Orvig pp 2969–2978 DOI: 10.1021/ja011104s

Solution Synthesis of Gadolinium Nanoparticles Jennifer A. Nelson, Lawrence H. Bennett, and Michael J. Wagner pp 2979–2983 DOI: 10.1021/ja0122703

Comprehensive Thermodynamic Characterization of the Metal−Hydrogen Bond in a Series of Cobalt-Hydride Complexes Rebecca Ciancanelli, Bruce C. Noll, Daniel L. DuBois, and M. Rakowski DuBois pp 2984–2992 DOI: 10.1021/ja0122804 Supporting Info

Supramolecular Chirogenesis in Zinc Porphyrins:  Equilibria, Binding Properties, and Thermodynamics Victor V. Borovkov, Juha M. Lintuluoto, Hiromu Sugeta, Michiya Fujiki, Ryuichi Arakawa, and Yoshihisa Inoue pp 2993–3006 DOI: 10.1021/ja0172520 Supporting Info

Metastable Isonitrosyl Structure of the Nitroprusside Anion Confirmed by Nuclear Inelastic Scattering Hauke Paulsen, Ventzislav Rusanov, Rüdiger Benda, Christian Herta, Volker Schünemann, Christoph Janiak, Thomas Dorn, Aleksandr I. Chumakov, Heiner Winkler, and Alfred X. Trautwein pp 3007–3011 DOI: 10.1021/ja016239c

Planar Three-Coordinate High-Spin FeII Complexes with Large Orbital Angular Momentum:  Mössbauer, Electron Paramagnetic Resonance, and Electronic Structure Studies Hanspeter Andres, Emile L. Bominaar, Jeremy M. Smith, Nathan A. Eckert, Patrick L. Holland, and Eckard Münck pp 3012–3025 DOI: 10.1021/ja012327l Supporting Info

Olefin Cis-Dihydroxylation versus Epoxidation by Non-Heme Iron Catalysts:  Two Faces of an FeIII−OOH Coin Kui Chen, Miquel Costas, Jinheung Kim, Adrianne K. Tipton, and Lawrence Que, Jr. pp 3026–3035 DOI: 10.1021/ja0120025 Supporting Info

Structural Analysis of the Solid Amorphous Binuclear Complexes of Iron(III) and Aluminum(III) with Chromium(III)−DTPA Chelator Using Energy Dispersive X-ray Diffraction Claudia Sadun, Remo Bucci, and Antonio L. Magrì pp 3036–3041 DOI: 10.1021/ja010676+

Deuterium Structural Effects in Inorganic and Bioinorganic Aggregates Jaeho Lee, N. Dennis Chasteen, Guanghua Zhao, Georgia C. Papaefthymiou, and Sergiu M. Gorun pp 3042–3049 DOI: 10.1021/ja011447q Supporting Info

Oxalate-Bridged Complexes of Dimolybdenum and Ditungsten Supported by Pivalate Ligands:  (tBuCO2)3M2(μ-O2CCO2)M2(O2CtBu)3. Correlation of the Solid-State, Molecular, and Electronic Structures with Raman, Resonance Raman, and Electronic Spectral Data Bruce E. Bursten, Malcolm H. Chisholm, Robin J. H. Clark, Steven Firth, Christopher M. Hadad, Ann M. MacIntosh, Paul J. Wilson, Patrick M. Woodward, and Jeffrey M. Zaleski pp 3050–3063 DOI: 10.1021/ja011786j Supporting Info

Organometallic Ruthenium(II) Diamine Anticancer Complexes:  Arene-Nucleobase Stacking and Stereospecific Hydrogen-Bonding in Guanine Adducts Haimei Chen, John A. Parkinson, Simon Parsons, Robert A. Coxall, Robert O. Gould, and Peter J. Sadler pp 3064–3082 DOI: 10.1021/ja017482e Supporting Info

Structural Characterization of Metallopeptides Designed as Scaffolds for the Stabilization of Nickel(II)-Fe4S4 Bridged Assemblies by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Kristin B. Musgrave, Catalina E. Laplaza, R. H. Holm, Britt Hedman, and Keith O. Hodgson pp 3083–3092 DOI: 10.1021/ja011861q Supporting Info

Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics Studies of Triosephosphate Isomerase-Catalyzed Reactions:  Effect of Geometry and Tunneling on Proton-Transfer Rate Constants Qiang Cui and Martin Karplus pp 3093–3124 DOI: 10.1021/ja0118439 Supporting Info

Multiple Quantum Filtered NMR Studies of the Interaction between Collagen and Water in the Tendon Uzi Eliav and Gil Navon pp 3125–3132 DOI: 10.1021/ja011791n

Hoogsteen-Based Parallel-Stranded Duplexes of DNA. Effect of 8-Amino-purine Derivatives Elena Cubero, Anna Aviñó, Beatriz G. de la Torre, Miriam Frieden, Ramón Eritja, F. Javier Luque, Carlos González, and Modesto Orozco pp 3133–3142 DOI: 10.1021/ja011928+

Electron-Nuclear Double Resonance Spectroscopic Evidence That S-Adenosylmethionine Binds in Contact with the Catalytically Active [4Fe−4S]+ Cluster of Pyruvate Formate-Lyase Activating Enzyme Charles J. Walsby, Wei Hong, William E. Broderick, Jennifer Cheek, Danilo Ortillo, Joan B. Broderick, and Brian M. Hoffman pp 3143–3151 DOI: 10.1021/ja012034s Supporting Info

The Interaction of MS-325 with Human Serum Albumin and Its Effect on Proton Relaxation Rates Peter Caravan, Normand J. Cloutier, Matthew T. Greenfield, Sarah A. McDermid, Stephen U. Dunham, Jeff W. M. Bulte, John C. Amedio, Jr., Richard J. Looby, Ronald M. Supkowski, William DeW. Horrocks, Jr., Thomas J. McMurry, and Randall B. Lauffer pp 3152–3162 DOI: 10.1021/ja017168k Supporting Info

Cyclic Carbon Cluster Dianions and Their Aromaticity Sven Feuerbacher, Andreas Dreuw, and Lorenz S. Cederbaum pp 3163–3168 DOI: 10.1021/ja0123002

High Resolution Capillary Electrophoresis of Carbon Nanotubes Stephen K. Doorn, Robert E. Fields, III, Hui Hu, Mark A. Hamon, Robert C. Haddon, John P. Selegue, and Vahid Majidi pp 3169–3174 DOI: 10.1021/ja012364c

Stereoelectronic Effects and General Trends in Hyperconjugative Acceptor Ability of σ Bonds Igor V. Alabugin and Tarek A. Zeidan pp 3175–3185 DOI: 10.1021/ja012633z Supporting Info

Characterization of Compounds in Solution:  Theory and Practice By William H. Streng (Quintiles, Inc., Kansas City, MO). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers:  New York. 2001. xv + 273 pp. $65.00. ISBN:  0-306-46595-7. William E. Acree, Jr. p 3186 DOI: 10.1021/ja015347w

Organic Conformational Analysis and Stereochemistry from Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy by David A. Lightner (University of Nevada) and Jerome E. Gurst (University of West Florida). Wiley-VCH:  New York. 2000. xvi + 488 pp. $94.95. ISBN:  0-471-35405-8. James H. Brewster pp 3186–3187 DOI: 10.1021/ja015298n

Kinetics of Homogeneous Multistep Reactors. Comprehensive Chemical Kinetics. Volume 38 By F. G. Helfferich (Pennsylvania State University). Elsevier:  Amsterdam and New York. 2001. xv + 410 pp. $244.00. ISBN:  0-444-82606-8. Joseph S. Francisco p 3187 DOI: 10.1021/ja015304f

Glycochemistry:  Principles, Synthesis and Applications Edited by Peng George Wang (Wayne State University) and Carolyn R. Bertozzi (Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of California, Berkeley). Marcel Dekker, Inc. New York, Basel. 2001. xvi + 682 pp. $195.00. ISBN:  0-8247-0538-6. Geert-Jan Boons pp 3187–3188 DOI: 10.1021/ja0153161

Palladium in Heterocyclic Chemistry. A Guide for the Synthetic Chemist. Tetrahedron Organic Chemistry Series, Volume 20 By Jie Jack Li (Pfizer Global Research and Development) and Gordon W. Gribble (Dartmouth College). Pergamon (An Imprint of Elsevier):  Amsterdam and New York. 2000. xviii + 413 pp. $52.50 Paperback. ISBN:  0-08-043704-4. James H. Rigby pp 3188–3189 DOI: 10.1021/ja015318l

Organobismuth Chemistry Edited by Hitomi Suzuki (Kwansei Gakuin University) and Yoshihiro Matano (Kyoto University). Elsevier:  Amsterdam. 2001. xvi + 620 pp. $147.00. ISBN:  0-444-20528-4. Neil Burford p 3189 DOI: 10.1021/ja015340e

Solid Support Oligosaccharide Synthesis and Combinatorial Carbohydrate Libraries Edited by Peter H. Seeberger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Wiley-Interscience:  New York. 2001. xii + 308 pp. $100. ISBN 0-471-37828-3. Vince Pozsgay pp 3189–3190 DOI: 10.1021/ja0153464

Issue 13

Controlling the Work Function of Indium Tin Oxide:  Differentiating Dipolar from Local Surface Effects Eric L. Bruner, Norbert Koch, Amelia R. Span, Steven L. Bernasek, Antoine Kahn, and Jeffrey Schwartz pp 3192–3193 DOI: 10.1021/ja012316s Supporting Info

Al-Free Sn-Beta Zeolite as a Catalyst for the Selective Reduction of Carbonyl Compounds (Meerwein−Ponndorf−Verley Reaction) Avelino Corma, Marcelo E. Domine, Laszlo Nemeth, and Susana Valencia pp 3194–3195 DOI: 10.1021/ja012297m Supporting Info

Direct Evidence for Base-Mediated Decomposition of Alkyl Hydroperoxides (ROOH) in the Gas Phase Stephen J. Blanksby, G. Barney Ellison, Veronica M. Bierbaum, and Shuji Kato pp 3196–3197 DOI: 10.1021/ja017658c Supporting Info

Unexpected Role of O-2 “Protecting” Groups of Glycosyl Donors in Mediating Regioselective Glycosidation1 Bert Fraser-Reid, J. Cristobal Lopez, K. V. Radhakrishnan, Mateusz Mach, Urs Schlueter, Ana M. Gomez, and Clara Uriel pp 3198–3199 DOI: 10.1021/ja012383m Supporting Info

Triple-Quantum Magic Angle Spinning 27Al NMR of Aluminum Hydroxides Krishnan Damodaran, Pattuparambil R. Rajamohanan, Debojit Chakrabarty, Uday Shankar Racherla, Venkat Manohar, Christian Fernandez, Jean-Paul Amoureux, and Subramanian Ganapathy pp 3200–3201 DOI: 10.1021/ja011532y Supporting Info

Intermediacy of an N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complex in the Catalytic C−H Activation of a Substituted Benzimidazole Kian L. Tan, Robert G. Bergman, and Jonathan A. Ellman pp 3202–3203 DOI: 10.1021/ja017351d Supporting Info

13C{13C} 2D NMR:  A Novel Strategy for the Study of Paramagnetic Proteins with Slow Electronic Relaxation Rates Timothy E. Machonkin, William M. Westler, and John L. Markley pp 3204–3205 DOI: 10.1021/ja017733j

“True” Iron(V) and Iron(VI) Porphyrins:  A First Theoretical Exploration Abhishek Dey and Abhik Ghosh pp 3206–3207 DOI: 10.1021/ja012402s Supporting Info

Ab Initio Direct Dynamics Study of Cyclopropyl Radical Ring-Opening David J. Mann and William L. Hase pp 3208–3209 DOI: 10.1021/ja017343x

Engineering an Obligate Domain-Swapped Dimer of Cyanovirin-N with Enhanced Anti-HIV Activity Brendan S. Kelley, Leng Chee Chang, and Carole A. Bewley pp 3210–3211 DOI: 10.1021/ja025537m Supporting Info

A Trinickel Dipyridylamido Complex with Metal−Metal Bonding Interaction:  Prelude to Polynickel Molecular Wires and Devices? John F. Berry, F. Albert Cotton, Lee M. Daniels, and Carlos A. Murillo pp 3212–3213 DOI: 10.1021/ja025543i Supporting Info

Two-Dimensional 13C−13C Correlation Spectroscopy with Magic Angle Spinning and Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Melanie Rosay, Volker Weis, Kenneth E. Kreischer, Richard J. Temkin, and Robert G. Griffin pp 3214–3215 DOI: 10.1021/ja0176752

Formation and Structure of a Novel Enediyne−RNA Base Covalent Adduct Zhi-Hong Jiang, Geum-Sook Hwang, Zhen Xi, and Irving H. Goldberg pp 3216–3217 DOI: 10.1021/ja0176292 Supporting Info

Single Flexible Hydrophobic Polyelectrolyte Molecules Adsorbed on Solid Substrate:  Transition between a Stretched Chain, Necklace-like Conformation and a Globule Sergiy Minko, Anton Kiriy, Ganna Gorodyska, and Manfred Stamm pp 3218–3219 DOI: 10.1021/ja017767r

Aqueous Aldol Catalysis by a Nicotine Metabolite Tobin J. Dickerson and Kim D. Janda pp 3220–3221 DOI: 10.1021/ja017774f Supporting Info

Built to Order:  Molecular Tinkertoys from the [Re6(μ3-Se)8]2+ Clusters Bryan K. Roland, Hugh D. Selby, Michael D. Carducci, and Zhiping Zheng pp 3222–3223 DOI: 10.1021/ja025869r Supporting Info

Ring Expansion via Olefin Metathesis Choon Woo Lee, Tae-Lim Choi, and Robert H. Grubbs pp 3224–3225 DOI: 10.1021/ja017790c Supporting Info

TpPt(IV)Me(H)2 Forms a σ-CH4 Complex That Is Kinetically Resistant to Methane Liberation H. Christine Lo, Ariel Haskel, Moshe Kapon, and Ehud Keinan pp 3226–3228 DOI: 10.1021/ja010464c Supporting Info

Design of Novel Antibiotics that Bind to the Ribosomal Acyltransfer Site Jalal Haddad, Lakshmi P. Kotra, Beatriz Llano-Sotelo, Choonkeun Kim, Eduardo F. Azucena, Jr., Meizheng Liu, Sergei B. Vakulenko, Christine S. Chow, and Shahriar Mobashery pp 3229–3237 DOI: 10.1021/ja011695m Supporting Info

Characterization of an RNA Active Site:  Interactions between a Diels−Alderase Ribozyme and Its Substrates and Products Friedrich Stuhlmann and Andres Jäschke pp 3238–3244 DOI: 10.1021/ja0167405 Supporting Info

Total Synthesis and Initial Structure−Function Analysis of the Potent V-ATPase Inhibitors Salicylihalamide A and Related Compounds Yusheng Wu, Xibin Liao, Ruifang Wang, Xiao-Song Xie, and Jef K. De Brabander pp 3245–3253 DOI: 10.1021/ja0177713 Supporting Info

Substituted 1,8-Naphthyridin-2(1H)-ones Are Superior to Thymine in the Recognition of Adenine in Duplex as Well as Triplex Structures Anne B. Eldrup, Caspar Christensen, Gerald Haaima, and Peter E. Nielsen pp 3254–3262 DOI: 10.1021/ja0117027

Synthesis and Characterization of Oligodeoxynucleotides Containing Formamidopyrimidine Lesions and Nonhydrolyzable Analogues Kazuhiro Haraguchi, Michael O. Delaney, Carissa J. Wiederholt, Aruna Sambandam, Zsolt Hantosi, and Marc M. Greenberg pp 3263–3269 DOI: 10.1021/ja012135q Supporting Info

Identification of a Protein-Promoting Vibration in the Reaction Catalyzed by Horse Liver Alcohol Dehydrogenase Stavros Caratzoulas, Joshua S. Mincer, and Steven D. Schwartz pp 3270–3276 DOI: 10.1021/ja017146y

Exploring the Hydroxylation−Dehydrogenation Connection:  Novel Catalytic Activity of Castor Stearoyl-ACP Δ9 Desaturase Behnaz Behrouzian, Christopher K. Savile, Brian Dawson, Peter H. Buist, and John Shanklin pp 3277–3283 DOI: 10.1021/ja012252l

Cation−π Interaction in Model α-Helical Peptides Zhengshuang Shi, C. Anders Olson, and Neville R. Kallenbach pp 3284–3291 DOI: 10.1021/ja0174938

Highly anti-Selective Asymmetric Aldol Reactions Using Chiral Zirconium Catalysts. Improvement of Activities, Structure of the Novel Zirconium Complexes, and Effect of a Small Amount of Water for the Preparation of the Catalysts Yasuhiro Yamashita, Haruro Ishitani, Haruka Shimizu, and Shū Kobayashi pp 3292–3302 DOI: 10.1021/ja016293t Supporting Info

Activation of Acyl Phosphate Monoesters by Lanthanide Ions:  Enhanced Reactivity of Benzoyl Methyl Phosphate Ronald Kluger and Lisa L. Cameron pp 3303–3308 DOI: 10.1021/ja016600v

Ligand-Modulated Stereo- and Regioselective Tandem Addition Reactions of Rhenium-Bound Naphthalene Mark T. Valahovic, T. Brent Gunnoe, Michal Sabat, and W. Dean Harman pp 3309–3315 DOI: 10.1021/ja012066f Supporting Info

Formation of Cyclodimeric (sp2-C1)-Bridged Cp/-Oxido (“CpC1O”MIVX2) Group 4 Metal Ziegler−Natta Catalyst SystemsHow Important Is the “Constrained Geometry” Effect? Klaus Kunz, Gerhard Erker, Gerald Kehr, Roland Fröhlich, Heiko Jacobsen, Heinz Berke, and Olivier Blacque pp 3316–3326 DOI: 10.1021/ja010943b Supporting Info

Living Polymerization of Ethylene Catalyzed by Titanium Complexes Having Fluorine-Containing Phenoxy−Imine Chelate Ligands Makoto Mitani, Jun-ichi Mohri, Yasunori Yoshida, Junji Saito, Seiichi Ishii, Kazutaka Tsuru, Shigekazu Matsui, Rieko Furuyama, Takashi Nakano, Hidetsugu Tanaka, Shin-ichi Kojoh, Tomoaki Matsugi, Norio Kashiwa, and Terunori Fujita pp 3327–3336 DOI: 10.1021/ja0117581 Supporting Info

A First Transition Series Pseudotetrahedral Oxynitride Anion:  Synthesis and Characterization of Ba2VO3N Simon J. Clarke, Paul R. Chalker, Jasper Holman, Charles W. Michie, Matthieu Puyet, and Matthew J. Rosseinsky pp 3337–3342 DOI: 10.1021/ja0122896 Supporting Info

Nearly Monodisperse and Shape-Controlled CdSe Nanocrystals via Alternative Routes:  Nucleation and Growth Z. Adam Peng and Xiaogang Peng pp 3343–3353 DOI: 10.1021/ja0173167 Supporting Info

Enhancement of Twisting Power in the Chiral Nematic Phase by Introducing Achiral Banana-Shaped Molecules Jirakorn Thisayukta, Hiroko Niwano, Hideo Takezoe, and Junji Watanabe pp 3354–3358 DOI: 10.1021/ja0123249

Naked Clusters of 56 Tin Atoms in the Solid State Svilen Bobev and Slavi C. Sevov pp 3359–3365 DOI: 10.1021/ja012549j Supporting Info

Intercalators. 1. Nature of Stacking Interactions between Intercalators (Ethidium, Daunomycin, Ellipticine, and 4‘,6-Diaminide-2-phenylindole) and DNA Base Pairs. Ab Initio Quantum Chemical, Density Functional Theory, and Empirical Potential Study David Řeha, Martin Kabelá, Filip Ryjáek, Jiří Šponer, Judit E. Šponer, Marcus Elstner, Sándor Suhai, and Pavel Hobza pp 3366–3376 DOI: 10.1021/ja011490d Supporting Info

Dynamics of Alkane Hydroxylation at the Non-Heme Diiron Center in Methane Monooxygenase Victor Guallar, Benjamin F. Gherman, William H. Miller, Stephen J. Lippard, and Richard A. Friesner pp 3377–3384 DOI: 10.1021/ja0167248

Heme Distortions in Sperm-Whale Carbonmonoxy Myoglobin:  Correlations between Rotational Strengths and Heme Distortions in MD-Generated Structures Christoph Kiefl, Narasimha Sreerama, Raid Haddad, Lisong Sun, Walter Jentzen, Yi Lu, Yan Qiu, John A. Shelnutt, and Robert W. Woody pp 3385–3394 DOI: 10.1021/ja011961w Supporting Info

Detecting the Adsorption of Dye Molecules in Homogeneous Poly(propylene imine) Dendrimer Monolayers by Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensor Shengfu Chen, Qiuming Yu, Lingyan Li, Christina L. Boozer, Jiří Homola, Sinclair S. Yee, and Shaoyi Jiang pp 3395–3401 DOI: 10.1021/ja0170201

Breaking Bonds by Mechanical Stress:  When Do Electrons Decide for the Other Side? Daniel Aktah and Irmgard Frank pp 3402–3406 DOI: 10.1021/ja004010b

Intra- and Intermolecular Topological Properties of Amino Acids:  A Comparative Study of Experimental and Theoretical Results R. Flaig, T. Koritsanszky, B. Dittrich, A. Wagner, and P. Luger pp 3407–3417 DOI: 10.1021/ja011492y Supporting Info

The Laser-Induced Blue State of Bacteriorhodopsin:  Mechanistic and Color Regulatory Roles of Protein−Protein Interactions, Protein−Lipid Interactions, and Metal Ions Mark B. Masthay, David M. Sammeth, Merritt C. Helvenston, Charles B. Buckman, Wuyi Li, Michael J. Cde-Baca, and John T. Kofron pp 3418–3430 DOI: 10.1021/ja010116a Supporting Info

NMR Conformational Analysis of Antide, a Potent Antagonist of the Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone Giuseppe Digilio, Chiara Bracco, Luca Barbero, Daniela Chicco, Maria D. Del Curto, Pierandrea Esposito, Silvio Traversa, and Silvio Aime pp 3431–3442 DOI: 10.1021/ja0115464 Supporting Info

Investigation on the Nature of the Adsorption Sites of Pyrrole in Alkali-Exchanged Zeolite Y by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Combination with Infrared Spectroscopy Manuel Sánchez-Sánchez and Teresa Blasco pp 3443–3456 DOI: 10.1021/ja011912j

Possible Strategies toward the Elusive Tetraaminodisilene Thomas Müller and Yitzhak Apeloig pp 3457–3460 DOI: 10.1021/ja011956s Supporting Info

Photogeneration and Quenching of Reactive Oxygen Species by Urocanic Acid Nicole Haralampus-Grynaviski, Carla Ransom, Tong Ye, Małgorzata Rôżanowska, Marta Wrona, Tadeusz Sarna, and John D. Simon pp 3461–3468 DOI: 10.1021/ja016902x

The Search for Bishomoaromatic Semibullvalenes and Barbaralanes:  Computational Evidence of Their Identification by UV/Vis and IR Spectroscopy and Prediction of the Existence of a Blue Bishomoaromatic Semibullvalene Alan C. Goren, David A. Hrovat, Maximilian Seefelder, Helmut Quast, and Weston Thatcher Borden pp 3469–3472 DOI: 10.1021/ja0122290 Supporting Info

Horseradish Peroxidase Catalyzed Nitric Oxide Formation from Hydroxyurea Jinming Huang, Erin M. Sommers, Daniel B. Kim-Shapiro, and S. Bruce King pp 3473–3480 DOI: 10.1021/ja012271v

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Hydrogen-Bond-Mediated Tuning of the Redox Potential of the Non-Heme Fe Site of Superoxide Dismutase Emine Yikilmaz, Juan Xie, Thomas C. Brunold, and Anne-Frances Miller pp 3482–3483 DOI: 10.1021/ja011220v Supporting Info

A Fast and Easy Computational Method to Calculate the 13C NMR Chemical Shift of Organic Species Adsorbed on the Zeolite Surface Rodrigo J. Corrêa and Claudio J. A. Mota pp 3484–3485 DOI: 10.1021/ja012583y Supporting Info

Heterosuperbenzenes:  A New Family of Nitrogen-Functionalized, Graphitic Molecules Sylvia M. Draper, Daniel J. Gregg, and Rethi Madathil pp 3486–3487 DOI: 10.1021/ja017394u Supporting Info

Low-Activation Solid-State Syntheses by Reducing Transport Lengths to Atomic Scales As Demonstrated by Case Studies on AgNO3 and AgO Dieter Fischer and Martin Jansen pp 3488–3489 DOI: 10.1021/ja017845a

The Role of Configurational Entropy in Biochemical Cooperativity Sutjano Jusuf, Patrick J. Loll, and Paul H. Axelsen pp 3490–3491 DOI: 10.1021/ja017259h

Total Synthesis and Proof of Structure of Mycothiol Bimane Gillian M. Nicholas, Pavol Ková, and Carole A. Bewley pp 3492–3493 DOI: 10.1021/ja017891a Supporting Info

Crystallographic Characterization and Structural Analysis of the First Organic Functionalization Product of the Endohedral Fullerene Sc3N@C80 Hon Man Lee, Marilyn M. Olmstead, Erick Iezzi, James C. Duchamp, Harry C. Dorn, and Alan L. Balch pp 3494–3495 DOI: 10.1021/ja020065x Supporting Info

Epoxyquinol A, a Highly Functionalized Pentaketide Dimer with Antiangiogenic Activity Isolated from Fungal Metabolites Hideaki Kakeya, Rie Onose, Hiroyuki Koshino, Arika Yoshida, Kimiko Kobayashi, Shun-Ichiro Kageyama, and Hiroyuki Osada pp 3496–3497 DOI: 10.1021/ja0127279 Supporting Info

Enzymatic Synthesis of Chiral Organophosphothioates from Prochiral Precursors Wen-Shan Li, Yingchun Li, Craig M. Hill, Karin T. Lum, and Frank M. Raushel pp 3498–3499 DOI: 10.1021/ja017840d

Nickel-BINAP Catalyzed Enantioselective α-Arylation of α-Substituted γ-Butyrolactones Dirk J. Spielvogel and Stephen L. Buchwald pp 3500–3501 DOI: 10.1021/ja017545t Supporting Info

Stereoselective Cyclopropanation by Cyclocopolymerization of Butadiene Stefania Pragliola, Giuseppe Milano, Gaetano Guerra, and Pasquale Longo pp 3502–3503 DOI: 10.1021/ja017416c Supporting Info

Photoinduced Supramolecular Chirality in Amorphous Azobenzene Polymer Films Mi-Jeong Kim, Bu-Gon Shin, Jang-Joo Kim, and Dong-Yu Kim pp 3504–3505 DOI: 10.1021/ja017454w

Ruthenium-Mediated Cycloaromatization of Acyclic Enediynes and Dienynes at Ambient Temperature Joseph M. O'Connor, Seth J. Friese, and Mark Tichenor pp 3506–3507 DOI: 10.1021/ja017873t Supporting Info

Selective Binding of Mannose-Encapsulated Gold Nanoparticles to Type 1 Pili in Escherichia coli Chun-Cheng Lin, Yi-Chun Yeh, Chan-Yi Yang, Chan-Long Chen, Gee-Fong Chen, Chia-Chun Chen, and Yi-Chun Wu pp 3508–3509 DOI: 10.1021/ja0200903 Supporting Info

A Modular Assembly Strategy for Improving the Substrate Specificity of Small Catalytic Peptides Fujie Tanaka and Carlos F. Barbas, III pp 3510–3511 DOI: 10.1021/ja0171815 Supporting Info

Tetracyanide-Bridged Divanadium Complexes:  Redox Switching between Strong Antiferromagnetic and Strong Ferromagnetic Coupling Matthew P. Shores and Jeffrey R. Long pp 3512–3513 DOI: 10.1021/ja025512n Supporting Info

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Detects a Specific Peptide−Protein Binding Event Luis M. De León-Rodríguez, Alfonso Ortiz, Allison L. Weiner, Shanrong Zhang, Zoltan Kovacs, Thomas Kodadek, and A. Dean Sherry pp 3514–3515 DOI: 10.1021/ja025511v Supporting Info

Negative Differential Resistance in Phenylene Ethynylene Oligomers J. Cornil, Y. Karzazi, and J. L. Brédas pp 3516–3517 DOI: 10.1021/ja017475q

Selective Syntheses of Metalated Pyridines from Two Different Unsymmetrical Acetylenes, a Nitrile, and a Titanium(II) Alkoxide Daisuke Suzuki, Ryoichi Tanaka, Hirokazu Urabe, and Fumie Sato pp 3518–3519 DOI: 10.1021/ja017766z Supporting Info

Crystals of Crystals:  Fabrication of Encapsulated and Ordered Two-Dimensional Arrays of Microcrystals Venkat R. Thalladi and George M. Whitesides pp 3520–3521 DOI: 10.1021/ja012697+

Structural Chemistry of a Green Fluorescent Protein Zn Biosensor David P. Barondeau, Carey J. Kassmann, John A. Tainer, and Elizabeth D. Getzoff pp 3522–3524 DOI: 10.1021/ja0176954 Supporting Info

Sequestering of Eu(III) by a GAAA RNA Tetraloop Claudius Mundoma and Nancy L. Greenbaum pp 3525–3532 DOI: 10.1021/ja012268b

Kinetics of Disassembly of a DNA-Bound Porphyrin Supramolecular Array Robert F. Pasternack, Esther J. Gibbs, Derek Bruzewicz, David Stewart, and Kelly Shannon Engstrom pp 3533–3539 DOI: 10.1021/ja0124820

Internally Mismatched RNA:  pH and Solvent Dependence of the Thermal Unfolding of tRNAAla Acceptor Stem Microhairpins Ewa Biała and Peter Strazewski pp 3540–3545 DOI: 10.1021/ja0161305 Supporting Info

Thermodynamic Correlation Analysis:  Hydration and Perturbation Sensitivity of RNA Secondary Structures Peter Strazewski pp 3546–3554 DOI: 10.1021/ja016131x Supporting Info

Deoxyribozyme-Based Logic Gates Milan N. Stojanovic, Tiffany Elizabeth Mitchell, and Darko Stefanovic pp 3555–3561 DOI: 10.1021/ja016756v Supporting Info

Convergent Synthesis of Polycyclic Ethers via the Intramolecular Allylation of α-Acetoxy Ethers and Subsequent Ring-Closing Metathesis Isao Kadota, Akio Ohno, Kumiko Matsuda, and Yoshinori Yamamoto pp 3562–3566 DOI: 10.1021/ja025523g Supporting Info

Reactions of N-Methyl-N-(4-biphenylyl)nitrenium Ion with Electron-Rich Arenes:  Laser Flash Photolysis and Product Studies Dominic Chiapperino, Sean McIlroy, and Daniel E. Falvey pp 3567–3577 DOI: 10.1021/ja011049n Supporting Info

Catalytic Regioselective Sulfonylation of α-Chelatable Alcohols:  Scope and Mechanistic Insight Michael J. Martinelli, Rajappa Vaidyanathan, Joseph M. Pawlak, Naresh K. Nayyar, Ulhas P. Dhokte, Christopher W. Doecke, Lisa M. H. Zollars, Eric D. Moher, Vien Van Khau, and Berta Košmrlj pp 3578–3585 DOI: 10.1021/ja016031r Supporting Info

Regulation of One-Electron Oxidation Rate of Guanine by Base Pairing with Cytosine Derivatives Kiyohiko Kawai, Yasuharu Wata, Michihiro Hara, Sachiko Tojo, and Tetsuro Majima pp 3586–3590 DOI: 10.1021/ja016530s

Solid-Phase Synthesis of Oligosaccharides and On-Resin Quantitative Monitoring Using Gated Decoupling 13C NMR Takuya Kanemitsu, Chi-Huey Wong, and Osamu Kanie pp 3591–3599 DOI: 10.1021/ja0167396

Unusual Temperature Dependence in the cis/trans-Oxetane Formation Discloses Competitive Syn versus Anti Attack for the Paternò−Büchi Reaction of Triplet-Excited Ketones with cis- and trans-Cylooctenes. Conformational Control of Diastereoselectivity in the Cyclization and Cleavage of Preoxetane Diradicals Waldemar Adam and Veit R. Stegmann pp 3600–3607 DOI: 10.1021/ja017017h Supporting Info

Stereoselective Synthesis of Tetrahydrofurans via Formal [3+2]-Cycloaddition of Aldehydes and Allylsilanes. Formal Total Synthesis of the Muscarine Alkaloids (−)-Allomuscarine and (+)-Epimuscarine Steven R. Angle and Nahla A. El-Said pp 3608–3613 DOI: 10.1021/ja012193b Supporting Info

Mechanism of Propylene Insertion Using Bis(phenoxyimine)-Based Titanium Catalysts:  An Unusual Secondary Insertion of Propylene in a Group IV Catalyst System Phillip D. Hustad, Jun Tian, and Geoffrey W. Coates pp 3614–3621 DOI: 10.1021/ja0122593 Supporting Info

Antihydrophobic Cosolvent Effects for Alkylation Reactions in Water Solution, Particularly Oxygen versus Carbon Alkylations of Phenoxide Ions Ronald Breslow, Kevin Groves, and M. Uljana Mayer pp 3622–3635 DOI: 10.1021/ja012293h

The Boron-Catalyzed Polymerization of Dimethylsulfoxonium Methylide. A Living Polymethylene Synthesis Brett B. Busch, Manuel M. Paz, Kenneth J. Shea, Chad L. Staiger, Jonathan M. Stoddard, James R. Walker, Xian-Zhi Zhou, and Huide Zhu pp 3636–3646 DOI: 10.1021/ja017376c

Enantio- and Diastereoselective Stepwise Cyclization of Polyprenoids Induced by Chiral and Achiral LBAs. A New Entry to (−)-Ambrox, (+)-Podocarpa-8,11,13-triene Diterpenoids, and (−)-Tetracyclic Polyprenoid of Sedimentary Origin Kazuaki Ishihara, Hideaki Ishibashi, and Hisashi Yamamoto pp 3647–3655 DOI: 10.1021/ja0124865 Supporting Info

The First Total Synthesis of Lipid II:  The Final Monomeric Intermediate in Bacterial Cell Wall Biosynthesis Michael S. VanNieuwenhze, Scott C. Mauldin, Mohammad Zia-Ebrahimi, Brian E. Winger, William J. Hornback, Shankar L. Saha, James A. Aikins, and Larry C. Blaszczak pp 3656–3660 DOI: 10.1021/ja017386d Supporting Info

Synthesis, Properties, and Reactivity of Cocaine Benzoylthio Ester Possessing the Cocaine Absolute Configuration Shigeki Isomura, Timothy Z. Hoffman, Peter Wirsching, and Kim D. Janda pp 3661–3668 DOI: 10.1021/ja012376y Supporting Info

A General Nickel-Catalyzed Hydroamination of 1,3-Dienes by Alkylamines:  Catalyst Selection, Scope, and Mechanism Jan Pawlas, Yoshiaki Nakao, Motoi Kawatsura, and John F. Hartwig pp 3669–3679 DOI: 10.1021/ja017575w Supporting Info

The First Complete Identification of a Diastereomeric Catalyst−Substrate (Alkoxide) Species in an Enantioselective Ketone Hydrogenation. Mechanistic Investigations Christopher J. A. Daley and Steven H. Bergens pp 3680–3691 DOI: 10.1021/ja0102991

Acetylide-Bridged Organometallic Oligomers via the Photochemical Metathesis of Methyl−Iron(II) Complexes Leslie D. Field, Anthony J. Turnbull, and Peter Turner pp 3692–3702 DOI: 10.1021/ja011105k Supporting Info

Synthesis, Structure, and Bonding Properties of 5-Carbaphosphatranes:  A New Class of Main Group Atrane Junji Kobayashi, Kei Goto, Takayuki Kawashima, Michael W. Schmidt, and Shigeru Nagase pp 3703–3712 DOI: 10.1021/ja011458j Supporting Info

Chemical Control of Phase Transformation Kinetics in Periodic Silica/Surfactant Composites Adam F. Gross, Van H. Le, Bradley L. Kirsch, and Sarah H. Tolbert pp 3713–3724 DOI: 10.1021/ja0169668

Single-Molecule Magnets:  A New Family of Mn12 Clusters of Formula [Mn12O8X4(O2CPh)8L6] Colette Boskovic, Euan K. Brechin, William E. Streib, Kirsten Folting, John C. Bollinger, David N. Hendrickson, and George Christou pp 3725–3736 DOI: 10.1021/ja012403k Supporting Info

π-Complexation of Biphenyl, Naphthalene, and Triphenylene to Trimeric Perfluoro-ortho-phenylene Mercury. Formation of Extended Binary Stacks with Unusual Luminescent Properties Mason R. Haneline, Mitsukimi Tsunoda, and François P. Gabbaï pp 3737–3742 DOI: 10.1021/ja0166794 Supporting Info

Arene−Mercury Complexes Stabilized by Aluminum and Gallium Chloride:  Catalysts for H/D Exchange of Aromatic Compounds Alexander S. Borovik and Andrew R. Barron pp 3743–3748 DOI: 10.1021/ja012029o Supporting Info

Ru(II) and Os(II) Nucleosides and Oligonucleotides:  Synthesis and Properties Dennis J. Hurley and Yitzhak Tor pp 3749–3762 DOI: 10.1021/ja0123103 Supporting Info

Enzymatic GTP Hydrolysis:  Insights from an ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study Andrea Cavalli and Paolo Carloni pp 3763–3768 DOI: 10.1021/ja015821y Supporting Info

Second-Sphere Contributions to Substrate-Analogue Binding in Iron(III) Superoxide Dismutase Juan Xie, Emine Yikilmaz, Anne-Frances Miller, and Thomas C. Brunold pp 3769–3774 DOI: 10.1021/ja016254h Supporting Info

Energetics of Radical Transfer in DNA Photolyase Dragan M. Popović, Aleksandra Zmirić, Snežana D. Zarić, and Ernst-Walter Knapp pp 3775–3782 DOI: 10.1021/ja016249d Supporting Info

A New Interpretation of the IR Bands of Supported Rh(I) Monocarbonyl Complexes Georgi N. Vayssilov and Notker Rösch pp 3783–3786 DOI: 10.1021/ja011688y Supporting Info

Switching the Inside and the Outside of Aggregates of Water-Soluble Block Copolymers with Double Thermoresponsivity Michel Arotçaréna, Bettina Heise, Sultana Ishaya, and André Laschewsky pp 3787–3793 DOI: 10.1021/ja012167d Supporting Info

Formation and Decomposition of Distonic o-, m-, and p-Benzyne Radical Cations from Photolysis of Mg+(o-, m-, p-C6H4F2) Hai-Chuan Liu, Chang-Sheng Wang, Wenyue Guo, Yun-Dong Wu, and Shihe Yang pp 3794–3798 DOI: 10.1021/ja0122546 Supporting Info

Film Formation in Coatings. Mechanisms, Properties, and Morphology Edited by Theodore Provder (Polymer and Coatings Consultants) and Marek W. Urban (University of Southern Mississippi). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC (Distributed by Oxford University). viii + 304 pp. $130.00. ISBN:  0-8412-3712-3. p 3799 DOI: 10.1021/ja015355c

Solid-Liquid Interface Theory Edited by J. Woods Halley (University of Minnesota). American Chemical Society:  Washington DC (Distributed by Oxford Univ. Press). 2001. xvi + 230 pp. $110.00. ISBN:  0-8412-3717-4. p 3799 DOI: 10.1021/ja015357x

Polymer Research in Microgravity:  Polymerization and Processing Edited by James Patton Downey (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and John A. Pojman (University of Southern Mississippi). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC (Distributed by Oxford Univ. Press). 2001. xiv + 266 pp. $120.00. ISBN:  0-8412-3744-1. p 3799 DOI: 10.1021/ja015358p

Dictionary of Common Names:  Second, Extensively Enlarged Edition. Vol 1−5 Edited by FIZ Chemie Berlin. Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2001. 4642 pp. $2135. ISBN:  3-527-30288-3. p 3799 DOI: 10.1021/ja015360g

Metal Dihydrogen and σ-Bond Complexes:  Structure, Theory, and Reactivity By Gregory J. Kubas, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers:  New York. 2001. xvi + 472 pp. $95.00. ISBN 0-306-46465-9. Ray L. Sweany pp 3799–3800 DOI: 10.1021/ja0153417

Houben-Weyl. Methods in Organic Chemistry. Volume E 23 m. Substance Index:  Cyclic Compounds VIII, Polycyclic Compounds I. From the 4th Edition and the Additional and Supplementary Volumes to the 4th Edition Georg Thieme Verlag:  Stuttgart, New York. 2001. x + 772 pp. 3600 DM. ISBN:  3-13-124384-8. p 3800 DOI: 10.1021/ja015384n

Heme, Chlorophyll, and Bilins:  Methods and Protocols Edited by Alison G. Smith and Michael Witty (University of Cambridge). Humana Press:  Totowa, New Jersey. 2002. x + 340 pp. $125.00. ISBN 1-58829-111-1. p 3800 DOI: 10.1021/ja0153868

Handbook of Toxicology. Second Edition Edited by Michael J. Derelanko (Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, New Jersey) and Mannfred A. Hollinger (University of California, Davis). CRC Press:  Boca Raton. 2002. xxiv + 1414 pp. $149.95. ISBN 0-8493-0370-2. p 3800 DOI: 10.1021/ja0153870

Issue 15

A New Mechanism for Metal-Catalyzed Stannane Dehydrocoupling Based on α-H-Elimination in a Hafnium Hydrostannyl Complex Nathan R. Neale and T. Don Tilley pp 3802–3803 DOI: 10.1021/ja017495s Supporting Info

Absolute Configuration of D2-Symmetric Fullerene C84 Filipp Furche and Reinhart Ahlrichs pp 3804–3805 DOI: 10.1021/ja012207d

CO-Transfer Carbonylation Reactions. A Catalytic Pauson−Khand-Type Reaction of Enynes with Aldehydes as a Source of Carbon Monoxide Tsumoru Morimoto, Koji Fuji, Ken Tsutsumi, and Kiyomi Kakiuchi pp 3806–3807 DOI: 10.1021/ja0126881 Supporting Info

Asymmetric Diels−Alder Reactions Catalyzed by a Triflic Acid Activated Chiral Oxazaborolidine E. J. Corey, Takanori Shibata, and Thomas W. Lee pp 3808–3809 DOI: 10.1021/ja025848x Supporting Info

Nonpeptide Inhibitors of Cathepsin G:  Optimization of a Novel β-Ketophosphonic Acid Lead by Structure-Based Drug Design Michael N. Greco, Michael J. Hawkins, Eugene T. Powell, Harold R. Almond, Jr., Thomas W. Corcoran, Lawrence de Garavilla, Jack A. Kauffman, Rosario Recacha, Debashish Chattopadhyay, Patricia Andrade-Gordon, and Bruce E. Maryanoff pp 3810–3811 DOI: 10.1021/ja017506h Supporting Info

Cascade Radical Reactions Catalyzed by a Pd/Light System:  Cyclizative Multiple Carbonylation of 4-Alkenyl Iodides Ilhyong Ryu, Sergio Kreimerman, Fumikazu Araki, Satoshi Nishitani, Yoji Oderaotoshi, Satoshi Minakata, and Mitsuo Komatsu pp 3812–3813 DOI: 10.1021/ja017315e Supporting Info

Decay of the Transient CuB−CO Complex Is Accompanied by Formation of the Heme Fe−CO Complex of Cytochrome cbb3−CO at Ambient Temperature:  Evidence from Time-Resolved Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Stavros Stavrakis, Konstantinos Koutsoupakis, Eftychia Pinakoulaki, Andrea Urbani, Matti Saraste, and Constantinos Varotsis pp 3814–3815 DOI: 10.1021/ja0169825

Rapid Cross-Disproportionation between Superoxometal Ions and Acylperoxyl Radicals Andreja Bakac pp 3816–3817 DOI: 10.1021/ja025507j

Stable Formally Zerovalent and Diamagnetic Monovalent Niobium and Tantalum Complexes Based on Diazadiene Ligands P. James Daff, Michel Etienne, Bruno Donnadieu, Sushilla Z. Knottenbelt, and John E. McGrady pp 3818–3819 DOI: 10.1021/ja017303t Supporting Info

Bio-Barcodes Based on Oligonucleotide-Modified Nanoparticles Jwa-Min Nam, So-Jung Park, and Chad A. Mirkin pp 3820–3821 DOI: 10.1021/ja0178766

Anionic Cyclization of a Cross-Conjugated Enediyne Lior Eshdat, Harald Berger, Henning Hopf, and Mordecai Rabinovitz pp 3822–3823 DOI: 10.1021/ja0174074

Osmium Tetroxide-Promoted Catalytic Oxidative Cleavage of Olefins:  An Organometallic Ozonolysis Benjamin R. Travis, Radha S. Narayan, and Babak Borhan pp 3824–3825 DOI: 10.1021/ja017295g Supporting Info

Using “Internal Free Volume” to Increase Chromophore Alignment Timothy M. Long and Timothy M. Swager pp 3826–3827 DOI: 10.1021/ja017499x Supporting Info

A Full Interionic Potential for Na1+xZr2SixP3-xO12 Superionic Conductors P. Padma Kumar and Subramanian Yashonath pp 3828–3829 DOI: 10.1021/ja017356a

Excited-State Reactions of an Isolable Silylene with Aromatic Compounds Mitsuo Kira, Shintaro Ishida, Takeaki Iwamoto, and Chizuko Kabuto pp 3830–3831 DOI: 10.1021/ja025522o Supporting Info

Hyperfine Fields at the Li Site in LiFePO4-Type Olivine Materials for Lithium Rechargeable Batteries:  A 7Li MAS NMR and SQUID Study Michael C. Tucker, Marca M. Doeff, Thomas J. Richardson, Rita Fiñones, Elton J. Cairns, and Jeffrey A. Reimer pp 3832–3833 DOI: 10.1021/ja017838m

Positive Microcontact Printing Emmanuel Delamarche, Matthias Geissler, Heiko Wolf, and Bruno Michel pp 3834–3835 DOI: 10.1021/ja017854j

Hydrothermal Assembly of a Novel Three-Dimensional Framework Formed by [GdMo12O42]9- Anions and Nine Coordinated GdIII Cations Chuan-De Wu, Can-Zhong Lu, Hong-Hui Zhuang, and Jin-Shun Huang pp 3836–3837 DOI: 10.1021/ja017782w Supporting Info

Tetraphenyl-p-benziporphyrin:  A Carbaporphyrinoid with Two Linked Carbon Atoms in the Coordination Core Marcin Stpień and Lechosław Latos-Grażyński pp 3838–3839 DOI: 10.1021/ja017852z Supporting Info

Design and Synthesis of a Fluorescent Reporter of Protein Kinase Activity Chien-An Chen, Ren-Hwa Yeh, and David S. Lawrence pp 3840–3841 DOI: 10.1021/ja017530v Supporting Info

Retention of Configuration on the Oxidative Addition of P−H Bond to Platinum (0) Complexes:  The First Straightforward Synthesis of Enantiomerically Pure P-Chiral Alkenylphosphinates via Palladium-Catalyzed Stereospecific Hydrophosphinylation of Alkynes Li-Biao Han, Chang-Qiu Zhao, Shun-ya Onozawa, Midori Goto, and Masato Tanaka pp 3842–3843 DOI: 10.1021/ja025816+ Supporting Info

An Oft-Studied Reaction That May Never Have Been:  Direct Catalytic Conversion of Methanol or Dimethyl Ether to Hydrocarbons on the Solid Acids HZSM-5 or HSAPO-34 Weiguo Song, David M. Marcus, Hui Fu, Justin O. Ehresmann, and James F. Haw pp 3844–3845 DOI: 10.1021/ja016499u

Monomeric Phosphido and Phosphinidene Complexes of Nickel Rory Melenkivitz, Daniel J. Mindiola, and Gregory L. Hillhouse pp 3846–3847 DOI: 10.1021/ja017787t Supporting Info

An Unusual Palladium Complex Involved in an Unusual Rearrangement of Ortho-Palladated Aryldithioacetals José Vicente, José-Antonio Abad, Francisco S. Hernández-Mata, and Peter G. Jones pp 3848–3849 DOI: 10.1021/ja0175035 Supporting Info

Detection of a Proton-Transfer Process by Kinetic Solvent Isotope Effects in NH4+-Mediated Reactions Catalyzed by a Hammerhead Ribozyme Yasuomi Takagi and Kazunari Taira pp 3850–3852 DOI: 10.1021/ja011044q Supporting Info

Antihydrophobic Solvent Effects:  An Experimental Probe for the Hydrophobic Contribution to Enzyme−Inhibitor Binding Paul A. Bartlett, Naeem Yusuff, Alice C. Rico, and Mika K. Lindvall pp 3853–3857 DOI: 10.1021/ja012483s Supporting Info

Boundary Conditions for the Swain−Schaad Relationship as a Criterion for Hydrogen Tunneling Amnon Kohen and Jan H. Jensen pp 3858–3864 DOI: 10.1021/ja016909e

Temperature-Dependent Isotope Effects in Soybean Lipoxygenase-1:  Correlating Hydrogen Tunneling with Protein Dynamics Michael J. Knapp, Keith Rickert, and Judith P. Klinman pp 3865–3874 DOI: 10.1021/ja012205t Supporting Info

Alteration of the Selectivity of DNA Cleavage by a Deglycobleomycin Analogue Containing a Trithiazole Moiety Craig J. Thomas, Michael M. McCormick, Corine Vialas, Zhi-Fu Tao, Christopher J. Leitheiser, Michael J. Rishel, Xihan Wu, and Sidney M. Hecht* pp 3875–3884 DOI: 10.1021/ja011820u

Folding Disulfide-Containing Proteins Faster with an Aromatic Thiol Jonathan D. Gough, Rhondye H. Williams, Jr., Anthony E. Donofrio, and Watson J. Lees pp 3885–3892 DOI: 10.1021/ja016938p

A Comparative Photomechanistic Study (Spin Trapping, EPR Spectroscopy, Transient Kinetics, Photoproducts) of Nucleoside Oxidation (dG and 8-oxodG) by Triplet-Excited Acetophenones and by the Radicals Generated from α-Oxy-Substituted Derivatives through Norrish-Type I Cleavage Waldemar Adam, Markus A. Arnold, Werner M. Nau, Uwe Pischel, and Chantu R. Saha-Möller pp 3893–3904 DOI: 10.1021/ja017600y Supporting Info

Low-Temperature Photosensitized Oxidation of a Guanosine Derivative and Formation of an Imidazole Ring-Opened Product Chimin Sheu, Ping Kang, Saeed Khan, and Christopher S. Foote pp 3905–3913 DOI: 10.1021/ja011696e Supporting Info

Cooperative Binding Interactions of Glycopeptide Antibiotics Hideyuki Shiozawa, Brian C. S. Chia, Nichola L. Davies, Rosa Zerella, and Dudley H. Williams pp 3914–3919 DOI: 10.1021/ja012273f

A Fluorescent Anion Sensor That Works in Neutral Aqueous Solution for Bioanalytical Application Shin Mizukami, Tetsuo Nagano, Yasuteru Urano, Akira Odani, and Kazuya Kikuchi pp 3920–3925 DOI: 10.1021/ja0175643 Supporting Info

The Effect of Macromolecular Architecture in Nanomaterials:  A Comparison of Site Isolation in Porphyrin Core Dendrimers and Their Isomeric Linear Analogues Eva M. Harth, Stefan Hecht, Brett Helms, Eva E. Malmstrom, Jean M. J. Fréchet, and Craig J. Hawker pp 3926–3938 DOI: 10.1021/ja025536u

Stereoselective Total Syntheses and Reassignment of Stereochemistry of the Freshwater Cyanobacterial Hepatotoxins Cylindrospermopsin and 7-Epicylindrospermopsin Geoffrey R. Heintzelman, Wen-Kui Fang, Stephen P. Keen, Grier A. Wallace, and Steven M. Weinreb pp 3939–3945 DOI: 10.1021/ja020032h Supporting Info

Polymeric Complexes of Silver(I) with Diphosphine Ligands:  Self-Assembly of a Puckered Sheet Network Structure Marie-Claude Brandys and Richard J. Puddephatt pp 3946–3950 DOI: 10.1021/ja0113293 Supporting Info

Variable-Temperature Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Allows Direct Observation of Carboxylate Shift in Zinc Carboxylate Complexes Alojz Demšar, Janez Košmrlj, and Saša Petriek pp 3951–3958 DOI: 10.1021/ja016534x Supporting Info

Gold(I) Macrocycles and Topologically Chiral [2]Catenanes Christopher P. McArdle, Steve Van, Michael C. Jennings, and Richard J. Puddephatt pp 3959–3965 DOI: 10.1021/ja012006+ Supporting Info

Pb3F5NO3, a Cationic Layered Material for Anion-Exchange Dat T. Tran, Peter Y. Zavalij, and Scott R. J. Oliver pp 3966–3969 DOI: 10.1021/ja017333w Supporting Info

Kinetic Isotope Effects in Cycloreversion of Rhenium (V) Diolates Kevin P. Gable and Fedor A. Zhuravlev pp 3970–3979 DOI: 10.1021/ja017736w Supporting Info

CdS Nanoparticles Modified to Chalcogen Sites:  New Supramolecular Complexes, Butterfly Bridging, and Related Optical Effects Tong Ni, Dattatri K. Nagesha, Juvencio Robles, Nicholas F. Materer, Stefan Müssig, and Nicholas A. Kotov pp 3980–3992 DOI: 10.1021/ja017149a Supporting Info

Functional Mimic of Dioxygen-Activating Centers in Non-Heme Diiron Enzymes:  Mechanistic Implications of Paramagnetic Intermediates in the Reactions between Diiron(II) Complexes and Dioxygen Dongwhan Lee, Brad Pierce, Carsten Krebs, Michael P. Hendrich, Boi Hanh Huynh, and Stephen J. Lippard pp 3993–4007 DOI: 10.1021/ja012251t Supporting Info

Investigation of the Electron-Transfer Mechanism by Cross-Linking between Zn-substituted Myoglobin and Cytochrome b5 Yoshiaki Furukawa, Fumihiro Matsuda, Koichiro Ishimori, and Isao Morishima pp 4008–4019 DOI: 10.1021/ja0171916

Template Synthesis of Metal Nanowires Containing Monolayer Molecular Junctions Jeremiah K. N. Mbindyo, Thomas E. Mallouk, James B. Mattzela, Irena Kratochvilova, Baharak Razavi, Thomas N. Jackson, and Theresa S. Mayer pp 4020–4026 DOI: 10.1021/ja016696t

Proton Transfer Reactions on Semiconductor Surfaces Collin Mui, Joseph H. Han, George T. Wang, Charles B. Musgrave, and Stacey F. Bent pp 4027–4038 DOI: 10.1021/ja0171512 Supporting Info

A Mechanism from Quantum Chemical Studies for Methane Formation in Methanogenesis Vladimir Pelmenschikov, Margareta R. A. Blomberg, Per E. M. Siegbahn, and Robert H. Crabtree pp 4039–4049 DOI: 10.1021/ja011664r

Measurement of Long-Range Cross-Correlation Rates Using a Combination of Single- and Multiple-Quantum NMR Spectroscopy in One Experiment Dominique Früh, Elisabetta Chiarparin, Philippe Pelupessy, and Geoffrey Bodenhausen pp 4050–4057 DOI: 10.1021/ja011790v Supporting Info

Oxygen-Transfer Reactions between 3d Transition Metals and N2O and NO2 András Stirling pp 4058–4067 DOI: 10.1021/ja0118946

Photoisomerization and Photodissociation of Toluene in Molecular Beam Chih-Kai Lin, Cheng-Liang Huang, Jyh-Chiang Jiang, A. H. H. Chang, Yuan T. Lee, S. H. Lin, and Chi-Kung Ni pp 4068–4075 DOI: 10.1021/ja0120678

Reactions of Carbocations with Unsaturated Hydrocarbons:  Electrophilic Alkylation or Hydride Abstraction? Herbert Mayr, Gabriele Lang, and Armin R. Ofial pp 4076–4083 DOI: 10.1021/ja0121538 Supporting Info

Rate-Equilibrium Relationships in Hydride Transfer Reactions:  The Role of Intrinsic Barriers Ernst-Ulrich Würthwein, Gabriele Lang, Ludwig H. Schappele, and Herbert Mayr pp 4084–4092 DOI: 10.1021/ja0121540 Supporting Info

A General Method for Determining the Electron Self-Exchange Rates of Blue Copper Proteins by Longitudinal NMR Relaxation Malene Ringkjøbing Jensen, D. Flemming Hansen, and Jens J. Led pp 4093–4096 DOI: 10.1021/ja012186n

How Much Do Enzymes Really Gain by Restraining Their Reacting Fragments? A. Shurki, M. Štrajbl, J. Villà, and A. Warshel pp 4097–4107 DOI: 10.1021/ja012230z Supporting Info

Hydrogen Atom Abstraction Reactions of Charged Polyaromatic σ-Radicals Related to the Active Intermediates of the Enediyne Antitumor Drugs Chris Petucci, Marianne Nyman, Leo Guler, and Hilkka Kenttämaa pp 4108–4115 DOI: 10.1021/ja012243c

Chemical Bonding in Group III Nitrides Aurora Costales, Miguel A. Blanco, Ángel Martín Pendás, Anil K. Kandalam, and Ravindra Pandey pp 4116–4123 DOI: 10.1021/ja017380o

Reaction Path Analysis of the “Tunable” Photoisomerization Selectivity of Free and Locked Retinal Chromophores Luca De Vico, Christopher S. Page, Marco Garavelli, Fernando Bernardi, Riccardo Basosi, and Massimo Olivucci pp 4124–4134 DOI: 10.1021/ja017502c Supporting Info

Theoretical Study of the Mechanism of Alkane Hydroxylation and Ethylene Epoxidation Reactions Catalyzed by Diiron Bis-oxo Complexes. The Effect of Substrate Molecules Djamaladdin G. Musaev, Harold Basch, and Keiji Morokuma pp 4135–4148 DOI: 10.1021/ja0176393 Supporting Info

Computational Studies of Tungsten-Catalyzed endo-Selective Cycloisomerization of 4-Pentyn-1-ol Yinghong Sheng, Djamaladdin G. Musaev, K. Subba Reddy, Frank E. McDonald, and Keiji Morokuma pp 4149–4157 DOI: 10.1021/ja017668d Supporting Info

Structural Dependencies of Interresidue Scalar Coupling h3JNC‘ and Donor 1H Chemical Shifts in the Hydrogen Bonding Regions of Proteins Michael Barfield pp 4158–4168 DOI: 10.1021/ja012674v Supporting Info

Issue 16

Contrasting Copper−Dioxygen Chemistry Arising from Alike Tridentate Alkyltriamine Copper(I) Complexes Hong-Chang Liang, Christiana Xin Zhang, Mark J. Henson, Roger D. Sommer, Karen R. Hatwell, Susan Kaderli, Andreas D. Zuberbühler, Arnold L. Rheingold, Edward I. Solomon, and Kenneth D. Karlin pp 4170–4171 DOI: 10.1021/ja0125265 Supporting Info

Crystallographic Characterization of the Structure of the Endohedral Fullerene {Er2@C82 Isomer I} with Cs Cage Symmetry and Multiple Sites for Erbium along a Band of Ten Contiguous Hexagons Marilyn M. Olmstead, Ana de Bettencourt-Dias, S. Stevenson, Harry C. Dorn, and Alan L. Balch pp 4172–4173 DOI: 10.1021/ja0116019 Supporting Info

Reversing a Rotaxane Recognition Motif:  Threading Oligoethylene Glycol Derivatives through a Dicationic Cyclophane Sheng-Hsien Chiu and J. Fraser Stoddart pp 4174–4175 DOI: 10.1021/ja012654t Supporting Info

Identification of a Set of Genes Involved in the Formation of the Substrate for the Incorporation of the Unusual “Glycolate” Chain Extension Unit in Ansamitocin Biosynthesis Brian J. Carroll, Steven J. Moss, Linquan Bai, Yasuo Kato, Sabine Toelzer, Tin-Wein Yu, and Heinz G. Floss pp 4176–4177 DOI: 10.1021/ja0124764 Supporting Info

An Unusual Ruthenium-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization of Alkynes and Propargyl Alcohols Barry M. Trost and Michael T. Rudd pp 4178–4179 DOI: 10.1021/ja012672a Supporting Info

Amphotericin B Covalent Dimers Forming Sterol-Dependent Ion-Permeable Membrane Channels Nobuaki Matsumori, Nahoko Yamaji, Shigeru Matsuoka, Tohru Oishi, and Michio Murata pp 4180–4181 DOI: 10.1021/ja012026b Supporting Info

Thiophene and Butadiene−Thiolate Complexes of Molybdenum:  Observations Relevant to the Mechanism of Hydrodesulfurization Kevin E. Janak, Joseph M. Tanski, David G. Churchill, and Gerard Parkin pp 4182–4183 DOI: 10.1021/ja012771o Supporting Info

A π-Stacking Terthiophene-Based Quinodimethane Is an n-Channel Conductor in a Thin Film Transistor Ted M. Pappenfus, Reid J. Chesterfield, C. Daniel Frisbie, Kent R. Mann, Juan Casado, Jonathan D. Raff, and Larry L. Miller pp 4184–4185 DOI: 10.1021/ja025553j Supporting Info

Halophilic Reactions of a Stable Silylene with Chloro and Bromocarbons Daniel F. Moser, Todd Bosse, Jordan Olson, Jessica L. Moser, Ilia A. Guzei, and Robert West pp 4186–4187 DOI: 10.1021/ja012389b Supporting Info

Cyclocopolymerization:  A Mechanistic Probe for Dual-Site Alternating Copolymerization of Ethylene and α-Olefins Tong Neo Choo and Robert M. Waymouth pp 4188–4189 DOI: 10.1021/ja017707l Supporting Info

Individually Addressable Submicron Scale Light-Emitting Devices Based on Electroluminescence of Solid Ru(bpy)3(ClO4)2 Films Chong-Yang Liu and Allen J. Bard pp 4190–4191 DOI: 10.1021/ja0256156

Carbon−Carbon Bond Activation of R−CN (R = Me, Ar, iPr, tBu) Using a Cationic Rh(III) Complex Felicia L. Taw, Peter S. White, Robert G. Bergman, and Maurice Brookhart pp 4192–4193 DOI: 10.1021/ja0255094 Supporting Info

A Photoactivated Precipiton for Reagent Sequestration in Solution-Phase Synthesis Todd Bosanac and Craig S. Wilcox pp 4194–4195 DOI: 10.1021/ja017577g Supporting Info

Evidence for a Strong Hydrogen Bond in the Catalytic Dyad of Transition-State Analogue Inhibitor Complexes of Chymotrypsin from Proton−Triton NMR Isotope Shifts William M. Westler, Perry A. Frey, Jing Lin, David E. Wemmer, Hiromi Morimoto, Phillip G. Williams, and John L. Markley pp 4196–4197 DOI: 10.1021/ja017860f

Oxygen Transfer from Sulfoxides:  Oxidation of Alkylarenes Catalyzed by a Polyoxomolybdate, [PMo12O40]3- Alexander M. Khenkin and Ronny Neumann pp 4198–4199 DOI: 10.1021/ja0178721 Supporting Info

Phase Coherent Electronics:  A Molecular Switch Based on Quantum Interference Roi Baer and Daniel Neuhauser pp 4200–4201 DOI: 10.1021/ja016605s

Intrinsic Deuterium Isotope Effects on Benzylic Hydroxylation by Tyrosine Hydroxylase Patrick A. Frantom, Rongson Pongdee, Gary A. Sulikowski, and Paul F. Fitzpatrick pp 4202–4203 DOI: 10.1021/ja025602s

Stereochemistry of the Transmetalation of Grignard Reagents to Copper (I) and Manganese (II) Reinhard W. Hoffmann and Bettina Hölzer pp 4204–4205 DOI: 10.1021/ja025638k

Dipolar Waves as NMR Maps of Protein Structure Michael F. Mesleh, Gianluigi Veglia, Tara M. DeSilva, Francesca M. Marassi, and Stanley J. Opella pp 4206–4207 DOI: 10.1021/ja0178665

Magnetically-Induced Solid-State Electrochemical Detection of DNA Hybridization Joseph Wang, Danke Xu, and Ronen Polsky pp 4208–4209 DOI: 10.1021/ja0255709 Supporting Info

Planar Array of 1D Gold Nanoparticles on Ridge-and-Valley Structured Carbon Toshiharu Teranishi, Akira Sugawara, Takami Shimizu, and Mikio Miyake pp 4210–4211 DOI: 10.1021/ja017536k Supporting Info

Unusual Role of Oxygen in Electron-Transfer Processes Sergei Smirnov, Ivan Vlassiouk, Olaf Kutzki, Michael Wedel, and Franz-Peter Montforts pp 4212–4213 DOI: 10.1021/ja017616o

Observation of Conserved Solution-Phase Secondary Structure in Gas-Phase Tryptic Peptides Brandon T. Ruotolo, Guido F. Verbeck, Lisa M. Thomson, Kent J. Gillig, and David H. Russell pp 4214–4215 DOI: 10.1021/ja0178113

Distinguishing Surface versus Buried Cation Sites in Aluminosilicate Mesoporous Materials Hongbin Du, Victor V. Terskikh, Christopher I. Ratcliffe, and John A. Ripmeester pp 4216–4217 DOI: 10.1021/ja025745e Supporting Info

Atom-Efficient Assembly of 1,5-Oxygen-Bridged Medium-Sized Carbocycles by Sequential Combination of a Ru-Catalyzed Alkyne−Alkene Coupling and a Prins-Type Cyclization Fernando López, Luis Castedo, and José L. Mascareñas pp 4218–4219 DOI: 10.1021/ja017804e Supporting Info

Pd(0)-Catalyzed Reaction of Alkynes with Trifurylgermane and CO Providing Acylgermanes:  The Example of Hydrometalcarbonylation of Alkynes Hidenori Kinoshita, Hiroshi Shinokubo, and Koichiro Oshima pp 4220–4221 DOI: 10.1021/ja0257016 Supporting Info

Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reaction of Grignard Reagents with Alkyl Halides and Tosylates:  Remarkable Effect of 1,3-Butadienes Jun Terao, Hideyuki Watanabe, Aki Ikumi, Hitoshi Kuniyasu, and Nobuaki Kambe pp 4222–4223 DOI: 10.1021/ja025828v Supporting Info

Lipase Polystyrene Giant Amphiphiles Kelly Velonia, Alan E. Rowan, and Roeland J. M. Nolte pp 4224–4225 DOI: 10.1021/ja017809b Supporting Info

Unusually Sharp Dependence of Water Exchange Rate versus Lanthanide Ionic Radii for a Series of Tetraamide Complexes Shanrong Zhang, Kuangcong Wu, and A. Dean Sherry pp 4226–4227 DOI: 10.1021/ja017133k Supporting Info

Transition-Metal Nanoparticles in Imidazolium Ionic Liquids:  Recycable Catalysts for Biphasic Hydrogenation Reactions Jairton Dupont, Gledison S. Fonseca, Alexandre P. Umpierre, Paulo F. P. Fichtner, and Sergio R. Teixeira pp 4228–4229 DOI: 10.1021/ja025818u Supporting Info

Enantioselective Synthesis of (−)-Terpestacin and (−)-Fusaproliferin:  Clarification of Optical Rotational Measurements and Absolute Configurational Assignments Establishes a Homochiral Structural Series Andrew G. Myers, Michael Siu, and Feng Ren pp 4230–4232 DOI: 10.1021/ja020072l Supporting Info

Catalytic, Enantioselective Aldol Additions to Ketones Scott E. Denmark and Yu Fan pp 4233–4235 DOI: 10.1021/ja025670e Supporting Info

On the Effect of Covalently Appended Quinolones on Termini of DNA Duplexes Jennifer Tuma, William H. Connors, David H. Stitelman, and Clemens Richert pp 4236–4246 DOI: 10.1021/ja0125117 Supporting Info

Sol−Gel Encapsulated Horseradish Peroxidase:  A Catalytic Material for Peroxidation Kevyn Smith, Nathan J. Silvernail, Kenton R. Rodgers, Timothy E. Elgren, Mauro Castro, and Robert M. Parker pp 4247–4252 DOI: 10.1021/ja012215u

Selective Sterol-Phospholipid Associations in Fluid Bilayers Michihiro Sugahara, Maki Uragami, and Steven L. Regen pp 4253–4256 DOI: 10.1021/ja017269i

A Convergent Three-Component Total Synthesis of the Powerful Immunosuppressant (−)-Sanglifehrin A Leo A. Paquette, Maosheng Duan, Ingo Konetzki, and Christoph Kempmann pp 4257–4270 DOI: 10.1021/ja020091v Supporting Info

Cyclopropylcarbinyl-Type Ring Openings. Reconciling the Chemistry of Neutral Radicals and Radical Anions J. Paige Stevenson, Woodward F. Jackson, and J. M. Tanko pp 4271–4281 DOI: 10.1021/ja0041831 Supporting Info

Asymmetric Synthesis of A-240610.0 via a New Atropselective Approach for Axially Chiral Biaryls with Chirality Transfer Yi-Yin Ku, Tim Grieme, Prasad Raje, Padam Sharma, Steve A. King, and Howard E. Morton pp 4282–4286 DOI: 10.1021/ja0171198 Supporting Info

Self-Complementarity of Oligo-2-aminopyridines:  A New Class of Hydrogen-Bonded Ladders Man-kit Leung, Ashis B. Mandal, Chih-Chieh Wang, Gene-Hsiang Lee, Shie-Ming Peng, Hsing-Ling Cheng, Guor-Rong Her, Ito Chao, Hsiu-Feng Lu, Ying-Chieh Sun, Mei-Ying Shiao, and Pi-Tai Chou pp 4287–4297 DOI: 10.1021/ja011679p Supporting Info

Extreme Electronic Modulation of the Cofacial Porphyrin Structural Motif James T. Fletcher and Michael J. Therien pp 4298–4311 DOI: 10.1021/ja012489h Supporting Info

Functional Analogue Reaction Systems of the DMSO Reductase Isoenzyme Family:  Probable Mechanism of S-Oxide Reduction in Oxo Transfer Reactions Mediated by Bis(dithiolene)−Tungsten(IV,VI) Complexes Kie-Moon Sung and R. H. Holm pp 4312–4320 DOI: 10.1021/ja012735p Supporting Info

A New Strategy for the Enantioselective Synthesis of Carba-Prostacyclin Analogues Based on Organocopper Conjugate Addition to a Bicyclic Azoene and Its Application to the Synthesis of 13,14-Dinor-inter-p-phenylene Carbacyclin Marc van Bergen and Hans-Joachim Gais pp 4321–4328 DOI: 10.1021/ja0125772 Supporting Info

Regioselective Synthesis and Properties of Novel [60]Fullerene Bisadducts Containing a Dibenzocrown Ether Moiety Yosuke Nakamura, Aya Asami, Toshio Ogawa, Seiichi Inokuma, and Jun Nishimura pp 4329–4335 DOI: 10.1021/ja0257063 Supporting Info

Palladium−Arene Interactions in Catalytic Intermediates:  An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of the Soft Rearrangement between η1 and η2 Coordination Modes Marta Catellani, Carlo Mealli, Elena Motti, Paola Paoli, Enrique Perez-Carreño, and Paul S. Pregosin pp 4336–4346 DOI: 10.1021/ja016587e Supporting Info

Long-Range Electron Transfer in Porphyrin-Containing [2]-Rotaxanes:  Tuning the Rate by Metal Cation Coordination Mikael Andersson, Myriam Linke, Jean-Claude Chambron, Jan Davidsson, Valérie Heitz, Leif Hammarström, and Jean-Pierre Sauvage pp 4347–4362 DOI: 10.1021/ja0119907 Supporting Info

Monolayers as Models for Supported Catalysts:  Zirconium Phosphonate Films Containing Manganese(III) Porphyrins Isa O. Benítez, Bruno Bujoli, Laurent J. Camus, Christine M. Lee, Fabrice Odobel, and Daniel R. Talham pp 4363–4370 DOI: 10.1021/ja017317z Supporting Info

The s−p Bonded Representatives of the Prominent BaAl4 Structure Type:  A Case Study on Structural Stability of Polar Intermetallic Network Structures Ulrich Häussermann, Shahrad Amerioun, Lars Eriksson, Chi-Shen Lee, and Gordon J. Miller pp 4371–4383 DOI: 10.1021/ja012392v Supporting Info

Mechanistic Comparison of Cyclic Ester Polymerizations by Novel Iron(III)−Alkoxide Complexes:  Single vs Multiple Site Catalysis Brendan J. O'Keefe, Laurie E. Breyfogle, Marc A. Hillmyer, and William B. Tolman pp 4384–4393 DOI: 10.1021/ja012689t Supporting Info

Artifacts in the Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectra of C60 Fullerene Ions:  Inevitable C120O Impurity Parimal Paul, Kee-Chan Kim, Dayong Sun, Peter D. W. Boyd, and Christopher A. Reed pp 4394–4401 DOI: 10.1021/ja011832f

Control of Stability through Overlap Matching:  closo-Carborynes and closo-Silaborynes Boggavarappu Kiran, Anakuthil Anoop, and Eluvathingal D. Jemmis pp 4402–4407 DOI: 10.1021/ja016843n Supporting Info

Theoretical Studies To Understand Surface Chemistry on Carbon Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries:  How Does Vinylene Carbonate Play Its Role as an Electrolyte Additive? Yixuan Wang, Shinichiro Nakamura, Ken Tasaki, and Perla B. Balbuena pp 4408–4421 DOI: 10.1021/ja017073i

The Energy Landscape of Unsolvated Peptides:  Helix Formation and Cold Denaturation in Ac-A4G7A4 + H+ Brian S. Kinnear, Matthew R. Hartings, and Martin F. Jarrold pp 4422–4431 DOI: 10.1021/ja012150v

A Microfluidic Device with a Linear Temperature Gradient for Parallel and Combinatorial Measurements Hanbin Mao, Tinglu Yang, and Paul S. Cremer pp 4432–4435 DOI: 10.1021/ja017625x

Photoinduced Electron-Transfer Processes along Molecular Wires Based on Phenylenevinylene Oligomers:  A Quantum-Chemical Insight G. Pourtois, D. Beljonne, J. Cornil, M. A. Ratner, and J. L. Brédas pp 4436–4447 DOI: 10.1021/ja017150+

Formation and Characterization of the Gallium and Indium Subhydride Molecules Ga2H2 and In2H2:  A Matrix Isolation Study Hans-Jörg Himmel, Laurent Manceron, Anthony J. Downs, and Pluton Pullumbi pp 4448–4457 DOI: 10.1021/ja0122795 Supporting Info

59Co Solid-State NMR as a New Probe for Elucidating Metal Binding in Polynucleotides Christopher V. Grant, Veronica Frydman, John S. Harwood, and Lucio Frydman pp 4458–4462 DOI: 10.1021/ja012353j

O2 Penetration and Proton Burial Depth in Proteins:  Applicability to Fold Family Recognition Griselda Hernández, Ching-Ling Teng, Robert G. Bryant, and David M. LeMaster pp 4463–4472 DOI: 10.1021/ja017340k

Hydronium Ion Complex of 18-Crown-6:  Where Are the Protons? A Density Functional Study of Static and Dynamic Properties Michael Bühl and Georges Wipff pp 4473–4480 DOI: 10.1021/ja012428j Supporting Info

An NMR and Quantum-Mechanical Investigation of Tetrahydrofuran Solvent Effects on the Conformational Equilibria of 1,4-Butanedioic Acid and Its Salts David R. Kent IV, Krag A. Petterson, Françoise Gregoire, Ethan Snyder-Frey, Linda J. Hanely, Richard P. Muller, William A. Goddard III, and John D. Roberts pp 4481–4486 DOI: 10.1021/ja012016a

Metal−Benzene and Metal−CO Bond Energies in Neutral and Ionic C6H6Cr(CO)3 Studied by Threshold Photoelectron−Photoion Coincidence Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory Yue Li, John E. McGrady, and Tomas Baer pp 4487–4494 DOI: 10.1021/ja012630m Supporting Info

Theoretical Study on the Stability of N-Glycosyl Bonds:  Why Does N7-Platination Not Promote Depurination? Mu-Hyun Baik, Richard A. Friesner, and Stephen J. Lippard pp 4495–4503 DOI: 10.1021/ja017588+ Supporting Info

Microwave Investigation of Sulfuric Acid Monohydrate Denise L. Fiacco, Sherri W. Hunt, and Kenneth R. Leopold pp 4504–4511 DOI: 10.1021/ja012724w Supporting Info

Benzdiynes (1,2,4,5-Tetradehydrobenzenes):  Direct Observation by Wavelength-Selective Photolyses of Benzenetetracarboxylic Dianhydrides in Low-Temperature Nitrogen Matrixes Tadatake Sato, Sundaram Arulmozhiraja, Hiroyuki Niino, Shigekuni Sasaki, Tohru Matsuura, and Akira Yabe pp 4512–4521 DOI: 10.1021/ja017566n Supporting Info

General Framework for Studying the Dynamics of Folded and Nonfolded Proteins by NMR Relaxation Spectroscopy and MD Simulation Jeanine J. Prompers and Rafael Brüschweiler pp 4522–4534 DOI: 10.1021/ja012750u Supporting Info

Issue 17

Photoinduced Charge Separation Reactions of J-Aggregates Coated on Silver Nanoparticles Jasmina Hranisavljevic, Nada M. Dimitrijevic, Gregory A. Wurtz, and Gary P. Wiederrecht pp 4536–4537 DOI: 10.1021/ja012263e

Anti-Thyroid Drug Methimazole:  X-ray Characterization of Two Novel Ionic Disulfides Obtained from Its Chemical Oxidation by I2 M. Carla Aragoni, Massimiliano Arca, Francesco Demartin, Francesco A. Devillanova, Alessandra Garau, Francesco Isaia, Vito Lippolis, and Gaetano Verani pp 4538–4539 DOI: 10.1021/ja012731k Supporting Info

Hydrogenation of Olefins in Supercritical CO2 Catalyzed by Palladium Nanoparticles in a Water-in-CO2 Microemulsion Hiroyuki Ohde, Chien M. Wai, Hakwon Kim, Jeongryul Kim, and Mariko Ohde pp 4540–4541 DOI: 10.1021/ja012232j Supporting Info

2‘-Hydroxypyridoxol, a Biosynthetic Precursor of Vitamins B6 and B1 in Yeast Johannes Zeidler, Nisar Ullah, Ram Nath Gupta, Richard M. Pauloski, Brian G. Sayer, and Ian D. Spenser pp 4542–4543 DOI: 10.1021/ja012708z Supporting Info

Stereoselective Recognition of an Aziridine with a Co(III) Complex:  A Potential Transition-State Analogue for Catalytic Epoxidation Rhiana Bobb, Gamil Alhakimi, Lisa Studnicki, Alan Lough, and Jik Chin pp 4544–4545 DOI: 10.1021/ja017418x Supporting Info

Binding Modes for the First Coupled Electron and Proton Addition to FeMoco of Nitrogenase Timothy Lovell, Jian Li, David A. Case, and Louis Noodleman pp 4546–4547 DOI: 10.1021/ja012311v Supporting Info

Dyotropic Rearrangement Facilitated Proximal Functionalization and Oxidative Removal of Angular Methyl Groups:  Efficient Syntheses of 23‘-Deoxy Cephalostatin 1 Analogues1 Wei Li, Thomas G. LaCour, and P. L. Fuchs pp 4548–4549 DOI: 10.1021/ja017323v Supporting Info

Structure of 4-Sila-3-platinacyclobutene and Its Formation via Pt-Promoted γ-Si−H Bond Activation of 3-Sila-1-propenylplatinum Precursor Makoto Tanabe and Kohtaro Osakada pp 4550–4551 DOI: 10.1021/ja017888r Supporting Info

A Synthesis of (+)-FR182877, Featuring Tandem Transannular Diels−Alder Reactions Inspired by a Postulated Biogenesis David A. Vosburg, Christopher D. Vanderwal, and Erik J. Sorensen pp 4552–4553 DOI: 10.1021/ja025885o Supporting Info

A Chiral Molecular Square with Metallo-Corners for Enantioselective Sensing Suk Joong Lee and Wenbin Lin pp 4554–4555 DOI: 10.1021/ja0256257 Supporting Info

Nonionic Block Copolymer Synthesis of Large-Pore Cubic Mesoporous Single Crystals by Use of Inorganic Salts Chengzhong Yu, Bozhi Tian, Jie Fan, Galen D. Stucky, and Dongyuan Zhao pp 4556–4557 DOI: 10.1021/ja025548f Supporting Info

Highly Enantioselective Hydrosilylation of Aromatic Alkenes Jakob F. Jensen, Bo Y. Svendsen, Thomas V. la Cour, Henriette L. Pedersen, and Mogens Johannsen pp 4558–4559 DOI: 10.1021/ja025617q Supporting Info

Zinc(II) as a Versatile Template for the Design of Dipolar and Octupolar NLO-phores Katell Sénéchal, Olivier Maury, Hubert Le Bozec, Isabelle Ledoux, and Joseph Zyss pp 4560–4561 DOI: 10.1021/ja025705a

Metal−Organic Approach to Binary Optical Memory Daniel S. Tyson, Carlo A. Bignozzi, and Felix N. Castellano pp 4562–4563 DOI: 10.1021/ja0255608 Supporting Info

Crystalline Boron Nanowires Carolyn Jones Otten, Oleg R. Lourie, Min-Feng Yu, John M. Cowley, Mark J. Dyer, Rodney S. Ruoff, and William E. Buhro pp 4564–4565 DOI: 10.1021/ja017817s Supporting Info

The First Example of Macrocycles Containing Butterfly Transition Metal Cluster Cores via Novel Tandem Reactions Li-Cheng Song, Hong-Tao Fan, and Qing-Mei Hu pp 4566–4567 DOI: 10.1021/ja020151x Supporting Info

Dynamics of Inter- and Intrastrand Hole Transport in DNA Hairpins Frederick D. Lewis, Xiaobing Zuo, Jianqin Liu, Ryan T. Hayes, and Michael R. Wasielewski pp 4568–4569 DOI: 10.1021/ja0177859 Supporting Info

19F, 1H-HOESY and PGSE NMR Studies of Neutral Trinuclear Complexes of AuI and HgII:  Evidence for Acid−Base Stacking in Solution Alfredo Burini, John P. Fackler, Jr., Rossana Galassi, Alceo Macchioni, Mohammad A. Omary, Manal A. Rawashdeh-Omary, Bianca R. Pietroni, Stefano Sabatini, and Cristiano Zuccaccia pp 4570–4571 DOI: 10.1021/ja0174837 Supporting Info

Cu(I)/Bis(azaferrocene)-Catalyzed Enantioselective Synthesis of β-Lactams via Couplings of Alkynes with Nitrones Michael M.-C. Lo and Gregory C. Fu pp 4572–4573 DOI: 10.1021/ja025833z Supporting Info

Characterizing the Oxygen−Oxygen Interaction in the Dinitramide Anion Elizabeth A. Zhurova, Vladimir G. Tsirelson, Adam I. Stash, and A. Alan Pinkerton pp 4574–4575 DOI: 10.1021/ja0257570

Lone-Pair Self-Containment in Tellurite Tubes:  Hydrothermal Syntheses and Structures of BaTe3O7 and BaTe4O9 Magnus G. Johnston and William T. A. Harrison pp 4576–4577 DOI: 10.1021/ja017648b Supporting Info

Synthesis and Structure of [Fe13O4F24(OMe)12]5-:  The First Open-Shell Keggin Ion Avi Bino, Michael Ardon, Dongwhan Lee, Bernhard Spingler, and Stephen J. Lippard pp 4578–4579 DOI: 10.1021/ja025590a Supporting Info

Formation and Reactivity of the Os(IV)−Azidoimido Complex, PPN[OsIV(bpy)(Cl)3(N4)] My Hang V. Huynh, R. Thomas Baker, Donald L. Jameson, Andrea Labouriau, and Thomas J. Meyer pp 4580–4582 DOI: 10.1021/ja0122086 Supporting Info

Evidence for Facile Atropisomerism and Simple (Non-Nucleophilic) Biradical-Forming Cycloaromatization within Kedarcidin Chromophore Aglycon Andrew G. Myers, Alexander R. Hurd, and Philip C. Hogan pp 4583–4585 DOI: 10.1021/ja020152p Supporting Info

Targeting Cell Surface Receptors with Ligand-Conjugated Nanocrystals Sandra J. Rosenthal, Ian Tomlinson, Erika M. Adkins, Sally Schroeter, Scott Adams, Laura Swafford, James McBride, Yongqiang Wang, Louis J. DeFelice, and Randy D. Blakely pp 4586–4594 DOI: 10.1021/ja003486s

Identification of the Metal Ion Binding Site on an RNA Motif from Hammerhead Ribozymes Using 15N NMR Spectroscopy Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Chojiro Kojima, Eugene H. Morita, Yasuhiro Kasai, Kazuhiko Yamasaki, Akira Ono, Masatsune Kainosho, and Kazunari Taira pp 4595–4601 DOI: 10.1021/ja011520c

Spectroscopic Studies of 1-Aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic Acid Oxidase:  Molecular Mechanism and CO2 Activation in the Biosynthesis of Ethylene Jing Zhou, Amy M. Rocklin, John D. Lipscomb, Lawrence Que, Jr., and Edward I. Solomon pp 4602–4609 DOI: 10.1021/ja017250f Supporting Info

DNA Conformational Switches as Sensitive Electronic Sensors of Analytes Richard P. Fahlman and Dipankar Sen pp 4610–4616 DOI: 10.1021/ja012618u

In Vitro Selection of ATP-Binding Receptors Using a Ribonucleopeptide Complex Takashi Morii, Masaki Hagihara, Shin-ichi Sato, and Keisuke Makino pp 4617–4622 DOI: 10.1021/ja016569x

Retention of Configuration in the Action of Human Plasma 3‘-Exonuclease on Oligo(deoxynucleoside phosphorothioate). A New Method for Assignment of Absolute Configuration at Phosphorus in Isotopomeric Deoxyadenosine 5‘-O-[18O]Phosphorothioate Maria Koziołkiewicz, Alina Owczarek, Marzena Wójcik, Krzysztof Domański, Piotr Guga, and Wojciech J. Stec pp 4623–4627 DOI: 10.1021/ja017187u

An Efficient Approach to Aspidosperma Alkaloids via [4 + 2] Cycloadditions of Aminosiloxydienes:  Stereocontrolled Total Synthesis of (±)-Tabersonine. Gram-Scale Catalytic Asymmetric Syntheses of (+)-Tabersonine and (+)-16-Methoxytabersonine. Asymmetric Syntheses of (+)-Aspidospermidine and (−)-Quebrachamine Sergey A. Kozmin, Tetsuo Iwama, Yong Huang, and Viresh H. Rawal pp 4628–4641 DOI: 10.1021/ja017863s Supporting Info

Extending Synthetic Access to Proteins with a Removable Acyl Transfer Auxiliary John Offer, C. N. C. Boddy, and Philip E. Dawson pp 4642–4646 DOI: 10.1021/ja016731w Supporting Info

Remarkable Structures of Cyclotri(deoxycholate) and Cyclotetra(24-norcholate) Acetate Esters Jerry Ray Dias, Robert A. Pascal, Jr., Jason Morrill, Andrew J. Holder, Hongwu Gao, and Charles Barnes pp 4647–4652 DOI: 10.1021/ja011797c

Cooperative Self-Assembly of Dendrimers via Pseudorotaxane Formation from a Homotritopic Guest Molecule and Complementary Monotopic Host Dendrons Harry W. Gibson, Nori Yamaguchi, Lesley Hamilton, and Jason W. Jones pp 4653–4665 DOI: 10.1021/ja012155s Supporting Info

7-N-(Mercaptoalkyl)mitomycins:  Implications of Cyclization for Drug Function Younghwa Na, Shuang Wang, and Harold Kohn pp 4666–4677 DOI: 10.1021/ja0124313 Supporting Info

Stilbazulenyl Nitrone (STAZN):  A Nitronyl-Substituted Hydrocarbon with the Potency of Classical Phenolic Chain-Breaking Antioxidants David A. Becker, James J. Ley, Luis Echegoyen, and Robert Alvarado pp 4678–4684 DOI: 10.1021/ja011507s Supporting Info

Self-Assembled, Helically Stacked Anionic Aggregates of 2,5,8,11-Tetra-tert-butylcycloocta[1,2,3,4-def;5,6,7,8-d‘e‘f‘]bisbiphenylene, Stabilized by Electrostatic Interactions Roy Shenhar, Hua Wang, Roy E. Hoffman, Limor Frish, Liat Avram, Itamar Willner, Andrzej Rajca, and Mordecai Rabinovitz pp 4685–4692 DOI: 10.1021/ja012140u Supporting Info

Mechanistic Insights into the Photochromism of trans-10b,10c-Dimethyl-10b,10c-dihydropyrene Derivatives Molina A. L. Sheepwash, Reginald H. Mitchell, and Cornelia Bohne pp 4693–4700 DOI: 10.1021/ja017229e Supporting Info

Molecular Compasses and Gyroscopes. II. Synthesis and Characterization of Molecular Rotors with Axially Substituted Bis[2-(9-triptycyl)ethynyl]arenes Carlos E. Godinez, Gerardo Zepeda, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay pp 4701–4707 DOI: 10.1021/ja012550i Supporting Info

Thermodynamics, Kinetics, and Dynamics of the Two Alternative Aniomesolytic Fragmentations of C−O Bonds:  An Electrochemical and Theoretical Study Luisa Pisano, Maria Farriol, Xavier Asensio, Iluminada Gallardo, Angels González-Lafont, José M. Lluch, and Jordi Marquet pp 4708–4715 DOI: 10.1021/ja012444g

Total Synthesis of A-315675:  A Potent Inhibitor of Influenza Neuraminidase Stephen Hanessian, Malken Bayrakdarian, and Xuehong Luo pp 4716–4721 DOI: 10.1021/ja0126226 Supporting Info

A Comprehensive Investigation of the Chemistry and Basicity of a Parent Amidoruthenium Complex J. Robin Fulton, Stepan Sklenak, Marco W. Bouwkamp, and Robert G. Bergman pp 4722–4737 DOI: 10.1021/ja011876o Supporting Info

A Novel Isomerization on Interaction of Antitumor-Active Azole-Bridged Dinuclear Platinum(II) Complexes with 9-Ethylguanine. Platinum(II) Atom Migration from N2 to N3 on 1,2,3-Triazole Seiji Komeda, Martin Lutz, Anthony L. Spek, Yasuyuki Yamanaka, Takaji Sato, Masahiko Chikuma, and Jan Reedijk pp 4738–4746 DOI: 10.1021/ja0168559 Supporting Info

Alkali Metal Intercalated Fullerene-Like MS2 (M = W, Mo) Nanoparticles and Their Properties Alla Zak, Yishay Feldman, Vera Lyakhovitskaya, Gregory Leitus, Ronit Popovitz-Biro, Ellen Wachtel, Hagai Cohen, Shimon Reich, and Reshef Tenne pp 4747–4758 DOI: 10.1021/ja012060q

Palladium(II) Complexes, as Synthetic Peptidases, Regioselectively Cleave the Second Peptide Bond “Upstream” from Methionine and Histidine Side Chains Nebojša M. Milović and Nenad M. Kostić pp 4759–4769 DOI: 10.1021/ja012366x Supporting Info

Synthesis of Trithiolanes and Tetrathianes from Thiiranes Catalyzed by Ruthenium Salen Nitrosyl Complexes Anthony A. Sauve and John T. Groves pp 4770–4778 DOI: 10.1021/ja017462c

The [Sn9Pt2(PPh3)]2- and [Sn9Ni2(CO)]3- Complexes:  Two Markedly Different Sn9M2L Transition Metal Zintl Ion Clusters and Their Dynamic Behavior Banu Kesanli, James Fettinger, Donna R. Gardner, and Bryan Eichhorn pp 4779–4786 DOI: 10.1021/ja012528p Supporting Info

Electron-Rich Three-Center Bonding:  Role of s,p Interactions across the p-Block Markéta L. Munzarová and Roald Hoffmann pp 4787–4795 DOI: 10.1021/ja010897f

Photocurrent Generation in Multilayer Organic−Inorganic Thin Films with Cascade Energy Architectures Feras B. Abdelrazzaq, Raymond C. Kwong, and Mark E. Thompson pp 4796–4803 DOI: 10.1021/ja011700m Supporting Info

Conformational Selection of Glycomimetics at Enzyme Catalytic Sites:  Experimental Demonstration of the Binding of Distinct High-Energy Distorted Conformations of C-, S-, and O-Glycosides by E. Coli β-Galactosidases Alicia García-Herrero, Esther Montero, Jose L. Muñoz, Juan F. Espinosa, Alejandro Vián, Jose L. García, Juan L. Asensio, F. Javier Cañada, and Jesus Jiménez-Barbero pp 4804–4810 DOI: 10.1021/ja0122445 Supporting Info

Bcc and Fcc Transition Metals and Alloys:  A Central Role for the Jahn−Teller Effect in Explaining Their Ideal and Distorted Structures Stephen Lee and Roald Hoffmann pp 4811–4823 DOI: 10.1021/ja0114557

Molecular Rulers:  New Families of Molecules for Measuring Interfacial Widths William H. Steel, Fehmi Damkaci, Ryan Nolan, and Robert A. Walker pp 4824–4831 DOI: 10.1021/ja012457u Supporting Info

Cation−π Interactions:  An Energy Decomposition Analysis and Its Implication in δ-Opioid Receptor−Ligand Binding Yirong Mo, Govindan Subramanian, Jiali Gao, and David M. Ferguson pp 4832–4837 DOI: 10.1021/ja0174433 Supporting Info

Bending of DNA by Asymmetric Charge Neutralization:  All-Atom Energy Simulations Konstantin M. Kosikov, Andrey A. Gorin, Xiang-Jun Lu, Wilma K. Olson, and Gerald S. Manning pp 4838–4847 DOI: 10.1021/ja0125218

Theoretical Investigation of Large Kinetic Isotope Effects for Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Ruthenium Polypyridyl Complexes Nedialka Iordanova and Sharon Hammes-Schiffer pp 4848–4856 DOI: 10.1021/ja017633d Supporting Info

Time-Resolved Resonance Raman Analysis of Chromophore Structural Changes in the Formation and Decay of Rhodopsin's BSI Intermediate Duohai Pan, Ziad Ganim, Judy E. Kim, Michiel A. Verhoeven, Johan Lugtenburg, and Richard A. Mathies pp 4857–4864 DOI: 10.1021/ja012666e

Formation of Transient Intermediates in Low-Temperature Photosensitized Oxidation of an 8-13C-Guanosine Derivative Ping Kang and Christopher S. Foote pp 4865–4873 DOI: 10.1021/ja012038x Supporting Info

Design and Synthesis of Chemiluminescent Probes for the Detection of Cholinesterase Activity Stéphane Sabelle, Pierre-Yves Renard, Karine Pecorella, Sophie de Suzzoni-Dézard, Christophe Créminon, Jacques Grassi, and Charles Mioskowski pp 4874–4880 DOI: 10.1021/ja0171299 Supporting Info

[Ni0L]-Catalyzed Cyclodimerization of 1,3-Butadiene:  A Comprehensive Density Functional Investigation Based on the Generic [(C4H6)2Ni0PH3] Catalyst Sven Tobisch and Tom Ziegler pp 4881–4893 DOI: 10.1021/ja012372t Supporting Info

Periodic Trends in Indirect Nuclear Spin−Spin Coupling Tensors:  Relativistic Density Functional Calculations for Interhalogen Diatomics David L. Bryce, Roderick E. Wasylishen, Jochen Autschbach, and Tom Ziegler pp 4894–4900 DOI: 10.1021/ja012596b

Conformational Characterization of Lanthanide(III)−DOTA Complexes by ab Initio Investigation in Vacuo and in Aqueous Solution Ugo Cosentino, Alessandra Villa, Demetrio Pitea, Giorgio Moro, Vincenzo Barone, and Alessandro Maiocchi pp 4901–4909 DOI: 10.1021/ja017666t Supporting Info

Gas-Phase Stability of Derivatives of the closo-Hexaborate Dianion B6H62- N. Zint, A. Dreuw, and L. S. Cederbaum pp 4910–4917 DOI: 10.1021/ja012681j

Solid-State Light-Emitting Devices Based on the Tris-Chelated Ruthenium(II) Complex. 4. High-Efficiency Light-Emitting Devices Based on Derivatives of the Tris(2,2‘-bipyridyl) Ruthenium(II) Complex Hartmut Rudmann, Satoru Shimada, and Michael F. Rubner pp 4918–4921 DOI: 10.1021/ja012721j

Modified Phthalocyanines for Efficient Near-IR Sensitization of Nanostructured TiO2 Electrode Jianjun He, Gábor Benkö, Ferenc Korodi, Tomás Polívka, Reiner Lomoth, Björn Åkermark, Licheng Sun, Anders Hagfeldt, and Villy Sundström pp 4922–4932 DOI: 10.1021/ja0178012

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Arrayed Primer Extension Computing with Variant mRNA Splice Forms. Multiple Isoforms of CD44 in a Human Breast Tumor Hyunsoo Kim and Michael C. Pirrung pp 4934–4935 DOI: 10.1021/ja012102a Supporting Info

Highly Efficient Separation of Lithium Chloride from Seawater Shinji TsuchiyaYoko Nakatani, Rizwangul Ibrahim, and Shojiro Ogawa pp 4936–4937 DOI: 10.1021/ja003472m

Direct Measurement of Excited-State Intervalence Transfer in [(tpy)RuIII(tppz•-)RuII(tpy)]4+* by Time-Resolved Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Dana M. Dattelbaum, Chris M. Hartshorn, and Thomas J. Meyer pp 4938–4939 DOI: 10.1021/ja010892i Supporting Info

Aqueous Room Temperature Metal-Catalyzed Living Radical Polymerization of Vinyl Chloride Virgil Percec, Anatoliy V. Popov, Ernesto Ramirez-Castillo, Michael Monteiro, Bogdan Barboiu, Oliver Weichold, Alexandru D. Asandei, and Catherine M. Mitchell pp 4940–4941 DOI: 10.1021/ja0256055 Supporting Info

One-Step Synthesis and Structure of an Oligo(spiro-orthocarbonate) David T. Vodak, Matthew Braun, Lykourgos Iordanidis, Jacques Plévert, Michael Stevens, Larry Beck, John C. H. Spence, Michael O'Keeffe, and Omar M. Yaghi pp 4942–4943 DOI: 10.1021/ja017683i Supporting Info

C−C and C−H Bond Activation Reactions in N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Ruthenium Rodolphe F. R. Jazzar, Stuart A. Macgregor, Mary F. Mahon, Stephen P. Richards, and Michael K. Whittlesey pp 4944–4945 DOI: 10.1021/ja012475b Supporting Info

A Parallel Approach to the Discovery of Carrier Delivery Vehicles To Enhance Antigen Immunogenicity Mercedes Delgado, Kyung Joo Lee, Lawrence Altobell, III, Carsten Spanka, Paul WentworthJr., and Kim D. Janda pp 4946–4947 DOI: 10.1021/ja025715b Supporting Info

α-1,4-Glucan Lyase Performs a Trans-Elimination via a Nucleophilic Displacement Followed by a Syn-Elimination Seung Seo Lee, Shukun Yu, and Stephen G. Withers pp 4948–4949 DOI: 10.1021/ja0255610 Supporting Info

Asymmetric Synthesis of Epicylindrospermopsin via Intramolecular Nitrone Cycloaddition. Assignment of Absolute Configuration James D. White and Joshua D. Hansen pp 4950–4951 DOI: 10.1021/ja012709r Supporting Info

Highly Effective Chiral Ortho-Substituted BINAPO Ligands (o-BINAPO):  Applications in Ru-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenations of β-Aryl-Substituted β-(Acylamino)acrylates and β-Keto Esters Yong-Gui Zhou, Wenjun Tang, Wen-Bo Wang, Wenge Li, and Xumu Zhang pp 4952–4953 DOI: 10.1021/ja020121u Supporting Info

A Recyclable Chiral Ru Catalyst for Enantioselective Olefin Metathesis. Efficient Catalytic Asymmetric Ring-Opening/Cross Metathesis in Air Joshua J. Van Veldhuizen, Steven B. Garber, Jason S. Kingsbury, and Amir H. Hoveyda pp 4954–4955 DOI: 10.1021/ja020259c Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of (−)-Laulimalide Paul A. Wender, Sayee G. Hegde, Robert D. Hubbard, and Lei Zhang pp 4956–4957 DOI: 10.1021/ja0258428 Supporting Info

Novel Spherical Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles Mediated by a Tetradentate Thioether Mathew M. Maye, Sandra C. Chun, Li Han, Daniel Rabinovich, and Chuan-Jian Zhong pp 4958–4959 DOI: 10.1021/ja025724k Supporting Info

Aromatic 4-Tetrahydropyranyl and 4-Quinuclidinyl Cations. Linking Prins with Cope and Grob Roger W. Alder, Jeremy N. Harvey, and Mark T. Oakley pp 4960–4961 DOI: 10.1021/ja025902+ Supporting Info

Diastereocontrolled Synthesis of Dinucleoside Phosphorothioates Using a Novel Class of Activators, Dialkyl(cyanomethyl)ammonium Tetrafluoroborates Natsuhisa Oka, Takeshi Wada, and Kazuhiko Saigo pp 4962–4963 DOI: 10.1021/ja017275e Supporting Info

A Simple Technique for Determining Nuclear Quadrupole Coupling Constants with RAPT Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy Subramanian Prasad, Hyung-Tae Kwak, Ted Clark, and Philip J. Grandinetti pp 4964–4965 DOI: 10.1021/ja025910q

Identification of Iron(III) Peroxo Species in the Active Site of the Superoxide Reductase SOR from Desulfoarculus baarsii Christelle Mathé, Tony A. Mattioli, Olivier Horner, Murielle Lombard, Jean-Marc Latour, Marc Fontecave, and Vincent Nivière pp 4966–4967 DOI: 10.1021/ja025707v Supporting Info

Iron and Ruthenium Lewis Acid Catalyzed Asymmetric 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reactions between Nitrones and Enals Florian Viton, Gérald Bernardinelli, and E. Peter Kündig pp 4968–4969 DOI: 10.1021/ja017814f Supporting Info

Isolation and Identification of Surface-Bound Acetone Enolate on Ni(111) Wee-Sun Sim, Ting-Cheng Li, Peng-Xiang Yang, and Boon-Siang Yeo pp 4970–4971 DOI: 10.1021/ja025749j Supporting Info

An Unnatural Amino Acid that Induces β-Sheet Folding and Interaction in Peptides James S. Nowick, Kit S. Lam, Tatyana V. Khasanova, William E. Kemnitzer, Santanu Maitra, Hao T. Mee, and Ruiwu Liu pp 4972–4973 DOI: 10.1021/ja025699i Supporting Info

Dissolution of Cellose with Ionic Liquids Richard P. Swatloski, Scott K. Spear, John D. Holbrey, and Robin D. Rogers pp 4974–4975 DOI: 10.1021/ja025790m

Molecular Dynamics Study of Peptides in Implicit Water:  Ab Initio Folding of β-Hairpin, β-Sheet, and ββα-motif Soonmin Jang, Seokmin Shin, and Youngshang Pak pp 4976–4977 DOI: 10.1021/ja025675b Supporting Info

A Potent Polymer/Pyridoxamine Enzyme Mimic Lei Liu and Ronald Breslow pp 4978–4979 DOI: 10.1021/ja025895p Supporting Info

The Effect of Backbone Cyclization on the Thermodynamics of β-Sheet Unfolding:  Stability Optimization of the PIN WW Domain Songpon Deechongkit and Jeffery W. Kelly pp 4980–4986 DOI: 10.1021/ja0123608

Design and Construction of an Open Multistranded β-Sheet Polypeptide Stabilized by a Disulfide Bridge Janani Venkatraman, Gowda A. Nagana Gowda, and Padmanabhan Balaram pp 4987–4994 DOI: 10.1021/ja0174276 Supporting Info

Development of a Novel Method To Populate Native Disulfide-Bonded Intermediates for Structural Characterization of Proteins:  Implications for the Mechanism of Oxidative Folding of RNase A† Brian P. English, Ervin Welker, Mahesh Narayan, and Harold A. Scheraga pp 4995–4999 DOI: 10.1021/ja012634r

Chromophore Formation in Resorcinarene Solutions and the Visual Detection of Mono- and Oligosaccharides Ming He, Rolanda J. Johnson, Jorge O. Escobedo, Patricia A. Beck, Kyu Kwang Kim, Nadia N. St. Luce, Claude J. Davis, Patrick T. Lewis, Frank R. Fronczek, Bruce J. Melancon, Anthony A. Mrse, W. Dale Treleaven, and Robert M. Strongin pp 5000–5009 DOI: 10.1021/ja017713h Supporting Info

Theoretical Evaluation of pKa in Phosphoranes:  Implications for Phosphate Ester Hydrolysis Xabier Lopez, Michael Schaefer, Annick Dejaegere, and Martin Karplus pp 5010–5018 DOI: 10.1021/ja011373i

Radial Control of Recognition and Redox Processes with Multivalent Nanoparticle Hosts Andrew K. Boal and Vincent M. Rotello pp 5019–5024 DOI: 10.1021/ja016894k Supporting Info

Mechanistic Dichotomy in CpRu(CH3CN)3PF6 Catalyzed Enyne Cycloisomerizations Barry M. Trost and F. Dean Toste pp 5025–5036 DOI: 10.1021/ja012450c Supporting Info

Second Generation Light-Driven Molecular Motors. Unidirectional Rotation Controlled by a Single Stereogenic Center with Near-Perfect Photoequilibria and Acceleration of the Speed of Rotation by Structural Modification Nagatoshi Koumura, Edzard M. Geertsema, Marc B. van Gelder, Auke Meetsma, and Ben L. Feringa pp 5037–5051 DOI: 10.1021/ja012499i Supporting Info

Catalytic Cycle of Rhodium-Catalyzed Asymmetric 1,4-Addition of Organoboronic Acids. Arylrhodium, Oxa-π-allylrhodium, and Hydroxorhodium Intermediates Tamio Hayashi, Makoto Takahashi, Yoshiaki Takaya, and Masamichi Ogasawara pp 5052–5058 DOI: 10.1021/ja012711i

Selective Preparation of Pyridines, Pyridones, and Iminopyridines from Two Different Alkynes via Azazirconacycles Tamotsu Takahashi, Fu-Yu Tsai, Yanzhong Li, Hui Wang, Yoshihiko Kondo, Masamichi Yamanaka, Kiyohiko Nakajima, and Martin Kotora pp 5059–5067 DOI: 10.1021/ja017507+ Supporting Info

cis-Stilbene and (1α,2β,3α)-(2-Ethenyl-3-methoxycyclopropyl)benzene as Mechanistic Probes in the MnIII(salen)-Catalyzed Epoxidation:  Influence of the Oxygen Source and the Counterion on the Diastereoselectivity of the Competitive Concerted and Radical-Type Oxygen Transfer Waldemar Adam, Konrad J. Roschmann, Chantu R. Saha-Möller, and Dieter Seebach pp 5068–5073 DOI: 10.1021/ja0177206 Supporting Info

Duplex Oligomers Defined via Covalent Casting of a One-Dimensional Hydrogen-Bonding Motif Eric A. Archer and Michael J. Krische pp 5074–5083 DOI: 10.1021/ja012696h Supporting Info

Synthesis, Crystal Structure, and H/D Exchange of the Inside Protonated Form of the Cage Imine 4,8,12-Triaza-1-azoniatricyclo[6.6.3.24,12]nonadec-1(15)-ene. A Model for Proton Transfer through an Aliphatic Membrane Johan Springborg, Bente Nielsen, Carl Erik Olsen, and Inger Søtofte pp 5084–5090 DOI: 10.1021/ja0127638 Supporting Info

Structural Investigations into the retro-Diels-Alder Reaction. Experimental and Theoretical Studies David Birney, Tang Kuan Lim, Joanne H. P. Koh, Brett R. Pool, and Jonathan M. White pp 5091–5099 DOI: 10.1021/ja025634f Supporting Info

Synthesis and Investigation of [Cp*(PMe3)Rh(H)(H2)]+ and Its Partially Deuterated and Tritiated Isotopomers:  Evidence for a Hydride/Dihydrogen Structure Felicia L. Taw, Heather Mellows, Peter S. White, Frederick J. Hollander, Robert G. Bergman, Maurice Brookhart, and D. Michael Heinekey pp 5100–5108 DOI: 10.1021/ja0165990 Supporting Info

Intermolecular Interactions in (Arene)chromium Carbonyl Compounds:  Prediction of Chiral Crystal Packing from Racemate Structure Susan E. Gibson (ne Thomas), Hasim Ibrahim, and Jonathan W. Steed pp 5109–5116 DOI: 10.1021/ja012141m Supporting Info

NMR and DFT Analysis of [Re2H2(CO)9]:  Evidence of an η2-H2 Intermediate in a New Type of Fast Mutual Exchange between Terminal and Bridging Hydrides Mirka Bergamo, Tiziana Beringhelli, Giuseppe D'Alfonso, Pierluigi Mercandelli, and Angelo Sironi pp 5117–5126 DOI: 10.1021/ja0170652 Supporting Info

Bifunctional Pincer-type Organometallics as Substrates for Organic Transformations and as Novel Building Blocks for Polymetallic Materials Gema Rodríguez, Martin Albrecht, Jeroen Schoenmaker, Alan Ford, Martin Lutz, Anthony L. Spek, and Gerard van Koten pp 5127–5138 DOI: 10.1021/ja0177657 Supporting Info

Mixed-Metal Cluster Chemistry. 19. Crystallographic, Spectroscopic, Electrochemical, Spectroelectrochemical, and Theoretical Studies of Systematically Varied Tetrahedral Group 6−Iridium Clusters Nigel T. Lucas, Jonathan P. Blitz, Simon Petrie, Robert Stranger, Mark G. Humphrey, Graham A. Heath, and Vincent Otieno-Alego pp 5139–5153 DOI: 10.1021/ja0173829 Supporting Info

Use of the Pseudophase Model in the Interpretation of Reactivity under Restricted Geometry Conditions. An Application to the Study of the [Ru(NH3)5pz]2+ + S2O82- Electron-Transfer Reaction in Different Microheterogeneous Systems Pilar López-Cornejo, Pilar Pérez, Francisco García, Reyes de la Vega, and Francisco Sánchez pp 5154–5164 DOI: 10.1021/ja012523s

Stepwise Charge Separation and Charge Recombination in Ferrocene-meso,meso-Linked Porphyrin Dimer−Fullerene Triad Hiroshi Imahori, Koichi Tamaki, Yasuyuki Araki, Yuji Sekiguchi, Osamu Ito, Yoshiteru Sakata, and Shunichi Fukuzumi pp 5165–5174 DOI: 10.1021/ja016655x Supporting Info

A Density Functional Theory Study on the Active Center of Fe-Only Hydrogenase:  Characterization and Electronic Structure of the Redox States Zhi-Pan Liu and P. Hu pp 5175–5182 DOI: 10.1021/ja0118690

Synthesis, Characterization, and Spectroscopy of 4,7,12,15-[2.2]Paracyclophane Containing Donor and Acceptor Groups:  Impact of Substitution Patterns on Through-Space Charge Transfer Glenn P. Bartholomew and Guillermo C. Bazan pp 5183–5196 DOI: 10.1021/ja0121383 Supporting Info

Exchange Coupling of Transition-Metal Ions through Hydrogen Bonding:  A Theoretical Investigation Cédric Desplanches, Eliseo Ruiz, Antonio Rodríguez-Fortea, and Santiago Alvarez pp 5197–5205 DOI: 10.1021/ja0178160

Hydrogen Bonding and the Conformations of Poly(alkyl acrylamides) Dorothy M. Duffy and P. Mark Rodger pp 5206–5212 DOI: 10.1021/ja025652x

Conformation-Dependent Reaction Thermochemistry:  Study of Lactones and Lactone Enolates in the Gas Phase Joel M. Karty, Gordon A. Janaway, and John I. Brauman pp 5213–5221 DOI: 10.1021/ja011897i

Effects of Thioamide Substitutions on the Conformation and Stability of α- and 310-Helices Tran Trung Tran, Jun Zeng, Herbert Treutlein, and Antony W. Burgess pp 5222–5230 DOI: 10.1021/ja011916o

A Density Functional Theory Study Clarifying the Reactions of Conjugated Ketenes with Formaldimine. A Plethora of Pericyclic and Pseudopericyclic Pathways Chun Zhou and David M. Birney pp 5231–5241 DOI: 10.1021/ja017559z Supporting Info

Activation of Gold on Titania:  Adsorption and Reaction of SO2 on Au/TiO2(110) José A. Rodriguez, Gang Liu, Tomas Jirsak, Jan Hrbek, Zhipeng Chang, Joseph Dvorak, and Amitesh Maiti pp 5242–5250 DOI: 10.1021/ja020115y

Aerosol Measurement:  Principles, Techniques, and Applications. Second Edition Edited by Paul A. Baron (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) and Klaus Willeke (University of Cincinnati). Wiley-Interscience:  New York. 2001. xxiv + 1132 pp. $195.00. ISBN:  0-471-35636-0. p 5251 DOI: 10.1021/ja015375e

Fire and Polymers:  Materials and Solutions for Hazard Prevention Edited by Gordon L. Nelson (Florida Institute of Technology) and Charles A. Wilkie (Marquette University). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC (Distributed by Oxford University Press). 2001. xii + 412 pp. $140.00. ISBN:  0-8412-3764-6. p 5251 DOI: 10.1021/ja0153767

Synthesis and Chemistry of Agrochemicals VI Edited by Don R. Baker (Consultant, Orinda, CA), Joseph G. Fenyes (Buckman Labs International, Inc., Memphis, Tennessee), George P. Lahm, Thomas P. Selby, and Thomas M. Stevenson (DuPont , Newark, Delaware). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC (Distributed by Oxford University Press). 2002. xii + 364 pp. $135.00. ISBN:  0-8412-3783-2. p 5251 DOI: 10.1021/ja015383v

Applications of Inorganic Mass Spectrometry By John R. DeLaeter (Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia). Wiley-Interscience:  New York. 2001. xx + 474 pp. $99.95. ISBN:  0-471-34539-3. Jack M. Miller pp 5251–5252 DOI: 10.1021/ja0153621

Houben-Weyl. Methods in Organic Chemistry. Volume E23p. Synopsis of the Structure of Houben-Weyl II. Additional and Supplementary Volumes to the 4th Edition (E-Series) Managing Editor:  H.-G. Padeken (Stuttgart, Germany). Authors:  S. A. Boucher (Chichester, U.K.) and H.-G. Padeken. Georg Thieme Verlag:  Stuttgart, New York. 2001. x + 1074 pp. 3600 DM. ISBN:  3-13-116714-9. p 5252 DOI: 10.1021/ja015367y

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Molecular Imprinting of Enzymes with Water-Insoluble Ligands for Nonaqueous Biocatalysis Joseph O. Rich, Vadim V. Mozhaev, Jonathan S. Dordick, Douglas S. Clark, and Yuri L. Khmelnitsky pp 5254–5255 DOI: 10.1021/ja012219z Supporting Info

Guanidine Is a Zn2+-Binding Ligand at Neutral pH in Aqueous Solution Shin Aoki, Kenta Iwaida, Noriko Hanamoto, Motoo Shiro, and Eiichi Kimura pp 5256–5257 DOI: 10.1021/ja020029y Supporting Info

Bridgehead Carbocations via Carbene Fragmentation:  Erasing a 1010 Kinetic Preference Robert A. Moss, Fengmei Zheng, Jean-Marie Fedé, Yan Ma, Ronald R. Sauers, John P. Toscano, and Brett M. Showalter pp 5258–5259 DOI: 10.1021/ja020002e Supporting Info

Novel Approach for Catalytic Cyclopropanation of Alkenes via (2-Furyl)carbene Complexes from 1-Benzoyl-cis-1-buten-3-yne Koji Miki, Fumiaki Nishino, Kouichi Ohe, and Sakae Uemura pp 5260–5261 DOI: 10.1021/ja025776+ Supporting Info

Dramatic Improvement of the Enantiomeric Excess in the Asymmetric Conjugate Addition Reaction Using New Experimental Conditions A. Alexakis, C. Benhaim, S. Rosset, and M. Humam pp 5262–5263 DOI: 10.1021/ja025598k Supporting Info

Predicting Gas Transport in Formed Zeolite Adsorbents from NMR Studies Frank Rittig, Charles G. Coe, and John M. Zielinski pp 5264–5265 DOI: 10.1021/ja020194d

Lithium−Sulfoxide−Lithium Exchange for the Asymmetric Synthesis of Atropisomers under Thermodynamic Control Jonathan Clayden, David Mitjans, and Latifa H. Youssef pp 5266–5267 DOI: 10.1021/ja017702o Supporting Info

Functional Expression of Genes Involved in the Biosynthesis of the Novel Polyketide Chain Extension Unit, Methoxymalonyl-Acyl Carrier Protein, and Engineered Biosynthesis of 2-Desmethyl-2-Methoxy-6-Deoxyerythronolide B Yasuo Kato, Linquan Bai, Qun Xue, W. Peter Revill, Tin-Wein Yu, and Heinz G. Floss pp 5268–5269 DOI: 10.1021/ja0127483 Supporting Info

An Unusual Dimeric Structure of a Cu(I) Bis(thiosemicarbazone) Complex:  Implications for the Mechanism of Hypoxic Selectivity of the Cu(II) Derivatives Andrew R. Cowley, Jonathan R. Dilworth, Paul S. Donnelly, Elena Labisbal, and Antonio Sousa pp 5270–5271 DOI: 10.1021/ja012668z Supporting Info

Catalytic Copolymerization of CO and Ethylene with a Charge Neutral Palladium(II) Zwitterion Connie C. Lu and Jonas C. Peters pp 5272–5273 DOI: 10.1021/ja017011s Supporting Info

Self-Organization of Supramolecular Complex Composed of Rigid Dendritic Porphyrin and Fullerene Mutsumi Kimura, Yoshikazu Saito, Kazuchika Ohta, Kenji Hanabusa, Hirofusa Shirai, and Nagao Kobayashi pp 5274–5275 DOI: 10.1021/ja012614p Supporting Info

Facilitated Phospholipid Flip-Flop Using Synthetic Steroid-Derived Translocases Timothy N. Lambert, J. Middleton Boon, Bradley D. Smith, M. Nieves Pérez-Payán, and Anthony P. Davis pp 5276–5277 DOI: 10.1021/ja026022y Supporting Info

Discovery of New Fluorescent Materials from Fast Synthesis and Screening of Conjugated Polymers Olivier Lavastre, Ilya Illitchev, Gwenaelle Jegou, and Pierre H. Dixneuf pp 5278–5279 DOI: 10.1021/ja025764o Supporting Info

Magnetoelectrochemistry of Gold Nanoparticle Quantized Capacitance Charging Shaowei Chen and Yiyun Yang pp 5280–5281 DOI: 10.1021/ja025897+ Supporting Info

Direct Observation of the Folding and Unfolding of a β-Hairpin in Explicit Water through Computer Simulation Xiongwu Wu, Shaomeng Wang, and Bernard R. Brooks pp 5282–5283 DOI: 10.1021/ja0257321 Supporting Info

Control and Applications of Immiscible Liquids in Microchannels Bin Zhao, Neil O. L. Viernes, Jeffrey S. Moore, and David J. Beebe pp 5284–5285 DOI: 10.1021/ja025835j Supporting Info

Palladium-Catalyzed Multiple Arylation of Thiophenes Toru Okazawa, Tetsuya Satoh, Masahiro Miura, and Masakatsu Nomura pp 5286–5287 DOI: 10.1021/ja0259279 Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of the Ramoplanin A2 and Ramoplanose Aglycon Wanlong Jiang, Jutta Wanner, Richard J. Lee, Pierre-Yves Bounaud, and Dale L. Boger pp 5288–5290 DOI: 10.1021/ja020237q Supporting Info

Hybrid Dendritic−Linear Polyester−Ethers for in Situ Photopolymerization Michael A. Carnahan, Crystan Middleton, Jitek Kim, Terry Kim, and Mark W. Grinstaff pp 5291–5293 DOI: 10.1021/ja025576y Supporting Info

Synthesis of 11-Hydroxyl O-Methylsterigmatocystin and the Role of a Cytochrome P-450 in the Final Step of Aflatoxin Biosynthesis Daniel W. Udwary, Linda K. Casillas, and Craig A. Townsend pp 5294–5303 DOI: 10.1021/ja012185v Supporting Info

Protein Structure Determination Using Long-Distance Constraints from Double-Quantum Coherence ESR:  Study of T4 Lysozyme Petr P. Borbat, Hassane S. Mchaourab, and Jack H. Freed pp 5304–5314 DOI: 10.1021/ja020040y

Control of Cytochrome c Redox Potential:  Axial Ligation and Protein Environment Effects Gianantonio Battistuzzi, Marco Borsari, James A. Cowan, Antonio Ranieri, and Marco Sola pp 5315–5324 DOI: 10.1021/ja017479v

Discrimination between Peptide 310- and α-Helices. Theoretical Analysis of the Impact of α-Methyl Substitution on Experimental Spectra Jan Kubelka, R. A. Gangani D. Silva, and Timothy A. Keiderling pp 5325–5332 DOI: 10.1021/ja012685o

An Ultrahigh Resolution Structure of TEM-1 β-Lactamase Suggests a Role for Glu166 as the General Base in Acylation George Minasov, Xiaojun Wang, and Brian K. Shoichet pp 5333–5340 DOI: 10.1021/ja0259640

Catalytic Asymmetric Dihydroxylation of Olefins with Reusable OsO42- on Ion-Exchangers:  The Scope and Reactivity Using Various Cooxidants Boyapati M. Choudary, Naidu S. Chowdari, Karangula Jyothi, and Mannepalli L. Kantam pp 5341–5349 DOI: 10.1021/ja017889j

m-Diethynylbenzene Macrocycles:  Syntheses and Self-Association Behavior in Solution Yoshito Tobe, Naoto Utsumi, Kazuya Kawabata, Atsushi Nagano, Kiyomi Adachi, Shunji Araki, Motohiro Sonoda, Keiji Hirose, and Koichiro Naemura pp 5350–5364 DOI: 10.1021/ja012458m Supporting Info

Asymmetric Carbon−Carbon Coupling of Phenols or Anilines with Aryllead Triacetates Taichi Kano, Yuki Ohyabu, Susumu Saito, and Hisashi Yamamoto pp 5365–5373 DOI: 10.1021/ja012287l Supporting Info

Tuning and Dissecting Electronic and Steric Effects in Ammonium Receptors:  Nonactin vs Artificial Receptors Jik Chin, Jinho Oh, Sang Yong Jon, Sang Hyun Park, Christian Walsdorff, Brent Stranix, Assaad Ghoussoub, Seok Jong Lee, Hyun Jei Chung, Su-Moon Park, and Kimoon Kim pp 5374–5379 DOI: 10.1021/ja0174175 Supporting Info

Development of an Enantioselective Synthetic Route to Neocarzinostatin Chromophore and Its Use for Multiple Radioisotopic Incorporation Andrew G. Myers, Ralf Glatthar, Marlys Hammond, Philip M. Harrington, Elaine Y. Kuo, Jun Liang, Scott E. Schaus, Yusheng Wu, and Jia-Ning Xiang pp 5380–5401 DOI: 10.1021/ja012487x Supporting Info

Laser Flash Photolysis Kinetic Studies of Enol Ether Radical Cations. Rate Constants for Heterolysis of α-Methoxy-β-phosphatoxyalkyl Radicals and for Cyclizations of Enol Ether Radical Cations John H. Horner, Elsa Taxil, and Martin Newcomb pp 5402–5410 DOI: 10.1021/ja0177399 Supporting Info

Synthesis and Chemistry of Zwitterionic Tantala-3-boratacyclopentenes:  Olefin-like Reactivity of a Borataalkene Ligand Kevin S. Cook, Warren E. Piers, and Robert McDonald pp 5411–5418 DOI: 10.1021/ja025547n Supporting Info

Template-Directed Self-Assembly of 10-μm-Sized Hexagonal Plates Thomas D. Clark, Rosaria Ferrigno, Joe Tien, Kateri E. Paul, and George M. Whitesides pp 5419–5426 DOI: 10.1021/ja020056o

Photochemical versus Thermal Skeletal Inversion:  Viscosity-Controlled Photodenitrogenation of a Bridgehead-Substituted DBH-Type Azoalkane and Thermal Syn-to-Anti Housane Isomerization Waldemar Adam, Manfred Diedering, and Alexei V. Trofimov pp 5427–5430 DOI: 10.1021/ja025679g Supporting Info

Solution-Phase Parallel Synthesis of a Pharmacophore Library of HUN-7293 Analogues:  A General Chemical Mutagenesis Approach To Defining Structure−Function Properties of Naturally Occurring Cyclic (Depsi)peptides Yan Chen, Melitta Bilban, Carolyn A. Foster, and Dale L. Boger pp 5431–5440 DOI: 10.1021/ja020166v Supporting Info

Syntheses, Structures, and Surface Aromaticity of the New Carbaalane [(AlH)6(AlNMe3)2(CCH2R)6] (R = Ph, CH2SiMe3) and a Stepwise Functionalization of the Inner and Outer Sphere of the Cluster Andreas Stasch, Marilena Ferbinteanu, Jörg Prust, Wenjun Zheng, Fanica Cimpoesu, Herbert W. Roesky, Jörg Magull, Hans-Georg Schmidt, and Mathias Noltemeyer pp 5441–5448 DOI: 10.1021/ja012035k Supporting Info

Pairing of Propellers:  Dimerization of Octahedral Ruthenium(II) and Osmium(II) Complexes of Eilatin via π−π Stacking Featuring Heterochiral Recognition Dalia Gut, Amira Rudi, Jacob Kopilov, Israel Goldberg, and Moshe Kol pp 5449–5456 DOI: 10.1021/ja012636b Supporting Info

In Situ EXAFS Analysis of the Temperature-Programmed Reduction of Cu-ZSM-5 Michael K. Neylon, Christopher L. Marshall, and A. Jeremy Kropf pp 5457–5465 DOI: 10.1021/ja0176696

Pressure-Induced Volume Expansion of Zeolites in the Natrolite Family Yongjae Lee, Thomas Vogt, Joseph A. Hriljac, John B. Parise, and Gilberto Artioli pp 5466–5475 DOI: 10.1021/ja0255960

Preparation and Structure of (Cu(pc))3(ReO4)2 and Theoretical Investigation of Cu(pc)(ReO4), Cu(pc)(ReO4)2, and (Cu(pc))3(ReO4)2 Anna S. Gardberg, Kaiming Deng, D. E. Ellis, and James A. Ibers pp 5476–5480 DOI: 10.1021/ja011829w Supporting Info

Mapping the Cytochrome c Folding Landscape Julia G. Lyubovitsky, Harry B. Gray, and Jay R. Winkler pp 5481–5485 DOI: 10.1021/ja017399r Supporting Info

Carbon-13 NMR Shielding in the Twenty Common Amino Acids:  Comparisons with Experimental Results in Proteins Haihong Sun, Lori K. Sanders, and Eric Oldfield pp 5486–5495 DOI: 10.1021/ja011863a Supporting Info

Spectroscopic Properties of Tyrosyl Radicals in Dipeptides Idelisa Ayala, Kevin Range, Darrin York, and Bridgette A. Barry pp 5496–5505 DOI: 10.1021/ja0164327

A DFT Computational Study of the Bis-Silylation Reaction of Acetylene Catalyzed by Palladium Complexes Andrea Bottoni, Alicia Perez Higueruelo, and Gian Pietro Miscione pp 5506–5513 DOI: 10.1021/ja0118892 Supporting Info

Directing Power of Cyclobutenoid Annelations on the Double Bonds of Planar Cyclooctatetraenes Kim K. Baldridge and Jay S. Siegel pp 5514–5517 DOI: 10.1021/ja017209c Supporting Info

Femtosecond Electron-Transfer Reactions in Mono- and Polynucleotides and in DNA Gavin D. Reid, Douglas J. Whittaker, Mark A. Day, David A. Turton, Veysel Kayser, John M. Kelly, and Godfrey S. Beddard pp 5518–5527 DOI: 10.1021/ja0172363

Bond Insertion, Complexation, and Penetration Pathways of Vapor-Deposited Aluminum Atoms with HO- and CH3O-Terminated Organic Monolayers Gregory L. Fisher, Amy V. Walker, Andrew E. Hooper, Timothy B. Tighe, Kevin B. Bahnck, Hope T. Skriba, Michael D. Reinard, Brendan C. Haynie, Robert L. Opila, Nicholas Winograd, and David L. Allara pp 5528–5541 DOI: 10.1021/ja0123453 Supporting Info

Strong Electronic Consequences of Intercalation in Cuprate Superconductors:  The Case of a Trigonal Planar AuI3 Complex Stabilized in the Bi2Sr2CaCu2Oy Lattice Markéta L. Munzarová and Roald Hoffmann pp 5542–5549 DOI: 10.1021/ja012449d

Charge Transport through Self-Assembled Monolayers of Compounds of Interest in Molecular Electronics Fu-Ren F. Fan, Jiping Yang, Lintao Cai, David W. Price, Jr., Shawn M. Dirk, Dmitry V. Kosynkin, Yuxing Yao, Adam M. Rawlett, James M. Tour, and Allen J. Bard pp 5550–5560 DOI: 10.1021/ja017706t

A Prototype for Catalyzed Amide Bond Cleavage:  Production of the [NH3, H2O]•+ Dimer from Ionized Formamide and Its Carbene Isomer Guillaume van der Rest, Philippe Mourgues, Hristo Nedev, and Henri E. Audier pp 5561–5569 DOI: 10.1021/ja017760+ Supporting Info

Close-Packed C703- Phases − Synthesis, Structure, and Electronic Properties Mark S. Denning, Ian D. Watts, Sandra M. Moussa, Pierrick Durand, Matthew J. Rosseinsky, and Katsumi Tanigaki pp 5570–5580 DOI: 10.1021/ja017780b Supporting Info

Paramagnetically Induced Residual Dipolar Couplings for Solution Structure Determination of Lanthanide Binding Proteins Renato Barbieri, Ivano Bertini, Gabriele Cavallaro, Yong-Min Lee, Claudio Luchinat, and Antonio Rosato pp 5581–5587 DOI: 10.1021/ja025528d Supporting Info

High-Pressure (1 Torr) Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) Study of the Coadsorption and Exchange of CO and NO on the Rh(111) Crystal Face Keith B. Rider, Kevin S. Hwang, Miquel Salmeron, and Gabor A. Somorjai pp 5588–5593 DOI: 10.1021/ja020055w

Generalized Principle of Designing Neutral Superstrong Brønsted Acids Ilmar A. Koppel, Peeter Burk, Ivar Koppel, and Ivo Leito pp 5594–5600 DOI: 10.1021/ja0255958 Supporting Info

Fourier Transform Spectrometry By Sumner P. Davis (University of California, Berkeley), Mark C. Adams (ITT Industries Aerospace/Communicatons, Fort Wayne, Indiana), and James W. Brault (Formerly of National Solar Observatory, Kitt Peak, Arizona). Academic Press:  San Diego. 2001. xiv + 262 pp. $79.95. ISBN 0-12-042510-6. Charles Wilkins p 5601 DOI: 10.1021/ja0153060

Chiral Intermediates Edited by Cynthia A. Challener (Freelance Writer). Ashgate Publishing Limited:  Aldershot, England and Burlington, Vermont. 2001. xxiv + 804 pp. $295.00. ISBN:  0-566-08412-0. p 5601 DOI: 10.1021/ja015385f

Handbook of Raman Spectroscopy:  From the Research Laboratory to the Process Line Edited by Ian R. Lewis (Kaiser Optical Systems) and Howell G. M. Edwards (University of Bradford). Dekker:  New York, Basel. 2001. xiv + 1054 pp. $225. ISBN 0-8247-0557-2. Ronda L. Grosse, Ph.D. pp 5601–5602 DOI: 10.1021/ja015342z

Progress in Inorganic Chemistry. Volume 50 Edited by Kenneth D. Karlin (Johns Hopkins University). Wiley:  New York. 2001. viii + 632 pp. $150.00. ISBN 0-471-43510-4. Robert H Crabtree p 5602 DOI: 10.1021/ja015350f

Carotenoid-Derived Aroma Compounds Edited by Peter Winterhalter (Technischen Universitat Braunschweig) and Russell L. Rouseff (University of Florida). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC (distributed by Oxford University Press). 2002. xii + 323 pp. $140.00. ISBN 0-8412-3729-8. p 5602 DOI: 10.1021/ja025203x

The Chemistry of Organic Silicon Compounds. Volume 3 Edited by Zvi Rappoport (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem) and Yitzhak Apeloig (Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa). J. Wiley & Sons:  New York. 2001. xviii + 1153 pp. $445.00. ISBN 0-471-62384-9. p 5602 DOI: 10.1021/ja025204p

Polymer Nanocomposites:  Synthesis, Characterization, and Modeling Edited by Ramanan Krishnamoorti (University of Houston) and Richard A. Vaia (Air Force Research Laboratory). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC (distributed by Oxford University Press). 2002. x + 246 pp. $120.00. ISBN 0-8412-3768-9. pp 5602–5603 DOI: 10.1021/ja025208u

Anisotropic Organic Materials:  Approaches to Polar Order Edited by Rainer Glaser (University of Missouri-Columbia) and Piotr Kaszynski (Vanderbilt University). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC (distributed by Oxford University Press). xiiii + 322 pp. $135.00. ISBN 0-8412-3689-5. p 5603 DOI: 10.1021/ja015394o

Trace Element Speciation:  For Environment, Food and Health Edited by Les Ebdon, Les Pitts (University of Plymouth, U.K.), Rita Cornelis (University of Gent, Belgium), Helen Crews (Central Science Laboratory, Sand Hutton, York, U.K.), O. F. X. Donard (Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France), and Philippe Quevauviller (European Commission, Brussels, Belgium). Royal Society of Chemistry:  Cambridge. 2001. xxviii + 391 pp. £69.50. ISBN 0-85404-459-0. p 5603 DOI: 10.1021/ja025201c

Polymer Colloids:  Science and Technology of Latex Systems Edited by Eric S. Daniels, E. David Sudol, and Mohamed S. El-Aasser (Lehigh University). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC (distributed by Oxford University Press). 2002. xii + 419 pp. $165.00. ISBN 0-8412-3759-X. p 5603 DOI: 10.1021/ja0252025

Anticancer Agents:  Frontiers in Cancer Chemotherapy Edited by Iwao Ojima (State University of New York at Stony Brook), Gregory D. Vite (Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute), and Karl-Heinz Altmann (Novartis Pharmaceuticals). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC (distributed by Oxford University Press). 2001. xii + 364 pp. $140.00. ISBN 0-8412-3745-X. p 5603 DOI: 10.1021/ja025209m

Handbook of Near-Infrared Analysis, 2nd ed., Revised and Expanded. Practical Spectroscopy Series Volume 27 Edited by D. A. Burns (NIR Resources) and E. W. Ciurczak (Purdue Pharma LP). Dekker:  New York. 2001. xv + 814 pp. $225.00. ISBN:  0-8247-0534-3. Robert A. Lodder pp 5603–5604 DOI: 10.1021/ja015320c

Issue 20

Prediction of an Inverse Heavy-Atom Effect in H−C−CH2Br:  Bromine Substituent as a π Acceptor Zdenek Havlas and Josef Michl pp 5606–5607 DOI: 10.1021/ja012087+

Synthesis of MoVNbTe(Sb)Ox Composite Oxide Catalysts via Reduction of Polyoxometalates in an Aqueous Medium Hideto Tsuji and Yukio Koyasu pp 5608–5609 DOI: 10.1021/ja0122344 Supporting Info

Liposomes from Novel Photolabile Phospholipids:  Light-Induced Unloading of Small Molecules As Monitored by PFG NMR Yongqin Wan, Joseph K. Angleson, and Andrei G. Kutateladze pp 5610–5611 DOI: 10.1021/ja016874i Supporting Info

Isotactic-b-Syndiotactic Stereoblock Poly(methyl methacrylate) by Chiral Metallocene/Lewis Acid Hybrid Catalysts Andrew D. Bolig and Eugene Y.-X. Chen pp 5612–5613 DOI: 10.1021/ja025796b Supporting Info

Are the Carbon Monoxide Complexes of Cp2M (M = Ca, Eu, or Yb) Carbon or Oxygen Bonded? An Answer from DFT Calculations L. Maron, L. Perrin, O. Eisenstein, and R. A. Andersen pp 5614–5615 DOI: 10.1021/ja025820l Supporting Info

Control of Polymer Topology through Transition-Metal Catalysis:  Synthesis of Hyperbranched Polymers by Cobalt-Mediated Free Radical Polymerization Zhibin Guan pp 5616–5617 DOI: 10.1021/ja025609+ Supporting Info

A New Approach to Micropatterning:  Application of Potential-Assisted Ion Transfer at the Liquid−Liquid Interface for the Local Metal Deposition Yael Yatziv, Iva Turyan, and Daniel Mandler pp 5618–5619 DOI: 10.1021/ja0257826

Novel Arene Receptors as Nitric Oxide (NO) Sensors Sergiy V. Rosokha and Jay K. Kochi pp 5620–5621 DOI: 10.1021/ja020217o Supporting Info

Flexible Inner and Outer Coordination of Zn(II) N-Confused Porphyrin Complex Hiroyuki Furuta, Tomoya Ishizuka, and Atsuhiro Osuka pp 5622–5623 DOI: 10.1021/ja017016p Supporting Info

σ-Borane and Dihydroborate Complexes of Ruthenium Virginia Montiel-Palma, María Lumbierres, Bruno Donnadieu, Sylviane Sabo-Etienne, and Bruno Chaudret pp 5624–5625 DOI: 10.1021/ja017429q Supporting Info

Dicubyl Disulfide Ronny Priefer, Yoon Joo Lee, Fabiola Barrios, Jordan H. Wosnick, Anne-Marie Lebuis, Patrick G. Farrell, and David N. HarppAiming Sun, Shaoxiong Wu, and James P. Snyder pp 5626–5627 DOI: 10.1021/ja025823y Supporting Info

Lewis Acid−Base Interactions between Metal Atoms and Their Applications for the Synthesis of Bimetallic Cluster Complexes Richard D. Adams, Burjor Captain, Wei Fu, and Mark D. Smith pp 5628–5629 DOI: 10.1021/ja017486j Supporting Info

Synthesis of Seven-membered Lactones via Nickel- and Zinc-Catalyzed Highly Regio- and Stereoselective Cyclization of 2-Iodobenzyl Alcohols with Propiolates Dinesh Kumar Rayabarapu and Chien-Hong Cheng pp 5630–5631 DOI: 10.1021/ja017390p Supporting Info

Computational Drug Design Accommodating Receptor Flexibility:  The Relaxed Complex Scheme Jung-Hsin Lin, Alexander L. Perryman, Julie R. Schames, and J. Andrew McCammon pp 5632–5633 DOI: 10.1021/ja0260162 Supporting Info

Seeking Higher Resolution and Sensitivity for NMR of Quadrupolar Nuclei at Ultrahigh Magnetic Fields Zhehong Gan, Peter Gor'kov, Timothy A. Cross, Ago Samoson, and Dominique Massiot pp 5634–5635 DOI: 10.1021/ja025849p

Neon Matrix Infrared Spectrum of WH6:  A Distorted Trigonal Prism Structure Xuefeng Wang and Lester Andrews pp 5636–5637 DOI: 10.1021/ja020216w

Enantioselective Direct-Addition of Terminal Alkynes to Imines Catalyzed by Copper(I)pybox Complex in Water and in Toluene Chunmei Wei and Chao-Jun Li pp 5638–5639 DOI: 10.1021/ja026007t Supporting Info

The Catalytic Asymmetric Mannich-Type Reactions in Aqueous Media Shū Kobayashi, Tomoaki Hamada, and Kei Manabe pp 5640–5641 DOI: 10.1021/ja026094p Supporting Info

High-Efficiency Fluorescence Quenching of Conjugated Polymers by Proteins Chunhai Fan, Kevin W. Plaxco, and Alan J. Heeger pp 5642–5643 DOI: 10.1021/ja025899u

Deliberate Design of Ligand Architecture Yields Dramatic Enhancement of Metal Ion Affinity Gregg J. Lumetta, Brian M. Rapko, Priscilla A. Garza, and Benjamin P. HayRobert D. Gilbertson, Timothy J. R. Weakley, and James E. Hutchison pp 5644–5645 DOI: 10.1021/ja025854t Supporting Info

The Cobalt-Catalyzed Alternating Copolymerization of Epoxides and Carbon Monoxide:  A Novel Approach to Polyesters Markus Allmendinger, Robert Eberhardt, Gerrit Luinstra, and Bernhard Rieger pp 5646–5647 DOI: 10.1021/ja0256919 Supporting Info

Intein-Mediated Synthesis of Geranylgeranylated Rab7 Protein in Vitro Kirill Alexandrov, Ines Heinemann, Thomas Durek, Vadim Sidorovitch, Roger S. Goody, and Herbert Waldmann pp 5648–5649 DOI: 10.1021/ja017799e Supporting Info

Total Synthesis and Stereochemical Assignment of the Salicylate Antitumor Macrolide Lobatamide C1 Ruichao Shen, Cheng Ting Lin, and John A. Porco, Jr. pp 5650–5651 DOI: 10.1021/ja026025a Supporting Info

A Designed Phenylalanyl-tRNA Synthetase Variant Allows Efficient in Vivo Incorporation of Aryl Ketone Functionality into Proteins Deepshikha Datta, Pin Wang, Isaac S. Carrico, Stephen L. Mayo, and David A. Tirrell pp 5652–5653 DOI: 10.1021/ja0177096 Supporting Info

Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Callipeltoside A David A. Evans, Essa Hu, Jason D. Burch, and Georg Jaeschke pp 5654–5655 DOI: 10.1021/ja026235n Supporting Info

Direct Catalytic Asymmetric α-Amination of Aldehydes Benjamin List pp 5656–5657 DOI: 10.1021/ja0261325 Supporting Info

The First Dirhodium Tetracarboxylate Molecule without Axial Ligation:  New Insight into the Electronic Structures of Molecules with Importance in Catalysis and Other Reactions F. Albert Cotton, Elizabeth A. Hillard, and Carlos A. Murillo pp 5658–5660 DOI: 10.1021/ja025760j Supporting Info

Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Spongistatins 1 and 2 Michael T. Crimmins, Jason D. Katz, David G. Washburn, Shawn P. Allwein, and Laura F. McAtee pp 5661–5663 DOI: 10.1021/ja0262683 Supporting Info

C−F···H−C Hydrogen Bonds in Ribonucleic Acids Jörg Parsch and Joachim W. Engels pp 5664–5672 DOI: 10.1021/ja012116g

Conformationally Constrained Macrocycles That Mimic Tripeptide β-Strands in Water and Aprotic Solvents Robert C. Reid, Michael J. Kelso, Martin J. Scanlon, and David P. Fairlie pp 5673–5683 DOI: 10.1021/ja0256461 Supporting Info

Enhanced Electron Transfer and Lauric Acid Hydroxylation by Site-Directed Mutagenesis of CYP119 Laura S. Koo, Chad E. Immoos, Michael S. Cohen, Patrick J. Farmer, and Paul R. Ortiz de Montellano pp 5684–5691 DOI: 10.1021/ja017174g

Amplification of Screening Sensitivity through Selective Destruction:  Theory and Screening of a Library of Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors Jeremy D. Cheeseman, Andrew D. Corbett, Ronghua Shu, Jonathan Croteau, James L. Gleason, and Romas J. Kazlauskas pp 5692–5701 DOI: 10.1021/ja017099+ Supporting Info

Electron-Transfer Mechanisms through Biological Redox Chains in Multicenter Enzymes Lars J. C. Jeuken, Anne K. Jones, Stephen K. Chapman, Gary Cecchini, and Fraser A. Armstrong pp 5702–5713 DOI: 10.1021/ja012638w

Measurement of Side-Chain Carboxyl pKa Values of Glutamate and Aspartate Residues in an Unfolded Protein by Multinuclear NMR Spectroscopy Martin Tollinger, Julie D. Forman-Kay, and Lewis E. Kay pp 5714–5717 DOI: 10.1021/ja020066p Supporting Info

Novel Chemistry of α-Tosyloxy Ketones:  Applications to the Solution- and Solid-Phase Synthesis of Privileged Heterocycle and Enediyne Libraries K. C. Nicolaou, T. Montagnon, T. Ulven, P. S. Baran, Y.-L. Zhong, and F. Sarabia pp 5718–5728 DOI: 10.1021/ja012146j Supporting Info

Preparation of Cadmium Selenide−Polyolefin Composites from Functional Phosphine Oxides and Ruthenium-Based Metathesis Habib Skaff, M. Firat Ilker, E. Bryan Coughlin, and Todd Emrick pp 5729–5733 DOI: 10.1021/ja012576+ Supporting Info

An Insight into the Aromaticity of Fullerene Anions:  Experimental Evidence for Diamagnetic Ring Currents in the Five-Membered Rings of C606- and C706- Tamar Sternfeld, Carlo Thilgen, Roy E. Hoffman, María del Rosario Colorado Heras, François Diederich, Fred Wudl, Lawrence T. Scott, James Mack, and Mordecai Rabinovitz pp 5734–5738 DOI: 10.1021/ja012649p

Efficient Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of O-Linked Sialyl Oligosaccharides Ola Blixt, Kirk Allin, Laura Pereira, Arun Datta, and James C. Paulson pp 5739–5746 DOI: 10.1021/ja017881+ Supporting Info

Unraveling the Mechanism of Epoxide Formation from Sulfur Ylides and Aldehydes Varinder K. Aggarwal, Jeremy N. Harvey, and Jeffery Richardson pp 5747–5756 DOI: 10.1021/ja025633n Supporting Info

Basicity of a Stable Carbene, 1,3-Di-tert-butylimidazol-2-ylidene, in THF1 Yeong-Joon Kim and Andrew Streitwieser pp 5757–5761 DOI: 10.1021/ja025628j Supporting Info

Dendron Rodcoils:  Synthesis of Novel Organic Hybrid Structures Eugene R. Zubarev and Samuel I. Stupp pp 5762–5773 DOI: 10.1021/ja020071t

Quasiracemic Synthesis:  Concepts and Implementation with a Fluorous Tagging Strategy to Make Both Enantiomers of Pyridovericin and Mappicine Qisheng Zhang, Alexey Rivkin, and Dennis P. Curran pp 5774–5781 DOI: 10.1021/ja025606x Supporting Info

Dynamic Distribution of Growth Rates within the Ensembles of Colloidal II−VI and III−V Semiconductor Nanocrystals as a Factor Governing Their Photoluminescence Efficiency Dmitri V. Talapin, Andrey L. Rogach, Elena V. Shevchenko, Andreas Kornowski, Markus Haase, and Horst Weller pp 5782–5790 DOI: 10.1021/ja0123599 Supporting Info

Crystal Chemistry of the Gold (I) Trimer, Au3(NC5H4)3:  Formation of Hourglass Figures and Self-Association through Aurophilic Attraction Akari Hayashi, Marilyn M. Olmstead, Saeed Attar, and Alan L. Balch pp 5791–5795 DOI: 10.1021/ja012416y Supporting Info

Nanocluster Formation and Stabilization Fundamental Studies:  Ranking Commonly Employed Anionic Stabilizers via the Development, Then Application, of Five Comparative Criteria Saim Özkar and Richard G. Finke pp 5796–5810 DOI: 10.1021/ja012749v Supporting Info

Synthesis and Properties of Water-Soluble Gold Colloids Covalently Derivatized with Neutral Polymer Monolayers Claire Mangeney, Fabien Ferrage, Isabelle Aujard, Valérie Marchi-Artzner, Ludovic Jullien, Olivier Ouari, El Djouhar Rékaï, André Laschewsky, Inger Vikholm, and Janusz W. Sadowski pp 5811–5821 DOI: 10.1021/ja010796h Supporting Info

Model-Free Analysis of Protein Backbone Motion from Residual Dipolar Couplings Wolfgang Peti, Jens Meiler, Rafael Brüschweiler, and Christian Griesinger pp 5822–5833 DOI: 10.1021/ja011883c Supporting Info

On the Competition of the Purine Bases, Functionalities of Peptide Side Chains, and Protecting Agents for the Coordination Sites of Dicationic Cisplatin Derivatives Dirk V. Deubel pp 5834–5842 DOI: 10.1021/ja012221q

Dissociation Kinetics of Energy-Selected Cp2Mn+ Ions Studied by Threshold Photoelectron-Photoion Coincidence Spectroscopy Yue Li, Bálint Sztáray, and Tomas Baer pp 5843–5849 DOI: 10.1021/ja012682b

Solid-State 67Zn NMR Spectroscopy in Bioinorganic Chemistry. Spectra of Four- and Six-Coordinate Zinc Pyrazolylborate Complexes Obtained by Management of Proton Relaxation Rates with a Paramagnetic Dopant Andrew S. Lipton, Terri A. Wright, Michael K. Bowman, Daniel L. Reger, and Paul D. Ellis pp 5850–5860 DOI: 10.1021/ja0127133

What Is the Nature of Polyacetylene Neutral and Anionic Chains HC2nH and HC2nH- (n = 6−12) That Have Recently Been Observed? uboš Horný, Nicholas D. K. Petraco, Chaeho Pak, and Henry F. Schaefer, III pp 5861–5864 DOI: 10.1021/ja012014q

Electron Delocalization in Acyclic and N-Heterocyclic Carbenes and Their Complexes:  A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Charge-Density Study Maxim Tafipolsky, Wolfgang Scherer, Karl Öfele, Georg Artus, Bjørn Pedersen, Wolfgang A. Herrmann, and G. Sean McGrady pp 5865–5880 DOI: 10.1021/ja011761k Supporting Info

How to Detect Internal Motion by Homonuclear NMR Jürgen Schleucher and Sybren S. Wijmenga pp 5881–5889 DOI: 10.1021/ja012040o Supporting Info

A Structural Model for the High-Valent Intermediate Q of Methane Monooxygenase from Broken-Symmetry Density Functional and Electrostatics Calculations Timothy Lovell, Wen-Ge Han, Tiqing Liu, and Louis Noodleman pp 5890–5894 DOI: 10.1021/ja0121282 Supporting Info

The First Precise Molecular Structure of a Monomeric Transition Metal Cyanide, Copper(I) Cyanide Douglas B. Grotjahn, M. A. Brewster, and Lucy M. Ziurys pp 5895–5901 DOI: 10.1021/ja0122492

Thermal Dissociation of Protein−Oligosaccharide Complexes in the Gas Phase:  Mapping the Intrinsic Intermolecular Interactions Elena N. Kitova, David R. Bundle, and John S. Klassen pp 5902–5913 DOI: 10.1021/ja017213o Supporting Info

Measurements of the Photodissociation Quantum Yields of MbNO and MbO2 and the Vibrational Relaxation of the Six-Coordinate Heme Species Xiong Ye, Andrey Demidov, and Paul M. Champion pp 5914–5924 DOI: 10.1021/ja017359n

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Deoxygenation of Polyhydroxybenzenes:  An Alternative Strategy for the Benzene-Free Synthesis of Aromatic Chemicals Chad A. Hansen and J. W. Frost pp 5926–5927 DOI: 10.1021/ja0176346 Supporting Info

“Inverse Sodium Hydride”:  A Crystalline Salt that Contains H+ and Na- Mikhail Y. Redko, Mircea Vlassa, James E. Jackson, Andrzej W. Misiolek, Rui H. Huang, and James L. Dye pp 5928–5929 DOI: 10.1021/ja025655+ Supporting Info

Synthesis and Characterization of 2,6-Dipp2-H3C6SnSnC6H3-2,6-Dipp2 (Dipp = C6H3-2,6-Pri2):  A Tin Analogue of an Alkyne Andrew D. Phillips, Robert J. Wright, Marilyn M. Olmstead, and Philip P. Power pp 5930–5931 DOI: 10.1021/ja0257164 Supporting Info

Regarding the Stability of d0 Monocyclopentadienyl Zirconium Acetamidinate Complexes Bearing Alkyl Substituents with β-Hydrogens Richard J. Keaton, Lisa A. Koterwas, James C. Fettinger, and Lawrence R. Sita pp 5932–5933 DOI: 10.1021/ja017294o Supporting Info

The Size-Selective Synthesis of Folded Oligomers by Dynamic Templation Tohru Nishinaga, Aya Tanatani, Keunchan Oh, and Jeffrey S. Moore pp 5934–5935 DOI: 10.1021/ja025698q Supporting Info

13C NMR Signal Detection of Iron-Bound Cyanide Ions in Ferric Cyanide Complexes of Heme Proteins Hiroshi Fujii pp 5936–5937 DOI: 10.1021/ja025737y

Stereoselective Ring-Opening Polymerization of Racemic Lactide Using Aluminum-Achiral Ligand Complexes:  Exploration of a Chain-End Control Mechanism Nobuyoshi Nomura, Ryohei Ishii, Matsujiro Akakura, and Keigo Aoi pp 5938–5939 DOI: 10.1021/ja0175789 Supporting Info

The Asymmetric Dialkylzinc Addition to Imines Catalyzed by [2.2]Paracyclophane-Based N,O-Ligands Stefan Dahmen and Stefan Bräse, pp 5940–5941 DOI: 10.1021/ja025831e Supporting Info

[Au2Tl2(C6Cl5)4]·(CH3)2CO:  A Luminescent Loosely Bound Butterfly Cluster with a Tl(I)−Tl(I) Interaction Eduardo J. Fernández, José M. López-de-Luzuriaga, Miguel Monge, M. Elena Olmos, and Javier PérezAntonio Laguna pp 5942–5943 DOI: 10.1021/ja017240e Supporting Info

Charged Molecular Alloys:  Synthesis and Characterization of the Binary Anions Pd7As164- and Pd2As144- Melanie J. Moses, James Fettinger, and Bryan Eichhorn pp 5944–5945 DOI: 10.1021/ja025627r Supporting Info

Conformational Distribution Function of a Disaccharide in a Liquid Crystalline Phase Determined Using NMR Spectroscopy Baltzar Stevensson, Clas Landersjö, Göran Widmalm, and Arnold Maliniak pp 5946–5947 DOI: 10.1021/ja025751a

The [2 + 1] and [4 + 3] Cyclization Reactions of Fulvenes with Fischer Carbene Complexes:  New Access to Annulated Cyclopentanones José Barluenga, Silvia Martínez, Angel L. Suárez-Sobrino, and Miguel Tomás pp 5948–5949 DOI: 10.1021/ja0260667 Supporting Info

Design and Development of Highly Effective Lewis Acid Catalysts for Enantioselective Diels−Alder Reactions Yong Huang, Tetsuo Iwama, and Viresh H. Rawal pp 5950–5951 DOI: 10.1021/ja026088t Supporting Info

Enhanced Radical-Scavenging Activity of a Planar Catechin Analogue Kiyoshi Fukuhara, Ikuo Nakanishi, Hisao Kansui, Etsuko Sugiyama, Mitsuhiro Kimura, Tomokazu Shimada, Shiro Urano, Kentaro Yamaguchi, and Naoki Miyata pp 5952–5953 DOI: 10.1021/ja0178259 Supporting Info

Solid-Phase Synthesis of Lipidated Peptides Björn Ludolph, Frank Eisele, and Herbert Waldmann pp 5954–5955 DOI: 10.1021/ja025768t Supporting Info

Proton Demand Inversion in a Mutant Protein Tyrosine Kinase Reaction Daniel M. Williams and Philip A. Cole pp 5956–5957 DOI: 10.1021/ja025993a Supporting Info

Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (−)-Laulimalide:  Exploiting the Asymmetric Glycolate Alkylation Reaction Michael T. Crimmins, Matthew G. Stanton, and Shawn P. Allwein pp 5958–5959 DOI: 10.1021/ja026269v Supporting Info

The First Ammonium Aromatic Diselenoates:  Stable Heavy Congeners of Aromatic Carboxylic Acid Salts Kazuyasu Tani, Toshiaki Murai, and Shinzi Kato pp 5960–5961 DOI: 10.1021/ja026110i Supporting Info

Novel Brønsted Acidic Ionic Liquids and Their Use as Dual Solvent−Catalysts Amanda C. Cole, Jessica L. Jensen, Ioanna Ntai, Kim Loan T. Tran, Kristin J. Weaver, David C. Forbes, and James H. Davis, Jr. pp 5962–5963 DOI: 10.1021/ja026290w Supporting Info

α-(2,6)-Sialyltransferase-Catalyzed Sialylations of Conformationally Constrained Oligosaccharides M. Carmen Galan, Andre P. Venot, John Glushka, Anne Imberty, and Geert-Jan Boons pp 5964–5973 DOI: 10.1021/ja0169771 Supporting Info

Locked Nucleic Acid (LNA) Recognition of RNA:  NMR Solution Structures of LNA:RNA Hybrids Michael Petersen, Kent Bondensgaard, Jesper Wengel, and Jens Peter Jacobsen pp 5974–5982 DOI: 10.1021/ja012288d Supporting Info

Synthesis and Characterization of Carbohydrate-Based Phospholipids Geoffrey S. Hird, Thomas J. McIntosh, Anthony A. Ribeiro, and Mark W. Grinstaff pp 5983–5992 DOI: 10.1021/ja025542q Supporting Info

Watson−Crick Base-Pairing Properties of Tricyclo-DNA Dorte Renneberg and Christian J. Leumann pp 5993–6002 DOI: 10.1021/ja025569+ Supporting Info

Enthalpic Homogeneous Pair Interaction Coefficients of l-α-Amino Acids as a Hydrophobicity Parameter of Amino Acid Side Chains Bartlomiej Palecz pp 6003–6008 DOI: 10.1021/ja011937i

Efficient and Specific Strand Scission of DNA by a Dinuclear Copper Complex:  Comparative Reactivity of Complexes with Linked Tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine Moieties Kristi J. Humphreys, Kenneth D. Karlin, and Steven E. Rokita pp 6009–6019 DOI: 10.1021/ja020039z Supporting Info

Revisiting the Mechanism of P450 Enzymes with the Radical Clocks Norcarane and Spiro[2,5]octane Karine Auclair, Zhengbo Hu, Dorothy M. Little, Paul R. Ortiz de Montellano, and John T. Groves pp 6020–6027 DOI: 10.1021/ja025608h Supporting Info

Stereoselective Formation of Glycosyl Sulfoxides and Their Subsequent Equilibration:  Ring Inversion of an α-Xylopyranosyl Sulfoxide Dependent on the Configuration at Sulfur David Crich, Jan Mataka, Lev N. Zakharov, Arnold L. Rheingold, and Donald J. Wink pp 6028–6036 DOI: 10.1021/ja0122694 Supporting Info

Stable Polymeric Nanoballoons:  Lyophilization and Rehydration of Cross-linked Liposomes Sanchao Liu and David F. O'Brien pp 6037–6042 DOI: 10.1021/ja0123507

Pd-Catalyzed Intermolecular Amidation of Aryl Halides:  The Discovery that Xantphos Can Be Trans-Chelating in a Palladium Complex Jingjun Yin and Stephen L. Buchwald pp 6043–6048 DOI: 10.1021/ja012610k Supporting Info

Protonation and Subsequent Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding as a Method to Control Chain Structure and Tune Luminescence in Heteroatomic Conjugated Polymers Andrew P. Monkman, Lars-Olof Pålsson, Roger W. T. Higgins, Changsheng Wang, Martin R. Bryce, Andrei S. Batsanov, and Judith A. K. Howard pp 6049–6055 DOI: 10.1021/ja012409+ Supporting Info

Rationally Designed Glycosylated Premithramycins:  Hybrid Aromatic Polyketides Using Genes from Three Different Biosynthetic Pathways Axel Trefzer, Gloria Blanco, Lily Remsing, Eva Künzel, Uwe Rix, Fredilyn Lipata, Alfredo F. Braña, Carmen Méndez, Jürgen Rohr, Andreas Bechthold, and José A. Salas pp 6056–6062 DOI: 10.1021/ja017385l

New Biarsenical Ligands and Tetracysteine Motifs for Protein Labeling in Vitro and in Vivo:  Synthesis and Biological Applications Stephen R. Adams, Robert E. Campbell, Larry A. Gross, Brent R. Martin, Grant K. Walkup, Yong Yao, Juan Llopis, and Roger Y. Tsien pp 6063–6076 DOI: 10.1021/ja017687n Supporting Info

Models of the Low-Spin Iron(III) Hydroperoxide Intermediate of Heme Oxygenase:  Magnetic Resonance Evidence for Thermodynamic Stabilization of the dxy Electronic State at Ambient Temperatures Mario Rivera, Gregori A. Caignan, Andrei V. Astashkin, Arnold M. Raitsimring, Tatjana Kh. Shokhireva, and F. Ann Walker pp 6077–6089 DOI: 10.1021/ja017334o Supporting Info

Thin-Film Solid-State Electroluminescent Devices Based On Tris(2,2‘-bipyridine)ruthenium(II) Complexes Mihai Buda, Gregory Kalyuzhny, and Allen J. Bard pp 6090–6098 DOI: 10.1021/ja017834h Supporting Info

Iron Complexes Capped with Dendrimer-Appended Triazacyclononanes as the Novel Spatially Encumbered Models of Non-Heme Iron Proteins Masashi Enomoto and Takuzo Aida pp 6099–6108 DOI: 10.1021/ja012589n Supporting Info

Pulsed EPR Studies of Nonexchangeable Protons near the Mo(V) Center of Sulfite Oxidase:  Direct Detection of the α-Proton of the Coordinated Cysteinyl Residue and Structural Implications for the Active Site Andrei V. Astashkin, Arnold M. Raitsimring, Changjian Feng, Jean L. Johnson, K. V. Rajagopalan, and John H. Enemark pp 6109–6118 DOI: 10.1021/ja0115417

Electroluminescent Zinc(II) Bis(8-hydroxyquinoline):  Structural Effects on Electronic States and Device Performance Linda S. Sapochak, Flocerfida E. Benincasa, Richard S. Schofield, Joseph L. Baker, Krystal K. C. Riccio, Daniel Fogarty, Holger Kohlmann, Kim F. Ferris, and Paul E. Burrows pp 6119–6125 DOI: 10.1021/ja0201909 Supporting Info

5-Organyl-5-phosphaspiro[4.4]nonanes:  A Contribution to the Structural Chemistry of Spirocyclic Tetraalkylphosphonium Salts and Pentaalkylphosphoranes Uwe Monkowius, Norbert W. Mitzel, Annette Schier, and Hubert Schmidbaur pp 6126–6132 DOI: 10.1021/ja012041g Supporting Info

Stacking and T-shape Competition in Aromatic−Aromatic Amino Acid Interactions Riccardo Chelli, Francesco Luigi Gervasio, Piero Procacci, and Vincenzo Schettino pp 6133–6143 DOI: 10.1021/ja0121639

Structure and Thermodynamics of Carbon and Carbon/Silicon Precursors to Nanostructures Vassiliki-Alexandra Glezakou, Jerry A. Boatz, and Mark S. Gordon pp 6144–6152 DOI: 10.1021/ja012301u Supporting Info

Mechanism of Acetylcholinesterase Inhibition by Fasciculin:  A 5-ns Molecular Dynamics Simulation Kaihsu Tai, Tongye Shen, Richard H. Henchman, Yves Bourne, Pascale Marchot, and J. Andrew McCammon pp 6153–6161 DOI: 10.1021/ja017310h Supporting Info

Cycloaddition Reactions of Acrylonitrile on the Si(100)-2×1 Surface Cheol Ho Choi and Mark S. Gordon pp 6162–6167 DOI: 10.1021/ja020147l Supporting Info

Syntheses and Optical and Electrochemical Properties of Porphyrin Dimers Linked by Metal Ions Sébastien Richeter, Christophe Jeandon, Jean-Paul Gisselbrecht, Romain Ruppert, and Henry J. Callot pp 6168–6179 DOI: 10.1021/ja017531n Supporting Info

Nature of the Intermediate Formed in the Reduction of O2 to H2O at the Trinuclear Copper Cluster Active Site in Native Laccase Sang-Kyu Lee, Serena DeBeer George, William E. Antholine, Britt Hedman, Keith O. Hodgson, and Edward I. Solomon pp 6180–6193 DOI: 10.1021/ja0114052 Supporting Info

Gas-Phase Photochemistry of the Photoactive Yellow Protein Chromophore trans-p-Coumaric Acid Wendy L. Ryan, David J. Gordon, and Donald H. Levy pp 6194–6201 DOI: 10.1021/ja017505p

Surface Forces, Supramolecular Polymers, and Inversion Symmetry Jasper van der Gucht, Nicolaas A. M. Besseling, and Martien A. Cohen Stuart pp 6202–6205 DOI: 10.1021/ja0125422

The Secret of Dimethyl Sulfoxide−Water Mixtures. A Quantum Chemical Study of 1DMSO−nWater Clusters Barbara Kirchner and Markus Reiher pp 6206–6215 DOI: 10.1021/ja017703g

129Xe NMR Spectrum of Xenon Inside C60 M. S. Syamala, R. James Cross, and Martin Saunders pp 6216–6219 DOI: 10.1021/ja012676f

Intramolecular Charge-Transfer Process of Jet-Cooled (p-Cyanophenyl)pentamethyldisilane:  Roles of the Torsional Motion and the Si−Si Bond Change Haruki Ishikawa, Yoichi Shimanuki, Masuyuki Sugiyama, Yuko Tajima, Mitsuo Kira, and Naohiko Mikami pp 6220–6230 DOI: 10.1021/ja017753l

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Luminescence Lifetime-Based Sensor for Cyanide and Related Anions Pavel Anzenbacher, Jr., Daniel S. Tyson, Karolina Jursíková, and Felix N. Castellano pp 6232–6233 DOI: 10.1021/ja0259180 Supporting Info

Routes to Metallodendrimers of the [Re6(μ3-Se)8]2+ Core-Containing Clusters Bryan K. Roland, Chet Carter, and Zhiping Zheng pp 6234–6235 DOI: 10.1021/ja026377h Supporting Info

Solvent Dynamical Control of Electron-Transfer Rates in Mixed-Valence Complexes Observed by Infrared Spectral Line Shape Coalescence Casey H. Londergan, J. Catherine Salsman, Silvia Ronco, Laura M. Dolkas, and Clifford P. Kubiak pp 6236–6237 DOI: 10.1021/ja0202356

Novel Cycloaddition of Nitriles with Monolithio- and Dilithiobutadienes Jinglong Chen, Qiuling Song, Congyang Wang, and Zhenfeng Xi pp 6238–6239 DOI: 10.1021/ja0262176 Supporting Info

Effect of Chemical Exchange on Radiation Damping in Aqueous Solutions of the Osmolyte Glycine Juan Carlos Rodríguez, Patricia A. Jennings, and Giuseppe Melacini pp 6240–6241 DOI: 10.1021/ja0256966 Supporting Info

Population Dynamics in Vibrational Modes during Non-Born−Oppenheimer Processes:  CARS Spectroscopy Used as a Mode-Selective Filter Torsten Siebert, Michael Schmitt, Volker Engel, Arnulf Materny, and Wolfgang Kiefer pp 6242–6243 DOI: 10.1021/ja0173831

Mechanically Induced Solid-State Generation of Phosphorus Ylides and the Solvent-Free Wittig Reaction Viktor P. Balema, Jerzy W. Wiench, Marek Pruski, and Vitalij K. Pecharsky pp 6244–6245 DOI: 10.1021/ja017908p Supporting Info

A Highly Selective Fluorescent Chemosensor for Lead Ions Chao-Tsen Chen and Wan-Pei Huang pp 6246–6247 DOI: 10.1021/ja025710e Supporting Info

Solution Self-Assembly of Magnetic Light Modulators from Exfoliated Perovskite and Magnetite Nanoparticles Frank E. Osterloh pp 6248–6249 DOI: 10.1021/ja025858y Supporting Info

Microwave-Driven Zeolite−Guest Systems Show Athermal Effects from Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics Cristian Blanco and Scott M. Auerbach pp 6250–6251 DOI: 10.1021/ja017839e

Reduction of Dinitrogen to Ammonia at a Well-Protected Reaction Site in a Molybdenum Triamidoamine Complex Dmitry V. Yandulov and Richard R. Schrock pp 6252–6253 DOI: 10.1021/ja020186x Supporting Info

Direct l-Proline-Catalyzed Asymmetric α-Amination of Ketones Nagaswamy Kumaragurubaran, Karsten Juhl, Wei Zhuang, Anders Bøgevig, and Karl Anker Jørgensen pp 6254–6255 DOI: 10.1021/ja026412k Supporting Info

First Artificial Receptors and Chemosensors toward Phosphorylated Peptide in Aqueous Solution Akio Ojida, Yasuko Mito-oka, Masa-aki Inoue, and Itaru Hamachi pp 6256–6258 DOI: 10.1021/ja025761b Supporting Info

Impact of Four 13C-Proline Isotope Labels on the Infrared Spectra of Ribonuclease T1 Ralf Moritz, Heinz Fabian, Ulrich Hahn, Max Diem, and Dieter Naumann pp 6259–6264 DOI: 10.1021/ja011749s

Efficient Delivery of Streptavidin to Mammalian Cells:  Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis Regulated by a Synthetic Ligand Stephen L. Hussey and Blake R. Peterson pp 6265–6273 DOI: 10.1021/ja0258733 Supporting Info

Anion−Aromatic Bonding:  A Case for Anion Recognition by π-Acidic Rings Mark Mascal, Alan Armstrong, and Michael D. Bartberger pp 6274–6276 DOI: 10.1021/ja017449s Supporting Info

Stopped-Flow Kinetics of Methyl Group Transfer between the Corrinoid-Iron-Sulfur Protein and Acetyl-Coenzyme A Synthase from Clostridium thermoaceticum Xiang Shi Tan, Christopher Sewell, and Paul A. Lindahl pp 6277–6284 DOI: 10.1021/ja016676r

Metallocene-Terminated Allylium Salts:  The Effect of End Group on Localization in Polymethines Stephen Barlow, Lawrence M. Henling, Michael W. Day, William P. Schaefer, Jennifer C. Green, Tony Hascall, and Seth R. Marder pp 6285–6296 DOI: 10.1021/ja012472z Supporting Info

Assembly of α-helical Peptide Coatings on Hydrophobic Surfaces Joanna R. Long, Nathan Oyler, Gary P. Drobny, and Patrick S. Stayton pp 6297–6303 DOI: 10.1021/ja011624n

Hydroxyl Radical Reactivity with Nitrobenzene in Subcritical and Supercritical Water Junbo Feng, Sudhir N. V. K. Aki, John E. Chateauneuf, and Joan F. Brennecke pp 6304–6311 DOI: 10.1021/ja0110980

Divergent Selectivity in MgI2-Mediated Ring Expansions of Methylenecyclopropyl Amides and Imides Mark Lautens and Wooseok Han pp 6312–6316 DOI: 10.1021/ja011110o Supporting Info

Ozonides, Epoxides, and Oxidoannulenes of C70 Dieter Heymann, Sergei M. Bachilo, and R. Bruce Weisman pp 6317–6323 DOI: 10.1021/ja012488p Supporting Info

The Preparation of All-Trans Uniformly 13C-Labeled Retinal via a Modular Total Organic Synthetic Strategy. Emerging Central Contribution of Organic Synthesis toward the Structure and Function Study with Atomic Resolution in Protein Research Alain F. L. Creemers and Johan Lugtenburg pp 6324–6334 DOI: 10.1021/ja012368h Supporting Info

Mechanistic Aspects of the Copolymerization Reaction of Carbon Dioxide and Epoxides, Using a Chiral Salen Chromium Chloride Catalyst Donald J. Darensbourg and Jason C. Yarbrough pp 6335–6342 DOI: 10.1021/ja012714v Supporting Info

Pd/P(t-Bu)3:  A Mild and General Catalyst for Stille Reactions of Aryl Chlorides and Aryl Bromides Adam F. Littke, Lothar Schwarz, and Gregory C. Fu pp 6343–6348 DOI: 10.1021/ja020012f Supporting Info

Flash Photolytic Generation and Study of p-Quinone Methide in Aqueous Solution. An Estimate of Rate and Equilibrium Constants for Heterolysis of the Carbon−Bromine Bond in p-Hydroxybenzyl Bromide Y. Chiang, A. J. Kresge, and Y. Zhu pp 6349–6356 DOI: 10.1021/ja020020w Supporting Info

Mechanistic Study of β-Substituent Effects on the Mechanism of Ketone Reduction by SmI2 Edamana Prasad and Robert A. Flowers, II pp 6357–6361 DOI: 10.1021/ja020051r Supporting Info

Absolute Rate Constants of Alkene Addition Reactions of a Fluorinated Radical in Water L. Zhang, W. R. Dolbier, Jr., B. Sheeller, and K. U. Ingold pp 6362–6366 DOI: 10.1021/ja0256010 Supporting Info

Fine-Tuning of Copper(I)-Dioxygen Reactivity by 2-(2-Pyridyl)ethylamine Bidentate Ligands Masayasu Taki, Shinichi Teramae, Shigenori Nagatomo, Yoshimitsu Tachi, Teizo Kitagawa, Shinobu Itoh, and Shunichi Fukuzumi pp 6367–6377 DOI: 10.1021/ja026047x Supporting Info

Avidin:  A Natural Bridge for Quantum Dot-Antibody Conjugates Ellen R. Goldman, Eric D. Balighian, Hedi Mattoussi, M. Kenneth Kuno, J. Matthew Mauro, Phan T. Tran, and George P. Anderson pp 6378–6382 DOI: 10.1021/ja0125570

Metamorphosis of Ordered Mesopores to Micropores:  Periodic Silica with Unprecedented Loading of Pendant Reactive Organic Groups Transforms to Periodic Microporous Silica with Tailorable Pore Size Michal Kruk, Tewodros Asefa, Mietek Jaroniec, and Geoffrey A. Ozin pp 6383–6392 DOI: 10.1021/ja025573l Supporting Info

3hJ(15N−31P) Spin−Spin Coupling Constants across N−H···O−P Hydrogen Bonds Janet E. Del Bene, S. Ajith Perera, Rodney J. Bartlett, José Elguero, Ibon Alkorta, Carmen López-Leonardo, and Mateo Alajarin pp 6393–6397 DOI: 10.1021/ja011755o

Quenching of Tryptophan 1(π,π*) Fluorescence Induced by Intramolecular Hydrogen Abstraction via an Aborted Decarboxylation Mechanism Lluís Blancafort, David González, Massimo Olivucci, and Michael A. Robb pp 6398–6406 DOI: 10.1021/ja016915a Supporting Info

Detailed Unfolding and Folding of Gaseous Ubiquitin Ions Characterized by Electron Capture Dissociation Kathrin Breuker, HanBin Oh, David M. Horn, Blas A. Cerda, and Fred W. McLafferty pp 6407–6420 DOI: 10.1021/ja012267j

Absolute pKa Determinations for Substituted Phenols Matthew D. Liptak, Kevin C. Gross, Paul G. Seybold, Steven Feldgus, and George C. Shields pp 6421–6427 DOI: 10.1021/ja012474j Supporting Info

Solvent Reorganization Controls the Rate of Proton Transfer from Neat Alcohol Solvents to Singlet Diphenylcarbene Jorge Peon, Dmitrii Polshakov, and Bern Kohler pp 6428–6438 DOI: 10.1021/ja017485r

Deuterium Spin Probes of Side-Chain Dynamics in Proteins. 1. Measurement of Five Relaxation Rates per Deuteron in 13C-Labeled and Fractionally 2H-Enriched Proteins in Solution Oscar Millet, D. R. Muhandiram, Nikolai R. Skrynnikov, and Lewis E. Kay pp 6439–6448 DOI: 10.1021/ja012497y Supporting Info

Deuterium Spin Probes of Side-Chain Dynamics in Proteins. 2. Spectral Density Mapping and Identification of Nanosecond Time-Scale Side-Chain Motions Nikolai R. Skrynnikov, Oscar Millet, and Lewis E. Kay pp 6449–6460 DOI: 10.1021/ja012498q Supporting Info

Luminescent Lanthanide Ions Hosted in a Fluorescent Polylysin Dendrimer. Antenna-Like Sensitization of Visible and Near-Infrared Emission Veronica Vicinelli, Paola Ceroni, Mauro Maestri, Vincenzo Balzani, Marius Gorka, and Fritz Vögtle pp 6461–6468 DOI: 10.1021/ja017672p

Optimization of High-Performance Blue Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Containing Tetraphenylsilane Molecular Glass Materials Li-Hsin Chan, Rong-Ho Lee, Chia-Fen Hsieh, Hsiu-Chih Yeh, and Chin-Ti Chen pp 6469–6479 DOI: 10.1021/ja0255150 Supporting Info

An Oxygen Cathode Operating in a Physiological Solution Nicolas Mano, Hyug-Han Kim, Yongchao Zhang, and Adam Heller pp 6480–6486 DOI: 10.1021/ja025874v

Integration of Polyaniline/Poly(acrylic acid) Films and Redox Enzymes on Electrode Supports:  An in Situ Electrochemical/Surface Plasmon Resonance Study of the Bioelectrocatalyzed Oxidation of Glucose or Lactate in the Integrated Bioelectrocatalytic Systems Oleg A. Raitman, Eugenii Katz, Andreas F. Bückmann, and Itamar Willner pp 6487–6496 DOI: 10.1021/ja012680r

Beyond the Roger Brown Rearrangement:  Long-Range Atom Topomerization in Conjugated Polyynes John Mabry and Richard P. Johnson pp 6497–6501 DOI: 10.1021/ja0260115 Supporting Info

Primary Kinetic Isotope Effects on Hydride Transfer from 1,3-Dimethyl-2-phenylbenzimidazoline to NAD+ Analogues  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 7492−7496]. In-Sook Han Lee, Eun Hee Jeoung, and Maurice M. Kreevoy p 6502 DOI: 10.1021/ja0151302

Understanding and Manipulating Excited-State Processes. Molecular and Supramolecular Photochemistry. Vol. 8 Edited by V. Ramamurthy (Tulane University) and Kirk S. Schanze (University of Florida). Marcel Dekker, Inc.:  New York, Basel. 2001. xx + 758 pp. $195.00. ISBN:  0-8247-0579-3. David I. Schuster p 6503 DOI: 10.1021/ja0153518

Electrochemical Reactions and Mechanisms in Organic Chemistry By James Grimshaw (The Queen's University of Belfast). Elsevier:  Amsterdam and New York. 2000. xii + 401 pp. $251.50. ISBN 0-444-72007-3. Stephen F. Nelsen pp 6503–6504 DOI: 10.1021/ja015344j

Hydrazine and Its Derivatives:  Preparation, Properties, Applications, 2nd ed. Volumes 1 and 2 By Eckart W. Schmidt (HazMat, Bellevue, WA). Wiley-Interscience:  New York, Chichester, Weinheim, Brisbane, Singapore, and Toronto. 2001. lix + xii + 2122 pp. $350.00. ISBN 0-471-41553-7. Alan R. Katritzky p 6504 DOI: 10.1021/ja0153666

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Solvent-Induced Aggregation through Metal···Metal/π···π Interactions:  Large Solvatochromism of Luminescent Organoplatinum(II) Terpyridyl Complexes Vivian Wing-Wah Yam, Keith Man-Chung Wong, and Nianyong Zhu pp 6506–6507 DOI: 10.1021/ja025811c Supporting Info

trans-RuH(η1-BH4)(binap)(1,2-diamine):  A Catalyst for Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Simple Ketones under Base-Free Conditions Takeshi Ohkuma, Masatoshi Koizumi, Kilian Muñiz, Gerhard Hilt, Chizuko Kabuto, and Ryoji Noyori pp 6508–6509 DOI: 10.1021/ja026136+ Supporting Info

A New Ruthenium-Catalyzed Hydrogen-Transfer Reaction:  Transformation of 3-Benzyl But-1-ynyl Ethers into 1,3-Dienes and Benzaldehyde Kuo-Liang Yeh, Bo Liu, Ching-Yu Lo, Heh-Lung Huang, and Rai-Shung Liu pp 6510–6511 DOI: 10.1021/ja012623y Supporting Info

Stereoselectivity of the Benzannulation Reaction:  Efficient Central-to-Axial Chirality Transfer Andrei V. Vorogushin, William D. Wulff, and Hans-Jürgen Hansen pp 6512–6513 DOI: 10.1021/ja0201505 Supporting Info

Cobalt-Catalyzed Heck-Type Reaction of Alkyl Halides with Styrenes Yousuke Ikeda, Tomoaki Nakamura, Hideki Yorimitsu, and Koichiro Oshima pp 6514–6515 DOI: 10.1021/ja026296l Supporting Info

First Anionic Micelle with Unusually Long Lifetime:  Self-Assembly of Fluorocarbon−Hydrocarbon Hybrid Surfactant Yukishige Kondo, Haruhiko Miyazawa, Hideki Sakai, Masahiko Abe, and Norio Yoshino pp 6516–6517 DOI: 10.1021/ja0178564 Supporting Info

Asymmetric Synthesis of syn- and anti-1,3-Amino Alcohols Takuya Kochi, Tony P. Tang, and Jonathan A. Ellman pp 6518–6519 DOI: 10.1021/ja026292g Supporting Info

Femtosecond Excitation Energy Transport in Triarylamine Dendrimers Mahinda I. Ranasinghe, Oleg P. Varnavski, Jan Pawlas, Sheila I. Hauck, Janis Louie, John F. Hartwig, and Theodore Goodson, III pp 6520–6521 DOI: 10.1021/ja025505z Supporting Info

Structure and Ion Exchange Properties of a New Cobalt Borate with a Tunnel Structure “Templated” by Na+ Jesse L. C. Rowsell, Nicholas J. Taylor, and Linda F. Nazar pp 6522–6523 DOI: 10.1021/ja020106p Supporting Info

Diastereoselective Silacyclopropanations of Functionalized Chiral Alkenes Tom G. Driver, Annaliese K. Franz, and K. A. Woerpel pp 6524–6525 DOI: 10.1021/ja020183k Supporting Info

Novel Strategy for the Design of a New Zinc Finger:  Creation of a Zinc Finger for the AT-Rich Sequence by α-Helix Substitution Makoto Nagaoka, Yoshihide Doi, Jun Kuwahara, and Yukio Sugiura pp 6526–6527 DOI: 10.1021/ja025856d

Syntheses and Skeletal Transformations of NCNH- and NCN-Bridged Tetrairidium(III) Cages Yoshiaki Tanabe, Shigeki Kuwata, and Youichi Ishii pp 6528–6529 DOI: 10.1021/ja017436e Supporting Info

Helical Self-Assembly of Substituted Benzoic Acids:  Influence of Weaker X···X and C−H···X Interactions J. Narasimha Moorthy, R. Natarajan, Prasenjit Mal, and P. Venugopalan pp 6530–6531 DOI: 10.1021/ja017637i Supporting Info

Stepwise Cycloreversion of Oxetane Radical Cations with Initial C−O Bond Cleavage Miguel A. Miranda and M. Angeles Izquierdo pp 6532–6533 DOI: 10.1021/ja025697y Supporting Info

Regiospecific Synthesis of Bicyclo- and Heterobicyclo-gem-difluorocyclobutenes Using Functionalized Fluoroallenes and a Novel Mo-Catalyzed Intramolecular [2 + 2] Cycloaddition Reaction Qilong Shen and Gerald B. Hammond pp 6534–6535 DOI: 10.1021/ja0263893 Supporting Info

A General Catalytic Allylation Using Allyltrimethoxysilane Shingo Yamasaki, Kunihiko Fujii, Reiko Wada, Motomu Kanai, and Masakatsu Shibasaki pp 6536–6537 DOI: 10.1021/ja0262582 Supporting Info

Stereoselective Synthesis of Trifluoromethylated Vicinal Ethylenediamines with α-Amino N-tert-Butanesulfinimines and TMSCF3 G. K. Surya Prakash and Mihirbaran Mandal pp 6538–6539 DOI: 10.1021/ja020482+ Supporting Info

On the Electronic Character of Localized Singlet 2,2-Dimethoxycyclopentane-1,3-diyl Diradicals:  Substituent Effects on the Lifetime Manabu Abe, Waldemar Adam, Michihiro Hara, Masanori Hattori, Tetsuro Majima, Masatomo Nojima, Kei Tachibana, and Sachiko Tojo pp 6540–6541 DOI: 10.1021/ja026301l Supporting Info

Concerning the Antileukemic Agent Jatrophatrione:  The First Total Synthesis of a [5.9.5] Tricyclic Diterpene Leo A. Paquette, Jiong Yang, and Yun Oliver Long pp 6542–6543 DOI: 10.1021/ja020292z Supporting Info

Identification of Asm19 as an Acyltransferase Attaching the Biologically Essential Ester Side Chain of Ansamitocins Using N-Desmethyl-4,5-desepoxymaytansinol, Not Maytansinol, as Its Substrate Steven J. Moss, Linquan Bai, Sabine Toelzer, Brian J. Carroll, Taifo Mahmud, Tin-Wein Yu, and Heinz G. Floss pp 6544–6545 DOI: 10.1021/ja020214b Supporting Info

Gas-Phase Ion Unimolecular Dissociation for Rapid Phosphopeptide Mapping by IRMPD in a Penning Ion Trap:  An Energetically Favored Process Jason W. Flora and David C. Muddiman pp 6546–6547 DOI: 10.1021/ja0261170

Cation-Recognized Photosensitization in E−Z Isomerization of 1,2-Dichloroethylene by Crowned Benzophenones Ken Kokubo, Hidenobu Kakimoto, and Takumi Oshima pp 6548–6549 DOI: 10.1021/ja017764e

Preparation of Helical Transition-Metal Oxide Tubes Using Organogelators as Structure-Directing Agents Satoshi Kobayashi, Nobuhiro Hamasaki, Masahiro Suzuki, Mutsumi Kimura, Hirofusa Shirai, and Kenji Hanabusa pp 6550–6551 DOI: 10.1021/ja0260622 Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of Ecteinascidin 743 Atsushi Endo, Arata Yanagisawa, Masanao Abe, Shigemitsu Tohma, Toshiyuki Kan, and Tohru Fukuyama pp 6552–6554 DOI: 10.1021/ja026216d Supporting Info

Improvement and Biological Applications of Fluorescent Probes for Zinc, ZnAFs Tomoya Hirano, Kazuya Kikuchi, Yasuteru Urano, and Tetsuo Nagano pp 6555–6562 DOI: 10.1021/ja025567p Supporting Info

Peptide Loop-Closure Kinetics from Microsecond Molecular Dynamics Simulations in Explicit Solvent In-Chul Yeh and Gerhard Hummer pp 6563–6568 DOI: 10.1021/ja025789n

Guest Encapsulation and Self-Assembly of Molecular Capsules in Polar Solvents via Multiple Ionic Interactions Francesca Corbellini, Roberto Fiammengo, Peter Timmerman, Mercedes Crego-Calama, Kees Versluis, Albert J. R. Heck, Ingrid Luyten, and David N. Reinhoudt pp 6569–6575 DOI: 10.1021/ja012058z Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of the Anticancer Natural Product OSW-1 Wensheng Yu and Zhendong Jin pp 6576–6583 DOI: 10.1021/ja012119t Supporting Info

Solid-Phase Synthesis and Biochemical Studies of O-Boranophosphopeptides and O-Dithiophosphopeptides1 Kenneth E. Jenkins, Adrian P. Higson, Peter H. Seeberger, and Marvin H. Caruthers pp 6584–6593 DOI: 10.1021/ja0126576 Supporting Info

Estimating pKa Values for Pentaoxyphosphoranes J. E. Davies, N. L. Doltsinis, A. J. Kirby, C. D. Roussev, and M. Sprik pp 6594–6599 DOI: 10.1021/ja025779m

Synthesis of Poly(vinylene-arsine)s:  Alternating Radical Copolymerization of Arsenic Atomic Biradical Equivalent and Phenylacetylene Kensuke Naka, Tomokazu Umeyama, and Yoshiki Chujo pp 6600–6603 DOI: 10.1021/ja026578l Supporting Info

Supramolecular Fullerene-Porphyrin Chemistry. Fullerene Complexation by Metalated “Jaws Porphyrin” Hosts Dayong Sun, Fook S. Tham, Christopher A. Reed, Leila Chaker, and Peter D. W. Boyd pp 6604–6612 DOI: 10.1021/ja017555u Supporting Info

Engineering the Structure and Magnetic Properties of Crystalline Solids via the Metal-Directed Self-Assembly of a Versatile Molecular Building Unit Juan C. Noveron, Myoung Soo Lah, Rico E. Del Sesto, Atta M. Arif, Joel S. Miller, and Peter J. Stang pp 6613–6625 DOI: 10.1021/ja0200241 Supporting Info

The Development of the First Catalyzed Reaction of Ketenes and Imines:  Catalytic, Asymmetric Synthesis of β-Lactams Andrew E. Taggi, Ahmed M. Hafez, Harald Wack, Brandon Young, Dana Ferraris, and Thomas Lectka pp 6626–6635 DOI: 10.1021/ja0258226 Supporting Info

Is the Corrolate Macrocycle Innocent or Noninnocent? Magnetic Susceptibility, Mössbauer, 1H NMR, and DFT Investigations of Chloro- and Phenyliron Corrolates Olga Zakharieva, Volker Schünemann, Michael Gerdan, Silvia Licoccia, Sheng Cai, F. Ann Walker, and Alfred X. Trautwein pp 6636–6648 DOI: 10.1021/ja012701h Supporting Info

Mechanism of Asymmetric Hydrogenation of α-(Acylamino)acrylic Esters Catalyzed by BINAP−Ruthenium(II) Diacetate Masato Kitamura, Masaki Tsukamoto, Yuhki Bessho, Masahiro Yoshimura, Uwe Kobs, Michael Widhalm, and Ryoji Noyori pp 6649–6667 DOI: 10.1021/ja010982n Supporting Info

Arresting Butterfly-Like Intermediate Nanocrystals of β-Co(OH)2 via Ethylenediamine-Mediated Synthesis Jeyagowry T. Sampanthar and Hua Chun Zeng pp 6668–6675 DOI: 10.1021/ja012595j

Comprehensive Study of the Methyl Effect on the Solvolysis Rates of Bridgehead Derivatives Antonio García Martínez, Enrique Teso Vilar, José Osío Barcina, and Santiago de la Moya Cerero pp 6676–6685 DOI: 10.1021/ja016583+ Supporting Info

Photoinduced Charge-Transfer Dehydrogenation in a Gas-Phase Metal-DNA Base Complex:  Al-cytosine David B. Pedersen, Marek Z. Zgierski, Stephane Denommee, and Benoit Simard pp 6686–6692 DOI: 10.1021/ja0122501

Predictive Concept for Lone-Pair Distortions − DFT and Vibronic Model Studies of AXn-(n-3) Molecules and Complexes (A = NIII to BiIII; X = F-I to I-I; n = 3−6) Michael Atanasov and Dirk Reinen pp 6693–6705 DOI: 10.1021/ja012408h Supporting Info

Conformational Dynamics of Tetraisopropylmethane and of Tetracyclopropylmethane1 J. Edgar Anderson, Armin de Meijere, Sergei I. Kozhushkov, Lodovico Lunazzi, and Andrea Mazzanti pp 6706–6713 DOI: 10.1021/ja017526j

An Approach Based on Quantum Chemistry Calculations and Structural Analysis of a [2Fe-2S*] Ferredoxin That Reveal a Redox-Linked Switch in the Electron-Transfer Process to the Fd-NADP+ Reductase Renaud Morales, Michel Frey, and Jean-Marie Mouesca pp 6714–6722 DOI: 10.1021/ja011680o

Experimental and Theoretical Studies of the Products of Laser-Ablated Thorium Atom Reactions with H2O in Excess Argon Binyong Liang, Lester Andrews, Jun Li, and Bruce E. Bursten pp 6723–6733 DOI: 10.1021/ja012593z

Solvent Triggering between Conformational States in Amphiphilic Shape-Persistent Macrocycles Sigurd Höger, Donald L. Morrison, and Volker Enkelmann pp 6734–6736 DOI: 10.1021/ja017628+ Supporting Info

Electric Susceptibility of Unsolvated Glycine-Based Peptides Rodolphe Antoine, Isabelle Compagnon, Driss Rayane, Michel Broyer, Philippe Dugourd, Gary Breaux, Frederick C. Hagemeister, David Pippen, Robert R. Hudgins, and Martin F. Jarrold pp 6737–6741 DOI: 10.1021/ja012656d

In Search of Covalently Bound Tetra- and Penta-Oxygen Species:  A Photoelectron Spectroscopic and Ab Initio Investigation of MO4- and MO5- (M = Li, Na, K, Cs) Hua-Jin Zhai, Xin Yang, Xue-Bin Wang, Lai-Sheng Wang, Ben Elliott, and Alexander I. Boldyrev pp 6742–6750 DOI: 10.1021/ja020097k

Resonance Raman Evidence for Protein-Induced Out-of-Plane Distortion of the Heme Prosthetic Group of Mammalian Lactoperoxidase Steven D. Zbylut and James R. Kincaid pp 6751–6758 DOI: 10.1021/ja012578u

Factors Governing the Protonation State of Cysteines in Proteins:  An Ab Initio/CDM Study Todor Dudev and Carmay Lim pp 6759–6766 DOI: 10.1021/ja012620l

Large-Scale Resonance Amplification of Optical Sensing of Volatile Compounds with Chemoresponsive Visible-Region Diffraction Gratings Ryan C. Bailey and Joseph T. Hupp pp 6767–6774 DOI: 10.1021/ja0177354

Interpreting Molecular Crystal Disorder in Plumbocene, Pb(C5H5)2:  Insight from Theory Carole A. Morrison, Dominic S. Wright, and Richard A. Layfield pp 6775–6780 DOI: 10.1021/ja025709f

Do Aurophilic Interactions Compete against Hydrogen Bonds? Experimental Evidence and Rationalization Based on ab Initio Calculations Antonio Codina, Eduardo J. Fernández, Peter G. Jones, Antonio Laguna, José M. López-de-Luzuriaga, Miguel Monge, M. Elena Olmos, Javier Pérez, and Miguel A. Rodríguez pp 6781–6786 DOI: 10.1021/ja025765g Supporting Info

Water Rotational Relaxation and Diffusion in Hydrated Lysozyme Massimo Marchi, Fabio Sterpone, and Matteo Ceccarelli pp 6787–6791 DOI: 10.1021/ja025905m

Synthesis of Pyridine-Containing Macrocycles by Cobalt-Mediated Trimerization of Triply-Bonded Species [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 3157−3158]. Alessandro F. Moretto, Han-Cheng Zhang, and Bruce E. Maryanoff p 6792 DOI: 10.1021/ja025102z

Total Synthesis of Kaitocephaln, the First Naturally Occurring AMPA/KA Receptor Antagonist [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 9706−9707]. Dawei Ma and Jiade Yang p 6792 DOI: 10.1021/ja025103r

Issue 24

Hydrogen-Bonding Dynamics in Photoinduced Electron Transfer in a Ferrocene−Quinone Linked Dyad with a Rigid Amide Spacer Shunichi Fukuzumi, Yutaka Yoshida, Ken Okamoto, Hiroshi Imahori, Yasuyuki Araki, and Osamu Ito pp 6794–6795 DOI: 10.1021/ja0157604 Supporting Info

Oxo, Sulfido, and Tellurido Mo-enedithiolate Models for Xanthine Oxidase:  Understanding the Basis of Enzyme Reactivity Predrag Ilich and Russ Hille pp 6796–6797 DOI: 10.1021/ja011957k Supporting Info

The First Direct and Enantioselective Cross-Aldol Reaction of Aldehydes Alan B. Northrup and David W. C. MacMillan pp 6798–6799 DOI: 10.1021/ja0262378 Supporting Info

Formation of Alkylsilane-Based Monolayers on Gold Thomas M. Owens, Kenneth T. Nicholson, Mark M. Banaszak Holl, and Sefik Süzer pp 6800–6801 DOI: 10.1021/ja025755f Supporting Info

N2-Phenyldeoxyguanosine:  Modulation of the Chemical Properties of Deoxyguanosine toward One-Electron Oxidation in DNA Kazuhiko Nakatani, Chikara Dohno, and Isao Saito pp 6802–6803 DOI: 10.1021/ja025781d Supporting Info

Five-Coordinate Platinum(IV) Complex as a Precursor to a Novel Pt(II) Olefin Hydride Complex for Alkane Activation Ulrich Fekl and Karen I. Goldberg pp 6804–6805 DOI: 10.1021/ja0258677 Supporting Info

Stable (Amino)(phosphino)carbenes:  Difunctional Molecules Nathalie Merceron, Karinne Miqueu, Antoine Baceiredo, and Guy Bertrand pp 6806–6807 DOI: 10.1021/ja026556z Supporting Info

Approaching Exponential Growth with a Self-Replicating Peptide Roy Issac and Jean Chmielewski pp 6808–6809 DOI: 10.1021/ja026024i Supporting Info

Chemically Induced Hairpin Formation in DNA Monolayers Emily A. Smith, Motoki Kyo, Hiroyuki Kumasawa, Kazuhiko Nakatani, Isao Saito, and Robert M. Corn pp 6810–6811 DOI: 10.1021/ja026356n Supporting Info

The Smallest Resonance Energy Transfer Acceptor for Tryptophan Jaap Broos, Hendri H. Pas, and George T. Robillard pp 6812–6813 DOI: 10.1021/ja017812v

Activation of Arene C−H Bonds by a Cationic Hafnium Silyl Complex Possessing an α-Agostic Si−H Interaction Aaron D. Sadow and T. Don Tilley pp 6814–6815 DOI: 10.1021/ja025940t Supporting Info

An Indication of Magnetic-Field-Induced Superconductivity in a Bifunctional Layered Organic Conductor, κ-(BETS)2FeBr4 Hideki Fujiwara, Hayao Kobayashi, Emiko Fujiwara, and Akiko Kobayashi pp 6816–6817 DOI: 10.1021/ja026067z

Ultrafast Decay of Electronically Excited Singlet Cytosine via a π,π* to nO,π* State Switch Nina Ismail, Lluís Blancafort, Massimo Olivucci, Bern Kohler, and Michael A. Robb pp 6818–6819 DOI: 10.1021/ja0258273 Supporting Info

Tolerance of Acyclic Residues in the β-Peptide 12-Helix:  Access to Diverse Side-Chain Arrays for Biological Applications Paul R. LePlae, John D. Fisk, Emilie A. Porter, Bernard Weisblum, and Samuel H. Gellman pp 6820–6821 DOI: 10.1021/ja017869h Supporting Info

FTIR Investigation of the Intermediates Formed in the Reaction of Nitroprusside and Thiolates Justin D. Schwane and Michael T. Ashby pp 6822–6823 DOI: 10.1021/ja017061x Supporting Info

Rapid Ruthenium-Catalyzed Synthesis of Pyranopyrandiones by Reconstructive Carbonylation of Cyclopropenones Involving C−C Bond Cleavage Teruyuki Kondo, Yushi Kaneko, Yoshinori Taguchi, Ayako Nakamura, Takumi Okada, Masashi Shiotsuki, Yasuyuki Ura, Kenji Wada, and Take-aki Mitsudo pp 6824–6825 DOI: 10.1021/ja0260521 Supporting Info

Proton Coupling to [4Fe-4S]2+/+ and [4Fe-4Se]2+/+ Oxidation and Reduction in a Designed Protein Michelle L. Kennedy and Brian R. Gibney pp 6826–6827 DOI: 10.1021/ja0171613

Nonnatural Amino Acid Ligands in Heme Protein Design Heidi K. Privett, Charles J. Reedy, Michelle L. Kennedy, and Brian R. Gibney pp 6828–6829 DOI: 10.1021/ja025534+ Supporting Info

Chiroptical Properties of Poly(p-phenyleneethynylene) Copolymers in Thin Films:  Large g-Values James N. Wilson, Winfried Steffen, Trent G. McKenzie, Günter Lieser, Masao Oda, Dieter Neher, and Uwe H. F. Bunz pp 6830–6831 DOI: 10.1021/ja026532s Supporting Info

Observation of the Glycines in Elastin Using 13C and 15N Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy and Isotopic Labeling Ashlee Perry, Michael P. Stypa, Judith A. Foster, and Kristin K. Kumashiro pp 6832–6833 DOI: 10.1021/ja017711x

Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthesis by a Resin-Immobilized Ribozyme Hiroshi Murakami, Neil J. Bonzagni, and Hiroaki Suga pp 6834–6835 DOI: 10.1021/ja025872a Supporting Info

Helicoid Shiftamers Dean J. Tantillo and Roald Hoffmann pp 6836–6837 DOI: 10.1021/ja020425g Supporting Info

Sequential Actions of Cobalt Nanoparticles and Palladium(II) Catalysts:  Three-Step One-Pot Synthesis of Fenestranes from an Enyne and an Alkyne Diester Seung Uk Son, Kang Hyun Park, and Young Keun Chung pp 6838–6839 DOI: 10.1021/ja0260420 Supporting Info

The First General Method for Z-Selective Olefination of Acylsilanes via Ynolate Anions Providing Multisubstituted Alkenes Mitsuru Shindo, Kenji Matsumoto, Seiji Mori, and Kozo Shishido pp 6840–6841 DOI: 10.1021/ja026275r Supporting Info

Mechanism of the Interconversions between C- and N-Bound Transition Metal α-Cyanocarbanions Takeshi Naota, Akio Tannna, Shigeaki Kamuro, and Shun-Ichi Murahashi pp 6842–6843 DOI: 10.1021/ja017868p Supporting Info

Ruthenium(II)-Catalyzed [2 + 2 + 2] Cycloaddition of 1,6-Diynes with Tricarbonyl Compounds Yoshihiko Yamamoto, Hideyuki Takagishi, and Kenji Itoh pp 6844–6845 DOI: 10.1021/ja0264100 Supporting Info

Template-Directed Assembly of a de Novo Designed Protein Christina L. Brown, Ilhan A. Aksay, Dudley A. Saville, and Michael H. Hecht pp 6846–6848 DOI: 10.1021/ja0261271

Dynamic Docking and Electron Transfer between Zn-myoglobin and Cytochrome b5 Zhao-Xun Liang, Judith M. Nocek, Kai Huang, Ryan T. Hayes, Igor V. Kurnikov, David N. Beratan, and Brian M. Hoffman pp 6849–6859 DOI: 10.1021/ja0127032

Molecular Structure of Single DNA Complexes with Positively Charged Dendronized Polymers Illdiko Gössl, Lijin Shu, A. Dieter Schlüter, and Jürgen P. Rabe pp 6860–6865 DOI: 10.1021/ja017828l

Phospholipid/Protein Cones Bijaya K. Mishra and Britt N. Thomas pp 6866–6871 DOI: 10.1021/ja020067h

Recognition of Ten Base Pairs of DNA by Head-to-Head Hairpin Dimers Philipp Weyermann and Peter B. Dervan pp 6872–6878 DOI: 10.1021/ja020258k Supporting Info

Evaluation of Norcarane as a Probe for Radicals in Cytochome P450- and Soluble Methane Monooxygenase-Catalyzed Hydroxylation Reactions Martin Newcomb, Runnan Shen, Yun Lu, Minor J. Coon, Paul F. Hollenberg, Daniel A. Kopp, and Stephen J. Lippard pp 6879–6886 DOI: 10.1021/ja017858o Supporting Info

Metal Ion-Induced Site-Selective RNA Hydrolysis by Use of Acridine-Bearing Oligonucleotide as Cofactor Akinori Kuzuya, Ryo Mizoguchi, Fumi Morisawa, Kenzo Machida, and Makoto Komiyama pp 6887–6894 DOI: 10.1021/ja025653p Supporting Info

Reduction of Ketones and Alkyl Iodides by SmI2 and Sm(II)-HMPA Complexes. Rate and Mechanistic Studies E. Prasad and Robert A. Flowers, II pp 6895–6899 DOI: 10.1021/ja026074n Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of (−)-Rhazinilam:  Asymmetric C−H Bond Activation via the Use of a Chiral Auxiliary James A. Johnson, Ning Li, and Dalibor Sames pp 6900–6903 DOI: 10.1021/ja026130k Supporting Info

Chemistry of a Novel Family of Tridentate Alkoxy Tin(II) Clusters Timothy J. Boyle, Judith M. Segall, Todd M. Alam, Mark A. Rodriguez, and Jessica M. Santana pp 6904–6913 DOI: 10.1021/ja0202309 Supporting Info

Synthesis and Properties of the First Stable Germabenzene Norio Nakata, Nobuhiro Takeda, and Norihiro Tokitoh pp 6914–6920 DOI: 10.1021/ja0262941 Supporting Info

Functionally Orthogonal Ligand−Receptor Pairs for the Selective Regulation of Gene Expression Generated by Manipulation of Charged Residues at the Ligand−Receptor Interface of ERα and ERβ Youheng Shi and John T. Koh pp 6921–6928 DOI: 10.1021/ja016897x Supporting Info

Optimization of Catalyst Enantioselectivity and Activity Using Achiral and Meso Ligands Anna M. Costa, Ciril Jimeno, Jason Gavenonis, Patrick J. Carroll, and Patrick J. Walsh pp 6929–6941 DOI: 10.1021/ja0166601 Supporting Info

Unique Dual Fluorescence of Sterically Congested Hexaalkyl Benzenehexacarboxylates:  Mechanism and Application to Viscosity Probing Yoshihisa Inoue, Peiyun Jiang, Eri Tsukada, Takehiko Wada, Hitoshi Shimizu, Akira Tai, and Mitsuru Ishikawa pp 6942–6949 DOI: 10.1021/ja016858l

Intramolecular Dimers:  A New Strategy to Fluorescence Quenching in Dual-Labeled Oligonucleotide Probes Mary Katherine Johansson, Henk Fidder, Daren Dick, and Ronald M. Cook pp 6950–6956 DOI: 10.1021/ja025678o

The Contrasting Kinetics of Peroxidation of Vitamin E-Containing Phospholipid Unilamellar Vesicles and Human Low-Density Lipoprotein1 Manlio Alessi, Thomas Paul, J. C. Scaiano, and K. U. Ingold pp 6957–6965 DOI: 10.1021/ja0127178 Supporting Info

Unusual Pathways for Metal-Assisted C−C and C−P Coupling Reactions Using Allenylidenerhodium Complexes as Precursors Helmut Werner, Ralf Wiedemann, Matthias Laubender, Bettina Windmüller, Paul Steinert, Olaf Gevert, and Justin Wolf pp 6966–6980 DOI: 10.1021/ja012479g Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of (−)-Bafilomycin A1 Karl A. Scheidt, Thomas D. Bannister, Akihiro Tasaka, Michael D. Wendt, Brad M. Savall, Glenn J. Fegley, and William R. Roush pp 6981–6990 DOI: 10.1021/ja017885e Supporting Info

Efficient Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of Unsaturated Amines:  Preparation of Small- and Medium-Ring Cyclic Amines through Mo-Catalyzed Asymmetric Ring-Closing Metathesis in the Absence of Solvent Sarah J. Dolman, Elizabeth S. Sattely, Amir H. Hoveyda, and Richard R. Schrock pp 6991–6997 DOI: 10.1021/ja012534l Supporting Info

Mechanism of Abietadiene Synthase Catalysis:  Stereochemistry and Stabilization of the Cryptic Pimarenyl Carbocation Intermediates Matthew M. Ravn, Reuben J. Peters, Robert M. Coates, and Rodney Croteau pp 6998–7006 DOI: 10.1021/ja017734b Supporting Info

A Mechanistic Study of the Samarium(II)-Mediated Reduction of Aryl Nitro Compounds to the Corresponding Arylamines. The Crystal Structures of {Sm[N(SiMe3)2]2(thf)}2(μ2-O) and [(Me3Si)2N]2Sm(thf)(μ-PhNNPh)Sm[N(SiMe3)2]2 Erik D. Brady, David L. Clark, D. Webster Keogh, Brian L. Scott, and John G. Watkin pp 7007–7015 DOI: 10.1021/ja0168918 Supporting Info

Measuring Polymer Surface Ordering Differences in Air and Water by Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy Jie Wang, Zoltan Paszti, Mark A. Even, and Zhan Chen pp 7016–7023 DOI: 10.1021/ja012387r

Organocations in Zeolite Synthesis:  Fused Bicyclo [l.m.0] Cations and the Discovery of Zeolite SSZ-48 Greg S. Lee, Yumi Nakagawa, Son-Jong Hwang, Mark E. Davis, Paul Wagner, Larry Beck, and Stacey I. Zones pp 7024–7034 DOI: 10.1021/ja011513o Supporting Info

Conversion of Tricoordinate to Hexacoordinate Phosphorus. Formation of a Phosphorane−Phosphatrane System1 Natalya V. Timosheva, A. Chandrasekaran, Roberta O. Day, and Robert R. Holmes pp 7035–7040 DOI: 10.1021/ja012579m Supporting Info

TpPtMe(H)2:  Why Is There H/D Scrambling of the Methyl Group but Not Methane Loss? Mark A. Iron, H. Christine Lo, Jan M. L. Martin, and Ehud Keinan pp 7041–7054 DOI: 10.1021/ja025667v Supporting Info

Biosynthesis of Nodulisporic Acid A:  Precursor Studies Kevin M. Byrne, Scott K. Smith, and John G. Ondeyka pp 7055–7060 DOI: 10.1021/ja017183p Supporting Info

Total Syntheses of the Phytotoxic Lactones Herbarumin I and II and a Synthesis-Based Solution of the Pinolidoxin Puzzle Alois Fürstner, Karin Radkowski, Conny Wirtz, Richard Goddard, Christian W. Lehmann, and Richard Mynott pp 7061–7069 DOI: 10.1021/ja020238i Supporting Info

Sorting Fluorescent Nanocrystals with DNA Daniele Gerion, Wolfgang J. Parak, Shara C. Williams, Daniela Zanchet, Christine M. Micheel, and A. Paul Alivisatos pp 7070–7074 DOI: 10.1021/ja017822w

Solution and Solid-State Structural Studies of Epoxide Adducts of Cadmium Phenoxides. Chemistry Relevant to Epoxide Activation for Ring-Opening Reactions Donald J. Darensbourg, Jacob R. Wildeson, Samuel J. Lewis, and Jason C. Yarbrough pp 7075–7083 DOI: 10.1021/ja020184c Supporting Info

Hydrogen Activation on Mo-Based Sulfide Catalysts, a Periodic DFT Study Arnaud Travert, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Rutger A. van Santen, Sylvain Cristol, Jean-François Paul, and Edmond Payen pp 7084–7095 DOI: 10.1021/ja011634o Supporting Info

Dynamics and Extent of Ligand Exchange Depend on Electronic Charge of Metal Nanoparticles Yang Song and Royce W. Murray pp 7096–7102 DOI: 10.1021/ja0174985 Supporting Info

High-Resolution Solid-State 13C NMR Studies of Chemisorbed Organometallics. Chemisorptive Formation of Cation-like and Alkylidene Organotantalum Complexes on High Surface Area Inorganic Oxides Hongsang Ahn and Tobin J. Marks pp 7103–7110 DOI: 10.1021/ja0123204

Extending the Coordination Chemistry of Molecular P4S3:  The Polymeric Ag(P4S3)+ and Ag(P4S3)2+ Cations Ariane Adolf, Marcin Gonsior, and Ingo Krossing pp 7111–7116 DOI: 10.1021/ja012760v Supporting Info

Impact of Defects on the Surface Chemistry of ZnO(000)−O Robert Lindsay, Ela Michelangeli, Benjamin G. Daniels, Timothy V. Ashworth, Adam J. Limb, Geoffrey Thornton, Aurora Gutiérrez-Sosa, Alessandro Baraldi, Rosanna Larciprete, and Silvano Lizzit pp 7117–7122 DOI: 10.1021/ja025904u

Long-Lived Charge-Separation by Retarding Reverse Flow of Charge-Balancing Cation and Zeolite-Encapsulated Ru(bpy)32+ as Photosensitized Electron Pump from Zeolite Framework to Externally Placed Viologen Yong Soo Park, Eun Jung Lee, Yu Sung Chun, Young Deok Yoon, and Kyung Byung Yoon pp 7123–7135 DOI: 10.1021/ja020446a

Epitaxial Growth and Photochemical Annealing of Graded CdS/ZnS Shells on Colloidal CdSe Nanorods Liberato Manna, Erik C. Scher, Liang-Shi Li, and A. Paul Alivisatos pp 7136–7145 DOI: 10.1021/ja025946i Supporting Info

Heme Charge-Transfer Band III Is Vibronically Coupled to the Soret Band Stefan Franzen, Stacie E. Wallace-Williams, and Andrew P. Shreve pp 7146–7155 DOI: 10.1021/ja0172722 Supporting Info

Residue-Specific Real-Time NMR Diffusion Experiments Define the Association States of Proteins during Folding Alexei V. Buevich and Jean Baum pp 7156–7162 DOI: 10.1021/ja012699u

Magnitudes and Chemical Consequences of R3N+−C−H···OC Hydrogen Bonding Carina E. Cannizzaro and K. N. Houk pp 7163–7169 DOI: 10.1021/ja012417q

Selective Formation of Cumulative Double Bonds (CCN) in the Attachment of Multifunctional Molecules on Si(111)-7 × 7 Feng Tao, Xian Feng Chen, Zhong Hai Wang, and Guo Qin Xu pp 7170–7180 DOI: 10.1021/ja012563w

Mechanism of C−H Bond Activation/C−C Bond Formation Reaction between Diazo Compound and Alkane Catalyzed by Dirhodium Tetracarboxylate Eiichi Nakamura, Naohiko Yoshikai, and Masahiro Yamanaka pp 7181–7192 DOI: 10.1021/ja017823o Supporting Info

A First-Principles Study of Methanol Decomposition on Pt(111) Jeff Greeley and Manos Mavrikakis pp 7193–7201 DOI: 10.1021/ja017818k

Molecular-Scale Tribology of Amorphous Carbon Coatings:  Effects of Film Thickness, Adhesion, and Long-Range Interactions G. T. Gao, Paul T. Mikulski, and Judith A. Harrison pp 7202–7209 DOI: 10.1021/ja0178618

IR and Theoretical Studies of Monocarbonyl Ni Complexes Formed by Adsorption of CO at Low Pressure on Silica-Supported NiII Ions Dominique Costa, Gianmario Martra, Michel Che, Laurent Manceron, and Maggy Kermarec pp 7210–7217 DOI: 10.1021/ja020037e

Theoretical Study of Benzonitrile Clusters in the Gas Phase and Their Adsorption onto a Au(111) Surface Yoshishige Okuno, Takashi Yokoyama, Shiyoshi Yokoyama, Toshiya Kamikado, and Shinro Mashiko pp 7218–7225 DOI: 10.1021/ja011744v Supporting Info

The Reaction of Triplet Flavin with Indole. A Study of the Cascade of Reactive Intermediates Using Density Functional Theory and Time Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy Christopher B. Martin, Meng-Lin Tsao, Christopher M. Hadad, and Matthew S. Platz pp 7226–7234 DOI: 10.1021/ja0123711 Supporting Info

Determination of 1H Homonuclear Scalar Couplings in Unlabeled Carbohydrates Catherine Zwahlen and Sébastien J. F. Vincent pp 7235–7239 DOI: 10.1021/ja017358v Supporting Info

Low-Valent Group-13 Chemistry. Theoretical Investigation of the Structures and Relative Stabilities of Donor−Acceptor Complexes R3E−E‘R‘ and Their Isomers R2E−E‘RR‘  Alexey Y. Timoshkin and Gernot Frenking pp 7240–7248 DOI: 10.1021/ja0201754 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 [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 12724−12725]. Stefan Reinartz, Peter S. White, Maurice Brookhart*, and Joseph L. Templeton p 7249 DOI: 10.1021/ja0251017

Total Synthesis of Bafilomycin A1 Relying on Iterative 1,2-Induction in Acyclic Precursors [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 10200−10206]. Stephen Hanessian*, Jianguo Ma, Wengui Wang, and Yonghua Gai p 7249 DOI: 10.1021/ja025105b

Magnetism:  Molecules to Materials II. Molecule-Based Materials Edited by Joel S. Miller (University of Utah) and Marc Drillon (CNRS, Institut de Physique et Chimie des Materiaux de Strasbourg). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2001. xiv + 490 pp. $125.00. ISBN:  3-527-30301-4. Robert J. Doedens p 7250 DOI: 10.1021/ja015363t

Electron Transfer in Chemistry. Volume II:  Organic, Organometallic, and Inorganic Molecules Edited by Vincenzo Balzani (Universita di Bologna). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2001. Volume 2 of a 5-volume set. 4200 pp (for set). $1425.00 (for set). ISBN:  3-527-29912-2 (for set). Mark S. Workentin pp 7250–7251 DOI: 10.1021/ja0153619

Essays in Contemporary Chemistry:  from Molecular Structure toward Biology Edited by Gerhard Quinkert (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and M. Volkan Kisakürek (Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta, Zurich, Switzerland). Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta:  Zurich and Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2001. xvi + 456 pp. $115.00. ISBN 3-906390-28-4. Mark R. Chance p 7251 DOI: 10.1021/ja015369i

Polymer Crystallization:  The Development of Crystalline Order in Thermoplastic Polymers By Jerold M. Schultz (University of Delaware). Oxford University Press:  New York. 2001. x + 288 pp. $195.00. ISBN 08412-3669-0 Benjamin S. Hsiao pp 7251–7252 DOI: 10.1021/ja015359h

Issue 25

A Smart Adhesive Joint:  Entropic Control of Adhesion at a Polymer/Metal Interface Sureurg Khongtong and Gregory S. Ferguson pp 7254–7255 DOI: 10.1021/ja017396e

Synthesis of Novel Quaternary Amino Acids Using Molybdenum-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation Barry M. Trost and Kalindi Dogra pp 7256–7257 DOI: 10.1021/ja020290e Supporting Info

Design and Synthesis of Biotin Chain-Terminated Glycopolymers for Surface Glycoengineering Xue-Long Sun, Keith M. Faucher, Michelle Houston, Daniel Grande, and Elliot L. Chaikof pp 7258–7259 DOI: 10.1021/ja025788v Supporting Info

Characterization and Reactions of Previously Elusive 17-Electron Cations:  Electrochemical Oxidations of (C6H6)Cr(CO)3 and (C5H5)Co(CO)2 in the Presence of [B(C6F5)4]- Nicole Camire, Ayman Nafady, and William E. Geiger pp 7260–7261 DOI: 10.1021/ja012641f

Use of Medium Effects to Tune the ΔE1/2 Values of Bimetallic and Oligometallic Compounds Frédéric Barrière, Nicole Camire, William E. Geiger, Ulrich T. Mueller-Westerhoff, and Richard Sanders pp 7262–7263 DOI: 10.1021/ja020309d Supporting Info

Observation of Azo Chromophore Fluorescence and Phosphorescence Emissions from DBH by Applying Exclusively the Orbital Confinement Effect in Siliceous Zeolites Devoid of Charge-Balancing Cations Francisco Márquez, Vicente Martí, Emilio Palomares, Hermenegildo García, and Waldemar Adam pp 7264–7265 DOI: 10.1021/ja012242k Supporting Info

Coordination-Driven Self-Assembly:  Solids with Bidirectional Porosity Katie Campbell, Christopher J. Kuehl, Michael J. Ferguson, Peter J. Stang, and Rik R. Tykwinski pp 7266–7267 DOI: 10.1021/ja025773x Supporting Info

Quantum Dynamics of Hydride Transfer Catalyzed by Bimetallic Electrophilic Catalysis:  Synchronous Motion of Mg2+ and H- in Xylose Isomerase Mireia Garcia-Viloca, Cristóbal Alhambra, Donald G. Truhlar, and Jiali Gao pp 7268–7269 DOI: 10.1021/ja026383d Supporting Info

Trehalose Glass-Facilitated Thermal Reduction of Metmyoglobin and Methemoglobin Anandhi Ray, Benjamin A. Friedman, and Joel M. Friedman pp 7270–7271 DOI: 10.1021/ja0201348 Supporting Info

Base Flipping in DNA:  Pathways and Energetics Studied with Molecular Dynamic Simulations Péter Várnai and Richard Lavery pp 7272–7273 DOI: 10.1021/ja025980x

Sugar Acetates as Novel, Renewable CO2-philes Poovathinthodiyil Raveendran and Scott L. Wallen pp 7274–7275 DOI: 10.1021/ja025508b Supporting Info

Exceptional Kinetic Propensity of Hydroxymethyl Phosphanes toward Rh(III) Stabilization in Water Kannan Raghuraman, Nagavarakishore Pillarsetty, Wynn A. Volkert, Charles Barnes, Silvia Jurisson, and Kattesh V. Katti pp 7276–7277 DOI: 10.1021/ja025987e Supporting Info

Fapy·dG Instructs Klenow Exo- to Misincorporate Deoxyadenosine Carissa J. Wiederholt and Marc M. Greenberg pp 7278–7279 DOI: 10.1021/ja026522r

Infrared Spectrum of the Novel Electron-Deficient BH4 Radical in Solid Neon Lester Andrews and Xuefeng Wang pp 7280–7281 DOI: 10.1021/ja026572w

Living Alternating Copolymerization of N-Alkylaziridines and Carbon Monoxide as a Route for Synthesis of Poly-β-peptoids Li Jia, Huailin Sun, J. Travis Shay, Alan M. Allgeier, and Scott D. Hanton pp 7282–7283 DOI: 10.1021/ja0263691 Supporting Info

Conformation and Absolute Configuration of Nocathiacin I Determined by NMR Spectroscopy and Chiral Capillary Electrophoresis Keith L. Constantine, Luciano Mueller, Stella Huang, Sadia Abid, Kin S. Lam, Wenying Li, and John E. Leet pp 7284–7285 DOI: 10.1021/ja026249t Supporting Info

Rational Design to Block Amino Acid Editing of a tRNA Synthetase Richard S. Mursinna and Susan A. Martinis pp 7286–7287 DOI: 10.1021/ja025879s Supporting Info

Connectivity of Features in Microlens Array Reduction Photolithography:  Generation of Various Patterns with a Single Photomask Hongkai Wu, Teri W. Odom, and George M. Whitesides pp 7288–7289 DOI: 10.1021/ja020551k Supporting Info

Correlated Electrons in the Eu-Exchanged Preyssler Anion [EuP5W30O110]n- L. Soderholm, Mark R. Antonio, S. Skanthakumar, and C. W. Williams pp 7290–7291 DOI: 10.1021/ja025821d Supporting Info

A New Synthetic Route to Boron-10 Enriched Pentaborane(9) from Boric Acid and Its Conversion to anti-10B18H22 Luqman Adams, Sumathy N. Hosmane, Jamey E. Eklund, Jianhui Wang, and Narayan S. Hosmane pp 7292–7293 DOI: 10.1021/ja026477n

Solution and Biologically Relevant Conformations of Enantiomeric 11-cis-Locked Cyclopropyl Retinals Yukari Fujimoto, Nathan Fishkin, Gennaro Pescitelli, John Decatur, Nina Berova, and Koji Nakanishi pp 7294–7302 DOI: 10.1021/ja020083e Supporting Info

The Mechanism of Cis−Trans Isomerization of Prolyl Peptides by Cyclophilin Sun Hur and Thomas C. Bruice pp 7303–7313 DOI: 10.1021/ja020222s

Hybridization and Enzymatic Extension of Au Nanoparticle-Bound Oligonucleotides Sheila R. Nicewarner Peña, Surabhi Raina, Glenn P. Goodrich, Nina V. Fedoroff, and Christine D. Keating pp 7314–7323 DOI: 10.1021/ja0177915

Mimicry of Host-Defense Peptides by Unnatural Oligomers:  Antimicrobial β-Peptides Emilie A. Porter, Bernard Weisblum, and Samuel H. Gellman pp 7324–7330 DOI: 10.1021/ja0260871

Thermodynamics of Cationic Lipid Binding to DNA and DNA Condensation:  Roles of Electrostatics and Hydrophobicity Daumantas Matulis, Ioulia Rouzina, and Victor A. Bloomfield pp 7331–7342 DOI: 10.1021/ja0124055

C2-Hydroxyglycosylation with Glycal Donors. Probing the Mechanism of Sulfonium-Mediated Oxygen Transfer to Glycal Enol Ethers Eiji Honda and David Y. Gin pp 7343–7352 DOI: 10.1021/ja025639c Supporting Info

Gas-Phase Concentration, Purification, and Identification of Whole Proteins from Complex Mixtures Gavin E. Reid, Hao Shang, Jason M. Hogan, Gil U. Lee, and Scott A. McLuckey pp 7353–7362 DOI: 10.1021/ja025966k

Silicon-Based Metalloprotease Inhibitors:  Synthesis and Evaluation of Silanol and Silanediol Peptide Analogues as Inhibitors of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme1 Mwangi wa Mutahi, Thomas Nittoli, Luxuan Guo, and Scott McN. Sieburth pp 7363–7375 DOI: 10.1021/ja026158w Supporting Info

Formation of Vinyl Halides via a Ruthenium-Catalyzed Three-Component Coupling Barry M. Trost and Anthony B. Pinkerton pp 7376–7389 DOI: 10.1021/ja011426w Supporting Info

Electrostatic Modulation by Ionic Aggregates:  Charge Transfer Transitions in Solutions of Lithium Perchlorate−Diethyl Ether Y. Pocker and Greg T. Spyridis pp 7390–7394 DOI: 10.1021/ja011699r

Cycloaddition Reactions of Dihapto-Coordinated Furans Lee A. Friedman, Michal Sabat, and W. Dean Harman pp 7395–7404 DOI: 10.1021/ja020137k Supporting Info

Toward Computing Relative Configurations:  16-epi-Latrunculin B, a New Stereoisomer of the Actin Polymerization Inhibitor Latrunculin B Thomas R. Hoye, Seif-Eldin N. Ayyad, Brian M. Eklov, Nadia E. Hashish, W. Thomas Shier, Khalid A. El Sayed, and Mark T. Hamann pp 7405–7410 DOI: 10.1021/ja025734l Supporting Info

Selective Substitution of Corroles:  Nitration, Hydroformylation, and Chlorosulfonation Irena Saltsman, Atif Mahammed, Israel Goldberg, Elena Tkachenko, Mark Botoshansky, and Zeev Gross pp 7411–7420 DOI: 10.1021/ja025851g Supporting Info

A General and Efficient Copper Catalyst for the Amidation of Aryl Halides Artis Klapars, Xiaohua Huang, and Stephen L. Buchwald pp 7421–7428 DOI: 10.1021/ja0260465 Supporting Info

Structural Chemistry of arachno-Nonaboranes Jonathan Bould, Robert Greatrex, John D. Kennedy, Daniel L. Ormsby, Michael G. S. Londesborough, Karen L. F. Callaghan, Mark Thornton-Pett, Trevor R. Spalding, Simon J. Teat, William Clegg, Hong Fang, Nigam P. Rath, and Lawrence Barton pp 7429–7439 DOI: 10.1021/ja025700d Supporting Info

Cross-Coupling Reaction of α-Chloroketones and Organotin Enolates Catalyzed by Zinc Halides for Synthesis of γ-Diketones Makoto Yasuda, Shoki Tsuji, Yusuke Shigeyoshi, and Akio Baba pp 7440–7447 DOI: 10.1021/ja0258172 Supporting Info

Macromolecular Chirality Induction on Optically Inactive Poly(4-carboxyphenyl isocyanide) with Chiral Amines:  A Dynamic Conformational Transition of Poly(phenyl isocyanide) Derivatives Masayoshi Ishikawa, Katsuhiro Maeda, and Eiji Yashima pp 7448–7458 DOI: 10.1021/ja0259537 Supporting Info

The Mn Cluster in the S0 State of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II Studied by EXAFS Spectroscopy:  Are There Three Di-μ-oxo-bridged Mn2 Moieties in the Tetranuclear Mn Complex? John H. Robblee, Johannes Messinger, Roehl M. Cinco, Karen L. McFarlane, Carmen Fernandez, Shelly A. Pizarro, Kenneth Sauer, and Vittal K. Yachandra pp 7459–7471 DOI: 10.1021/ja011621a Supporting Info

The Solute−Solvent System:  Solvent Constraints on the Conformational Dynamics of Acetylcholine Giulio Vistoli, Alessandro Pedretti, Luigi Villa, and Bernard Testa pp 7472–7480 DOI: 10.1021/ja0119999

Diheteroarylethenes as Thermally Stable Photoswitchable Acceptors in Photochromic Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (pcFRET) Luciana Giordano, Thomas M. Jovin, Masahiro Irie, and Elizabeth A. Jares-Erijman pp 7481–7489 DOI: 10.1021/ja016969k Supporting Info

Improper or Classical Hydrogen Bonding? A Comparative Cryosolutions Infrared Study of the Complexes of HCClF2, HCCl2F, and HCCl3 with Dimethyl Ether Sofie N. Delanoye, Wouter A. Herrebout, and Benjamin J. van der Veken pp 7490–7498 DOI: 10.1021/ja0125220 Supporting Info

Coadsorption of CO and O2 on Selected Gold Clusters:  Evidence for Efficient Room-Temperature CO2 Generation William T. Wallace and Robert L. Whetten pp 7499–7505 DOI: 10.1021/ja0175439

CP/MAS 13C NMR Study of Cellulose and Cellulose Derivatives. 1. Complete Assignment of the CP/MAS 13C NMR Spectrum of the Native Cellulose Hiroyuki Kono, Shunji Yunoki, Tamio Shikano, Masashi Fujiwara, Tomoki Erata, and Mitsuo Takai pp 7506–7511 DOI: 10.1021/ja010704o

CP/MAS 13C NMR Study of Cellulose and Cellulose Derivatives. 2. Complete Assignment of the 13C Resonance for the Ring Carbons of Cellulose Triacetate Polymorphs Hiroyuki Kono, Tomoki Erata, and Mitsuo Takai pp 7512–7518 DOI: 10.1021/ja010705g

Stochastic Simulations of Polymer Growth and Isomerization in the Polymerization of Propylene Catalyzed by Pd-Based Diimine Catalysts Artur Michalak and Tom Ziegler pp 7519–7528 DOI: 10.1021/ja012144z

Theoretical and Electrochemical Analysis of Dissociative Electron Transfers Proceeding through Formation of Loose Radical Anion Species:  Reduction of Symmetrical and Unsymmetrical Disulfides Sabrina Antonello, Rois Benassi, Giovanna Gavioli, Ferdinando Taddei, and Flavio Maran pp 7529–7538 DOI: 10.1021/ja012545e Supporting Info

Excited State Proton Transfer in Reverse Micelles Boiko Cohen, Dan Huppert, Kyril M. Solntsev, Yossi Tsfadia, Esther Nachliel, and Menachem Gutman pp 7539–7547 DOI: 10.1021/ja012646c

Formation and Decomposition of N,N,N-Trimethylanilinium Cations on Zeolite H−Y Investigated by in Situ Stopped-Flow MAS NMR Spectroscopy Wei Wang, Michael Seiler, Irina I. Ivanova, Ulrich Sternberg, Jens Weitkamp, and Michael Hunger pp 7548–7554 DOI: 10.1021/ja012675n

First Gas-Phase Detection of Dimethylstannylene and Time-Resolved Study of Some of Its Reactions Rosa Becerra, Sergey E. Boganov, Mikhail P. Egorov, Valery I. Faustov, Irina V. Krylova, Oleg M. Nefedov, and Robin Walsh pp 7555–7562 DOI: 10.1021/ja012691k

From Sulfoxide Precursors to Model Oligomers of Conducting Polymers Luc Claes, Jean-Pierre François, and Michael Simon Deleuze pp 7563–7572 DOI: 10.1021/ja012700p Supporting Info

Reactivity of Phosphate Monoester Monoanions in Aqueous Solution. 1. Quantum Mechanical Calculations Support the Existence of “Anionic Zwitterion” MeO+(H)PO32- as a Key Intermediate in the Dissociative Hydrolysis of the Methyl Phosphate Anion1 Marc Bianciotto, Jean-Claude Barthelat, and Alain Vigroux pp 7573–7587 DOI: 10.1021/ja0200948 Supporting Info

Theoretical Study of Rhodium(III)-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide into Formic Acid. Significant Differences in Reactivity among Rhodium(III), Rhodium(I), and Ruthenium(II) Complexes Yasuo Musashi and Shigeyoshi Sakaki pp 7588–7603 DOI: 10.1021/ja020063c Supporting Info

Epitaxial Electrodeposition of Fe3O4 Thin Films on the Low-Index Planes of Gold Thomas A. Sorenson, Simon A. Morton, G. Dan Waddill, and Jay A. Switzer pp 7604–7609 DOI: 10.1021/ja0201101

Homoleptic Tetrahydrometalate Anions MH4- (M = Sc, Y, La). Matrix Infrared Spectra and DFT Calculations Xuefeng Wang and Lester Andrews pp 7610–7613 DOI: 10.1021/ja020112l

Photodissociation Dynamics of Various Conformers of Iodobutane Isomer Ions Prepared Selectively by Vacuum Ultraviolet Mass-Analyzed Threshold Ionization Sang Tae Park and Myung Soo Kim pp 7614–7621 DOI: 10.1021/ja025791e

Manipulating the Production and Recombination of Electrons during Electron Transfer:  Femtosecond Control of the Charge-Transfer-to-Solvent (CTTS) Dynamics of the Sodium Anion Ignacio B. Martini, Erik R. Barthel, and Benjamin J. Schwartz pp 7622–7634 DOI: 10.1021/ja025942d

Stereoselective Heterocyclic Synthesis III. Topics in Current Chemistry. Vol. 216 Edited by Peter Metz (Technische Universität Dresden). Springer-Verlag:  Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. 2001. x + 202 pp. $139.00. ISBN 3-540-41763-X. Mark C. McMills p 7635 DOI: 10.1021/ja015365d

Computational Chemistry:  Reviews of Current Trends. Volume 6 Edited by Jerzy Leszczynski (Jackson State University). World Scientific:  Singapore, New Jersey, London, Hong Kong. 2001. viii + 268 pp. $98.00. ISBN:  981-02-4660-9. James E. Boggs pp 7635–7636 DOI: 10.1021/ja015378r

Inorganic Biochemistry of Iron Metabolism:  From Molecular Mechanisms to Clinical Consequences. Second Edition By Robert Crichton (Université Catholique De Louvain, Belgium). J. Wiley & Sons:  Chichester. 2001. xxi + 326 pp. $165.00. ISBN:0-471-49223-X. Jeanne Freeland-Graves and Michael J. Proffitt p 7636 DOI: 10.1021/ja015379j

Issue 26

Molecular “Chaperones” Guide the Spontaneous Formation of a 15-Component Hydrogen-Bonded Assembly Vasile Paraschiv, Mercedes Crego-Calama, Tsutomu Ishi-i, Clemens J. Padberg, Peter Timmerman, and David N. Reinhoudt pp 7638–7639 DOI: 10.1021/ja012384e Supporting Info

Asymmetric Induction in the Neber Rearrangement of Simple Ketoxime Sulfonates under Phase-Transfer Conditions:  Experimental Evidence for the Participation of an Anionic Pathway Takashi Ooi, Makoto Takahashi, Kanae Doda, and Keiji Maruoka pp 7640–7641 DOI: 10.1021/ja0118791 Supporting Info

Fabrication of Hollow Palladium Spheres and Their Successful Application to the Recyclable Heterogeneous Catalyst for Suzuki Coupling Reactions Sang-Wook Kim, Minsuk Kim, Wha Young Lee, and Taeghwan Hyeon pp 7642–7643 DOI: 10.1021/ja026032z Supporting Info

Enzymatic Manipulation of DNA−Nanomaterial Constructs C. Steven Yun, Gregory A. Khitrov, Danielle E. Vergona, Norbert O. Reich, and Geoffrey F. Strouse pp 7644–7645 DOI: 10.1021/ja025971o Supporting Info

Hydrogen Bonding to Trp β37 Is the First Step in a Compound Pathway for Hemoglobin Allostery Robert A. Goldbeck, Raymond M. Esquerra, and David S. Kliger pp 7646–7647 DOI: 10.1021/ja025855l

Synthesis and Crystal Structure of Ionic Multicomponent Complex:  {[CrI(PhH)2]•+}2[CoIITPP(C60(CN)2)]- [C60(CN)2]•-·3(o-C6H4Cl2) Containing C60(CN)2•- Radical Anion and σ-Bonded Diamagnetic CoIITPP(C60(CN)2)- Anion Dmitry V. Konarev, Salavat S. Khasanov, Akihiro Otsuka, Yukihiro Yoshida, and Gunzi Saito pp 7648–7649 DOI: 10.1021/ja0203667 Supporting Info

A Versatile Prodrug Approach for Liposomal Core-Loading of Water-Insoluble Camptothecin Anticancer Drugs Xinli Liu, Bert C. Lynn, Junhong Zhang, Lin Song, David Bom, Wu Du, Dennis P. Curran, and Thomas G. Burke pp 7650–7651 DOI: 10.1021/ja0256212 Supporting Info

Kinetic and Thermodynamic Preferences for the Diastereoselective Oxidative Addition of H2 to trans-Ir(P*R3)2(CO)Cl:  Monodentate Chiral Phosphines May Impart Exceptional Degrees of Diastereoselectivity Jun Ho Shin and Gerard Parkin pp 7652–7653 DOI: 10.1021/ja026059i Supporting Info

Interfacial Chemistries for Nanoscale Transfer Printing Yueh-Lin Loo, Robert L. Willett, Kirk W. Baldwin, and John A. Rogers pp 7654–7655 DOI: 10.1021/ja026355v

A Cyano-Bridged Single-Molecule Magnet: Slow Magnetic Relaxation in a Trigonal Prismatic MnMo6(CN)18 Cluster Jennifer J. Sokol, Allan G. Hee, and Jeffrey R. Long pp 7656–7657 DOI: 10.1021/ja0263846 Supporting Info

Enantioselective Guest Exchange in a Chiral Resorcin[4]arene Cavity Bruno Botta, Maurizio Botta, Antonello Filippi, Andrea Tafi, Giuliano Delle Monache, and Maurizio Speranza pp 7658–7659 DOI: 10.1021/ja020232t Supporting Info

Diuranium Inverted Sandwiches Involving Naphthalene and Cyclooctatetraene Paula L. Diaconescu and Christopher C. Cummins pp 7660–7661 DOI: 10.1021/ja026200n Supporting Info

Et2Al+ Alumenium Ion-like Chemistry. Synthesis and Reactivity toward Alkenes and Alkene Oxides Kee-Chan Kim and Christopher A. ReedGregory S. Long and Ayusman Sen pp 7662–7663 DOI: 10.1021/ja0259990 Supporting Info

New Poly(phenyleneethynylene)s with Cationic, Facially Amphiphilic Structures Lachelle Arnt and Gregory N. Tew pp 7664–7665 DOI: 10.1021/ja026607s Supporting Info

[18O]-Oxygen Incorporation Reveals Novel Pathways in Spiroacetal Biosynthesis by Bactrocera cacuminata and B. cucumis Mary T. Fletcher, Barry J. Wood, Ian M. Brereton, Jeanette E. Stok, James J. De Voss, and William Kitching pp 7666–7667 DOI: 10.1021/ja026215l Supporting Info

Photonic Switching of Photoinduced Electron Transfer in a Dithienylethene−Porphyrin−Fullerene Triad Molecule Paul A. Liddell, Gerdenis Kodis, Ana L. Moore, Thomas A. Moore, and Devens Gust pp 7668–7669 DOI: 10.1021/ja026327c Supporting Info

Characterization of a Didehydrobenzoxazine Intermediate in a Novel Carbene-to-Carbene Transformation Asya Nikitina and Robert S. Sheridan pp 7670–7671 DOI: 10.1021/ja026300t Supporting Info

Hydrogen Uptake in Boron Nitride Nanotubes at Room Temperature Renzhi Ma, Yoshio Bando, Hongwei Zhu, Tadao Sato, Cailu Xu, and Dehai Wu pp 7672–7673 DOI: 10.1021/ja026030e

First Isolation and Characterization of an Anti-Apicophilic Spirophosphorane Bearing an Oxaphosphetane Ring:  A Model for the Possible Reactive Intermediate in the Wittig Reaction Satoshi Kojima, Masaya Sugino, Shiro Matsukawa, Masaaki Nakamoto, and Kin-ya Akiba pp 7674–7675 DOI: 10.1021/ja0170145 Supporting Info

Photolysis of γ-(α-Carboxy-2-nitrobenzyl)-l-glutamic Acid Investigated in the Microsecond Time Scale by Time-Resolved FTIR Qing Cheng, Mark G. Steinmetz, and Vasanthi Jayaraman pp 7676–7677 DOI: 10.1021/ja0259988 Supporting Info

A Novel Peptide-Based Encoding System for “One-Bead One-Compound” Peptidomimetic and Small Molecule Combinatorial Libraries Ruiwu Liu, Jan Marik, and Kit S. Lam pp 7678–7680 DOI: 10.1021/ja026421t Supporting Info

Pentalenene Synthase. Analysis of Active Site Residues by Site-Directed Mutagenesis Myriam Seemann, Guangzhi Zhai, Jan-Willem de Kraker, Chiana M. Paschall, David W. Christianson, and David E. Cane pp 7681–7689 DOI: 10.1021/ja026058q Supporting Info

Electrostatic Properties of Membrane Lipids Coupled to Metarhodopsin II Formation in Visual Transduction Yin Wang, Ana Vitória Botelho, Gary V. Martinez, and Michael F. Brown pp 7690–7701 DOI: 10.1021/ja0200488

High-Throughput NMR-Based Screening with Competition Binding Experiments Claudio Dalvit, Maria Flocco, Stefan Knapp, Marina Mostardini, Rita Perego, Brian J. Stockman, Marina Veronesi, and Mario Varasi pp 7702–7709 DOI: 10.1021/ja020174b

Structural Control in Thin Layers of Poly(p-phenyleneethynylene)s:  Photophysical Studies of Langmuir and Langmuir−Blodgett Films Jinsang Kim, Igor A. Levitsky, D. Tyler McQuade, and Timothy M. Swager pp 7710–7718 DOI: 10.1021/ja0200600

Molecular “Compasses” and “Gyroscopes.” III. Dynamics of a Phenylene Rotor and Clathrated Benzene in a Slipping-Gear Crystal Lattice Zaira Dominguez, Hung Dang, M. Jane Strouse, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay pp 7719–7727 DOI: 10.1021/ja025753v Supporting Info

Stable Dialkyl Ether/Poly(Hydrogen Fluoride) Complexes:  Dimethyl Ether/Poly(Hydrogen Fluoride), A New, Convenient, and Effective Fluorinating Agent1a Imre Bucsi, Béla Török, Alfonso Iza Marco, Golam Rasul, G. K. Surya Prakash, and George A. Olah pp 7728–7736 DOI: 10.1021/ja0124109 Supporting Info

Solvation Phenomena of a Tetrapeptide in Water/Trifluoroethanol and Water/Ethanol Mixtures:  A Diffusion NMR, Intermolecular NOE, and Molecular Dynamics Study M. Fioroni, M. D. Diaz, K. Burger, and S. Berger pp 7737–7744 DOI: 10.1021/ja0259335

Formation of Isoprostane Bicyclic Endoperoxides from the Autoxidation of Cholesteryl Arachidonate Huiyong Yin, Christine M. Havrilla, Jason D. Morrow, and Ned A. Porter pp 7745–7754 DOI: 10.1021/ja0201092 Supporting Info

The Tightness Contribution to the Brønsted α for Hydride Transfer between NAD+ Analogues In-Sook Han Lee, Kim-Hung Chow, and Maurice M. Kreevoy pp 7755–7761 DOI: 10.1021/ja011855u

Functionalizable Polycyclic Aromatics through Oxidative Cyclization of Pendant Thiophenes John D. Tovar, Aimee Rose, and Timothy M. Swager pp 7762–7769 DOI: 10.1021/ja0262636 Supporting Info

Combined Solid State NMR and X-ray Diffraction Investigation of the Local Structure of the Five-Coordinate Silicon in Fluoride-Containing As-Synthesized STF Zeolite Colin A. Fyfe, Darren H. Brouwer, Andrew R. Lewis, Luis A. Villaescusa, and Russell E. Morris pp 7770–7778 DOI: 10.1021/ja012558s Supporting Info

Luminescent Lanthanide Complexes of a Bis-bipyridine-phosphine-oxide Ligand as Tools for Anion Detection Loïc J. Charbonnière, Raymond Ziessel, Marco Montalti, Luca Prodi, Nelsi Zaccheroni, Christian Boehme, and Georges Wipff pp 7779–7788 DOI: 10.1021/ja0200847 Supporting Info

Highly Selective Addition of Chiral, Sulfonimidoyl Substituted Bis(allyl)titanium Complexes to N-Sulfonyl α-Imino Esters:  Asymmetric Synthesis of γ,δ-Unsaturated α-Amino Acids Bearing a Chiral, Electron-Withdrawing Nucleofuge at the δ-Position Marcel Schleusner, Hans-Joachim Gais, Stefan Koep, and Gerhard Raabe pp 7789–7800 DOI: 10.1021/ja0201799 Supporting Info

Long-Range Electron Transfer across Molecule−Nanocrystalline Semiconductor Interfaces Using Tripodal Sensitizers Elena Galoppini, Wenzhuo Guo, Wei Zhang, Paul G. Hoertz, Ping Qu, and Gerald J. Meyer pp 7801–7811 DOI: 10.1021/ja025840n Supporting Info

Open-Framework and Microporous Vanadium Silicates Xiqu Wang, Lumei Liu, and Allan J. Jacobson pp 7812–7820 DOI: 10.1021/ja020354l Supporting Info

Location of Protons in Anhydrous Keggin Heteropolyacids H3PMo12O40 and H3PW12O40 by 1H{31P}/31P{1H} REDOR NMR and DFT Quantum Chemical Calculations S. Ganapathy, M. Fournier, J. F. Paul, L. Delevoye, M. Guelton, and J. P. Amoureux pp 7821–7828 DOI: 10.1021/ja017848n Supporting Info

57Fe Mössbauer Isomer Shifts of Heme Protein Model Systems:  Electronic Structure Calculations Yong Zhang, Junhong Mao, and Eric Oldfield pp 7829–7839 DOI: 10.1021/ja011583v

Development of a Molecular Recognition Ion Gating Membrane and Estimation of Its Pore Size Control Taichi Ito, Takanobu Hioki, Takeo Yamaguchi, Toshio Shinbo, Shin-ichi Nakao, and Shoji Kimura pp 7840–7846 DOI: 10.1021/ja012648x

Asymmetric Total Synthesis of 11-Deoxytetrodotoxin, a Naturally Occurring Congener Toshio Nishikawa, Masanori Asai, and Minoru Isobe pp 7847–7852 DOI: 10.1021/ja0265153 Supporting Info

Self-Assembly Does Not Account for the Hydrophobic Effect Michael H. Abraham and Michael J. Blandamer pp 7853–7856 DOI: 10.1021/ja0255599

Understanding the Role of Stereoelectronic Effects in Determining Collagen Stability. 2. A Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical Study of (Proline-Proline-Glycine)n Polypeptides Roberto Improta, Franca Mele, Orlando Crescenzi, Caterina Benzi, and Vincenzo Barone pp 7857–7865 DOI: 10.1021/ja020187p

Toward the Spectrum of Free Polyethylene:  Linear Alkanes Studied by Carbon 1s Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Theory Tor Karlsen, Knut J. Børve, Leif J. Sæthre, Karoline Wiesner, Margit Bässler, and Svante Svensson pp 7866–7873 DOI: 10.1021/ja010649j

Houben−Weyl:  Methods of Organic Chemistry. Additional and Supplementary Volumes to the 4th Edition. Volume E 22A. Synthesis of Peptides and Peptidomimetics Editor-in-Chief, Murray Goodman (San Diego, CA). Georg Thieme Verlag:  Stuttgart and New York. 2002. xxviii + 902 pp. $1895.00. ISBN 3-13-219604-5. p 7874 DOI: 10.1021/ja025221e

Science of Synthesis:  Houben−Weyl Methods of Molecular Transformations. Volume 4. Organometallics:  Compounds of Group 15 (As, Sb, Bi) and Silicon Compounds Volume Editor:  Ian Fleming (Cambridge, U.K.). Georg Thieme Verlag:  Stuttgart and New York. 2002. xlvi + 1060 pp. $1740.00. ISBN 3-13-112171-8. p 7874 DOI: 10.1021/ja0252227

Science of Synthesis:  Houben−Weyl Methods of Molecular Transformations. Volume 11. Hetarenes and Related Ring Systems:  Five-Membered Hetarenes with One Chalcogen and One Additional Heteroatom Volume Editor:  Ernst Schaumann (Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany). Georg Thieme Verlag:  Stuttgart and New York. 2002. lii + 1160 pp. $1740.00. ISBN 3-13-112261-7. p 7874 DOI: 10.1021/ja025223z

Organic Reactions. Volume 59 Editor-in-Chief:  Larry E. Overman (University of California, Irvine). J. Wiley & Sons:  New York. 2002. x + 742 pp. $125.00. ISBN 0-471-17655-9. p 7874 DOI: 10.1021/ja025224r

Metal Nanoparticles:  Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications Edited by Daniel L. Feldheim (North Carolina State University) and Colby A. Foss, Jr. (Georgetown University). Marcel Dekker, Inc.:  New York and Basel. 2002. x+ 338 pp. $150.00. ISBN:  0-8247-0604-8 David A. Vanden Bout pp 7874–7875 DOI: 10.1021/ja015381a

Optimization of Solid-Phase Combinatorial Synthesis Edited by Bing Yan (ChemRx Advanced Technologies, South San Francisco, CA) and Anthony W. Czarnik (Sensors for Medicine and Science, Inc., Germantown, Maryland). Dekker:  New York and Basel. 2002. xi + 385 pp. $175.00. ISBN 0-8247-0654-4. p 7875 DOI: 10.1021/ja0153924

Carbohydrate Bioengineering:  Interdisciplinary Approaches Edited by Tuula T. Teeri (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm), Birte Svensson (Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen), Harry J. Gilbert (University of Newcastle upon Tyne), and Ten Feizi (Imperial College, Harrow). Royal Society of Chemistry:  Cambridge, U.K. 2002. x + 196 pp. $139.00. ISBN:  0-85404-826-X. p 7875 DOI: 10.1021/ja025235k

Theoretical Biochemistry:  Processes and Properties of Biological Systems. Theoretical and Computational Chemistry 9 Edited by Leif A. Eriksson (Uppsala University). Elsevier:  Amsterdam. 2001. xiv + 704 pp. $372. ISBN:  0-444-50292-0. Arthur S. Edison pp 7875–7876 DOI: 10.1021/ja015343r

Signal Processing for Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy Edited by Hong Yan (University of Sydney). Marcel Dekker, Inc.:  New York and Basel. 2002. xx + 646 pp. ISBN 0-8247-0653-6. Cecil Dybowski p 7876 DOI: 10.1021/ja0252330

Emulsions:  Theory and Practice. Third Edition by Paul Becher (Wilmington, DE). Oxford University Press (In Partnership with American Chemical Society):  Oxford. 2001. x + 514 pp. $225.00. ISBN:  0-8412-3496-5. Sylvan G. Frank pp 7876–7877 DOI: 10.1021/ja015364l

Targets in Heterocyclic Systems:  Chemistry and Properties. Volume 4 (2000). Reviews and Accounts on Heterocyclic Chemistry Edited by Orazio A. Attanasi (University of Urbino) and Domenico Spinelli (University of Bologna). Italian Society of Chemistry:  Rome. 2001. xviii + 440 pp. $69.95. ISBN:  88-86208-16-2. p 7877 DOI: 10.1021/ja025231f

Advances in Flavors and Fragrances:  from the Sensation to the Synthesis Edited by Karl A. D. Swift (Quest International, Ashford, Kent, U.K.). Royal Society of Chemistry:  Cambridge, U.K. 2002. vii + 230 pp. $95.00. ISBN:  0-85404-821-9. p 7877 DOI: 10.1021/ja025234s

Dendrimers IV:  Metal Coordination, Self-Assembly, Catalysis. Topics in Current Chemistry, Volume 217 Edited by F. Vögtle and C. A. Schalley (Universität Bonn, Germany). Springer-Verlag:  Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. 2001. xii + 244 pp. $159.00. ISBN 3-540-42095-9. Ivan Gitsov pp 7877–7878 DOI: 10.1021/ja015380i

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Properly Designed Modular Asymmetric Synthesis for Enantiopure Sulfinamide Auxiliaries from N-Sulfonyl-1,2,3-oxathiazolidine-2-oxide Agents Zhengxu Han, Dhileepkumar Krishnamurthy, Paul Grover, Q. Kevin Fang, and Chris H. Senanayake pp 7880–7881 DOI: 10.1021/ja0200692 Supporting Info

Regio- and Enantiospecific Rhodium-Catalyzed Allylic Etherification Reactions Using Copper(I) Alkoxides:  Influence of the Copper Halide Salt on Selectivity P. Andrew Evans and David K. Leahy pp 7882–7883 DOI: 10.1021/ja026337d Supporting Info

A Phototriggered Molecular Spring for Aerobic Catalytic Oxidation Reactions Bradford J. Pistorio, Christopher J. Chang, and Daniel G. Nocera pp 7884–7885 DOI: 10.1021/ja026017u

Highly Stereoselective Intramolecular Hydroamination/Cyclization of Conjugated Aminodienes Catalyzed by Organolanthanides Sukwon Hong and Tobin J. Marks pp 7886–7887 DOI: 10.1021/ja020226x Supporting Info

Fluorine- and Trimethylsilyl-Containing Phenoxy−Imine Ti Complex for Highly Syndiotactic Living Polypropylenes with Extremely High Melting Temperatures Makoto Mitani, Rieko Furuyama, Jun-ichi Mohri, Junji Saito, Seiichi Ishii, Hiroshi Terao, Norio Kashiwa, and Terunori Fujita pp 7888–7889 DOI: 10.1021/ja026229r Supporting Info

Tandem Intramolecular Silylformylation−Crotylsilylation:  Highly Efficient Synthesis of Polyketide Fragments Michael J. Zacuto, Steven J. O'Malley, and James L. Leighton pp 7890–7891 DOI: 10.1021/ja026511y Supporting Info

Layered Paving of Vesicular Nanoparticles Formed with Cerasome as a Bioinspired Organic−Inorganic Hybrid Kiyofumi Katagiri, Ryo Hamasaki, Katsuhiko Ariga, and Jun-ichi Kikuchi pp 7892–7893 DOI: 10.1021/ja0259281

The Enantioselective Organocatalytic 1,4-Addition of Electron-Rich Benzenes to α,β-Unsaturated Aldehydes Nick A. Paras and David W. C. MacMillan pp 7894–7895 DOI: 10.1021/ja025981p Supporting Info

The Iconoclastic Dynamics of the 1,2,6-Heptatriene Rearrangement Stefan L. Debbert, Barry K. Carpenter, David A. Hrovat, and Weston Thatcher Borden pp 7896–7897 DOI: 10.1021/ja026232a Supporting Info

Bistable Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Photoswitch Triggered by a Dithienylethene Dopant Kenneth E. Maly, Michael D. Wand, and Robert P. Lemieux pp 7898–7899 DOI: 10.1021/ja025954z

Ruthenium-Catalyzed Cycloaddition of Propargylic Alcohols with Phenol Derivatives via Allenylidene Intermediates:  Catalytic Use of the Allenylidene Ligand as the C3 Unit Yoshiaki Nishibayashi, Youichi Inada, Masanobu Hidai, and Sakae Uemura pp 7900–7901 DOI: 10.1021/ja026168x Supporting Info

Molecular Recognition in Methanol:  The First Example of Hydrogen-Bond-Mediated Self-Association of a Calix[4]arene in Polar, Protic Solvent R. Elizabeth Brewster and Suzanne Beckham Shuker pp 7902–7903 DOI: 10.1021/ja026084o Supporting Info

A Short Synthetic Route to (+)-Austamide, (+)-Deoxyisoaustamide, and (+)-Hydratoaustamide from a Common Precursor by a Novel Palladium-Mediated Indole → Dihydroindoloazocine Cyclization Phil S. Baran and E. J. Corey pp 7904–7905 DOI: 10.1021/ja026663t Supporting Info

A 20-Å-Thick Interwoven Sheet Consisting of Nanotubes Ok-Sang Jung, Yun Ju Kim, Kwan Mook Kim, and Young-A Lee pp 7906–7907 DOI: 10.1021/ja026774s Supporting Info

Probing Polymer/Polymer Interfaces Gary P. Harp, Keshav S. Gautam, and Ali Dhinojwala pp 7908–7909 DOI: 10.1021/ja026528g Supporting Info

Gas-Phase Metal Trications in Protic Solvent Complexes Alexandre A. Shvartsburg pp 7910–7911 DOI: 10.1021/ja025763w

A Strategy for Improving the Room-Temperature Luminescence Properties of Ru(II) Complexes with Tridentate Ligands Yuan-Qing Fang, Nicholas J. Taylor, Garry S. Hanan, Frédérique Loiseau, Rosalba Passalacqua, Sebastiano Campagna, Hélène Nierengarten, and Alain Van Dorsselaer pp 7912–7913 DOI: 10.1021/ja0261776 Supporting Info

Self-Assembly of Cobalt Nanoparticle Rings Steven L. Tripp, Stephen V. Pusztay, Alexander E. Ribbe, and Alexander Wei pp 7914–7915 DOI: 10.1021/ja0263285 Supporting Info

Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance in the Photoexcited Triplet States of Ti(IV) and Zr(IV) Cylopentadienyl Complexes Burkhard Endeward, Marcelino Bernardo, Pat Brant, and Hans Thomann pp 7916–7917 DOI: 10.1021/ja0169973

The Vibrational Reorganization Energy in Pentacene:  Molecular Influences on Charge Transport Nadine E. Gruhn, Demetrio A. da Silva Filho, Tonja G. Bill, Massimo Malagoli, Veaceslav Coropceanu, Antoine Kahn, and Jean-Luc Brédas pp 7918–7919 DOI: 10.1021/ja0175892 Supporting Info

Strained Silacycles in Organic Synthesis:  A New Reagent for the Enantioselective Allylation of Aldehydes James W. A. Kinnaird, Pui Yee Ng, Katsumi Kubota, Xiaolun Wang, and James L. Leighton pp 7920–7921 DOI: 10.1021/ja0264908 Supporting Info

A Chemoselective Reduction of Alkynes to (E)-Alkenes Barry M. Trost, Zachary T. Ball, and Thomas Jöge pp 7922–7923 DOI: 10.1021/ja026457l Supporting Info

Structure-Specific DNA Cleavage on Surfaces Manchun Lu, Jeff G. Hall, Michael R. Shortreed, Liman Wang, W. Travis Berggren, Priscilla Wilkins Stevens, David M. Kelso, Victor Lyamichev, Bruce Neri, James L. Skinner, and Lloyd M. Smith pp 7924–7931 DOI: 10.1021/ja012082c

Slow Exchange in the Chromophore of a Green Fluorescent Protein Variant Markus H. J. Seifert, Dorota Ksiazek, M. Kamran Azim, Pawel Smialowski, Nediljko Budisa, and Tad A. Holak pp 7932–7942 DOI: 10.1021/ja0257725 Supporting Info

Electron-Induced Switching of the Supramolecular Chirality of Optically Active Polythiophene Aggregates Hidetoshi Goto and Eiji Yashima pp 7943–7949 DOI: 10.1021/ja025900p Supporting Info

Metal Ion-Catalyzed Nucleic Acid Alkylation and Fragmentation Kenneth A. Browne pp 7950–7962 DOI: 10.1021/ja017746x Supporting Info

Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide Catalyzed by Ruthenium Trimethylphosphine Complexes:  The Accelerating Effect of Certain Alcohols and Amines Pradip Munshi, A. Denise Main, John C. Linehan, Chih-Cheng Tai, and Philip G. Jessop pp 7963–7971 DOI: 10.1021/ja0167856

Reactivity and Selectivity of the N-Acetyl-Glu-P-1, N-Acetyl-Glu-P-2, N-Acetyl-MeIQx, and N-Acetyl-IQx Nitrenium Ions:  Comparison to Carbocyclic N-Arylnitrenium Ions Michael Novak, Krisztina Toth, Sridharan Rajagopal, Michael Brooks, Lora L. Hott, and Matthew Moslener pp 7972–7981 DOI: 10.1021/ja0121944 Supporting Info

Highly Enantioselective Intra- and Intermolecular [2 + 2] Photocycloaddition Reactions of 2-Quinolones Mediated by a Chiral Lactam Host:  Host−Guest Interactions, Product Configuration, and the Origin of the Stereoselectivity in Solution Thorsten Bach, Hermann Bergmann, Benjamin Grosch, and Klaus Harms pp 7982–7990 DOI: 10.1021/ja0122288 Supporting Info

Stereochemical Effects in Supramolecular Self-Assembly at Surfaces:  1-D versus 2-D Enantiomorphic Ordering for PVBA and PEBA on Ag(111) Johannes V. Barth, Jens Weckesser, Giancarlo Trimarchi, Masha Vladimirova, Alessandro De Vita, Chengzhi Cai, Harald Brune, Peter Günter, and Klaus Kern pp 7991–8000 DOI: 10.1021/ja0256764

Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reaction of Bis(pinacolato)diboron with 1-Alkenyl Halides or Triflates:  Convenient Synthesis of Unsymmetrical 1,3-Dienes via the Borylation-Coupling Sequence Jun Takagi, Kou Takahashi, Tatsuo Ishiyama, and Norio Miyaura pp 8001–8006 DOI: 10.1021/ja0202255 Supporting Info

Adjacent versus Opposite Type Di-Aromatic Ring-Fused Phthalocyanine Derivatives:  Synthesis, Spectroscopy, Electrochemistry, and Molecular Orbital Calculations Nagao Kobayashi, Hideya Miwa, and Victor N. Nemykin pp 8007–8020 DOI: 10.1021/ja0123812 Supporting Info

Mono-Aromatic Ring-Fused versus Adjacently Di-Aromatic Ring-Fused Tetraazaporphyrins:  Regioselective Synthesis and Their Spectroscopic and Electrochemical Properties Nagao Kobayashi and Takamitsu Fukuda pp 8021–8034 DOI: 10.1021/ja012382u Supporting Info

Octaphenylbiphenylene and Dodecaphenyltriptycene Jun Lu, Jiajia Zhang, Xianfeng Shen, Douglas M. Ho, and Robert A. Pascal, Jr. pp 8035–8041 DOI: 10.1021/ja0203723 Supporting Info

Comparison of the Binding of Cadmium(II), Mercury(II), and Arsenic(III) to the de Novo Designed Peptides TRI L12C and TRI L16C Manolis Matzapetakis, Brian T. Farrer, Tsu-Chien Weng, Lars Hemmingsen, James E. Penner-Hahn, and Vincent L. Pecoraro pp 8042–8054 DOI: 10.1021/ja017520u Supporting Info

Targeted Strand Scission of DNA Substrates by a Tricopper(II) Coordination Complex Kristi J. Humphreys, Kenneth D. Karlin, and Steven E. Rokita pp 8055–8066 DOI: 10.1021/ja012539i Supporting Info

Exciplex Intermediates in Photoinduced Electron Transfer of Porphyrin−Fullerene Dyads Tero J. Kesti, Nikolai V. Tkachenko, Visa Vehmanen, Hiroko Yamada, Hiroshi Imahori, Shunichi Fukuzumi, and Helge Lemmetyinen pp 8067–8077 DOI: 10.1021/ja0257772 Supporting Info

Gas-Phase Structure of (1,1,1,5,5,5-Hexafluoro-2,4-pentanedionato)(η2-1,5-cyclooctadiene)copper(I), Cu(1,5-cod)(hfac), an Important Precursor for Vapor Deposition of Copper Drahomír Hnyk, Michael Bühl, Paul T. Brain, Heather E. Robertson, and David W. H. Rankin pp 8078–8084 DOI: 10.1021/ja012505a Supporting Info

On the Debye−Waller Factor of Hexagonal Ice:  A Computer Simulation Study Hideki Tanaka and Udayan Mohanty pp 8085–8089 DOI: 10.1021/ja011927h

A 13C INADEQUATE and HF-GIAO Study of C60H2 and C60H6 Identification of Ring Currents in a 1,2-Dihydrofullerene Mark S. Meier, H. Peter Spielmann, Robert G. Bergosh, and Robert C. Haddon pp 8090–8094 DOI: 10.1021/ja012513r Supporting Info

Self-Oscillation of Polymer Chains with Rhythmical Soluble-Insoluble Changes Ryo Yoshida, Takamasa Sakai, Shoji Ito, and Tomohiko Yamaguchi pp 8095–8098 DOI: 10.1021/ja012584q

Do Nonplanar Distortions of Porphyrins Bring about Strongly Red-Shifted Electronic Spectra? Controversy, Consensus, New Developments, and Relevance to Chelatases Hege Ryeng and Abhik Ghosh pp 8099–8103 DOI: 10.1021/ja0202659

Electronic Absorption, Resonance Raman, and Electrochemical Studies of Planar and Saddled Copper(III) meso-Triarylcorroles. Highly Substituent-Sensitive Soret Bands as a Distinctive Feature of High-Valent Transition Metal Corroles Ingar H. Wasbotten, Tebikie Wondimagegn, and Abhik Ghosh pp 8104–8116 DOI: 10.1021/ja0113697 Supporting Info

Electronic Structure of High-Valent Transition Metal Corrolazine Complexes. The Young and Innocent? Espen Tangen and Abhik Ghosh pp 8117–8121 DOI: 10.1021/ja0126935 Supporting Info

Symmetry-Breaking Phenomena in Metalloporphyrin π-Cation Radicals Torgil Vangberg, Renate Lie, and Abhik Ghosh pp 8122–8130 DOI: 10.1021/ja011438h Supporting Info

Characterization of the Interface Dipole at Organic/ Metal Interfaces Xavier Crispin, Victor Geskin, Annica Crispin, Jérôme Cornil, Roberto Lazzaroni, William R. Salaneck, and Jean-Luc Brédas pp 8131–8141 DOI: 10.1021/ja025673r

The Elusive Oxidant Species of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes:  Characterization by Combined Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical (QM/MM) Calculations Jan C. Schöneboom, Hai Lin, Nathalie Reuter, Walter Thiel, Shimrit Cohen, François Ogliaro, and Sason Shaik pp 8142–8151 DOI: 10.1021/ja026279w Supporting Info

Electron-Mediating CuA Centers in Proteins:  A Comparative High Field 1H ENDOR Study Boris Epel, Claire S. Slutter, Frank Neese, Peter M. H. Kroneck, Walter G. Zumft, Israel Pecht, Ole Farver, Yi Lu, and Daniella Goldfarb pp 8152–8162 DOI: 10.1021/ja012514j

Accelerating Rare Reactive Events by Means of a Finite Electronic Temperature Joost VandeVondele and Ursula Rothlisberger pp 8163–8171 DOI: 10.1021/ja0126733

Oligosilsesquioxanes as Versatile Building Blocks for the Preparation of Self-Assembled Thin Films Thierry Cassagneau and Frank Caruso pp 8172–8180 DOI: 10.1021/ja0127382 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 [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 4259−4265].  Marcia Levitus, Kelli Schmieder, Holly Ricks, Ken D. Shimizu, Uwe H. F. Bunz, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay p 8181 DOI: 10.1021/ja0251064 Supporting Info

Circular Dichroism:  Principles and Applications. Second Edition Edited by Nina Berova (Columbia University), Koji Nakanishi (Columbia University), and Robert W. Woody (Colorado State University). Wiley-VCH:  New York. 2000. xxii + 878 pp. $195.00. ISBN:  0-471-33003-5. Philip J. Stephens p 8182 DOI: 10.1021/ja015338n

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Face-Selective Addition to a Cation−π Complex of a Pyridinium Salt:  Synthesis of Chiral 1,4-Dihydropyridines Shinji Yamada and Chisako Morita pp 8184–8185 DOI: 10.1021/ja0203317 Supporting Info

Role of the Cytochrome P450 NocL in Nocardicin A Biosynthesis Wendy L. Kelly and Craig A. Townsend pp 8186–8187 DOI: 10.1021/ja025926g

Stereoselective Synthesis of a Family of Alternating Polyols from Six-Carbon Epoxyalkynol Modules Svetlana A. Burova and Frank E. McDonald pp 8188–8189 DOI: 10.1021/ja026255p Supporting Info

Enantiomeric Resolution of 2-Aryl Propionic Esters with Hyperthermophilic and Mesophilic Esterases:  Contrasting Thermodynamic Mechanisms Amitabh C. Sehgal and Robert M. Kelly pp 8190–8191 DOI: 10.1021/ja026512q

Cu−Catalyzed Enantioselective Conjugate Addition of Alkylzincs to Cyclic Nitroalkenes:  Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Cyclic α-Substituted Ketones Courtney A. Luchaco-Cullis and Amir H. Hoveyda pp 8192–8193 DOI: 10.1021/ja020605q Supporting Info

Hydrogen Tunneling in Peptidylglycine α-Hydroxylating Monooxygenase Wilson A. Francisco, Michael J. Knapp, Ninian J. Blackburn, and Judith P. Klinman pp 8194–8195 DOI: 10.1021/ja025758s Supporting Info

General Method for Determination of the Activation, Deactivation, and Initiation Rate Constants in Transition Metal-Catalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Processes Tomislav Pintauer, Peng Zhou, and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski pp 8196–8197 DOI: 10.1021/ja0265097 Supporting Info

Highly Enantioselective Syntheses of Functionalized α-Methylene-γ-butyrolactones via Rh(I)-catalyzed Intramolecular Alder Ene Reaction:  Application to Formal Synthesis of (+)-Pilocarpine Aiwen Lei, Minsheng He, and Xumu Zhang pp 8198–8199 DOI: 10.1021/ja020052j Supporting Info

Coordination Chemistry of Stable Radicals:  Homolysis of a Titanium−Oxygen Bond Kuo-Wei Huang and Robert M. Waymouth pp 8200–8201 DOI: 10.1021/ja0264854 Supporting Info

Dual Role of (−)-Sparteine in the Palladium-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative Kinetic Resolution of Secondary Alcohols Jaime A. Mueller, David R. Jensen, and Matthew S. Sigman pp 8202–8203 DOI: 10.1021/ja026553m Supporting Info

Size-Controlled Synthesis of Magnetite Nanoparticles Shouheng Sun and Hao Zeng pp 8204–8205 DOI: 10.1021/ja026501x

Photoaffinity Analogues of Farnesyl Pyrophosphate Transferable by Protein Farnesyl Transferase Kareem A. H. Chehade, Katarzyna Kiegiel, Richard J. Isaacs, Jennifer S. Pickett, Katherine E. Bowers, Carol A. Fierke, Douglas A. Andres, and H. Peter Spielmann pp 8206–8219 DOI: 10.1021/ja0124717 Supporting Info

Catalytic Subunit of Protein Kinase A Caged at the Activating Phosphothreonine Keyong Zou, Stephen Cheley, Richard S. Givens, and Hagan Bayley pp 8220–8229 DOI: 10.1021/ja020405e

A Reappraisal, Based on 31P NMR, of the Direct Coordination of a Metal Ion with the Phosphoryl Oxygen at the Cleavage Site of a Hammerhead Ribozyme Ken-ichi Suzumura, Koichi Yoshinari, Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Yasuomi Takagi, Yasuhiro Kasai, Masaki Warashina, Tomoko Kuwabara, Masaya Orita, and Kazunari Taira pp 8230–8236 DOI: 10.1021/ja0202098

A General Method for Selection and Screening of Coiled Coils on the Basis of Relative Helix Orientation Byung-Moon Kim and Martha G. Oakley pp 8237–8244 DOI: 10.1021/ja020275+

Synthesis of Selenium Analogues of the Naturally Occurring Glycosidase Inhibitor Salacinol and Their Evaluation as Glycosidase Inhibitors Blair D. Johnston, Ahmad Ghavami, Morten T. Jensen, Birte Svensson, and B. Mario Pinto pp 8245–8250 DOI: 10.1021/ja020299g

Formation and Stability of Peptide Enolates in Aqueous Solution Ana Rios, John P. Richard, and Tina L. Amyes pp 8251–8259 DOI: 10.1021/ja026267a Supporting Info

Studying Enzyme Binding Specificity in Acetylcholinesterase Using a Combined Molecular Dynamics and Multiple Docking Approach Jeremy Kua, Yingkai Zhang, and J. Andrew McCammon pp 8260–8267 DOI: 10.1021/ja020429l Supporting Info

Formation of Cyclopropanone during Cytochrome P450-Catalyzed N-Dealkylation of a Cyclopropylamine Christopher L. Shaffer, Shawn Harriman, Yakov M. Koen, and Robert P. Hanzlik pp 8268–8274 DOI: 10.1021/ja0119346 Supporting Info

Distance Dependence of Electron Transfer in Rigid, Cofacially Compressed, π-Stacked Porphyrin−Bridge−Quinone Systems Youn K. Kang, Igor V. Rubtsov, Peter M. Iovine, Jianxin Chen, and Michael J. Therien pp 8275–8279 DOI: 10.1021/ja012504i Supporting Info

A Re-evaluation of the Photophysical Properties of 1,4-Bis(phenylethynyl)benzene:  A Model for Poly(phenyleneethynylene) Andrew Beeby, Karen Findlay, Paul J. Low, and Todd B. Marder pp 8280–8284 DOI: 10.1021/ja025568h Supporting Info

A Dendrimer-Based Electron Antenna:  Paired Electron-Transfer Reactions in Dendrimers with a 4,4‘-Bipyridine Core and Naphthalene Peripheral Groups Tarek H. Ghaddar, James F. Wishart, David W. Thompson, James K. Whitesell, and Marye Anne Fox pp 8285–8289 DOI: 10.1021/ja020103c

Binding Efficiency and Transport Properties of Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Thin Films Daniel J. Duffy, Kanad Das, Shaw L. Hsu, Jacques Penelle, Vincent M. Rotello, and Howard D. Stidham pp 8290–8296 DOI: 10.1021/ja0201146

Diastereoselective Formation of Glycoluril Dimers:  Isomerization Mechanism and Implications for Cucurbit[n]uril Synthesis Arindam Chakraborty, Anxin Wu, Dariusz Witt, Jason Lagona, James C. Fettinger, and Lyle Isaacs pp 8297–8306 DOI: 10.1021/ja025876f Supporting Info

Binding of Acetylcholine and Tetramethylammonium to a Cyclophane Receptor:  Anion's Contribution to the Cation−π Interaction Sandra Bartoli and Stefano Roelens pp 8307–8315 DOI: 10.1021/ja025884w Supporting Info

Unusual Sulfur Chemistry in the Thermal Reaction of Sultene and Thiophene Endoperoxide Sulfur Donors with Cyclic Alkynes:  Reversible Formation of a Persistent Thiirenium Ion and Trapping of a Thiirene by [4 + 2] Cycloaddition Waldemar Adam, Sara G. Bosio, Bettina Fröhling, Dirk Leusser, and Dietmar Stalke pp 8316–8320 DOI: 10.1021/ja025934x Supporting Info

Structure, Bonding, and Spectra of Cyclic Dithia Radical Cations:  A Theoretical Study Dilip K. Maity pp 8321–8328 DOI: 10.1021/ja0261067 Supporting Info

Molecular Structures of Cation···π(Arene) Interactions for Alkali Metals with π- and σ-Modalities Georgy K. Fukin, Sergey V. Lindeman, and Jay K. Kochi pp 8329–8336 DOI: 10.1021/ja0203465 Supporting Info

Synthesis, Characterization, and Optical Properties of Monodisperse Chiral Oligofluorenes Yanhou Geng, Anita Trajkovska, Dimitris Katsis, Jane J. Ou, Sean W. Culligan, and Shaw H. Chen pp 8337–8347 DOI: 10.1021/ja026165k Supporting Info

Preparation of Benzyne Complexes of Group 10 Metals by Intramolecular Suzuki Coupling of ortho-Metalated Phenylboronic Esters:  Molecular Structure of the First Benzyne-Palladium(0) Complex Mikael Retbøll, Alison J. Edwards, A. David Rae, Anthony C. Willis, Martin A. Bennett, and Eric Wenger pp 8348–8360 DOI: 10.1021/ja0264091 Supporting Info

Topotactic Transformations of Sodalite Cages:  Synthesis and NMR Study of Mixed Salt-Free and Salt-Bearing Sodalites Henning Trill, Hellmut Eckert, and Vojislav I. Srdanov pp 8361–8370 DOI: 10.1021/ja012765s

The Synthesis, Vibrational Spectra, and Molecular Structure of [Ir(CO)6][SbF6]3·4HF − The First Structurally Characterized Salt with a Tripositive, Homoleptic Metal Carbonyl Cation and the First Example of a Tetrahedral Hydrogen-Bonded (HF)4 Cluster Britta von Ahsen, Michael Berkei, Gerald Henkel, Helge Willner, and Friedhelm Aubke pp 8371–8379 DOI: 10.1021/ja011639l Supporting Info

Silica-Supported, Single-Site Titanium Catalysts for Olefin Epoxidation. A Molecular Precursor Strategy for Control of Catalyst Structure Jonggol Jarupatrakorn and T. Don Tilley pp 8380–8388 DOI: 10.1021/ja0202208

Nitride Formation by Thermolysis of a Kinetically Stable Niobium Dinitrogen Complex Michael D. Fryzuk, Christopher M. Kozak, Michael R. Bowdridge, Brian O. Patrick, and Steven J. Rettig pp 8389–8397 DOI: 10.1021/ja025997f Supporting Info

Ultrafast Fluorescence Detection in Tris(2,2‘-bipyridine)ruthenium(II) Complex in Solution:  Relaxation Dynamics Involving Higher Excited States Achikanath C. Bhasikuttan, Masaya Suzuki, Satoru Nakashima, and Tadashi Okada pp 8398–8405 DOI: 10.1021/ja026135h

Mutual Control of Axial and Equatorial Ligands:  Model Studies with [Ni]-Bacteriochlorophyll-a Roie Yerushalmi, Dror Noy, Kim K. Baldridge, and Avigdor Scherz pp 8406–8415 DOI: 10.1021/ja0121078

Late First-Row Transition-Metal Complexes of Texaphyrin Sharon Hannah, Vincent Lynch, Dirk M. Guldi, Nikolay Gerasimchuk, Charles L. B. MacDonald, Darren Magda, and Jonathan L. Sessler pp 8416–8427 DOI: 10.1021/ja012747a Supporting Info

Preparation, Characterization, and Structure of Zirconium Fluoride Alkylamino-N,N-bis Methylphosphonates:  A New Design for Layered Zirconium Diphosphonates with a Poorly Hindered Interlayer Region Umberto Costantino, Morena Nocchetti, and Riccardo Vivani pp 8428–8434 DOI: 10.1021/ja026124o Supporting Info

17O MAS and 3QMAS NMR Investigation of Crystalline V2O5 and Layered V2O5·nH2O Gels Craig J. Fontenot, Jerzy W. Wiench, Glenn L. Schrader, and Marek Pruski pp 8435–8444 DOI: 10.1021/ja0265254

A Quantum Chemistry Study of Binding Carotenoids in the Bacterial Light-Harvesting Complexes Yanli Wang and Xiche Hu pp 8445–8451 DOI: 10.1021/ja025618i

Periodic Density Functional Theory Study of Methane Activation over La2O3:  Activity of O2-, O-, O22-, Oxygen Point Defect, and Sr2+-Doped Surface Sites Michael S. Palmer, Matthew Neurock, and Michael M. Olken pp 8452–8461 DOI: 10.1021/ja0121235

Peculiar Structure of the HOOO- Anion Elfi Kraka, Dieter Cremer, Jože Koller, and Božo Plesniar pp 8462–8470 DOI: 10.1021/ja012553v

Elastic Deformation of Membrane Bilayers Probed by Deuterium NMR Relaxation Michael F. Brown, Robin L. Thurmond, Steven W. Dodd, Dörte Otten, and Klaus Beyer pp 8471–8484 DOI: 10.1021/ja012660p

Electronic Structures and Energetics of [5,5] and [9,0] Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Jerzy Cioslowski, Niny Rao, and David Moncrieff pp 8485–8489 DOI: 10.1021/ja0126879

Donnan Permselectivity in Layer-by-Layer Self-Assembled Redox Polyelectrolye Thin Films Ernesto J. Calvo and Alejandro Wolosiuk pp 8490–8497 DOI: 10.1021/ja020107h Supporting Info

Intramolecular Electron Transfer in Heterosubstituted Benzene Derivatives as Probed by Dissociative Electron Attachment Alberto Modelli, Marco Venuti, and László Szepes pp 8498–8504 DOI: 10.1021/ja0203768

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Asymmetric Sulfoxidation and Amine Binding by H64D/V68A and H64D/V68S Mb:  Mechanistic Insight into the Chiral Discrimination Step Shigeru Kato, Hui-Jun Yang, Takafumi Ueno, Shin-ichi Ozaki, George N. Phillips, Jr., Shunichi Fukuzumi, and Yoshihito Watanabe pp 8506–8507 DOI: 10.1021/ja0256414

Controlled Assembly of Mesoscale Structures Using DNA as Molecular Bridges Carissa M. Soto, Amritha Srinivasan, and Banahalli R. Ratna pp 8508–8509 DOI: 10.1021/ja017653f Supporting Info

Point of Attachment and Sequence of Immobilized Peptide-Acridine Conjugates Control Affinity for Nucleic Acids Coby B. Carlson and Peter A. Beal pp 8510–8511 DOI: 10.1021/ja026029f Supporting Info

Nonstatistical Dynamics in Deep Potential Wells:  A Quasiclassical Trajectory Study of Methyl Loss from the Acetone Radical Cation Jeremiah A. Nummela and Barry K. Carpenter pp 8512–8513 DOI: 10.1021/ja026230q

Generation of Functionalized Asymmetric Benzynes with TMP-Zincates. Effects of Ligands on Selectivity and Reactivity of Zincates Masanobu Uchiyama, Tomoko Miyoshi, Yumiko Kajihara, Takao Sakamoto, Yuko Otani, Tomohiko Ohwada, and Yoshinori Kondo pp 8514–8515 DOI: 10.1021/ja0202199 Supporting Info

Synthesis and Characterization of Mesoporous Indium Tin Oxide Possessing an Electronically Conductive Framework Theo T. Emons, Jianquan Li, and Linda F. Nazar pp 8516–8517 DOI: 10.1021/ja0125826

Gas-Phase Ozonolysis of Alkenes:  Formation of OH from Anti Carbonyl Oxides Jesse H. Kroll, Neil M. Donahue, Victor J. Cee, Kenneth L. Demerjian, and James G. Anderson pp 8518–8519 DOI: 10.1021/ja0266060 Supporting Info

The Reversible Formation of a Single-Bonded (C60-)2 Dimer in Ionic Charge Transfer Complex:  Cp*2Cr·C60(C6H4Cl2)2. The Molecular Structure of (C60-)2 Dmitri V. Konarev, Salavat S. Khasanov, Akihiro Otsuka, and Gunzi Saito pp 8520–8521 DOI: 10.1021/ja0202614 Supporting Info

Protein Prosthesis:  A Semisynthetic Enzyme with a β-Peptide Reverse Turn Ulrich Arnold, Matthew P. Hinderaker, Bradley L. Nilsson, Bayard R. Huck, Samuel H. Gellman, and Ronald T. Raines pp 8522–8523 DOI: 10.1021/ja026114n Supporting Info

Isocyanate Formation in the Catalytic Reaction of CO + NO on Pd(111):  An in Situ Infrared Spectroscopic Study at Elevated Pressures Emrah Ozensoy, Christian Hess, and D. Wayne Goodman pp 8524–8525 DOI: 10.1021/ja020571m

Site-Isolated Luminescent Europium Complexes with Polyester Macroligands:  Metal-Centered Heteroarm Stars and Nanoscale Assemblies with Labile Block Junctions Jessica L. Bender, Perry S. Corbin, Cassandra L. Fraser, David H. Metcalf, Frederick S. Richardson, Edwin L. Thomas, and Augustine M. Urbas pp 8526–8527 DOI: 10.1021/ja0261269 Supporting Info

GaCl3-Catalyzed Ortho-Ethynylation of Phenols Katsumi Kobayashi, Mieko Arisawa, and Masahiko Yamaguchi pp 8528–8529 DOI: 10.1021/ja026108r Supporting Info

Excited-State Symmetry Breaking in Cofacial and Linear Dimers of a Green Perylenediimide Chlorophyll Analogue Leading to Ultrafast Charge Separation Jovan M. Giaimo, Alexey V. Gusev, and Michael R. Wasielewski pp 8530–8531 DOI: 10.1021/ja026422l Supporting Info

Quantitative Rate Constants for Radical Reactions in the Nanopores of Cotton Paula Hunt, David R. Worrall, Frank Wilkinson, and Stephen N. Batchelor pp 8532–8533 DOI: 10.1021/ja0201808

First-Principles Study of Aqueous Hydroxide Solutions Bin Chen, Jung Mee Park, Ivaylo Ivanov, Gloria Tabacchi, Michael L. Klein, and Michele Parrinello pp 8534–8535 DOI: 10.1021/ja020350g

Reversible Intramolecular Hydride Transfer between Tantalum and an Aromatic Ring:  An η5-Cyclohexadienyl Complex as a Masked Hydride John Gavenonis and T. Don Tilley pp 8536–8537 DOI: 10.1021/ja025684k Supporting Info

The “Diindene” ArInInAr (Ar = C6H3-2,6-Dipp2, Dipp = C6H3-2,6-Pri2). Dimeric versus Monomeric In(I) Aryls:  para-Substituent Effects in Terphenyl Ligands Robert J. Wright, Andrew D. Phillips, Ned J. Hardman, and Philip P. Power pp 8538–8539 DOI: 10.1021/ja026285s Supporting Info

Structure of the Photocolored 2-(2‘,4‘-Dinitrobenzyl)pyridine Crystal:  Two-Photon Induced Solid-State Proton Transfer with Minor Structural Perturbation Pane Naumov, Akiko Sekine, Hidehiro Uekusa, and Yuji Ohashi pp 8540–8541 DOI: 10.1021/ja0170908 Supporting Info

Synthesis and Structures of [{HC(CMeNAr)2}Ge(S)X] (Ar = 2,6-iPr2C6H3, X = F, Cl, Me):  Structurally Characterized Examples with a Formal Double Bond between Group 14 and 16 Elements Bearing a Halide Yuqiang Ding, Qingjun Ma, Isabel Usón, Herbert W. Roesky, Mathias Noltemeyer, and Hans-Georg Schmidt pp 8542–8543 DOI: 10.1021/ja017645z Supporting Info

Novel Histidine−Heme Covalent Linkage in a Hemoglobin B. Christie Vu, A. Daniel Jones, and Juliette T. J. Lecomte pp 8544–8545 DOI: 10.1021/ja026569c Supporting Info

Syn Stereochemistry of Cyclic Ether Formation in 1,8-Cineole Biosynthesis Catalyzed by Recombinant Synthase from Salvia officinalis Mitchell L. Wise, Marek Urbansky, Gregory L. Helms, Robert M. Coates, and Rodney Croteau pp 8546–8547 DOI: 10.1021/ja0265714 Supporting Info

An Oligomeric Ser-Pro Dipeptide Mimetic Assuming the Polyproline II Helix Conformation Peter Tremmel and Armin Geyer pp 8548–8549 DOI: 10.1021/ja026098u Supporting Info

Decoupling Optical and Potentiometric Band Gaps in π-Conjugated Materials Kimihiro Susumu and Michael J. Therien pp 8550–8552 DOI: 10.1021/ja0203925 Supporting Info

Structure of a Tethered Cationic 3-Aminopropyl Chain Incorporated into an Oligodeoxynucleotide:  Evidence for 3‘-Orientation in the Major Groove Accompanied by DNA Bending Zhijun Li, Li Huang, Prasad Dande, Barry Gold, and Michael P. Stone pp 8553–8560 DOI: 10.1021/ja0201707 Supporting Info

Equilibrium Constants for Dehydration of Water Adducts of Aromatic Carbon−Carbon Double Bonds Joykrishna Dey, AnnMarie C. O'Donoghue, and Rory A. More O'Ferrall pp 8561–8574 DOI: 10.1021/ja0126125 Supporting Info

Protonated Benzofuran, Anthracene, Naphthalene, Benzene, Ethene, and Ethyne:  Measurements and Estimates of pKa and pKR Aoife C. McCormack, Claire M. McDonnell, Rory A. More O'Ferrall, AnnMarie C. O'Donoghue, and S. Nagaraja Rao pp 8575–8583 DOI: 10.1021/ja012613x Supporting Info

Enantioselective Total Syntheses of Manzamine A and Related Alkaloids John M. Humphrey, Yusheng Liao, Amjad Ali, Tobias Rein, Yue-Ling Wong, Hui-Ju Chen, Anne K. Courtney, and Stephen F. Martin pp 8584–8592 DOI: 10.1021/ja0202964 Supporting Info

Interaction of Anions with Perfluoro Aromatic Compounds Ibon Alkorta, Isabel Rozas, and José Elguero pp 8593–8598 DOI: 10.1021/ja025693t Supporting Info

Combinations of Microphase Separation and Terminal Multiple Hydrogen Bonding in Novel Macromolecules Koji Yamauchi, Jeremy R. Lizotte, David M. Hercules, Matthew J. Vergne, and Timothy E. Long pp 8599–8604 DOI: 10.1021/ja020123e Supporting Info

Molecular Packing and Morphology of Oligo(m-phenylene ethynylene) Foldamers Christian Kübel, Matthew J. Mio, Jeffrey S. Moore, and David C. Martin pp 8605–8610 DOI: 10.1021/ja0204022

Elucidation of the Chiral Recognition Mechanism of Cinchona Alkaloid Carbamate-type Receptors for 3,5-Dinitrobenzoyl Amino Acids Norbert M. Maier, Sabine Schefzick, G. M. Lombardo, Miguel Feliz, Kari Rissanen, Wolfgang Lindner, and Kenny B. Lipkowitz pp 8611–8629 DOI: 10.1021/ja020203i Supporting Info

Dyeing Uric Acid Crystals with Methylene Blue Ryan E. Sours, Dorothy A. Fink, and Jennifer A. Swift pp 8630–8636 DOI: 10.1021/ja026083w Supporting Info

Design and Synthesis of a Novel Class of Sugar-Peptide Hybrids:  C-Linked Glyco β-Amino Acids through a Stereoselective “Acetate” Mannich Reaction as the Key Strategic Element Claudio Palomo, Mikel Oiarbide, Aitor Landa, M. Concepción González-Rego, Jesús M. García, Alberto González, José M. Odriozola, Manuel Martín-Pastor, and Anthony Linden pp 8637–8643 DOI: 10.1021/ja026250s Supporting Info

Fluoride-Selective Binding in a New Deep Cavity Calix[4]pyrrole:  Experiment and Theory Christopher J. Woods, Salvatore Camiolo, Mark E. Light, Simon J. Coles, Michael B. Hursthouse, Michael A. King, Philip A. Gale, and Jonathan W. Essex pp 8644–8652 DOI: 10.1021/ja025572t Supporting Info

A Facile Approach to Architecturally Defined Nanoparticles via Intramolecular Chain Collapse Eva Harth, Brooke Van Horn, Victor Y. Lee, David S. Germack, Chad P. Gonzales, Robert D. Miller, and Craig J. Hawker pp 8653–8660 DOI: 10.1021/ja026208x

Organometallic Dendrimers Based on (Tetraphenylcyclobutadiene)cyclopentadienylcobalt Modules Shane M. Waybright, Kanika McAlpine, Matthew Laskoski, Mark D. Smith, and Uwe H. F. Bunz pp 8661–8666 DOI: 10.1021/ja026462p Supporting Info

Genetic Construction of Truncated and Chimeric Metalloproteins Derived from the α Subunit of Acetyl-CoA Synthase from Clostridium thermoaceticum Huay-Keng Loke, Xiangshi Tan, and Paul A. Lindahl pp 8667–8672 DOI: 10.1021/ja025924w Supporting Info

Growth and Structure Evolution of Novel Tin Oxide Diskettes Zu Rong Dai, Zheng Wei Pan, and Zhong L. Wang pp 8673–8680 DOI: 10.1021/ja026262d

Mechanism of Vinylic and Allylic Carbon−Fluorine Bond Activation of Non-Perfluorinated Olefins Using Cp*2ZrH2 Bradley M. Kraft and William D. Jones pp 8681–8689 DOI: 10.1021/ja0125568

Regular Intergrowth in the AFI-Type Crystals:  Influence on the Intracrystalline Adsorbate Distribution As Observed by Interference and FTIR-Microscopy Enrico Lehmann, Christian Chmelik, Holger Scheidt, Sergey Vasenkov, Brigitte Staudte, Jörg Kärger, Friedrich Kremer, Gabriela Zadrozna, and Jan Kornatowski pp 8690–8692 DOI: 10.1021/ja026400z

Hydrogenation without a Transition-Metal Catalyst:  On the Mechanism of the Base-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Ketones Albrecht Berkessel, Thomas J. S. Schubert, and Thomas N. Müller pp 8693–8698 DOI: 10.1021/ja016152r

NMR and Calculational Studies on the Regioselective Lithiation of 1-Methoxynaphthalene Jürgen Betz and Walter Bauer pp 8699–8706 DOI: 10.1021/ja010456w Supporting Info

Analysis of Heparan Sulfate Oligosaccharides with Ion Pair-Reverse Phase Capillary High Performance Liquid Chromatography-Microelectrospray Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry Balagurunathan Kuberan, Miroslaw Lech, Lijuan Zhang, Zhengliang L. Wu, David L. Beeler, and Robert D. Rosenberg pp 8707–8718 DOI: 10.1021/ja0178867

Kinetics and Mechanism of Hydroxyl Radical and OH-Adduct Radical Reactions with Nitroxides and with Their Hydroxylamines Amram Samuni, Sara Goldstein, Angelo Russo, James B. Mitchell, Murali C. Krishna, and Pedatsur Neta pp 8719–8724 DOI: 10.1021/ja017587h

The Elusive Atomic Rationale for DNA Base Pair Stability Paul L. A. Popelier and Laurent Joubert pp 8725–8729 DOI: 10.1021/ja0125164 Supporting Info

Passive and Active Oxidation of Si(100) by Atomic Oxygen:  A Theoretical Study of Possible Reaction Mechanisms Cheol Ho Choi, Da-Jiang Liu, J. W. Evans, and Mark S. Gordon pp 8730–8740 DOI: 10.1021/ja012454h

Chemical Bonding in Biguanidinium Dinitramide and Biguanidinium Bis-Dinitramide from Experimental X-ray Diffraction Data Elizabeth A. Zhurova, Anthony Martin, and A. Alan Pinkerton pp 8741–8750 DOI: 10.1021/ja0176245 Supporting Info

Investigations of Polyelectrolyte Adsorption at the Solid/Liquid Interface by Sum Frequency Spectroscopy:  Evidence for Long-Range Macromolecular Alignment at Highly Charged Quartz/Water Interfaces Joonyeong Kim, Gibum Kim, and Paul S. Cremer pp 8751–8756 DOI: 10.1021/ja0263036 Supporting Info

New Group 2 Chemistry:  A Multiple Barium−Nitrogen Bond in the CsNBa Molecule Laura Gagliardi pp 8757–8761 DOI: 10.1021/ja0260216 Supporting Info

Electron Transport through Thin Organic Films in Metal−Insulator−Metal Junctions Based on Self-Assembled Monolayers  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 5075−5085]. R. Erik Holmlin, Rainer Haag, Michael L. Chabinyc, Rustem F. Ismagilov, Adam E. Cohen, Andreas Terfort, Maria Anita Rampi, and George M. Whitesides p 8762 DOI: 10.1021/ja025104j

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Is the Axial Zero-Field Splitting Parameter of Tetragonally Elongated High-Spin Manganese(III) Complexes Always Negative? Susanne Mossin, Høgni Weihe, and Anne-Laure Barra pp 8764–8765 DOI: 10.1021/ja012574p

Reactions of Oximate α-Nucleophiles with Esters:  Evidence from Solvation Effects for Substantial Decoupling of Desolvation and Bond Formation Erwin Buncel, Céline Cannes, Alain-Pierre Chatrousse, and François Terrier pp 8766–8767 DOI: 10.1021/ja020379k Supporting Info

Intein-Mediated Biotinylation of Proteins and Its Application in a Protein Microarray Marie-Laure Lesaicherre, Rina Y. P. Lue, Grace Y. J. Chen, Qing Zhu, and Shao Q. Yao pp 8768–8769 DOI: 10.1021/ja0265963 Supporting Info

Reactions of Methane Monooxygenase Intermediate Q with Derivatized Methanes Edna A. Ambundo, Richard A. Friesner, and Stephen J. Lippard pp 8770–8771 DOI: 10.1021/ja0265759 Supporting Info

Inequivalent Molecules in a Two-Dimensional Crystal Kibum Kim and Adam J. Matzger pp 8772–8773 DOI: 10.1021/ja026786d Supporting Info

Iron−Sulfur Cluster Biosynthesis:  Characterization of Iron Nucleation Sites for Assembly of the [2Fe−2S]2+ Cluster Core in IscU Proteins Manunya Nuth, Taejin Yoon, and J. A. Cowan pp 8774–8775 DOI: 10.1021/ja0264596 Supporting Info

The Cation Cluster of Heavier Group 14 Elements:  A Free Germyl Cation with Trishomoaromaticity Akira Sekiguchi, Yutaka Ishida, Yoshio Kabe, and Masaaki Ichinohe pp 8776–8777 DOI: 10.1021/ja020395h Supporting Info

Evidences of Strong C−H····O Bond in an o-Carboranyl β-Lactoside in Solution Alessandro Donati, Sandra Ristori, Claudia Bonechi, Luigi Panza, Giacomo Martini, and Claudio Rossi pp 8778–8779 DOI: 10.1021/ja016697l Supporting Info

An NMR Study of the Rates of Single-Molecule Exchange in a Cylindrical Host Capsule Stephen L. Craig, Shirley Lin, Jian Chen, and Julius Rebek, Jr. pp 8780–8781 DOI: 10.1021/ja025672z Supporting Info

Intermolecular Transition Metal-Catalyzed [4 + 2 + 2] Cycloaddition Reactions:  A New Approach to the Construction of Eight-Membered Rings P. Andrew Evans, John E. Robinson, Erich W. Baum, and Aleem N. Fazal pp 8782–8783 DOI: 10.1021/ja026351q Supporting Info

Rhodium Catalyzed [4 + 2 + 2] Cycloaddition and Alkyne Insertion: A New Route to Eight-Membered Rings Scott R. Gilbertson and Brenton DeBoef pp 8784–8785 DOI: 10.1021/ja026536x Supporting Info

Two Helium Atoms Inside Fullerenes:  Probing the Internal Magnetic Field in C606- and C706- Tamar Sternfeld, Roy E. Hoffman, Martin Saunders, R. James Cross, M. S. Syamala, and Mordecai Rabinovitz pp 8786–8787 DOI: 10.1021/ja025990y

Activation of Nitrous Oxide and Selective Epoxidation of Alkenes Catalyzed by the Manganese-Substituted Polyoxometalate, [MnIII2ZnW(Zn2W9O34)2]10- Revital Ben-Daniel, Lev Weiner, and Ronny Neumann pp 8788–8789 DOI: 10.1021/ja0259077 Supporting Info

Copolymerization Studies of Vinyl Chloride and Vinyl Acetate with Ethylene Using a Transition-Metal Catalyst Harold W. Boone, Phillip S. Athey, Michael J. Mullins, Dean Philipp, Richard Muller, and William A. Goddard pp 8790–8791 DOI: 10.1021/ja0260061 Supporting Info

Highly Enantioselective Epoxidation of α,β-Unsaturated Esters by Chiral Dioxirane Xin-Yan Wu, Xuegong She, and Yian Shi pp 8792–8793 DOI: 10.1021/ja020478y Supporting Info

Heterogeneous Structure of Silk Fibers from Bombyx mori Resolved by 13C Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy Tetsuo Asakura, Juming Yao, Tsutomu Yamane, Kosuke Umemura, and Anne S. Ulrich pp 8794–8795 DOI: 10.1021/ja020244e

Potential Surface for the Quadruply Degenerate Rearrangement of Bicyclo[3.1.0]hex-2-ene Christopher P. Suhrada and K. N. Houk pp 8796–8797 DOI: 10.1021/ja020601l Supporting Info

Dynamics of Proton Transfer at Nonactivated Carbons from Laser Flash Electron Photoinjection Experiments Jean Gamby, Philippe Hapiot, and Jean-Michel Savéant pp 8798–8799 DOI: 10.1021/ja026804r

Redox-Conjugated Reversible Isomerization of Ferrocenylazobenzene with a Single Green Light Masato Kurihara, Akira Hirooka, Shoko Kume, Manabu Sugimoto, and Hiroshi Nishihara pp 8800–8801 DOI: 10.1021/ja026625+ Supporting Info

Formation of Silver(I)-Mediated DNA Duplex and Triplex through an Alternative Base Pair of Pyridine Nucleobases Kentaro Tanaka, Yasuyuki Yamada, and Mitsuhiko Shionoya pp 8802–8803 DOI: 10.1021/ja020510o Supporting Info

Organometallic Radical-Initiated Cleavage of the Metal Chelate and Thiazole Rings in a Cyclopentadienylchromium Complex Lai Yoong Goh, Zhiqiang Weng, Weng Kee Leong, and Jagadese J. Vittal pp 8804–8805 DOI: 10.1021/ja026335t Supporting Info

Highly Enantioselective Copper−Bisoxazoline-Catalyzed Allylic Oxidation of Cyclic Olefins with tert-Butyl p-nitroperbenzoate Merritt B. Andrus and Ziniu Zhou pp 8806–8807 DOI: 10.1021/ja026266i Supporting Info

Solution-State Dynamic Nuclear Polarization at High Magnetic Field Nikolaus M. Loening, Melanie Rosay, Volker Weis, and Robert G. Griffin pp 8808–8809 DOI: 10.1021/ja026660g

Writing with DNA and Protein Using a Nanopipet for Controlled Delivery Andreas Bruckbauer, Liming Ying, Alison M. Rothery, Dejian Zhou, Andrew I. Shevchuk, Chris Abell, Yuri E. Korchev, and David Klenerman pp 8810–8811 DOI: 10.1021/ja026816c Supporting Info

High-Performance, Solution-Processed Organic Thin Film Transistors from a Novel Pentacene Precursor Ali Afzali, Christos D. Dimitrakopoulos, and Tricia L. Breen pp 8812–8813 DOI: 10.1021/ja0266621

Highly Diastereoselective Dioxetane Formation in the Photooxygenation of Enecarbamates with an Oxazolidinone Chiral Auxiliary:  Steric Control in the [2 + 2] Cycloaddition of Singlet Oxygen through Conformational Alignment Waldemar Adam, Sara G. Bosio, and Nicholas J. Turro pp 8814–8815 DOI: 10.1021/ja026815k Supporting Info

Dibenzoborole-Containing π-Electron Systems:  Remarkable Fluorescence Change Based on the “On/Off” Control of the pπ−π* Conjugation Shigehiro Yamaguchi, Toshiaki Shirasaka, Seiji Akiyama, and Kohei Tamao pp 8816–8817 DOI: 10.1021/ja026689k Supporting Info

Characterization and Crystal Structure of a High-Affinity Pentavalent Receptor-Binding Inhibitor for Cholera Toxin and E. coli Heat-Labile Enterotoxin Ethan A. Merritt, Zhongsheng Zhang, Jason C. Pickens, Misol Ahn, Wim G. J. Hol, and Erkang Fan pp 8818–8824 DOI: 10.1021/ja0202560

Computer Simulations of Trypanosomal Nucleoside Hydrolase:  Determination of the Protonation State of the Bound Transition-State Analogue Devleena Mazumder, Kalju Kahn, and Thomas C. Bruice pp 8825–8833 DOI: 10.1021/ja020312x

Recombinant Squalene Synthase. Synthesis of Non-Head-to-Tail Isoprenoids in the Absence of NADPH Michael B. Jarstfer, Dong-Lu Zhang, and C. Dale Poulter pp 8834–8845 DOI: 10.1021/ja020410i

Recombinant Squalene Synthase. A Mechanism for the Rearrangement of Presqualene Diphosphate to Squalene Brian S. J. Blagg, Michael B. Jarstfer, Daniel H. Rogers, and C. Dale Poulter pp 8846–8853 DOI: 10.1021/ja020411a Supporting Info

Following Evolution of Bacteriorhodopsin in Its Reactive Excited State via Stimulated Emission Pumping Sanford Ruhman, Bixue Hou, Noga Friedman, Michael Ottolenghi, and Mordechai Sheves pp 8854–8858 DOI: 10.1021/ja026426q

Effect of Hydration on the Induction of Strand Breaks and Base Lesions in Plasmid DNA Films by γ-Radiation Akinari Yokoya, Siobhan M. T. Cunniffe, and Peter O'Neill pp 8859–8866 DOI: 10.1021/ja025744m

Solid-Phase Synthesis of β-Mannosides David Crich and Mark Smith pp 8867–8869 DOI: 10.1021/ja011406u Supporting Info

Practical Synthesis of an Open Geodesic Polyarene with a Fullerene-type 6:6-Double Bond at the Center:  Diindeno[1,2,3,4-defg;1‘,2‘,3‘,4‘-mnop]chrysene Hindy E. Bronstein, Neil Choi, and Lawrence T. Scott pp 8870–8875 DOI: 10.1021/ja0123148 Supporting Info

Peptide Dendrimers Based on Polyproline Helices Laia Crespo, Glòria Sanclimens, Beatriz Montaner, Ricardo Pérez-Tomás, Miriam Royo, Miquel Pons, Fernando Albericio, and Ernest Giralt pp 8876–8883 DOI: 10.1021/ja020364m Supporting Info

Re-entrant Isotropic Phase between Lamellar and Columnar Mesophases Urszula Pietrasik, Jadwiga Szydłowska, Adam Krówczyński, Damian Pociecha, Ewa Górecka, and Daniel Guillon pp 8884–8890 DOI: 10.1021/ja026234v Supporting Info

Crystal Engineering for Topochemical Polymerization of Muconic Esters Using Halogen−Halogen and CH/π Interactions as Weak Intermolecular Interactions Akikazu Matsumoto, Toshihiro Tanaka, Takashi Tsubouchi, Kohji Tashiro, Seishi Saragai, and Shinsuke Nakamoto pp 8891–8902 DOI: 10.1021/ja0205333 Supporting Info

Supramolecular Cation Assemblies of Hydrogen-Bonded (NH4+/NH2NH3+)(Crown Ether) in [Ni(dmit)2]-Based Molecular Conductors and Magnets Tomoyuki Akutagawa, Tatsuo Hasegawa, Takayoshi Nakamura, and Tamotsu Inabe pp 8903–8911 DOI: 10.1021/ja026211g Supporting Info

Substituent Effects on the Stereochemistry in the [2 + 2] Photocycloaddition Reaction of Homobenzoquinone Derivative with Variously Substituted Alkenes and Alkynes Ken Kokubo, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Tatsuya Kawamoto, and Takumi Oshima pp 8912–8921 DOI: 10.1021/ja025593n Supporting Info

Tripyrrolylphosphine as a Unique Bridging Ligand in the Rh6(CO)14(μ2-P(NC4H4)3) Cluster:  Structure, Bonding, Fluxionality, Thermodynamics, and Kinetics Studies Claudia Babij, C. Scott Browning, David H. Farrar, Igor O. Koshevoy, Ivan S. Podkorytov, Anthony J. Poë, and Sergey P. Tunik pp 8922–8931 DOI: 10.1021/ja012440b Supporting Info

Hemilabile Amidomonophosphine Ligand−Rhodium(I) Complex-Catalyzed Asymmetric 1,4-Addition of Arylboronic Acids to Cycloalkenones Masami Kuriyama, Kazushige Nagai, Ken-ichi Yamada, Yoshinao Miwa, Tooru Taga, and Kiyoshi Tomioka pp 8932–8939 DOI: 10.1021/ja0261933 Supporting Info

Structural Characterization, Optical Properties, and Improved Solubility of Carbon Nanotubes Functionalized with Wilkinson's Catalyst Sarbajit Banerjee and Stanislaus S. Wong pp 8940–8948 DOI: 10.1021/ja026487o

Catalytic Role of Metal Ion in the Selection of Competing Reaction Paths:  A First Principles Molecular Dynamics Study of the Enzymatic Reaction in Ribozyme Mauro Boero, Kiyoyuki Terakura, and Masaru Tateno pp 8949–8957 DOI: 10.1021/ja017843q

Electron Hopping Conductivity and Vapor Sensing Properties of Flexible Network Polymer Films of Metal Nanoparticles Francis P. Zamborini, Michael C. Leopold, Jocelyn F. Hicks, Pawel J. Kulesza, Marcin A. Malik, and Royce W. Murray pp 8958–8964 DOI: 10.1021/ja025965s

Mechanism of Ruthenium-Catalyzed Olefin Metathesis Reactions from a Theoretical Perspective Luigi Cavallo pp 8965–8973 DOI: 10.1021/ja016772s Supporting Info

Computational Exploration of Rearrangements Related to the Vitamin B12-Dependent Ethanolamine Ammonia Lyase Catalyzed Transformation Marija Semialjac and Helmut Schwarz pp 8974–8983 DOI: 10.1021/ja020101s Supporting Info

Enantioselective Chemisorption on a Chirally Modified Surface in Ultrahigh Vacuum:  Adsorption of Propylene Oxide on 2-Butoxide-Covered Palladium(111) Darío Stacchiola, Luke Burkholder, and Wilfred T. Tysoe pp 8984–8989 DOI: 10.1021/ja025733t

Competition and Selectivity of Organic Reactions on Semiconductor Surfaces:  Reaction of Unsaturated Ketones on Si(100)-2×1 and Ge(100)-2×1 George T. Wang, Collin Mui, Charles B. Musgrave, and Stacey F. Bent pp 8990–9004 DOI: 10.1021/ja026330w

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Active-Site Stereochemical Control of Oxygen Atom Transfer Reactivity in Sulfite Oxidase Katrina Peariso, Rebecca L. McNaughton, and Martin L. Kirk pp 9006–9007 DOI: 10.1021/ja017217t Supporting Info

Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Quadrigemine C and Psycholeine Alec D. Lebsack, J. T. Link, Larry E. Overman, and Brian A. Stearns pp 9008–9009 DOI: 10.1021/ja0267425 Supporting Info

Heterocumulene Metathesis by Iridium Guanidinate and Ureylene Complexes:  Catalysis Involving Reversible Insertion To Form Six-Membered Metallacycles Andrew W. Holland and Robert G. Bergman pp 9010–9011 DOI: 10.1021/ja026178y Supporting Info

Cation-Controlled Self-Assembly of a Hexameric Europium Wheel Yann Bretonnière Marinella Mazzanti, Jacques Pécaut, and Marilyn M. Olmstead pp 9012–9013 DOI: 10.1021/ja012177e Supporting Info

A Colorimetric Sensing Ensemble for Heparin Zhenlin Zhong and Eric V. Anslyn pp 9014–9015 DOI: 10.1021/ja020505k Supporting Info

Noble Gas−Actinide Compounds:  Evidence for the Formation of Distinct CUO(Ar)4-n(Xe)n and CUO(Ar)4-n(Kr)n (n = 1, 2, 3, 4) Complexes Binyong Liang, Lester Andrews, Jun Li, and Bruce E. Bursten pp 9016–9017 DOI: 10.1021/ja026432m

Cell-Wall Engineering of Living Bacteria Reiko Sadamoto, Kenichi Niikura, Pamela S. Sears, Haitian Liu, Chi-Huey Wong, Akarat Suksomcheep, Fusao Tomita, Kenji Monde, and Shin-Ichiro Nishimura pp 9018–9019 DOI: 10.1021/ja026133x Supporting Info

Isotopically Chiral Probes for in Situ High-Throughput Asymmetric Reaction Analysis Michael A. Evans and James P. Morken pp 9020–9021 DOI: 10.1021/ja026703t Supporting Info

Synthetic Hydraphile Channels of Appropriate Length Kill Escherichia coli W. Matthew Leevy, Gina M. Donato, Riccardo Ferdani, William E. Goldman, Paul H. Schlesinger, and George W. Gokel pp 9022–9023 DOI: 10.1021/ja017052o

An Enzyme Library Approach to Biocatalysis:  Development of Nitrilases for Enantioselective Production of Carboxylic Acid Derivatives Grace DeSantis, Zuolin Zhu, William A. Greenberg, Kelvin Wong, Jenny Chaplin, Sarah R. Hanson, Bob Farwell, Lawrence W. Nicholson, Cynthia L. Rand, David P. Weiner, Dan E. Robertson, and Mark J. Burk pp 9024–9025 DOI: 10.1021/ja0259842 Supporting Info

Addition of p-Azido-l-phenylalanine to the Genetic Code of Escherichia coli Jason W. Chin, Stephen W. Santoro, Andrew B. Martin, David S. King, Lei Wang, and Peter G. Schultz pp 9026–9027 DOI: 10.1021/ja027007w Supporting Info

Oxidative Induction of β-Turn Conformations in Cyclic Peptidomimetics:  Conformational Analyses As Indicators of Configuration Luyong Jiang and Kevin Burgess pp 9028–9029 DOI: 10.1021/ja0171411 Supporting Info

Sidearm Effect:  Improvement of the Enantiomeric Excess in the Asymmetric Michael Addition of Indoles to Alkylidene Malonates Jian Zhou and Yong Tang pp 9030–9031 DOI: 10.1021/ja026936k Supporting Info

Reaction of α,α-Dibromo Oxime Ethers with Grignard Reagents:  Alkylative Annulation Providing a Pyrimidine Core Hirotada Kakiya, Kazunari Yagi, Hiroshi Shinokubo, and Koichiro Oshima pp 9032–9033 DOI: 10.1021/ja0269284 Supporting Info

Noncovalent Engineering of Carbon Nanotube Surfaces by Rigid, Functional Conjugated Polymers Jian Chen, Haiying Liu, Wayne A. Weimer, Mathew D. Halls, David H. Waldeck, and Gilbert C. Walker pp 9034–9035 DOI: 10.1021/ja026104m Supporting Info

Supramolecular Assembly on Surfaces:  Manipulating Conductance in Noncovalently Modified Mesoscale Structures Grace M. Credo, Andrew K. Boal, Kanad Das, Trent H. Galow, Vincent M. Rotello, Daniel L. Feldheim, and Christopher B. Gorman pp 9036–9037 DOI: 10.1021/ja0266823 Supporting Info

Coordinated Olefins as Incipient Carbocations:  Catalytic Codimerization of Ethylene and Internal Olefins by a Dicationic Pt(II)−Ethylene Complex Christine Hahn, Maria E. Cucciolito, and Aldo Vitagliano pp 9038–9039 DOI: 10.1021/ja0263386

Oxidative Polymerization of 1,4-Diethynylbenzene into Highly Conjugated Poly(phenylene butadiynylene) within the Channels of Surface-Functionalized Mesoporous Silica and Alumina Materials Victor S.-Y. Lin, Daniela R. Radu, Mi-Kyung Han, Weihua Deng, Shigeki Kuroki, Brent H. Shanks, and Marek Pruski pp 9040–9041 DOI: 10.1021/ja025925o Supporting Info

[(Cyclen)4Ru4(pz)4]9+:  A Creutz−Taube Square Victor C. Lau, Louise A. Berben, and Jeffrey R. Long pp 9042–9043 DOI: 10.1021/ja027114q Supporting Info

Protein Splicing Triggered by a Small Molecule Henning D. Mootz and Tom W. Muir pp 9044–9045 DOI: 10.1021/ja026769o Supporting Info

Excited-State Proton Transfer in Chiral Environments. 1. Chiral Solvents Kyril M. Solntsev, Laren M. Tolbert, Boiko Cohen, Dan Huppert, Yoshihito Hayashi, and Yuri Feldman pp 9046–9047 DOI: 10.1021/ja026896k Supporting Info

EPR Study of a Place-Exchange Reaction on Au Nanoparticles:  Two Branches of a Disulfide Molecule Do Not Adsorb Adjacent to Each Other Petre Ionita and Agneta CaragheorgheopolBruce C. Gilbert and Victor Chechik pp 9048–9049 DOI: 10.1021/ja0265456 Supporting Info

Evidence from Mössbauer Spectroscopy for Distinct [2Fe-2S]2+ and [4Fe-4S]2+ Cluster Binding Sites in Biotin Synthase from Escherichia coli Natalia B. Ugulava, Kristene K. Surerus, and Joseph T. Jarrett pp 9050–9051 DOI: 10.1021/ja027004j

C1−C5 Photochemical Cyclization of Enediynes Igor V. Alabugin and Serguei V. Kovalenko pp 9052–9053 DOI: 10.1021/ja026630d Supporting Info

Rapid Recycle 13C‘,15N and 13C,13C‘ Heteronuclear and Homonuclear Multiple Quantum Coherence Detection for Resonance Assignments in Paramagnetic Proteins:  Example of Ni2+-Containing Acireductone Dioxygenase Milka Kostic, Susan Sondej Pochapsky, and Thomas C. Pochapsky pp 9054–9055 DOI: 10.1021/ja0268480

One-Pot Enantioselective Formation of Eight-Membered Rings from Alkenyl Fischer Carbene Complexes and Ketone Enolates José Barluenga, Alejandro Diéguez, Félix Rodríguez, Josefa Flórez, and Francisco J. Fañanás pp 9056–9057 DOI: 10.1021/ja0264551 Supporting Info

Spontaneous Reduction of Metal Ions on the Sidewalls of Carbon Nanotubes Hee Cheul Choi, Moonsub Shim, Sarunya Bangsaruntip, and Hongjie Dai pp 9058–9059 DOI: 10.1021/ja026824t

Alkynyliodonium Salts in Organic Synthesis. Application to the Total Synthesis of (−)-Agelastatin A and (−)-Agelastatin B Ken S. Feldman and Joe C. Saunders pp 9060–9061 DOI: 10.1021/ja027121e Supporting Info

A Minor Groove Binding Copper-Phenanthroline Conjugate Produces Direct Strand Breaks via β-Elimination of 2-Deoxyribonolactone Brian C. Bales, Marguerite Pitié, Bernard Meunier, and Marc M. Greenberg pp 9062–9063 DOI: 10.1021/ja026970z Supporting Info

The Structural Basis for Induction of VanB Resistance Steven D. Dong, Markus Oberthür, Heather C. Losey, John W. Anderson, Ulrike S. Eggert, Mark W. Peczuh, Christopher T. Walsh, and Daniel Kahne pp 9064–9065 DOI: 10.1021/ja026342h Supporting Info

The Reaction of Nitric Oxide with Glutathionylcobalamin Donghong Zheng and Ronald L. Birke pp 9066–9067 DOI: 10.1021/ja017684a Supporting Info

Metathesis Route to Bridged Metallocenes Masamichi Ogasawara, Takashi Nagano, and Tamio Hayashi pp 9068–9069 DOI: 10.1021/ja026401r Supporting Info

Direct Observation of the Structural Isomerization of a Cationic Group 4 Ziegler−Natta Insertion Product Richard J. Keaton and Lawrence R. Sita pp 9070–9071 DOI: 10.1021/ja026820o Supporting Info

Ir-Catalyzed Substitution of Propargylic-type Esters with Enoxysilanes Isamu Matsuda, Ken-ichi Komori, and Kenji Itoh pp 9072–9073 DOI: 10.1021/ja0264089 Supporting Info

Crystal Structure and Hydrogen-Bonding System in Cellulose Iβ from Synchrotron X-ray and Neutron Fiber Diffraction Yoshiharu Nishiyama, Paul Langan, and Henri Chanzy pp 9074–9082 DOI: 10.1021/ja0257319 Supporting Info

DNA Mediated Charge Transport:  Characterization of a DNA Radical Localized at an Artificial Nucleic Acid Base Matthias Pascaly, Jae Yoo, and Jacqueline K. Barton pp 9083–9092 DOI: 10.1021/ja0202210

Oligopeptides with Homochiral Sequences Generated from Racemic Precursors that Spontaneously Separate into Enantiomorphous Two-Dimensional Crystalline Domains on Water Surface Isabelle Weissbuch, Gérard Bolbach, Helmut Zepik, Edna Shavit, Mao Tang, Joseph Frey, Torben R. Jensen, Kristian Kjaer, Leslie Leiserowitz, and Meir Lahav pp 9093–9104 DOI: 10.1021/ja0259943

Structure and Dynamics of Metallomacrocycles:  Recognition of Zinc Xylyl-Bicyclam by an HIV Coreceptor Xiangyang Liang, John A. Parkinson, Michael Weishäupl, Robert O. Gould, Stephen J. Paisey, Hye-seo Park, Tina M. Hunter, Claudia A. Blindauer, Simon Parsons, and Peter J. Sadler pp 9105–9112 DOI: 10.1021/ja0260723 Supporting Info

Semisynthesis and Folding of the Potassium Channel KcsA Francis I. Valiyaveetil, Roderick MacKinnon, and Tom W. Muir pp 9113–9120 DOI: 10.1021/ja0266722

Amphiphilic Hairy Disks with Branched Hydrophilic Tails and a Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene Core Myongsoo Lee, Jung-Woo Kim, Sergiy Peleshanko, Kirsten Larson, Yong-Sik Yoo, David Vaknin, Sergei Markutsya, and Vladimir V. Tsukruk pp 9121–9128 DOI: 10.1021/ja017553+ Supporting Info

Chemistry of the 2-Deoxyribonolactone Lesion in Oligonucleotides:  Cleavage Kinetics and Products Analysis Yoann Roupioz, Jean Lhomme, and Mitsuharu Kotera pp 9129–9135 DOI: 10.1021/ja025688p Supporting Info

Reactions of Superoxo and Oxo Metal Complexes with Aldehydes. Radical-Specific Pathways for Cross-Disproportionation of Superoxometal Ions and Acylperoxyl Radicals Andreja Bakac pp 9136–9144 DOI: 10.1021/ja026365w Supporting Info

Proposed Mechanism for the Reaction Catalyzed by a Diterpene Cyclase, Aphidicolan-16β-ol Synthase:  Experimental Results on Biomimetic Cyclization and Examination of the Cyclization Pathway by ab Initio Calculations Hideaki Oikawa, Kensuke Nakamura, Hiroaki Toshima, Tomonobu Toyomasu, and Takeshi Sassa pp 9145–9153 DOI: 10.1021/ja025830m Supporting Info

Mechanism of the Oxidation of Sulfides by Dioxiranes. 1. Intermediacy of a 10-S-4 Hypervalent Sulfur Adduct María Elena González-Núñez, Rossella Mello, Jorge Royo, José V. Ríos, and Gregorio Asensio pp 9154–9163 DOI: 10.1021/ja025868z

Rhodium-Catalyzed Silylcarbocyclization (SiCaC) and Carbonylative Silylcarbocyclization (CO−SiCaC) Reactions of Enynes Iwao Ojima, An T. Vu, Seung-Yub Lee, James V. McCullagh, Andrew C. Moralee, Masaki Fujiwara, and Tram H. Hoang pp 9164–9174 DOI: 10.1021/ja0258982 Supporting Info

Synthesis of [5]-, [6]-, and [7]Helicene via Ni(0)- or Co(I)-Catalyzed Isomerization of Aromatic cis,cis-Dienetriynes Filip Teplý, Irena G. Stará, Ivo Starý, Adrian Kollárovi, David Šaman, Lubomír Rulíšek, and Pavel Fiedler pp 9175–9180 DOI: 10.1021/ja0259584 Supporting Info

Significant Enhancement of Electron Transfer Reduction of NAD+ Analogues by Complexation with Scandium Ion and the Detection of the Radical Intermediate−Scandium Ion Complex Shunichi Fukuzumi, Osamu Inada, Naoya Satoh, Tomoyoshi Suenobu, and Hiroshi Imahori pp 9181–9188 DOI: 10.1021/ja0260364 Supporting Info

Comparison of Oxygen and Sulfur Effects on Keto−Enol Chemistry in Benzolactone Systems:  Benzo[b]-2,3-dihydrofuran-2-one and -2-thione and Benzo[b]-2,3-dihydrothiophene-2-one and -2-thione A. J. Kresge and Q. Meng pp 9189–9198 DOI: 10.1021/ja020367z Supporting Info

Applications of the Squarate Ester Cascade to the Expeditious Synthesis of Hypnophilin, Coriolin, and Ceratopicanol Leo A. Paquette and Feng Geng pp 9199–9203 DOI: 10.1021/ja020474t Supporting Info

Cu(I/II) Redox Control of Molecular Conformation and Shape in Chiral Tripodal Ligands:  Binary Exciton-Coupled Circular Dichroic States Steffen Zahn and James W. Canary pp 9204–9211 DOI: 10.1021/ja0120429 Supporting Info

Metal Adsorption and Adhesion Energies on MgO(100) Charles T. Campbell and David E. Starr pp 9212–9218 DOI: 10.1021/ja020146t

Optical Detection of Spin Polarization in Single-Molecule Magnets [Mn12O12(O2CR)16(H2O)4] Eric J. L. McInnes, Elna Pidcock, Vasily S. Oganesyan, Myles R. Cheesman, Annie K. Powell, and Andrew J. Thomson pp 9219–9228 DOI: 10.1021/ja020456b

The Dean−Evans Relation in 31P NMR Spectroscopy and Its Application to the Chemistry of Octahedral Tungsten Sulfide Clusters Song Jin, Jennifer Adamchuk, Bosong Xiang, and Francis J. DiSalvo pp 9229–9240 DOI: 10.1021/ja0257873 Supporting Info

The First Photocrystallographic Evidence for Light-Induced Metastable Linkage Isomers of Ruthenium Sulfur Dioxide Complexes Andrey Yu. Kovalevsky, Kimberly A. Bagley, and Philip Coppens pp 9241–9248 DOI: 10.1021/ja026045c Supporting Info

The Extraordinary Ability of Guanidinate Derivatives to Stabilize Higher Oxidation Numbers in Dimetal Units by Modification of Redox Potentials:  Structures of Mo25+ and Mo26+ Compounds F. Albert Cotton, Lee M. Daniels, Carlos A. Murillo, Daren J. Timmons, and Chad C. Wilkinson pp 9249–9256 DOI: 10.1021/ja0266464 Supporting Info

Stable [Pb(ROH)N]2+ Complexes in the Gas Phase:  Softening the Base To Match the Lewis Acid Glen Akibo-Betts, Perdita E. Barran, Ljiljana Puskar, Bridgette Duncombe, Hazel Cox, and Anthony J. Stace pp 9257–9264 DOI: 10.1021/ja011261r

Quantum Control of Molecular Chirality:  Optical Isomerization of Difluorobenzo[c]phenanthrene Hiroaki Umeda, Masato Takagi, Saburou Yamada, Shiro Koseki, and Yuichi Fujimura pp 9265–9271 DOI: 10.1021/ja017849f

Vibrational Polarization and Opsin Shift of Retinal Schiff Bases:  Theoretical Study Hajime Torii pp 9272–9277 DOI: 10.1021/ja017279j

Intramolecular Quenching of Tryptophan Fluorescence by the Peptide Bond in Cyclic Hexapeptides Paul D. Adams, Yu Chen, Kan Ma, Michael G. Zagorski, Frank D. Sönnichsen, Mark L. McLaughlin, and Mary D. Barkley pp 9278–9286 DOI: 10.1021/ja0167710 Supporting Info

Sequencing of Specific Copolymer Oligomers by Electron-Capture-Dissociation Mass Spectrometry Blas A. Cerda, David M. Horn, Kathrin Breuker, and Fred W. McLafferty pp 9287–9291 DOI: 10.1021/ja0123756

Photochemical and FT-IR Probing of the Active Site of Hydrogen Peroxide in Ti Silicalite Sieve Wenyong Lin and Heinz Frei pp 9292–9298 DOI: 10.1021/ja012477w Supporting Info

Switchable Electronic Coupling in Model Oligoporphyrin Molecular Wires Examined through the Measurement and Assignment of Electronic Absorption Spectra Karina Sendt, Lesley A. Johnston, Warren A. Hough, Maxwell J. Crossley, Noel S. Hush, and Jeffrey R. Reimers pp 9299–9309 DOI: 10.1021/ja020081u

Electron and Mass Transport in Hybrid Redox Polyether Melts Contacted with Carbon Dioxide Dongil Lee, John C. Hutchison, Anthony M. Leone, Joseph M. DeSimone, and Royce W. Murray pp 9310–9317 DOI: 10.1021/ja026209p Supporting Info

An NMR and Quantum Mechanical Investigation of Solvent Effects on Conformational Equilibria of Butanedinitrile David R. Kent, IV, Neelendu Dey, Fredric Davidson, Françoise Gregoire, Krag A. Petterson, William A. Goddard, III, and John D. Roberts pp 9318–9322 DOI: 10.1021/ja020535n Supporting Info

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Detection of an Interchain Carbinolamine Cross-Link Formed in a CpG Sequence by the Acrolein DNA Adduct γ-OH-1,N 2-Propano-2‘-deoxyguanosine Hye-Young H. Kim, Markus Voehler, Thomas M. Harris, and Michael P. Stone pp 9324–9325 DOI: 10.1021/ja020333r

A Novel Pyrrolidinyl PNA Showing High Sequence Specificity and Preferential Binding to DNA over RNA Tirayut Vilaivan and Gordon Lowe pp 9326–9327 DOI: 10.1021/ja012543u Supporting Info

4-Aryloxybutenolides As “Chiral Aldehyde” Equivalents:  An Efficient Enantioselective Synthesis of (+)-Brefeldin A Barry M. Trost and Matthew L. Crawley pp 9328–9329 DOI: 10.1021/ja026438b Supporting Info

Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of Arylpalladium Cyanoalkyl Complexes:  Selection of Catalysts for the α-Arylation of Nitriles Darcy A. Culkin and John F. Hartwig pp 9330–9331 DOI: 10.1021/ja026584h Supporting Info

A Stabilized μ-η2:η2 Peroxodicopper(II) Complex with a Secondary Diamine Ligand and Its Tyrosinase-like Reactivity Liviu M. Mirica, Michael Vance, Deanne Jackson Rudd, Britt Hedman, Keith O. Hodgson, Edward I. Solomon, and T. D. P. Stack pp 9332–9333 DOI: 10.1021/ja026905p Supporting Info

A Highly Selective Arene Hydrogenation Catalyst that Operates in Ionic Liquid Clive J. Boxwell, Paul J. Dyson, David J. Ellis, and Thomas Welton pp 9334–9335 DOI: 10.1021/ja026361r Supporting Info

Synthesis and Magnetic Properties of 3-D [RuII/III2(O2CMe)4]3[MIII(CN)6] (M = Cr, Fe, Co) Yi Liao, William W. Shum, and Joel S. Miller pp 9336–9337 DOI: 10.1021/ja020552c

NMR Study of 100 kDa HCV IRES RNA Using Segmental Isotope Labeling Insil Kim, Peter J. Lukavsky, and Joseph D. Puglisi pp 9338–9339 DOI: 10.1021/ja026647w Supporting Info

Evidence for the Preservation of Specific Intermolecular Interactions in Gaseous Protein−Oligosaccharide Complexes Elena N. Kitova, David R. Bundle, and John S. Klassen pp 9340–9341 DOI: 10.1021/ja025908z Supporting Info

Assembly of Triple-Stranded β-Sheet Peptides at Interfaces Hanna Rapaport, Gunter Möller, Charles M. Knobler, Torben R. Jensen, Kristian Kjaer, Leslie Leiserowitz, and David A. Tirrell pp 9342–9343 DOI: 10.1021/ja026765j Supporting Info

Novel Rhenium(I) Polypyridine Biotin Complexes That Show Luminescence Enhancement and Lifetime Elongation upon Binding to Avidin Kenneth Kam-Wing Lo, Wai-Ki Hui, and Dominic Chun-Ming Ng pp 9344–9345 DOI: 10.1021/ja026598n Supporting Info

Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of Monomeric, Arylpalladium Halide Complexes with a Hindered Phosphine as the Only Dative Ligand James P. Stambuli, Michael Bühl, and John F. Hartwig pp 9346–9347 DOI: 10.1021/ja0264394 Supporting Info

The Enantioselective Synthesis of α-Amino Acid Derivatives via Organoboranes Martin J. O'Donnell, Mark D. Drew, Jeremy T. Cooper, Francisca Delgado, and Changyou Zhou pp 9348–9349 DOI: 10.1021/ja017522e Supporting Info

Dimerization of the Trinuclear Mercury(II) Complex [(o-C6F4Hg)3·μ3-acetone] via Mercurophilic Interactions Julie B. King, Mason R. Haneline, Mitsukimi Tsunoda, and François P. Gabbaï pp 9350–9351 DOI: 10.1021/ja0268534 Supporting Info

Reversible Binding and Reduction of Dinitrogen by a Uranium(III) Pentalene Complex F. Geoffrey N. Cloke and Peter B. Hitchcock pp 9352–9353 DOI: 10.1021/ja027000e Supporting Info

Hybrid of Ferrocene and Fullerene Masaya Sawamura, Yoichiro Kuninobu, Motoki Toganoh, Yutaka Matsuo, Masahiro Yamanaka, and Eiichi Nakamura pp 9354–9355 DOI: 10.1021/ja026069j Supporting Info

Self-Assembly of Dipeptidyl Ureas:  A New Class of Hydrogen-Bonded Molecular Duplexes Toshiyuki Moriuchi, Takashi Tamura, and Toshikazu Hirao pp 9356–9357 DOI: 10.1021/ja020098c Supporting Info

Unusual Electrochemical Properties of Unsymmetric Viologen Dendrimers Winston Ong and Angel E. Kaifer pp 9358–9359 DOI: 10.1021/ja0268231 Supporting Info

Establishing Through-Bond Connectivity in Solids with NMR:  Structure and Dynamics in HC60+ Leonard J. Mueller, Douglas W. Elliott, Kee-Chan Kim, Christopher A. Reed, and Peter D. W. Boyd pp 9360–9361 DOI: 10.1021/ja0266619

Conversion of Antennapedia Homeodomain to Zinc Finger-like Domain:  Zn(II)-Induced Change in Protein Conformation and DNA Binding Yuichiro Hori and Yukio Sugiura pp 9362–9363 DOI: 10.1021/ja026577t Supporting Info

A Paramagnetic MRI-CEST Agent Responsive to Lactate Concentration Silvio Aime, Daniela Delli Castelli, Franco Fedeli, and Enzo Terreno pp 9364–9365 DOI: 10.1021/ja0264044 Supporting Info

Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (+)-Testudinariol A Using a New Nickel-Catalyzed Allenyl Aldehyde Cyclization Kande K. D. Amarasinghe and John Montgomery pp 9366–9367 DOI: 10.1021/ja027148y Supporting Info

Anodic Cyclization Reactions:  Capitalizing on an Intramolecular Electron Transfer to Trigger the Synthesis of a Key Tetrahydropyran Building Block Shengquan Duan and Kevin D. Moeller pp 9368–9369 DOI: 10.1021/ja027227+ Supporting Info

Metal-Catalyzed Silacyclopropanation of Mono- and Disubstituted Alkenes Jelena Ćiraković, Tom G. Driver, and K. A. Woerpel pp 9370–9371 DOI: 10.1021/ja020566i Supporting Info

Selective Aromatic Interactions in β-Hairpin Peptides Chad D. Tatko and Marcey L. Waters pp 9372–9373 DOI: 10.1021/ja0262481 Supporting Info

Diffuse Reflection Broad Bandwidth Sum Frequency Generation from Particle Surfaces Gang Ma and Heather C. Allen pp 9374–9375 DOI: 10.1021/ja017864k Supporting Info

Multianvil High-Pressure Synthesis of Dy4B6O15:  The First Oxoborate with Edge-Sharing BO4 Tetrahedra Hubert Huppertz and Benjamin von der Eltz pp 9376–9377 DOI: 10.1021/ja017691z Supporting Info

Resonance Raman Detection of a Ferrous Five-Coordinate Nitrosylheme b3 Complex in Cytochrome cbb3 Oxidase from Pseudomonas stutzeri Eftychia Pinakoulaki, Stavros Stavrakis, Andrea Urbani, and Constantinos Varotsis pp 9378–9379 DOI: 10.1021/ja0271633

Unusual Thermal C−H Bond Activation by a Tungsten Allene Complex1 Stephen H. K. Ng, Craig S. Adams, and Peter Legzdins pp 9380–9381 DOI: 10.1021/ja026951p Supporting Info

Fabrication of Ordered Uniform Porous Carbon Networks and Their Application to a Catalyst Supporter Jong-Sung Yu, Soonki Kang, Suk Bon Yoon, and Geunseok Chai pp 9382–9383 DOI: 10.1021/ja0203972 Supporting Info

Large Pressure-Induced Increase in Luminescence Intensity for the [Pd(SCN)4]2- Complex John K. Grey, Ian S. Butler, and Christian Reber pp 9384–9385 DOI: 10.1021/ja026629e Supporting Info

Palladium-Catalyzed Hydrophosphinylation of Alkenes and Alkynes Sylvine Deprèle and Jean-Luc Montchamp pp 9386–9387 DOI: 10.1021/ja0261978 Supporting Info

Metal-Assisted Stabilization and Probing of Collagenous Triple Helices Takaki Koide, Maki Yuguchi, Mayuka Kawakita, and Hiroyuki Konno pp 9388–9389 DOI: 10.1021/ja026182+ Supporting Info

A New General Preparation of Polyfunctional Diarylamines by the Addition of Functionalized Arylmagnesium Compounds to Nitroarenes Ioannis Sapountzis and Paul Knochel pp 9390–9391 DOI: 10.1021/ja026718r Supporting Info

Solid-State NMR and Rigid Body Molecular Dynamics To Determine Domain Orientations of Monomeric Phospholamban Alessandro Mascioni, Christine Karim, Jamillah Zamoon, David D. Thomas, and Gianluigi Veglia pp 9392–9393 DOI: 10.1021/ja026507m

Combinatorial Study of the Mushroom-to-Brush Crossover in Surface Anchored Polyacrylamide Tao Wu, Kirill Efimenko, and Jan Genzer pp 9394–9395 DOI: 10.1021/ja027412n

In Vitro Selection for Catalytic Activity with Ribosome Display Patrick Amstutz, Joelle N. Pelletier, Armin Guggisberg, Lutz Jermutus, Sandro Cesaro-Tadic, Christian Zahnd, and Andreas Plückthun pp 9396–9403 DOI: 10.1021/ja025870q

Interprotein Electron Transfer in a Confined Space:  Uncoupling Protein Dynamics from Electron Transfer by Sol−Gel Encapsulation Judith M. Nocek, Shelby L. Hatch, Jennifer L. Seifert, Gregory W. Hunter, David D. Thomas, and Brian M. Hoffman pp 9404–9411 DOI: 10.1021/ja0258430

X-ray Reflectivity and Diffraction Studies on Lipid and Lipopolymer Langmuir−Blodgett Films under Controlled Humidity Jörg Bolze, Masamitu Takahasi, Jun'ichiro Mizuki, Tobias Baumgart, and Wolfgang Knoll pp 9412–9421 DOI: 10.1021/ja0265308 Supporting Info

Molecular Dynamics at the Root of Expansion of Function in the M69L Inhibitor-Resistant TEM β-Lactamase from Escherichia coli Samy O. Meroueh, Pierre Roblin, Dasantila Golemi, Laurent Maveyraud, Sergei B. Vakulenko, Yun Zhang, Jean-Pierre Samama, and Shahriar Mobashery pp 9422–9430 DOI: 10.1021/ja026547q

Dimerization of Merocyanine Dyes. Structural and Energetic Characterization of Dipolar Dye Aggregates and Implications for Nonlinear Optical Materials Frank Würthner, Sheng Yao, Tony Debaerdemaeker, and Rüdiger Wortmann pp 9431–9447 DOI: 10.1021/ja020168f Supporting Info

Diastereoselective Cycloreductions and Cycloadditions Catalyzed by Co(dpm)2-Silane (dpm = 2,2,6,6-tetramethylheptane-3,5-dionate):  Mechanism and Partitioning of Hydrometallative versus Anion Radical Pathways Long-Cheng Wang, Hye-Young Jang, Yeonsuk Roh, Vincent Lynch, Arthur J. Schultz, Xiaoping Wang, and Michael J. Krische pp 9448–9453 DOI: 10.1021/ja020223k Supporting Info

Epitaxial Composite Layers of Electron Donors and Acceptors from Very Large Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Paolo Samorí, Nikolai Severin, Christopher D. Simpson, Klaus Müllen, and Jürgen P. Rabe pp 9454–9457 DOI: 10.1021/ja020323q Supporting Info

A New Type of Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer:  Proton Transfer from Phenol OH to a Carbon Atom of an Aromatic Ring Observed for 2-Phenylphenol1 Matthew Lukeman and Peter Wan pp 9458–9464 DOI: 10.1021/ja0267831

A Nonspectroscopic Method To Determine the Photolytic Decomposition Pathways of 3-Chloro-3-alkyldiazirine:  Carbene, Diazo and Rearrangement in Excited State Takatsugu Wakahara, Yasuyuki Niino, Takashi Kato, Yutaka Maeda, Takeshi Akasaka, Michael T. H. Liu, K. Kobayashi, and S. Nagase pp 9465–9468 DOI: 10.1021/ja0116876

Conformation-Dependent State Selectivity in O−O Cleavage of ONOONO:  An “Inorganic Cope Rearrangement” Helps Explain the Observed Negative Activation Energy in the Oxidation of Nitric Oxide by Dioxygen Leif P. Olson, Keith T. Kuwata, Michael D. Bartberger, and K. N. Houk pp 9469–9475 DOI: 10.1021/ja0201449

Total Synthesis of Deamido Bleomycin A2, the Major Catabolite of the Antitumor Agent Bleomycin Ying Zou, Nour Eddine Fahmi, Corine Vialas, Guy M. Miller, and Sidney M. Hecht pp 9476–9488 DOI: 10.1021/ja012741l Supporting Info

Factors Affecting the Rates of Addition of Free Radicals to AlkenesDetermination of Absolute Rate Coefficients Using the Persistent Aminoxyl Method Athelstan L. J. Beckwith and James S. Poole pp 9489–9497 DOI: 10.1021/ja025730g Supporting Info

Resonance-Stabilized 1,2,3-Dithiazolo-1,2,3-dithiazolyls as Neutral π-Radical Conductors Leanne Beer, Jaclyn L. Brusso, A. Wallace Cordes, Robert C. Haddon, Mikhail E. Itkis, Kristin Kirschbaum, Douglas S. MacGregor, Richard T. Oakley, A. Alan Pinkerton, and Robert W. Reed pp 9498–9509 DOI: 10.1021/ja026118s Supporting Info

The First Alkene−Platinum−Silyl Complexes:  Lifting the Hydrosilation Mechanism Shroud with Long-Lived Precatalytic Intermediates and True Pt Catalysts Aroop K. Roy and Richard B. Taylor pp 9510–9524 DOI: 10.1021/ja0127335 Supporting Info

The Electronic Influence of Ring Substituents and Ansa Bridges in Zirconocene Complexes as Probed by Infrared Spectroscopic, Electrochemical, and Computational Studies Cary E. Zachmanoglou, Arefa Docrat, Brian M. Bridgewater, Gerard Parkin, Christopher G. Brandow, John E. Bercaw, Christian N. Jardine, Mark Lyall, Jennifer C. Green, and Jerome B. Keister pp 9525–9546 DOI: 10.1021/ja020236y Supporting Info

Cleavage of Carbon−Carbon Bonds in Aromatic Nitriles Using Nickel(0) Juventino J. Garcia, Nicole M. Brunkan, and William D. Jones pp 9547–9555 DOI: 10.1021/ja0204933 Supporting Info

Spin-State Alteration from Sterically Enforced Ligand Rotation in Bis(indenyl)chromium(II) Complexes1 Erik D. Brady, Jason S. Overby, M. Brett Meredith, Adam B. Mussman, Michael A. Cohn, Timothy P. Hanusa, Gordon T. Yee, and Maren Pink pp 9556–9566 DOI: 10.1021/ja012390a Supporting Info

Room-Temperature Ammonia Formation from Dinitrogen on a Reduced Mesoporous Titanium Oxide Surface with Metallic Properties Melissa Vettraino, Michel Trudeau, Andy Y. H. Lo, Robert W. Schurko, and David Antonelli pp 9567–9573 DOI: 10.1021/ja020313p Supporting Info

Flexible Sorption and Transformation Behavior in a Microporous Metal-Organic Framework Edmund J. Cussen, John B. Claridge, Matthew J. Rosseinsky, and Cameron J. Kepert pp 9574–9581 DOI: 10.1021/ja0262737 Supporting Info

Charge Transport in Photofunctional Nanoparticles Self-Assembled from Zinc 5,10,15,20-Tetrakis(perylenediimide)porphyrin Building Blocks Tamar van der Boom, Ryan T. Hayes, Yongyu Zhao, Patrick J. Bushard, Emily A. Weiss, and Michael R. Wasielewski pp 9582–9590 DOI: 10.1021/ja026286k Supporting Info

Direct Wiring of Cytochrome c's Heme Unit to an Electrode:  Electrochemical Studies Jianjun Wei, Haiying Liu, Allison R. Dick, Hiromichi Yamamoto, Yufan He, and David H. Waldeck pp 9591–9599 DOI: 10.1021/ja025518c

Hydroxy Peroxy Nitrites and Nitrates from OH Initiated Reactions of Isoprene Dan Zhang, Renyi Zhang, Jiho Park, and Simon W. North pp 9600–9605 DOI: 10.1021/ja0255195 Supporting Info

Self-Assembled Nanoparticle Probes for Recognition and Detection of Biomolecules Dustin J. Maxwell, Jason R. Taylor, and Shuming Nie pp 9606–9612 DOI: 10.1021/ja025814p

N−H and α(C−H) Bond Dissociation Enthalpies of Aliphatic Amines Jacques Lalevée, Xavier Allonas, and Jean-Pierre Fouassier pp 9613–9621 DOI: 10.1021/ja0204168

Multiple Active Intermediates in Oxidation Reaction Catalyzed by Synthetic Heme−Thiolate Complex Relevant to Cytochrome P450 Noriyuki Suzuki, Tsunehiko Higuchi, and Tetsuo Nagano pp 9622–9628 DOI: 10.1021/ja0115013 Supporting Info

Photosensitized Oxidation of 13C,15N-Labeled Imidazole Derivatives Ping Kang and Christopher S. Foote pp 9629–9638 DOI: 10.1021/ja012253d Supporting Info

On the Physical Origin of Blue-Shifted Hydrogen Bonds Xiaosong Li, Lei Liu, and H. Bernhard Schlegel pp 9639–9647 DOI: 10.1021/ja020213j Supporting Info

Theoretical Study on Second Hyperpolarizabilities of Phenylacetylene Dendrimer:  Toward an Understanding of Structure−Property Relation in NLO Responses of Fractal Antenna Dendrimers Masayoshi Nakano, Harunori Fujita, Masahiro Takahata, and Kizashi Yamaguchi pp 9648–9655 DOI: 10.1021/ja0115969 Supporting Info

Derivatives of Methyl 5-Methyl-4-oxo-1,2,4,5,8,8a-hexahydrocyclopropa[3]pyrrolo[3,2-e]indole-3-carboxylate:  A Case of Inverse Electronic Effects on the Reactivity of CC-1065 Derivatives [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123 (21), 5102−5103]. Luis Castedo, José Delamano, Juan Enjo, Jesús Fernández, Dolores G. Grávalos, Ramón Leis, Carmen López, Carlos F. Marcos, Ana Ríos, and Gabriel Tojo p 9656 DOI: 10.1021/ja025108o

Ion-Induced Rectification of Nanoparticle Quantized Capacitance Charging in Aqueous Solutions   [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 10607].  Shaowei Chen and Renjun Pei p 9656 DOI: 10.1021/ja027181k

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Cross-Linking of a DNA Conjugate Tethering a cis-Bifunctional Platinated Complex to a Target DNA Duplex Sunil K. Sharma and Larry W. McLaughlin pp 9658–9659 DOI: 10.1021/ja020500n Supporting Info

Highly Stereoselective Asymmetric 6π-Azaelectrocyclization Utilizing the Novel 7-Alkyl Substituted cis-1-Amino-2-indanols:  Formal Synthesis of 20-Epiuleine Katsunori Tanaka and Shigeo Katsumura pp 9660–9661 DOI: 10.1021/ja026464+ Supporting Info

Hydrogen-Bond-Promoted Hetero-Diels−Alder Reactions of Unactivated Ketones Yong Huang and Viresh H. Rawal pp 9662–9663 DOI: 10.1021/ja0267627 Supporting Info

[PdS2C2(COOMe)2]6n (n = 0, −1, −2, −3, −4):  Hexanuclear Homoleptic Palladium Dithiolene Complexes Colin L. Beswick, Raquel Terroba, Mark A. Greaney, and Edward I. Stiefel pp 9664–9665 DOI: 10.1021/ja026079k Supporting Info

An Unprecedented Dinuclear Alkylrhodium(III) Complex Built up by Two 14-Electron [RhCl2(alkyl)(PR3)] Units Giuseppe Canepa, Carsten D. Brandt, and Helmut Werner pp 9666–9667 DOI: 10.1021/ja020560t Supporting Info

Electronic Structure of Ni Complexes by X-ray Resonance Raman Spectroscopy (Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering) Pieter Glatzel, Uwe Bergmann, Weiwei Gu, Hongxin Wang, Sergey Stepanov, Beaven S. Mandimutsira, Charles G. Riordan, Colin P. Horwitz, Terry Collins, and Stephen P. Cramer pp 9668–9669 DOI: 10.1021/ja026028n

Conjugated Polymer Liquid Crystal Solutions:  Control of Conformation and Alignment Zhengguo Zhu and Timothy M. Swager pp 9670–9671 DOI: 10.1021/ja0266868 Supporting Info

Measurement of Long-Range 1H−1H Dipolar Couplings in Weakly Aligned Proteins Zhengrong Wu and Ad Bax pp 9672–9673 DOI: 10.1021/ja026845n Supporting Info

Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer between Unnatural Amino Acids in a Structurally Modified Dihydrofolate Reductase Raymond D. Anderson, III, Jia Zhou, and Sidney M. Hecht pp 9674–9675 DOI: 10.1021/ja0205939 Supporting Info

First Disyndiotactic Polymer from a 1,4-Disubstituted Butadiene by Alternate Molecular Stacking in the Crystalline State Toshihiro Tanaka and Akikazu Matsumoto pp 9676–9677 DOI: 10.1021/ja020615r Supporting Info

Aptamer-Based Colorimetric Probe for Cocaine Milan N. Stojanovic and Donald W. Landry pp 9678–9679 DOI: 10.1021/ja0259483

Parallel Modes of C−H Bond Activation Initiated by Cp*Mo(NO)(CH2CMe3)(C6H5) at Ambient Temperatures1 Kenji Wada, Craig B. Pamplin, and Peter Legzdins pp 9680–9681 DOI: 10.1021/ja027080m Supporting Info

Selective Preparation of Benzyltitanium Compounds by the Metalative Reppe Reaction. Its Application to the First Synthesis of Alcyopterosin A Ryoichi Tanaka, Yoshitaka Nakano, Daisuke Suzuki, Hirokazu Urabe, and Fumie Sato pp 9682–9683 DOI: 10.1021/ja027008o Supporting Info

NMR Imaging of the Distribution of the Liquid Phase in a Catalyst Pellet during α-Methylstyrene Evaporation Accompanied by Its Vapor-Phase Hydrogenation Igor V. Koptyug, Alexander V. Kulikov, Anna A. Lysova, Valery A. Kirillov, Valentin N. Parmon, and Renad Z. Sagdeev pp 9684–9685 DOI: 10.1021/ja026713u

Imaging of RNA in Bacteria with Self-Ligating Quenched Probes Shinsuke Sando and Eric T. Kool pp 9686–9687 DOI: 10.1021/ja026649g Supporting Info

Self-Assembly of Novel Dye Molecules and [Cd8(SPh)12]4+ Cubic Clusters into Three-Dimensional Photoluminescent Superlattice Nanfeng Zheng, Xianhui Bu, and Pingyun Feng pp 9688–9689 DOI: 10.1021/ja020480p Supporting Info

Ligand-Localized Electron Trapping at Sensitized Semiconductor Interfaces Paul G. Hoertz, David W. Thompson, Lee A. Friedman, and Gerald J. Meyer pp 9690–9691 DOI: 10.1021/ja0268478 Supporting Info

Anchored Pd Complex in MCM-41 and MCM-48:  Novel Heterogeneous Catalysts for Hydrocarboxylation of Aryl Olefins and Alcohols Kausik Mukhopadhyay, Bibhas R. Sarkar, and Raghunath V. Chaudhari pp 9692–9693 DOI: 10.1021/ja025991q Supporting Info

Sulfuric Acid-Functionalized Mesoporous Benzene−Silica with a Molecular-Scale Periodicity in the Walls Qihua Yang, Mahendra P. Kapoor, and Shinji Inagaki pp 9694–9695 DOI: 10.1021/ja026799r Supporting Info

Cobalt-Catalyzed Highly Regio- and Stereoselective Intermolecular Reductive Coupling of Alkynes with Conjugated Alkenes Chun-Chih Wang, Pao-Shun Lin, and Chien-Hong Cheng pp 9696–9697 DOI: 10.1021/ja026543l Supporting Info

Hyperbranched Molecular Nanocapsules:  Comparison of the Hyperbranched Architecture with the Perfect Linear Analogue Salah-Eddine Stiriba, Holger Kautz, and Holger Frey pp 9698–9699 DOI: 10.1021/ja026835m Supporting Info

A Shape-Persistent Polymeric Crystallization Template for CaCO3 Jack J. J. M. Donners, Roeland J. M. Nolte, and Nico A. J. M. Sommerdijk pp 9700–9701 DOI: 10.1021/ja0267573 Supporting Info

On the Capriciousness of the FCCF Karplus Curve Serdar Kurtkaya, Verónica Barone, Juan E. Peralta, Rubén H. Contreras, and James P. Snyder pp 9702–9703 DOI: 10.1021/ja0269136 Supporting Info

Structural Constraints from Proton-Mediated Rare-Spin Correlation Spectroscopy in Rotating Solids Adam Lange, Sorin Luca, and Marc Baldus pp 9704–9705 DOI: 10.1021/ja026691b Supporting Info

Synthesis and Structure of the First 1,2σ5-Selenaphosphirane Shohei Sase, Naokazu Kano, and Takayuki Kawashima pp 9706–9707 DOI: 10.1021/ja026107z Supporting Info

High Resolution 3D Exchange NMR Spectroscopy and the Mapping of Connectivities between Half-integer Quadrupolar Nuclei Mattias Edén, Julia Grinshtein, and Lucio Frydman pp 9708–9709 DOI: 10.1021/ja020534v

Quantum Tunneling of Magnetization in a New [Mn18]2+ Single-Molecule Magnet with S = 13 Euan K. Brechin, Colette Boskovic, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, Jae Yoo, Akira Yamaguchi, E. Carolina Sañudo, Thomas R. Concolino, Arnold L. Rheingold, Hidehiko Ishimoto, David N. Hendrickson, and George Christou pp 9710–9711 DOI: 10.1021/ja026407g Supporting Info

Amplified Optical Nonlinearity in a Self-Assembled Double-Strand Conjugated Porphyrin Polymer Ladder Thomas E. O. Screen, Jonathan R. G. Thorne, Robert G. Denning, David G. Bucknall, and Harry L. Anderson pp 9712–9713 DOI: 10.1021/ja026205k Supporting Info

Molecular Orientation at the Interface of Polystyrene/Poly(methyl methacrylate) Blends:  Evidence from Sum-Frequency Spectroscopy Yi Liu and Marie C. Messmer pp 9714–9715 DOI: 10.1021/ja0270468

Bis(PheOH) Maleic Acid Amide−Fumaric Acid Amide Photoizomerization Induces Microsphere-to-Gel Fiber Morphological Transition:  The Photoinduced Gelation System Leo Frkanec, Milan Jokić, Janja Makarević, Kristina Wolsperger, and Mladen Žinić pp 9716–9717 DOI: 10.1021/ja027189u Supporting Info

Total Synthesis and Absolute Stereochemistry of Plakortone D Patricia Y. Hayes and William Kitching pp 9718–9719 DOI: 10.1021/ja026728s Supporting Info

Stereoretentive O-to-C Rearrangement of Vinyl Acetals:  Solvent Cage Effects as a Stereocontrol Element Yongda Zhang, Nathan T. Reynolds, Kavita Manju, and Tomislav Rovis pp 9720–9721 DOI: 10.1021/ja026972j Supporting Info

Determination of DNA Structure in Solution:  Enzymatic Deuteration of the Ribose 2‘ Carbon Douglas MacDonald and Ponzy Lu pp 9722–9723 DOI: 10.1021/ja026678r Supporting Info

Evidence for Two Different Active Oxygen Species in Cytochrome P450 BM3 Mediated Sulfoxidation and N-Dealkylation Reactions Trent J. Volz, Denise A. Rock, and Jeffrey P. Jones pp 9724–9725 DOI: 10.1021/ja026699l

The First Total Synthesis of (±)-Ingenol Jeffrey D. Winkler, Meagan B. Rouse, Michael F. Greaney, Sean J. Harrison, and Yoon T. Jeon pp 9726–9728 DOI: 10.1021/ja026600a Supporting Info

Mannopeptimycins, Novel Antibacterial Glycopeptides from Streptomyces hygroscopicus, LL-AC98 Haiyin He, R. Thomas Williamson, Bo Shen, Edmund I. Graziani, Hui Y. Yang, Subas M. Sakya, Pete J. Petersen, and Guy T. Carter pp 9729–9736 DOI: 10.1021/ja020257s Supporting Info

Reactions of Nitrogen Oxides with Heme Models. Characterization of NO and NO2 Dissociation from Fe(TPP)(NO2)(NO) by Flash Photolysis and Rapid Dilution Techniques:  Fe(TPP)(NO2) as an Unstable Intermediate Mark D. Lim, Ivan M. Lorkovic, Katrin Wedeking, Andrew W. Zanella, Carmen F. Works, Steve M. Massick, and Peter C. Ford pp 9737–9743 DOI: 10.1021/ja020653a Supporting Info

Fast Folding of a Four-Helical Bundle Protein Neelan J. Marianayagam, Farid Khan, Louise Male, and Sophie E. Jackson pp 9744–9750 DOI: 10.1021/ja016480r

Contribution of Aromatic Interactions to α-Helix Stability Sara M. Butterfield, Paresma R. Patel, and Marcey L. Waters pp 9751–9755 DOI: 10.1021/ja026668q

Elucidation of the Mechanism of Polysaccharide Cleavage by Chondroitin AC Lyase from Flavobacterium heparinum Carl S. Rye and Stephen G. Withers pp 9756–9767 DOI: 10.1021/ja020627c Supporting Info

Substituent Effects on the Rate Constants for the Photo-Claisen Rearrangement of Allyl Aryl Ethers Alexandra L. Pincock, James A. Pincock, and Roumiana Stefanova pp 9768–9778 DOI: 10.1021/ja011981y Supporting Info

Peptide Tic-Tac-Toe:  Heterotrimeric Coiled-Coil Specificity from Steric Matching of Multiple Hydrophobic Side Chains Nathan A. Schnarr and Alan J. Kennan pp 9779–9783 DOI: 10.1021/ja0174940 Supporting Info

Microwave Activation of Electrochemical Processes:  Enhanced Electrodehalogenation in Organic Solvent Media Yu-Chen Tsai, Barry A. Coles, Richard G. Compton, and Frank Marken pp 9784–9788 DOI: 10.1021/ja026037w Supporting Info

C2-Amidoglycosylation. Scope and Mechanism of Nitrogen Transfer Jing Liu and David Y. Gin pp 9789–9797 DOI: 10.1021/ja026281n Supporting Info

Hydrogen Bonding and Catalysis of Solvolysis of 4-Methoxybenzyl Fluoride Maria M. Toteva and John P. Richard pp 9798–9805 DOI: 10.1021/ja026849s

Controlled Photochemical Release of Nitric Oxide from O2-Benzyl-Substituted Diazeniumdiolates Patrick H. Ruane, K. Mani Bushan, Christopher M. Pavlos, Raechelle A. D'Sa, and John P. Toscano pp 9806–9811 DOI: 10.1021/ja026900s Supporting Info

Explorations in Organic Chemistry Leading to the Total Synthesis of (±)-Gelsemine Fay W. Ng, Hong Lin, and Samuel J. Danishefsky pp 9812–9824 DOI: 10.1021/ja0204675 Supporting Info

Highly Concise Routes to Epothilones:  The Total Synthesis and Evaluation of Epothilone 490 Kaustav Biswas, Hong Lin, Jon T. Njardarson, Mark D. Chappell, Ting-Chao Chou, Yongbiao Guan, William P. Tong, Lifeng He, Susan B. Horwitz, and Samuel J. Danishefsky pp 9825–9832 DOI: 10.1021/ja0262333 Supporting Info

Principles of Mucin Architecture:  Structural Studies on Synthetic Glycopeptides Bearing Clustered Mono-, Di-, Tri-, and Hexasaccharide Glycodomains Don M. Coltart, Ajay K. Royyuru, Lawrence J. Williams, Peter W. Glunz, Dalibor Sames, Scott D. Kuduk, Jacob B. Schwarz, Xiao-Tao Chen, Samuel J. Danishefsky, and David H. Live pp 9833–9844 DOI: 10.1021/ja020208f Supporting Info

X-ray Crystal Structures of Reduced Rubrerythrin and Its Azide Adduct:  A Structure-Based Mechanism for a Non-Heme Diiron Peroxidase Shi Jin, Donald M. Kurtz, Jr., Zhi-Jie Liu, John Rose, and Bi-Cheng Wang pp 9845–9855 DOI: 10.1021/ja026587u Supporting Info

Silsesquioxane Models for Geminal Silica Surface Silanol Sites. A Spectroscopic Investigation of Different Types of Silanols Tessa W. Dijkstra, Robbert Duchateau, Rutger A. van Santen, Auke Meetsma, and Glenn P. A. Yap pp 9856–9864 DOI: 10.1021/ja0122243 Supporting Info

Isolable Silyl and Germyl Radicals Lacking Conjugation with π-Bonds:  Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity Akira Sekiguchi, Tomohide Fukawa, Masaaki Nakamoto, Vladimir Ya. Lee, and Masaaki Ichinohe pp 9865–9869 DOI: 10.1021/ja0126780 Supporting Info

Comparison of Covalency in the Complexes of Trivalent Actinide and Lanthanide Cations Mark P. Jensen and Andrew H. Bond pp 9870–9877 DOI: 10.1021/ja0178620 Supporting Info

Reactions of Dithiolate Ligands in Mononuclear Complexes of Rhenium(V) J. A. Kanney, B. C. Noll, and M. Rakowski DuBois pp 9878–9886 DOI: 10.1021/ja020125z Supporting Info

Dissociation Energies and Charge Distribution of the Co−NO Bond for Nitrosyl-α,β,γ,δ-tetraphenylporphinatocobalt(II) and Nitrosyl-α,β,γ,δ-tetraphenylporphinatocobalt(III) in Benzonitrile Solution Xiao-Qing Zhu, Qian Li, Wei-Fang Hao, and Jin-Pei Cheng pp 9887–9893 DOI: 10.1021/ja0201956

XMCD Characterization of the Ferromagnetic State of Yb14MnSb11 Aaron P. Holm, Susan M. Kauzlarich, Simon A. Morton, G. Dan Waddill, Warren E. Pickett, and James G. Tobin pp 9894–9898 DOI: 10.1021/ja020564y

Multiple Conformations of the Proline-Rich Protein/Epigallocatechin Gallate Complex Determined by Time-Averaged Nuclear Overhauser Effects Adrian J. Charlton, Edwin Haslam, and Michael P. Williamson pp 9899–9905 DOI: 10.1021/ja0126374

The Effect of Gas Adsorption on the Field Emission Mechanism of Carbon Nanotubes Changwook Kim, Yong Soo Choi, Seung Mi Lee, Joon T. Park, Bongsoo Kim, and Young Hee Lee pp 9906–9911 DOI: 10.1021/ja026538h

Simulation of Indentation Fracture in Crystalline Materials Using Mesoscale Self-Assembly Venkat R. Thalladi, Alexander Schwartz, Jennifer N. Phend, John W. Hutchinson, and George M. Whitesides pp 9912–9917 DOI: 10.1021/ja020577b

Photoinduced Electron Transfer in a Rigid First Generation Triphenylamine Core Dendrimer Substituted with a Peryleneimide Acceptor Marc Lor, Jan Thielemans, Lucien Viaene, Mircea Cotlet, Johan Hofkens, Tanja Weil, Christine Hampel, Klaus Müllen, Jan W. Verhoeven, Mark Van der Auweraer, and Frans C. De Schryver pp 9918–9925 DOI: 10.1021/ja020448v

Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical Free Energy Simulations of the Glutathione S-Transferase (M1-1) Reaction with Phenanthrene 9,10-Oxide Lars Ridder, Ivonne M. C. M. Rietjens, Jacques Vervoort, and Adrian J. Mulholland pp 9926–9936 DOI: 10.1021/ja0256360 Supporting Info

Static and Dynamic Behavior of 2:1 Inclusion Complexes of Cyclodextrins and Charged Porphyrins in Aqueous Organic Media Koji Kano, Ryuhei Nishiyabu, Takuji Asada, and Yasuhisa Kuroda pp 9937–9944 DOI: 10.1021/ja020253n Supporting Info

1,8-Naphthalimides in Phosphorescent Organic LEDs:  The Interplay between Dopant, Exciplex, and Host Emission Dmitry Kolosov, Vadim Adamovich, Peter Djurovich, Mark E. Thompson, and Chihaya Adachi pp 9945–9954 DOI: 10.1021/ja0263588 Supporting Info

Routes to Metallodendrimers of the [Re6(μ3-Se)8]2+ Core-Containing Clusters [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 6234−6235]. Bryan K. Roland, Chet Carter, and Zhiping Zheng p 9955 DOI: 10.1021/ja025107w

Structural Chemistry of arachno-Nanoboranes  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 7429−7439]. Jonathan Bould, Robert Greatrex, John D. Kennedy, Daniel L. Ormsby, Michael G. S. Londesborough, Karen L. F. Callaghan, Mark Thornton-Pett, Trevor R. Spalding, Simon J. Teat, William Clegg, Hong Fang, Nigam P. Rath, and Lawrence Barton p 9955 DOI: 10.1021/ja025110f

Prism 3 GraphPad Software, 5755 Oberlin Drive, #110, San Diego, CA 92121. www.graphpad.com. See Web Site for Pricing Information. Dean R. Appling pp 9956–9957 DOI: 10.1021/ja025220m

CO2 Conversion and Utilization Edited by Chunshan Song (Pennsylvania State University), Anne F. Gaffney (Rohm and Haas Company), and Kaoru Fujimoto (University of Kitakyushu). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC (Distributed by Oxford University Press). 2002. xii + 428 pp. $150.00. ISBN:  0-8412-3747-6. p 9958 DOI: 10.1021/ja0252274

Handbook of Vibrational Spectroscopy. Theory and Instrumentation. Volume 1 Edited by John M. Chalmers (University of Nottingham) and Peter R. Griffiths (University of Idaho). J. Wiley & Sons:  Chichester. 2002. xviii + 932 pp. (The page count for the entire set is 4000 pp.) $1795 (for five-volume set). ISBN:  0-471-98847-2. p 9958 DOI: 10.1021/ja025228w

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Toward an RNaseA Mimic:  A DNAzyme with Imidazoles and Cationic Amines Leonard Lermer, Yoann Roupioz, Richard Ting, and David M. Perrin pp 9960–9961 DOI: 10.1021/ja0205075 Supporting Info

2,4-Disila-1-germatricyclo[2.1.0.02,5]pentane:  A New Type of Cage Compound of Group 14 Elements with an Extremely Long Ge−C Bridge Bond and an “Umbrella”-Type Configuration of a Ge Atom Vladimir Ya. Lee, Masaaki Ichinohe, and Akira Sekiguchi pp 9962–9963 DOI: 10.1021/ja020574z Supporting Info

Highly Enantioselective Darzens Reaction of a Camphor-Derived Sulfonium Amide to Give Glycidic Amides and Their Applications in Synthesis Varinder K. Aggarwal, George Hynd, Willy Picoul, and Jean-Luc Vasse pp 9964–9965 DOI: 10.1021/ja0272540 Supporting Info

β2,2-Aminoxy Acids:  A New Building Block for Turns and Helices Dan Yang, Yu-Hui Zhang, and Nian-Yong Zhu pp 9966–9967 DOI: 10.1021/ja026966n Supporting Info

New Natural Product Families from an Environmental DNA (eDNA) Gene Cluster Sean F. Brady, Carol J. Chao, and Jon Clardy pp 9968–9969 DOI: 10.1021/ja0268985 Supporting Info

Mononuclear Nitrogen/Sulfur-Ligated Zinc Methoxide and Hydroxide Complexes:  Investigating Ligand Effects on the Hydrolytic Stability of Zinc Alkoxide Species Dewain K. Garner, Sarah B. Fitch, Lenore H. McAlexander, Lisa M. Bezold, Atta M. Arif, and Lisa M. Berreau pp 9970–9971 DOI: 10.1021/ja0271274 Supporting Info

In Vitro Selection of mRNA Display Libraries Containing an Unnatural Amino Acid Shuwei Li, Steven Millward, and Richard Roberts pp 9972–9973 DOI: 10.1021/ja026789q Supporting Info

Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Dendrobatid Alkaloid 251F Aaron Wrobleski, Kiran Sahasrabudhe, and Jeffrey Aubé pp 9974–9975 DOI: 10.1021/ja027113y Supporting Info

Synthesis, Structure, and Reactions of a Three-Coordinate Nickel-Carbene Complex, {1,2-Bis(di-tert-butylphosphino)ethane}NiCPh2 Daniel J. Mindiola and Gregory L. Hillhouse pp 9976–9977 DOI: 10.1021/ja0269183 Supporting Info

High Charge Carrier Mobility in Conjugated Organometallic Polymer Networks Akshay Kokil, Irina Shiyanovskaya, Kenneth D. Singer, and Christoph Weder pp 9978–9979 DOI: 10.1021/ja026988+ Supporting Info

Control of the Anchoring Behavior of Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystals:  Effect of Branching in the Side Chains of Polyacrylates Jian Zhou, David M. Collard, Jung O. Park, and Mohan Srinivasarao pp 9980–9981 DOI: 10.1021/ja027162a

Dual-Action Molecular Superconductors with Magnetic Anions Bin Zhang, Hisashi Tanaka, Hideki Fujiwara, Hayao Kobayashi, Emiko Fujiwara, and Akiko Kobayashi pp 9982–9983 DOI: 10.1021/ja026911l

Epitope Mapping of Ligand−Receptor Interactions by Diffusion NMR Jiangli Yan, Allen D. Kline, Huaping Mo, Edward R. Zartler, and Michael J. Shapiro pp 9984–9985 DOI: 10.1021/ja0264347 Supporting Info

Physical Interpretation of Residual Dipolar Couplings in Neutral Aligned Media Andrew Almond and Jacob B. Axelsen pp 9986–9987 DOI: 10.1021/ja026876i Supporting Info

Tetrakis(2-hydroxyphenyl)ethene and Derivatives. A Structurally Preorganized Tetradentate Ligand System for Polymetallic Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis Udo Verkerk, Megumi Fujita, Trevor L. Dzwiniel, Robert McDonald, and Jeffrey M. Stryker pp 9988–9989 DOI: 10.1021/ja027436u Supporting Info

Supramolecular Isomerism in Coordination Compounds:  Nanoscale Molecular Hexagons and Chains Heba Abourahma, Brian Moulton, Victor Kravtsov, and Michael J. Zaworotko pp 9990–9991 DOI: 10.1021/ja027371v Supporting Info

Broad-Spectrum Enantioselective Diels−Alder Catalysis by Chiral, Cationic Oxazaborolidines Do Hyun Ryu, Thomas W. Lee, and E. J. Corey pp 9992–9993 DOI: 10.1021/ja027468h Supporting Info

A New Ruthenium Complex with an Electron-Donating Aminoindenyl Ligand for Fast Metal-Mediated Living Radical Polymerizations Masami Kamigaito, Yasuhiro Watanabe, Tsuyoshi Ando, and Mitsuo Sawamoto pp 9994–9995 DOI: 10.1021/ja0270470 Supporting Info

Reversible Polymerization Driven by Folding Dahui Zhao and Jeffrey S. Moore pp 9996–9997 DOI: 10.1021/ja026957e Supporting Info

Long-Range Self-Assembly of a Polyunsaturated Linear Organosilane at the n-Tetradecane/Au(111) Interface Studied by STM Alexandr Marchenko, Nathalie Katsonis, Denis Fichou, Corinne Aubert, and Max Malacria pp 9998–9999 DOI: 10.1021/ja027002z Supporting Info

Non-Oxidative Decarboxylation of Glycine Derivatives by a Peroxidase Rheem A. Totah and Robert P. Hanzlik pp 10000–10001 DOI: 10.1021/ja020559u

A Conducting Crystal Based on A Single-Component Paramagnetic Molecule, [Cu(dmdt)2] (dmdt = Dimethyltetrathiafulvalenedithiolate) Hisashi Tanaka, Hayao Kobayashi, and Akiko Kobayashi pp 10002–10003 DOI: 10.1021/ja027024l Supporting Info

Modulating Ion Channel Properties of Transmembrane Peptide Nanotubes through Heteromeric Supramolecular Assemblies Jorge Sánchez-Quesada, Markus P. Isler, and M. Reza Ghadiri pp 10004–10005 DOI: 10.1021/ja025983+ Supporting Info

Enantioselective Addition of Amines to Ketenes Catalyzed by a Planar-Chiral Derivative of PPY:  Possible Intervention of Chiral Brønsted-Acid Catalysis Brian L. Hodous and Gregory C. Fu pp 10006–10007 DOI: 10.1021/ja027466x Supporting Info

Novel Catalytic CO2 Incorporation Reaction:  Nickel-Catalyzed Regio- and Stereoselective Ring-Closing Carboxylation of Bis-1,3-dienes Masanori Takimoto and Miwako Mori pp 10008–10009 DOI: 10.1021/ja026620c Supporting Info

Enantioselective Synthesis without Discrete Optically Active Additives Daniel A. Singleton and Loan K. Vo pp 10010–10011 DOI: 10.1021/ja027129o

Structure-Based Analysis and Optimization of a Highly Enantioselective Catalyst for the Strecker Reaction Petr Vachal and Eric N. Jacobsen pp 10012–10014 DOI: 10.1021/ja027246j Supporting Info

The Active Site of Cellobiohydrolase Cel6A from Trichoderma reesei:  The Roles of Aspartic Acids D221 and D175 Anu Koivula, Laura Ruohonen, Gerd Wohlfahrt, Tapani Reinikainen, Tuula T. Teeri, Kathleen Piens, Marc Claeyssens, Martin Weber, Andrea Vasella, Dieter Becker, Michael L. Sinnott, Jin-yu Zou, Gerard J. Kleywegt, Michael Szardenings, Jerry Ståhlberg, and T. Alwyn Jones pp 10015–10024 DOI: 10.1021/ja012659q Supporting Info

Four-Dimensional NMR Spectroscopy of a 723-Residue Protein:  Chemical Shift Assignments and Secondary Structure of Malate Synthase G Vitali Tugarinov, Ranjith Muhandiram, Ayeda Ayed, and Lewis E. Kay pp 10025–10035 DOI: 10.1021/ja0205636 Supporting Info

Synthesis of 5-Fluoro N-Acetylglucosamine Glycosides and Pyrophosphates via Epoxide Fluoridolysis:  Versatile Reagents for the Study of Glycoconjugate Biochemistry Matthew C. T. Hartman and James K. Coward pp 10036–10053 DOI: 10.1021/ja0127234 Supporting Info

Singlet−Triplet Gap in Triplet Ground-State Biradicals Is Modulated by Substituent Effects David A. Shultz, Scot H. Bodnar, Hyoyoung Lee, Jeff W. Kampf, Christopher D. Incarvito, and Arnold L. Rheingold pp 10054–10061 DOI: 10.1021/ja020154+ Supporting Info

Nucleophilically Assisted and Cationic Ring-Opening Polymerization of Tin-Bridged [1]Ferrocenophanes Thomas Baumgartner, Frieder Jäkle, Ron Rulkens, Gernot Zech, Alan J. Lough, and Ian Manners pp 10062–10070 DOI: 10.1021/ja020206v Supporting Info

Enantiomeric and Enantiotopic Analysis of Cone-Shaped Compounds with C3 and C3v Symmetry Using NMR Spectroscopy in Chiral Anisotropic Solvents Philippe Lesot, Denis Merlet, Muriel Sarfati, Jacques Courtieu, Herbert Zimmermann, and Zeev Luz pp 10071–10082 DOI: 10.1021/ja020269d

Supramolecular Assembly at Interfaces:  Formation of an Extended Two-Dimensional Coordinate Covalent Square Grid Network at the Air−Water Interface Jeffrey T. Culp, Ju-Hyun Park, Diktys Stratakis, Mark W. Meisel, and Daniel R. Talham pp 10083–10090 DOI: 10.1021/ja026312e

Asymmetric Cyclopentannelation:  Camphor-Derived Auxiliary Paul E. Harrington, Tsuyoshi Murai, Chester Chu, and Marcus A. Tius pp 10091–10100 DOI: 10.1021/ja020591o Supporting Info

Oxidative Cyclization Based on Reversing the Polarity of Enol Ethers and Ketene Dithioacetals. Construction of a Tetrahydrofuran Ring and Application to the Synthesis of (+)-Nemorensic Acid Bin Liu, Shengquan Duan, Angela C. Sutterer, and Kevin D. Moeller pp 10101–10111 DOI: 10.1021/ja026739l Supporting Info

Hydrocarbon Oxidation by Bis-μ-oxo Manganese Dimers:  Electron Transfer, Hydride Transfer, and Hydrogen Atom Transfer Mechanisms Anna S. Larsen, Kun Wang, Mark A. Lockwood, Gordon L. Rice, Tae-Jin Won, Scott Lovell, Martin Sadílek, František Tureek, and James M. Mayer pp 10112–10123 DOI: 10.1021/ja020204a Supporting Info

Comparative IR Study of Nitric Oxide Reactions with Sublimed Layers of Iron(II)− and Ruthenium(II)−meso-Tetraphenylporphyrinates Tigran S. Kurtikyan, Garik G. Martirosyan, Ivan M. Lorkovic', and Peter C. Ford pp 10124–10129 DOI: 10.1021/ja0269688 Supporting Info

Computational Study of the Influence of Solvent on 16O/18O Equilibrium Isotope Effects in Phosphate Deprotonation Reactions Karin Kolmodin, Victor B. Luzhkov, and Johan Åqvist pp 10130–10135 DOI: 10.1021/ja012669r

An Alternative Synthetic Route of [35](1,2,3,4,5)Cyclophane, and Structural Properties of Multibridged [3n]Cyclophanes and Their Charge-Transfer Complexes in the Solid State1 Mikio Yasutake, Toru Koga, Youichi Sakamoto, Shingo Komatsu, Ming Zhou, Katsuya Sako, Hitoshi Tatemitsu, Satoru Onaka, Yoshio Aso, Shinobu Inoue, and Teruo Shinmyozu pp 10136–10145 DOI: 10.1021/ja012363k Supporting Info

Ammoniated Alkali Fullerides (ND3)xNaA2C60:  Ammonia Specific Effects and Superconductivity Serena Margadonna, Efstathios Aslanis, and Kosmas Prassides pp 10146–10156 DOI: 10.1021/ja026775k Supporting Info

Structure of V2O5·nH2O Xerogel Solved by the Atomic Pair Distribution Function Technique Valeri Petkov, Pantelis N. Trikalitis, Emil S. Bozin, Simon J. L. Billinge, Thomas Vogt, and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis pp 10157–10162 DOI: 10.1021/ja026143y

Electron Affinity of the Guanine−Cytosine Base Pair and Structural Perturbations upon Anion Formation Nancy A. Richardson, Steven S. Wesolowski, and Henry F. Schaefer, III pp 10163–10170 DOI: 10.1021/ja020009w

Use of U-shaped Donor-Bridge-Acceptor Molecules To Study Electron Tunneling through Nonbonded Contacts Andrew M. Napper, Nicholas J. Head, Anna M. Oliver, Michael J. Shephard, Michael N. Paddon-Row, I. Read, and David H. Waldeck pp 10171–10181 DOI: 10.1021/ja025683s Supporting Info

Probing the Electronic Structure of [MoOS4]- Centers Using Anionic Photoelectron Spectroscopy Xue-Bin Wang, Frank E. Inscore, Xin Yang, J. Jon A. Cooney, John H. Enemark, and Lai-Sheng Wang pp 10182–10191 DOI: 10.1021/ja0265557 Supporting Info

Mineralization of Single Flexible Polyelectrolyte Molecules Sergiy Minko, Anton Kiriy, Ganna Gorodyska, and Manfred Stamm pp 10192–10197 DOI: 10.1021/ja026784t

Computational Insights on the Challenges for Polymerizing Polar Monomers Dean M. Philipp, Richard P. Muller, William A. Goddard, III, Joey Storer, Mark McAdon, and Mike Mullins pp 10198–10210 DOI: 10.1021/ja0157705

Photofragment Translational Spectroscopy of 1,3-Butadiene and 1,3-Butadiene-1,1,4,4-d4 at 193 nm Jason C. Robinson, Sean A. Harris, Weizhong Sun, Niels E. Sveum, and Daniel M. Neumark pp 10211–10224 DOI: 10.1021/ja0127281

Density Functional Study of the Mechanism of a Tyrosine Phosphatase:  I. Intermediate Formation Dilipkumar Asthagiri, Valerie Dillet, Tiqing Liu, Louis Noodleman, Robert L. Van Etten, and Donald Bashford pp 10225–10235 DOI: 10.1021/ja020046n

Conformational Preferences of Jet-Cooled Melatonin:  Probing trans- and cis-Amide Regions of the Potential Energy Surface Gina M. Florio, Richard A. Christie, Kenneth D. Jordan, and Timothy S. Zwier pp 10236–10247 DOI: 10.1021/ja0265916 Supporting Info

Structural Basis for BABIM Inhibition of Botulinum Neurotoxin Type B Protease [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 11268−11269]. Michael A. Hanson, Thorsten K. Oost, Chanokporn Sukonpan, Daniel H. Rich,Raymond C. Stevens p 10248 DOI: 10.1021/ja025109g

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Single-Bubble Sonochemiluminescence in Aqueous Luminol Solutions Shin-ichi Hatanaka, Hideto Mitome, Kyuichi Yasui, and Shigeo Hayashi pp 10250–10251 DOI: 10.1021/ja0258475

Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Hydrogen-Bonded Oligo(p-phenylene vinylene)−Perylene Bisimide Chiral Assemblies Albertus P. H. J. Schenning, Jeroen v. Herrikhuyzen, Pascal Jonkheijm, Zhijian Chen, Frank Würthner, and E. W. Meijer pp 10252–10253 DOI: 10.1021/ja020378s Supporting Info

Fluorescent Probes for Cytochrome P450 Structural Characterization and Inhibitor Screening Alexander R. Dunn, Anna-Maria A. Hays, David B. Goodin, C. David Stout, Richard Chiu, Jay R. Winkler, and Harry B. Gray pp 10254–10255 DOI: 10.1021/ja0271678 Supporting Info

A General Mass Spectrometry-Based Assay for the Quantitation of Protein−Ligand Binding Interactions in Solution Kendall D. Powell, Sina Ghaemmaghami, Michael Z. Wang, Liyuan Ma, Terrance G. Oas, and Michael C. Fitzgerald pp 10256–10257 DOI: 10.1021/ja026574g Supporting Info

Tris(η4-naphthalene)- and Tris(1-4-η4-anthracene)tantalate(1−):  First Homoleptic Arene Complexes of Anionic Tantalum1 William W. Brennessel, John E. Ellis, Marie K. Pomije, Victor J. Sussman, Eugenijus Urnezius, and Victor G. Young, Jr. pp 10258–10259 DOI: 10.1021/ja020725y Supporting Info

Structures of the Muraymycins, Novel Peptidoglycan Biosynthesis Inhibitors Leonard A. McDonald, Laurel R. Barbieri, Guy T. Carter, Eileen Lenoy, Jason Lotvin, Peter J. Petersen, Marshall M. Siegel, Guy Singh, and R. Thomas Williamson pp 10260–10261 DOI: 10.1021/ja017748h Supporting Info

Site-Specific Discrimination of Cytosine and 5-Methylcytosine in Duplex DNA by Peptide Nucleic Acids Akimitsu Okamoto, Kazuhito Tanabe, and Isao Saito pp 10262–10263 DOI: 10.1021/ja0264955 Supporting Info

Hydrogen Exchange Rates in Proteins from Water 1H Transverse Magnetic Relaxation Vladimir P. Denisov and Bertil Halle pp 10264–10265 DOI: 10.1021/ja027101c

Theoretical Interpretation of Switching in Experiments with Single Molecules Jorge M. Seminario, Pedro A. Derosa, and Jimena L. Bastos pp 10266–10267 DOI: 10.1021/ja0176090

Nanocluster with One Missing Core Atom:  A Three-Dimensional Hybrid Superlattice Built from Dual-Sized Supertetrahedral Clusters Cheng Wang, Xianhui Bu, Nanfeng Zheng, and Pingyun Feng pp 10268–10269 DOI: 10.1021/ja020735z Supporting Info

Fluorescence Maxima of 10-Methylacridone−Metal Ion Salt Complexes:  A Convenient and Quantitative Measure of Lewis Acidity of Metal Ion Salts Shunichi Fukuzumi and Kei Ohkubo pp 10270–10271 DOI: 10.1021/ja026613o Supporting Info

Kinetic Resolution of Atropisomeric Amides Ramon Rios, Ciril Jimeno, Patrick J. Carroll, and Patrick J. Walsh pp 10272–10273 DOI: 10.1021/ja026436r Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of the Antiviral Glycolipid Cycloviracin B1 Alois Fürstner, Jacek Mlynarski, and Martin Albert pp 10274–10275 DOI: 10.1021/ja027346p Supporting Info

CO2 as a Separation Switch for Ionic Liquid/Organic Mixtures Aaron M. Scurto, Sudhir N. V. K. Aki, and Joan F. Brennecke pp 10276–10277 DOI: 10.1021/ja0268682

New Method of Fluorination Using Potassium Fluoride in Ionic Liquid:  Significantly Enhanced Reactivity of Fluoride and Improved Selectivity Dong Wook Kim, Choong Eui Song, and Dae Yoon Chi pp 10278–10279 DOI: 10.1021/ja026242b Supporting Info

Facile Hydrometalation of Alkynes by nido-1,2-(Cp*RuH)2B3H7 Yielding Novel Ru−B Edge-Bridging Alkylidenes. Stepwise Conversion of HCCC(O)OMe into nido-1,2-(Cp*RuH)2-3-HOB-4-MeC-5-MeOC-BH3, Cp* = η5-C5Me5 Hong Yan, Alicia M. Beatty, and Thomas P. Fehlner pp 10280–10281 DOI: 10.1021/ja026738t Supporting Info

New Approach to the Stereoselective Synthesis of Metalated Dienes via an Isomerization−Elimination Sequence Nicka Chinkov, Swapan Majumdar, and Ilan Marek pp 10282–10283 DOI: 10.1021/ja027027y Supporting Info

Electrochemical Synthesis and Characterization of Conducting Polymers in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Paul E. Anderson, Rachna N. Badlani, Jamie Mayer, and Patricia A. Mabrouk pp 10284–10285 DOI: 10.1021/ja026494c Supporting Info

Concomitant C-Ring Expansion and D-Ring Formation in Lanosterol Biosynthesis from Squalene without Violation of Markovnikov's Rule B. Andes Hess, Jr. pp 10286–10287 DOI: 10.1021/ja026850r Supporting Info

A Chiral Acrylate Equivalent for Metal-Free Diels−Alder Reactions:  endo-2-Acryloylisoborneol Claudio Palomo, Mikel Oiarbide, Jesús M. García, Alberto González, Ainara Lecumberri, and Anthony Linden pp 10288–10289 DOI: 10.1021/ja025906e Supporting Info

Magneto-Stimulated Hydrodynamic Control of Electrocatalytic and Bioelectrocatalytic Processes Eugenii Katz and Itamar Willner pp 10290–10291 DOI: 10.1021/ja0264145 Supporting Info

Traveling Fronts of Copper Deposition Stephanie Thouvenel-Romans, Konstantin Agladze, and Oliver Steinbock pp 10292–10293 DOI: 10.1021/ja026836e

Skeletal Reorganization of Enynes to 1-Vinylcycloalkenes Catalyzed by GaCl3 Naoto Chatani, Hiroki Inoue, Taiichi Kotsuma, and Shinji Murai pp 10294–10295 DOI: 10.1021/ja0274554 Supporting Info

Enantioselective Synthesis of Cyclopentenones via Rhodium-Catalyzed Kinetic Resolution and Desymmetrization of 4-Alkynals Ken Tanaka and Gregory C. Fu pp 10296–10297 DOI: 10.1021/ja0266161 Supporting Info

A Highly Enantioselective Catalytic Intramolecular Stetter Reaction Mark S. Kerr, Javier Read de Alaniz, and Tomislav Rovis pp 10298–10299 DOI: 10.1021/ja027411v Supporting Info

A New Method for the Preparation of Silyl Enol Ethers from Carbonyl Compounds and (Trimethylsilyl)diazomethane in a Regiospecific and Highly Stereoselective Manner Varinder K. Aggarwal, Chris G. Sheldon, Gregor J. Macdonald, and William P. Martin pp 10300–10301 DOI: 10.1021/ja027061c Supporting Info

Converting Radical Oligomers to a Single Product Hui Yu, Tao Wu, and Chaozhong Li pp 10302–10303 DOI: 10.1021/ja026744p Supporting Info

Multistep Small-Molecule Synthesis Programmed by DNA Templates Zev J. Gartner, Matthew W. Kanan, and David R. Liu pp 10304–10306 DOI: 10.1021/ja027307d Supporting Info

The Electrophilic Reactions of Pentacyanonitrosylferrate(II) with Hydrazine and Substituted Derivatives. Catalytic Reduction of Nitrite and Theoretical Prediction of η1-, η2-N2O Bound Intermediates María M. Gutiérrez, Valentín T. Amorebieta, Guillermina L. Estiú, and José A. Olabe pp 10307–10319 DOI: 10.1021/ja025995v Supporting Info

Absolute Configurational Assignments of Secondary Amines by CD-Sensitive Dimeric Zinc Porphyrin Host Xuefei Huang, Naoko Fujioka, Gennaro Pescitelli, Frank E. Koehn, R. Thomas Williamson, Koji Nakanishi, and Nina Berova pp 10320–10335 DOI: 10.1021/ja020520p Supporting Info

Insight into the Mechanism of the Asymmetric Addition of Alkyl Groups to Aldehydes Catalyzed by Titanium−BINOLate Species Jaume Balsells, Timothy J. Davis, Patrick Carroll, and Patrick J. Walsh pp 10336–10348 DOI: 10.1021/ja0171658 Supporting Info

Metal-Switching and Self-Inclusion of Functional Cavitands Patrick Amrhein, Alexander Shivanyuk, Darren W. Johnson, and Julius Rebek, Jr. pp 10349–10358 DOI: 10.1021/ja0204269 Supporting Info

The Triplet-State Lifetime of Indole in Aqueous and Viscous Environments:  Significance to the Interpretation of Room Temperature Phosphorescence in Proteins Christopher J. Fischer, Ari Gafni, Duncan G. Steel, and Joseph A. Schauerte pp 10359–10366 DOI: 10.1021/ja016609x

Long RNA Dangling End Has Large Energetic Contribution to Duplex Stability Tatsuo Ohmichi, Shu-ichi Nakano, Daisuke Miyoshi, and Naoki Sugimoto pp 10367–10372 DOI: 10.1021/ja0255406

Modulation of Tautomeric Equilibria by Ionic Clusters. Acetylacetone in Solutions of Lithium Perchlorate−Diethyl Ether Y. Pocker and Greg T. Spyridis pp 10373–10380 DOI: 10.1021/ja012725o Supporting Info

Nanotubes from the Self-Assembly of Asymmetric Crystalline−Coil Poly(ferrocenylsilane−siloxane) Block Copolymers Jose Raez, Ian Manners, and Mitchell A. Winnik pp 10381–10395 DOI: 10.1021/ja020349h

Callipeltoside A: Total Synthesis, Assignment of the Absolute and Relative Configuration, and Evaluation of Synthetic Analogues Barry M. Trost, Janet L. Gunzner, Olivier Dirat, and Young H. Rhee pp 10396–10415 DOI: 10.1021/ja0205232 Supporting Info

Synthesis, Structure, and Biological Evaluation of Novel N- and O-Linked Diinositols Bernhard J. Paul, Jerremey Willis, Theodore A. Martinot, Ion Ghiviriga, Khalil A. Abboud, and Tomas Hudlicky pp 10416–10426 DOI: 10.1021/ja0205378 Supporting Info

Asymmetric Synthesis of anti-Homopropargylic Alcohols from Aldehydes and Chiral Sulfonimidoyl Substituted Bis(allyl)titanium Complexes through Generation and Elimination of Novel Chiral Alkylidenecarbene (Dimethylamino)sulfoxonium Ylides Leleti Rajender Reddy, Hans-Joachim Gais, Chang-Wan Woo, and Gerhard Raabe pp 10427–10434 DOI: 10.1021/ja020570u Supporting Info

Stereoselective Formal [3 + 3] Cycloaddition Approach to cis-1-Azadecalins and Synthesis of (−)-4a,8a-diepi-Pumiliotoxin C. Evidence for the First Highly Stereoselective 6π-Electron Electrocyclic Ring Closures of 1-Azatrienes Heather M. Sklenicka, Richard P. Hsung, Michael J. McLaughlin, Lin-li Wei, Aleksey I. Gerasyuto, and William B. Brennessel pp 10435–10442 DOI: 10.1021/ja020698b Supporting Info

Solution-Phase Preparation of a 560-Compound Library of Individual Pure Mappicine Analogues by Fluorous Mixture Synthesis Wei Zhang, Zhiyong Luo, Christine Hiu-Tung Chen, and Dennis P. Curran pp 10443–10450 DOI: 10.1021/ja026947d Supporting Info

Atropselective Macrocyclization of Diaryl Ether Ring Systems: Application to the Synthesis of Vancomycin Model Systems K. C. Nicolaou and Christopher N. C. Boddy pp 10451–10455 DOI: 10.1021/ja020736r Supporting Info

Investigations by 13C NMR Spectroscopy of Ethene-Initiated Catalytic CO Hydrogenation Michael L. Turner, Nyoman Marsih, Brian E. Mann, Ruhksana Quyoum, Helen C. Long, and Peter M. Maitlis pp 10456–10472 DOI: 10.1021/ja026280v Supporting Info

Abnormal Ligand Binding and Reversible Ring Hydrogenation in the Reaction of Imidazolium Salts with IrH5(PPh3)2 Stephan Gründemann, Anes Kovacevic, Martin Albrecht, Jack W. Faller, and Robert H. Crabtree pp 10473–10481 DOI: 10.1021/ja026735g Supporting Info

A Novel Aryl Amide-Bridged Ladderlike Polymethylsiloxane Synthesized by an Amido H-Bonding Self-Assembled Template Huadong Tang, Jin Sun, Jinqiang Jiang, Xiaoshu Zhou, Tengjiao Hu, Ping Xie, and Rongben Zhang pp 10482–10488 DOI: 10.1021/ja025650c

Structure and Properties of the Dendron-Encapsulated Polyoxometalate (C52H60NO12)12[(Mn(H2O))3(SbW9O33)2], a First Generation Dendrizyme Dirk Volkmer, Björn Bredenkötter, Jörg Tellenbröker, Paul Kögerler, Dirk G. Kurth, Pit Lehmann, Heimo Schnablegger, Dietmar Schwahn, Markus Piepenbrink, and Bernt Krebs pp 10489–10496 DOI: 10.1021/ja017613b Supporting Info

Spectroscopic and Electronic Structure Studies of the μ4-Sulfide Bridged Tetranuclear CuZ Cluster in N2O Reductase:  Molecular Insight into the Catalytic Mechanism Peng Chen, Inês Cabrito, José J. G. Moura, Isabel Moura, and Edward I. Solomon pp 10497–10507 DOI: 10.1021/ja0205028 Supporting Info

Regioselective Silylation of Sugars through Palladium Nanoparticle-Catalyzed Silane Alcoholysis Mee-Kyung Chung, Galina Orlova, John D. Goddard, Marcel Schlaf, Robert Harris, Terrance J. Beveridge, Gisele White, and F. Ross Hallett pp 10508–10518 DOI: 10.1021/ja026723v Supporting Info

Charge-Transfer Transitions in Triarylamine Mixed-Valence Systems:  A Joint Density Functional Theory and Vibronic Coupling Study V. Coropceanu, M. Malagoli, J. M. André, and J. L. Brédas pp 10519–10530 DOI: 10.1021/ja026437j

Molecule-Based Room-Temperature Magnets: Catalytic Role of V(III) in the Synthesis of Vanadium−Chromium Prussian Blue Analogues Raquel Garde, Françoise Villain, and Michel Verdaguer pp 10531–10538 DOI: 10.1021/ja020528z Supporting Info

13C and 15N Chemical Shift Tensors in Adenosine, Guanosine Dihydrate, 2‘-Deoxythymidine, and Cytidine Dirk Stueber and David M. Grant pp 10539–10551 DOI: 10.1021/ja012485c

Site of Protonation of Nicotine and Nornicotine in the Gas Phase: Pyridine or Pyrrolidine Nitrogen? Jérôme Graton, Michel Berthelot, Jean-François Gal, Sandrine Girard, Christian Laurence, Jacques Lebreton, Jean-Yves Le Questel, Pierre-Charles Maria, and Petr Nauš pp 10552–10562 DOI: 10.1021/ja017770a Supporting Info

Multifrequency EPR Study and Density Functional g-Tensor Calculations of Persistent Organorhenium Radical Complexes Stéphanie Frantz, Heiko Hartmann, Natasa Doslik, Matthias Wanner, Wolfgang Kaim, Hans-Jürgen Kümmerer, Gert Denninger, Anne-Laure Barra, Carole Duboc-Toia, Jan Fiedler, Ilaria Ciofini, Christian Urban, and Martin Kaupp pp 10563–10571 DOI: 10.1021/ja025829n Supporting Info

Role of the Catalytic Triad and Oxyanion Hole in Acetylcholinesterase Catalysis:  An ab initio QM/MM Study Yingkai Zhang, Jeremy Kua, and J. Andrew McCammon pp 10572–10577 DOI: 10.1021/ja020243m

Chemical Force Spectroscopy in Heterogeneous Systems:  Intermolecular Interactions Involving Epoxy Polymer, Mixed Monolayers, and Polar Solvents Dmitri V. Vezenov, Andrew V. Zhuk, George M. Whitesides, and Charles M. Lieber pp 10578–10588 DOI: 10.1021/ja025951m

13C NMR Investigation of Solid-State Polymorphism in 10-Deacetyl Baccatin III James K. Harper, Julio C. Facelli, Dewey H. Barich, Gary McGeorge, Anna E. Mulgrew, and David M. Grant pp 10589–10595 DOI: 10.1021/ja020371a

A Nanoscale Optical Biosensor:  Sensitivity and Selectivity of an Approach Based on the Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy of Triangular Silver Nanoparticles Amanda J. Haes and Richard P. Van Duyne pp 10596–10604 DOI: 10.1021/ja020393x

Ultrafast UV Pump/IR Probe Studies of C−H Activation in Linear, Cyclic, and Aryl Hydrocarbons Matthew C. Asplund, Preston T. Snee, Jake S. Yeston, Matthew J. Wilkens, Christine K. Payne, Haw Yang, Kenneth T. Kotz, Heinz Frei, Robert G. Bergman, and Charles B. Harris pp 10605–10612 DOI: 10.1021/ja020418s Supporting Info

Statistical and Theoretical Investigations on the Directionality of Nonbonded S···O Interactions. Implications for Molecular Design and Protein Engineering Michio Iwaoka, Shinya Takemoto, and Shuji Tomoda pp 10613–10620 DOI: 10.1021/ja026472q

Hydrogen Bonding in High-Resolution Protein Structures: A New Method To Assess NMR Protein Geometry Rebecca S. Lipsitz, Yugal Sharma, Bernard R. Brooks, and Nico Tjandra pp 10621–10626 DOI: 10.1021/ja020676p

Concise Dictionary of Biomedicine and Molecular Biology. Second Edition By Pei-Show Juo (State University of New York, Potsdam). CRC Press LLC:  Boca Raton. 2002. viii + 1154 pp. $129.95. ISBN:  0-8493-0940-9 p 10627 DOI: 10.1021/ja025240o

The HPLC Solvent Guide. Second Edition By Paul C. Sadek (Access Business Group, Ada, Michigan and Analytical Consulting Laboratories, Kentwood, Michigan). Wiley-Interscience:  New York. 2002. xx + 644 pp. $99.95. ISBN:  0-471-41138-8 p 10627 DOI: 10.1021/ja0252429

Molten Salts:  From Fundamentals to Applications Edited by Marcelle Gaune-Escard (Institut Universitaire des Systèmes Thermiques Industriels, Marseille). Kluwer Academic Publishers:  Dordrecht, Boston, London. 2002. x + 404 pp. $147.00. ISBN:  1-4020-0458-3 p 10627 DOI: 10.1021/ja0252431

Magnetism:  Molecules to Materials III. Nanosized Magnetic Materials Edited by Joel S. Miller (University of Utah) and Marc Drillon (Institute de Physique et Chemie des Materiaux de Strasbourg). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2002. xvi + 388 pp. $125.00. ISBN 3-527-30302-2 Kenneth J. Klabunde pp 10627–10628 DOI: 10.1021/ja025215i

Phosphorus−Carbon Heterocyclic Chemistry:  the Rise of a New Domain Edited by Francois Mathey (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseu, France). Pergamon (An Imprint of Elsevier Science):  Amsterdam. 2001. x + 846 pp. $315.00. ISBN 0.08-043952-7 K. Darrell Berlin pp 10628–10629 DOI: 10.1021/ja015388s

Surfactant Science Series, Volume 106. Interfacial Electrokinetics and Electrophoresis Edited by Angel V. Delgado (University of Granada). Dekker:  New York and Basel. 2002. xiii + 991pp. $250.00. ISBN 0-8247-0603-X. Janos H. Fendler p 10629 DOI: 10.1021/ja015393w

Nanoscale Materials in Chemistry Edited by Kenneth J. Klabunde (Kansas State University). Wiley-Interscience:  New York. 2001. xi + 292 pp. $99.95. ISBN:  0-471-38395-3. T. Andrew Taton pp 10629–10630 DOI: 10.1021/ja0252072

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Nanostructured Carbon Arrays from Block Copolymers of Polyacrylonitrile Tomasz Kowalewski, Nicolay V. Tsarevsky, and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski pp 10632–10633 DOI: 10.1021/ja0178970 Supporting Info

Direct Electrochemistry of Cytochrome c at Nanocrystalline Boron-Doped Diamond Shannon Haymond, Gerald T. Babcock, and Greg M. Swain pp 10634–10635 DOI: 10.1021/ja027019h Supporting Info

Supercritical Fluid-Mediated Alumination of Mesoporous Silica and Its Beneficial Effect on Hydrothermal Stability Adam S. O'Neil, Robert Mokaya, and Martyn Poliakoff pp 10636–10637 DOI: 10.1021/ja026111a

Nanotube Formation Favored by Chalcogen−Chalcogen Interactions Daniel B. Werz, Rolf Gleiter, and Frank Rominger pp 10638–10639 DOI: 10.1021/ja027146d Supporting Info

A Single-Molecule Probe Based on Intramolecular Electron Transfer Ling Zang, Ruchuan Liu, Michael W. Holman, Kim T. Nguyen, and David M. Adams pp 10640–10641 DOI: 10.1021/ja0268074 Supporting Info

Kanosamine Biosynthesis:  A Likely Source of the Aminoshikimate Pathway's Nitrogen Atom Jiantao Guo and J. W. Frost pp 10642–10643 DOI: 10.1021/ja026628m Supporting Info

Characterization of the Early Stage Aminoshikimate Pathway in the Formation of 3-Amino-5-hydroxybenzoic Acid:  The RifN Protein Specifically Converts Kanosamine into Kanosamine 6-Phosphate Kenji Arakawa, Rolf Müller, Taifo Mahmud, Tin-Wein Yu, and Heinz G. Floss pp 10644–10645 DOI: 10.1021/ja0206339

Hydrogen Bonds Seal Single-Molecule Capsules Jerry L. Atwood and Agnieszka Szumna pp 10646–10647 DOI: 10.1021/ja027191l Supporting Info

Substrate-Facilitated Assembly of Elastin-Like Peptides:  Studies by Variable-Temperature in Situ Atomic Force Microscopy Guocheng Yang, Kimberly A. Woodhouse, and Christopher M. Yip pp 10648–10649 DOI: 10.1021/ja027302g

A Novel, Cell-Permeable, Fluorescent Probe for Ratiometric Imaging of Zinc Ion Satoko Maruyama, Kazuya Kikuchi, Tomoya Hirano, Yasuteru Urano, and Tetsuo Nagano pp 10650–10651 DOI: 10.1021/ja026442n Supporting Info

Reintroducing Anisotropic Interactions in Magic-Angle-Spinning NMR of Half-Integer Quadrupolar Nuclei:  3D MQMAS Sungsool Wi, Henrike Heise, and Alexander Pines pp 10652–10653 DOI: 10.1021/ja027043v

Effect of Bond-Length Alternation in Molecular Wires James G. Kushmerick, David B. Holt, Steven K. Pollack, Mark A. Ratner, John C. Yang, Terence L. Schull, Jawad Naciri, Martin H. Moore, and Ranganathan Shashidhar pp 10654–10655 DOI: 10.1021/ja027090n Supporting Info

The Topochemical 1,6-Polymerization of a Triene Tram Hoang, Joseph W. Lauher, and Frank W. Fowler pp 10656–10657 DOI: 10.1021/ja027444a Supporting Info

Dramatic Switching of Protein Kinase C Agonist/Antagonist Activity by Modifying the 12-Ester Side Chain of Phorbol Esters Reiko Wada, Yutaka Suto, Motomu Kanai, and Masakatsu Shibasaki pp 10658–10659 DOI: 10.1021/ja027048s Supporting Info

Snapshots of Dioxygen Activation by Copper:  The Structure of a 1:1 Cu/O2 Adduct and Its Use in Syntheses of Asymmetric Bis(μ-oxo) Complexes Nermeen W. Aboelella, Elizabeth A. Lewis, Anne M. Reynolds, William W. Brennessel, Christopher J. Cramer, and William B. Tolman pp 10660–10661 DOI: 10.1021/ja027164v Supporting Info

Multiple Emissions and Brilliant White Luminescence from Gold(I) O,O‘-Di(alkyl)dithiophosphate Dimers Young-A Lee, James E. McGarrah, Rene J. Lachicotte, and Richard Eisenberg pp 10662–10663 DOI: 10.1021/ja0267876 Supporting Info

EXAFS Investigations of the Mechanism of Facilitated Ion Transfer into a Room-Temperature Ionic Liquid Mark P. Jensen, Julie A. Dzielawa, Paul Rickert, and Mark L. Dietz pp 10664–10665 DOI: 10.1021/ja027476y Supporting Info

Three-Bond Sugar−Base Couplings in Purine versus Pyrimidine Nucleosides:  A DFT Study of Karplus Relationships for 3JC2/4-H1‘ and 3JC6/8-H1‘ in DNA Markéta L. Munzarová and Vladimír Sklenář pp 10666–10667 DOI: 10.1021/ja026502p Supporting Info

Single-Crystal Al18B4O33 Microtubes Renzhi Ma, Yoshio Bando, Tadao Sato, Chengchun Tang, and Fangfang Xu pp 10668–10669 DOI: 10.1021/ja0271173

Electrochemical Metalloporphyrin-Catalyzed Reduction of Chlorite James P. Collman, Roman Boulatov, Christopher J. Sunderland, Irina M. Shiryaeva, and Katja E. Berg pp 10670–10671 DOI: 10.1021/ja027306l Supporting Info

Strained Silacycles in Organic Synthesis:  The Tandem Aldol−Allylation Reaction Xiaolun Wang, Qinglin Meng, Andrew J. Nation, and James L. Leighton pp 10672–10673 DOI: 10.1021/ja027655f Supporting Info

Self-Assembling Structures of Long-Chain Phenyl Glucoside Influenced by the Introduction of Double Bonds Jong Hwa Jung, George John, Kaname Yoshida, and Toshimi Shimizu pp 10674–10675 DOI: 10.1021/ja020752o Supporting Info

Synthesis and DNA Binding Properties of Iminodiacetic Acid-Linked Polyamides:  Characterization of Cooperative Extended 2:1 Side-by-Side Parallel Binding Craig R. Woods, Takahiro Ishii, and Dale L. Boger pp 10676–10682 DOI: 10.1021/ja026588m Supporting Info

A Valence Bond Analysis of Electronic Degeneracies in Jahn−Teller Systems:  Low-Lying States of the Cyclopentadienyl Radical and Cation Shmuel Zilberg and Yehuda Haas pp 10683–10691 DOI: 10.1021/ja026304y

The Origin of Diastereofacial Control in Allylboration Reactions Using Tartrate Ester Derived Allylboronates:  Attractive Interactions between the Lewis Acid Coordinated Aldehyde Carbonyl Group and an Ester Carbonyl Oxygen Benjamin W. Gung, Xiaowen Xue, and William R. Roush pp 10692–10697 DOI: 10.1021/ja026373c Supporting Info

Catalytic Double-Bond Metathesis without the Transition Metal Stephen A. Bell, Tara Y. Meyer, and Steven J. Geib pp 10698–10705 DOI: 10.1021/ja020494v Supporting Info

Intermolecular Complexes of HXeOH with Water:  Stabilization and Destabilization Effects Alexander V. Nemukhin, Bella L. Grigorenko, Leonid Khriachtchev, Hanna Tanskanen, Mika Pettersson, and Markku Räsänen pp 10706–10711 DOI: 10.1021/ja0266870 Supporting Info

Chemical Bonding Variations and Electron−Phonon Interactions Shuiquan Deng, Arndt Simon, and Jürgen Köhler pp 10712–10717 DOI: 10.1021/ja011815q

H-Coupled Electron Transfer in Alkane C−H Activations with Halogen Electrophiles Andrey A. Fokin, Tatyana E. Shubina, Pavel A. Gunchenko, Sergey D. Isaev, Alexander G. Yurchenko, and Peter R. Schreiner pp 10718–10727 DOI: 10.1021/ja0265512 Supporting Info

3D TEDOR NMR Experiments for the Simultaneous Measurement of Multiple Carbon−Nitrogen Distances in Uniformly 13C,15N-Labeled Solids Christopher P. Jaroniec, Claudiu Filip, and Robert G. Griffin pp 10728–10742 DOI: 10.1021/ja026385y

An NMR Experiment for the Accurate Measurement of Heteronuclear Spin-Lock Relaxation Rates Dmitry M. Korzhnev, Nikolai R. Skrynnikov, Oscar Millet, Dennis A. Torchia, and Lewis E. Kay pp 10743–10753 DOI: 10.1021/ja0204776

Charge-Transfer Phenomena in Novel, Dual-Component, Sugar-Based Organogels Arianna Friggeri, Oliver Gronwald, Kjeld J. C. van Bommel, Seiji Shinkai, and David N. Reinhoudt pp 10754–10758 DOI: 10.1021/ja012585i

Mechanism of the Double Aldol Reaction:  The First Spectroscopic Characterization of a Carbon-Bound Boron Enolate Derived from Carboxylic Esters Atsushi Abiko, Tadashi Inoue, and Satoru Masamune pp 10759–10764 DOI: 10.1021/ja0260014 Supporting Info

5-Endo-trig Radical Cyclizations:  Disfavored or Favored Processes? Chryssostomos Chatgilialoglu, Carla Ferreri, Maurizio Guerra, Vitaliy Timokhin, Georgios Froudakis, and Thanasis Gimisis pp 10765–10772 DOI: 10.1021/ja0261731 Supporting Info

The Chemistry of Amine−Azide Interconversion:  Catalytic Diazotransfer and Regioselective Azide Reduction Paul T. Nyffeler, Chang-Hsing Liang, Kathryn M. Koeller, and Chi-Huey Wong pp 10773–10778 DOI: 10.1021/ja0264605 Supporting Info

Enhancement of Enantioselectivity by THF in Asymmetric Mo-Catalyzed Olefin Metathesis. Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of Cyclic Tertiary Ethers and Spirocycles Xin Teng, Dustin R. Cefalo, Richard R. Schrock, and Amir H. Hoveyda pp 10779–10784 DOI: 10.1021/ja020671s Supporting Info

Synthesis of Isotopically Labeled Arachidonic Acids To Probe the Reaction Mechanism of Prostaglandin H Synthase Sheng Peng, Nicole M. Okeley, Ah-Lim Tsai, Gang Wu, Richard J. Kulmacz, and Wilfred A. van der Donk pp 10785–10796 DOI: 10.1021/ja026880u Supporting Info

Combined Computational and Experimental Study of Substituent Effects on the Thermodynamics of H2, CO, Arene, and Alkane Addition to Iridium Karsten Krogh-Jespersen, Margaret Czerw, Keming Zhu, Bharat Singh, Mira Kanzelberger, Nitesh Darji, Patrick D. Achord, Kenton B. Renkema, and Alan S. Goldman pp 10797–10809 DOI: 10.1021/ja010547t Supporting Info

Electronic Structure and Reactivity of Low-Spin Fe(III)−Hydroperoxo Complexes:  Comparison to Activated Bleomycin Nicolai Lehnert, Frank Neese, Raymond Y. N. Ho, Lawrence Que, Jr., and Edward I. Solomon pp 10810–10822 DOI: 10.1021/ja012621d Supporting Info

Inter- and Intramolecular Spin Transfer in Molecular Magnetic Materials. Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy of Paramagnetic Metallocenium Ions Henrike Heise, Frank H. Köhler, Martin Herker, and Wolfgang Hiller pp 10823–10832 DOI: 10.1021/ja020026l Supporting Info

Spectroscopic and Computational Studies on Iron and Manganese Superoxide Dismutases:  Nature of the Chemical Events Associated with Active-Site pKs Timothy A. Jackson, Juan Xie, Emine Yikilmaz, Anne-Frances Miller, and Thomas C. Brunold pp 10833–10845 DOI: 10.1021/ja0266058 Supporting Info

Ab Initio Studies on Al+(H2O)n, HAlOH+(H2O)n-1, and the Size-Dependent H2 Elimination Reaction Chi-Kit Siu, Zhi-Feng Liu, and John S. Tse pp 10846–10860 DOI: 10.1021/ja0117579 Supporting Info

Rapid Excited-State Structural Reorganization Captured by Pulsed X-rays Lin X. Chen, Guy Jennings, Tao Liu, David J. Gosztola, Jan P. Hessler, Donald V. Scaltrito, and Gerald J. Meyer pp 10861–10867 DOI: 10.1021/ja017214g

Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Proton Transfer on the 27Al MAS NMR Line Shapes of Zeolite−Adsorbate Complexes:  An Independent Measure of Solid Acid Strength Justin O. Ehresmann, Wei Wang, Bruno Herreros, Donat-Pierre Luigi, T. N. Venkatraman, Weiguo Song, John B. Nicholas, and James F. Haw pp 10868–10874 DOI: 10.1021/ja012336u

Rigid Dendritic Donor−Acceptor Ensembles:  Control over Energy and Electron Transduction Dirk M. Guldi, Angela Swartz, Chuping Luo, Rafael Gómez, José L. Segura, and Nazario Martín pp 10875–10886 DOI: 10.1021/ja012694x Supporting Info

Estimates of the Ab Initio Limit for π−π Interactions:  The Benzene Dimer Mutasem Omar Sinnokrot, Edward F. Valeev, and C. David Sherrill pp 10887–10893 DOI: 10.1021/ja025896h Supporting Info

In Situ Raman Spectroelectrochemistry of Electron Transfer between Glassy Carbon and a Chemisorbed Nitroazobenzene Monolayer Takashi Itoh and Richard L. McCreery pp 10894–10902 DOI: 10.1021/ja020398u

Dianionic Tetraborates Do Exist as Stable Entities Andreas Dreuw, Norbert Zint, and Lorenz S. Cederbaum pp 10903–10910 DOI: 10.1021/ja020682l

Exploring the Capabilities of X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy for Determining the Structure of Electrolyte Solutions:  Computed Spectra for Cr3+ or Rh3+ in Water Based on Molecular Dynamics Patrick J. Merkling, Adela Muñoz-Páez, and Enrique Sánchez Marcos pp 10911–10920 DOI: 10.1021/ja025729h Supporting Info

Acetate Binding at the Photosystem II Oxygen Evolving Complex:  An S2-State Multiline Signal ESEEM Study Keri L. Clemens, Dee Ann Force, and R. David Britt pp 10921–10933 DOI: 10.1021/ja012036c

Advances in Carbene Chemistry. Volume 3 Edited by Udo H. Brinker (Universität Wein). JAI Press, Inc:  Stamford. 2001. x + 322 pp. $295.00. ISBN:  0-444-50892-9. Philip B. Shevlin p 10934 DOI: 10.1021/ja0153823

Synthetic Macromolecules with Higher Structural Order Edited by Ishrat M. Khan (Clark Atlanta University). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC (Distributed by Oxford University Press). 2002. x + 230 pp. $125.00. ISBN:  0-8412-3728-X. pp 10934–10935 DOI: 10.1021/ja025260q

Environmental Electrochemistry:  Analyses of Trace Element Biogeochemistry Edited by Martial Taillefert (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Tim F. Rozan (University of Delaware). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC (Distributed by Oxford University Press). 2002. xii + 412 pp. $145.00. ISBN:  0-8412-3774-3. p 10935 DOI: 10.1021/ja025245l

Chirality:  Physical Chemistry Edited by Janice M. Hicks (Georgetown University). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC (Distributed by Oxford University Press). 2002. xii + 356 pp. $140.00. ISBN:  0-8412-3737-9. p 10935 DOI: 10.1021/ja025246d

Combinatorial Materials Development Edited by Ripudaman Malhotra (SRI International). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC (Distributed by Oxford University Press). 2002. xii + 184 pp. $125.00. ISBN:  0-8412-3772-7. p 10935 DOI: 10.1021/ja025259r

Organometallics in Synthesis:  A Manual. 2nd edition Edited by Manfred Schlosser (Université de Lausanne). J. Wiley & Sons:  Chichester. 2002. xii + 1244 pp. $149.95. ISBN:  0-471-98416-7. p 10935 DOI: 10.1021/ja025261i

Metal−Oxygen Clusters. The Surface and Catalytic Properties of Heteropoly Oxometalates By John B. Moffat (University of Waterloo). From the Series:  Fundamental and Applied Catalysis. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers:  New York. 2001. xiv + 308 pp. $150.00. ISBN 0-306-46507-8. Craig L. Hill pp 10935–10936 DOI: 10.1021/ja015374m

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15N−1H Bond Length Determination in Natural Abundance by Inverse Detection in Fast-MAS Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy Ingo Schnell and Kay Saalwächter pp 10938–10939 DOI: 10.1021/ja026657x Supporting Info

The Indole Side Chain of Tryptophan as a Versatile π-Donor Jiaxin Hu, Leonard J. Barbour, and George W. Gokel pp 10940–10941 DOI: 10.1021/ja020586k

Supramolecular Structures of Polyoxomolybdate-Based Giant Molecules in Aqueous Solution Tianbo Liu pp 10942–10943 DOI: 10.1021/ja027045f

Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Transformation of Diolefin Derivatives in Nanocrystals Shu Takahashi, Hirohiko Miura, Hitoshi Kasai, Shuji Okada, Hidetoshi Oikawa, and Hachiro Nakanishi pp 10944–10945 DOI: 10.1021/ja026564f

An Artificial Guanine that Binds Cytidine through the Cooperative Interaction of Metal Coordination and Hydrogen Bonding Fabrizio Mancin and Jik Chin pp 10946–10947 DOI: 10.1021/ja026922e

Synergistic Effect between Metal Coordination and Hydrogen Bonding in Phosphate and Halide Recognition Jik Chin, Suhman Chung, and Dong H. Kim pp 10948–10949 DOI: 10.1021/ja026920u Supporting Info

Control of the Optical Band Structure of Liquid Crystal Infiltrated Inverse Opal by a Photoinduced Nematic−Isotropic Phase Transition Shoichi Kubo, Zhong-Ze Gu, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Yoshihisa Ohko, Osamu Sato, and Akira Fujishima pp 10950–10951 DOI: 10.1021/ja026482r Supporting Info

Structure of a de Novo Designed Protein Model of Radical Enzymes Qing-Hong Dai, Cecilia Tommos, Ernesto J. Fuentes, Margareta R. A. Blomberg, P. Leslie Dutton, and A. Joshua Wand pp 10952–10953 DOI: 10.1021/ja0264201

First Thermally Responsive Supramolecular Polymer Based on Glycosylated Amino Acid Shigeki Kiyonaka, Kazunori Sugiyasu, Seiji Shinkai, and Itaru Hamachi pp 10954–10955 DOI: 10.1021/ja027277e Supporting Info

Oscillatory Photochemical Decomposition of Tetrathionate Ion Attila K. Horváth, István Nagypál, and Irving R. Epstein pp 10956–10957 DOI: 10.1021/ja0269441

Iterative High-Throughput Polymorphism Studies on Acetaminophen and an Experimentally Derived Structure for Form III Matthew L. Peterson, Sherry L. Morissette, Chris McNulty, Andrew Goldsweig, Paul Shaw, Martin LeQuesne, Julie Monagle, Nicolas Encina, Joseph Marchionna, Alasdair Johnson, Javier Gonzalez-Zugasti, Anthony V. Lemmo, Stephen J. Ellis, Michael J. Cima, and Örn Almarsson pp 10958–10959 DOI: 10.1021/ja020751w Supporting Info

New Molecular Perovskites:  Cubic C4N2H12·NH4Cl3·H2O and 2-H Hexagonal C6N2H14·NH4Cl3 Colin A. Bremner, Michael Simpson, and William T. A. Harrison pp 10960–10961 DOI: 10.1021/ja027484e Supporting Info

A Polymerized Calix[6]arene Monolayer Having Gas Permeation Selectivity that Exceeds Knudsen Diffusion Xun Yan, Vaclav Janout, James T. Hsu, and Steven L. Regen pp 10962–10963 DOI: 10.1021/ja0274305 Supporting Info

Evidence for Direct Attack by Hydroxide in Phosphodiester Hydrolysis Adam G. Cassano, Vernon E. Anderson, and Michael E. Harris pp 10964–10965 DOI: 10.1021/ja020823j Supporting Info

Designed Arginine-Rich RNA-Binding Peptides with Picomolar Affinity Ryan J. Austin, Tianbing Xia, Jinsong Ren, Terry T. Takahashi, and Richard W. Roberts pp 10966–10967 DOI: 10.1021/ja026610b Supporting Info

(π-Allyl)palladium Complexes Bearing Diphosphinidenecyclobutene Ligands (DPCB):  Highly Active Catalysts for Direct Conversion of Allylic Alcohols Fumiyuki Ozawa, Hideyuki Okamoto, Seiji Kawagishi, Shogo Yamamoto, Tatsuya Minami, and Masaaki Yoshifuji pp 10968–10969 DOI: 10.1021/ja0274406 Supporting Info

A Practical Catalytic Asymmetric Addition of Alkyl Groups to Ketones Celina García, Lynne K. LaRochelle, and Patrick J. Walsh pp 10970–10971 DOI: 10.1021/ja026568k Supporting Info

A Photochemical Route for Efficient Cyclopeptide Formation with a Minimum of Protection and Activation Chemistry Axel G. Griesbeck, Thomas Heinrich, Michael Oelgemöller, Johann Lex, and Arne Molis pp 10972–10973 DOI: 10.1021/ja025804o Supporting Info

A Negative Temperature Dependence of the Electron Self-Exchange Rates of Zinc Porphyrin π Radical Cations Shunichi Fukuzumi, Yoshito Endo, and Hiroshi Imahori pp 10974–10975 DOI: 10.1021/ja026089l Supporting Info

A Metal−Organic Bilayer Open Framework with a Dynamic Component:  Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Transformations Myunghyun Paik Suh, Jung Woo Ko, and Hye Jin Choi pp 10976–10977 DOI: 10.1021/ja017560y Supporting Info

A Novel [2 + 2 + 1]/[2 + 1] Tandem Cycloaddition Reaction of Fischer Alkynyl Carbenes with Strained Bicyclic Olefins José Barluenga, Manuel Angel Fernández-Rodríguez, Facundo Andina, and Enrique Aguilar pp 10978–10979 DOI: 10.1021/ja027176g Supporting Info

Decreasing the Ring Size of a Cyclic Nonribosomal Peptide Antibiotic by In-Frame Module Deletion in the Biosynthetic Genes Henning D. Mootz, Nadine Kessler, Uwe Linne, Katrin Eppelmann, Dirk Schwarzer, and Mohamed A. Marahiel pp 10980–10981 DOI: 10.1021/ja027276m Supporting Info

Ethylene Adsorption on Platinum:  Kinetics, Bonding, and Relevance to Catalysis Helmut Öfner and Francisco Zaera pp 10982–10983 DOI: 10.1021/ja0270064

A New Type of Catalytic Tandem 1,4-Addition−Aldol Reaction Which Proceeds through an (Oxa-π-allyl)rhodium Intermediate Kazuhiro Yoshida, Masamichi Ogasawara, and Tamio Hayashi pp 10984–10985 DOI: 10.1021/ja0271025 Supporting Info

Long-Range Charge Transport in Duplex DNA:  Anthraquinone Sensitization Results Are Independent of Terminal Ionic Distribution U. Santhosh and Gary B. Schuster pp 10986–10987 DOI: 10.1021/ja026932f Supporting Info

Protease-Catalyzed Peptide Synthesis on Solid Support Rein V. Ulijn, Beatriz Baragaña, Peter J. Halling, and Sabine L. Flitsch pp 10988–10989 DOI: 10.1021/ja026912d

[Ge9Ge9Ge9]6-:  A Linear Trimer of 27 Germanium Atoms Angel Ugrinov and Slavi C. Sevov pp 10990–10991 DOI: 10.1021/ja026679j Supporting Info

Resonance CARS Study of the Structure of “Green” and “Red” Chromophores within the Red Fluorescent Protein DsRed Sergei G. Kruglik, Vinod Subramaniam, Jan Greve, and Cees Otto pp 10992–10993 DOI: 10.1021/ja0260824

Conformational Memory in Photodissociation of Formic Acid Leonid Khriachtchev, Ermelinda Ma^oas, Mika Pettersson, and Markku Rasanen pp 10994–10995 DOI: 10.1021/ja0269791

Zwitterionic Ring-Borylated ansa-Chromocene Complexes Piet-Jan Sinnema, Pamela J. Shapiro, David Min Jin Foo, and Brendan Twamley pp 10996–10997 DOI: 10.1021/ja026633q Supporting Info

Stereodivergent Synthesis of All 15-F2 Isoprostanes Thomas O. Schrader and Marc L. Snapper pp 10998–11000 DOI: 10.1021/ja027154u Supporting Info

Crystal Structure of a Genomically Encoded Fosfomycin Resistance Protein (FosA) at 1.19 Å Resolution by MAD Phasing Off the L-III Edge of Tl+ Chris L. Rife, Rachel E. Pharris, Marcia E. Newcomer, and Richard N. Armstrong pp 11001–11003 DOI: 10.1021/ja026879v Supporting Info

The Active Site of a Zinc-Dependent Metalloproteinase Influences the Computed pKa of Ligands Coordinated to the Catalytic Zinc Ion Jason B. Cross, José S. Duca, James J. Kaminski, and Vincent S. Madison pp 11004–11007 DOI: 10.1021/ja0201810 Supporting Info

FTIR Spectra and Normal-Mode Analysis of a Tetranuclear Manganese Adamantane-like Complex in Two Electrochemically Prepared Oxidation States:  Relevance to the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II Hendrik Visser, Christopher E. Dubé, William H. Armstrong, Kenneth Sauer, and Vittal K. Yachandra pp 11008–11017 DOI: 10.1021/ja020409j Supporting Info

Structural Characterization of a Paramagnetic Metal-Ion-Assembled Three-Stranded α-Helical Coiled Coil Miriam Gochin, Valentina Khorosheva, and Martin A. Case pp 11018–11028 DOI: 10.1021/ja020431c Supporting Info

Influence of the Distal His in Imparting Imidazolate Character to the Proximal His in Heme Peroxidase:  1H NMR Spectroscopic Study of Cyanide-Inhibited His42→Ala Horseradish Peroxidase Jeffrey S. de Ropp, Simon Sham, Anbanandan Asokan, Sherri Newmyer, Paul R. Ortiz de Montellano, and Gerd N. La Mar pp 11029–11037 DOI: 10.1021/ja020176w Supporting Info

Long-Range Magnetization Transfer between Uncoupled Nuclei by Dipole−Dipole Cross-Correlated Relaxation:  A Precise Probe of β-Sheet Geometry in Proteins Jerome Boisbouvier and Ad Bax pp 11038–11045 DOI: 10.1021/ja020511g Supporting Info

A Solid-Phase Approach to Mouse Melanocortin Receptor Agonists Derived from a Novel Thioether Cyclized Peptidomimetic Scaffold Jon Bondebjerg, Zhimin Xiang, Rayna M. Bauzo, Carrie Haskell-Luevano, and Morten Meldal pp 11046–11055 DOI: 10.1021/ja0123913 Supporting Info

A Density Functional Study of O−O Bond Cleavage for a Biomimetic Non-Heme Iron Complex Demonstrating an FeV-Intermediate Arianna Bassan, Margareta R. A. Blomberg, Per E. M. Siegbahn, and Lawrence Que, Jr. pp 11056–11063 DOI: 10.1021/ja026488g

Helical Rosette Nanotubes with Tunable Chiroptical Properties Hicham Fenniri, Bo-Liang Deng, and Alexander E. Ribbe pp 11064–11072 DOI: 10.1021/ja026164s Supporting Info

Structure Activity Relationship by NMR and by Computer:  A Comparative Study Finton Sirockin, Christian Sich, Sabina Improta, Michael Schaefer, Vladimir Saudek, Nicolas Froloff, Martin Karplus, and Annick Dejaegere pp 11073–11084 DOI: 10.1021/ja0265658 Supporting Info

Substituent Effects on the Bond Dissociation Enthalpies of Aromatic Amines Derek A. Pratt, Gino A. DiLabio, Luca Valgimigli, Gian Franco Pedulli, and K. U. Ingold pp 11085–11092 DOI: 10.1021/ja026289x Supporting Info

Syntheses of Highly Substituted Enantiopure C6 and C7 Enones1 Jerry Evarts, Eduardo Torres, and Philip L. Fuchs pp 11093–11101 DOI: 10.1021/ja026760m Supporting Info

Total Syntheses of (+)-Zampanolide and (+)-Dactylolide Exploiting a Unified Strategy Amos B. Smith, III, Igor G. Safonov, and R. Michael Corbett pp 11102–11113 DOI: 10.1021/ja020635t Supporting Info

A High-Throughput Optical Screening Method for the Optimization of Colloidal Water Oxidation Catalysts Natalie D. Morris and Thomas E. Mallouk pp 11114–11121 DOI: 10.1021/ja017895f

Hybrid Density Functional Theory Studies on the Magnetic Interactions and the Weak Covalent Bonding for the Phenalenyl Radical Dimeric Pair Yu Takano, Takeshi Taniguchi, Hiroshi Isobe, Takashi Kubo, Yasushi Morita, Kagetoshi Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Nakasuji, Takeji Takui, and Kizashi Yamaguchi pp 11122–11130 DOI: 10.1021/ja0177197 Supporting Info

Conformational Analysis of a Stereochemically Complete Set of Cis-enediol Peptide Analogues Olivier Michielin, Vincent Zoete, Tiffany Malinky Gierasch, Jens Eckstein, Andrew Napper, Gregory Verdine, and Martin Karplus pp 11131–11141 DOI: 10.1021/ja012695p Supporting Info

Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer versus Hydrogen Atom Transfer in Benzyl/Toluene, Methoxyl/Methanol, and Phenoxyl/Phenol Self-Exchange Reactions James M. Mayer, David A. Hrovat, Jennie L. Thomas, and Weston Thatcher Borden pp 11142–11147 DOI: 10.1021/ja012732c Supporting Info

The Initial Steps in the Hydration of Unsolvated Peptides:  Water Molecule Adsorption on Alanine-Based Helices and Globules Motoya Kohtani and Martin F. Jarrold pp 11148–11158 DOI: 10.1021/ja012755r

Synthesis and Properties of Water-Soluble Asterisk Molecules Fredric M. Menger and Vladimir A. Azov pp 11159–11166 DOI: 10.1021/ja0206238 Supporting Info

Density Functional Theory Study of Redox Pairs:  2. Influence of Solvation and Ion-Pair Formation on the Redox Behavior of Cyclooctatetraene and Nitrobenzene Mu-Hyun Baik, Cynthia K. Schauer, and Tom Ziegler pp 11167–11181 DOI: 10.1021/ja016905+ Supporting Info

“H/Vinyl” and “Alkyl/Vinyl” Conical Intersections Leading to Carbene Formation from the Excited States of Cyclohexene and Norbornene Sarah Wilsey and K. N. Houk pp 11182–11190 DOI: 10.1021/ja012565g Supporting Info

Factors Affecting Gas-Phase Deuterium Scrambling in Peptide Ions and Their Implications for Protein Structure Determination Jeroen A. A. Demmers, Dirk T. S. Rijkers, Johan Haverkamp, J. Antoinette Killian, and Albert J. R. Heck pp 11191–11198 DOI: 10.1021/ja0125927

A Novel Approach for the Sequential Backbone Assignment of Larger Proteins:  Selective Intra-HNCA and DQ-HNCA Daniel Nietlispach, Yutaka Ito, and Ernest D. Laue pp 11199–11207 DOI: 10.1021/ja025865m

Relationships between Carbocation Stabilities and Electrophilic Reactivity Parameters, E:  Quantum Mechanical Studies of Benzhydryl Cation Structures and Stabilities Claus Schindele, K. N. Houk, and Herbert Mayr pp 11208–11214 DOI: 10.1021/ja020617b Supporting Info

Substituted Polypyridine Complexes of Cobalt(II/III) as Efficient Electron-Transfer Mediators in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Shawn A. Sapp, C. Michael Elliott, Cristiano Contado, Stefano Caramori, and Carlo A. Bignozzi pp 11215–11222 DOI: 10.1021/ja027355y

Epoxidation of Alkenes by Amine Catalyst Precursors:  Implication of Aminium Ion and Radical Cation Intermediates [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 8317−8318]. Mauro F. A. Adamo, Varinder K. Aggarwal, and Matthew A. Sage. p 11223 DOI: 10.1021/ja027285v

Advances in Chemical Physics. Volume 122 Edited by Ioannis Antoniou (International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry, Brussels). J. Wiley & Sons:  New York. xxii + 356 pp. $175.00. ISBN:  0-471-22291-7. p 11224 DOI: 10.1021/ja025248y

Microfabricated Sensors:  Application of Optical Technology for DNA Analysis Edited by Richard Kordal (University of Cincinnati), Arthur Usmani (Altec USA), and Wai Tak Law (PortaScience Inc.). American Chemical Society:  Washington, DC (Distributed by Oxford University Press). 2002. x + 158 pp. $100.00. ISBN:  0-8412-3763-8. p 11224 DOI: 10.1021/ja0252577

Glossary of Biotechnology Terms. Third Edition By Kimball Nill (American Soybean Association, St. Louis, MO). CRC Press LLC:  Boca Raton. 2002. viii + 296 pp. $69.95. ISBN:1-58716-122-2. p 11224 DOI: 10.1021/ja0252680

Name Reactions:  A Collection of Detailed Reaction Mechanisms By Jie Jack Li (Pfizer Global Research and Development, Ann Arbor, MI). Springer-Verlag:  Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. 2002. xviii + 416 pp. $79.95. ISBN:  3-540-43024-5. p 11224 DOI: 10.1021/ja025276g

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Blue Myoglobin Reconstituted with an Iron Porphycene Shows Extremely High Oxygen Affinity Takashi Hayashi, Hirohisa Dejima, Takashi Matsuo, Hideaki Sato, Dai Murata, and Yoshio Hisaeda pp 11226–11227 DOI: 10.1021/ja0265052 Supporting Info

Anion−Anion Assembly:  A New Class of Anionic Supramolecular Polymer Containing 3,4-Dichloro-2,5-diamido-substituted Pyrrole Anion Dimers Philip A. Gale, Korakot Navakhun, Salvatore Camiolo, Mark E. Light, and Michael B. Hursthouse pp 11228–11229 DOI: 10.1021/ja027118v Supporting Info

Implications of Active Site Constraints on Varied DNA Polymerase Selectivity Michael Strerath, Janina Cramer, Tobias Restle, and Andreas Marx pp 11230–11231 DOI: 10.1021/ja027060k Supporting Info

15N,1H Heteronuclear Correlation NMR of Gramicidin A in DMPC-d67 Christophe Farès, Frances J. Sharom, and James H. Davis pp 11232–11233 DOI: 10.1021/ja0264549 Supporting Info

Reductive Activation of Dioxygen by a Myoglobin Reconstituted with a Flavohemin Takashi Matsuo, Takashi Hayashi, and Yoshio Hisaeda pp 11234–11235 DOI: 10.1021/ja027291r Supporting Info

A New Experimental Protocol for Intrazeolite Photooxidations. The First Product-Based Estimate of an Upper Limit for the Intrazeolite Singlet Oxygen Lifetime Andrea Pace and Edward L. Clennan pp 11236–11237 DOI: 10.1021/ja027053w Supporting Info

Oxidative Group Transfer to Co(I) Affords a Terminal Co(III) Imido Complex David M. Jenkins, Theodore A. Betley, and Jonas C. Peters pp 11238–11239 DOI: 10.1021/ja026852b Supporting Info

Direct Generation of Nucleophilic Chiral Palladium Enolate from 1,3-Dicarbonyl Compounds:  Catalytic Enantioselective Michael Reaction with Enones Yoshitaka Hamashima, Daido Hotta, and Mikiko Sodeoka pp 11240–11241 DOI: 10.1021/ja027075i Supporting Info

Entrapping Enzyme in a Functionalized Nanoporous Support Chenghong Lei, Yongsoon Shin, Jun Liu, and Eric J. Ackerman pp 11242–11243 DOI: 10.1021/ja026855o Supporting Info

Single-Crystalline Star-Shaped Nanocrystals and Their Evolution:  Programming the Geometry of Nano-Building Blocks Sang-Min Lee, Young-wook Jun, Sung-Nam Cho, and Jinwoo Cheon pp 11244–11245 DOI: 10.1021/ja026805j Supporting Info

Allenes as Carbon Nucleophiles in Palladium-Catalyzed Reactions:  Observation of Anti Attack of Allenes on (π-Allyl)palladium Complexes Johan Franzén, Joakim Löfstedt, Ismet Dorange, and Jan-E. Bäckvall pp 11246–11247 DOI: 10.1021/ja026150m Supporting Info

Thermal Desorption Behavior and Binding Properties of DNA Bases and Nucleosides on Gold Linette M. Demers, Mattias Östblom, Hua Zhang, Nak-Han Jang, Bo Liedberg, and Chad A. Mirkin pp 11248–11249 DOI: 10.1021/ja0265355 Supporting Info

Development of a Decarboxylative Palladation Reaction and Its Use in a Heck-type Olefination of Arene Carboxylates Andrew G. Myers, Daisuke Tanaka, and Michael R. Mannion pp 11250–11251 DOI: 10.1021/ja027523m Supporting Info

Increased Antioxidant Reactivity of Vitamin C at Low pH in Model Membranes Gabriela Gramlich, Jiayun Zhang, and Werner M. Nau pp 11252–11253 DOI: 10.1021/ja026927b Supporting Info

An Ion Conductor That Recognizes Osmotically-Stressed Phospholipid Bilayers Prasun Bandyopadhyay, Punam Bandyopadhyay, and Steven L. Regen pp 11254–11255 DOI: 10.1021/ja026895s Supporting Info

Three-Dimensionally Ordered Mesoporous Niobium Oxide Byongjin Lee, Daling Lu, Junko N. Kondo, and Kazunari Domen pp 11256–11257 DOI: 10.1021/ja026838z Supporting Info

All-Atom Structure Prediction and Folding Simulations of a Stable Protein Carlos Simmerling, Bentley Strockbine, and Adrian E. Roitberg pp 11258–11259 DOI: 10.1021/ja0273851 Supporting Info

Evidence for the HOOO- Anion in the Ozonation of 1,3-Dioxolanes:  Hemiortho Esters as the Primary Products Božo Plesniar, Janez Cerkovnik, Tell Tuttle, Elfi Kraka, and Dieter Cremer pp 11260–11261 DOI: 10.1021/ja0276319 Supporting Info

Catalytic CO Oxidation by a Gold Nanoparticle:  A Density Functional Study Nuria Lopez and Jens K. Nørskov pp 11262–11263 DOI: 10.1021/ja026998a

Intramolecular and Intermolecular N−H···C5H5- Hydrogen Bonding in Magnesocene Adducts of Alkylamines. Implications for Chemical Vapor Deposition Using Cyclopentadienyl Source Compounds Aibing Xia, Mary Jane Heeg, and Charles H. Winter pp 11264–11265 DOI: 10.1021/ja026199s Supporting Info

Isolation and Structure of [HC{CH(SiMe3)(SnMe3)}2]+:  A Remarkably Stable sec-Alkyl Cation Mark Schormann, Shaun Garratt, David L. Hughes, Jennifer C. Green, and Manfred Bochmann pp 11266–11267 DOI: 10.1021/ja026443f Supporting Info

Contact Resistance in Metal−Molecule−Metal Junctions Based on Aliphatic SAMs:  Effects of Surface Linker and Metal Work Function Jeremy M. Beebe, Vincent B. Engelkes, Larry L. Miller, and C. Daniel Frisbie pp 11268–11269 DOI: 10.1021/ja0268332

An Anchoring Role for FeS Clusters:  Chelation of the Amino Acid Moiety of S-Adenosylmethionine to the Unique Iron Site of the [4Fe−4S] Cluster of Pyruvate Formate-Lyase Activating Enzyme Charles J. Walsby, Danilo Ortillo, William E. Broderick, Joan B. Broderick, and Brian M. Hoffman pp 11270–11271 DOI: 10.1021/ja027078v

Utilization of Alternate Substrates by the First Three Modules of the Epothilone Synthetase Assembly Line Tanya L. Schneider, Christopher T. Walsh, and Sarah E. O'Connor pp 11272–11273 DOI: 10.1021/ja0274498 Supporting Info

Synthesis, Structure, and Ferromagnetic Behavior of Decacopper(II) Cluster Complex Supported by Hexaanionic p-tert-Butylthiacalix[6]arene Takashi Kajiwara, Noriyoshi Kon, Shuichi Yokozawa, Tasuku Ito, Nobuhiko Iki, and Sotaro Miyano pp 11274–11275 DOI: 10.1021/ja0273391 Supporting Info

The Active Site of Arsenite Oxidase from Alcaligenes faecalis Thomas Conrads, Craig Hemann, Graham N. George, Ingrid J. Pickering, Roger C. Prince, and Russ Hille pp 11276–11277 DOI: 10.1021/ja027684q Supporting Info

A Warning on the Use of Radical Traps as a Test for Radical Mechanisms:  They React with Palladium Hydrido Complexes Ana C. Albéniz, Pablo Espinet, Raquel López-Fernández, and Ayusman Sen pp 11278–11279 DOI: 10.1021/ja0271126

Dynamics of Electron Injection in DNA Hairpins Frederick D. Lewis, Xiaoyang Liu, Scott E. Miller, Ryan T. Hayes, and Michael R. Wasielewski pp 11280–11281 DOI: 10.1021/ja026751d Supporting Info

Remarkable Stability and Enhanced Optical Activity of a Chiral Supramolecular Bis-porphyrin Tweezer in Both Solution and Solid State Victor V. Borovkov, Juha M. Lintuluoto, Makiko Sugiura, Yoshihisa Inoue, and Reiko Kuroda pp 11282–11283 DOI: 10.1021/ja026884z Supporting Info

Structure Sensitivity and Photocatalytic Reactions of Semiconductors. Effect of the Last Layer Atomic Arrangement Jarod N. Wilson and Hicham Idriss pp 11284–11285 DOI: 10.1021/ja027155m

Long-Range Oxidative Damage to DNA:  Protection of Guanines by a Nonspecifically Bound Disulfide Sriram Kanvah and Gary B. Schuster pp 11286–11287 DOI: 10.1021/ja027259x Supporting Info

Magnetic Structure of the Europium Fulleride Ferromagnet Eu6C60 Irene Margiolaki, Serena Margadonna, Kosmas Prassides, Thomas Hansen, Kenji Ishii, and Hiroyoshi Suematsu pp 11288–11289 DOI: 10.1021/ja0274148 Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of (+)-α-Onocerin in Four Steps via Four-Component Coupling and Tetracyclization Steps Yuan Mi, Jürg V. Schreiber, and E. J. Corey pp 11290–11291 DOI: 10.1021/ja027373f Supporting Info

Intramolecular Diels−Alder and Tandem Intramolecular Diels−Alder/1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reactions of 1,3,4-Oxadiazoles Gordon D. Wilkie, Gregory I. Elliott, Brian S. J. Blagg, Scott E. Wolkenberg, Danielle R. Soenen, Michael M. Miller, Scott Pollack, and Dale L. Boger pp 11292–11294 DOI: 10.1021/ja027533n Supporting Info

Environmental Effects on Phosphoryl Group Bonding Probed by Vibrational Spectroscopy:  Implications for Understanding Phosphoryl Transfer and Enzymatic Catalysis Hu Cheng, Ivana Nikolic-Hughes, Jianghua H. Wang, Hua Deng, Patrick J. O'Brien, Li Wu, Zhong-Yin Zhang, Daniel Herschlag, and Robert Callender pp 11295–11306 DOI: 10.1021/ja026481z

Proximity Effects in Monolayer Films:  Kinetic Analysis of Amide Bond Formation at the Air−Water Interface Using 1H NMR Spectroscopy Jaya K. Kumar and John S. Oliver pp 11307–11314 DOI: 10.1021/ja0175237 Supporting Info

Solution and Solid-State Models of Peptide CH···O Hydrogen Bonds Paul W. Baures, Alicia M. Beatty, Muthu Dhanasekaran, Brian A. Helfrich, Waleska Pérez-Segarra, and John Desper pp 11315–11323 DOI: 10.1021/ja0257366 Supporting Info

Secondary Structure of DNA Is Recognized by Slightly Cross-Linked Cationic Hydrogel Vladimir G. Sergeyev, Olga A. Novoskoltseva, Olga A. Pyshkina, Anatoly A. Zinchenko, Valentina B. Rogacheva, Alexander B. Zezin, Kenichi Yoshikawa, and Victor A. Kabanov pp 11324–11333 DOI: 10.1021/ja020486e

Kinetics and Mechanism for CO2 Scrambling in a N-Carboxyimidazolidone Analogue for N1-Carboxybiotin Fiona J. Lihs and M. Tyler Caudle pp 11334–11341 DOI: 10.1021/ja026753y Supporting Info

Development of the [3 + 2] Annulations of Cyclohexenylsilanes and Chlorosulfonyl Isocyanate:  Application to the Total Synthesis of (±)-Peduncularine Claudia W. Roberson and K. A. Woerpel pp 11342–11348 DOI: 10.1021/ja012152f Supporting Info

Quenching of n,π*-Excited States in the Gas Phase:  Variations in Absolute Reactivity and Selectivity Dieter Klapstein, Uwe Pischel, and Werner M. Nau pp 11349–11357 DOI: 10.1021/ja020400h

Structure and Stereodynamics of N,N-Bis(silyloxy)enamines Alexander A. Tishkov, Alexander D. Dilman, Valery I. Faustov, Arsenij A. Birukov, Konstantin S. Lysenko, Paul A. Belyakov, Sema L. Ioffe, Yury A. Strelenko, and Michael Yu. Antipin pp 11358–11367 DOI: 10.1021/ja026548i Supporting Info

Enantioselective Synthesis of the Protein Phosphatase Inhibitor (−)-Motuporin Tao Hu and James S. Panek pp 11368–11378 DOI: 10.1021/ja0206700 Supporting Info

Efficient Chemoselective Carboxylation of Aromatics to Arylcarboxylic Acids with a Superelectrophilically Activated Carbon Dioxide−Al2Cl6/Al System George A. Olah, Béla Török, Jens P. Joschek, Imre Bucsi, Pierre M. Esteves, Golam Rasul, and G. K. Surya Prakash pp 11379–11391 DOI: 10.1021/ja020787o Supporting Info

Steric Control of Organic Transformation by a Dendrimer Cage:  Organocobalt Dendrimer Porphyrins as Novel Coenzyme B12 Mimics Makoto Uyemura and Takuzo Aida pp 11392–11403 DOI: 10.1021/ja020687i

On the Mechanism of (PCP)Ir-Catalyzed Acceptorless Dehydrogenation of Alkanes:  A Combined Computational and Experimental Study Karsten Krogh-Jespersen, Margaret Czerw, Nadine Summa, Kenton B. Renkema, Patrick D. Achord, and Alan S. Goldman pp 11404–11416 DOI: 10.1021/ja012460d Supporting Info

The First Example of a Nitrile Hydratase Model Complex that Reversibly Binds Nitriles Jason Shearer, Henry L. Jackson, Dirk Schweitzer, Durrell K. Rittenberg, Tanya M. Leavy, Werner Kaminsky, Robert C. Scarrow, and Julie A. Kovacs pp 11417–11428 DOI: 10.1021/ja012555f Supporting Info

Atomistic Models for CeO2(111), (110), and (100) Nanoparticles, Supported on Yttrium-Stabilized Zirconia Dean C. Sayle, S. Andrada Maicaneanu,and Graeme W. Watson pp 11429–11439 DOI: 10.1021/ja020657f

Interaction between f-Electronic Systems in Dinuclear Lanthanide Complexes with Phthalocyanines Naoto Ishikawa, Tomochika Iino, and Youkoh Kaizu pp 11440–11447 DOI: 10.1021/ja027119n

Mechanism of the Photochemical Ligand Substitution Reactions of fac-[Re(bpy)(CO)3(PR3)]+ Complexes and the Properties of Their Triplet Ligand-Field Excited States Kazuhide Koike, Nobuaki Okoshi, Hisao Hori, Koji Takeuchi, Osamu Ishitani, Hideaki Tsubaki, Ian P. Clark, Michael W. George, Frank P. A. Johnson, and James J. Turner pp 11448–11455 DOI: 10.1021/ja017032m

Oxidative Addition of Water and Aliphatic Alcohols by IrCl(trialkylphosphine)3 Ofer Blum and David Milstein pp 11456–11467 DOI: 10.1021/ja012611c Supporting Info

Chemistry of the Strong Electrophilic Metal Fragment [99Tc(N)(PXP)]2+ (PXP = Diphosphine Ligand). A Novel Tool for the Selective Labeling of Small Molecules Cristina Bolzati, Alessandra Boschi, Licia Uccelli, Francesco Tisato, Fiorenzo Refosco, Aldo Cagnolini, Adriano Duatti, Sushumna Prakash, Giuliano Bandoli, and Andrea Vittadini pp 11468–11479 DOI: 10.1021/ja0200239 Supporting Info

Colloidal Synthesis and Self-Assembly of CoPt3 Nanocrystals Elena V. Shevchenko, Dmitri V. Talapin, Andrey L. Rogach, Andreas Kornowski, Markus Haase, and Horst Weller pp 11480–11485 DOI: 10.1021/ja025976l Supporting Info

Divergent Pathways of C−H Bond Activation:  Reactions of (t-Bu3PN)2TiMe2 with Trimethylaluminum James E. Kickham, Frédéric Guérin, and Douglas W. Stephan pp 11486–11494 DOI: 10.1021/ja0260972 Supporting Info

Magnetic Ordering in Doped Cd1-xCoxSe Diluted Magnetic Quantum Dots Khalid M. Hanif, Robert W. Meulenberg, and Geoffrey F. Strouse pp 11495–11502 DOI: 10.1021/ja0262840

Insights into the Free-Energy Dependence of Intramolecular Dissociative Electron Transfers Sabrina Antonello, Marco Crisma, Fernando Formaggio, Alessandro Moretto, Ferdinando Taddei, Claudio Toniolo, and Flavio Maran pp 11503–11513 DOI: 10.1021/ja0263644 Supporting Info

Hot-Fluid Annealing for Crystalline Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles in Stable Suspension Jun Lin, Yi Lin, Ping Liu, Mohammed J. Meziani, Lawrence F. Allard, and Ya-Ping Sun pp 11514–11518 DOI: 10.1021/ja0206341

Charged States of Proteins. Reactions of Doubly Protonated Alkyldiamines with NH3:  Solvation or Deprotonation. Extension of Two Proton Cases to Multiply Protonated Globular Proteins Observed in the Gas Phase Michael Peschke, Arthur Blades, and Paul Kebarle pp 11519–11530 DOI: 10.1021/ja012591e

Conformational and Spectroscopic Analysis of the Tyrosyl Radical Dipeptide Analogue in the Gas Phase and in Aqueous Solution by a Density Functional/Continuum Solvent Model Emma Langella, Roberto Improta, and Vincenzo Barone pp 11531–11540 DOI: 10.1021/ja020465k

Photoinduced Energy- and Electron-Transfer Processes within Dynamic Self-assembled Donor−Acceptor Arrays Michael Kercher, Burkhard König, Harald Zieg, and Luisa De Cola pp 11541–11551 DOI: 10.1021/ja026695g

Isotope Effects and the Mechanism of an Electron-Transfer-Catalyzed Diels−Alder Reaction Nicolas J. Saettel, Olaf Wiest, Daniel A. Singleton, and Matthew P. Meyer pp 11552–11559 DOI: 10.1021/ja026924z Supporting Info

Advances in Gas Phase Ion Chemistry. Volume 4 Edited by Nigel G. Adams and Lucia M. Babcock (University of Georgia). Elsevier:  Amsterdam. 2001. xiv and 315 pp. $184.50. 0-444-50929-1. Jennifer S. Brodbelt p 11560 DOI: 10.1021/ja025210l

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Facile Preparation of Transition Metal Nanoparticles Stabilized by Well-Defined (Co)polymers Synthesized via Aqueous Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization Andrew B. Lowe, Brent S. Sumerlin, Michael S. Donovan, and Charles L. McCormick pp 11562–11563 DOI: 10.1021/ja020556h Supporting Info

Long-Range Interactions Stabilize the Fold of a Non-natural Oligomer Richard P. Cheng and William F. DeGrado pp 11564–11565 DOI: 10.1021/ja020728a

Transition Metal-Catalyzed Hydro-, Sila-, and Stannastannation of Cyclopropenes:  Stereo- and Regioselective Approach toward Multisubstituted Cyclopropyl Synthons Marina Rubina, Michael Rubin, and Vladimir Gevorgyan pp 11566–11567 DOI: 10.1021/ja027095k Supporting Info

A New Insight into Fischer−Tropsch Synthesis Zhi-Pan Liu and P. Hu pp 11568–11569 DOI: 10.1021/ja012759w Supporting Info

Electrochemically Driven Clathration/Declathration of Ferrocene and Its Derivatives by a Nanometer-Sized Coordination Cage Wei-Yin Sun, Takahiro Kusukawa, and Makoto Fujita pp 11570–11571 DOI: 10.1021/ja0206285 Supporting Info

Controlled Synthesis of Hydroxyapatite-Supported Palladium Complexes as Highly Efficient Heterogeneous Catalysts Kohsuke Mori, Kazuya Yamaguchi, Takayoshi Hara, Tomoo Mizugaki, Kohki Ebitani, and Kiyotomi Kaneda pp 11572–11573 DOI: 10.1021/ja020444q Supporting Info

Influence of Amino Acid Side Chain Packing on Fe−Methionine Coordination in Thermostable Cytochrome c Yasuhiko Yamamoto, Norifumi Terui, Naoki Tachiiri, Kazuhisa Minakawa, Hitomi Matsuo, Tsunenori Kameda, Jun Hasegawa, Yoshihiro Sambongi, Susumu Uchiyama, Yuji Kobayashi, and Yasuo Igarashi pp 11574–11575 DOI: 10.1021/ja025597s

Ter(9,9-diarylfluorene)s:  Highly Efficient Blue Emitter with Promising Electrochemical and Thermal Stability Ken-Tsung Wong, Yuh-Yih Chien, Ruei-Tang Chen, Chung-Feng Wang, Yu-Ting Lin, Huo-Hsien Chiang, Ping-Yuan Hsieh, Chung-Chih Wu, Chung Hsien Chou, Yuhlong Oliver Su, Gene-Hsiang Lee, and Shie-Ming Peng pp 11576–11577 DOI: 10.1021/ja0269587 Supporting Info

Insertion/Isomerization Polymerization of 1,5-Hexadiene:  Synthesis of Functional Propylene Copolymers and Block Copolymers Phillip D. Hustad and Geoffrey W. Coates pp 11578–11579 DOI: 10.1021/ja0273748 Supporting Info

The Formation of ReS2 Inorganic Fullerene-like Structures Containing Re4 Parallelogram Units and Metal−Metal Bonds Karl S. Coleman, Jeremy Sloan, Neal A. Hanson, Gareth Brown, Gerald P. Clancy, Mauricio Terrones, Humberto Terrones, and Malcolm L. H. Green pp 11580–11581 DOI: 10.1021/ja0261630 Supporting Info

Rhenium(IV) Sulfide Nanotubes Michael Brorson, Thomas W. Hansen, and Claus J. H. Jacobsen pp 11582–11583 DOI: 10.1021/ja027084r

Total Syntheses of (+)- and (−)-Cacospongionolide B:  New Insight into Structural Requirements for Phospholipase A2 Inhibition Atwood K. Cheung and Marc L. Snapper pp 11584–11585 DOI: 10.1021/ja026899x Supporting Info

Dramatic Rate Enhancement with Preservation of Stereospecificity in the First Metal-Catalyzed Additions of Allylboronates Jason W. J. Kennedy and Dennis G. Hall pp 11586–11587 DOI: 10.1021/ja027453j Supporting Info

Synthesis and Alkali Metal Ion-Binding Properties of a Chromium(III) Triacetylide Complex Louise A. Berben and Jeffrey R. Long pp 11588–11589 DOI: 10.1021/ja027309y Supporting Info

Libraries of Composite Polyfluors Built from Fluorescent Deoxyribosides Jianmin Gao, Christoph Strässler, Deborah Tahmassebi, and Eric T. Kool pp 11590–11591 DOI: 10.1021/ja027197a Supporting Info

A Facile Method for the Synthesis of Polycyclic Indole Derivatives:  The Generation and Reaction of Tungsten-Containing Azomethine Ylides Hiroyuki Kusama, Jun Takaya, and Nobuharu Iwasawa pp 11592–11593 DOI: 10.1021/ja027589h Supporting Info

Amphipols Can Support the Activity of a Membrane Enzyme Bonnie M. Gorzelle, Amy Kuhn Hoffman, Melvin H. Keyes, Don N. Gray, Dale G. Ray, and Charles R. Sanders pp 11594–11595 DOI: 10.1021/ja027051b

Direct Observation of the Multistep Helix Formation of Poly-l-glutamic Acids Tetsunari Kimura, Satoshi Takahashi, Shuji Akiyama, Takanori Uzawa, Koichiro Ishimori, and Isao Morishima pp 11596–11597 DOI: 10.1021/ja026639f Supporting Info

Palladium/Me3SiOTf-Catalyzed Bis-silylation of α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds without Involving Oxidative Addition of Disilane Sensuke Ogoshi, Sadayuki Tomiyasu, Masaki Morita, and Hideo Kurosawa pp 11598–11599 DOI: 10.1021/ja0272944

Alkynyliodonium Salts in Organic Synthesis. Application to the Total Synthesis of the Tropoloisoquinoline Alkaloid Pareitropone Ken S. Feldman and Timothy D. Cutarelli pp 11600–11601 DOI: 10.1021/ja0277430 Supporting Info

High-Resolution NMR Spectroscopy of Quadrupolar Nuclei in Solids:  Satellite-Transition MAS with Self-Compensation for Magic-Angle Misset Sharon E. Ashbrook and Stephen Wimperis pp 11602–11603 DOI: 10.1021/ja0203869

Sila-metalation Route to Hydrido(trialkylsilyl)silyllithiums Takeaki Iwamoto, Junichiro Okita, Chizuko Kabuto, and Mitsuo Kira pp 11604–11605 DOI: 10.1021/ja026705d Supporting Info

A Polyhedral Host Constructed Using a Linear Template Tamara D. Hamilton, Giannis S. Papaefstathiou, and Leonard R. MacGillivray pp 11606–11607 DOI: 10.1021/ja0278281 Supporting Info

A Novel Microtubule Destabilizing Entity from Orthogonal Synthesis of Triazine Library and Zebrafish Embryo Screening Ho-Sang Moon, Eric M. Jacobson, Sonya M. Khersonsky, Michael R. Luzung, Daniel P. Walsh, Wennan Xiong, Jae Wook Lee, Puja B. Parikh, Jennifer C. Lam, Tae-Wook Kang, Gustavo R. Rosania, Alexander F. Schier, and Young-Tae Chang pp 11608–11609 DOI: 10.1021/ja026720i Supporting Info

Pentalene Complexes of Group 7 Metal Carbonyls:  An Organometallic Mixed-Valence System with Very Large Metal−Metal Electronic Coupling Simon C. Jones, Tony Hascall, Stephen Barlow, and Dermot O'Hare pp 11610–11611 DOI: 10.1021/ja027705g Supporting Info

A Voltammetric Study of Interdomain Electron Transfer within Sulfite Oxidase Sean J. Elliott, Anne E. McElhaney, Changjian Feng, John H. Enemark, and Fraser A. Armstrong pp 11612–11613 DOI: 10.1021/ja027776f

Preparation, Structure, and Unexpected Chemistry of Phosphoranyl-Derived Benziodoxoles Viktor V. Zhdankin, Olena Maydanovych, Jon Herschbach, Robert McDonald, and Rik R. Tykwinski pp 11614–11615 DOI: 10.1021/ja0277780 Supporting Info

DYKAT of Baylis−Hillman Adducts:  Concise Total Synthesis of Furaquinocin E Barry M. Trost, Oliver R. Thiel, and Hon-Chung Tsui pp 11616–11617 DOI: 10.1021/ja0277834 Supporting Info

Absolute Asymmetric Photoreactions of Aliphatic Amino Acids by Circularly Polarized Synchrotron Radiation:  Critically pH-Dependent Photobehavior Hideo Nishino, Atsuko Kosaka, Guy A. Hembury, Fumiko Aoki, Koji Miyauchi, Hiroshi Shitomi, Hideo Onuki, and Yoshihisa Inoue pp 11618–11627 DOI: 10.1021/ja025959w Supporting Info

Structural Studies of the Carbon Monoxide Complex of [NiFe]hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Miyazaki F:  Suggestion for the Initial Activation Site for Dihydrogen Hideaki Ogata, Yasutaka Mizoguchi, Nobuhiro Mizuno, Kunio Miki, Shin-ichi Adachi, Noritake Yasuoka, Tatsuhiko Yagi, Osamu Yamauchi, Shun Hirota, and Yoshiki Higuchi pp 11628–11635 DOI: 10.1021/ja012645k

Germacrene A Is a Product of the Aristolochene Synthase-Mediated Conversion of Farnesylpyrophosphate to Aristolochene Melanie J. Calvert, Peter R. Ashton, and Rudolf K. Allemann pp 11636–11641 DOI: 10.1021/ja020762p

Fate of the Intermediate Diradicals in the Caldera:  Stereochemistry of Thermal Stereomutations, (2 + 2) Cycloreversions, and (2 + 4) Ring-Enlargements of cis- and trans- 1-Cyano-2-(E and Z)-propenyl-cis-3,4-dideuteriocyclobutanes W. von E. Doering, Xueheng Cheng, Kyuwang Lee, and Zisen Lin pp 11642–11652 DOI: 10.1021/ja0206083

Enantiodivergence in Small-Molecule Catalysis of Asymmetric Phosphorylation:  Concise Total Syntheses of the Enantiomeric d-myo-Inositol-1-phosphate and d-myo-Inositol-3-phosphate Bianca R. Sculimbrene, Adam J. Morgan, and Scott J. Miller pp 11653–11656 DOI: 10.1021/ja027402m Supporting Info

Contribution of Multicentered Short Hydrogen Bond Arrays to Potency of Active Site-Directed Serine Protease Inhibitors Bradley A. Katz, Jeffrey R. Spencer, Kyle Elrod, Christine Luong, Richard L. Mackman, Mark Rice, Paul A. Sprengeler, Darin Allen, and James Janc pp 11657–11668 DOI: 10.1021/ja020082m

What Accounts for the Difference between Singlet Phenylphosphinidene and Singlet Phenylnitrene in Reactivity toward Ring Expansion? John Morrison Galbraith, Peter P. Gaspar, and Weston Thatcher Borden pp 11669–11674 DOI: 10.1021/ja0269892 Supporting Info

The First Homologous Series of Self-Assembled Aryl Bromo- and Aryl Cyanocuprates, -Argentates, and -Aurates; MLi2XAr2 (M = CuI, AgI, AuI; X = Br, CN; Ar = [C6H4CH2N(Et)CH2CH2NEt2-2]-) Claudia M. P. Kronenburg, Johann T. B. H. Jastrzebski, Jaap Boersma, Martin Lutz, Anthony L. Spek, and Gerard van Koten pp 11675–11683 DOI: 10.1021/ja026945t Supporting Info

The Copper-Catalyzed N-Arylation of Indoles Jon C. Antilla, Artis Klapars, and Stephen L. Buchwald pp 11684–11688 DOI: 10.1021/ja027433h Supporting Info

Asymmetric Carbon−Carbon Bond Formations in Conjugate Additions of Lithiated N-Boc Allylic and Benzylic Amines to Nitroalkenes:  Enantioselective Synthesis of Substituted Piperidines, Pyrrolidines, and Pyrimidinones Timothy A. Johnson, Doo Ok Jang, Brian W. Slafer, Michael D. Curtis, and Peter Beak pp 11689–11698 DOI: 10.1021/ja0271375 Supporting Info

Effect of Pressure on Coupled Electronic Ground and Excited States Determined from Luminescence Spectra of trans-Dioxorhenium(V) Complexes John K. Grey, Ian S. Butler, and Christian Reber pp 11699–11708 DOI: 10.1021/ja012629n Supporting Info

Synthetic Models for the Cysteinate-Ligated Non-Heme Iron Enzyme Superoxide Reductase:  Observation and Structural Characterization by XAS of an FeIII−OOH Intermediate Jason Shearer, Robert C. Scarrow, and Julie A. Kovacs pp 11709–11717 DOI: 10.1021/ja012722b Supporting Info

Direct Formation of Ge−C Bonds from GeO2 Larry N. Lewis, Kyle E. Litz, and Joseph M. Anostario pp 11718–11722 DOI: 10.1021/ja020499s

The Repulsive Coulomb Barrier along a Dissociation Path of the Be Dianion Qicun Shi and Sabre Kais pp 11723–11729 DOI: 10.1021/ja020116q

Molecular Rectification in a Metal−Insulator−Metal Junction Based on Self-Assembled Monolayers Michael L. Chabinyc, Xiaoxi Chen, R. Erik Holmlin, Heiko Jacobs, Hjalti Skulason, C. Daniel Frisbie, Vladimiro Mujica, Mark A. Ratner, Maria Anita Rampi, and George M. Whitesides pp 11730–11736 DOI: 10.1021/ja020506c

Mechanism of the Six-Electron Reduction of Nitrite to Ammonia by Cytochrome c Nitrite Reductase Oliver Einsle, Albrecht Messerschmidt, Robert Huber, Peter M. H. Kroneck, and Frank Neese pp 11737–11745 DOI: 10.1021/ja0206487

Resolving the Different Dynamics of the Fluorine Sublattices in the Anionic Conductor BaSnF4 by Using High-Resolution MAS NMR Techniques Santanu Chaudhuri, Francis Wang, and Clare P. Grey pp 11746–11757 DOI: 10.1021/ja026155j Supporting Info

Spatial Localization of Ligand Binding Sites from Electron Current Density Surfaces Calculated from NMR Chemical Shift Perturbations Mark A. McCoy and Daniel F. Wyss pp 11758–11763 DOI: 10.1021/ja026166c

Dynamic Simulations of Adhesion and Friction in Chemical Force Microscopy Yongsheng Leng and Shaoyi Jiang pp 11764–11770 DOI: 10.1021/ja026274z

The Spin Distribution in Low-Spin Iron Porphyrins Mikael P. Johansson, Dage Sundholm, Gary Gerfen, and Mårten Wikström pp 11771–11780 DOI: 10.1021/ja026523j Supporting Info

Stability, Metastability, and Unstability of Three-Electron-Bonded Radical Anions. A Model ab Initio Theoretical Study Benoît Braïda, Lea Thogersen, Wei Wu, and Philippe C. Hiberty pp 11781–11790 DOI: 10.1021/ja026707y

Al62- − Fusion of Two Aromatic Al3- Units. A Combined Photoelectron Spectroscopy and ab Initio Study of M+[Al62-] (M = Li, Na, K, Cu, and Au) Aleksey E. Kuznetsov, Alexander I. Boldyrev, Hua-Jin Zhai, Xi Li, and Lai-Sheng Wang pp 11791–11801 DOI: 10.1021/ja027423g

Toward True DNA Base-Stacking Energies:  MP2, CCSD(T), and Complete Basis Set Calculations Pavel Hobza and Jiří Šponer pp 11802–11808 DOI: 10.1021/ja026759n

What Factors Affect the Regioselectivity of Oxidation by Cytochrome P450? A DFT Study of Allylic Hydroxylation and Double Bond Epoxidation in a Model Reaction Sam P. de Visser, François Ogliaro, Pankaz K. Sharma, and Sason Shaik pp 11809–11826 DOI: 10.1021/ja026872d Supporting Info

Phospholipid Bicelles That Align with Their Normals Parallel to the Magnetic Field Chibing Tan, B. M. Fung, and Gyoujin Cho pp 11827–11832 DOI: 10.1021/ja027079n

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Stable (Aryl)(phosphino)carbenes:  New Ligands for Transition Metals Emmanuelle Despagnet, Karinne Miqueu, Heinz Gornitzka, Philip W. Dyer, Didier Bourissou, and Guy Bertrand pp 11834–11835 DOI: 10.1021/ja027201i Supporting Info

Helical Pitch of m-Phenylene Ethynylene Foldamers by Double Spin Labeling Kenji Matsuda, Matthew T. Stone, and Jeffrey S. Moore pp 11836–11837 DOI: 10.1021/ja027437m Supporting Info

Development of a Potent Bcl-xL Antagonist Based on α-Helix Mimicry Olaf Kutzki, Hyung Soon Park, Justin T. Ernst, Brendan P. Orner, Hang Yin, and Andrew D. Hamilton pp 11838–11839 DOI: 10.1021/ja026861k Supporting Info

Photoreaction of the Cysteine S−H Group in the LOV2 Domain of Adiantum Phytochrome3 Tatsuya Iwata, Satoru Tokutomi, and Hideki Kandori pp 11840–11841 DOI: 10.1021/ja020834c

Depth-Profiling with Giant Vesicle Membranes Fredric M. Menger, Jason S. Keiper, and Kevin L. Caran pp 11842–11843 DOI: 10.1021/ja020838h

Light-Induced Charge Redistribution in the Retinal Chromophore Is Required for Initiating the Bacteriorhodopsin Photocycle Uri Zadok, Artium Khatchatouriants, Aaron Lewis, Michael Ottolenghi, and Mordechai Sheves pp 11844–11845 DOI: 10.1021/ja0274251

Ruthenium-Catalyzed Propargylation of Aromatic Compounds with Propargylic Alcohols Yoshiaki Nishibayashi, Masato Yoshikawa, Youichi Inada, Masanobu Hidai, and Sakae Uemura pp 11846–11847 DOI: 10.1021/ja027023t Supporting Info

A FRET-Based Ultraviolet to Near-Infrared Frequency Converter Jason M. Serin, Darryl W. Brousmiche, and Jean M. J. Fréchet pp 11848–11849 DOI: 10.1021/ja027564i Supporting Info

Electromodulated Molecular Transport in Gold-Nanotube Membranes Sang Bok Lee and Charles R. Martin pp 11850–11851 DOI: 10.1021/ja027494f

Substrate-Based Design of the First Class of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme-Related Carboxypeptidase (ACE2) Inhibitors Natalie A. Dales, Alexandra E. Gould, James A. Brown, Emily F. Calderwood, Bing Guan, Charles A. Minor, James M. Gavin, Paul Hales, Virendar K. Kaushik, Michael Stewart, Peter J. Tummino, Chad S. Vickers, Timothy D. Ocain, and Michael A. Patane pp 11852–11853 DOI: 10.1021/ja0277226 Supporting Info

Blue Shifting Hydrogen Bonding in the Complexes of Chlorofluoro Haloforms with Acetone-d6 and Oxirane-d4 Sofie N. Delanoye, Wouter A. Herrebout, and Benjamin J. van der Veken pp 11854–11855 DOI: 10.1021/ja027610e

C−C Bond Formation via C−H Bond Activation:  Synthesis of the Core of Teleocidin B4 Brian D. Dangel, Kamil Godula, So Won Youn, Bengü Sezen, and Dalibor Sames pp 11856–11857 DOI: 10.1021/ja027311p Supporting Info

Copper-Catalyzed Suzuki Cross-Coupling Using Mixed Nanocluster Catalysts Mehul B. Thathagar, Jurriaan Beckers, and Gadi Rothenberg pp 11858–11859 DOI: 10.1021/ja027716+ Supporting Info

Restricted Hydration Structures of Rb and Br Ions Confined in Slit-Shaped Carbon Nanospace Takahiro Ohkubo, Takehisa Konishi, Yoshiyuki Hattori, Hirofumi Kanoh, Takashi Fujikawa, and Katsumi Kaneko pp 11860–11861 DOI: 10.1021/ja027144t Supporting Info

Molecular Diodes Based on Conjugated Diblock Co-oligomers Man-Kit Ng, Dong-Chan Lee, and Luping Yu pp 11862–11863 DOI: 10.1021/ja026808w Supporting Info

Smart Nanotubes for Bioseparations and Biocatalysis David T. Mitchell, Sang Bok Lee, Lcrmioara Trofin, Naichao Li, Tarja K. Nevanen, Hans Söderlund, and Charles R. Martin pp 11864–11865 DOI: 10.1021/ja027247b Supporting Info

Pyrene·Pyrene Complexes at the Active Site of Cytochrome P450 3A4:  Evidence for a Multiple Substrate Binding Site Michael J. Dabrowski, Michael L. Schrag, Larry C. Wienkers, and William M. Atkins pp 11866–11867 DOI: 10.1021/ja027552x

Water-Soluble Oligomer Dimers Based on Paracyclophane:  A New Optical Platform for Fluorescent Sensor Applications Janice W. Hong, Brent S. Gaylord, and Guillermo C. Bazan pp 11868–11869 DOI: 10.1021/ja027170r Supporting Info

A Readily-Accessible (+)-Sparteine Surrogate Michael J. Dearden, Catherine R. Firkin, Jean-Paul R. Hermet, and Peter O'Brien pp 11870–11871 DOI: 10.1021/ja027774v Supporting Info

Synthesis of Vesicles on Polymer Template Tatiana K. Bronich, Ming Ouyang, Victor A. Kabanov, Adi Eisenberg, Francis C. Szoka, Jr., and Alexander V. Kabanov pp 11872–11873 DOI: 10.1021/ja020509p Supporting Info

Structure-Based Screening As Applied to Human FABP4:  A Highly Efficient Alternative to HTS for Hit Generation Maria J. P. van Dongen, Jonas Uppenberg, Stefan Svensson, Thomas Lundbäck, Tomas Åkerud, Mats Wikström, and Johan Schultz pp 11874–11880 DOI: 10.1021/ja017830c Supporting Info

A Theoretical Study of Conformational Properties of N-Methyl Azapeptide Derivatives Ho-Jin Lee, Jong-Won Song, Young-Sang Choi, Hyun-Mee Park, and Kang-Bong Lee pp 11881–11893 DOI: 10.1021/ja026496x Supporting Info

Glycyl Cα Chemical Shielding in Tripeptides:  Measurement by Solid-State NMR and Correlation with X-ray Structure and Theory Eduard Y. Chekmenev, Ray Z. Xu, Mark S. Mashuta, and Richard J. Wittebort pp 11894–11899 DOI: 10.1021/ja026700g

Synthesis of a Negatively Charged Dibenzofuran-Based β-Turn Mimetic and Its Incorporation into the WW Miniprotein-Enhanced Solubility without a Loss of Thermodynamic Stability Ramesh Kaul, Songpon Deechongkit, and Jeffery W. Kelly pp 11900–11907 DOI: 10.1021/ja020675x Supporting Info

Determination of Multiple Torsion-Angle Constraints in U−13C,15N-Labeled Peptides:  3D 1H−15N−13C−1H Dipolar Chemical Shift NMR Spectroscopy in Rotating Solids Chad M. Rienstra, Morten Hohwy, Leonard J. Mueller, Christopher P. Jaroniec, Bernd Reif, and Robert G. Griffin pp 11908–11922 DOI: 10.1021/ja020802p Supporting Info

Functional Analogues of the Dioxygen Reduction Site in Cytochrome Oxidase:  Mechanistic Aspects and Possible Effects of CuB Roman Boulatov, James P. Collman, Irina M. Shiryaeva, and Christopher J. Sunderland pp 11923–11935 DOI: 10.1021/ja026179q Supporting Info

Viscosity-Controlled, Product-Selective Rearrangement of the Cyclopentane-1,3-diyl Radical Cation Derived from an Annelated Housane by Electron Transfer:  A Case of Curtin−Hammett Behavior Waldemar Adam, Christian Librera, and Alexei V. Trofimov pp 11936–11939 DOI: 10.1021/ja026057y Supporting Info

Synthesis of Allyl Cyanamides and N-Cyanoindoles via the Palladium-Catalyzed Three-Component Coupling Reaction Shin Kamijo and Yoshinori Yamamoto pp 11940–11945 DOI: 10.1021/ja0272742 Supporting Info

Manganese-Catalyzed Epoxidations of Alkenes in Bicarbonate Solutions Benjamin S. Lane, Matthew Vogt, Victoria J. DeRose, and Kevin Burgess pp 11946–11954 DOI: 10.1021/ja025956j Supporting Info

NMR Studies of the Tautomerism of Cyclo-tris(4-R-2,6-pyridylformamidine) in Solution and in the Solid State Hartmut Komber, Hans-Heinrich Limbach, Frank Böhme, and Christoph Kunert pp 11955–11963 DOI: 10.1021/ja0202762

Porphyrin Self-Assembly at Electrochemical Interfaces:  Role of Potential Modulated Surface Mobility Yufan He, Tao Ye, and Eric Borguet pp 11964–11970 DOI: 10.1021/ja026115f Supporting Info

Dehydration Reactions in Water. Brønsted Acid−Surfactant-Combined Catalyst for Ester, Ether, Thioether, and Dithioacetal Formation in Water Kei Manabe, Shinya Iimura, Xiang-Min Sun, and Shū Kobayashi pp 11971–11978 DOI: 10.1021/ja026241j Supporting Info

The Theoretical Design of Neutral Planar Tetracoordinate Carbon Molecules with C(C)4 Substructures Zhi-Xiang Wang and Paul von Ragué Schleyer pp 11979–11982 DOI: 10.1021/ja0265310 Supporting Info

Effective Aromaticity of Tricarbonylchromiumbenzene, about 25 Enhanced over that of Benzene:  Structural Evidence from a Complexed Benzannulene Reginald H. Mitchell, Zinka Brkic, David J. Berg, and Tosha M. Barclay pp 11983–11988 DOI: 10.1021/ja0269542 Supporting Info

Size-Dependent Spontaneous Alloying of Au−Ag Nanoparticles Tomohiro Shibata, Bruce A. Bunker, Zhenyuan Zhang, Dan Meisel, Charles F. Vardeman II, and J. Daniel Gezelter pp 11989–11996 DOI: 10.1021/ja026764r

Site-Directed Exchange Studies with Combinatorial Libraries of Nanostructures Albena Ivanisevic, Kim V. McCumber, and Chad A. Mirkin pp 11997–12001 DOI: 10.1021/ja0203871 Supporting Info

Optical and Photophysical Properties of Light-Harvesting Phenylacetylene Monodendrons Based on Unsymmetrical Branching Joseph S. Melinger, Yongchun Pan, Valeria D. Kleiman, Zhonghua Peng, Benjamin L. Davis, Dale McMorrow, and Meng Lu pp 12002–12012 DOI: 10.1021/ja020380j

Low-Conductivity Buffers for High-Sensitivity NMR Measurements Alexander E. Kelly, Horng D. Ou, Richard Withers, and Volker Dötsch pp 12013–12019 DOI: 10.1021/ja026121b

A Novel Approach to the Retrieval of Structural and Dynamic Information from Residual Dipolar Couplings Using Several Oriented Media in Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy Joel R. Tolman pp 12020–12030 DOI: 10.1021/ja0261123 Supporting Info

Proton Magnetic Shielding Tensor in Liquid Water Kristofer Modig and Bertil Halle pp 12031–12041 DOI: 10.1021/ja026981s

Factors Governing Intrinsic Chemical Reactivity Differences between Clavulanic and Penicillanic Acids Yen-lin Lin, Nai-yuan Chang, and Carmay Lim pp 12042–12053 DOI: 10.1021/ja020788g Supporting Info

Structure and Dynamics of Polymer and Colloidal Systems Edited by Redouane Borsali (LCPO-CNRS-ENSCPB-Bordeaux University I) and Robert Pecora (Stanford University). Kluwer Academic Publishers:  Dordrecht. 2002. viii + 478 pp. $60.00. ISBN:  1-4020-0501-6. p 12054 DOI: 10.1021/ja025274w

The Maillard Reaction By S. E. Fayle (Crop and Food Research, Christchurch, New Zealand) and J. A. Gerrard (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand). Royal Society of Chemistry:  Cambridge, U.K. 2002. xiv + 120 pp. $89.95. ISBN:  0-85404-581-3. p 12054 DOI: 10.1021/ja0252779

Ultraviolet Spectroscopy and UV Lasers. Practical Spectroscopy Series. Volume 30 Edited by Prabhakar Misra (Howard University) and Mark A. Dubinskii (Magnon, Inc., Reisterstown, MD). Marcel Dekker:  New York, Basel. 2002. xvi + 570 pp. $195.00. ISBN:  0-8247-0668-4. Tomas Baer pp 12054–12055 DOI: 10.1021/ja025236c

Self-Assembling Peptide Systems in Biology, Medicine and Engineering Edited by Amalia Aggeli, Neville Boden (University of Leeds, U.K.), and Shuguang Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Kluwer Acedemic Publishers:  Dordrecht, Boston, London. 2001. xii + 364 pp. $100.00. ISBN 0-7923-7090-2. Andrew D. Hamilton p 12055 DOI: 10.1021/ja0153722

Modern Organocopper Chemistry Edited by Norbert Krause (University of Dortmund). Wiley VCH:  Weinheim. 2002. xiv + 378 pp. $125.00. ISBN 3-527-29773-1. Gary H. Posner pp 12055–12056 DOI: 10.1021/ja025241g

Radicals in Organic Synthesis. Volume 1. Basic Principles; Volume 2. Applications Edited by Philippe Renaud (Université De Fribourg) and Mukund P. Sibi (North Dakota State University). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim and New York. 2001. xxvi + 518 pp (Vol. 1) and xxiv + 594 pp (Vol. 2). $360.00. ISBN 3-527-30160-7. T. V. RajanBabu p 12056 DOI: 10.1021/ja015368q

Topics in Current Chemisty. Volume 218. Host−Guest Chemistry:  Mimetic Approaches to Study Carbohydrate Recognition Edited by Soledad Penadés (Instituto de Investigaciones Quimicas, CSIC). Springer-Verlag:  Berlin, Heidelberg, and New York. 2002. xi + 241 pp. $159.00. ISBN 3-540-42096-7. Jon S. Thorson pp 12056–12057 DOI: 10.1021/ja015391b

Extraction of Metals from Soils and Waters By D. Max Roundhill (Texas Tech University). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers:  New York. 2001. xvi + 375 pp. $110.00. ISBN 0-0306-46722-4. Lisa L. Malachowski and James A. Holcombe p 12057 DOI: 10.1021/ja025216a

Combinatorial Strategies in Biology and Chemistry By Annette Beck-Sickinger and Peter Weber (University of Leipzig, Germany). J. Wiley & Sons:  Chichester. 2002. xiv + 180 pp. $35.00. 0-471-49727-4. Brent Iverson pp 12057–12058 DOI: 10.1021/ja025229o

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Ni(0)/ZnCl2-Promoted Coupling of Enones and Enynes. Domino Process via Formation of Three C−C Bonds and Cleavage of One C−C Bond Shin-ichi Ikeda, Hitoshi Miyashita, Masami Taniguchi, Hiroko Kondo, Masaki Okano, Yoshiro Sato, and Kazunori Odashima pp 12060–12061 DOI: 10.1021/ja0202863 Supporting Info

Heavy-Atom Kinetic Isotope Effects, Cocatalysts, and the Propagation Transition State for Polymerization of 1-Hexene Using the rac-(C2H4(1-indenyl)2)ZrMe2 Catalyst Precursor Clark R. Landis, Kimberly A. Rosaaen, and Jamal Uddin pp 12062–12063 DOI: 10.1021/ja026608k Supporting Info

Characterization of Endoperoxide and Hydroperoxide Intermediates in the Reaction of Pyridoxine with Singlet Oxygen Brian K. Ohta and Christopher S. Foote pp 12064–12065 DOI: 10.1021/ja0205481 Supporting Info

Chemical Properties of a para-Benzyne F. Sedinam Amegayibor, John J. Nash, Anna S. Lee, Jason Thoen, Christopher J. Petzold, and Hilkka I. Kenttämaa pp 12066–12067 DOI: 10.1021/ja027633t

A New Route to Coordination Complexes of Nitroxyl (HNO) via Insertion Reactions of Nitrosonium Triflate with Transition-Metal Hydrides Rory Melenkivitz, Joel S. Southern, Gregory L. Hillhouse, Thomas E. Concolino, Louise M. Liable-Sands, and Arnold L. Rheingold pp 12068–12069 DOI: 10.1021/ja0277475 Supporting Info

Characterization of the Relevant Excited States in the Photodissociation of CO-Ligated Hemoglobin and Myoglobin Andreas Dreuw, Barry D. Dunietz, and Martin Head-Gordon pp 12070–12071 DOI: 10.1021/ja026916i

New Liquid Crystalline Phases with Layerlike Organization Marko Prehm, Xiao Hong Cheng, Siegmar Diele, Malay Kumar Das, and Carsten Tschierske pp 12072–12073 DOI: 10.1021/ja027869x Supporting Info

Social Isomers in Encapsulation Complexes Alexander Shivanyuk and Julius Rebek, Jr. pp 12074–12075 DOI: 10.1021/ja020607a

How Electron Flow Controls the Thermochemistry of the Addition of Olefins to Nickel Dithiolenes:  Predictions by Density Functional Theory Yubo Fan and Michael B. Hall pp 12076–12077 DOI: 10.1021/ja026844v Supporting Info

Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (−)-Azaspirene, a Novel Angiogenesis Inhibitor Yujiro Hayashi, Mitsuru Shoji, Junichiro Yamaguchi, Kenji Sato, Shinpei Yamaguchi, Takasuke Mukaiyama, Ken Sakai, Yukihiro Asami, Hideaki Kakeya, and Hiroyuki Osada pp 12078–12079 DOI: 10.1021/ja0276826 Supporting Info

Diametrically Opposite Trends in Alkene Insertion in Late and Early Transition Metal Compounds:  Relevance to Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Polymerization of Polar Vinyl Monomers Myeongsoon Kang, Ayusman Sen, Lev Zakharov, and Arnold L. Rheingold pp 12080–12081 DOI: 10.1021/ja026550+ Supporting Info

Formation of a New Crystalline Silicate Structure by Grafting Dialkoxysilyl Groups on Layered Octosilicate Dai Mochizuki, Atsushi Shimojima, and Kazuyuki Kuroda pp 12082–12083 DOI: 10.1021/ja027512t Supporting Info

Development of a Donor−Acceptor Concept for Enzymatic Cross-Coupling Reactions of Aldehydes:  The First Asymmetric Cross-Benzoin Condensation Pascal Dünkelmann, Doris Kolter-Jung, Adam Nitsche, Ayhan S. Demir, Petra Siegert, Bettina Lingen, Martin Baumann, Martina Pohl, and Michael Müller pp 12084–12085 DOI: 10.1021/ja0271476 Supporting Info

A Supramolecular Oscillator Composed of Carbon Nanocluster C120 and a Rhodium(III) Porphyrin Cyclic Dimer Kentaro Tashiro, Yusuke Hirabayashi, Takuzo Aida, Kazuhiko Saigo, Koichi Fujiwara, Koichi Komatsu, Shigeru Sakamoto, and Kentaro Yamaguchi pp 12086–12087 DOI: 10.1021/ja0264450 Supporting Info

New Partially Oxidized 1-D Platinum Chain Complexes Consisting of Carboxylate-Bridged cis-Diammineplatinum Dimer Cations Ken Sakai, Eri Ishigami, Yosuke Konno, Takashi Kajiwara, and Tasuku Ito pp 12088–12089 DOI: 10.1021/ja0275461 Supporting Info

Direct Synthesis of Mesostructured Lamellar Molybdenum Disulfides Using a Molten Neutral n-Alkylamine as the Solvent and Template Britt A. Vanchura, Pingang He, Valentyn Antochshuk, Mietek Jaroniec, Amy Ferryman, Dmytro Barbash, Julia E. Fulghum, and Songping D. Huang pp 12090–12091 DOI: 10.1021/ja025786a Supporting Info

DNA-Binding of Semirigid Binuclear Ruthenium Complex Δ,Δ-[μ-(11,11‘-bidppz)(phen)4Ru2]4+:  Extremely Slow Intercalation Kinetics L. Marcus Wilhelmsson, Fredrik Westerlund, Per Lincoln, and Bengt Nordén pp 12092–12093 DOI: 10.1021/ja027252f Supporting Info

Anomalous Magnetic Properties of MnO Nanoclusters Gang H. Lee, Seung H. Huh, Jin W. Jeong, Byeong J. Choi, Seung H. Kim, and Hyeong-C. Ri pp 12094–12095 DOI: 10.1021/ja027558m

Co3[Co(CN)5]2:  A Microporous Magnet with an Ordering Temperature of 38 K Laurance G. Beauvais and Jeffrey R. Long pp 12096–12097 DOI: 10.1021/ja027768z Supporting Info

Reversal of Enantioselectivity in the Asymmetric Rhodium- versus Iridium-Catalyzed Hydroboration of Meso Substrates Alejandro Pérez Luna, Martine Bonin, Laurent Micouin, and Henri-Philippe Husson pp 12098–12099 DOI: 10.1021/ja026714m Supporting Info

Direct Assessment of the Reduction Potential of the [4Fe−4S]1+/0 Couple of the Fe Protein from Azotobacter vinelandii Maolin Guo, Filip Sulc, Markus W. Ribbe, Patrick J. Farmer, and Barbara K. Burgess pp 12100–12101 DOI: 10.1021/ja026478f Supporting Info

Rhodium-Catalyzed Asymmetric 1,4-Addition of Aryltitanium Reagents Generating Chiral Titanium Enolates:  Isolation as Silyl Enol Ethers Tamio Hayashi, Norihito Tokunaga, Kazuhiro Yoshida, and Jin Wook Han pp 12102–12103 DOI: 10.1021/ja027663w Supporting Info

Remarkable Activity of a Novel Cyclic Seleninate Ester as a Glutathione Peroxidase Mimetic and Its Facile in Situ Generation from Allyl 3-Hydroxypropyl Selenide Thomas G. Back and Ziad Moussa pp 12104–12105 DOI: 10.1021/ja028030k Supporting Info

Cyclization by Intramolecular Carbolithiation of Alkyl- and Vinyllithiums Prepared by Reductive Lithiation:  Surprising Stereochemistry in the Lithium Oxyanion Accelerated Cyclization Kai Deng, Ahlem Bensari, and Theodore Cohen pp 12106–12107 DOI: 10.1021/ja027988c Supporting Info

Enzyme Mediated Extracellular Synthesis of CdS Nanoparticles by the Fungus, Fusarium oxysporum Absar Ahmad, Priyabrata Mukherjee, Deendayal Mandal, Satyajyoti Senapati, M. Islam Khan, Rajiv Kumar, and Murali Sastry pp 12108–12109 DOI: 10.1021/ja027296o Supporting Info

Time-Resolved Optical Kerr-Effect Spectroscopy of Low-Frequency Dynamics in Di-l-alanine, Poly-l-alanine, and Lysozyme in Solution Gerard Giraud and Klaas Wynne pp 12110–12111 DOI: 10.1021/ja027801h

Generation of 30−50 nm Structures Using Easily Fabricated, Composite PDMS Masks Teri W. Odom, Venkat R. Thalladi, J. Christopher Love, and George M. Whitesides pp 12112–12113 DOI: 10.1021/ja0209464

Immobilized Enzymes as Catalytically-Active Tools for Nanofabrication Chang-Hyun Jang, Benjamin D. Stevens, Paul R. Carlier, Michael A. Calter, and William A. Ducker pp 12114–12115 DOI: 10.1021/ja017686v Supporting Info

The Metal Is the Kinetic Site of Protonation of (Diimine)Pt Dimethyl Complexes Bror Johan Wik, Martin Lersch, and Mats Tilset pp 12116–12117 DOI: 10.1021/ja027649j Supporting Info

Inhibitor Scaffolds as New Allele Specific Kinase Substrates Brian C. Kraybill, Lisa L. Elkin, Justin D. Blethrow, David O. Morgan, and Kevan M. Shokat pp 12118–12128 DOI: 10.1021/ja0264798

Observation of Topical Catalysis by Sphingomyelinase Coupled To Microspheres Tuula A. Nurminen, Juha M. Holopainen, Hongxia Zhao, and Paavo K. J. Kinnunen pp 12129–12134 DOI: 10.1021/ja017807r

3-Pyrrolines Are Mechanism-Based Inactivators of the Quinone-Dependent Amine Oxidases but Only Substrates of the Flavin-Dependent Amine Oxidases Younghee Lee, Ke-Qing Ling, Xingliang Lu, Richard B. Silverman, E. M. Shepard, D. M. Dooley, and Lawrence M. Sayre pp 12135–12143 DOI: 10.1021/ja0205434 Supporting Info

Solution NMR Techniques for Large Molecular and Supramolecular Structures Roland Riek, Jocelyne Fiaux, Eric B. Bertelsen, Arthur L. Horwich, and Kurt Wüthrich pp 12144–12153 DOI: 10.1021/ja026763z

Conformational Heterogeneity Observed in Simulations of a Pyrene-Substituted DNA Guanglei Cui and Carlos Simmerling pp 12154–12164 DOI: 10.1021/ja026825l Supporting Info

Synthesis, Structure, and Photochemistry of Exceptionally Stable Synthetic DNA Hairpins with Stilbene Diether Linkers Frederick D. Lewis, Yansheng Wu, and Xiaoyang Liu pp 12165–12173 DOI: 10.1021/ja026941o

Chemistry of the Aromatic 9-Germafluorenyl Dianion and Some Related Silicon and Carbon Species Yuxia Liu, David Ballweg, Thomas Müller, Ilia A. Guzei, Robert W. Clark, and Robert West pp 12174–12181 DOI: 10.1021/ja020267t Supporting Info

Synthesis and Characterization of Polymethacrylate-Based Nitric Oxide Donors Pawel G. Parzuchowski, Megan C. Frost, and Mark E. Meyerhoff pp 12182–12191 DOI: 10.1021/ja020268l Supporting Info

Stereochemical Memory in the Temperature-Dependent Photodenitrogenation of Bridgehead-Substituted DBH-Type Azoalkanes:  Inhibition of Inverted-Housane Formation in the Diazenyl Diradical through the Mass Effect (Inertia) and Steric Hindrance Waldemar Adam, Hermenegildo García, Manfred Diedering, Vicente Martí, Massimo Olivucci, and Emilio Palomares pp 12192–12199 DOI: 10.1021/ja026321n Supporting Info

Model Chemistry Calculations of Thiophene Dimer Interactions:  Origin of π-Stacking Seiji Tsuzuki, Kazumasa Honda, and Reiko Azumi pp 12200–12209 DOI: 10.1021/ja0204877 Supporting Info

Mechanisms of Tetrazole Formation by Addition of Azide to Nitriles Fahmi Himo, Zachary P. Demko, Louis Noodleman, and K. Barry Sharpless pp 12210–12216 DOI: 10.1021/ja0206644

Mechanistic Insight into Fragmentation Reactions of Titanapinacolate Complexes Jesudoss V. Kingston, Oleg V. Ozerov, Sean Parkin, Carolyn P. Brock, and Folami T. Ladipo pp 12217–12224 DOI: 10.1021/ja0271577 Supporting Info

A General, Highly Enantioselective Method for the Synthesis of d and l α-Amino Acids and Allylic Amines Young K. Chen, Alice E. Lurain, and Patrick J. Walsh pp 12225–12231 DOI: 10.1021/ja027271p Supporting Info

Vapor−Liquid Interfacial Properties of Mutually Saturated Water/1-Butanol Solutions Bin Chen, J. Ilja Siepmann, and Michael L. Klein pp 12232–12237 DOI: 10.1021/ja027130n

A Novel Layer-by-Layer Approach to Immobilization of Polymers and Nanoclusters Eugene W. L. Chan, Dong-Chan Lee, Man-Kit Ng, Guohui Wu, Ka Yee C. Lee, and Luping Yu pp 12238–12243 DOI: 10.1021/ja026159o Supporting Info

Perfluoroterephthalate Bridged Complexes with M−M Quadruple Bonds:  (tBuCO2)3M2(μ-O2CC6F4CO2)M2(O2CtBu)3, where M = Mo or W. Studies of Solid-State, Molecular, and Electronic Structure and Correlations with Electronic and Raman Spectral Data Bruce E. Bursten, Malcolm H. Chisholm, Robin J. H. Clark, Steven Firth, Christopher M. Hadad, Paul J. Wilson, Patrick M. Woodward, and Jeffrey M. Zaleski pp 12244–12254 DOI: 10.1021/ja020248j Supporting Info

Single-Crystal Mesostructured Semiconductors with Cubic Iad Symmetry and Ion-Exchange Properties Pantelis N. Trikalitis, Krishnaswamy K. Rangan, Thomas Bakas, and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis pp 12255–12260 DOI: 10.1021/ja026367g

Unified Synthesis of Quinone Sesquiterpenes Based on a Radical Decarboxylation and Quinone Addition Reaction Taotao Ling, Erwan Poupon, Erik J. Rueden, Sun H. Kim, and Emmanuel A. Theodorakis pp 12261–12267 DOI: 10.1021/ja027517q Supporting Info

Participation of the α,α‘-Diiminopyridine Ligand System in Reduction of the Metal Center during Alkylation Hiroyasu Sugiyama, Ghazar Aharonian, Sandro Gambarotta, Glenn P. A. Yap, and Peter H. M. Budzelaar pp 12268–12274 DOI: 10.1021/ja020485m Supporting Info

Growth of Na-Doped Ca2CuO2Cl2 Single Crystals under High Pressures of Several GPa Yuhki Kohsaka, Masaki Azuma, Ikuya Yamada, Takao Sasagawa, Tetsuo Hanaguri, Mikio Takano, and Hidenori Takagi pp 12275–12278 DOI: 10.1021/ja026680i

The Structure of Self-Assembled Multilayers with Polyoxometalate Nanoclusters Shaoqin Liu, Dirk G. Kurth, Bjoern Bredenkötter, and Dirk Volkmer pp 12279–12287 DOI: 10.1021/ja026946l Supporting Info

Direct Synthesis of Gallium Oxide Tubes, Nanowires, and Nanopaintbrushes Shashank Sharma and Mahendra K. Sunkara pp 12288–12293 DOI: 10.1021/ja027086b

Mesostructured γ-Al2O3 with a Lathlike Framework Morphology Zhaorong Zhang and Thomas J. Pinnavaia pp 12294–12301 DOI: 10.1021/ja0208299

How Ions Affect the Structure of Water Barbara Hribar, Noel T. Southall, Vojko Vlachy, and Ken A. Dill pp 12302–12311 DOI: 10.1021/ja026014h

Orbital Symmetry as a Tool for Understanding the Bonding in Krossing's Cation Dirk V. Deubel pp 12312–12318 DOI: 10.1021/ja0206691 Supporting Info

Electronic Structure, Chemical Bond, and Optical Spectra of Metal Bis(porphyrin) Complexes:  A DFT/TDDFT Study of the Bis(porphyrin)M(IV) (M = Zr, Ce, Th) Series Giampaolo Ricciardi, Angela Rosa, Evert Jan Baerends, and Stan A. J. van Gisbergen pp 12319–12334 DOI: 10.1021/ja020554x

Theoretical Study of Silylene Substituent Effects on the Abstraction Reactions with Oxirane and Thiirane Ming-Der Su pp 12335–12342 DOI: 10.1021/ja020515l

DMSO Complexes of Trivalent Metal Ions:  First Microsolvated Trications Outside of Group 3 Alexandre A. Shvartsburg pp 12343–12351 DOI: 10.1021/ja020637d Supporting Info

Reconstructing NMR Spectra of “Invisible” Excited Protein States Using HSQC and HMQC Experiments Nikolai R. Skrynnikov, Frederick W. Dahlquist, and Lewis E. Kay pp 12352–12360 DOI: 10.1021/ja0207089 Supporting Info

Solvent and Guest Isotope Effects on Complexation Thermodynamics of α-, β-, and 6-Amino-6-deoxy-β-cyclodextrins Mikhail V. Rekharsky and Yoshihisa Inoue pp 12361–12371 DOI: 10.1021/ja027031+

Electrochromic Modulation of Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer:  The New Principle in Design of Fluorescence Sensors Andrey S. Klymchenko and Alexander P. Demchenko pp 12372–12379 DOI: 10.1021/ja027669l

Quinonoid Oligothiophenes as Electron-Donor and Electron-Acceptor Materials. A Spectroelectrochemical and Theoretical Study Juan Casado, Larry L. Miller, Kent R. Mann, Ted M. Pappenfus, Hiroyuki Higuchi, Enrique Ortí, Begoña Milián, Rosendo Pou-Amérigo, Víctor Hernández, and Juan T. López Navarrete pp 12380–12388 DOI: 10.1021/ja027161i

Advances in Chemical Physics. Volume 120. Computational Methods for Protein Folding Edited by Richard A. Friesner (Columbia University), I. Prigogine (University of Texas at Austin and International Solvay Institute, Université Libre De Bruxelles), and Stuart A. Rice (University of Chicago). John Wiley and Sons, Inc.:  New York. 2002. xiv + 528 pp. $175.00. ISBN 0-471-20955-4. Sharon D. Bryant p 12389 DOI: 10.1021/ja025213y

The Pyrazines:  Supplement I. The Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds. Volume 58 By D. J. Brown (Australian National University). Wiley-Inter-science:  New York. 2002. xviii + 557 pp. $425.00. ISBN 0-471-40382-2 p 12389 DOI: 10.1021/ja025218v

The Mechanisms of Fast Reactions in Solution By E. F. Caldin (University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K.). IOS Press:  Amsterdam. 2001. xi +329 pp. $123.00. ISBN:  1-58603-103-1. Richard N. Zare pp 12389–12390 DOI: 10.1021/ja025214q

Inorganic Chemistry Highlights Edited by Gerd Meyer, Dieter Naumann, and Lars Wesemann (University of Köln). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2002. xvi + 324 pp. $75.00. ISBN 3-527-30265-4. John D. Corbett and Anja-Verena Mudring p 12390 DOI: 10.1021/ja025262a

Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products. Volume 82 Edited by W. Herz (Florida State University, Tallahassee), H. Falk (Johannes-Kepler-Universität, Linz, Austria), G. W. Kirby (University of Glasgow, Scotland), and R. E. Moore (University of Hawaii at Manoa). Biaryls in Nature:  A Multi-Facetted Class of Stereochemically, Biosynthetically, and Pharmacologically Intriguing Secondary Metabolites by G. Bringmann, C. Günther, M. Ochse, O. Schupp, and S. Tasler. Springer-Verlag:  Wien, New York. 2001. viii + 294 pp. $159.00. ISBN 3-211-83653-5. Gordon W. Gribble pp 12390–12391 DOI: 10.1021/ja0252375

Encyclopedia of Electrochemistry. Volume 6. Semiconductor Electrodes and Photoelectrochemistry Edited by Stuart Licht (Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel). Series Edited by Allen J. Bard and Martin Stratmann. Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2002. x + 598 pp. $270.00. ISBN 3-527-30398-7. Bruce A. Parkinson p 12391 DOI: 10.1021/ja0252678

Mass Spectrometry in Drug Discovery Edited by David T. Rossi (Pfizer Global Research and Development) and Michael W. Sinz (Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, CT). Marcel Dekker, Inc.:  New York and Basel. 2002. xi + 420 pp. $165.00. ISBN 0-8247-0607-2. Steven A. Hofstadler pp 12391–12392 DOI: 10.1021/ja015390j

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Cyclic and Hairpin Peptide Complexes of Heme Michael M. Rosenblatt, David L. Huffman, Xiaotang Wang, Henriette A. Remmer, and Kenneth S. Suslick pp 12394–12395 DOI: 10.1021/ja020912w Supporting Info

The Hexaazidosilicate(IV) Ion:  Synthesis, Properties, and Molecular Structure Alexander C. Filippou, Peter Portius, and Gregor Schnakenburg pp 12396–12397 DOI: 10.1021/ja0273187 Supporting Info

A Novel Strategy for Encapsulation and Release of Proteins:  Hydrogels and Microgels with Acid-Labile Acetal Cross-Linkers Niren Murthy, Yi X. Thng, Stephany Schuck, Ming C. Xu, and Jean M. J. Fréchet pp 12398–12399 DOI: 10.1021/ja026925r Supporting Info

Experimental Evidence for the Photoisomerization of Higher Fullerenes Clemens Burda, Anna C. S. Samia, David J. Hathcock, Houjin Huang, and Shihe Yang pp 12400–12401 DOI: 10.1021/ja027272h

Electrochemical Synthesis of Nanostructured ZnO Films Utilizing Self-Assembly of Surfactant Molecules at Solid−Liquid Interfaces Kyoung-Shin Choi, Helga C. Lichtenegger, and Galen D. StuckyEric W. McFarland pp 12402–12403 DOI: 10.1021/ja0275562

A New Class of Hybrid Materials via Salt Inclusion:  Novel Copper(II) Arsenates Na5ACu4(AsO4)4Cl2 (A = Rb, Cs) Composed of Alternating Covalent and Ionic Lattices Shiou-Jyh Hwu, Mutlu Ulutagay-Kartin, Jeffrey A. Clayhold, Richard Mackay, Tina A. Wardojo, Charles J. O'Connor, and Mariusz Krawiec pp 12404–12405 DOI: 10.1021/ja026008l Supporting Info

One-Hydrogen Polarization in Hydroformylation Promoted by Platinum−Tin and Iridium Carbonyl Complexes:  A New Type of Parahydrogen-Induced Effect Alexei B. Permin and Richard Eisenberg pp 12406–12407 DOI: 10.1021/ja026698t Supporting Info

Colloidal Assemblies of Branched Geminis Studied by Cryo-etch-HRSEM Fredric M. Menger, Victor A. Seredyuk, Robert P. Apkarian, and Elizabeth R. Wright pp 12408–12409 DOI: 10.1021/ja021025w

Cyclic Hexapeptide of d,l-α-Aminoxy Acids as a Selective Receptor for Chloride Ion Dan Yang, Jin Qu, Wei Li, Yu-Hui Zhang, Yi Ren, De-Ping Wang, and Yun-Dong Wu pp 12410–12411 DOI: 10.1021/ja027073y Supporting Info

Photophysics of Monodisperse Platinum-Acetylide Oligomers:  Delocalization in the Singlet and Triplet Excited States Yao Liu, Shujun Jiang, Ksenija Glusac, David H. Powell, Danielle F. Anderson, and Kirk S. Schanze pp 12412–12413 DOI: 10.1021/ja027639i Supporting Info

Acceleration Effect of Lewis Acid in Allylboration of Aldehydes:  Catalytic, Regiospecific, Diastereospecific, and Enantioselective Synthesis of Homoallyl Alcohols Tatsuo Ishiyama, Taka-aki Ahiko, and Norio Miyaura pp 12414–12415 DOI: 10.1021/ja0210345 Supporting Info

Synthesis of (−)-Morphine Douglass F. Taber, Timothy D. Neubert, and Arnold L. Rheingold pp 12416–12417 DOI: 10.1021/ja027882h Supporting Info

Water-Soluble and Optically pH-Sensitive Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes from Surface Modification Wei Zhao, Chulho Song, and Pehr E. Pehrsson pp 12418–12419 DOI: 10.1021/ja027861n Supporting Info

Ruthenium-Catalyzed Alkene-Alkyne Coupling:  Synthesis of the Proposed Structure of Amphidinolide A Barry M. Trost, John D. Chisholm, Stephen T. Wrobleski, and Michael Jung pp 12420–12421 DOI: 10.1021/ja027883+ Supporting Info

Diastereoselectivity in the Cyclization of Alkene Radical Cations Generated under Non-Oxidizing Conditions:  Contact Ion Pairs and Memory Effects David Crich and Krishnakumar Ranganathan pp 12422–12423 DOI: 10.1021/ja027893a Supporting Info

Preparation of Isoprostanes and Neuroprostanes Long Guo Quan and Jin Kun Cha pp 12424–12425 DOI: 10.1021/ja027451z Supporting Info

Non-Carbonyl-Stabilized Metallocarbenoids in Synthesis:  The Development of a Tandem Rhodium-Catalyzed Bamford−Stevens/Thermal Aliphatic Claisen Rearrangement Sequence Jeremy A. May and Brian M. Stoltz pp 12426–12427 DOI: 10.1021/ja028020j Supporting Info

Interconversion between Bis(μ-thiolato)dicopper(II) and Disulfide-Bridged Dicopper(I) Complexes Mediated by Chloride Ion Yoshiki Ueno, Yoshimitsu Tachi, and Shinobu Itoh pp 12428–12429 DOI: 10.1021/ja027397m Supporting Info

Effect of Included Guest Molecules on the Normal State Conductivity and Superconductivity of β‘ ‘-(ET)4[(H3O)Ga(C2O4)3]·G (G = Pyridine, Nitrobenzene) Hiroki Akutsu, Akane Akutsu-Sato, Scott S. Turner, Delphine Le Pevelen, Peter Day, Vladimir Laukhin, Anne-Katrin Klehe, John Singleton, Derek A. Tocher, Michael R. Probert, and Judith A. K. Howard pp 12430–12431 DOI: 10.1021/ja0273849 Supporting Info

Reaction Mechanism of the HGXPRTase from Plasmodium falciparum:  A Hybrid Potential Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical Study Aline Thomas and Martin J. Field pp 12432–12438 DOI: 10.1021/ja0206846

Phage-Display Selection of a Human Single-Chain Fv Antibody Highly Specific for Melanoma and Breast Cancer Cells Using a Chemoenzymatically Synthesized GM3−Carbohydrate Antigen Kyung Joo Lee, Shenlan Mao, Chengzao Sun, Changshou Gao, Ola Blixt, Sandra Arrues, Louis G. Hom, Gunnar F. Kaufmann, Timothy Z. Hoffman, Avery R. Coyle, James Paulson, Brunhilde Felding-Habermann, and Kim D. Janda pp 12439–12446 DOI: 10.1021/ja020737j Supporting Info

Stereoselective Synthesis of 3-Substituted 2-Aminocyclopentanecarboxylic Acid Derivatives and Their Incorporation into Short 12-Helical β-Peptides That Fold in Water Matthew G. Woll, John D. Fisk, Paul R. LePlae, and Samuel H. Gellman pp 12447–12452 DOI: 10.1021/ja0258778 Supporting Info

Acridinylresorcinol as a Self-Complementary Building Block of Robust Hydrogen-Bonded 2D Nets with Coordinative Saturation. Preservation of Crystal Structures upon Guest Alteration, Guest Removal, and Host Modification Toshihiro Tanaka, Takashi Tasaki, and Yasuhiro Aoyama pp 12453–12462 DOI: 10.1021/ja026704l Supporting Info

A Versatile Approach to Affinitychromic Polythiophenes Stéphanie Bernier, Sébastien Garreau, Maïté Béra-Abérem, Catherine Gravel, and Mario Leclerc pp 12463–12468 DOI: 10.1021/ja027387l

Anion-Templated Rotaxane Formation James A. Wisner, Paul D. Beer, Michael G. B. Drew, and Mark R. Sambrook pp 12469–12476 DOI: 10.1021/ja027519a Supporting Info

The Charge Conduction Properties of DNA Holliday Junctions Depend Critically on the Identity of the Tethered Photooxidant Richard P. Fahlman, Rajendra D. Sharma, and Dipankar Sen pp 12477–12485 DOI: 10.1021/ja020495n

Potentiometric Saccharide Detection Based on the pKa Changes of Poly(aniline boronic acid) Eiichi Shoji and Michael S. Freund pp 12486–12493 DOI: 10.1021/ja0267371

Efficient Incorporation of a Copper Hydroxypyridone Base Pair in DNA Kentaro Tanaka, Atsushi Tengeiji, Tatsuhisa Kato, Namiki Toyama, Motoo Shiro, and Mitsuhiko Shionoya pp 12494–12498 DOI: 10.1021/ja027175o Supporting Info

RNA-Cleaving DNA Enzymes with Altered Regio- or Enantioselectivity Phillip Ordoukhanian and Gerald F. Joyce pp 12499–12506 DOI: 10.1021/ja027467p Supporting Info

Tetra[2,3-thienylene]:  A Building Block for Single-Molecule Electromechanical Actuators Michael J. Marsella, Rodney J. Reid, Samia Estassi, and Li-Sheng Wang pp 12507–12510 DOI: 10.1021/ja0255352 Supporting Info

A Relative Organolithium Stability Scale Derived from Tin−Lithium Exchange Equilibria. Substituent Effects on the Stability of α-Oxy- and α-Aminoorganolithium Compounds Paula Graña, M. Rita Paleo, and F. Javier Sardina pp 12511–12514 DOI: 10.1021/ja025552r Supporting Info

Ultrathin Layered Myoglobin−Polyion Films Functional and Stable at Acidic pH Values Venkateswarlu Panchagnula, Challa V. Kumar, and James F. Rusling pp 12515–12521 DOI: 10.1021/ja020683d Supporting Info

Polyferrocenylsilane Microspheres:  Synthesis, Mechanism of Formation, Size and Charge Tunability, Electrostatic Self-Assembly, and Pyrolysis to Spherical Magnetic Ceramic Particles Kevin Kulbaba, Alison Cheng, Alexandra Bartole, Sharonna Greenberg, Rui Resendes, Neil Coombs, Athena Safa-Sefat, John E. Greedan, Harald D. H. Stöver, Geoffrey A. Ozin, and Ian Manners pp 12522–12534 DOI: 10.1021/ja0202053 Supporting Info

Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study of the Negative Correlation in Antibody AZ28-Catalyzed Oxy-Cope Rearrangement Toshio Asada, Hiroaki Gouda, and Peter A. Kollman pp 12535–12542 DOI: 10.1021/ja020774a Supporting Info

Solid-Phase Synthesis of Fullerene-peptides Davide Pantarotto, Alberto Bianco, Federica Pellarini, Alessandro Tossi, Anna Giangaspero, Igor Zelezetsky, Jean-Paul Briand, and Maurizio Prato pp 12543–12549 DOI: 10.1021/ja027603q Supporting Info

C−H Activation and C−C Coupling of Arenes by Cationic Pt(II) Complexes Wayde V. Konze, Brian L. Scott, and Gregory J. Kubas pp 12550–12556 DOI: 10.1021/ja020798h Supporting Info

Efficient Synthesis of α-Aryl Esters by Room-Temperature Palladium-Catalyzed Coupling of Aryl Halides with Ester Enolates Morten Jørgensen, Sunwoo Lee, Xiaoxiang Liu, Joanna P. Wolkowski, and John F. Hartwig pp 12557–12565 DOI: 10.1021/ja027643u Supporting Info

Scandium Ion-Promoted Reduction of Heterocyclic NN Double Bond. Hydride Transfer vs Electron Transfer Shunichi Fukuzumi, Junpei Yuasa, and Tomoyoshi Suenobu pp 12566–12573 DOI: 10.1021/ja026592y Supporting Info

Electronic Properties of Polyoxometalates:  Electron and Proton Affinity of Mixed-Addenda Keggin and Wells−Dawson Anions Xavier López, Carles Bo, and Josep M. Poblet pp 12574–12582 DOI: 10.1021/ja020407z Supporting Info

Structural Analysis of Amylose Tris(3,5-dimethylphenylcarbamate) by NMR Relevant to Its Chiral Recognition Mechanism in HPLC Chiyo Yamamoto, Eiji Yashima, and Yoshio Okamoto pp 12583–12589 DOI: 10.1021/ja020828g

Cooperative C−H···O Hydrogen Bonding in CO2−Lewis Base Complexes:  Implications for Solvation in Supercritical CO2 Poovathinthodiyil Raveendran and Scott L. Wallen pp 12590–12599 DOI: 10.1021/ja0174635

Solid-State Ligand Dynamics in Interpenetrating Mn[N(CN)2]2(Pyrazine):  A Neutron Spectroscopy Study Craig M. Brown and Jamie L. Manson pp 12600–12605 DOI: 10.1021/ja017124b

Pulsed Electron−Electron Double Resonance on Multinuclear Metal Clusters:  Assignment of Spin Projection Factors Based on the Dipolar Interaction Celine Elsässer, Marc Brecht, and Robert Bittl pp 12606–12611 DOI: 10.1021/ja027348+

Is the 1,3,5-Tridehydrobenzene Triradical a Cyclopropenyl Radical Analogue? Harvey A. Lardin, John J. Nash, and Paul G. Wenthold pp 12612–12618 DOI: 10.1021/ja0276570 Supporting Info

pH-Dependent Force Spectroscopy of Tri(ethylene Glycol)- and Methyl-Terminated Self-Assembled Monolayers Adsorbed on Gold Christian Dicke and Georg Hähner pp 12619–12625 DOI: 10.1021/ja027447n

TpPt(IV)Me(H)2 Forms a σ-CH4 Complex That Is Kinetically Resistant to Methane Liberation [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 3226−3228]. H. Christine Lo, Ariel Haskel, Moshe Kapont, Ehud Keinan p 12626 DOI: 10.1021/ja0251118 Supporting Info

Metathesis Route to Bridged Metallocenes [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124 (31), 9068−9069]. Masamichi Ogasawara, Takashi Nagano and, Tamio Hayashi p 12626 DOI: 10.1021/ja028166i

Handbook of X-ray Spectrometry, 2nd ed., Revised and Expanded Edited by René E. Van Grieken (University of Antwerp) and Andrzej A. Markowicz (Vienna, Austria). Marcel Dekker, Inc:  New York and Basel. 2002. xvi + 984 pp. $250.00. ISBN 0-8247-0600-5. James E. Penner-Hahn p 12627 DOI: 10.1021/ja015389k

Analytical Mass Spectrometry. Strategies for Environmental and Related Applications By William L. Budde (Cincinnati, OH). American Chemical Society:  Washington and Oxford University Press:  New York. 2001. xiv + 386 pp. $125.00. ISBN 0-8412-3664-X. Elizabeth A. Stemmler pp 12627–12628 DOI: 10.1021/ja0153215

Seminars in Organic Synthesis. XXVI Summer School “A. Corbella” June 18−22, 2001, Palazzo Feltrinelli, Università Degli Studi Di Milano, Gargnano (BS). Società Chimica Italiana. 2002. 696 pp. ISBN 88-86208-18-9. p 12628 DOI: 10.1021/ja025287+

Electroanalytical Methods for Biological Materials Edited by Anna Brajter-Toth (University of Florida, Gainesville) and James Q. Chambers (University of Tennessee, Knoxville). Marcel Dekker, Inc.:  New York, Basel. 2002. xiv + 540 pp. $195.00. ISBN 0-8247-0731-1. Philippe Bühlmann pp 12628–12629 DOI: 10.1021/ja0252476

Principles of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry Edited by P. J. Haines (Oakland Analytical Services, Farnharm, U.K.). Royal Society of Chemistry:  Cambridge. 2002. xiv + 220 pp. $44.95. ISBN 0-85404-610-0. p 12629 DOI: 10.1021/ja0252835

Free Energy Calculations in Rational Drug Design Edited by M. Rami Reddi and Mark D. Erion (Metabasis Therapeutic, Inc., San Diego). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers:  New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow. 2001. xxii + 384 pp. $110.00. ISBN 0-306-46676-7. Robert J. Woods pp 12629–12630 DOI: 10.1021/ja025219n

Topics in Current Chemistry 219. Cross-Coupling Reactions:  A Practical Guide Edited by Norio Miyaura (Hokkaido University). Springer-Verlag:  Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. 2002. x + 248 pp. $169.00. ISBN 3-540-42175-0. William Tam p 12630 DOI: 10.1021/ja0252532

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure. Volume 31, 2002 Edited by Robert M. Stroud (University of California, San Francisco), Wilma K. Olson (Rutgers University), and Michael P. Sheetz (Columbia University). Annual Reviews:  Palo Alto, CA. 2002. xviii + 560 pp. $77.00. ISBN 0-8243-1831-5. p 12630 DOI: 10.1021/ja025284x

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. Volume 53, 2002 Edited by Stephen R. Leone (University of California, Berkeley), Paul Alivisatos (University of California, Berkeley), and Ann E. McDermott (Columbia University). Annual Reviews:  Palo Alto, California. 2002. xiv + 634 pp. $72.00. ISBN 0-8243-1053-5. p 12630 DOI: 10.1021/ja025285p

Nano-Surface Chemistry Edited by Morton Rosoff (Long Island University). Marcel Dekker, Inc.:  New York and Basel. 2002. xii + 678 pp. ISBN:  0-8247-0254-9. Rigoberto C. Advincula pp 12630–12631 DOI: 10.1021/ja015370h

Information Retrieval:  SciFinder and SciFinder Scholar By Damon D. Ridley (University of Sydney). J. Wiley & Sons:  New York. 2002. 252 pp. $45.00. ISBN 0-470-84351-9. Jeffrey S. Moore pp 12631–12632 DOI: 10.1021/ja025244t

Topics in Current Chemistry 220. New Aspects in Phosphorus Chemistry I Edited by Jean-Pierre Majoral (Laboratoire De Chemie De Coordination Du CNRS, Toulouse). Springer-Verlag:  Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. 2002. x + 244 pp. $169.00. ISBN 3-540-42246-3. Donald J. Burton pp 12632–12633 DOI: 10.1021/ja025250p

The Chemical Bond in Inorganic Chemistry:  the Valence Bond Model By I. David Brown (McMaster University). Oxford University Press:  New York. 2002. xii +278 pp. $130.00. ISBN 0-19-850870-0. Dr. Jamie L. Manson p 12633 DOI: 10.1021/ja025226b

Synthetic Applications of 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Chemistry toward Heterocycles and Natural Products Edited by Albert Padwa (Emory University) and William H. Pearson (University of Michigan). The Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds. Volume 59. Series Edited by Edward Taylor and Peter Wipf. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.:  New York. 2002. xii + 940 pp. $425.00. ISBN 0-471-38726-6. Peter A. Jacobi pp 12633–12634 DOI: 10.1021/ja025264v

Dispersive Kinetics By Andrzej Plonka (Technical University of Lodz, Poland). Kluwer Academic Publishers:  Dordrecht, Boston, London. 2001. vi + 234 pp. $80.00. ISBN 0-7923-7128-3. Charles D. Jonah p 12634 DOI: 10.1021/ja015373u

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Highly Enantioselective Alkynylzinc Addition to Aromatic Aldehydes Catalyzed by Self-Assembled Titanium Catalysts Xingshu Li, Gui Lu, Wai Him Kwok, and Albert S. C. Chan pp 12636–12637 DOI: 10.1021/ja025541y

On-Resin Real-Time Reaction Monitoring of Solid-Phase Oligosaccharide Synthesis Shino Manabe and Yukishige Ito pp 12638–12639 DOI: 10.1021/ja020781z Supporting Info

Controlled Photochemical Release of Nitric Oxide from O2-Naphthylmethyl- and O2-Naphthylallyl-Substituted Diazeniumdiolates K. Mani Bushan, Hua Xu, Patrick H. Ruane, Raechelle A. D'Sa, Christopher M. Pavlos, Joseph A. Smith, Tevye C. Celius, and John P. Toscano pp 12640–12641 DOI: 10.1021/ja027957h Supporting Info

Effective Insulating Properties of Autooxidized Monolayers Using Organic Ditellurides Tohru Nakamura, Satoshi Yasuda, Takayuki Miyamae, Hisakazu Nozoye, Nobuhiko Kobayashi, Hiroshi Kondoh, Ikuyo Nakai, Toshiaki Ohta, Daisuke Yoshimura, and Mutsuyoshi Matsumoto pp 12642–12643 DOI: 10.1021/ja0276671 Supporting Info

Metal Switch for Amyloid Formation:  Insight into the Structure of the Nucleus David M. Morgan, Jijun Dong, Jaby Jacob, Kun Lu, Robert P. Apkarian, Pappannan Thiyagarajan, and David G. Lynn pp 12644–12645 DOI: 10.1021/ja0273086

Pushing Up the Size Limit of Chalcogenide Supertetrahedral Clusters:  Two- and Three-Dimensional Photoluminescent Open Frameworks from (Cu5In30S54)13- Clusters Xianhui Bu, Nanfeng Zheng, Yuqi Li, and Pingyun Feng pp 12646–12647 DOI: 10.1021/ja021009z Supporting Info

Utilization of 1-Oxa-2,2-(dimesityl)silacyclopentane Acetals in the Stereoselective Synthesis of Polyols Sharon A. Powell, Jason M. Tenenbaum, and K. A. Woerpel pp 12648–12649 DOI: 10.1021/ja027335w Supporting Info

AuCl3-Catalyzed Benzannulation:  Synthesis of Naphthyl Ketone Derivatives from o-Alkynylbenzaldehydes with Alkynes Naoki Asao, Kumiko Takahashi, Sunyoung Lee, Taisuke Kasahara, and Yoshinori Yamamoto pp 12650–12651 DOI: 10.1021/ja028128z Supporting Info

Direct EPR Observations of Both Oxidized and Reduced Porphyrin Dimers in the Lowest Excited States:  A Novel Analysis of a Homobiradical with a Strong Antiferromagnetic Interaction Fumio Furuya, Kazuyuki Ishii, and Nagao Kobayashi pp 12652–12653 DOI: 10.1021/ja0201597 Supporting Info

Contact Model for the Prediction of NMR N−H Order Parameters in Globular Proteins Fengli Zhang and Rafael Brüschweiler pp 12654–12655 DOI: 10.1021/ja027847a Supporting Info

The Unusual Role of CO Transfer in Molybdenum-Catalyzed Asymmetric Alkylations Shane W. Krska, David L. Hughes, Robert A. Reamer, David J. Mathre, and Yongkui SunBarry M. Trost pp 12656–12657 DOI: 10.1021/ja028035h Supporting Info

Impact of Mobility on Structure-Based Drug Design for the MMPs Franklin J. Moy, Pranab K. Chanda, James Chen, Scott Cosmi, Wade Edris, Jeremy I. Levin, Thomas S. Rush, James Wilhelm, and Robert Powers pp 12658–12659 DOI: 10.1021/ja027391x Supporting Info

Hydrophobic Effects on Rates and Substrate Selectivities in Polymeric Transaminase Mimics Lei Liu, Mary Rozenman, and Ronald Breslow pp 12660–12661 DOI: 10.1021/ja028151k Supporting Info

A Perturbed pKa at the Binding Site of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor:  Implications for Nicotine Binding E. James Petersson, Anita Choi, David S. Dahan, Henry A. Lester, and Dennis A. Dougherty pp 12662–12663 DOI: 10.1021/ja028206i Supporting Info

Bioelectrochemical Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Bobak R. Azamian, Jason J. Davis, Karl S. Coleman, Claire B. Bagshaw, and Malcolm L. H. Green pp 12664–12665 DOI: 10.1021/ja0272989 Supporting Info

Synthesis and Evaluation of Iron Chelators with Masked Hydrophilic Moieties Michael M. Meijler, Rina Arad-Yellin, Z. Ioav Cabantchik, and Abraham Shanzer pp 12666–12667 DOI: 10.1021/ja027013s Supporting Info

Development of Bifunctional Salen Catalysts:  Rapid, Chemoselective Alkylations of α-Ketoesters Erin F. DiMauro and Marisa C. Kozlowski pp 12668–12669 DOI: 10.1021/ja026498h Supporting Info

Palladium-Catalyzed Intermolecular Hydroamination of Alkynes:  A Dramatic Rate-Enhancement Effect of o-Aminophenol Tomohiro Shimada and Yoshinori Yamamoto pp 12670–12671 DOI: 10.1021/ja027683y Supporting Info

Well-Defined Boron-Containing Polymeric Lewis Acids Yang Qin, Guanglou Cheng, Anand Sundararaman, and Frieder Jäkle pp 12672–12673 DOI: 10.1021/ja020773i Supporting Info

Light-Induced Helix Formation Cheng-Yen Huang, Shu He, William F. DeGrado, Dewey G. McCafferty, and Feng Gai pp 12674–12675 DOI: 10.1021/ja028084u Supporting Info

DNA Strand Exchange Stimulated by Spontaneous Complex Formation with Cationic Comb-Type Copolymer Won Jong Kim, Toshihiro Akaike, and Atsushi Maruyama pp 12676–12677 DOI: 10.1021/ja0272080 Supporting Info

Electrochemically Driven Formation of a Molecular Capsule around the Ferrocenium Ion Ivy E. Philip and Angel E. Kaifer pp 12678–12679 DOI: 10.1021/ja028202d Supporting Info

Iridium-Catalyzed Reaction of Aroyl Chlorides with Internal Alkynes to Produce Substituted Naphthalenes and Anthracenes Toshiya Yasukawa, Tetsuya Satoh, Masahiro Miura, and Masakatsu Nomura pp 12680–12681 DOI: 10.1021/ja0280269 Supporting Info

CYP119 Plus a Sulfolobus tokodaii Strain 7 Ferredoxin and 2-Oxoacid:Ferredoxin Oxidoreductase Constitute a High-Temperature Cytochrome P450 Catalytic System Andrei V. Puchkaev, Takayoshi Wakagi, and Paul R. Ortiz de Montellano pp 12682–12683 DOI: 10.1021/ja0282036

Stereochemistry of Protected Ornithine Side Chains of Gramicidin S Derivatives:  X-ray Crystal Structure of the Bis-Boc-tetra-N-methyl Derivative of Gramicidin S Keiichi Yamada, Masafumi Unno, Kyoko Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Oku, Hatsuo Yamamura, Shuki Araki, Hideyuki Matsumoto, Ryoichi Katakai, and Masao Kawai pp 12684–12688 DOI: 10.1021/ja020307t Supporting Info

Analysis of Hairpin Polyamide Complexes Having DNA Binding Sites in Close Proximity Cheryl A. Hawkins, Eldon E. Baird, Peter B. Dervan, and David E. Wemmer pp 12689–12696 DOI: 10.1021/ja020335b Supporting Info

Structural, Luminescence, and NMR Studies of the Reversible Binding of Acetate, Lactate, Citrate, and Selected Amino Acids to Chiral Diaqua Ytterbium, Gadolinium, and Europium Complexes Rachel S. Dickins, Silvio Aime, Andrei S. Batsanov, Andrew Beeby, Mauro Botta, James I. Bruce, Judith A. K. Howard, Christine S. Love, David Parker, Robert D. Peacock, and Horst Puschmann pp 12697–12705 DOI: 10.1021/ja020836x Supporting Info

Stabilizing Interactions between Aromatic and Basic Side Chains in α-Helical Peptides and Proteins. Tyrosine Effects on Helix Circular Dichroism Charles D. Andrew, Samita Bhattacharjee, Nicoleta Kokkoni, Jonathan D. Hirst, Gareth R. Jones, and Andrew J. Doig pp 12706–12714 DOI: 10.1021/ja027629h

Squaryl Group as a New Mimic of Phosphate Group in Modified Oligodeoxynucleotides:  Synthesis and Properties of New Oligodeoxynucleotide Analogues Containing an Internucleotidic Squaryldiamide Linkage Kousuke Sato, Kohji Seio, and Mitsuo Sekine pp 12715–12724 DOI: 10.1021/ja027131f

Catalyst/Cocatalyst Nuclearity Effects in Single-Site Polymerization. Enhanced Polyethylene Branching and α-Olefin Comonomer Enchainment in Polymerizations Mediated by Binuclear Catalysts and Cocatalysts via a New Enchainment Pathway Liting Li, Matthew V. Metz, Hongbo Li, Ming-Chou Chen, Tobin J. Marks, Louise Liable-Sands, and Arnold L. Rheingold pp 12725–12741 DOI: 10.1021/ja0201698 Supporting Info

The Interplay of Bent-Shape, Lateral Dipole and Chirality in Thiophene Based Di-, Tri-, and Tetracatenar Liquid Crystals S. Holger Eichhorn, Alexander J. Paraskos, Keiki Kishikawa, and Timothy M. Swager pp 12742–12751 DOI: 10.1021/ja0268027 Supporting Info

A Molecular Oyster: A Neutral Anion Receptor Containing Two Cyclopeptide Subunits with a Remarkable Sulfate Affinity in Aqueous Solution Stefan Kubik, R. Kirchner, D. Nolting, and J. Seidel pp 12752–12760 DOI: 10.1021/ja026996q Supporting Info

Ordered Nanoporous Polymers from Polystyrene−Polylactide Block Copolymers Andrew S. Zalusky, Roberto Olayo-Valles, Johanna H. Wolf, and Marc A. Hillmyer pp 12761–12773 DOI: 10.1021/ja0278584 Supporting Info

Structure−Activity Studies of 14-Helical Antimicrobial β-Peptides:  Probing the Relationship between Conformational Stability and Antimicrobial Potency Tami L. Raguse, Emilie A. Porter, Bernard Weisblum, and Samuel H. Gellman pp 12774–12785 DOI: 10.1021/ja0270423

Photoinduced Electron Transfer in a Triad That Can Be Assembled/Disassembled by Two Different External Inputs. Toward Molecular-Level Electrical Extension Cables Roberto Ballardini, Vincenzo Balzani, Miguel Clemente-León, Alberto Credi, Maria Teresa Gandolfi, Eléna Ishow, Julie Perkins, J. Fraser Stoddart, Hsian-Rong Tseng, and Sabine Wenger pp 12786–12795 DOI: 10.1021/ja025813x

Theoretical Study of Anion Binding to Calix[4]pyrrole:  the Effects of Solvent, Fluorine Substitution, Cosolute, and Water Traces J. Ramón Blas, Manuel Márquez, Jonathan L. Sessler, F. Javier Luque, and Modesto Orozco pp 12796–12805 DOI: 10.1021/ja020318m Supporting Info

Asymmetric Crotylation Reactions in Synthesis of Polypropionate-Derived Macrolides:  Application to Total Synthesis of Oleandolide Tao Hu, Norito Takenaka, and James S. Panek pp 12806–12815 DOI: 10.1021/ja020853m Supporting Info

The Kinetics of Thiyl Radical-Induced Reactions of Monounsaturated Fatty Acid Esters Chryssostomos Chatgilialoglu, Alessio Altieri, and Hanns Fischer pp 12816–12823 DOI: 10.1021/ja027428d

Selective Interaction of Lower Rim Calix[4]arene Derivatives and Bivalent Cations in Solution. Crystallographic Evidence of the Versatile Behavior of Acetonitrile in Lead(II) and Cadmium(II) Complexes Angela F. Danil de Namor, Samir Chahine, Dorota Kowalska, Eduardo E. Castellano, and Oscar E. Piro pp 12824–12836 DOI: 10.1021/ja020764+ Supporting Info

Evidence for Single-Chain Magnet Behavior in a MnIII−NiII Chain Designed with High Spin Magnetic Units:  A Route to High Temperature Metastable Magnets Rodolphe Clérac, Hitoshi Miyasaka, Masahiro Yamashita, and Claude Coulon pp 12837–12844 DOI: 10.1021/ja0203115 Supporting Info

Immobilization of Peroxidase Glycoprotein on Gold Electrodes Modified with Mixed Epoxy-Boronic Acid Monolayers José M. Abad, Marisela Vélez, Carolina Santamaría, Jose M. Guisán, Pedro R. Matheus, Luis Vázquez, Irina Gazaryan, Lo Gorton, Tim Gibson, and Víctor M. Fernández pp 12845–12853 DOI: 10.1021/ja026658p Supporting Info

Formation of Adenine−N3/Guanine−N7 Cross-Link in the Reaction of trans-Oriented Platinum Substrates with Dinucleotides Yangzhong Liu, Jo Vinje, Concetta Pacifico, Giovanni Natile, and Einar Sletten pp 12854–12862 DOI: 10.1021/ja027251n Supporting Info

On The Preparation of Fluorine-18 Labelled XeF2 and Chemical Exchange between Fluoride Ion and XeF2 Neil Vasdev, Bernard E. Pointner, Raman Chirakal, and Gary J. Schrobilgen pp 12863–12868 DOI: 10.1021/ja020604y

Activation of Dimethyl Zirconocene by Methylaluminoxane (MAO)Size Estimate for Me-MAO- Anions by Pulsed Field-Gradient NMR Dmitrii E. Babushkin and Hans-Herbert Brintzinger pp 12869–12873 DOI: 10.1021/ja020646m

Synthesis of hcp-Co Nanodisks Victor F. Puntes, Daniela Zanchet, Can K. Erdonmez, and A. Paul Alivisatos pp 12874–12880 DOI: 10.1021/ja027262g Supporting Info

The Role of Hydrogen Bonding on the H-Atom-Donating Abilities of Catechols and Naphthalene Diols and on a Previously Overlooked Aspect of Their Infrared Spectra Mario C. Foti, L. Ross C. Barclay, and K. U. Ingold pp 12881–12888 DOI: 10.1021/ja020757l Supporting Info

Hydrogen-Bonded Macrocluster Formation of Ethanol on Silica Surfaces in Cyclohexane1 Masashi Mizukami, Masashi Moteki, and Kazue Kurihara pp 12889–12897 DOI: 10.1021/ja027141g Supporting Info

Longitudinal 1H Relaxation Optimization in TROSY NMR Spectroscopy Konstantin Pervushin, Beat Vögeli, and Alexander Eletsky pp 12898–12902 DOI: 10.1021/ja027149q Supporting Info

Density Functional Theory Investigation of the Remarkable Reactivity of Geminal Dizinc Carbenoids (RZn)2CHI (R = Et or I) as Cyclopropanation Reagents with Olefins Compared to Mono Zinc Carbenoids RZnCHI2, EtCHIZnR (R = Et or I) Cunyuan Zhao, Dongqi Wang, and David Lee Phillips pp 12903–12914 DOI: 10.1021/ja020965d Supporting Info

Interfacial Reactivity of Monolayer-Protected Clusters Studied by Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy Bernadette M. Quinn, Peter Liljeroth, and Kyösti Kontturi pp 12915–12921 DOI: 10.1021/ja0282137 Supporting Info

An Enzyme Library Approach to Biocatalysis:  Development of Nitrilases for Enantioselective Production of Carboxylic Acid Derivatives [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124 (31), 9024−9025]. Grace DeSantis, Zuolin Zhu, William A. Greenberg, Kelvin Wong, Jenny Chaplin, Sarah R. Hanson, Bob Farwell, Lawrence W. Nicholson, Cynthia L. Rand, David P. Weiner, Dan Robertson, and Mark J. Burk p 12922 DOI: 10.1021/ja0251120 Supporting Info

Catalysis by Ceria and Related Materials Edited by Alessandro Trovarelli (Università di Udine, Italy). Catalytic Science Series. Volume 2. Series Edited by Graham J. Hutchings. Imperial College Press:  London. 2002. vviii + 508 pp. $78.00. ISBN:  1-86094-299-7. Scott L. Swartz pp 12923–12924 DOI: 10.1021/ja025256e

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Solid-Phase Synthesis of Bleomycin A5 and Three Monosaccharide Analogues:  Exploring the Role of the Carbohydrate Moiety in RNA Cleavage Craig J. Thomas, Alexander O. Chizhov, Christopher J. Leitheiser, Michael J. Rishel, Kazuhide Konishi, Zhi-Fu Tao, and Sidney M. Hecht pp 12926–12927 DOI: 10.1021/ja0208916 Supporting Info

Gas-Phase Electrophilic Attack of a Double Bond Exhibits Stereoselectivity Philip S. Mayer and Thomas Hellman Morton pp 12928–12929 DOI: 10.1021/ja020924h

Membraneless Vanadium Redox Fuel Cell Using Laminar Flow Rosaria Ferrigno, Abraham D. Stroock, Thomas D. Clark, Michael Mayer, and George M. Whitesides pp 12930–12931 DOI: 10.1021/ja020812q Supporting Info

Supported Ionic Liquid Catalysis − A New Concept for Homogeneous Hydroformylation Catalysis Christian P. Mehnert, Raymond A. Cook, Nicholas C. Dispenziere, and Mobae Afeworki pp 12932–12933 DOI: 10.1021/ja0279242 Supporting Info

The Tethered Aminohydroxylation (TA) of Cyclic Allylic Carbamates Timothy J. Donohoe, Peter D. Johnson, Andrew Cowley, and Martine Keenan pp 12934–12935 DOI: 10.1021/ja0276117 Supporting Info

OCBBCO:  A Neutral Molecule with Some Boron−Boron Triple Bond Character Mingfei Zhou, Nobuko Tsumori, Zhenhua Li, Kangnian Fan, Lester Andrews, and Qiang Xu pp 12936–12937 DOI: 10.1021/ja026257+ Supporting Info

Efficient π-Facial Control in the Ene Reaction of Nitrosoarene, Triazolinedione, and Singlet Oxygen with Tiglic Amides of the Bornane-Derived Sultam as Chiral Auxiliary:  An Economical Synthesis of Enantiomerically Pure Nitrogen- and Oxygen-Functionalized Acrylic Acid Derivatives Waldemar Adam, Hans-Georg Degen, Oliver Krebs, and Chantu R. Saha-Möller pp 12938–12939 DOI: 10.1021/ja026640e Supporting Info

Paranemic Cohesion of Topologically-Closed DNA Molecules Xiaoping Zhang, Hao Yan, Zhiyong Shen, and Nadrian C. Seeman pp 12940–12941 DOI: 10.1021/ja026973b Supporting Info

The Pyridyl-Tag Strategy Applied to the Hydrocarbon/Perfluorocarbon Phase-Switching of a Porphyrin and a Fullerene Mounir El Bakkari, Nathan McClenaghan, and Jean-Marc Vincent pp 12942–12943 DOI: 10.1021/ja027815n Supporting Info

Crystal of Semiconducting Quantum Dots Built on Covalently Bonded T5 [In28Cd6S54]-12:  The Largest Supertetrahedral Cluster in Solid State Weiping Su, Xiaoying Huang, Jing Li, and Huaxiang Fu pp 12944–12945 DOI: 10.1021/ja027830s Supporting Info

Phase-Vanishing Reactions that Use Fluorous Media as a Phase Screen. Facile, Controlled Bromination of Alkenes by Dibromine and Dealkylation of Aromatic Ethers by Boron Tribromide Ilhyong Ryu, Hiroshi Matsubara, Shinji Yasuda, Hiroyuki Nakamura, and Dennis P. Curran pp 12946–12947 DOI: 10.1021/ja027965y Supporting Info

The First Chiral Organometallic Triangle for Asymmetric Catalysis Suk Joong Lee, Aiguo Hu, and Wenbin Lin pp 12948–12949 DOI: 10.1021/ja028099s Supporting Info

Enantioselective Synthesis of the Bromopyrrole Alkaloids Manzacidin A and C by Stereospecific C−H Bond Oxidation Paul M. Wehn and J. Du Bois pp 12950–12951 DOI: 10.1021/ja028139s Supporting Info

Smaller and Faster:  The 20-Residue Trp-Cage Protein Folds in 4 μs Linlin Qiu, Suzette A. Pabit, Adrian E. Roitberg, and Stephen J. Hagen pp 12952–12953 DOI: 10.1021/ja0279141

Biomimetic Arrays of Oriented Helical ZnO Nanorods and Columns Zhengrong R. Tian, James A. Voigt, Jun Liu, Bonnie Mckenzie, and Matthew J. Mcdermott pp 12954–12955 DOI: 10.1021/ja0279545

Structure of the Decamethyl Titanocene Cation, a Metallocene with Two Agostic C−H Bonds, and Its Interaction with Fluorocarbons Marco W. Bouwkamp, Jeanette de Wolf, Isabel del Hierro Morales, Jeroen Gercama, Auke Meetsma, Sergei I. Troyanov, Bart Hessen, and Jan H. Teuben pp 12956–12957 DOI: 10.1021/ja027617w Supporting Info

Intrinsic Lifetimes of the Excited State of DNA and RNA Bases Hyuk Kang, Kang Taek Lee, Boyong Jung, Yeon Jae Ko, and Seong Keun Kim pp 12958–12959 DOI: 10.1021/ja027627x

Ruthenium-Catalyzed S-Propargylation of Thiols Enables the Rapid Synthesis of Propargylic Sulfides Teruyuki Kondo, Yusuke Kanda, Atsushi Baba, Kenji Fukuda, Ayako Nakamura, Kenji Wada, Yasuhiro Morisaki, and Take-aki Mitsudo pp 12960–12961 DOI: 10.1021/ja027750o Supporting Info

A Miniature Biofuel Cell Operating in A Physiological Buffer Nicolas Mano, Fei Mao, and Adam Heller pp 12962–12963 DOI: 10.1021/ja028514g

Asymmetric Catalytic Mannich Reactions Catalyzed by Urea Derivatives:  Enantioselective Synthesis of β-Aryl-β-Amino Acids Anna G. Wenzel and Eric N. Jacobsen pp 12964–12965 DOI: 10.1021/ja028353g Supporting Info

Oriented Molecular Sieve Membranes by Heteroepitaxial Growth Hae-Kwon Jeong, John Krohn, Khristina Sujaoti, and Michael Tsapatsis pp 12966–12968 DOI: 10.1021/ja020947w Supporting Info

A Solid-Supported, Enantioselective Synthesis Suitable for the Rapid Preparation of Large Numbers of Diverse Structural Analogues of (−)-Saframycin A Andrew G. Myers and Brian A. Lanman pp 12969–12971 DOI: 10.1021/ja027729n Supporting Info

Can One Derive the Conformational Preference of a β-Peptide from Its CD Spectrum? Alice Glättli, Xavier Daura, Dieter Seebach, and Wilfred F. van Gunsteren pp 12972–12978 DOI: 10.1021/ja020758d

Protein Engineering of Nitrile Hydratase Activity of Papain:  Molecular Dynamics Study of a Mutant and Wild-Type Enzyme Swarnalatha Y. Reddy, Kalju Kahn, Ya-Jun Zheng, and Thomas C. Bruice pp 12979–12990 DOI: 10.1021/ja020918l Supporting Info

Solution and Crystallographic Studies of Branched Multivalent Ligands that Inhibit the Receptor-Binding of Cholera Toxin Zhongsheng Zhang, Ethan A. Merritt, Misol Ahn, Claudia Roach, Zheng Hou, Christophe L. M. J. Verlinde, Wim G. J. Hol, and Erkang Fan pp 12991–12998 DOI: 10.1021/ja027584k

NADH Model Systems Functionalized with Zn(II)-Cyclen as Flavin Binding SiteStructure Dependence of the Redox Reaction within Reversible Aggregates Roland Reichenbach-Klinke, Michael Kruppa, and Burkhard König pp 12999–13007 DOI: 10.1021/ja026719j Supporting Info

Studies on the Mechanism of Action of Azinomycin B:  Definition of Regioselectivity and Sequence Selectivity of DNA Cross-Link Formation and Clarification of the Role of the Naphthoate Robert S. Coleman, Ronelito J. Perez, Christopher H. Burk, and Antonio Navarro pp 13008–13017 DOI: 10.1021/ja025563k

Probing the Exposure of Tyrosine and Tryptophan Residues in Partially Folded Proteins and Folding Intermediates by CIDNP Pulse-Labeling Charles E. Lyon, Eui-Sik Suh, Christopher M. Dobson, and P. J. Hore pp 13018–13024 DOI: 10.1021/ja020141w

Structurally Distinct Active Sites in the Copper(II)-Substituted Aminopeptidases from Aeromonas proteolytica and Escherichia coli Brian Bennett, William E. Antholine, Ventris M. D'souza, Guanjing Chen, Leila Ustinyuk, and Richard C. Holz pp 13025–13034 DOI: 10.1021/ja026341p

High-Avidity, Low-Affinity Multivalent Interactions and the Block to Polyspermy in Xenopus laevis Esther Arranz-Plaza, Alex S. Tracy, Aloysius Siriwardena, J. Michael Pierce, and Geert-Jan Boons pp 13035–13046 DOI: 10.1021/ja020536f Supporting Info

Methylglyoxal Synthetase, Enol-Pyruvaldehyde, Glutathione and the Glyoxalase System Irwin A. Rose and James S. Nowick pp 13047–13052 DOI: 10.1021/ja027065h

2-Aminopurine:  A Probe of Structural Dynamics and Charge Transfer in DNA and DNA:RNA Hybrids Melanie A. O'Neill and Jacqueline K. Barton pp 13053–13066 DOI: 10.1021/ja0208198 Supporting Info

Design of Artificial Transcriptional Activators with Rigid Poly-l-proline Linkers Paramjit S. Arora, Aseem Z. Ansari, Timothy P. Best, Mark Ptashne, and Peter B. Dervan pp 13067–13071 DOI: 10.1021/ja0208355 Supporting Info

Vibrational Spectrum of m-Benzyne:  A Matrix Isolation and Computational Study Wolfram Sander, Michael Exner, Michael Winkler, Andreas Balster, Angelica Hjerpe, Elfi Kraka, and Dieter Cremer pp 13072–13079 DOI: 10.1021/ja012686g Supporting Info

Tandem 1,4-Addition Reactions with Benzene and Alkylated Benzenes Promoted by Pentaammineosmium(II) Fei Ding, Michael E. Kopach, Michal Sabat, and W. Dean Harman pp 13080–13087 DOI: 10.1021/ja020279e Supporting Info

Manifestation of Stereoelectronic Effects on the Calculated Carbon−Hydrogen Bond Lengths and One Bond 1JC-H NMR Coupling Constants in Cyclohexane, Six-Membered Heterocycles, and Cyclohexanone Derivatives Gabriel Cuevas and Eusebio Juaristi pp 13088–13096 DOI: 10.1021/ja020317u Supporting Info

Development of a Catalytic Enantioselective Conjugate Addition of 1,3-Dicarbonyl Compounds to Nitroalkenes for the Synthesis of Endothelin-A Antagonist ABT-546. Scope, Mechanism, and Further Application to the Synthesis of the Antidepressant Rolipram David M. Barnes, Jianguo Ji, Michael G. Fickes, Michael A. Fitzgerald, Steven A. King, Howard E. Morton, Frederick A. Plagge, Margo Preskill, Seble H. Wagaw, Steven J. Wittenberger, and Ji Zhang pp 13097–13105 DOI: 10.1021/ja026788y Supporting Info

Dehydration Reaction of Hydroxyl Substituted Alkenes and Alkynes on the Ru2S2 Complex Kazuko Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Moriya, Hiroyasu Sugiyama, Md. Munkir Hossain, and Yong-Shou Lin pp 13106–13113 DOI: 10.1021/ja020660z Supporting Info

Structure and Stereochemistry of a New Cytotoxic Polychlorinated Sulfolipid from Adriatic Shellfish Patrizia Ciminiello, Carmela Dell'Aversano, Ernesto Fattorusso, Martino Forino, Silvana Magno, Massimo Di Rosa, Angela Ianaro, and Roberto Poletti pp 13114–13120 DOI: 10.1021/ja0207347 Supporting Info

Synthesis of the Eight Enantiomerically Pure Diastereomers of the 12-F2-Isoprostanes Douglass F. Taber, Ming Xu, and John C. Hartnett pp 13121–13126 DOI: 10.1021/ja020816v Supporting Info

First Total Synthesis of a Natural Product Containing a Chiral, β-Diketone:  Synthesis and Stereochemical Reassignment of Siphonarienedione and Siphonarienolone Michael A. Calter and Wensheng Liao pp 13127–13129 DOI: 10.1021/ja027675h Supporting Info

Pyrolysis in the Mesophase:  A Chemist's Approach toward Preparing Carbon Nano- and Microparticles Lileta Gherghel, Christian Kübel, Günter Lieser, Hans-Joachim Räder, and Klaus Müllen pp 13130–13138 DOI: 10.1021/ja020363u Supporting Info

Mechanism of Preferential Enrichment, an Unusual Enantiomeric Resolution Phenomenon Caused by Polymorphic Transition during Crystallization of Mixed Crystals Composed of Two Enantiomers Rui Tamura, Daisuke Fujimoto, Zsolt Lepp, Kentaro Misaki, Hideyuki Miura, Hiroki Takahashi, Takanori Ushio, Tadashi Nakai, and Ken Hirotsu pp 13139–13153 DOI: 10.1021/ja020454r Supporting Info

Characteristic Reactions and Properties of C-Apical O-Equatorial (O-cis) Spirophosphoranes:  Effect of the σ*P-O Orbital in the Equatorial Plane and Isolation of a Hexacoordinate Oxaphosphetane as an Intermediate of the Wittig Type Reaction of 10-P-5 Phosphoranes Shiro Matsukawa, Satoshi Kojima, Kazumasa Kajiyama, Yohsuke Yamamoto, Kin-ya Akiba, Suyong Re, and Shigeru Nagase pp 13154–13170 DOI: 10.1021/ja026776c Supporting Info

Solid-Phase Synthesis of Dysidiolide-Derived Protein Phosphatase Inhibitors Dirk Brohm, Nicolas Philippe, Susanne Metzger, Ajay Bhargava, Oliver Müller, Folker Lieb, and Herbert Waldmann pp 13171–13178 DOI: 10.1021/ja027609f Supporting Info

The First Total Synthesis of Dragmacidin D Neil K. Garg, Richmond Sarpong, and Brian M. Stoltz pp 13179–13184 DOI: 10.1021/ja027822b Supporting Info

Remarkably Stable Iron Porphyrins Bearing Nonheteroatom-Stabilized Carbene or (Alkoxycarbonyl)carbenes:  Isolation, X-ray Crystal Structures, and Carbon Atom Transfer Reactions with Hydrocarbons Yan Li, Jie-Sheng Huang, Zhong-Yuan Zhou, Chi-Ming Che, and Xiao-Zeng You pp 13185–13193 DOI: 10.1021/ja020391c Supporting Info

Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalytic Performance of Single-Site Iron(III) Centers on the Surface of SBA-15 Silica Chika Nozaki, Claus G. Lugmair, Alexis T. Bell, and T. Don Tilley pp 13194–13203 DOI: 10.1021/ja020388t Supporting Info

Anisotropic NMR Interaction Tensors in the Decamethylaluminocenium Cation Robert W. Schurko, Ivan Hung, Charles L. B. Macdonald, and Alan H. Cowley pp 13204–13214 DOI: 10.1021/ja020394p Supporting Info

Structural Isomers of Aryl-Substituted η3-Propargyl Complexes:  η2-1-Metalla(methylene)cyclopropene and η3-Benzyl Complexes Charles P. Casey, Timothy M. Boller, Stefan Kraft, and Ilia A. Guzei pp 13215–13221 DOI: 10.1021/ja020439m Supporting Info

New Description of the Disorder in Zeolite ZSM-48 Raul F. Lobo and Henk van Koningsveld pp 13222–13230 DOI: 10.1021/ja020569v

Donor/Acceptor Interactions in Systematically Modified RuII−OsII Oligonucleotides Dennis J. Hurley and Yitzhak Tor pp 13231–13241 DOI: 10.1021/ja020172r Supporting Info

X-ray Absorption and Resonance Raman Studies of Methyl-Coenzyme M Reductase Indicating That Ligand Exchange and Macrocycle Reduction Accompany Reductive Activation Qun Tang, Paul E. Carrington, Yih-Chern Horng, Michael J. Maroney, Stephen W. Ragsdale, and David F. Bocian pp 13242–13256 DOI: 10.1021/ja020314h Supporting Info

Comparison of Various Types of Hydrogen Bonds Involving Aromatic Amino Acids Steve Scheiner, Tapas Kar, and Jayasree Pattanayak pp 13257–13264 DOI: 10.1021/ja027200q

Electrochemical Sensing in Microfluidic Systems Using Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence as a Photonic Reporter of Redox Reactions Wei Zhan, Julio Alvarez, and Richard M. Crooks pp 13265–13270 DOI: 10.1021/ja020907s

An Electrostatic Model for the Frequency Shifts in the Carbonmonoxy Stretching Band of Myoglobin:  Correlation of Hydrogen Bonding and the Stark Tuning Rate Stefan Franzen pp 13271–13281 DOI: 10.1021/ja017708d Supporting Info

Lactone Enols Are Stable in the Gas Phase but Highly Unstable in Solution František Tureek, Shetty Vivekananda, Martin Sadílek, and Miroslav Polášek pp 13282–13289 DOI: 10.1021/ja0202457

[Ni0L]-Catalyzed Cyclodimerization of 1,3-Butadiene:  A Density Functional Investigation of the Influence of Electronic and Steric Factors on the Regulation of the Selectivity Sven Tobisch and Tom Ziegler pp 13290–13301 DOI: 10.1021/ja020423w Supporting Info

Molecular Responses of Proteins at Different Interfacial Environments Detected by Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy Jie Wang, Sarah M. Buck, Mark A. Even, and Zhan Chen pp 13302–13305 DOI: 10.1021/ja026881m

Mechanism of the Addition of Nonenolizable Aldehydes and Ketones to (Di)metallenes (R2XYR2, X = Si, Ge Y = C, Si, Ge):  A Density Functional and Multiconfigurational Perturbation Theory Study Nicholas J. Mosey, Kim M. Baines, and Tom K. Woo pp 13306–13321 DOI: 10.1021/ja0269845 Supporting Info

Quantized Double-Layer Charging of Highly Monodisperse Metal Nanoparticles Jocelyn F. Hicks, Deon T. Miles, and Royce W. Murray pp 13322–13328 DOI: 10.1021/ja027724q

Fluorescence of cis-1-Amino-2-(3-indolyl)cyclohexane-1-carboxylic Acid:  A Single Tryptophan χ1 Rotamer Model Bo Liu, Reema K. Thalji, Paul D. Adams, Frank R. Fronczek, Mark L. McLaughlin, and Mary D. Barkley pp 13329–13338 DOI: 10.1021/ja016542d Supporting Info

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Dysinosin A:  A Novel Inhibitor of Factor VIIa and Thrombin from a New Genus and Species of Australian Sponge of the Family Dysideidae Anthony R. Carroll, Gregory K. Pierens, Greg Fechner, Priscila de Almeida Leone, Anna Ngo, Moana Simpson, Edward Hyde, John N. A. Hooper, Stig-Lennart Boström, Djordje Musil, and Ronald J. Quinn pp 13340–13341 DOI: 10.1021/ja020814a Supporting Info

Total Synthesis and Structural Confirmation of the Marine Natural Product Dysinosin A:  A Novel Inhibitor of Thrombin and Factor VIIa Stephen Hanessian, Roberto Margarita, Adrian Hall, Shawn Johnstone, Martin Tremblay, and Luca Parlanti pp 13342–13343 DOI: 10.1021/ja0208153 Supporting Info

Separate-Local-Field NMR Spectroscopy on Half-Integer Quadrupolar Nuclei Julia Grinshtein, Christopher V. Grant, and Lucio Frydman pp 13344–13345 DOI: 10.1021/ja020882x

Macrocyclic Aromatic Ether-Imide-Sulfones:  Versatile Supramolecular Receptors with Extreme Thermochemical and Oxidative Stability Howard M. Colquhoun, David J. Williams, and Zhixue Zhu pp 13346–13347 DOI: 10.1021/ja027851m Supporting Info

Pseudotetrahedral Polyhaloadamantanes as Chirality Probes:  Synthesis, Separation, and Absolute Configuration Peter R. Schreiner, Andrey A. Fokin, Oliver Lauenstein, Yoshio Okamoto, Tsuneki Wakita, Christopher Rinderspacher, Gregory H. Robinson, Jason K. Vohs, and Charles F. Campana pp 13348–13349 DOI: 10.1021/ja0274195 Supporting Info

The First Structural and Spectroscopic Characterization of a Neptunyl Polyoxometalate Complex Andrew J. Gaunt, Iain May, Madeleine Helliwell, and Steve Richardson pp 13350–13351 DOI: 10.1021/ja028005e Supporting Info

High-Affinity Mu Opioid Receptor Ligands Discovered by the Screening of an Exhaustively Stereodiversified Library of 1,5-Enediols Bryce A. Harrison, Tiffany Malinky Gierasch, Claire Neilan, Gavril W. Pasternak, and Gregory L. Verdine pp 13352–13353 DOI: 10.1021/ja027150p Supporting Info

Packings of Uniform Microspheres with Ordered Macropores Fabricated by Double Templating Gi-Ra Yi, Jun Hyuk Moon, Vinothan N. Manoharan, David J. Pine, and Seung-Man Yang pp 13354–13355 DOI: 10.1021/ja027325v

Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Phosphination:  Enantioselective Synthesis of a P-Chirogenic Phosphine Jillian R. Moncarz, Natalia F. Laritcheva, and David S. Glueck pp 13356–13357 DOI: 10.1021/ja0267324 Supporting Info

Controlled Fabrication of Cross-Linked Nanoparticles/Polymer Composite Thin Films through the Combined Use of Surface-Initiated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization and Gas/Solid Reaction Jia-Yu Wang, Wei Chen, An-Hua Liu, Guang Lu, Gang Zhang, Jun-Hu Zhang, and Bai Yang pp 13358–13359 DOI: 10.1021/ja027795p Supporting Info

Efficient Mixing and Reactions within Microfluidic Channels Using Microbead-Supported Catalysts Gi Hun Seong and Richard M. Crooks pp 13360–13361 DOI: 10.1021/ja020932y Supporting Info

Efficient Cu-Catalyzed Asymmetric Conjugate Additions of Alkylzincs to Trisubstituted Cyclic Enones Sylvia J. Degrado, Hirotake Mizutani, and Amir H. Hoveyda pp 13362–13363 DOI: 10.1021/ja021081x Supporting Info

Large Substituent Effect on the Photochemical Rearrangement of 1,6-(N-Aryl)aza-[60]fulleroids to 1,2-(N-Arylaziridino)-[60]fullerenes Akihiko Ouchi, Ryota Hatsuda, Bahlul Z. S. Awen, Masako Sakuragi, Reiko Ogura, Tadahiro Ishii, Yasuyuki Araki, and Osamu Ito pp 13364–13365 DOI: 10.1021/ja0267728 Supporting Info

Organization of Microcrystals on Glass by Adenine−Thymine Hydrogen Bonding Jin Seon Park, Goo Soo Lee, Yun-Jo Lee, Yong Soo Park, and Kyung Byung Yoon pp 13366–13367 DOI: 10.1021/ja0270569 Supporting Info

Site Chirality as a Messenger in Chain-End Stereocontrolled Propene Polymerization Giuseppe Milano, Luigi Cavallo, and Gaetano Guerra pp 13368–13369 DOI: 10.1021/ja026675e Supporting Info

Imaging As-Grown [60]Fullerene Nanotubes by Template Technique Huibiao Liu, Yuliang Li, Lei Jiang, Hongyuan Luo, Shengqiang Xiao, Hongjuan Fang, Hongmei Li, Daoben Zhu, Dapeng Yu, Jun Xu, and Bing Xiang pp 13370–13371 DOI: 10.1021/ja0280527 Supporting Info

C−C Bond Formation via C−H Bond Activation:  Catalytic Arylation and Alkenylation of Alkane Segments Bengü Sezen, Roberto Franz, and Dalibor Sames pp 13372–13373 DOI: 10.1021/ja027891q Supporting Info

Aqueous Phase Separation in Giant Vesicles Marcus R. Helfrich, Lauren K. Mangeney-Slavin, M. Scott Long, Karrera Y. Djoko, and Christine D. Keating pp 13374–13375 DOI: 10.1021/ja028157+ Supporting Info

Detecting Ligand Binding to a Small RNA Target via Saturation Transfer Difference NMR Experiments in D2O and H2O Moriz Mayer and Thomas L. James pp 13376–13377 DOI: 10.1021/ja027526z

Cooperative Host/Guest Interactions via Counterion Assisted Chelation:  Pseudorotaxanes from Supramolecular Cryptands Jason W. Jones, Lev N. Zakharov, Arnold L. Rheingold, and Harry W. Gibson pp 13378–13379 DOI: 10.1021/ja028306o Supporting Info

Deprotonation of a Histidine Residue in Aqueous Solution Using Constrained Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Ivaylo Ivanov and Michael L. Klein pp 13380–13381 DOI: 10.1021/ja027972m

Oligocarbamate Molecular Transporters:  Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of a New Class of Transporters for Drug Delivery Paul A. Wender, Jonathan B. Rothbard, Theodore C. Jessop, Erik L. Kreider, and Bryan L. Wylie pp 13382–13383 DOI: 10.1021/ja0275109 Supporting Info

Fullerenes as a tert-Butylperoxy Radical Trap, Metal Catalyzed Reaction of tert-Butyl Hydroperoxide with Fullerenes, and Formation of the First Fullerene Mixed Peroxides C60(O)(OOtBu)4 and C70(OOtBu)10 Liangbing Gan, Shaohua Huang, Xiang Zhang, Aixin Zhang, Bichu Cheng, Hao Cheng, Xiaolei Li, and Gao Shang pp 13384–13385 DOI: 10.1021/ja027714p Supporting Info

The Effect of HMPA on the Reactivity of Epoxides, Aziridines, and Alkyl Halides with Organolithium Reagents Hans J. Reich, Aaron W. Sanders, Adam T. Fiedler, and Martin J. Bevan pp 13386–13387 DOI: 10.1021/ja026915q Supporting Info

Polymerized Bicontinuous Cubic Nanoparticles (Cubosomes) from a Reactive Monoacylglycerol Da Yang, David F. O'Brien, and Seth R. Marder pp 13388–13389 DOI: 10.1021/ja026085g

New Tandem Catalysis:  Preparation of Cyclic Enol Ethers through a Ruthenium-Catalyzed Ring-Closing Metathesis−Olefin Isomerization Sequence Amanda E. Sutton, Benjamin A. Seigal, David F. Finnegan, and Marc L. Snapper pp 13390–13391 DOI: 10.1021/ja028044q Supporting Info

Component B Binding to the Soluble Methane Monooxygenase Hydroxylase by Saturation-Recovery EPR Spectroscopy of Spin-Labeled MMOB Ryan MacArthur, Matthew H. Sazinsky, Henriette Kühne, Douglas A. Whittington, Stephen J. Lippard, and Gary W. Brudvig pp 13392–13393 DOI: 10.1021/ja0279904 Supporting Info

Enantioselective Michael Additions of Nitromethane by a Catalytic Double Activation Method Using Chiral Lewis Acid and Achiral Amine Catalysts Kennosuke Itoh and Shuji Kanemasa pp 13394–13395 DOI: 10.1021/ja027313+ Supporting Info

Nickel-Catalyzed Asymmetric Grignard Cross-Coupling of Dinaphthothiophene Giving Axially Chiral 1,1‘-Binaphthyls Toyoshi Shimada, Yong-Hwan Cho, and Tamio Hayashi pp 13396–13397 DOI: 10.1021/ja0282588 Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of (+)-Aspidospermidine:  A New Strategy for the Enantiospecific Synthesis of Aspidosperma Alkaloids Joseph P. Marino, Maria B. Rubio, Ganfeng Cao, and Alfonso de Dios pp 13398–13399 DOI: 10.1021/ja026357f Supporting Info

Highly Enantioselective Ag(I)-Catalyzed [3 + 2] Cycloaddition of Azomethine Ylides James M. Longmire, Bin Wang, and Xumu Zhang pp 13400–13401 DOI: 10.1021/ja025969x Supporting Info

Skeletal Diversity via a Branched Pathway:  Efficient Synthesis of 29 400 Discrete, Polycyclic Compounds and Their Arraying into Stock Solutions Ohyun Kwon, Seung Bum Park, and Stuart L. Schreiber pp 13402–13404 DOI: 10.1021/ja028086e Supporting Info

Lewis Base Activation of Lewis Acids. Addition of Silyl Ketene Acetals to Aldehydes Scott E. Denmark, Thomas Wynn, and Gregory L. Beutner pp 13405–13407 DOI: 10.1021/ja0282947 Supporting Info

Membrane Affinity of the Amphiphilic Marinobactin Siderophores Guofeng Xu, Jennifer S. Martinez, John T. Groves, and Alison Butler pp 13408–13415 DOI: 10.1021/ja026768w Supporting Info

Synthesis of the DNA−[Ru(tpy)(dppz)(CH3CN)]2+ Conjugates and Their Photo Cross-Linking Studies with the Complementary DNA Strand Dimitri Ossipov, Suresh Gohil, and Jyoti Chattopadhyaya pp 13416–13433 DOI: 10.1021/ja0269486 Supporting Info

Rapid Synthesis of a Glycosylphosphatidylinositol-Based Malaria Vaccine Using Automated Solid-Phase Oligosaccharide Synthesis Michael C. Hewitt, Daniel A. Snyder, and Peter H. Seeberger pp 13434–13436 DOI: 10.1021/ja027538k Supporting Info

Photostabilized Chlorophyll a in Mesoporous Silica:  Adsorption Properties and Photoreduction Activity of Chlorophyll a Tetsuji Itoh, Kazuhisa Yano, Yuji Inada, and Yoshiaki Fukushima pp 13437–13441 DOI: 10.1021/ja0203059

Diastereoselective Addition of γ-Substituted Allylic Nucleophiles to Ketones:  Highly Stereoselective Synthesis of Tertiary Homoallylic Alcohols Using an Allylic Tributylstannane/Stannous Chloride System Makoto Yasuda, Kay Hirata, Mitsuyoshi Nishino, Akihiro Yamamoto, and Akio Baba pp 13442–13447 DOI: 10.1021/ja0274047 Supporting Info

Chemosensors for the Marine Toxin Saxitoxin Robert E. Gawley, Sandra Pinet, Claudia M. Cardona, Probal K. Datta, Tong Ren, Wayne C. Guida, Jason Nydick, and Roger M. Leblanc pp 13448–13453 DOI: 10.1021/ja027507p Supporting Info

Cascade of Coil-Globule Conformational Transitions of Single Flexible Polyelectrolyte Molecules in Poor Solvent Anton Kiriy, Ganna Gorodyska, Sergiy Minko, Werner Jaeger, Petr Štěpánek, and Manfred Stamm pp 13454–13462 DOI: 10.1021/ja0261168 Supporting Info

Deciphering the Mechanistic Dichotomy in the Cyclization of 1-(2-Ethynylphenyl)-3,3-dialkyltriazenes:  Competition between Pericyclic and Pseudocoarctate Pathways David B. Kimball, Timothy J. R. Weakley, Rainer Herges, and Michael M. Haley pp 13463–13473 DOI: 10.1021/ja027809r Supporting Info

Quinoxaline-Bridged Porphyrinoids Jonathan L. Sessler, Hiromitsu Maeda, Toshihisa Mizuno, Vincent M. Lynch, and Hiroyuki Furuta pp 13474–13479 DOI: 10.1021/ja0273750 Supporting Info

Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Optical Chromophores Based on Through-Space Delocalization Glenn P. Bartholomew, Isabelle Ledoux, Shaul Mukamel, Guillermo C. Bazan, and Joseph Zyss pp 13480–13485 DOI: 10.1021/ja0272179

From Chiral Counterions to Twisted Membranes Damien Berthier, Thierry Buffeteau, Jean-Michel Léger, Reiko Oda, and Ivan Huc pp 13486–13494 DOI: 10.1021/ja027660j Supporting Info

A Theoretical and Experimental Scale of Aromaticity. The First Nucleus-Independent Chemical Shifts (NICS) Study of the Dimethyldihydropyrene Nucleus Richard Vaughan Williams, John R. Armantrout, Brendan Twamley, Reginald H. Mitchell, Timothy R. Ward, and Subhajit Bandyopadhyay pp 13495–13505 DOI: 10.1021/ja020595t Supporting Info

Dihapto Coordination of Carboxylic Acid Derivatives with an Asymmetric Rhenium π-Base:  A New Mechanism for Amide Isomerization? Scott H. Meiere, Fei Ding, Lee A. Friedman, Michal Sabat, and W. Dean Harman pp 13506–13512 DOI: 10.1021/ja011497v Supporting Info

Detection of Chiral Perturbations in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals Induced by an Atropisomeric Biphenyl Dopant C. Scott Hartley, Carmen Lazar, Michael D. Wand, and Robert P. Lemieux pp 13513–13518 DOI: 10.1021/ja026458d

Very Large Breathing Effect in the First Nanoporous Chromium(III)-Based Solids: MIL-53 or CrIII(OH)·{O2C−C6H4−CO2}·{HO2C−C6H4−CO2H}x·H2Oy Christian Serre, Franck Millange, Christelle Thouvenot, Marc Noguès, Gérard Marsolier, Daniel Louër, and Gérard Férey pp 13519–13526 DOI: 10.1021/ja0276974 Supporting Info

Application of a New Color Detection Based Method for the Fast Parallel Screening of DeNOx Catalysts Oliver M. Busch, Christian Hoffmann, Thorsten R. F. Johann, Hans-Werner Schmidt, Wolfgang Strehlau, and Ferdi Schüth pp 13527–13532 DOI: 10.1021/ja020629x

Dissociative Electron Transfer to Haloacetonitriles. An Example of the Dependency of In-Cage Ion-Radical Interactions upon the Leaving Group Annarita Cardinale, Abdirisak A. Isse, Armando Gennaro, Marc Robert, and Jean-Michel Savéant pp 13533–13539 DOI: 10.1021/ja0275212

Solvent-Induced Modulation of Collective Photophysical Processes in Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles Marco Montalti, Luca Prodi, Nelsi Zaccheroni, and Giuseppe Falini pp 13540–13546 DOI: 10.1021/ja027270x

Oxysulfide Sm2Ti2S2O5 as a Stable Photocatalyst for Water Oxidation and Reduction under Visible Light Irradiation (λ ≤ 650 nm) Akio Ishikawa, Tsuyoshi Takata, Junko N. Kondo, Michikazu Hara, Hisayoshi Kobayashi, and Kazunari Domen pp 13547–13553 DOI: 10.1021/ja0269643

The Nature of Solid-State N−H···O/O−H···N Tautomeric Competition in Resonant Systems. Intramolecular Proton Transfer in Low-Barrier Hydrogen Bonds Formed by the ···OC−CN−NH··· ···HO−CC−NN··· Ketohydrazone−Azoenol System. A Variable-Temperature X-ray Crystallographic and DFT Computational Study Paola Gilli, Valerio Bertolasi, Loretta Pretto, Antonín Lyka, and Gastone Gilli pp 13554–13567 DOI: 10.1021/ja020589x Supporting Info

Controlling the Conductance of Atomically Thin Metal Wires with Electrochemical Potential Bingqian Xu, Huixin He, and Nongjian J. Tao pp 13568–13575 DOI: 10.1021/ja027810q Supporting Info

Self-Assembled M6L4-Type Coordination Nanocage with 2,2‘-Bipyridine Ancillary Ligands. Facile Crystallization and X-ray Analysis of Shape-Selective Enclathration of Neutral Guests in the Cage Takahiro Kusukawa and Makoto Fujita pp 13576–13582 DOI: 10.1021/ja020712k Supporting Info

Decal Transfer Microlithography:  A New Soft-Lithographic Patterning Method William R. Childs and Ralph G. Nuzzo pp 13583–13596 DOI: 10.1021/ja020942z

Steric and Electronic Effects on the Reactivity of Rh and Ir Complexes Containing P−S, P−P, and P−O Ligands. Implications for the Effects of Chelate Ligands in Catalysis Luca Gonsalvi, Harry Adams, Glenn J. Sunley, Evert Ditzel, and Anthony Haynes pp 13597–13612 DOI: 10.1021/ja0176191 Supporting Info

Coordination Chemistry of Silver Cations Brigitte S. Fox, Martin K. Beyer, and Vladimir E. Bondybey pp 13613–13623 DOI: 10.1021/ja0176604 Supporting Info

Electroluminescence in Ruthenium(II) Complexes Stefan Bernhard, Jason A. Barron, Paul L. Houston, Héctor D. Abruña, Jennifer L. Ruglovksy, Xicun Gao, and George G. Malliaras pp 13624–13628 DOI: 10.1021/ja0270524

Geometry for Self-Assembling of Spherical Hydrocarbon Cages with Methane Thiolates on Au(111) Shintaro Fujii, Uichi Akiba, and Masamichi Fujihira pp 13629–13635 DOI: 10.1021/ja026214t

Adsorption Geometry of 4-Picoline Chemisorbed on the Cu(110) Surface:  A Study of Forces Controlling Molecular Self-Assembly [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 2772−2780]. J.-G. Lee, J. Ahner, and J. T. Yates, Jr. p 13636 DOI: 10.1021/ja025113s

Advances in Chemical Physics. Volume 121 Edited by I. Prigogine (University of Texas at Austin and Université Libre de Bruxelles) and S. A. Rice (University of Chicago). J. Wiley & Sons:  New York. 2002. x + 558 pp. $175.00. ISBN 0-471-20504-4. Glen R. Loppnow and Pierre-Nicholas Roy pp 13637–13638 DOI: 10.1021/ja025225j

Quantitative Millimeter Wavelength Spectrometry By John F. Alder (UMIST, U.K.) and John G. Baker (Manchester University, U.K.). The Royal Society of Chemistry:  Cambridge. 2002. xiv + 122 pp. ISBN 0-85404-575-9. Ronald D. Brown p 13638 DOI: 10.1021/ja025249q

Guidelines for Achieving High Accuracy in Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry (IDMS) Edited by Mike Sargent and Rita Harte (Laboratory of the Government Chemist, Teddington, U.K.) and Chris Harrington (De Montfort University, Leicester, U.K.). Royal Society of Chemistry (for the Laboratory of the Government Chemist):  Cambridge. 2002. vi + 50 pp. $54.95. ISBN 0-85404-418-3. p 13638 DOI: 10.1021/ja025290t

Applied Electrospray Mass Spectrometry. Practical Spectroscopy Series. Volume 32 Edited by Birendra N. Pramanik (Schering-Plough Research Institute, Kenilworth, NJ), A. K. Ganguly (Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ), and Michael L. Gross (Washington University, Saint Louis). Marcel Dekker:  New York and Basel. 2002. viii + 434 pp. $185.00. ISBN 0-8247-0618-8. Brian T. Cooper pp 13638–13639 DOI: 10.1021/ja025239p

Advances in Dendritic Macromolecules. Volume 5 Edited by George R. Newkome (University of Akron). JAI Press, Inc. (An Imprint of Elsevier Science):  Amsterdam, London, New York, Oxford, Shannon, Tokyo. 2002. xii + 256 pp. $136.00. ISBN 0-7623-0839-7. Harry W. Gibson p 13639 DOI: 10.1021/ja025238x

Topics in Current Chemistry 221. Contrast Agents I:  Magnetic Resonance Imaging Edited by Werner Krause (International Project Management Therapeu-tics, Schering AG, Berlin). Springer-Verlag:  Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. 2002. x + 250 pp. $159.00. ISBN 3-540-42247-1. A. Dean Sherry pp 13639–13640 DOI: 10.1021/ja025251h

Inorganic Syntheses:  Volume 33 Edited by Dimitri Coucouvanis (University of Michigan). Wiley-Interscience:  New York. 2002. xxvi + 276 pp. $90.00. ISBN 0-471-20825-6. p 13640 DOI: 10.1021/ja025291l

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Benzyl Alcohol and Transition Metal Chlorides as a Versatile Reaction System for the Nonaqueous and Low-Temperature Synthesis of Crystalline Nano-Objects with Controlled Dimensionality Markus Niederberger, Michael H. Bartl, and Galen D. Stucky pp 13642–13643 DOI: 10.1021/ja027115i

Enantioselective Synthesis of 1,5-anti- and 1,5-syn-Diols Using a Highly Diastereoselective One-Pot Double Allylboration Reaction Sequence Eric M. Flamme and William R. Roush pp 13644–13645 DOI: 10.1021/ja028055j Supporting Info

Development of a New Lewis Acid-Catalyzed [3,3]-Sigmatropic Rearrangement:  The Allenoate-Claisen Rearrangement Tristan H. Lambert and David W. C. MacMillan pp 13646–13647 DOI: 10.1021/ja028090q Supporting Info

The Practical Synthesis of a Novel and Highly Potent Analogue of Bryostatin Paul A. Wender, Jeremy L. Baryza, Chad E. Bennett, F. Christopher Bi, Stacey E. Brenner, Michael O. Clarke, Joshua C. Horan, Cindy Kan, Emmanuel Lacôte, Blaise Lippa, Peter G. Nell, and Tim M. Turner pp 13648–13649 DOI: 10.1021/ja027509+ Supporting Info

Rapid-Injection NMR Study of Iodo- and Cyano-Gilman Reagents with 2-Cyclohexenone:  Observation of π-Complexes and Their Rates of Formation1 Steven H. Bertz, Clifford M. Carlin, Daniel A. Deadwyler, Michael D. Murphy, Craig A. Ogle, and Paul H. Seagle pp 13650–13651 DOI: 10.1021/ja027744s Supporting Info

Rationalization of Anomalous Nonlinear Effects in the Alkylation of Substituted Benzaldehydes Frederic Buono, Patrick J. Walsh, and Donna G. Blackmond pp 13652–13653 DOI: 10.1021/ja027406r Supporting Info

A de Novo Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (−)-Laulimalide Scott G. Nelson, Wing S. Cheung, Andrew J. Kassick, and Mark A. Hilfiker pp 13654–13655 DOI: 10.1021/ja028019k Supporting Info

Sterically Induced Shape and Crystalline Phase Control of GaP Nanocrystals Yong-Ho Kim, Young-wook Jun, Byung-Ho Jun, Sang-Min Lee, and Jinwoo Cheon pp 13656–13657 DOI: 10.1021/ja027575b Supporting Info

The Reactivity of Mo(PMe3)6 towards Heterocyclic Nitrogen Compounds:  Transformations Relevant to Hydrodenitrogenation Guang Zhu, Joseph M. Tanski, David G. Churchill, Kevin E. Janak, and Gerard Parkin pp 13658–13659 DOI: 10.1021/ja028512w Supporting Info

Au Nanowire Fabrication from Sequenced Histidine-Rich Peptide Ramin Djalali, Yung-fou Chen, and Hiroshi Matsui pp 13660–13661 DOI: 10.1021/ja028261r Supporting Info

Boronic Acids:  New Coupling Partners in Room-Temperature Suzuki Reactions of Alkyl Bromides. Crystallographic Characterization of an Oxidative-Addition Adduct Generated under Remarkably Mild Conditions Jan H. Kirchhoff, Matthew R. Netherton, Ivory D. Hills, and Gregory C. Fu pp 13662–13663 DOI: 10.1021/ja0283899 Supporting Info

Symmetry-Enforced Conformational Control of Photochemical Reactivity in 2-Vinyl-1,3-terphenyl Frederick D. Lewis, Xiaobing Zuo, Vladimir Gevorgyan, and Michael Rubin pp 13664–13665 DOI: 10.1021/ja028251q

Tailored Synthesis of Structurally Defined Polymers by Organotellurium-Mediated Living Radical Polymerization (TERP):  Synthesis of Poly(meth)acrylate Derivatives and Their Di- and Triblock Copolymers Shigeru Yamago, Kazunori Iida, and Jun-ichi Yoshida pp 13666–13667 DOI: 10.1021/ja027599i Supporting Info

First Homoleptic Complexes of Isocyanoferrocene Mikhail V. Barybin, Thomas C. Holovics, Stephan F. Deplazes, Gerald H. Lushington, Douglas R. Powell, and Masaharu Toriyama pp 13668–13669 DOI: 10.1021/ja028271s Supporting Info

Synthesis of Leucascandrolide A via a Spontaneous Macrolactolization Ying Wang, Jelena Janjic, and Sergey A. Kozmin pp 13670–13671 DOI: 10.1021/ja028428g Supporting Info

A Unique and Highly Efficient Method for Catalytic Olefin Aziridination Kiran Guthikonda and J. Du Bois pp 13672–13673 DOI: 10.1021/ja028253a Supporting Info

Nonequilibrium Capillary Electrophoresis of Equilibrium Mixtures − A Single Experiment Reveals Equilibrium and Kinetic Parameters of Protein−DNA Interactions Maxim Berezovski and Sergey N. Krylov pp 13674–13675 DOI: 10.1021/ja028212e

Direct Determination of Absolute Configuration of Monoalcohols by Bis(magnesium Porphyrin) Juha M. Lintuluoto, Victor V. Borovkov, and Yoshihisa Inoue pp 13676–13677 DOI: 10.1021/ja0267270 Supporting Info

Asymmetric Intramolecular [3 + 2] Cycloaddition Reactions of Acylhydrazones/Olefins Using a Chiral Zirconium Catalyst Shū Kobayashi, Haruka Shimizu, Yasuhiro Yamashita, Haruro Ishitani, and Jun Kobayashi pp 13678–13679 DOI: 10.1021/ja027681d Supporting Info

Strong Binding in the DNA Minor Groove by an Aromatic Diamidine with a Shape That Does Not Match the Curvature of the Groove Binh Nguyen, Michael P. H. Lee, Donald Hamelberg, Alexandra Joubert, Christian Bailly, Reto Brun, Stephen Neidle, and W. David Wilson pp 13680–13681 DOI: 10.1021/ja027953c Supporting Info

LNAzymes:  Incorporation of LNA-Type Monomers into DNAzymes Markedly Increases RNA Cleavage Birte Vester, Lars Bo Lundberg, Mads D. Sørensen, B. Ravindra Babu, Stephen Douthwaite, and Jesper Wengel pp 13682–13683 DOI: 10.1021/ja0276220 Supporting Info

A Novel Silver(I)-Mediated DNA Base Pair Nicole Zimmermann, Eric Meggers, and Peter G. Schultz pp 13684–13685 DOI: 10.1021/ja0279951 Supporting Info

The Bicyclic N,N‘-Diacylaminal:  A New Motif for Molecular Self-Assembly Robert B. Grossman, Kazuyuki Hattori, Sean Parkin, Brian O. Patrick, and Melissa A. Varner pp 13686–13687 DOI: 10.1021/ja026949y Supporting Info

Synthesis of Nearly Uniform Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Using Identical Metal-Containing Molecular Nanoclusters as Catalysts Lei An, Jessica M. Owens, Laurie E. McNeil, and Jie Liu pp 13688–13689 DOI: 10.1021/ja0274958 Supporting Info

Direct Conversion of Carbonyl Compounds into Organic Halides:  Indium(III) Hydroxide-Catalyzed Deoxygenative Halogenation Using Chlorodimethylsilane Yoshiyuki Onishi, Daigo Ogawa, Makoto Yasuda, and Akio Baba pp 13690–13691 DOI: 10.1021/ja0283246 Supporting Info

Enantioselective Hydrogenation of 3-Alkylidenelactams:  High-Throughput Screening Provides a Surprising Solution Tai-Yuen Yue and William A. Nugent pp 13692–13693 DOI: 10.1021/ja028043y Supporting Info

Interconnecting Carbon Nanotubes with an Inorganic Metal Complex Fiona Frehill, Johannes G. Vos, Sakina Benrezzak, Antal A. Koós, Zoltan Kónya, Manuel G. Rüther, Werner J. Blau, Antonio Fonseca, Janos B. Nagy, Laszlo P. Biró, Andrew I. Minett, and Marc in het Panhuis pp 13694–13695 DOI: 10.1021/ja028119q Supporting Info

NO-Induced Activation Mechanism of the Heme-Regulated eIF2α Kinase Haruto Ishikawa, Bo-Geon Yun, Satoshi Takahashi, Hiroshi Hori, Robert L. Matts, Koichiro Ishimori, and Isao Morishima pp 13696–13697 DOI: 10.1021/ja0272336

Metal−Ligand Interplay in Blue Copper Proteins Studied by 1H NMR Spectroscopy:  Cu(II)−Pseudoazurin and Cu(II)−Rusticyanin Antonio Donaire, Beatriz Jiménez, Claudio O. Fernández, Roberta Pierattelli, Tomotake Niizeki, José-María Moratal, John F. Hall, Takamitsu Kohzuma, S. Samar Hasnain, and Alejandro J. Vila pp 13698–13708 DOI: 10.1021/ja0267019

Direct Structure Determination Using Residual Dipolar Couplings: Reaction-Site Conformation of Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase in Solution Sabine Béraud, Beate Bersch, Bernhard Brutscher, Pierre Gans, Frédéric Barras, and Martin Blackledge pp 13709–13715 DOI: 10.1021/ja0268783 Supporting Info

Crystal Structure of a B-Form DNA Duplex Containing (l)-α-Threofuranosyl (3‘→2‘) Nucleosides:  A Four-Carbon Sugar Is Easily Accommodated into the Backbone of DNA Christopher J. Wilds, Zdzislaw Wawrzak, Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, Albert Eschenmoser, and Martin Egli pp 13716–13721 DOI: 10.1021/ja0207807

Cross-Modulation of Physicochemical Character of Aglycones in Dinucleoside (3‘→5‘) Monophosphates by the Nearest Neighbor Interaction in the Stacked State S. Acharya, P. Acharya, A. Földesi, and J. Chattopadhyaya pp 13722–13730 DOI: 10.1021/ja026831h Supporting Info

Trinuclear Copper(II) Complex Showing High Selectivity for the Hydrolysis of 2‘−5‘ over 3‘−5‘ for UpU and 3‘−5‘ over 2‘−5‘ for ApA Ribonucleotides Makoto Komiyama, Shinichiro Kina, Kazunari Matsumura, Jun Sumaoka, Suzanne Tobey, Vincent M. Lynch, and Eric Anslyn pp 13731–13736 DOI: 10.1021/ja020877t Supporting Info

Self-Organizing Properties of Natural and Related Synthetic Glycolipids Fabienne Dumoulin, Dominique Lafont, Paul Boullanger, Grahame Mackenzie, Georg H. Mehl, and John W. Goodby pp 13737–13748 DOI: 10.1021/ja020396+

A Novel Organic Intercalation System with Layered Polymer Crystals as the Host Compounds Derived from 1,3-Diene Carboxylic Acids Akikazu Matsumoto, Shinya Oshita, and Daisuke Fujioka pp 13749–13756 DOI: 10.1021/ja020869c Supporting Info

Supramolecular Polymer Chemistry:  Self-Assembling Dendrimers Using the DDA·AAD (GC-like) Hydrogen Bonding Motif Yuguo Ma, Sergei V. Kolotuchin, and Steven C. Zimmerman pp 13757–13769 DOI: 10.1021/ja0202006

Cyclooctatetraene Computational Photo- and Thermal Chemistry:  A Reactivity Model for Conjugated Hydrocarbons Marco Garavelli, Fernando Bernardi, Alessandro Cembran, Obis Castaño, Luis Manuel Frutos, Manuela Merchán, and Massimo Olivucci pp 13770–13789 DOI: 10.1021/ja020741v Supporting Info

Amination of Pyridylketenes:  Experimental and Computational Studies of Strong Amide Enol Stabilization by the 2-Pyridyl Group Austin W. Acton, Annette D. Allen, Luis M. Antunes, Andrei V. Fedorov, Katayoun Najafian, Thomas T. Tidwell, and Brian D. Wagner pp 13790–13794 DOI: 10.1021/ja027347h Supporting Info

Structure-Based Design of Selective Agonists for a Rickets-Associated Mutant of the Vitamin D Receptor Steve L. Swann, Joel Bergh, Mary C. Farach-Carson, Cory A. Ocasio, and John T. Koh pp 13795–13805 DOI: 10.1021/ja0268377 Supporting Info

Unusual Frequency Dispersion Effects of the Nonlinear Optical Response in Highly Conjugated (Polypyridyl)metal−(Porphinato)zinc(II) Chromophores H. Tetsuo Uyeda, Yuxia Zhao, Kurt Wostyn, Inge Asselberghs, Koen Clays, André Persoons, and Michael J. Therien pp 13806–13813 DOI: 10.1021/ja020651q Supporting Info

Synthesis and Explosive Decomposition of Organometallic Dehydro[18]annulenes:  An Access to Carbon Nanostructures Matthew Laskoski, Winfried Steffen, Jason G. M. Morton, Mark D. Smith, and Uwe H. F. Bunz pp 13814–13818 DOI: 10.1021/ja026809o Supporting Info

Tetrakis(trimethylsilyl)tetrahedrane Günther Maier, Jörg Neudert, Oliver Wolf, Dirk Pappusch, Akira Sekiguchi, Masanobu Tanaka, and Tsukasa Matsuo pp 13819–13826 DOI: 10.1021/ja020863n Supporting Info

Mechanistic Studies on the Addition of Dihydrogen to Tantalocene Complexes Dawn C. Bregel, Susan M. Oldham, and Richard Eisenberg pp 13827–13832 DOI: 10.1021/ja027005b

Nitrosyliron(III) Porphyrinates:  Porphyrin Core Conformation and FeNO Geometry. Any Correlation? Mary K. Ellison, Charles E. Schulz, and W. Robert Scheidt pp 13833–13841 DOI: 10.1021/ja0207145 Supporting Info

Spectroscopic and Computational Studies on [(PhTttBu)2Ni2(μ-O)2]:  Nature of the Bis-μ-oxo (Ni3+)2 “Diamond” Core Ralph Schenker, Beaven S. Mandimutsira, Charles G. Riordan, and Thomas C. Brunold pp 13842–13855 DOI: 10.1021/ja027049k Supporting Info

Iron-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions Alois Fürstner, Andreas Leitner, María Méndez, and Helga Krause pp 13856–13863 DOI: 10.1021/ja027190t Supporting Info

Mesoscopic Monodisperse Ferromagnetic Colloids Enable Magnetically Controlled Photonic Crystals Xiangling Xu, Sara A. Majetich, and Sanford A. Asher pp 13864–13868 DOI: 10.1021/ja026901k

Molecular Structure of the Solvated Proton in Isolated Salts. Short, Strong, Low Barrier (SSLB) H-bonds Daniel Stasko, Stephan P. Hoffmann, Kee-Chan Kim, Nathanael L. P. Fackler, Anna S. Larsen, Tatiana Drovetskaya, Fook S. Tham, Christopher A. Reed, Clifton E. F. Rickard, Peter D. W. Boyd, and Evgenii S. Stoyanov pp 13869–13876 DOI: 10.1021/ja012671i Supporting Info

Novel Mixed-Valent (V/VI) Triple Perovskite Ruthenates:  Observation of a Complex Low-Temperature Structural and Magnetic Transition Katharine E. Stitzer, Mark D. Smith, William R. Gemmill, and Hans-Conrad zur Loye pp 13877–13885 DOI: 10.1021/ja0271781 Supporting Info

Synthesis and Properties of 1,3,5-Benzene Periodic Mesoporous Organosilica (PMO):  Novel Aromatic PMO with Three Point Attachments and Unique Thermal Transformations Masakatsu Kuroki, Tewodros Asefa, Wesley Whitnal, Michal Kruk, Chiaki Yoshina-Ishii, Mietek Jaroniec, and Geoffrey A. Ozin pp 13886–13895 DOI: 10.1021/ja027877d Supporting Info

Evidence for Orbital-Specific Electron Transfer to Oriented Haloform Molecules Beike Jia, Jonathan Laib, R. F. M. Lobo, and Philip R. Brooks pp 13896–13902 DOI: 10.1021/ja027710k

Vinylphosphirane−Phospholene Rearrangements:  Pericyclic [1,3]-Sigmatropic Shifts or Not? Rosa E. Bulo, Andreas W. Ehlers, Stefan Grimme, and Koop Lammertsma pp 13903–13910 DOI: 10.1021/ja027925u Supporting Info

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Shifts in Paramagnetic Metalloporphyrins and Metalloproteins Junhong Mao, Yong Zhang, and Eric Oldfield pp 13911–13920 DOI: 10.1021/ja020297w

Mössbauer Quadrupole Splittings and Electronic Structure in Heme Proteins and Model Systems:  A Density Functional Theory Investigation Yong Zhang, Junhong Mao, Nathalie Godbout, and Eric Oldfield pp 13921–13930 DOI: 10.1021/ja020298o

Electron Density Topological Analysis of Hydrogen Bonding in Glucopyranose and Hydrated Glucopyranose Roger A. Klein pp 13931–13937 DOI: 10.1021/ja0206947

Efficient CH-Group Selection and Identification in 13C Solid-State NMR by Dipolar DEPT and 1H Chemical-Shift Filtering K. Schmidt-Rohr and J.-D. Mao pp 13938–13948 DOI: 10.1021/ja027362m

Photoinduced Electron Transfer between a Carotenoid and TiO2 Nanoparticle Jie Pan, Gábor Benkö, Yunhua Xu, Torbjörn Pascher, Licheng Sun, Villy Sundström, and Tomáš Polívka pp 13949–13957 DOI: 10.1021/ja0279186 Supporting Info

Colloidal Synthesis and Self-Assembly of CoPt3 Nanocrystals  [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 11480−11485]. Elena V. Shevchenko, Dmitri V. Talapin, Andrey L. Rogach, Andreas Kornowski, Markus Haase, and Horst Weller p 13958 DOI: 10.1021/ja028730p

Electrochemistry of Nanomaterials Edited by Gary Hodes (Weizman Institute of Science). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim, New York. 2001. xvi + 310 pp. $149.95. ISBN 3-527-29836-3. John L. Stickney p 13959 DOI: 10.1021/ja025230n

Multidimensional Chromatography Edited by Luigi Mondello (Universita Degli Studi Di Messina), Alastair C. Lewis, and Keith D. Bartle (University of Leeds). J. Wiley & Sons:  New York. 2002. xiv + 436 pp. $140.00. ISBN 0-471-98869-3. Abdul Malik pp 13959–13960 DOI: 10.1021/ja0252328

Chromic Phenomena:  Technological Applications of Color Chemistry By Peter Bamfield. Royal Society of Chemistry:  Cambridge. 2001. xx + 374 pp. $59.50. ISBN 0-85404-474-4. Michael A. J. Rodgers p 13960 DOI: 10.1021/ja025205h

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The Effect of the Counteranion on the Formation of Mesoporous Materials under the Acidic Synthesis Process Shunai Che, Sunghyun Lim, Mizue Kaneda, Hideaki Yoshitake, Osamu Terasaki, and Takashi Tatsumi pp 13962–13963 DOI: 10.1021/ja020854e

Intermolecular Coupling of Isomerizable Alkenes to Heterocycles via Rhodium-Catalyzed C−H Bond Activation Kian L. Tan, Robert G. Bergman, and Jonathan A. Ellman pp 13964–13965 DOI: 10.1021/ja0281129 Supporting Info

Polynuclear Catalysis:  Enhancement of Enchainment Cooperativity between Different Single-Site Olefin Polymerization Catalysts by Ion Pairing with a Binuclear Cocatalyst Graham P. Abramo, Liting Li, and Tobin J. Marks pp 13966–13967 DOI: 10.1021/ja020870b Supporting Info

A Duality of Mechanisms for the Fragmentation of Substituted Benzyloxychlorocarbenes Robert A. Moss, Yan Ma, and Ronald R. Sauers pp 13968–13969 DOI: 10.1021/ja0207605 Supporting Info

Rethinking Ramoplanin:  The Role of Substrate Binding in Inhibition of Peptidoglycan Biosynthesis Jeremiah S. Helm, Lan Chen, and Suzanne Walker pp 13970–13971 DOI: 10.1021/ja021097n Supporting Info

Acid-Promoted DNA-Cleaving Activities and Total Synthesis of Varacin C Alex H. F. Lee, Jian Chen, Dongsheng Liu, Thomas Y. C. Leung, Albert S. C. Chan, and Tianhu Li pp 13972–13973 DOI: 10.1021/ja020531i Supporting Info

New Insights into the Mechanism of Purple Acid Phosphatase through 1H NMR Spectroscopy of the Recombinant Human Enzyme Alexander Dikiy, Enrico G. Funhoff, Bruce A. Averill, and Stefano Ciurli pp 13974–13975 DOI: 10.1021/ja027195q Supporting Info

Catalyzed Intramolecular Olefin Insertion into a Carbon−Carbon Single Bond Masahiro Murakami, Tamon Itahashi, and Yoshihiko Ito pp 13976–13977 DOI: 10.1021/ja021062n Supporting Info

Chemospecific Chromium[VI] Catalyzed Oxidation of C−H Bonds at −40 °C1 Seongmin Lee and P. L. Fuchs pp 13978–13979 DOI: 10.1021/ja026734o Supporting Info

Retention of Bioactive Ligand Conformation in a Gaseous Protein−Trisaccharide Complex Elena N. Kitova, Weijie Wang, David R. Bundle, and John S. Klassen pp 13980–13981 DOI: 10.1021/ja0281380 Supporting Info

Individual Water-Soluble Dendrimer-Encapsulated Silver Nanodot Fluorescence Jie Zheng and Robert M. Dickson pp 13982–13983 DOI: 10.1021/ja028282l

Efficient Interstrand Excess Electron Transfer in PNA:DNA Hybrids Michaela K. Cichon, Clemens H. Haas, Friederike Grolle, Alexandra Mees, and Thomas Carell pp 13984–13985 DOI: 10.1021/ja0277733 Supporting Info

Equilibrium of Formation of the 6-Carbanion of UMP, a Potential Intermediate in the Action of OMP Decarboxylase Annette Sievers and Richard Wolfenden pp 13986–13987 DOI: 10.1021/ja021073g

Thermal Activation of Molecularly-Wired Gold Nanoparticles on a Substrate as Catalyst Jin Luo, Vivian W. Jones, Mathew M. Maye, Li Han, Nancy N. Kariuki, and Chuan-Jian Zhong pp 13988–13989 DOI: 10.1021/ja028285y Supporting Info

Prediction of Extended Aromaticity for a Novel C48N12 Azafullerene Structure M. Riad Manaa, David W. Sprehn, and Heather A. Ichord pp 13990–13991 DOI: 10.1021/ja0281885

Construction of Hydrolytically-Degradable Thin Films via Layer-by-Layer Deposition of Degradable Polyelectrolytes Eduardo Vázquez, David M. Dewitt, Paula T. Hammond, and David M. Lynn pp 13992–13993 DOI: 10.1021/ja026405w Supporting Info

D/H Amide Isotope Effect in Model α-Helical Peptides Zhengshuang Shi, C. Anders Olson, Neville R. Kallenbach, and Tobin R. Sosnick pp 13994–13995 DOI: 10.1021/ja027740n

Mimicry of Tandem Repeat Peptides against Cell Surface Carbohydrates Miyun Kwon, Sunjoo Jeong, Kyung Hyun Lee, Yong-Keun Park, and Jaehoon Yu pp 13996–13997 DOI: 10.1021/ja026937c Supporting Info

Synthesis and Characterization of an Isocyanate Functionalized Polyhedral Oligosilsesquioxane and the Subsequent Formation of an Organic−Inorganic Hybrid Polyurethane Daniel Neumann, Mark Fisher, Linh Tran, and Janis G. Matisons pp 13998–13999 DOI: 10.1021/ja0275921 Supporting Info

Direct Observation of Chiral Metal-Organic Complexes Assembled on a Cu(100) Surface Paolo Messina, Alexandre Dmitriev, Nian Lin, Hannes Spillmann, Mathieu Abel, Johannes V. Barth, and Klaus Kern pp 14000–14001 DOI: 10.1021/ja028553s

The ATCUN Domain as a Probe of Intermolecular Interactions:  Application to Calmodulin−Peptide Complexes Tapas K. Mal, Mitsuhiko Ikura, and Lewis E. Kay pp 14002–14003 DOI: 10.1021/ja028109p Supporting Info

Control of the Mode Selectivity (Ene Reaction versus [2 + 2] Cycloaddition) in the Photooxygenation of Ene Carbamates:  Directing Effect of an Alkenylic Nitrogen Functionality Waldemar Adam, Sara G. Bosio, and Nicholas J. Turro pp 14004–14005 DOI: 10.1021/ja028407m Supporting Info

The [4Fe−4S]2+ Cluster in Reconstituted Biotin Synthase Binds S-Adenosyl-l-methionine Michele Mader Cosper, Guy N. L. Jameson, Roman Davydov, Marly K. Eidsness, Brian M. Hoffman, Boi Hanh Huynh, and Michael K. Johnson pp 14006–14007 DOI: 10.1021/ja0283044

Hydrogen Atom Abstraction by a Chromium(IV) Oxo Complex Derived from O2 Kun Qin, Christopher D. Incarvito, Arnold L. Rheingold, and Klaus H. Theopold pp 14008–14009 DOI: 10.1021/ja028382r Supporting Info

Two-Dimensional Water and Ice Layers:  Neutron Diffraction Studies at 278, 263, and 20 K Christoph Janiak and Tobias G. ScharmannSax A. Mason pp 14010–14011 DOI: 10.1021/ja0274608 Supporting Info

Transformations between Monomeric, Dimeric, and Trimeric Phosphazanes:  Oligomerizing NP Analogues of Olefins Neil Burford, T. Stanley Cameron, Korey D. Conroy, Bobby Ellis, Michael Lumsden, Charles L. B. Macdonald, Robert McDonald, Andrew D. Phillips, Paul J. Ragogna, Robert W. Schurko, Denise Walsh, and Roderick E. Wasylishen pp 14012–14013 DOI: 10.1021/ja027946o Supporting Info

A Synthetic Receptor for Choline and Carnitine Pablo Ballester, Alexander Shivanyuk, Adel Rafai Far, and Julius Rebek, Jr pp 14014–14016 DOI: 10.1021/ja0282689 Supporting Info

Homochiral Supramolecular Polymerization of an “S”-Shaped Chiral Monomer:  Translation of Optical Purity into Molecular Weight Distribution Yasuhiro Ishida and Takuzo Aida pp 14017–14019 DOI: 10.1021/ja028403h Supporting Info

Formation and Decay of Localized Contact Radical Ion Pairs in DNA Hairpins Frederick D. Lewis, Xiaoyang Liu, Scott E. Miller, Ryan T. Hayes, and Michael R. Wasielewski pp 14020–14026 DOI: 10.1021/ja027108u

Free Radical Chemistry of Flavan-3-ols:  Determination of Thermodynamic Parameters and of Kinetic Reactivity from Short (ns) to Long (ms) Time Scale Cécile Cren-Olivé, Philippe Hapiot, Jean Pinson, and Christian Rolando pp 14027–14038 DOI: 10.1021/ja0262434 Supporting Info

Rotation of the exo-Methylene Group of (R)-3-Methylitaconate Catalyzed by Coenzyme B12-Dependent 2-Methyleneglutarate Mutase from Eubacterium barkeri Antonio J. Pierik, Daniele Ciceri, Gerd Bröker, Christopher H. Edwards, William McFarlane, Joachim Winter, Wolfgang Buckel, and Bernard T. Golding pp 14039–14048 DOI: 10.1021/ja020340f

The Trapping of a Spontaneously “Flipped-Out” Base from Double Helical Nucleic Acids by Host−Guest Complexation with β-Cyclodextrin:  The Intrinsic Base-Flipping Rate Constant for DNA and RNA M. Ashley Spies and Richard L. Schowen pp 14049–14053 DOI: 10.1021/ja012272n

Understanding the Mechanism of Action of B12-Dependent Ethanolamine Ammonia-Lyase:  Synergistic Interactions at Play Stacey D. Wetmore, David M. Smith, Justine T. Bennett, and Leo Radom pp 14054–14065 DOI: 10.1021/ja027579g Supporting Info

An NMR Study of the Solution Dynamics of Deltorphin-I Marie-Thérèse Chenon and Lawrence G. Werbelow pp 14066–14074 DOI: 10.1021/ja020772q

Investigation of the Neighboring Residue Effects on Protein Chemical Shifts Yunjun Wang and Oleg Jardetzky pp 14075–14084 DOI: 10.1021/ja026811f Supporting Info

TREN (Tris(2-aminoethyl)amine):  An Effective Scaffold for the Assembly of Triple Helical Collagen Mimetic Structures Juliann Kwak, Antonia De Capua, Elsa Locardi, and Murray Goodman pp 14085–14091 DOI: 10.1021/ja0209621 Supporting Info

Role of Pyridine Hydrogen-Bonding Sites in Recognition of Basic Amino Acid Side Chains Thomas W. Bell, Alisher B. Khasanov, and Michael G. B. Drew pp 14092–14103 DOI: 10.1021/ja0273694 Supporting Info

Mechanistic Insights into the Pd(BINAP)-Catalyzed Amination of Aryl Bromides:  Kinetic Studies under Synthetically Relevant Conditions Utpal K. Singh, Eric R. Strieter, Donna G. Blackmond, and Stephen L. Buchwald pp 14104–14114 DOI: 10.1021/ja026885r

Ambident Ethyl N-Nitrosocarbamate Anion:  Experimental and Computational Studies of Alkylation and Thermal Stability Vladimir Benin, Piotr Kaszynski, and J. George Radziszewski pp 14115–14126 DOI: 10.1021/ja0209058 Supporting Info

Layered Double Hydroxide Supported Nanopalladium Catalyst for Heck-, Suzuki-, Sonogashira-, and Stille-Type Coupling Reactions of Chloroarenes Boyapati M. Choudary, Sateesh Madhi, Naidu S. Chowdari, Mannepalli L. Kantam, and Bojja Sreedhar pp 14127–14136 DOI: 10.1021/ja026975w Supporting Info

Designing Macromolecules for Therapeutic Applications:  Polyester DendrimerPoly(ethylene oxide) “Bow-Tie” Hybrids with Tunable Molecular Weight and Architecture Elizabeth R. Gillies and Jean M. J. Fréchet pp 14137–14146 DOI: 10.1021/ja028100n

Metal Ion-Catalyzed Diels−Alder and Hydride Transfer Reactions. Catalysis of Metal Ions in the Electron-Transfer Step Shunichi Fukuzumi, Kei Ohkubo, and Toshihiko Okamoto pp 14147–14155 DOI: 10.1021/ja026417h Supporting Info

Arene−Mercury Complexes Stabilized by Gallium Chloride:  Relative Rates of H/D and Arene Exchange Catherine S. Branch and Andrew R. Barron pp 14156–14161 DOI: 10.1021/ja0206590 Supporting Info

Divalent Osmium Complexes:  Synthesis, Characterization, Strong Red Phosphorescence, and Electrophosphorescence Brenden Carlson, Gregory D. Phelan, Werner Kaminsky, Larry Dalton, Xuezhong Jiang, Sen Liu, and Alex K.-Y. Jen pp 14162–14172 DOI: 10.1021/ja0176705 Supporting Info

Electron Density of Semi-Bridging Carbonyls. Metamorphosis of CO Ligands Observed via Experimental and Theoretical Investigations on [FeCo(CO)8]- Piero Macchi, Luigi Garlaschelli, and Angelo Sironi pp 14173–14184 DOI: 10.1021/ja026186e Supporting Info

Gas-Phase Halonium Metathesis and Its Competitors. Skeletal Rearrangements of Cationic Adducts of Saturated Ketones Philip S. Mayer, Danielle Leblanc, and Thomas Hellman Morton pp 14185–14194 DOI: 10.1021/ja020557+

Pd(0) Mechanism of Palladium-Catalyzed Cyclopropanation of Alkenes by CH2N2:  A DFT Study Bernd F. Straub pp 14195–14201 DOI: 10.1021/ja027762+ Supporting Info

Dissociation of CH3I on the Al(111) Surface − An STM and Density Functional Theory Study Sergey Mezhenny, Daniel C. Sorescu, Petro Maksymovych, and John T. Yates, Jr. pp 14202–14209 DOI: 10.1021/ja0208761

Probing Transport and Microheterogeneous Solvent Structure in Acetonitrile−Water Mixtures and Reversed-Phase Chromatographic Media by NMR Quadrupole Relaxation Erica D. Dawson and Scott L. Wallen pp 14210–14220 DOI: 10.1021/ja027226h Supporting Info

Structural Dependencies of h3JNC‘ Scalar Coupling in Protein H-Bond Chains Nenad Juranić, Martin C. Moncrieffe, Vladimir A. Likić, Franklyn G. Prendergast, and Slobodan Macura pp 14221–14226 DOI: 10.1021/ja0273288 Supporting Info

A (π-Extended Tetrathiafulvalene)−Fluorene Conjugate. Unusual Electrochemistry and Charge Transfer Properties:  The First Observation of a Covalent D2+−σ−A•- Redox State1 Dmitrii F. Perepichka, Martin R. Bryce, Igor F. Perepichka, Svetlana B. Lyubchik, Christian A. Christensen, Nicolas Godbert, Andrei S. Batsanov, Eric Levillain, Eric J. L. McInnes, and Jing P. Zhao pp 14227–14238 DOI: 10.1021/ja012518o Supporting Info

Fluorescent Sensors for the Enantioselective Recognition of Mandelic Acid:  Signal Amplification by Dendritic Branching Ming-Hua Xu, Jing Lin, Qiao-Sheng Hu, and Lin Pu pp 14239–14246 DOI: 10.1021/ja020989k Supporting Info

Characterizing Ionic Liquids On the Basis of Multiple Solvation Interactions Jared L. Anderson, Jie Ding, Thomas Welton, and Daniel W. Armstrong pp 14247–14254 DOI: 10.1021/ja028156h

Stereocartography:  A Computational Mapping Technique That Can Locate Regions of Maximum Stereoinduction around Chiral Catalysts Kenny B. Lipkowitz, Cedric A. D'Hue, Taka Sakamoto, and Jonathan N. Stack pp 14255–14267 DOI: 10.1021/ja0207192 Supporting Info

Assembling Phenomena of Calix[4]hydroquinone Nanotube Bundles by One-Dimensional Short Hydrogen Bonding and Displaced π−π Stacking Kwang S. Kim, Seung Bum Suh, Jong Chan Kim, Byung Hee Hong, Eun Cheol Lee, Sunggoo Yun, P. Tarakeshwar, Jin Yong Lee, Yukyung Kim, Hyejae Ihm, Heon Gon Kim, Jung Woo Lee, Jung Kyung Kim, Han Myoung Lee, Dongwook Kim, Chunzhi Cui, Suk Joo Youn, Hae Yong Chung, Hyuck Soon Choi, Chi-Wan Lee, Seung Joo Cho, Sukmin Jeong, and Jun-Hyung Cho pp 14268–14279 DOI: 10.1021/ja0259786 Supporting Info

Supramolecular Design for Biological Applications Edited by Nobuhiko Yui (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa). CRC Press:  Boca Raton. 2002. xiv + 410 pp. $139.95. ISBN 0-8493-0965-4. William M. Atkins p 14280 DOI: 10.1021/ja025269s

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 83rd Edition Edited by David R. Lide (National Institute of Standards and Technology). CRC Press:  Boca Raton. 2002. + 2664 pp. $139.95. ISBN 0-8493-0483-0. p 14280 DOI: 10.1021/ja025295q

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A Short, Highly Efficient Synthesis of Coenzyme Q10 Bruce H. Lipshutz, Paul Mollard, Steven S. Pfeiffer, and Will Chrisman pp 14282–14283 DOI: 10.1021/ja021015v Supporting Info

High-Activity, Single-Site Catalysts for the Alternating Copolymerization of CO2 and Propylene Oxide Scott D. Allen, David R. Moore, Emil B. Lobkovsky, and Geoffrey W. Coates pp 14284–14285 DOI: 10.1021/ja028071g Supporting Info

A Novel Potassium Sensing in Aqueous Media with a Synthetic Oligonucleotide Derivative. Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Associated with Guanine Quartet−Potassium Ion Complex Formation Hiroyuki Ueyama, Makoto Takagi, and Shigeori Takenaka pp 14286–14287 DOI: 10.1021/ja026892f Supporting Info

Photoinduced Face-Inversion of Conjugated Tetraene Ligands on a Pd−Pd−Pd Moiety Tetsuro Murahashi, Yutaka Higuchi, Tetsuya Katoh, and Hideo Kurosawa pp 14288–14289 DOI: 10.1021/ja0208254 Supporting Info

Preparation and Characterization of Porphyrin Nanoparticles Xianchang Gong, Tatjana Milic, Chang Xu, James D. Batteas, and Charles Michael Drain pp 14290–14291 DOI: 10.1021/ja027405z Supporting Info

Rearrangement of Symmetrical Dicubane Clusters into Topological Analogues of the P Cluster of Nitrogenase:  Nature's Choice? Yugen Zhang, Jing-Lin Zuo, Hong-Cai Zhou, and R. H. Holm pp 14292–14293 DOI: 10.1021/ja0279702 Supporting Info

Thermally Induced A‘−A Site Exchange in Novel Layered Perovskites Ag2[Ca1.5M3O10] (M = Nb, Ta) Nattamai S. P. Bhuvanesh and Patrick M. Woodward pp 14294–14295 DOI: 10.1021/ja027805m Supporting Info

1H NMR Detection of Immobilized Water Molecules within a Strong Distal Hydrogen-Bonding Network of Substrate-Bound Human Heme Oxygenase-1 Ray T. Syvitski, Yiming Li, Karine Auclair, Paul R. Ortiz de Montellano, and Gerd N. La Mar pp 14296–14297 DOI: 10.1021/ja028108x

Chiral Crown Ether Pillared Lamellar Lanthanide Phosphonates Helen L. Ngo and Wenbin Lin pp 14298–14299 DOI: 10.1021/ja027892i Supporting Info

Adsorption Mode of Cinchonidine on Cu(111) Surface Qing-Min Xu, Dong Wang, Li-Jun Wan, Chun-Li Bai, and Yuan Wang pp 14300–14301 DOI: 10.1021/ja028399+

An RNA Complex of the HIV-1 A-Loop and tRNALys,3 Is Stabilized by Nucleoside Modifications Ashok C. Bajji, Mallikarjun Sundaram, David G. Myszka, and Darrell R. Davis pp 14302–14303 DOI: 10.1021/ja028015f Supporting Info

High Yield Synthesis and Reactivity of a Phosphinidene Bridged Dimolybdenum Complex M. Esther García, Víctor Riera, Miguel A. Ruiz, David Sáez, Jacqueline Vaissermann, and John C. Jeffery pp 14304–14305 DOI: 10.1021/ja021072o Supporting Info

Novel Radical Alkylation of Carboxylic Imides Sunggak Kim, Chae Jo Lim, Changsik Song, and Won-jin Chung pp 14306–14307 DOI: 10.1021/ja028396x Supporting Info

Di(triptycyl)carbene:  A Fairly Persistent Triplet Dialkylcarbene Eiji Iiba, Katsuyuki Hirai, Hideo Tomioka, and Yoshinori Yoshioka pp 14308–14309 DOI: 10.1021/ja027794x Supporting Info

Antibunching in the Emission of a Single Tetrachromophoric Dendritic System Philip Tinnefeld, Kenneth D. Weston, Tom Vosch, Mircea Cotlet, Tanja Weil, Johan Hofkens, Klaus Müllen, Frans C. De Schryver, and Markus Sauer pp 14310–14311 DOI: 10.1021/ja027343c

Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Synthesis and Magnetic Characterization of MnFe2O4/Polystyrene Core/Shell Nanoparticles Christy R. Vestal and Z. John Zhang pp 14312–14313 DOI: 10.1021/ja0274709 Supporting Info

Surface-Bound Lipid Vesicles Encapsulating Redox Species for Amperometric Biosensing of Pore-Forming Bacterial Toxins Danke Xu and Quan Cheng pp 14314–14315 DOI: 10.1021/ja027897f Supporting Info

Photochemical Synthesis of Gold Nanorods Franklin Kim, Jae Hee Song, and Peidong Yang pp 14316–14317 DOI: 10.1021/ja028110o Supporting Info

Purification of HiPCO Carbon Nanotubes via Organic Functionalization Vasilios Georgakilas, Dimitrios Voulgaris, Ester Vázquez, Maurizio Prato, Dirk M. Guldi, Akos Kukovecz, and Hans Kuzmany pp 14318–14319 DOI: 10.1021/ja0260869 Supporting Info

Utilization of Molybdenum- and Palladium-Catayzed Dynamic Kinetic Asymmetric Transformations for the Preparation of Tertiary and Quaternary Stereogenic Centers:  A Concise Synthesis of Tipranavir Barry M. Trost and Neil G. Andersen pp 14320–14321 DOI: 10.1021/ja028497v Supporting Info

A Copper-Catalyzed Method for the Facially Selective Addition of Grignard Reagents to Cyclopropenes Lian-an Liao and Joseph M. Fox pp 14322–14323 DOI: 10.1021/ja0278234 Supporting Info

Photo-and-Thiol-Driven Trans Insertion of Phenylacetylene into H−Pt Bonds Atsushi Ohtaka, Hitoshi Kuniyasu, Masanori Kinomoto, and Hideo Kurosawa pp 14324–14325 DOI: 10.1021/ja027237a Supporting Info

Novel 1,4-Palladium Migration in Organopalladium Intermediates Derived from o-Iodobiaryls Marino A. Campo and Richard C. Larock pp 14326–14327 DOI: 10.1021/ja027548l Supporting Info

The Retro-Nazarov Reaction Michael Harmata and Dong Reyoul Lee pp 14328–14329 DOI: 10.1021/ja028729q Supporting Info

Tripeptides Adopt Stable Structures in Water. A Combined Polarized Visible Raman, FTIR, and VCD Spectroscopy Study Fatma Eker, Xiaolin Cao, Laurence Nafie, and Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner pp 14330–14341 DOI: 10.1021/ja027381w

Mimicking Biological Electron Transport in Sol−Gel Glass:  Photoinduced Electron Transfer from Zinc Cytochrome c to Plastocyanin or Cytochrome c Mediated by Mobile Inorganic Complexes Ekaterina V. Pletneva, Milan M. Crnogorac, and Nenad M. Kostić pp 14342–14354 DOI: 10.1021/ja020489r Supporting Info

Energetic Contributions for the Formation of TAT/TAT, TAT/CGC+, and CGC+/CGC+ Base Triplet Stacks Ana Maria Soto, Jacqueline Loo, and Luis A. Marky pp 14355–14363 DOI: 10.1021/ja026952h

Hydrolytic Reactions of Diribonucleoside 3‘,5‘-(3‘-N-Phosphoramidates):  Kinetics and Mechanisms for the P−O and P−N Bond Cleavage of 3‘-Amino-3‘-deoxyuridylyl-3‘,5‘-uridine Mikko Ora, Kati Mattila, Tuomas Lönnberg, Mikko Oivanen, and Harri Lönnberg pp 14364–14372 DOI: 10.1021/ja027499c

Quantum Chemical Calculations on Structural Models of the Catalytic Site of Chymotrypsin:  Comparison of Calculated Results with Experimental Data from NMR Spectroscopy William M. Westler, Frank Weinhold, and John L. Markley pp 14373–14381 DOI: 10.1021/ja027735j

Chloride Ion Catalyzed Conformational Inversion of Carbocation Intermediates in the Hydrolysis of a Benzo[a]pyrene 7,8-Diol 9,10-Epoxide Lanxuan Doan, Haruhiko Yagi, Donald M. Jerina, and Dale L. Whalen pp 14382–14387 DOI: 10.1021/ja020436+ Supporting Info

Placement and Characterization of Pairs of Luminescent Molecules in Spatially Separated Regions of Nanostructured Thin Films Payam N. Minoofar, Raquel Hernandez, Shinye Chia, Bruce Dunn, Jeffrey I. Zink, and Anne-Christine Franville pp 14388–14396 DOI: 10.1021/ja020817n

Synthesis of Sugar Arrays in Microtiter Plate Fabio Fazio, Marian C. Bryan, Ola Blixt, James C. Paulson, and Chi-Huey Wong pp 14397–14402 DOI: 10.1021/ja020887u Supporting Info

Ene Reaction of Singlet Oxygen, Triazolinedione, and Nitrosoarene with Chiral Deuterium-Labeled Allylic Alcohols:  The Interdependence of Diastereoselectivity and Regioselectivity Discloses Mechanistic Insights into the Hydroxy-Group Directivity Waldemar Adam, Nils Bottke, Oliver Krebs, Ioannis Lykakis, Michael Orfanopoulos, and Manolis Stratakis pp 14403–14409 DOI: 10.1021/ja027800p Supporting Info

Enhanced Emission and Its Switching in Fluorescent Organic Nanoparticles Byeong-Kwan An, Soon-Ki Kwon, Sang-Don Jung, and Soo Young Park pp 14410–14415 DOI: 10.1021/ja0269082

Electronically Unsaturated Three-Coordinate Chloride and Methyl Complexes of Iron, Cobalt, and Nickel Patrick L. Holland, Thomas R. Cundari, Lanyn L. Perez, Nathan A. Eckert, and Rene J. Lachicotte pp 14416–14424 DOI: 10.1021/ja025583m Supporting Info

A High-Yielding Supramolecular Reaction Christer B. Aakeröy, Alicia M. Beatty, and Brian A. Helfrich pp 14425–14432 DOI: 10.1021/ja027845q Supporting Info

Spin Densities in a Ferromagnetic Bimetallic Chain Compound:  Polarized Neutron Diffraction and DFT Calculations Béatrice Gillon, Corine Mathonière, Eliseo Ruiz, Santiago Alvarez, Alain Cousson, Thekkel M. Rajendiran, and Olivier Kahn pp 14433–14441 DOI: 10.1021/ja020188h Supporting Info

Virtual Screening for Binding of Phenylalanine Analogues to Phenylalanyl-tRNA Synthetase Pin Wang, Nagarajan Vaidehi, David A. Tirrell, and William A. Goddard III pp 14442–14449 DOI: 10.1021/ja0175441

Three-Dimensional Structure Determination of N-(p-Tolyl)-dodecylsulfonamide from Powder Diffraction Data and Validation of Structure Using Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy Manju Rajeswaran, Thomas N. Blanton, Nicholas Zumbulyadis, David J. Giesen, Carlota Conesa-Moratilla, Scott T. Misture, Peter W. Stephens, and Ashfia Huq pp 14450–14459 DOI: 10.1021/ja027978b

One-Pot Sequences of Reactions with Sol-Gel Entrapped Opposing Reagents:  An Enzyme and Metal-Complex Catalysts Faina Gelman, Jochanan Blum, and David Avnir pp 14460–14463 DOI: 10.1021/ja020799+

Formation of Silicon Carbide Nanotubes and Nanowires via Reaction of Silicon (from Disproportionation of Silicon Monoxide) with Carbon Nanotubes Xu-Hui Sun, Chi-Pui Li, Wing-Kwong Wong, Ning-Bew Wong, Chun-Sing Lee, Shuit-Tong Lee, and Boon-Keng Teo pp 14464–14471 DOI: 10.1021/ja0273997

Treatment of the K-Quantum Number in Unimolecular Reaction Theory:  Insights from Product Correlations W. Sean McGivern and Simon W. North pp 14472–14477 DOI: 10.1021/ja0273602

Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence 69:  The Tris(2,2‘-bipyridine)ruthenium(II), (Ru(bpy)32+)/Tri-n-propylamine (TPrA) System RevisitedA New Route Involving TPrA•+ Cation Radicals Wujian Miao, Jai-Pil Choi, and Allen J. Bard pp 14478–14485 DOI: 10.1021/ja027532v

Hydrogen Bond Vibrations of 2-Aminopyridine·2-Pyridone, a Watson−Crick Analogue of Adenine·Uracil Andreas Müller, Francis Talbot, and Samuel Leutwyler pp 14486–14494 DOI: 10.1021/ja0209969

Using Hierarchical Self-Assembly To Form Three-Dimensional Lattices of Spheres Hongkai Wu, Venkat R. Thalladi, Sue Whitesides, and George M. Whitesides pp 14495–14502 DOI: 10.1021/ja0210446

Isolation and Structure Elucidation of Chlorofusin, a Novel p53-MDM2 Antagonist from a Fusarium sp. [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 554−560]. Sara J. Duncan, Sabine Grüschow, Dudley H. Williams, Carole McNicholas, Ravinder Purewal, Michaela Hajek, Martin Gerlitz, Steven Martin, Stephen K. Wrigley and Michael Moore p 14503 DOI: 10.1021/ja025114k

Reversal of Enantioselectivity in the Asymmetric Rhodium- versus Iridium-Catalyzed Hydroboration of Meso Substrates. [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 12098−12099]. Alejandro Pérez Luna, Martine Bonin, Laurent Micouin, and Henri-Philippe Husson p 14503 DOI: 10.1021/ja025115c

ACD/Method Development Software Suite, Version 6.0 Advanced Chemistry Development, 600-90 Adelaide Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5H 3V9, Canada. www.acdlabs.com. Contact Company for Pricing Information. Rong Xiang and Csaba Horváth pp 14504–14505 DOI: 10.1021/ja025279t

Molecular Sieves:  Science and Technology. Volume 3. Postsynthesis Modification I Edited by Hellmut G. Karge (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society) and Jens Weitkamp (University of Stuttgart). Springer-Verlag:  Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. 2002. xii + 442 pp. $219.00. ISBN 3-540-64334-6. Mietek Jaroniec p 14506 DOI: 10.1021/ja025254u

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Dissections:  Self-Assembled Aggregates That Spontaneously Reconfigure Their Structures When Their Environment Changes Chengde Mao, Venkat R. Thalladi, Daniel B. Wolfe, Sue Whitesides, and George M. Whitesides pp 14508–14509 DOI: 10.1021/ja021043d

Triangular and Tetrahedral Array of Silver(I) Ions by a Novel Disk-Shaped Tridentate Ligand:  Dynamic Control of Coordination Equilibrium of the Silver(I) Complexes Shuichi Hiraoka, Tao Yi, Motoo Shiro, and Mitsuhiko Shionoya pp 14510–14511 DOI: 10.1021/ja028659n Supporting Info

A New Approach to Hybrid Nanocomposite Materials with Periodic Structures Jiguang Zhang, Neil Coombs, and Eugenia Kumacheva pp 14512–14513 DOI: 10.1021/ja020542b

Enzymatic Formation of an Unnatural Hexacyclic C35 Polyprenoid by Bacterial Squalene Cyclase Ikuro Abe, Hideya Tanaka, and Hiroshi Noguchi pp 14514–14515 DOI: 10.1021/ja020973u Supporting Info

Dithiane Additions to Vinyl Epoxides:  Steric Control over the SN2 and SN2‘ Manifolds Amos B. Smith, III, Suresh M. Pitram, Matthew J. Gaunt, and Sergey A. Kozmin pp 14516–14517 DOI: 10.1021/ja0283100 Supporting Info

Alkyne Adducts of [W2(OCH2tBu)8]n (M = M):  Comparisons of Bridging and Terminal Addition Products Malcolm H. Chisholm, Damon R. Click, Judith C. Gallucci, Christopher M. Hadad, and Paul J. Wilson pp 14518–14519 DOI: 10.1021/ja027478i Supporting Info

A Small Molecule with Osteogenesis-Inducing Activity in Multipotent Mesenchymal Progenitor Cells Xu Wu, Sheng Ding, Qiang Ding, Nathanael S. Gray, and Peter G. Schultz pp 14520–14521 DOI: 10.1021/ja0283908 Supporting Info

Chiral Self-Discrimination in a M3L2 Subphthalocyanine Cage Christian G. Claessens and Tomás Torres pp 14522–14523 DOI: 10.1021/ja028705j Supporting Info

A Potent and Highly Selective Sulfotransferase Inhibitor Eli Chapman, Sheng Ding, Peter G. Schultz, and Chi-Huey Wong pp 14524–14525 DOI: 10.1021/ja021086u

A Chlorine Isotope Effect for Enzyme-Catalyzed Chlorination Christopher M. Reddy, Li Xu, Nicholas J. Drenzek, Neil C. Sturchio, Linnea J. Heraty, Clare Kimblin, and Alison Butler pp 14526–14527 DOI: 10.1021/ja0284097

Molecular Rectification through Electric Field Induced Conformational Changes Alessandro Troisi and Mark A. Ratner pp 14528–14529 DOI: 10.1021/ja028281t

An Efficient Enantioselective Fluorination of Various β-Ketoesters Catalyzed by Chiral Palladium Complexes Yoshitaka Hamashima, Kenji Yagi, Hisashi Takano, László Tamás, and Mikiko Sodeoka pp 14530–14531 DOI: 10.1021/ja028464f Supporting Info

Observations of Different Triplet Conformations in Time-Resolved Infrared Spectra of Alkyl Phenylglyoxylates1 Alexei G. Merzlikine, Sergey V. Voskresensky, Eugene O. Danilov, Michael A. J. Rodgers, and Douglas C. Neckers pp 14532–14533 DOI: 10.1021/ja0282792 Supporting Info

Oxygen−Oxygen Bond Homolysis in a Novel Titanium(IV) Alkylperoxide Complex, Cp2Ti(OOtBu)Cl Antonio G. DiPasquale, Werner Kaminsky, and James M. Mayer pp 14534–14535 DOI: 10.1021/ja028500a Supporting Info

Non-Covalent Synthesis in Aqueous Solution of Discrete Multi-Porphyrin Aggregates with Programmable Stoichiometry and Sequence Giuseppe Moschetto, Rosaria Lauceri, Fabio G. Gulino, Domenico Sciotto, and Roberto Purrello pp 14536–14537 DOI: 10.1021/ja028591b

Direct Detection of Radical Cations of NADH Analogues Shunichi Fukuzumi, Osamu Inada, and Tomoyoshi Suenobu pp 14538–14539 DOI: 10.1021/ja0272538 Supporting Info

Self-Directed Assembly of Photoactive Hybrid Silicates Derived from an Azobenzene-Bridged Silsesquioxane Nanguo Liu, Kui Yu, Bernd Smarsly, Darren R. Dunphy, Ying-Bing Jiang, and C. Jeffrey Brinker pp 14540–14541 DOI: 10.1021/ja027991w Supporting Info

Enantioselective Synthesis of (−)-Codeine and (−)-Morphine Barry M. Trost and Weiping Tang pp 14542–14543 DOI: 10.1021/ja0283394 Supporting Info

Catalytic Asymmetric Epoxidation of α,β-Unsaturated Amides:  Efficient Synthesis of β-Aryl α-Hydroxy Amides Using a One-Pot Tandem Catalytic Asymmetric Epoxidation−Pd-Catalyzed Epoxide Opening Process Tetsuhiro Nemoto, Hiroyuki Kakei, Vijay Gnanadesikan, Shin-ya Tosaki, Takashi Ohshima, and Masakatsu Shibasaki pp 14544–14545 DOI: 10.1021/ja028454e Supporting Info

Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (−)-Strychnine Using the Catalytic Asymmetric Michael Reaction and Tandem Cyclization Takashi Ohshima, Youjun Xu, Ryo Takita, Satoshi Shimizu, Dafang Zhong, and Masakatsu Shibasaki pp 14546–14547 DOI: 10.1021/ja028457r Supporting Info

The Trp Cage:  Folding Kinetics and Unfolded State Topology via Molecular Dynamics Simulations Christopher D. Snow, Bojan Zagrovic, and Vijay S. Pande pp 14548–14549 DOI: 10.1021/ja028604l

Catalyzed Collapse and Enhanced Hydrogen Storage of BN Nanotubes Chengchun Tang, Yoshio Bando, Xiaoxia Ding, Shouren Qi, and Dmitri Golberg pp 14550–14551 DOI: 10.1021/ja028051e Supporting Info

Highly Enantioselective Rhodium-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of β-Dehydroamino Acid Derivatives Using Monodentate Phosphoramidites Diego Peña, Adriaan J. Minnaard, Johannes G. de Vries, and Ben L. Feringa pp 14552–14553 DOI: 10.1021/ja028235t Supporting Info

The Reaction Mechanism of Xanthine Oxidase:  Evidence for Two-Electron Chemistry Rather Than Sequential One-Electron Steps Amy L. Stockert, Sujata S. Shinde, Robert F. Anderson, and Russ Hille pp 14554–14555 DOI: 10.1021/ja027388d Supporting Info

Stephacidin A and B:  Two Structurally Novel, Selective Inhibitors of the Testosterone-Dependent Prostate LNCaP Cells Jingfang Qian-Cutrone, Stella Huang, Yue-Zhong Shu, Dolatrai Vyas, Craig Fairchild, Ana Menendez, Kimberly Krampitz, Richard Dalterio, Steven E Klohr, and Qi Gao pp 14556–14557 DOI: 10.1021/ja028538n Supporting Info

Reaction Mechanism of Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase:  Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations Birgit Schiøtt and Thomas C. Bruice pp 14558–14570 DOI: 10.1021/ja021021r Supporting Info

Roles of the Proximal Hydrogen Bonding Network in Cytochrome P450cam-Catalyzed Oxygenation Shiro Yoshioka, Takehiko Tosha, Satoshi Takahashi, Koichiro Ishimori, Hiroshi Hori, and Isao Morishima pp 14571–14579 DOI: 10.1021/ja0265409 Supporting Info

Guanine of the Third Strand of C·G*G Triplex Serves as an Effective Hole Trap Chikara Dohno, Kazuhiko Nakatani, and Isao Saito pp 14580–14585 DOI: 10.1021/ja026724n

Position-Specific Incorporation of a Fluorophore−Quencher Pair into a Single Streptavidin through Orthogonal Four-Base Codon/Anticodon Pairs Masumi Taki, Takahiro Hohsaka, Hiroshi Murakami, Kazunari Taira, and Masahiko Sisido pp 14586–14590 DOI: 10.1021/ja017714+ Supporting Info

Exploring Nucleoside Hydrolase Catalysis in Silico:  Molecular Dynamics Study of Enzyme-Bound Substrate and Transition State Devleena Mazumder and Thomas C. Bruice pp 14591–14600 DOI: 10.1021/ja021088e Supporting Info

Hybridization of Mismatched or Partially Matched DNA at Surfaces Alexander W. Peterson, Lauren K. Wolf, and Rosina M. Georgiadis pp 14601–14607 DOI: 10.1021/ja0279996

Hydroxylation of Methane by Non-Heme Diiron Enzymes:  Molecular Orbital Analysis of C−H Bond Activation by Reactive Intermediate Q Mu-Hyun Baik, Benjamin F. Gherman, Richard A. Friesner, and Stephen J. Lippard pp 14608–14615 DOI: 10.1021/ja026794u

Side Chain Orientation from Methyl 1H−1H Residual Dipolar Couplings Measured in Highly Deuterated Proteins Nathalie Sibille, Beate Bersch, Jacques Covès, Martin Blackledge, and Bernhard Brutscher pp 14616–14625 DOI: 10.1021/ja020888m Supporting Info

Enzymatic Phosphorylation of Unnatural Nucleosides Yiqin Wu, Ming Fa, Eunju Lee Tae, Peter G. Schultz, and Floyd E. Romesberg pp 14626–14630 DOI: 10.1021/ja028050m

Enantioselective Formation of a Dynamic Hydrogen-Bonded Assembly Based on the Chiral Memory Concept Tsutomu Ishi-i, Mercedes Crego-Calama, Peter Timmerman, David N. Reinhoudt, and Seiji Shinkai pp 14631–14641 DOI: 10.1021/ja0207302 Supporting Info

Photophysical Properties of Porphyrin Tapes Hyun Sun Cho, Dae Hong Jeong, Sung Cho, Dongho Kim, Yoichi Matsuzaki, Kazuyoshi Tanaka, Akihiko Tsuda, and Atsuhiro Osuka pp 14642–14654 DOI: 10.1021/ja020826w

Stereoselective Synthesis of Pamamycin-607 Eun Jeong Jeong, Eun Joo Kang, Lee Taek Sung, Sung Kil Hong, and Eun Lee pp 14655–14662 DOI: 10.1021/ja0279646 Supporting Info

Investigation of the [Sm{N(SiMe3)2}2] Reducing System in THF. Rate and Mechanistic Studies1 Edamana Prasad, Brian W. Knettle, and Robert A. Flowers, II pp 14663–14667 DOI: 10.1021/ja028111g Supporting Info

First and Efficient Synthesis of Phosphonodifluoromethylene Analogues of Nucleoside 3‘-Phosphates:  Crucial Role Played by Sulfur in Construction of the Target Molecules Chrystel Lopin, Arnaud Gautier, Géraldine Gouhier, and Serge R. Piettre pp 14668–14675 DOI: 10.1021/ja027850u Supporting Info

The Role of Surface Free Energy on the Formation of Hybrid Bilayer Membranes Vitalii I. Silin, Herbert Wieder, John T. Woodward, Gintaras Valincius, A. Offenhausser, and Anne L. Plant pp 14676–14683 DOI: 10.1021/ja026585+

Effects of Phosphine Ligand Chelation on the Reactivity of Monomeric Parent Amido Ruthenium Complexes:  Synthesis and Reactivity of Such a Complex Bearing Monodentate Ligands Andrew W. Holland and Robert G. Bergman pp 14684–14695 DOI: 10.1021/ja027620f Supporting Info

Organic Triplet Emissions of Arylacetylide Moieties Harnessed through Coordination to [Au(PCy3)]+. Effect of Molecular Structure upon Photoluminescent Properties Hsiu-Yi Chao, Wei Lu, Yanqin Li, Michael C. W. Chan, Chi-Ming Che, Kung-Kai Cheung, and Nianyong Zhu pp 14696–14706 DOI: 10.1021/ja0209417 Supporting Info

DNA Dynamics in a Water Drop without Counterions Alexey K. Mazur pp 14707–14715 DOI: 10.1021/ja012706e

Odd Carbon Long Linear Chains HC2n+1H (n = 4−11): Properties of the Neutrals and Radical Anions L'uboš Horný, Nicholas D. K. Petraco, and Henry F. Schaefer III pp 14716–14720 DOI: 10.1021/ja0210190

A Classification of Covalent, Ionic, and Metallic Solids Based on the Electron Density Paula Mori-Sánchez, A. Martín Pendás, and Víctor Luaña pp 14721–14723 DOI: 10.1021/ja027708t

Electrical Contacting of Flavoenzymes and NAD(P)+-Dependent Enzymes by Reconstitution and Affinity Interactions on Phenylboronic Acid Monolayers Associated with Au-Electrodes Maya Zayats, Eugenii Katz, and Itamar Willner pp 14724–14735 DOI: 10.1021/ja027919y Supporting Info

Direct Observation of Deuterium Migration in Crystalline-State Reaction by Single Crystal Neutron Diffraction IV. “Hula-Twist” Rotation of a Long Alkyl Radical Produced by Photoirradiation Takashi Ohhara, Susumu Ikeda, Hiroyuki Imura, Hidehiro Uekusa, Yuji Ohashi, Ichiro Tanaka, and Nobuo Niimura pp 14736–14740 DOI: 10.1021/ja027872g Supporting Info

Toward the Optical Tongue:  Flow-Through Sensing of Tannin−Protein Interactions Based on FTIR Spectroscopy Andrea Edelmann and Bernhard Lendl pp 14741–14747 DOI: 10.1021/ja026309v Supporting Info

Intramolecular Cycloadditions of Cyclobutadiene with Olefins John Limanto, John A. Tallarico, James R. Porter, Kelli S. Khuong, K. N. Houk, and Marc L. Snapper pp 14748–14758 DOI: 10.1021/ja0203162 Supporting Info

C3-Symmetrical Supramolecular Architectures:  Fibers and Organic Gels from Discotic Trisamides and Trisureas Judith J. van Gorp, Jef A. J. M. Vekemans, and E. W. Meijer pp 14759–14769 DOI: 10.1021/ja020984n Supporting Info

Catalytic Role of Gold in Gold-Based Catalysts:  A Density Functional Theory Study on the CO Oxidation on Gold Zhi-Pan Liu and P. HuAli Alavi pp 14770–14779 DOI: 10.1021/ja0205885

Ab Initio QM/MM Dynamics Simulation of the Tetrahedral Intermediate of Serine Proteases:  Insights into the Active Site Hydrogen-Bonding Network Maya Topf, Peter Várnai, and W. Graham Richards pp 14780–14788 DOI: 10.1021/ja026219q

Density Functional Theory Study of Enantiospecific Adsorption at Chiral Surfaces Željko Šljivananin, Kurt V. Gothelf, and Bjørk Hammer pp 14789–14794 DOI: 10.1021/ja027239v

Electron Affinities of Aln Clusters and Multiple-Fold Aromaticity of the Square Al42- Structure Chang-Guo Zhan, Fang Zheng, and David A. Dixon pp 14795–14803 DOI: 10.1021/ja021026o

Manipulation and Characterization of Xenon−Metalloporphyrin Complexation with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope Xiaohui Qiu, Gueorgui V. Nazin, Arthur Hotzel, and Wilson Ho pp 14804–14809 DOI: 10.1021/ja0272639

Nonstatistical Dynamics in Deep Potential Wells:  A Quasiclassical Trajectory Study of Methyl Loss from the Acetone Radical Cation [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 8512−8513].  Jeremiah A. Nummela and Barry K. Carpenter p 14810 DOI: 10.1021/ja0251165

Conformation and Absolute Configuration of Nocathiacin I Determined by NMR Spectroscopy and Chiral Capillary Electrophoresis [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 7284−7285].  Keith L. Constantine, Luciano Mueller, Stella Huang, Sadia Abid, Kin S. Lam, Wenying Li, and John E. Leet p 14810 DOI: 10.1021/ja025118p

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[2 + 2] Cross Coupling of Benzene and Tropylium Ligands in Reductively Activated Piano Stool Complexes of Mn, Cr, and W Li Shao, Steven J. Geib, Paul D. Badger, and N. John Cooper pp 14812–14813 DOI: 10.1021/ja027081e Supporting Info

Structure−Performance Relations in Homogeneous Pd Catalysis by In Situ EXAFS Spectroscopy Moniek Tromp, Jeroen A. van Bokhoven, Richard J. van Haaren, Gino P. F. van Strijdonck, Ad M. J. van der Eerden, Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen, and Diek C. Koningsberger pp 14814–14815 DOI: 10.1021/ja026604f Supporting Info

Theoretical Evidence that CuI Complexation Promotes Degradation of S-Nitrosothiols Céline Toubin, David Y.-H. Yeung, Ann M. English, and Gilles H. Peslherbe pp 14816–14817 DOI: 10.1021/ja027386t

Raman Spectroscopic Evidence for Cooperative C−H···O Interactions in the Acetaldehyde−CO2 Complex Marc A. Blatchford, Poovathinthodiyil Raveendran, and Scott L. Wallen pp 14818–14819 DOI: 10.1021/ja027337g

The Ene Reactions of Nitroso Compounds Involve Polarized Diradical Intermediates Andrew G. Leach and K. N. Houk pp 14820–14821 DOI: 10.1021/ja012757b Supporting Info

The First Silastannene >SiSn<:  A New Doubly-Bonded System of Heavier Group 14 Elements Akira Sekiguchi, Rika Izumi, Vladimir Ya. Lee, and Masaaki Ichinohe pp 14822–14823 DOI: 10.1021/ja021077l Supporting Info

Electroauxiliary-Assisted Sequential Introduction of Two Carbon Nucleophiles on the Same α-Carbon of Nitrogen:  Application to the Synthesis of Spiro Compounds Seiji Suga, Mitsuru Watanabe, and Jun-ichi Yoshida pp 14824–14825 DOI: 10.1021/ja028663z Supporting Info

First Total Synthesis of (±)-Strychnofoline via a Highly Selective Ring-Expansion Reaction Andreas Lerchner and Erick M. Carreira pp 14826–14827 DOI: 10.1021/ja027906k Supporting Info

Bis-cyclometalated Ir(III) Complexes as Efficient Singlet Oxygen Sensitizers Ruomei Gao, David G. Ho, Billy Hernandez, Matthias Selke, Drew Murphy, Peter I. Djurovich, and Mark E. Thompson pp 14828–14829 DOI: 10.1021/ja0280729 Supporting Info

Synthesis, Structure, and Redox Properties of the Extremely Crowded Triarylpnictogens:  Tris(2,4,6-triisopropylphenyl)phosphine, Arsine, Stibine, and Bismuthine Shigeru Sasaki, Katsuhide Sutoh, Fumiki Murakami, and Masaaki Yoshifuji pp 14830–14831 DOI: 10.1021/ja027493n Supporting Info

A Remarkably Efficient Synthesis of Pure cis-Stilbenoid Hydrocarbons Using trans-Dibromoalkenes via Palladium Catalysis Rajendra Rathore, Mihaela I. Deselnicu, and Carrie L. Burns pp 14832–14833 DOI: 10.1021/ja027421w Supporting Info

The Use of Polymer Heteronuclei for Crystalline Polymorph Selection Meidong Lang, Adam L. Grzesiak and Adam J. Matzger pp 14834–14835 DOI: 10.1021/ja0286526 Supporting Info

Highly Enantioselective 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reactions of 2-Benzopyrylium-4-olate Catalyzed by Chiral Lewis Acids Hiroyuki Suga, Kei Inoue, Shuichi Inoue, and Akikazu Kakehi pp 14836–14837 DOI: 10.1021/ja028676c Supporting Info

The Use of a Thermally Reversible Bond for Molecular Imprinting of Silica Spheres Chang Do Ki, Chul Oh, Seong-Geun Oh, and Ji Young Chang pp 14838–14839 DOI: 10.1021/ja0277881 Supporting Info

Structural Features of the Cytochrome c Molten Globule Revealed by Fluorescence Energy Transfer Kinetics Julia G. Lyubovitsky, Harry B. Gray, and Jay R. Winkler pp 14840–14841 DOI: 10.1021/ja028141j Supporting Info

Cluster Synthesis via Ligand-Arrested Solid Growth:  Triethylphosphine-Capped Fragments of Binary Metal Chalcogenides Nathan R. M. Crawford, Allan G. Hee, and Jeffrey R. Long pp 14842–14843 DOI: 10.1021/ja027862f Supporting Info

Copper-Catalyzed Halogen Exchange in Aryl Halides:  An Aromatic Finkelstein Reaction Artis Klapars and Stephen L. Buchwald pp 14844–14845 DOI: 10.1021/ja028865v Supporting Info

Hydrophobic Interaction and Hydrogen Bonding Cooperatively Confer a Vancomycin Hydrogel:  A Potential Candidate for Biomaterials Bengang Xing, Chun-Wing Yu, Kin-Hung Chow, Pak-Leung Ho, Degang Fu, and Bing Xu pp 14846–14847 DOI: 10.1021/ja028539f Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of (−)-Tuberostemonine Peter Wipf, Stacey R. Rector, and Hidenori Takahashi pp 14848–14849 DOI: 10.1021/ja028603t Supporting Info

Catalyzed Asymmetric Aryl Transfer Reactions to Aldehydes with Boronic Acids as Aryl Source Carsten Bolm and Jens Rudolph pp 14850–14851 DOI: 10.1021/ja028518l Supporting Info

Evidence for a New Ferroelectric Switching Liquid Crystalline Phase Formed by a Carbosilane Based Dendrimer with Banana-Shaped Mesogenic Units Gert Dantlgraber, Ute Baumeister, Siegmar Diele, Horst Kresse, Bettina Lühmann, Heinrich Lang, and Carsten Tschierske pp 14852–14853 DOI: 10.1021/ja028508k Supporting Info

B4(CO)2:  A New, Observable σ−π Diradical Mingfei Zhou, Qiang Xu, Zhi-Xiang Wang, and Paul von Ragué Schleyer pp 14854–14855 DOI: 10.1021/ja027865s Supporting Info

Templating Effect of Hydrogen-Passivated Silicon Nanowires in the Production of Hydrocarbon Nanotubes and Nanoonions via Sonochemical Reactions with Common Organic Solvents under Ambient Conditions Xu-Hui Sun, Chi-Pui Li, Ning-Bew Wong, Chun-Sing Lee, Shuit-Tong Lee, and Boon-Keng Teo pp 14856–14857 DOI: 10.1021/ja0283706

Reactivity of Intermediates in Benzoylformate Decarboxylase:  Avoiding the Path to Destruction Qingyan Hu and Ronald Kluger pp 14858–14859 DOI: 10.1021/ja027976r

An Altered Mechanism of Hydrolysis for a Metal-Complexed Phosphate Diester Tim Humphry, Marcello Forconi, Nicholas H. Williams, and Alvan C. Hengge pp 14860–14861 DOI: 10.1021/ja027671c Supporting Info

Sensitive Through-Space Dipolar Correlations between Nuclei of Small Organic Molecules by Partial Alignment in a Deuterated Liquid Solvent Brad Bendiak pp 14862–14863 DOI: 10.1021/ja028412q

Regularly Shaped, Single-Crystalline ZnO Nanorods with Wurtzite Structure Lin Guo, Yun Liang Ji,and Huibin XuPaul SimonZiyu Wu pp 14864–14865 DOI: 10.1021/ja027947g Supporting Info

To Probe the Origin of Activation Effect of Carboxylic Acid and (+)-NLE in Tridentated Titanium Catalyst Systems Yu Yuan, Xin Li, Jie Sun, and Kuiling Ding pp 14866–14867 DOI: 10.1021/ja0286775 Supporting Info

Peptide Microarrays for the Determination of Protease Substrate Specificity Cleo M. Salisbury, Dustin J. Maly, and Jonathan A. Ellman pp 14868–14870 DOI: 10.1021/ja027477q Supporting Info

Functional Specificities of Methylglyoxal Synthase and Triosephosphate Isomerase:  A Combined QM/MM Analysis Xiaodong Zhang, David H. T. Harrison, and Qiang Cui pp 14871–14878 DOI: 10.1021/ja027063x Supporting Info

Oxidation of Heme to β- and δ-Biliverdin by Pseudomonas aeruginosa Heme Oxygenase as a Consequence of an Unusual Seating of the Heme Gregori A. Caignan, Rahul Deshmukh, Angela Wilks, Yuhong Zeng, Hong-wei Huang, Pierre Moënne-Loccoz, Richard A. Bunce, Margaret A. Eastman, and Mario Rivera pp 14879–14892 DOI: 10.1021/ja0274960 Supporting Info

Investigating Cellular Metabolism of Synthetic Azidosugars with the Staudinger Ligation Eliana Saxon, Sarah J. Luchansky, Howard C. Hang, Chong Yu, Sandy C. Lee, and Carolyn R. Bertozzi pp 14893–14902 DOI: 10.1021/ja027748x Supporting Info

Thermodynamic Analysis of β-Hairpin-Forming Peptides from the Thermal Dependence of 1H NMR Chemical Shifts Clara M. Santiveri, Jorge Santoro, Manuel Rico, and M. Angeles Jiménez pp 14903–14909 DOI: 10.1021/ja0278537 Supporting Info

Selenium-Assisted Nucleic Acid Crystallography:  Use of Phosphoroselenoates for MAD Phasing of a DNA Structure Christopher J. Wilds, Rekha Pattanayek, Chongle Pan, Zdzislaw Wawrzak, and Martin Egli pp 14910–14916 DOI: 10.1021/ja021058b Supporting Info

Simple Cation−π Interaction between a Phenyl Ring and a Protonated Amine Stabilizes an α-Helix in Water Lun K. Tsou, Chad D. Tatko, and Marcey L. Waters pp 14917–14921 DOI: 10.1021/ja026721a

Influencing Receptor−Ligand Binding Mechanisms with Multivalent Ligand Architecture Jason E. Gestwicki, Christopher W. Cairo, Laura E. Strong, Karolyn A. Oetjen, and Laura L. Kiessling pp 14922–14933 DOI: 10.1021/ja027184x Supporting Info

Displacement of Mn2+ from RNA by K+, Mg2+, Neomycin B, and an Arginine-Rich Peptide:  Indirect Detection of Nucleic Acid/Ligand Interactions Using Phosphorus Relaxation Enhancement Jack S. Summers, John Shimko, Fredric L. Freedman, Christopher T. Badger, and Michael Sturgess pp 14934–14939 DOI: 10.1021/ja027829t

Conformation of Glycomimetics in the Free and Protein-Bound State:  Structural and Binding Features of the C-glycosyl Analogue of the Core Trisaccharide α-d-Man-(1 → 3)-[α-d-Man-(1 → 6)]-d-Man Lise Munch Mikkelsen, María José Hernáiz, M. Martín-Pastor, Troels Skrydstrup, and Jesús Jiménez-Barbero pp 14940–14951 DOI: 10.1021/ja020468x Supporting Info

Probing the Reactivity of Photoinitiators for Free Radical Polymerization:  Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopic Study of Benzoyl Radicals Christopher S. Colley, David C. Grills, Nicholas A. Besley, Steffen Jockusch, Pavel Matousek, Anthony W. Parker, Michael Towrie, Nicholas J. Turro, Peter M. W. Gill, and Michael W. George pp 14952–14958 DOI: 10.1021/ja026099m Supporting Info

Ion-Pairing Molecular Recognition in Water:  Aggregation at Low Concentrations That Is Entropy-Driven Mikhail Rekharsky, Yoshihisa Inoue, Suzanne Tobey, Axel Metzger, and Eric Anslyn pp 14959–14967 DOI: 10.1021/ja020612e Supporting Info

Physical Organic Chemistry of Transition Metal Carbene Complexes. 25. Kinetic and Thermodynamic Acidities of Substituted (Methylthiophenylcarbene)pentacarbonyl Tungsten(0) and (Benzoxymethylcarbene)pentacarbonyl Tungsten(0) in Aqueous Acetonitrile. Evidence for Transition State Imbalances Claude F. Bernasconi and Viola Ruddat pp 14968–14976 DOI: 10.1021/ja020665w

Are 1,5-Disubstituted Semibullvalenes that Have C2v Equilibrium Geometries Necessarily Bishomoaromatic? Eric C. Brown, Daven K. Henze, and Weston Thatcher Borden pp 14977–14982 DOI: 10.1021/ja027392p Supporting Info

Total Synthesis of (−)-Gambierol Haruhiko Fuwa, Noriko Kainuma, Kazuo Tachibana, and Makoto Sasaki pp 14983–14992 DOI: 10.1021/ja028167a Supporting Info

Relative Rates and Approximate Rate Constants for Inter- and Intramolecular Hydrogen Transfer Reactions of Polymer-Bound Radicals Dennis P. Curran, Fanglong Yang, and Jae-ho Cheong pp 14993–15000 DOI: 10.1021/ja028249z

Total Synthesis of Desferrisalmycin B Li Dong, John M. Roosenberg II, and Marvin J. Miller pp 15001–15005 DOI: 10.1021/ja028386w Supporting Info

Could Ionic γ-Elimination Be Concerted:  Clocking the Internal Displacement Across a Cyclobutane Ring Uri Habusha, Esther Rozental, and Shmaryahu Hoz pp 15006–15011 DOI: 10.1021/ja028644p Supporting Info

Reactivity Differences of Indomethacin Solid Forms with Ammonia Gas Xiaoming Chen, Kenneth R. Morris, Ulrich J. Griesser, Stephen R. Byrn, and Joseph G. Stowell pp 15012–15019 DOI: 10.1021/ja017662o Supporting Info

Effects of Surface Morphology on the Anchoring and Electrooptical Dynamics of Confined Nanoscale Liquid Crystalline Films Alison R. Noble, Hye J. Kwon, and Ralph G. Nuzzo pp 15020–15029 DOI: 10.1021/ja021001p Supporting Info

Responsive Hydrogels from the Intramolecular Folding and Self-Assembly of a Designed Peptide Joel P. Schneider, Darrin J. Pochan, Bulent Ozbas, Karthikan Rajagopal, Lisa Pakstis, and Juliana Kretsinger pp 15030–15037 DOI: 10.1021/ja027993g Supporting Info

1,2-Dithiin Annelated with Bicyclo[2.2.2]octene Frameworks. One-Electron and Two-Electron Oxidations and Formation of a Novel 2,3,5,6-Tetrathiabicyclo[2.2.2]oct-7-ene Radical Cation with Remarkable Stability Owing to a Strong Transannular Interaction Atsushi Wakamiya, Tohru Nishinaga, and Koichi Komatsu pp 15038–15050 DOI: 10.1021/ja028297j Supporting Info

Tuning Intermolecular Attraction to Create Polar Order and One-Dimensional Nanostructures on Surfaces Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, Mark L. Bushey, Louis E. Brus, and Colin Nuckolls pp 15051–15054 DOI: 10.1021/ja028524h

Creating New Supramolecular Materials by Architecture of Three-Dimensional Nanocrystal Fiber Networks Xiang Yang Liu, Prashant D. Sawant, Wee Beng Tan, I. B. M. Noor, C. Pramesti, and B. H. Chen pp 15055–15063 DOI: 10.1021/ja0206137

Comparison and Contrasts between the Active Site PKs of Mn-Superoxide Dismutase and Those of Fe-Superoxide Dismutase James Maliekal, Anush Karapetian, Carrie Vance, Emine Yikilmaz, Qiang Wu, Timothy Jackson, Thomas C. Brunold, Thomas G. Spiro, and Anne-Frances Miller pp 15064–15075 DOI: 10.1021/ja027319z

Dimensional Changes as a Function of Charge Injection in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Guangyu Sun, Jenö Kürti, Miklos Kertesz, and Ray H. Baughman pp 15076–15080 DOI: 10.1021/ja020616j Supporting Info

Binding to an RNA Aptamer Changes the Charge Distribution and Conformation of Malachite Green Dat H. Nguyen, Steven C. DeFina, William H. Fink, and Thorsten Dieckmann pp 15081–15084 DOI: 10.1021/ja027635d Supporting Info

Structures of Neat and Hydrated 1-Octanol from Computer Simulations Justin L. MacCallum and D. Peter Tieleman pp 15085–15093 DOI: 10.1021/ja027422o

Turning the [Ru(bpy)2dppz]2+ Light-Switch On and Off with Temperature Matthew K. Brennaman, James H. Alstrum-Acevedo, Cavan N. Fleming, Paul Jang, Thomas J. Meyer, and John M. Papanikolas pp 15094–15098 DOI: 10.1021/ja0279139

Strategy for the Resolution of a Chiral Dearomatization Agent:{TpRe(CO)(1-methylimidazole)} Coordination of α-Pinene (Tp = Hydridotris(pyrazolyl)borate) Scott H. Meiere, Mark T. Valahovic, and W. Dean Harman pp 15099–15103 DOI: 10.1021/ja0118845

Mechanism of the Hydrogenation of Ketones Catalyzed by trans-Dihydrido(diamine)ruthenium(II) Complexes Kamaluddin Abdur-Rashid, Sean E. Clapham, Alen Hadzovic, Jeremy N. Harvey, Alan J. Lough, and Robert H. Morris pp 15104–15118 DOI: 10.1021/ja016817p Supporting Info

Hydrogen Adsorption on the Indium-Rich Indium Phosphide (001) Surface:  A Novel Way to Produce Bridging In−H−In Bonds K. Raghavachari, Q. Fu, G. Chen, L. Li, C. H. Li, D. C. Law, and R. F. Hicks pp 15119–15124 DOI: 10.1021/ja020348p

Direct Detection by Atomic Force Microscopy of Single Bond Forces Associated with the Rupture of Discrete Charge-Transfer Complexes Hjalti Skulason and C. Daniel Frisbie pp 15125–15133 DOI: 10.1021/ja028089r

Electron Delocalization in Mixed-Valence Keggin Polyoxometalates. Ab Initio Calculation of the Local Effective Transfer Integrals and Its Consequences on the Spin Coupling Nicolas Suaud, Alejandro Gaita-Ariño, Juan Modesto Clemente-Juan, José Sánchez-Marín, and Eugenio Coronado pp 15134–15140 DOI: 10.1021/ja027806e

C1−C5 Photochemical Cyclization of Enediynes [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 9052−9053]. Igor V. Alabugin Sergei V. Kovalenko p 15141 DOI: 10.1021/ja025117x

Advances in Polymer Science. Volume 157. Degradable Aliphatic Polyesters Edited by Ann-Christine Albertsson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden). Springer-Verlag:  New York, Berlin, Heidelberg. 2002. xii + 180 pp. $119.00. ISBN 3-540-42249-8. James L. Hedrick p 15142 DOI: 10.1021/ja025211d

Organic Syntheses. Volume 78 Edited by William R. Roush (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). John Wiley & Sons, Inc.:  New York. xxxiv + 326 pp. $49.95. ISBN 0-471-23580-6. p 15142 DOI: 10.1021/ja025300q

Electrochemistry in Nonaqueous Solutions By Kosuke Izutsu (Matsumoto, Japan). Wiley-VCH:  Weinheim. 2002. xiv + 346 pp. $110.00. ISBN 3-527-30516-5. Allen J. Bard pp 15142–15143 DOI: 10.1021/ja025265n

Advances in Polymer Science 158. Polymers for Photonics Applications I:  Nonlinear Optical and Electroluminescence Polymers Edited by Kwang-Sup Lee (Hannam University, Korea). Springer-Verlag:  Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. 2002. xiv + 262 pp. $179.00. ISBN 3-540-42384-2. Martin Pomerantz p 15143 DOI: 10.1021/ja025252+

Handbook of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry. Volumes 1 and 2 Edited by Krister Holmberg (Chalmers University of Technology). John Wiley & Sons:  West Sussex. 2002. xii + 1110 pp. $600.00. ISBN 0-471-49083-0. L. Andrew Lyon pp 15143–15144 DOI: 10.1021/ja025281k

Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry, No. 35 Edited by Brian E. Conway (University of Ottawa) and Ralph E. White (University of South Carolina). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers:  New York. 2002. xx + 330 pp. $140.00. ISBN 0-306-46776-3. Gessie M. Brisard p 15144 DOI: 10.1021/ja025271j

Issue 51

Controlled Interparticle Spacing through Self-Assembly of Au Nanoparticles and Poly(amidoamine) Dendrimers Benjamin L. Frankamp, Andrew K. Boal, and Vincent M. Rotello pp 15146–15147 DOI: 10.1021/ja0280426 Supporting Info

Spontaneous Formation of Hexameric Resorcinarene Capsule in Chloroform Solution as Detected by Diffusion NMR Liat Avram and Yoram Cohen pp 15148–15149 DOI: 10.1021/ja0272686

Dynamics and Fluidity of Amyloid Fibrils:  A Model of Fibrous Protein Aggregates Ami S. Lakdawala, David M. Morgan, Dennis C. Liotta, David G. Lynn, and James P. Snyder pp 15150–15151 DOI: 10.1021/ja0273290 Supporting Info

Cobalt−Carbene Complex with Single-Bond Character:  Intermediate for the Cobalt Complex-Catalyzed Cyclopropanation Taketo Ikeno, Izumi Iwakura, and Tohru Yamada pp 15152–15153 DOI: 10.1021/ja027713x Supporting Info

Transition Metal-Catalyzed Hetero-[5 + 2] Cycloadditions of Cyclopropyl Imines and Alkynes:  Dihydroazepines from Simple, Readily Available Starting Materials Paul A. Wender, Torben M. Pedersen, and Marc J. C. Scanio pp 15154–15155 DOI: 10.1021/ja0285013 Supporting Info

Reductive Generation of Enolates from Enones Using Elemental Hydrogen:  Catalytic C−C Bond Formation under Hydrogenative Conditions Hye-Young Jang, Ryan R. Huddleston, and Michael J. Krische pp 15156–15157 DOI: 10.1021/ja021163l Supporting Info

Chain-Growth Polycondensation for Well-Defined Aramide. Synthesis of Unprecedented Block Copolymer Containing Aramide with Low Polydispersity Tsutomu Yokozawa, Miyuki Ogawa, Atsushi Sekino, Ryuji Sugi, and Akihiro Yokoyama pp 15158–15159 DOI: 10.1021/ja021188k Supporting Info

Nearly Planar Nonsolvated Monomeric Silyl- and Germyllithiums as a Result of an Intramolecular CH−Li Agostic Interaction Masaaki Nakamoto, Tomohide Fukawa, Vladimir Ya. Lee, and Akira Sekiguchi pp 15160–15161 DOI: 10.1021/ja021142r Supporting Info

Collagen Mimetic Dendrimers Garth A. Kinberger, Weibo Cai, and Murray Goodman pp 15162–15163 DOI: 10.1021/ja021203l Supporting Info

Regio- and Enantioselective Allylic Amination of Achiral Allylic Esters Catalyzed by an Iridium−Phosphoramidite Complex Toshimichi Ohmura and John F. Hartwig pp 15164–15165 DOI: 10.1021/ja028614m Supporting Info

What Is the Mechanism of Oriented Crystal Growth on Rubbed Polymer Substrates? Topography vs Epitaxy Pascal Damman, Séverine Coppée, Victor M. Geskin, and Roberto Lazzaroni pp 15166–15167 DOI: 10.1021/ja027145l

An Annulative Approach to Highly Substituted Indoles:  Unusual Effect of Phenolic Additives on the Success of the Arylation of Ketone Enolates Jennifer L. Rutherford, Matthew P. Rainka, and Stephen L. Buchwald pp 15168–15169 DOI: 10.1021/ja0288993 Supporting Info

A Stable Manganese(V)-Oxo Corrolazine Complex Beaven S. Mandimutsira, Bobby Ramdhanie, Ryan C. Todd, Hailin Wang, Adelajda A. Zareba, Roman S. Czernuszewicz, and David P. Goldberg pp 15170–15171 DOI: 10.1021/ja028651d Supporting Info

Ruthenium-Catalyzed Propargylic Substitution Reaction of Propargylic Alcohols with Thiols:  A General Synthetic Route to Propargylic Sulfides Youichi Inada, Yoshiaki Nishibayashi, Masanobu Hidai, and Sakae Uemura pp 15172–15173 DOI: 10.1021/ja027754t Supporting Info

Aromatic Oligomers that Form Hetero Duplexes in Aqueous Solution Gregory J. Gabriel and Brent L. Iverson pp 15174–15175 DOI: 10.1021/ja0275358 Supporting Info

Self-Assembly of Biphenylene-Bridged Hybrid Mesoporous Solid with Molecular-Scale Periodicity in the Pore Walls Mahendra P. Kapoor, Qihua Yang, and Shinji Inagaki pp 15176–15177 DOI: 10.1021/ja0290678 Supporting Info

Acyclic Tautomers in Crystalline Carbohydrates:  The Keto Forms of 1-Deoxy-1-carboxymethylamino-d-2-pentuloses (Pentulose-glycines) Valeri V. Mossine, Charles L. Barnes, Milton S. Feather, and Thomas P. Mawhinney pp 15178–15179 DOI: 10.1021/ja0282184 Supporting Info

Rational Growth of Bi2S3 Nanotubes from Quasi-two-dimensional Precursors Changhui Ye, Guowen Meng, Zhi Jiang, Yinhai Wang, Guozhong Wang, and Lide Zhang pp 15180–15181 DOI: 10.1021/ja0284512

Synthesis of Silver Nanodisks Using Polystyrene Mesospheres as Templates Encai Hao, K. Lance Kelly, Joseph T. Hupp, and George C. Schatz pp 15182–15183 DOI: 10.1021/ja028336r

[Li{CH(Me)P(Ph)2(NCO2Me)}2(THF)2]:  Crystal, Solution, and Calculated Structure of a N-Delocalized Lithium Phosphazene Ignacio Fernández, Julia María Álvarez Gutíerrez, Nikolaus Kocher, Dirk Leusser, Dietmar Stalke, Javier González, and Fernando López Ortiz pp 15184–15185 DOI: 10.1021/ja027469+ Supporting Info

A Rhodium(I)-Catalyzed Formal Allenic Alder Ene Reaction for the Rapid and Stereoselective Assembly of Cross-Conjugated Trienes Kay M. Brummond, Hongfeng Chen, Peter Sill, and Lingfeng You pp 15186–15187 DOI: 10.1021/ja027588p Supporting Info

Efficient Nickel-Catalyzed [2 + 2 + 2] Cycloaddition of CO2 and Diynes Janis Louie, John E. Gibby, Marc V. Farnworth, and Thomas N. Tekavec pp 15188–15189 DOI: 10.1021/ja027438e Supporting Info

[(CH3)4N][(C5H5NH)0.8((CH3)3NH)0.2]U2Si9O23F4 (USH-8):  An Organically Templated Open-Framework Uranium Silicate Xiqu Wang, Jin Huang, and Allan J. Jacobson pp 15190–15191 DOI: 10.1021/ja0288284 Supporting Info

Colloidal Transition-Metal-Doped ZnO Quantum Dots Pavle V. Radovanovic, Nick S. Norberg, Kathryn E. McNally, and Daniel R. Gamelin pp 15192–15193 DOI: 10.1021/ja028416v Supporting Info

Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes:  A New Class of Amphiphiles at the Air/Water Interface Jianjun Deng, Joseph T. Polidan, John R. Hottle, Catherine E. Farmer-Creely, Brent D. Viers, and Alan R. Esker pp 15194–15195 DOI: 10.1021/ja027860v

Intramolecular Silicon-Assisted Cross-Coupling:  Total Synthesis of (+)-Brasilenyne Scott E. Denmark and Shyh-Ming Yang pp 15196–15197 DOI: 10.1021/ja028936q Supporting Info

Polymeric Nanogels Produced via Inverse Microemulsion Polymerization as Potential Gene and Antisense Delivery Agents Karen McAllister, Peter Sazani, Mirielle Adam, Moo J. Cho, Michael Rubinstein, Richard Jude Samulski, and Joseph M. DeSimone pp 15198–15207 DOI: 10.1021/ja027759q Supporting Info

FRET Study of a Trifluorophore-Labeled DNAzyme Juewen Liu and Yi Lu pp 15208–15216 DOI: 10.1021/ja027647z Supporting Info

Synthesis and Application of A Fluorescent Substrate Analogue to Study Ligand Interactions for Undecaprenyl Pyrophosphate Synthase Annie P.-C. Chen, Yi-Hung Chen, Hsiao-Pei Liu, Yu-Chin Li, Chao-Tsen Chen, and Po-Huang Liang pp 15217–15224 DOI: 10.1021/ja020937v Supporting Info

Kinetics of Reductive N−O Bond Fragmentation:  The Role of a Conical Intersection Edward D. Lorance, Wolfgang H. Kramer, and Ian R. Gould pp 15225–15238 DOI: 10.1021/ja020768e Supporting Info

Single-Site β-Diiminate Zinc Catalysts for the Ring-Opening Polymerization of β-Butyrolactone and β-Valerolactone to Poly(3-hydroxyalkanoates) Lee R. Rieth, David R. Moore, Emil B. Lobkovsky, and Geoffrey W. Coates pp 15239–15248 DOI: 10.1021/ja020978r Supporting Info

Specific Interactions of Complementary Mono- and Multivalent Guests with Recognition-Induced Polymersomes Raymond J. Thibault Jr., Trent H. Galow, Erik J. Turnberg, Mark Gray, Peter J. Hotchkiss, and Vincent M. Rotello pp 15249–15254 DOI: 10.1021/ja026418+ Supporting Info

A Highly cis-Selective Synthesis of 2-Ethynylaziridines by Intramolecular Amination of Chiral Bromoallenes:  Improvement of Stereoselectivity Based on the Computational Investigation Hiroaki Ohno, Kaori Ando, Hisao Hamaguchi, Yusuke Takeoka, and Tetsuaki Tanaka pp 15255–15266 DOI: 10.1021/ja0262277 Supporting Info

A NMR and Theoretical Study of the Aggregates between Alkyllithium and Chiral Lithium Amides:  Control of the Topology through a Single Asymmetric Center Aline Corruble, Daniel Davoust, Stéphanie Desjardins, Catherine Fressigné, Claude Giessner-Prettre, Anne Harrison-Marchand, Henri Houte, Marie-Claire Lasne, Jacques Maddaluno, Hassan Oulyadi, and Jean-Yves Valnot pp 15267–15279 DOI: 10.1021/ja016945d Supporting Info

Triple Tandem Catalyst Mixtures for the Synthesis of Polyethylenes with Varying Structures Zachary J. A. Komon, Gary M. Diamond, Margarete K. Leclerc, Vince Murphy, Miho Okazaki, and Guillermo C. Bazan pp 15280–15285 DOI: 10.1021/ja0283551

Mesomorphism, Isomerization, and Dynamics in a New Series of Pyramidic Liquid Crystals Herbert Zimmermann, Victoria Bader, Raphy Poupko, Ellen J. Wachtel, and Zeev Luz pp 15286–15301 DOI: 10.1021/ja020889e

Octachloroazulene Yan Lou, Joanne Chang, Jeffrey Jorgensen, and David M. Lemal pp 15302–15307 DOI: 10.1021/ja012051h Supporting Info

First Determination of Absolute Rate Constants for the Reaction of Aroyl-Substituted Benzyl Carbanions in Water and DMSO Laura Llauger, Gonzalo Cosa, and J. C. Scaiano pp 15308–15312 DOI: 10.1021/ja027624k

First Comprehensive Bakkane Approach:  Stereoselective and Efficient Dichloroketene-Based Total Syntheses of (±)- and (−)-9-Acetoxyfukinanolide, (±)- and (+)-Bakkenolide A, (−)-Bakkenolides III, B, C, H, L, V, and X, (±)- and (−)-Homogynolide A, (±)-Homogynolide B, and (±)-Palmosalide C Timothy J. Brocksom, Fernando Coelho, Jean-Pierre Deprés, Andrew E. Greene, Marco E. Freire de Lima, Olivier Hamelin, Benoît Hartmann, Alice M. Kanazawa, and Yanyun Wang pp 15313–15325 DOI: 10.1021/ja0208456 Supporting Info

Novel Inorganic Frameworks Constructed from Double-Four-Ring (D4R) Units:  Computational Design, Structures, and Lattice Energies of Silicate, Aluminophosphate, and Gallophosphate Candidates Caroline Mellot-Draznieks, Stéphanie Girard, and Gérard Férey pp 15326–15335 DOI: 10.1021/ja020999l Supporting Info

Elucidation of a Low Spin Cobalt(II) System in a Distorted Tetrahedral Geometry David M. Jenkins, Angel J. Di Bilio, Matthew J. Allen, Theodore A. Betley, and Jonas C. Peters pp 15336–15350 DOI: 10.1021/ja026433e Supporting Info

Insights into the Metathesis Reaction Involving M−M, C−C, and M−C Triple Bonds from Computations Employing Density Functional Theory on Model Compounds M2(OH)6 and M2(SH)6, Where M = Mo and W Malcolm H. Chisholm, Ernest R. Davidson, and Kristine B. Quinlan pp 15351–15358 DOI: 10.1021/ja020847q Supporting Info

Comparative Study of the High-Pressure Behavior of As, Sb, and Bi Ulrich Häussermann, Karin Söderberg, and Rolf Norrestam pp 15359–15367 DOI: 10.1021/ja020832s

Saturation Transfer Difference 1D-TOCSY Experiments to Map the Topography of Oligosaccharides Recognized by a Monoclonal Antibody Directed Against the Cell-Wall Polysaccharide of Group A Streptococcus Margaret A. Johnson and B. Mario Pinto pp 15368–15374 DOI: 10.1021/ja020983v

Thermal and Photochemical Rearrangement of Bicyclo[3.1.0]hex-3-en-2-one to the Ketonic Tautomer of Phenol. Computational Evidence for the Formation of a Diradical Rather than a Zwitterionic Intermediate Isabel Gómez, Santiago Olivella, Mar Reguero, Antoni Riera, and Albert Solé pp 15375–15384 DOI: 10.1021/ja0204473 Supporting Info

Tris(trifluoromethyl)borane Carbonyl, (CF3)3BCOSynthesis, Physical, Chemical and Spectroscopic Properties, Gas Phase, and Solid State Structure Maik Finze, Eduard Bernhardt, Annegret Terheiden, Michael Berkei, Helge Willner, Dines Christen, Heinz Oberhammer, and Friedhelm Aubke pp 15385–15398 DOI: 10.1021/ja0209924 Supporting Info

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Mechanism of Propylene Insertion Using Bis(phenoxyimine)-Based Titanium Catalysts:  An Unusual Secondary Insertion of Propylene in a Group IV Catalyst System. [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 3614−3621]. Phillip D. Hustad, Jun Tian, Geoffrey W. Coates p 15400 DOI: 10.1021/ja025119h

Synthesis of the Eight Enantiomerically Pure Diastereomers of the 12-F2-Isoprostanes [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 13121−13126]. Douglas F. Taber, Ming Xu, and John C. Hartnett p 15400 DOI: 10.1021/ja0251219

Mathematica 4.2 Wolfram Research Inc. 100 Trade Center Dr., Champaign, IL 61820-7237. www.wolfram.com. Suggested Retail Price:  $1880. Academic List Price:  $895. Student Version:  $139. Kurt W. Sattelmeyer p 15401 DOI: 10.1021/ja025289u

Electrochemical Activation of Catalysis:  Promotion, Electrochemical Promotion, and Metal Support Interactions By Costas Vayenas, Symeon Bebelis, Costas Pliangos, Susanne Brosda, and Demetrios Tsiplakides (University of Patras, Patras, Greece). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers:  New York. 2001. xxxii + 574 pp. $125.00. ISBN 0-306-46719-4. Eugene S. Smotkin p 15402 DOI: 10.1021/ja0252173