Faculties, publications and doctoral theses in departments or divisions of chemistry, chemical engineering, biochemistry and pharmaceutical and/or medicinal chemistry at universities in the United States and Canada.

The 19 papers in this year's collection report on recent research involving the use of physics to explore chemical structures and reactions, particularly those of proteins and polymers. The authors address such diverse areas as gas-phase spectroscopic studies, surface interfacial phenomena, liquid-phase ultrafast laser coherent dynamics, reversible polymerization, and protein folding. The topics include the molecular theory of hydrophobic effects, quantum mechanical methods for enzyme kinetics, the electronic properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes, time-resolved photoelectron angular distributions, and the molecular Hamiltonian. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Contains reprints of articles published by members of the department.

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