Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions: Volume 1987 (1987)

Issue: Index pages

• Index pages (pp. A001-A070)

Issue: 1

• IUPAC publications on nomenclature and symbolism (pp. xxi-xxvii)
• Instructions for authors (1987) (pp. v-xx)
• Co-ordination abilities of thioamide analogues of amino acids and peptides. Copper(II) and nickel (II) complexes (pp. 1-4) Kowalik, Teresa; Kozłowski, Henryk; Sóvágó, Imre; Varnagy, Katalin; Kupryszewski, Godfryd; Rolka, Krzysztof
• Contents pages (pp. P001-P004)
• Front cover (pp. X001-X002)
• Back cover (pp. X003-X004)
• The preparation and co-ordination chemistry of 2,2′ : 6′,2″-terpyridine macrocycles. Part 5. Unsubstituted fifteen-membered-ring macrocycles containing 2,2′: 6′,2″-terpyridine (pp. 5-8) Constable, Edwin C.; Holmes, Jeremy M.; McQueen, Roderick C. S.
• Synthesis of [Mo(η-C5H4Pri)(PR3)2H3][R3= Me3 or Me2Ph), [Mo(η-C5H4Pri)(Pri 2PCH2CH2PPri 2)H3], and analogues and their ability to catalyse the photoinduced hydrogen–deuterium exchange of carbon–hydrogen bonds; crystal structure of [{Mo(η-C5H4Pri)(µ-Cl)2}2] (pp. 9-19) Grebenik, Peter D.; Green, Malcolm L. H.; Izquierdo, Alejandro; Mtetwa, Victor S. B.; Prout, K.
• Isomers in fac-[ReBr(CO)3( Lc)2](Lc=cis-3,4-dihydro-2,3,4,5-tetraphenyl-2H-1,2,3-diazaphosphole) arising from chirality of phosphorus ligands: separation and X-ray structural studies (pp. 21-25) Baccolini, Graziano; Busetto, Luigi; Roncarolo, Antonella; Albano, Vincenzo Giulio; Demartin, Franceso
• Phenyl complexes of ruthenium(II): competition between carbonyl substitution and formation of benzoyl complexes, and an X-ray study of a benzoyl complex (pp. 27-33) Dauter, Zbigniew; Mawby, Roger J.; Reynolds, Colin D.; Saunders, David R.; Hansen, Lars K.
• Linear-chain platinum(II) dithiocarboxylates: crystal structure of tetrakis(phenyldithioacetato)diplatinum(II) (pp. 35-40) Bellitto, Carlo; Bonamico, Mario; Dessy, Giulia; Fares, Vincenzo; Flamini, Alberto
• Chemistry of polynuclear metal complexes with bridging carbene or carbyne ligands. Part 49. Synthesis of mixed-metal complexes with bonds between Cr, Mo or W and Co, Rh, Ir or Re; crystal structure of [CrReRh2(µ3CC6H4Me-4)-(µ-CO)(CO)9(η-C9H7)2] (pp. 41-50) Abad, J. Antonio; Delgado, Esther; Garcia, M. Esther; Grosse-Ophoff, Markus J.; Hart, Ian J.; Jeffery, John C.; Simmons, Mark S.; Stone, F. Gordon A.
• Chemistry of polynuclear metal complexes with bridging carbene or carbyne ligands. Part 50. Synthesis and crystal structures of the complexes [RuW3(µ-CO)(µ3-η-CO)(µ-CPh)2(µ3-CPh)(CO)2(η-C5H5)3] and [RuW3(µ-CO)(µ3-η-CO){µ-C(Ph)C(O)}(µ-CPh)(µ3-CPh)(CO)(PMePh2)(η-C5H5)3] (pp. 51-59) Farrugia, Louis J.; Jeffery, John C.; Marsden, Christine; Sherwood, Paul; Stone, F. Gordon A.
• Chemistry of polynuclear metal complexes with bridging carbene or carbyne ligands. Part 51. Alkylidyne(carbaborane)tungsten-gold and -rhodium complexes; crystal structures of [AuW(µ-CR)(CO)2(PPh3)(η-5C2B9H9Me2)], [RhW(µ-CR)(CO)2(PPh3)2(η5-C2B9H9Me2)], and (RhW[µ-CR)(CO)2(PPh3)2{η5-C2B9(C7H9)H8Me2}](R = C6H4Me-4) (pp. 61-72) Green, Michael; Howard, Judith A. K.; James, Alun P.; Nunn, Christine M.; Stone, F. Gordon A.
• Chemistry of polynuclear metal complexes with bridging carbene or carbyne ligands. Part 52. Synthesis and reactions of the compounds [RuW(µ-CR)(CO)3(η-C5H5)(η5-C2B9H9Me2)](R = C6H4Me-4 or Me); crystal structures of [RuW(µ-CC6H4Me-4)(CO)3(η-C5H5)(η5-C2B9H9Me2)] and [N(PPh3)2][RuW(µ-CC6H4Me-4)(µ-σ,η5-C2B9H8Me2)(CO)3(η-C5H5)] (pp. 73-79) Green, Michael; Howard, Judith A. K.; de M. Jelfs, Alasdair N.; Johnson, Owen; Stone, F. Gordon A.
• Chemistry of polynuclear metal complexes with bridging carbene or carbyne ligands. Part 53. Alkylidyne(carbaborane)dimetal complexes with tungsten–molybdenum and –tungsten bonds; crystal structures of the compounds [MW(µ-CC6H4Me-4)(CO)3(η5-C9H7)(η5-C2B9-H9Me2)][M = Mo (two isomers) or W] (pp. 81-90) Green, Michael; Howard, Judith A. K.; James, Alun P.; de M. Jelfs, Alasdair N.; Nunn, Christine M.; Stone, F. Gordon A.
• High-yield syntheses of sulphido triruthenium carbonyl cluster complexes containing bis(diphenylphosphino)methane (pp. 91-95) Fompeyrine, Patricia; Lavigne, Guy; Bonnet, Jean-Jacques
• Magnetic and electrochemical studies on the series [Cr n Fe3–n (µ3-O)(gly)6(H2O)3][NO3]7·xH2O (gly = glycine; n= 0,1,2, or 3) and on the mixed-valence complex [Fe II Fe III 2(µ3-O)(gly)6(H2O)3]Cl6 (pp. 97-99) Straughan, Brian P.; Lam, Oi M.; Earnshaw, Alan
• Organotin biocides. Part 8. The crystal structure of triphenyltin formate and a comparative variable-temperature tin-119 Mössbauer spectroscopic study of organotin formates and acetates (pp. 101-106) Molloy, Kieran C.; Quill, Kieran; Nowell, Ian W.
• Application of ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy to molecular properties. Part 27. Stereochemistry of ligand exchange reactions of titanocene derivatives (pp. 107-110) Guimon, Claude; Pfister-Guillouzo, Geneviève; Besançon, Jack; Meunier, Philippe
• The single-crystal electron spin resonance spectrum of oxobis(2-methylquinolin-8-olato)vanadium(IV) as a pure compound and diluted in chlorobis(2-methylquinolin-8-olato)gallium(III) (pp. 111-117) Collison, David; Gahan, Brendan; Mabbs, Frank E.
• Synthesis and properties of heterotrimetallic complexes containing M–Pt–Hg (M = Mo, W, Fe, Mn, or Co) arrays (pp. 119-121) Calvet, Josep; Rossell, Oriol; Seco, Miquel; Braunstein, Pierre
• Binucleating N6 24- and 26-membered macrocyclic ligands. Part 1. Dilead complexes: X-ray crystal structure determination of a macrocyclic dilead complex containing nitrogen-only bridging thiocyanate (pp. 123-127) Murphy, Brian P.; Nelson, Jane; Nelson, S. Martin; Drew, Michael G. B.; Yates, Paul C.
• The first authenticated example of geometrical isomers in organotin(IV) co-ordination chemistry. The crystal and molecular structures of octahedral cis- and trans-SnR2 isomeric adducts of dichlorobis(4-chlorophenyl)tin(IV) with 4,4′-dimethyl-2,2′-bipyridyl (pp. 129-137) Das, V. G. Kumar; Keong, Yap Chee; Wei, Chen; Smith, Peter J.; Mak, Thomas C. W.
• trans to cis Isomerisations of platinum(II) olefin phosphine complexes, [PtX2(ol)(PR3)](X = Cl or Br; ol = ethene, propene, or 1-heptene; PR3= PBu3 or PMe2Ph) (pp. 139-143) Cross, Ronald J.; Davidson, Michael F.
• The crystal structures of the diphenyldithiophosphinates of antimony(III) and bismuth(III): M(S2PPh2)3(M = Sb or Bi) (pp. 145-150) Begley, Michael J.; Sowerby, D. Bryan; Haiduc, Ionel
• The synthesis of mono- and bi-metallic complexes containing the ligand bis(diphenylarsino)methane (pp. 151-154) Jacobsen, Grant B.; Shaw, Bernard L.
• The synthesis and structure of Group 5 metal alkyl and alkylidene complexes containing 2,6-dialkylphenoxide ligands: X-ray crystal structures of [Ta(OC6H3Me2-2,6)2(CH2Ph)3], [Ta(OC6H3Me2-2,6)4Me], and [Ta(OC6H3But 2-2,6)2(CHSiMe3)(CH2SiMe3)] (pp. 155-162) Chamberlain, Linda R.; Rothwell, Ian P.; Folting, Kirsten; Huffman, John C.
• Electronic absorption spectra and photochemical reactivity of Group 5 metal alkyl compounds: photochemical α-hydrogen abstraction (pp. 163-167) Chamberlain, Linda R.; Rothwell, Ian P.
• Oxoaryls of rhenium-(V) and -(VI) and osmium(VI). X-Ray crystal structures of dimesityldioxorhenium(VI), tetramesityloxorhenium(VI), and dimesityldioxoosmium(VI) (pp. 169-175) Stravropoulos, Pericles; Edwards, Peter G.; Behling, Torsten; Wilkinson, Geoffrey; Motevalli, Majid; Hursthouse, Michael B.
• Investigation into aroylhydrazones as chelating agents. Part 8. Synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of complexes of Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, and Cd with 2,6-diacetylpyridine bis(salicyloylhydrazone); X-ray crystal structure of dichloro[2,6-diacetylpyridine bis(salicyloylhydrazone)]cadmium(II)–chloroform–methanol (1/1/1) (pp. 177-181) Pelizzi, Corrado; Pelizzi, Giancarlo; Vitali, Francesca
• Reactivity of ruthenium(II) complexes with 1-hydroxymethyl- or 1-benzyl-3,5-dimethylpyrazole and similar functionalized bipyrazoles. X-Ray crystal structure of carbonylchlorohydrido(3,5-dimethylpyrazole-N 2)-bis(triphenylphosphine)ruthenium(II) (pp. 183-186) Romero, Antonio; Vegas, Angel; Santos, Amelia; Cuadro, Ana M.
• Preparation and magnetism of the binuclear iron(II) complexes [{Fe(C9H21N3)X2}2](X = NCS, NCO, or N3) and their reaction with NO. Crystal structures of [{Fe(C9H21N3)(NCS)2}2] and [Fe(C9H21N3)(NO)(N3)2] (pp. 187-192) Pohl, Klaus; Wieghardt, Karl; Nuber, Bernhard; Weiss, Johannes
• Secondary bonding. Part 14. Structural isomerism in diaryliodonium halides and the structure of di(p-tolyl)iodonium bromide (pp. 193-196) Alcock, Nathaniel W.; Countryman, Rachel M.
• Mechanism of the reaction between trans-[W(NNH2)(p-MeC6H4SO3)(Ph2PCH2CH2PPh2)2]+ and NEt3: the influence of the metal on the rates of proton transfer of hydrazido(2–)-ligands (pp. 197-200) Lane, Janette D.; Henderson, Richard A.
• Bis(dialkylphosphino)methane complexes of palladium(II) and the molecular structure of [Pd2Cl3(µ-PriPCH2PPri 2)(µ-Pri 2PCH2PHPri)]·2CHCl3 containing an unusual phosphidophosphine bridging ligand (pp. 201-206) Manojlović-Muir, Ljubica; Lloyd, Brian R.; Puddephatt, Richard J.
• Complexes of ligands providing endogenous bridges. Part 1. The syntheses and crystal structures of barium and lead(II) complexes of macrocyclic Schiff bases derived from heterocyclic dicarbonyls and 1, n-diamino-n′-hydroxyalkanes (n,n′= 3,2; 4,2; or 5,3) (pp. 207-218) Adams, Harry; Bailey, Neil A.; Fenton, David E.; Good, Rosalind J.; Moody, Richard; de Barbarin, Cecilia O. Rodriguez
• Complexes of ligands providing endogenous bridges. Part 2. The non-template synthesis of tetraimine Schiff base macrocycles derived from 1,3-diamino-2-hydroxypropane (pp. 219-220) Fenton, David E.; Moody, Richard
• Bimetallic systems. Part 16. Formation of Group 6 metal(0)–platinum(II) hydride complexes, by ring opening of fac- or mer-[M(CO)3(dppm-PP′)(dppm-P)](M = Cr, Mo, or W; dppm = Ph2PCH2PPh2). Reactions of [(CO)3Mo(µ-dppm)2PtH(Cl)] (pp. 221-226) Blagg, Adrian; Shaw, Bernard L.
• Thiosemicarbazones as co-ordinating agents. Part 2. Synthesis, spectroscopic characterization, and X-ray structure of aquachloro(pyridoxal thiosemicarbazone)manganese(II) chloride and aqua(pyridoxal thiosemicarbazonato)-copper(II) chloride monohydrate (pp. 227-233) Ferrari, Marisa Belicchi; Fava, Giovanna Gasparri; Pelizzi, Corrado; Tarasconi, Pieralberto; Tosi, Gabriella
• Studies on alkaline-earth metal sulphites. Part 9. Solid solutions of Ca3(SO4)2SO3·12H2O in Ca3(SO3)2SO4·12H2O: structure, stability, and dehydration products (pp. 235-240) Cohen, Abraham; Zangen, Mendel
• Syntheses, spectroscopic, and electrochemical properties of dinuclear copper(II) complexes bridged by a single thiolate sulphur atom; X-ray crystal structures of [Cu2(L1)2(SC6H4Cl-4)][PF6] and [Cu2(L2)2(SC6H4CH3-4)][ClO4] (pp. 241-247) Aoi, Nobuo; Matsubayashi, Gen-etsu; Tanaka, Toshio
• Notes. Oxidation and reduction of phosphorus–phosphorus and arsenic–arsenic double bonds. An electrochemical study of two diphosphenes and a diarsene (pp. 249-251) Bard, Allen J.; Cowley, Alan H.; Kilduff, Jan E.; Leland, Jonathan K.; Norman, Nicholas C.; Pakulski, Marek; Heath, Graham A.
• Synthesis of the alkoxo(hydrido)-clusters [Ru3(µ-H)(CO)10(µ-OR)][R = Me, Et, Prn, or Bun] catalysed by dinuclear carbonyl iron complexes (pp. 253-254) Aime, Silvio; Botta, Mauro; Gobetto, Roberto; Osella, Domenico; Padovan, Franco
• Equilibria in aqueous solutions of some iron(II) complexes (pp. 255-257) Micskei, Károly
• Synthesis and X-ray crystal structure of a cuboctahedral platinum cluster (pp. 259-262) Howard, Judith A. K.; Spencer, John L.; Turner, David G.
• Crystal and molecular structure of the six-co-ordinate antimony(III) complex SbCl3,L, where L =N,N′-dimethyloxamide. Unusual O,O ligand binding leading to four-membered Sb(µ-O)2Sb ring formation (pp. 263-265) Claire, Preet P. K.; Willey, Gerald R.; Drew, Michael G. B.
• Matrix isolation studies of monomeric boron trisulphide (pp. 267-269) Beattie, Ian R.; Jones, Peter J.; Wild, David J.; Gilson, Trevor R.
• Structure and bonding in (R2SiX)2 molecules (X = O, NH, CH2, or S; R = H) (pp. 271-273) Jemmis, Eluvathingal D.; Kumar, P. N. V. Pavan; Kumar, N. R. Sreenivas
• Additions and corrections (pp. 275-275) Greenwood, Norman N.; Kennedy, John D.; Thornton-Pett, Mark; Woollins, J. Derek

Issue: 2

• Contents pages (pp. P005-P008)
• Front cover (pp. X005-X006)
• Back cover (pp. X007-X008)
• Reactions of metal carbonyl cluster complexes with multidentate phosphine ligands; the preparation and thermolysis of bis(dimethylphosphino)methane derivatives of [Ru3(CO)12], and the X-ray crystal structure of [Ru3(CO)9(H)(Me2PCHPMe2)] (pp. 277-280) Clucas, Jennifer A.; Foster, Douglas F.; Harding, Marjorie M.; Smith, Anthony K.
• Reactions between bis(O-alkyl dithiocarbonato)nickel(II) complexes and phosphines. Formation of a dithiocarbonate complex of nickel(II): [Ni(S2CO)(Ph2PCH2CH2PPh2)] (pp. 281-284) Perpiñán, Maria F.; Ballester, Loreto; González-Casso, Maria E.; Santos, Amelia
• Magnetostructural correlations in parallel square-planar chloride bridged copper(II) dimers: structure, dynamic nuclear magnetic resonance study, and magnetic properties of [Cu2(terpy)2Cl2][PF6]2 (pp. 285-291) Rojo, Teofilo; Arriortua, Maria I.; Ruiz, Javier; Darriet, Jacques; Villeneuve, Gerard; Beltran-Porter, Daniel
• trans-Dichlorotetrakis(pyridine)platinum(IV) nitrate: a classical co-ordination compound (pp. 293-296) Seddon, Kenneth R.; Turp, Janet E.; Constable, Edwin C.; Wernberg, Ole
• Structure and properties of tris(quinoxaline-2,3-dithiolato)molybdate(IV) (pp. 297-302) Boyde, Stephen; Garner, C. David; Enemark, John H.; Ortega, Richard B.
• Preparations, crystal structures, and molybdenum-95 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic studies of triphenylphosphine–gold–tetrathiomolybdate(VI) clusters (pp. 303-306) Charnock, John M.; Bristow, Stuart; Nicholson, John R.; Garner, C. David; Clegg, William
• Trimethylphosphine complexes of niobium(IV) and tantalum(IV). Crystal, molecular, and electronic structures of [M2Cl4(µ-Cl)4(PMe3)4](M = Nb or Ta) (pp. 307-314) Boyd, Peter D. W.; Nielson, Alastair J.; Rickard, Clifton E. F.
• Tin-119 nuclear magnetic resonance studies of some pseudohalogeno-derivatives of [SnX6]2–(X = Cl or Br) (pp. 315-317) Dillon, Keith B.; Marshall, Andrew
• Preparation of isocyanide and mixed dinitrogen–isocyanide complexes of rhenium(I) from reactions of trans-[ReCl(N2)(PMe2Ph)4], mer-[Re(S2PPh2)(N2)(PMe2Ph)3], or mer-[Re(S2CNEt2)(N2)(PMe2Ph)3] with methyl isocyanide; crystal structure of mer-[Re(S2PPh2)(N2)(CNMe)(PMe2Ph)3] (pp. 319-325) Pombeiro, Armando J. L.; Hitchcock, Peter B.; Richards, Raymond L.
• Reaction of [Os5H2(CO)15] with pyridine: crystal and molecular structures of [Os5H3(CO)14(C5H4N)] and [Os5H2(CO)14(C5H5N)] (pp. 327-333) Johnson, Brian F.; Lewis, Jack; Nelson, William J. H.; Pearsall, Mary Ann; Raithby, Paul R.; Rosales, Maria J.; McPartlin, Mary; Sironi, Angelo
• Chemistry of platinum sulphido-complexes. Part 6. Reactions of [Pt2(µ-S)2(PPh3)4] with the rhodium complexes [(RhL2Cl)2](L = CO or C2H4) and [Rh(2,6-Me2C6H3NC)4]PF6. Crystal and molecular structures of [Pt2Rh(µ-S)2(PPh3)4(CO)2][Rh(CO)2Cl2]·C3H6O and [Pt2Rh(µ-S)2(PPh3)4(2,6-Me2C6H3NC)2]PF6 (pp. 335-340) Gilmour, David I.; Luke, Michael A.; Mingos, D. Michael P.
• The addition of isonitriles to [{M(CO)2(η-C5H5)}2](M = Mo or W). Syntheses and properties of [M2(µ-η2-CNR)(CO)4(η-C5H5)2](M = Mo or W, R = Me or But) and [{Mo(CNR)(CO)2(η-C5H5)}2](R = Me or But). X-Ray crystal structures of [Mo2(µ-η2-CNBut)(CO)4(η-C5H5)2] and [{Mo(CNBut)(CO)2(η-C5H5)}2] (pp. 341-348) Adams, Harry; Bailey, Neil A.; Bannister, Colin; Faers, Malcolm A.; Fedorko, Peter; Osborn, Valerie A.; Winter, Mark J.
• Thermal and photochemical behaviour of organotetraruthenium clusters: solution structures and dynamics of phosphine-substituted derivatives (pp. 349-353) Osella, Domenico; Aime, Silvio; Nicola, Giuseppe; Amadelli, Rossano; Carassiti, Vittorio; Milone, Luciano
• Molecular orbital study of the bridging dioxygen ligand in [Al2(CH3)6(O2)]– (pp. 355-360) Fantucci, Piercarlo; Pacchioni, Gianfranco
• Nucleophilic attack upon ethylene co-ordinated to mercury(II): a molecular-orbital study concerning the origin of the acceleration by Hg II (pp. 361-368) Sakaki, Shigeyoshi; Maruta, Katsuhiko; Ohkubo, Katsutoshi
• Equilibrium and kinetic study of nitric oxide binding to phthalocyaninatoiron(II) in dimethyl sulphoxide (pp. 369-371) Ascenzi, Paolo; Brunori, Maurizio; Pennesi, Giovanna; Ercolani, Claudio; Monacelli, Fabrizio
• Studies on transition-metal macrocyclic complexes. Single-crystal X-ray structure and electrochemistry of the bis-macrocyclic complex [Cu(L)2][ClO4]2·2H2O (L = 1,4,7-triazacyclononane) (pp. 373-377) Beveridge, Andrew D.; Lavery, Aidan J.; Walkinshaw, Malcolm D.; Schröder, Martin
• The heteronuclear cluster chemistry of the Group 1B metals. Part 2. Synthesis, X-ray crystal structures, and dynamic behaviour of the bimetallic hexanuclear Group 1B metal cluster compounds [M2Ru4H2(CO)12(PPh3)2](M = Cu, Ag, or Au) (pp. 379-390) Freeman, Mark J.; Orpen, A. Guy; Salter, Ian D.
• Activation of alkanes involving rhenium atoms: synthesis and electronic structure of binuclear µ-alkylidene derivatives; molecular structure of [{Re(η-C6H6)}2(µ-CHBut)(µ-H)2] (pp. 391-402) Green, Jennifer C.; Green, Malcolm L. H.; O'Hare, Dermot; Watson, Rhuann R.; Bandy, Judith A.
• Synthesis of η-arene rhenium compounds using rhenium atoms. Crystal structures of [Re2(η-C6H6)(η-C6H8)2(µ-H)2] and [Re(η-C6H6)(η-C6H8)H] (pp. 403-410) Green, Malcolm L. H.; O'Hare, Dermot
• η-Benzenebis(trimethylphosphine)iron as a precursor to [Fe(η-C5R5)(PMe3)2](R = H or Me) derivatives: the equilibrium [Fe](PMe3)Et ⇌[Fe](η-C2H4)H + PMe3, where [Fe]= Fe(η-C5Me5)(PMe3) (pp. 411-416) Green, Malcolm L. H.; Wong, Luet-Lok
• Sulphur–arsenic ligands. Dimethyl(methylthio)arsine complexes of halogenotrimethylplatinum(IV) and tricarbonylhalogenorhenium(I) (pp. 417-420) Abel, Edward W.; Beckett, Michael A.
• Hydrogen halide radical anions (pp. 421-425) Raynor, J. Barrie; Rowland, Ian J.; Symons, Martyn C. R.
• Stereochemical role of lone pairs in main-group elements. Part 3. Structure and bonding in trichloro(1,4,7,10,13-pentaoxacyclopentadecane)antimony(III) studied by means of X-ray crystallography at 120 K (pp. 427-430) Hough, Edward; Nicholson, David G.; Vasudevan, Asha K.
• Determination of the deuterium position in DNb6I11 (pp. 431-434) Simon, Arndt; Stollmaier, Friederike; Gregson, David; Fuess, Hartmut
• Pattern of transition-metal chelates with biological activity. Complex formation equilibria between α-amino-N-hydroxy-1H-imidazole-4-propanamide and cobalt(II), nickel(II), copper(II), and hydrogen lons in aqueous solution (pp. 435-441) Leporati, Enrico
• Co-ordination of highly substituted alkenes to transition-metal complexes: preparation and crystal and molecular structures of the complexes [{RhCl(Ph2PO2CCHCMe2)}2] and [{RhCl(Ph2PO2CCHCHCHCHMe)}2] (pp. 443-449) Cupertino, Domenico C.; Cole-Hamilton, David J.
• Ruthenium(II) complexes of closo-dodecaboranyl anions and the molecular structure of the pileo thirteen-vertex ruthenaborane [(PPh3)2ClRuB12H11(NEt3)] (pp. 451-456) Elrington, Margaret; Greenwood, Norman N.; Kennedy, John D.; Thornton-Pett, Mark
• Electron spin resonance and electronic spectra and crystal and molecular structures of copper(II) amino acid complexes (pp. 457-465) Hitchman, Michael A.; Kwan, Linda; Engelhardt, Lutz M.; White, Allan H.
• Reduction–oxidation properties of organotransition-metal complexes. Part 25. The one-electron reduction of cationic cyclopentadienyl–cobalt and –rhodium nitrosyl derivatives (pp. 467-472) Connelly, Neil G.; Raven, Stephen J.; Geiger, William E.
• Notes. Formation of a methoxycarbonyl group by attack of methanol on an iron(II) carbonyl complex, assisted by intramolecular proton transfer: X-ray structure determination of [Fe(CO)(PMe3)2(CNC6H11){CO(OCH3)}{C(CH3)NHC6H11}]BPh4 (pp. 473-475) Cardaci, Giuseppe; Bellachioma, Gianfranco; Zanazzi, Pier Francesco
• Direct synthesis of ammonium monofluorophosphate monohydrate, [NH4]2[PO3F]·H2O and potassium monofluorophosphate, K2[PO3F] (pp. 477-478) Bhattacharjee, Manish; Chaudhuri, Mihir K.
• Additions and corrections (pp. 479-479) Adams, Harry; Bailey, Neil A.; Osborn, Valerie A.; Winters, Mark J.

Issue: 3

• Contents pages (pp. P009-P012)
• Front cover (pp. X009-X010)
• Back cover (pp. X011-X012)
• Bonding in and gas-phase pyrolysis of the arsoranes and stibanes EMe3X2(E = As or Sb, X = F or Cl) and SbMe4F: ultraviolet photoelectron and field-ionization mass spectrometric studies (pp. 481-488) Elbel, Susanne; Egsgaard, Helge; Carlsen, Lars
• A structural study of the complexation of the lithium ion by the cryptand 4,7,13-trioxa-1,10-diazabicyclo[8.5.5]icosane (pp. 489-492) Abou-Hamdan, Amira; Hounslow, Andrea M.; Lincoln, Stephen F.; Hambley, Trevor W.
• Synthetic, spectroscopic, and X-ray crystallographic studies on binuclear copper(II) complexes with a tridentate NNS-bonding 2-formylpyridine thiosemicarbazone ligand. The characterization of both neutral and deprotonated co-ordinated ligand structures (pp. 493-499) Bingham, Alistair G.; Bögge, Hartmut; Müller, Achim; Ainscough, Eric W.; Brodie, Andrew M.
• Formation of germanium–nitrogen double bonds in reactions of the electron-rich germylene bis[bis(trimethylsilyl)amido]germanium(II) with a range of diazo-compounds (pp. 501-508) Glidewell, Christopher; Lloyd, Douglas; Lumbard, Keith W.
• Reaction of an enolisable diazo-compound with the electron-rich stannylene Sn[N(SiMe3)2]2: preparation of a novel spiro[1,3,4,2-oxadiazastannine-6,4′-pyrazole] derivative (pp. 509-511) Glidewell, Christopher; Lloyd, Douglas; Lumbard, Keith W.
• Kinetics and mechanism of ring closure for a series of photoproduced [M(CO)5L] intermediates (M = Cr, Mo, or W; L = pyridine 2-carbaldehyde imine ligand) (pp. 513-517) Chan, Lisa; Lees, Alistair J.
• Solvent effect in the insertion reaction of iron(II) carbonyls (pp. 519-521) Reichenbach, Gustavo; Bellachioma, Gianfranco
• Some binuclear molybdenum(VI) complexes obtained from condensation reactions: their crystal and molecular structures (pp. 523-528) McKee, Vickie; Wilkins, Cuthbert J.
• The chemistry of the hydrazido(1–)-ligand. Preparations and crystal structures of [Mo(NHNHCO2Me)(NNCO2Me)(S2CNMe2)2], [Mo(NHNMePh)(NNMePh)(S2CNMe2)2]BPh4, and [ReCl2(NHNHCOPh)(NNHCOPh)(PPh3)2]. Mechanism of formation of substituted hydrazines from [Mo(NNRPh)2(S2CNMe2)2](R = Me or Ph) (pp. 529-540) Dilworth, Jonathan R.; Henderson, Richard A.; Dahlstrom, Phillip; Nicholson, Terrence; Zubieta, Jon A.
• Phosphorus–tellurium compounds. Part 3. Cyclopentadienyliron tellurophosphorane complexes: tellurium-bridged iron phosphine compounds? (pp. 541-544) Kuhn, Norbert; Schumann, Hans
• Studies of pendant-arm macrocyclic ligands. Part 5. Synthesis of two pyridine-containing penta-aza macrocycles with single pyrrolidinyl pendant arms and characterisation of their nickel(II) and copper(II) complexes. Crystal structure of perchlorato{7-[2′-(1″-pyrrolidinyl)ethyl]-3,7,11,17-tetra-azabicyclo[11.3.1]heptadeca-1(17),13,15-triene}nickel(II) perchlorate (pp. 545-550) Alcock, Nathaniel W.; Balakrishnan, Karappulli P.; Moore, Peter; Omar, Hadi A. A.
• Triosmium clusters containing ligands derived from tropone (cycloheptatrienone): molecular structure of an oxidative addition product [Os3H(µ3-C7H5O)(CO)9] (pp. 551-555) Boyar, Esther; Deeming, Antony J.; Randle, Neil P.; Bates, Paul A.; Hursthouse, Michael B.
• The synthesis and X-ray crystal structures of homoleptic tetrahedral aryls of osmium(IV) and of cyclohexyls of ruthenium(IV), osmium(IV), and chromium(IV) (pp. 557-562) Stavropoulos, Pericles; Savage, Paul D.; Tooze, Robert P.; Wilkinson, Geoffrey; Hussain, Bilquis; Motevalli, Majid; Hursthouse, Michael B.
• Interactions of the trimethyltin(IV) cation with carboxylic acids, amino acids, and related ligands (pp. 563-566) Hynes, Michael J.; O'Dowd, Maire
• Preparation of the nitrenes ReF5(NF), ReF5(NCl), and ReF5(NBr). X-Ray crystal structures of ReF5(NF) and ReF5(NCl) (pp. 567-571) Fawcett, John; Peacock, Raymond D.; Russell, David R.
• Chromium(III)-catalysed cerium(IV) oxidation of arsenic(III) in aqueous sulphuric acid (pp. 573-577) Chimatadar, Shivamurti A.; Nandibewoor, Sharanappa T.; Sambrani, Mahantesh I.; Raju, Javali R.
• Studies of phosphazenes. Part 30. Reactions of hexachlorocyclotriphosphazene with aromatic primary amines: interplay of geminal and non-geminal modes of chlorine replacement (pp. 579-584) Ganapathiappan, Sivapackia; Krishnamurthy, Setharampattu S.
• Studies of phosphazenes. Part 31. Kinetic studies of the reactions of hexachlorocyclotriphosphazene with aromatic primary amines: evidence for the intermediacy of a reactive three-co-ordinated phosphorus(V) species (pp. 585-590) Ganapathiappan, Sivapackia; Krishnamurthy, Setharampattu S.
• Reactions of co-ordinated ligands. Part 39. The synthesis of carbyne complexes from alkyne molybdenum and tungsten cations; formation and crystal structures of [Mo(CCH2But){P(OMe)3}2(η-C5H5)] and [Mo{C(SiMe3)CH2}{P(OMe)3}2(η5-C9H7)] (pp. 591-604) Allen, Stephen R.; Beevor, Robert G.; Green, Michael; Orpen, A. Guy; Paddick, Kathleen E.; Williams, Ian D.
• Insertion of CO2-like molecules into the platinum–nitrogen bond of [Pt(PPh3)2(PhNO)]: the X-ray structures of [Pt{ON(Ph)C(NPh)S}(PPh3)2] and [Pt{ON(Ph)C(O)NPh}(PPh3)2] (pp. 605-608) Demartin, Francesco; Pizzotti, Maddalena; Porta, Francesca; Cenini, Sergio
• Intercalation compounds of (diphosphato)oxotungsten(VI), [WO(P2O7)] (pp. 609-612) Kinomura, Nobukazu; Ohshiba, Masashi; Kobayashi, Masayuki; Kumada, Nobuhiro; Muto, Fumio
• Crystal structure of trans-dicarbonylbis(dimethylphenylphosphine)(N-phenylsalicylideneaminato)rhenium(I) and mer-trichloro(dimethylphenylphosphine)(N-phenylsalicylideneaminato)rhenium(IV). Comparison of Re I , Re III , Re IV , and Re V complexes with the salicylideneaminato ligand and reaction mechanisms (pp. 613-617) Bertolasi, Valerio; Ferretti, Valeria; Gilli, Gastone; Duatti, Adriano; Marchi, Andrea; Magon, Luciano
• A molybdenum-95 and nitrogen-14 nuclear magnetic resonance study of six-co-ordinate hydrotris(3,5-dimethyl-1-pyrazolyl)borate complexes containing a sixteen-electron {Mo(NO)}4 core (pp. 619-621) Young, Charles G.; Minelli, Martin; Enemark, John H.; Hussain, Wasif; Jones, Christopher J.; McCleverty, Jon A.
• Synthesis and properties of gallium tetramethylammonium sodalite, NMe4GaSi5O12 (pp. 623-625) Lortz, Wolfgang; Schön, Günter
• Mössbauer spectroscopic studies on molecular rotation and lattice dynamics of cyclodextrin clathrates of bis(η-cyclopentadienyl)iron(II) and some of its ring-substituted derivatives (pp. 627-632) Maeda, Yonezo; Ogawa, Nobuhiro; Takashima, Yoshimasa
• Co-ordination chemistry of higher oxidation states. Part 22. trans-Dioxo-osmium(VI) complexes of diamines, diphosphines, and diarsines (pp. 633-638) Harbron, Stephen K.; Levason, William
• Binuclear rhodium and iridium complexes containing pentamethylcyclopentadienyl and pyrazolate ligands (pp. 639-645) Carmona, Daniel; Oro, Luis A.; Lamata, M. Pilar; Puebla, M. Pilar; Ruiz, José; Maitlis, Peter M.
• A group theoretical paradigm for describing the skeletal molecular orbitals of cluster compounds. Part 1. Deltahedral clusters (pp. 647-656) Johnston, Roy L.; Mingos, D. Michael P.
• Thermodynamics of complex formation of silver with amines in dimethyl sulphoxide (pp. 657-659) Cassol, Alberto; Di Bernardo, Plinio; Zanonato, Pierluigi; Portanova, Roberto; Tolazzi, Marilena
• A thermodynamic and spectroscopic study of the proton and copper(II) complexes of L-prolyl-L-histidine, D-prolyl-L-histidine, L-histidyl-L-histidine, and D-histidyl-L-histidine (pp. 661-666) Livera, Cynara E.; Pettit, Leslie D.; Bataille, Michel; Perly, Bruno; Kozlowski, Henryk; Radomska, Barbara
• Magnetic exchange interactions in perovskite solid solutions. Part 7. A study of the non-stoicheiometric phase SrCoO3–y by 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy (pp. 667-671) Battle, Peter D.; Gibb, Terence C.
• Spectrochemistry of solutions. Part 19. Complexation of gold(I) by cyanide in liquid ammonia: an infrared and Raman spectroscopic study (pp. 673-675) Gans, Peter; Gill, J. Bernard; Johnson, Lawrence H.
• Notes. Synthesis and structure of µ-[trans-1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethylene]bis[chlorogold(I)] (pp. 677-679) Eggleston, Drake S.; McArdle, James V.; Zuber, Gary E.
• The vibrational spectrum of tricarbonyl(trichlorostibine)nickel(0), [Ni(CO)3(SbCl3)] (pp. 681-682) Edwards, Howell G. M.
• Additions and corrections (pp. 683-683) Castiñeiras, Alfonso; Hiller, Wolfgang; Strähle, Joachim; Bravo, Jorge; Casas, José S.; Gayoso, Miguel; Sordo, José

Issue: 4

• Contents pages (pp. P013-P016)
• Front cover (pp. X013-X014)
• Back cover (pp. X015-X016)
• Vibrational studies of interstitial hydrogen in metal carbonyl clusters (pp. 685-690) Stanghellini, Pier Luigi; Longoni, Giuliano
• Reaction of monoborane with tris(cyclopentadienyl)uranium(IV) derivatives (pp. 691-694) Porchia, Marina; Brianese, Nicola; Ossola, Franco; Rossetto, Gilberto; Zanella, Pierino
• Uranyl(VI) complexes of 3-aminopropanoic acid and 4-aminobutanoic acid in aqueous solution: a potentiometric and calorimetric study (pp. 695-698) Bismondo, Arturo; Rizzo, Luigi; Di Bernardo, Plinio; Zanonato, Pier Luigi
• Reactions of heteroboranes. Synthesis of [2,2-(PPh3)2-1,2-SePtB10H10]·CH2CL2, its crystal and molecular structure and that of SeB11H11 (pp. 699-704) Ferguson, George; Parvez, Masood; MacCurtain, Jacqui A.; Dhubhghaill, Orla Ni.; Spalding, Trevor R.; Reed, David
• Bis[bis(diphenylphosphino)methane]platinum(II) salts: evidence for the formation of a five-co-ordinate bis[bis(diphenylphosphino)methane]-halogenoplatinum(II) cation (pp. 705-708) Grossel, Martin C.; Moulding, Roger P.; Seddon, Kenneth R.; Walker, Fiona J.
• A comparative synthetic and structural study of µ-oxo and µ-sulphido derivatives of N,N′-ethylenebis(acetylacetoneiminato)iron(III), including the synthesis and structural characterization of the parent compound (pp. 709-714) Corazza, Fabio; Floriani, Carlo; Zehnder, Margareta
• Reactivity of the polyhydride complexes [ReH5(PPh3)3], [ReH3(dppe)2](dppe = Ph2PCH2CH2PPh2), [ReH3(PPh3)3L], and [ReH4(PPh3)3L]PF6(L = MeCN or ButNC) towards electrophiles and nucleophiles (pp. 715-720) Moehring, Gregory A.; Walton, Richard A.
• Amino-acid complexation to a cobalt(III) complex of optically-active (2R,5R,8R,11R)-2,5,8,11 -tetraethyl-1,4,7,10-tetra-azacyclododecane (L). Preparation, characterization, and structure determinations of [Co III {(R)-or(S)-alaO}L]Br[ClO4]·H2O (pp. 721-727) Tsuboyama, Sei; Sakurai, Tosio; Tsuboyama, Kaoru
• The radical cations of sulphur (S8˙+) and tetrasulphur tetranitride (S4N4˙+): a radiation–electron spin resonance study (pp. 729-732) Chandra, Harish; Rao, D. N. Ramakrishna; Symons, Martyn C. R.
• Metallacyclic complexes. Synthesis of metallathietane-3,3-dioxide (metallacyclosulphone) complexes of platinum(II), palladium(II), and nickel(II); crystal structure of trans-2,4-diphenyl-1, 1-bis(triphenylarsine)platinathietane-3,3-dioxide (pp. 733-739) Chiu, Kwok W.; Fawcett, John; Henderson, William; Kemmitt, Raymond D. W.; Russell, David R.
• Rhenium carbonyl fluorides: preparation of [Re(CO)6][ReF6] and some reactions of [Re(CO)5F·ReF5] (pp. 741-745) Holloway, John H.; Senior, John B.; Szary, Anne C.
• The chemistry of trichloro[tris(trimethylsilyl)methyl] and trichloro[tris(dimethylphenylsilyl)methyl] complexes of gallium, indium, and thallium. Crystal and molecular structures of [Li(thf)2(µ-Cl)2GaCl-{C(SiMe2Ph)3}]·thf, [Li(thf)3(µ-Cl)InCl2{C(SiMe3)3}], and [{(Me3Si)3C}In(µ-Cl)2{µ-Fe(CO)4}ln{C(SiMe3)3}](thf = tetrahydrofuran) (pp. 747-755) Atwood, Jerry L.; Bott, Simon G.; Hitchcock, Peter B.; Eaborn, Colin; Shariffudin, Rio S.; Smith, J. David; Sullivan, Alice C.
• Heteronuclear 1,3-intramolecular metal shifts in pentacarbonyl-chromium, -molybdenum, and -tungsten derivatives of 2-thia-4-selenapentane. A dynamic nuclear magnetic resonance investigation (pp. 757-760) Abel, Edward W.; Bhargava, Suresh K.; MacKenzie, Thomas E.; Mittal, Pramod K.; Orrell, Keith G.; Sik, Vladimir
• The chemistry of vitamin B12. Part 27. The cage phosphite ester 4-ethyl-2,6,7-trioxa-1-phosphabicyclo[2.2.2]octane and the anionic dimethyl phosphite as ligands for cobalt(III) corrinoids (pp. 761-767) Chemaly, Susan M.; Betterton, Eric A.; Pratt, John M.
• Bimetallic systems. Part 17. Synthesis of Group 6 metal(0)–copper(I)–silver(I), or –gold(I) complexes with two Ph2PCH2PPh2(dppm) bridging ligands: crystal structure of [(OC)2W(µ-CO)(µ-dppm)2(µ-Cl)Cu]·CH2Cl2 (pp. 769-775) Blagg, Adrian; Shaw, Bernard L.; Thornton-Pett, Mark
• Bimetallic systems. Part 18. Nickel(II)-mercury(II) acetylide complexes containing bridging Ph2PCH2PPh2 ligands (pp. 777-779) Fontaine, Xavier L. R.; Higgins, Simon J.; Langrick, C. Richard; Shaw, Bernard L.
• Synthesis and characterisation of [N(PPh3)2][RuRh5(CO)16] by X-ray crystallography and by natural-abundance carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (pp. 781-784) Pursiainen, Jouni; Pakkanen, Tapani A.; Smolander, Kimmo
• Electron diffraction study of the molecular structure of n-methylbis(trimethylsilyl)amine in the gas phase (pp. 785-788) Rankin, David W. H.; Robertson, Heather E.
• The configuration and lattice dynamics of complexes of dialkyltin(IV) with adenosine 5′-monophosphate and phenyl phosphates (pp. 789-794) Barbieri, Renato; Alonzo, Giuseppe; Herber, Rolfe H.
• Menthyl-substituted organophosphorus compounds. Part 6. Preparation of P(L-men)RCl and P(L-men)R(S)Cl (R = Me, Et, Pri, But, or Ph; men =cyclo-C6H9-2-Pri-5-Me) and nuclear magnetic resonance studies of configuration and halogen exchange (pp. 795-805) Hägele, Gerhard; Kückelhaus, Wolfgang; Tossing, Gudrun; Seega, Jürgen; Harris, Robin K.; Creswell, Clifford J.; Jageland, Per T.
• Proton and phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance study of zinc(II)O,O′-dialkyl dithiophosphates in solution (pp. 807-814) Harrison, Philip G.; Kikabhai, Thakor
• Crystal structure and mass spectrometry of dichlorodimethylbis[2(1H)-pyridinethione-S]tin(IV) (pp. 815-817) Valle, Giovanni; Ettorre, Renato; Vettori, Umberto; Peruzzo, Valerio; Plazzogna, Gualtiero
• Mono- and di-carbonyl complexes of molybdenum(II) with mixed bidentate ligands. X-Ray crystal structure of [MoBr2(CO)(bipy)(Ph2PCH2PPh2)](bipy = 2,2′-bipyridine): a novel type of [M(bidentate)2(unidentate)3] structure (pp. 819-823) Arnaiz, Francisco J.; Garcia, Gabriel; Riera, Victor; Dromzée, Yves; Jeannin, Yves
• Metal–ligand bonding parameters and magnetic properties of some previously reported tetragonal nickel(II) complexes (pp. 825-830) Kennedy, Brendan J.; Murray, Keith S.; Hitchman, Michael A.; Rowbottom, Graham L.
• Redox behaviour of the iron–sulphur cluster [Fe6(µ3-S)8(PEt3)6]2+. Synthesis and crystal structure of the new paramagnetic monopositive species [Fe6(µ3-S)8(PEt3)6]+ as its [PF6]– salt (pp. 831-835) Cecconi, Franco; Ghilardi, Carlo A.; Midollini, Stefano; Orlandini, Annabella; Zanello, Piero
• Reactions of aluminopolyhydride complexes of tungsten. X-Ray crystal structures of [(Me3P)3H3W(µ-H)2AlCl(µ-NCHEt)]2, {[(Me3P)3WH5]Li}4, WH2I(PMe3)3(SiMe3), and (Me3P)3H2W(µ-H)3AlCl2(NMe3) (pp. 837-846) Barron, Andrew R.; Wilkinson, Geoffrey; Motevalli, Majid; Hursthouse, Michael B.
• New heterocyclic compounds containing niobium and molybdenum; crystal structure of a cyclomolybdaphosphazene (pp. 847-849) Roesky, Herbert W.; Katti, Kattesh V.; Seseke, Ulrich; Schmidt, Hans-Georg; Egert, Ernst; Herbst, Regine; Sheldrick, George M.
• Preparation and reactions of bis(isocyanide)(η5-indenyl)rhodium(I) complexes (pp. 851-852) Yamamoto, Yasuhiro; Yamazaki, Hiroshi
• Reactions of cyclobutenedione and cyclopentenetrione with zero-valent nickel triad complexes of isocyanide. X-Ray crystal structures of (3–4-η-3,4-diphenylcyclobut-3-ene-1,2-dione)- and (4–5-η-4,5-diphenylcyclopent-4-ene-1,2,3-trione)-tris(t-butyl isocyanide)nickel (pp. 853-857) Iitaka, Yoichi; Oohama, Tadashi; Shiina, Muneki; Takizawa, Takeo; Yamamoto, Yasuhiro; Yamazaki, Hiroshi
• Matrix isolation and mass spectrometric studies on the vaporisation of chromium(III) chloride. The characterisation of molecular CrCl4 and CrCl3 (pp. 859-865) Ogden, J. Steven; Wyatt, Robert S.
• Synthesis and characterization of technetium-(IV) and -(III) complexes with bidentate Schiff bases. X-Ray molecular structure of chloro-(dimethylphenylphosphine)bis(N-phenylsalicylideneiminato)technetium(III) (pp. 867-871) Duatti, Adriano; Marchi, Andrea; Luna, Silvio Alvarez; Bandoli, Giuliano; Mazzi, Ulderico; Tisato, Francesco
• Dicopper(II) complexes of a 28-membered N8 macrocycle. Evidence for proton transfer from co-ordinated secondary amine to thiocyanate, leading to formation of an lsothiocyanic acid complex (pp. 873-879) Drew, Michael G. B.; Murphy, Brian P.; Nelson, Jane; Nelson, S. Martin
• Synthesis of o-nitrophenylplatinum(IV) complexes; crystal and molecular structure of dichlorobis(2=nitrophenyl=C′O)platinum(IV) (pp. 881-884) Vicente, José; Chicote, María-Teresa; Martín, José; Jones, Peter G.; Fittschen, Christa
• Transition-metal mediated asymmetric synthesis. Part 5. Alternative methods for the formation of tricarbonyl(η5-cyclohexadienyl)iron(1+) salts (pp. 885-888) Alexander, Rikki P.; Stephenson, G. Richard
• Synthesis of pyridine-containing tetra-aza macrocycles: 3,7,11,17-tetra-azabicyclo[11.3.1]heptadeca-1(17),13,15-triene (L1), its 3,11-dibenzyl (L2) and 3,7,11-tribenzyl (L3) derivatives, and their nickel(II), copper(II), and zinc(II) complexes: crystal structures of L2·HCL and [Ni(L2)Cl]ClO4·H2O (pp. 889-894) Alcock, Nathaniel W.; Balakrishnan, Karappulli P.; Moore, Peter; Pike, Graham A.
• Synthesis, reactions, and dynamic nuclear magnetic resonance studies of η2-vinyl complexes of tungsten, [W{η3-C(CF3)C(CF3)(SR)}(CF3cCCF3)(η5-C5H5)](R = Me, Et, Prn, Pri, or But) (pp. 895-905) Carlton, Laurence; Davidson, Jack L.
• Rational synthesis of metalla–sulphur–nitrogen complexes: use of [Me2SnS2N2]2 in the preparation of complexes of the type [M(S2N2H)(PR3)2]X(M = Pt or Pd). X-Ray structures of [Pt(S2N2H)(PEt3)2][Me2SnCl3],[Pt(S2N2H)(PBun 3)2]2[PF6]Cl, and [{Co(S2N2H)2}2{Ph2P(O)CH2CH2P(O)Ph2}] (pp. 907-914) Jones, Ray; Warrens, Christopher P.; Williams, David J.; Woollins, J. Derek
• Some investigations of S5N5 + compounds; X-ray crystal structure of [S5N5]Cl (pp. 915-924) Banister, Arthur J.; Hauptman, Zdenek V.; Kendrick, Aidan G.; Small, Ronald W. H.
• Structure and basicity. Part 10. Conductometric and potentiometric titrations of some cyclotriphosphazatrienes in non-aqueous media. The conductivities of alkali-metal acetates on titration with perchloric acid in acetic acid (pp. 925-930) Gündüz, Necla; Gündüz, Turgut; Kiliç, Esma; Gül Öztaş, S.; Tüzün, Mürşide; Shaw (née Gözen), Leylâ S.; Shaw, Robert A.
• Trinuclear osmium clusters containing bidentate Ph2PCH2PPh2 and Me2PCH2PMe2 ligands: X-ray crystal structures of the complexes [Os3H(CO)9(Me2PCHPMe2)] and [Os3H(OH)(CO)8(Ph2PCH2PPh2)] (pp. 931-937) Hodge, Stephen R.; Johnson, Brian F. G.; Lewis, Jack; Raithby, Paul R.
• Electron spin resonance and optical spectroscopic studies on Cu2+ and Co2+ in Cs2[Zn(N3)4] (pp. 939-942) Neissl, Wolfgang; Fritzer, Harald P.; Beardwood, Peter; Gibson, John F.; Flint, Colin D.
• Stability constants for hypochloritoborate and hypobromitoborate complex ions in aqueous solution (pp. 943-946) Bousher, Andrew; Brimblecombe, Peter; Midgley, Derek
• Complexes of the platinum metals. Part 32. Synthesis and chemistry of some iridium sulphonate derivatives (pp. 947-952) Harding, P. Alexander; Robinson, Stephen D.
• Notes. Synthesis and characterization of monocyclopentadienyl niobium derivatives. X-Ray crystal structure of di-µ-chloro-µ-oxo-bis[dichloro(η-trimethylsilylcyclo-pentadienyl)niobium(V)], [{Nb(η-C5H4SiMe3)Cl2}2(µ-O)(µ-Cl)2] (pp. 953-956) Andreu, Ana María; Jalón, Félix A.; Otero, Antonio; Royo, Pascual; Lanfredi, Anna M. Manotti; Tiripicchio, Antonio
• Substitution reactions between penta-ammineaquaruthenium(II) and thiocyanato, protonated acetato, cyano, and oxalato ligands in aqueous acidic solutions (pp. 957-959) Ojo, J. Folorunso; Olubuyide, Olusegun; Oyetunji, Olayinka
• Photo-oxidations of acetoin and biacetyl catalyzed by tetrabutylammonium decatungstate(4–) in acetonitrile under excess of oxygen (pp. 961-962) Nomiya, Kenji; Maeda, Katsunori; Miyazaki, Toshiaki; Miwa, Makoto
• Copper(II) complexes of the 14-membered cis-N2S2 macrocycle 14,14,16-trimethyl-2,6-dithia-13,17-diazatricyclo[16.4.0.07,12]docosa-1(18),7(12),8,10,16,19,21-heptaene (pp. 963-964) Hay, Robert W.; Govan, Norman; Pujari, Mahesh P.
• Ferromagnetic tetrahalogenochromates(II) containing mixed halides (Cl and Br) (pp. 965-967) Larkworthy, Leslie F.; Prabhakaran, C. P.; Tandon, Santokh S.

Issue: 5

• Contents pages (pp. P017-P020)
• Front cover (pp. X017-X018)
• Back cover (pp. X019-X020)
• Phosphinoalkylsilyl complexes. Part 7. Synthesis and reactivity of octahedral, bis(chelate)dicarbonyl complexes of ruthenium(II) and osmium(II). Conformational properties of the bis(chelate) framework and X-ray crystal structures of [M(PPh2CH2CH2SiMe2)2(CO)2](M = Ru or Os) (pp. 969-974) Holmes-Smith, Rupert D.; Stobart, Stephen R.; Vefghi, Rahmatollah; Zaworotko, Michael J.; Jochem, Klaus; Cameron, T. Stanley
• New dicyclopentadienyl phosphine, phosphite, and acetylene niobium(III) complexes. Crystal structure of [Nb(η-C5H4SiMe3)2Cl(PhCCPh)] (pp. 975-980) Antiñolo, Antonio; Gómez-Sal, Pilar; de Ilarduya, Jesús Martínez; Otero, Antonio; Royo, Pascual; Carrera, Sagrario Martínez; Blanco, Severino García
• 2-Pyridonate (Opy) rhodium(I) carbonyl complexes. Crystal structure of the unusual tetranuclear complex [Rh4(µ-Opy)4(µ-CO)2(CO)4] (pp. 981-984) Ciriano, Miguel A.; Villarroya, B. Eva; Oro, Luis A.; Apreda, Maria C.; Foces-Foces, Concepción; Cano, Félix H.
• A kinetic and mechanistic study of the formation of a diaryl ditelluride in solution by the sulphite reduction of the aryltellurium trichloride (pp. 985-989) Miller, J. David; Tahir, Tahir A.
• Studies on transition-metal peroxo complexes. Part 7. Molybdenum(VI) and tungsten(VI) carboxylato peroxo complexes, and the X-ray crystal structure of K2[MoO(O2)2(glyc)]·2H2O (pp. 991-995) Dengel, Andrew C.; Griffith, William P.; Powell, Richard D.; Skapski, Andrzej C.
• Thermally induced phase transition and X-ray crystal structure of bis(N,N′-dimethyl-1,2-ethanediamine)di-isothiocyanatonickel(II) (pp. 997-1000) Mukherjee, Alok K.; Mukherjee, Monika; Welch, Alan J.; Ghosh, Ashutosh; De, Goutam; Chaudhuri, Nirmalendu Ray
• The heteronuclear cluster chemistry of the Group 1B metals. Part 3. Synthesis, structures, and chemical properties of the trimetallic hexanuclear Group 1B metal cluster compounds [MM′Ru4(µ3-H)2(CO)12(PPh3)2](M = Cu, M′= Ag or Au; M = Ag, M′= Au). X-Ray crystal structure of the complex [AgCuRu4(µ3-H)2(CO)12(PPh3)2]·CH2Cl2 (pp. 1001-1008) Freeman, Mark J.; Orpen, A. Guy; Salter, Ian D.
• Ternary metal complexes of vitamin B6 related compounds. Crystal and molecular structures of copper(II)–2,2′-bipyridyl-pyridoxic acid and copper(II)–2,2′-bipyridyl–pyridoxic acid γ-lactone complexes (pp. 1009-1015) Rao, S. P. Sudhakara; Manohar, Hattikudur; Aoki, Katsuyuki; Yamazaki, Hiroshi
• Extended Hückel molecular orbital study of the effects of edge-bridging hydrogen atoms on the lengths of boron–boron and metal–metal bonds in cluster compounds, and the crystal structure of benzyltrimethylammonium octahydrotriborate(1–) (pp. 1017-1025) Mitchell, Gary F.; Welch, Alan J.
• Reactions of copper(II) with [S2P(OR)2]–(R = Et or Pri) and single-crystal X-ray studies of Cu[S2P(OEt)2]·bipy and Cu[S2P(OEt)2]·2PPh3 (pp. 1027-1033) Drew, Michael G. B.; Forsyth, George A.; Hasan, Masihul; Hobson, Richard J.; Rice, David A.
• Electron-transfer platinum complexes of esters of dithiocarbazic acid. The crystal and molecular structure of [Pt{N(CH2Ph)NC(S)SMe}2] (pp. 1035-1040) Fares, Vincenzo; Giuliani, Anna Maria; Imperatori, Patrizia; Suber, Lorenza; Tarli, Franco
• Carbene complexes in organic synthesis: a new tungstacarbene-promoted alkyne insertion–olefin cyclopropanation reaction (pp. 1041-1049) Parlier, Andrée; Rudler, Henri; Platzer, Nicole; Fontanille, Michel; Soum, Alain
• High nuclearity osmium cluster radicals (pp. 1051-1054) Drake, Simon R.; Johnson, Brian F. G.; Lewis, Jack; McQueen, Roderick C. S.
• Direct synthesis of alkali trifluorocobaltate(II) monohydrates, A[CoF3]·H2O (A = NH4, Na, or K). First synthesis and structural assessment of mixed-ligand fluoro complexes of cobalt(II), [Co(NH3)4F2] and A[CoF(SO4)(H2O)2](A = NH4, Na, or K) (pp. 1055-1057) Bhattacharjee, Manabendra N.; Chaudhuri, Mihir K.; Devi, Meenakshi; Yhome, Khriesavilie
• The relative nucleophilic efficiency of water and the azide and thiocyanate ions in the aqueous substitution of chloropentacyanocobaltate(III) (pp. 1059-1062) Abou-El-Wafa, Moustafa H. M.; Burnett, Michael G.; McCullagh, John F.
• Reactions of [M(NO){HB(3,5-Me2C3N2H)3}X2](M = Mo, X = I; M = W, X = Cl) with some amine-substituted pyridines. The molecular structures of [M(NO){HB(3,5-Me2C3N2H)3}(2-NHC5NH4)2] (pp. 1063-1069) Al Obaidi, Najat; Hamor, Thomas A.; Jones, Christopher J.; McCleverty, Jon A.; Paxton, Keith
• The ring-stacking principle in organolithium chemistry: its development through the isolation and crystal structures of hexameric iminolithium clusters (RR′CNLi)6(R′= Ph, R = But or Me2N; R = R′= Me2N or But) (pp. 1071-1081) Armstrong, David R.; Barr, Donald; Snaith, Ronald; Clegg, William; Mulvey, Robert E.; Wade, Kenneth; Reed, David
• A structural comparison of bis(quinoxaline-2,3-dithiolato)cuprate complexes (pp. 1083-1087) Boyde, Stephen; Garner, C. David; Clegg, William
• Lewis-base adducts of Group 11 metal(I) compounds. Part 27. Solid-state phosphorus-31 cross-polarization magic-angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance, far-infrared, and structural studies on the mononuclear 2 : 1 adducts of triphenylphosphine with copper(I) and gold(I) halides (pp. 1089-1097) Bowmaker, Graham A.; Dyason, Jeffrey C.; Healy, Peter C.; Engelhardt, Lutz M.; Pakawatchai, Chaveng; White, Allan H.
• Lewis-base adducts of Group 11 metal(I) compounds. Part 28. Solid-state phosphorus-31 cross-polarization magic-angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance and structural studies on the mononuclear 3: 1 adducts of triphenylphosphine with copper(I) halides (pp. 1099-1106) Barron, Peter F.; Dyason, Jeffrey C.; Healy, Peter C.; Engelhardt, Lutz M.; Pakawatchai, Chaveng; Patrick, Vincent A.; White, Allan H.
• Studies of the pyridine-containing tetra-azamacrocycle 3,7,11-trimethyl-3,7,11,17-tetra-azabicyclo[11.3.1]heptadeca-1(17),13,15-triene (L1) and its complexes with Ni2+, Cu2+, and Zn2+. Crystal structures of the unsymmetric isomer of [Ni(L1)][ClO4]2, and the five-co-ordinate complexes [Ni(L1)(dmso)][ClO4]2(dmso = dimethyl sulphoxide) and [Ni(L1)Cl]ClO4 (pp. 1107-1114) Alcock, Nathaniel W.; Moore, Peter; Omar, Hadi A. A.
• The preparation, structure, and reactions of the mononuclear thiolate–hydride complexes [MoH(SR)(dppe)2](R = bulky alkyl or aryl group, dppe = Ph2PCH2CH2PPh2); X-ray structure determination of cis-[MoH(SC6H2Pri 3-2,4,6)(dppe)2] (pp. 1115-1121) Henderson, Richard A.; Hughes, David L.; Richards, Raymond L.; Shortman, Caroline
• Reaction of silicon difluoride with halogens: a reinvestigation (pp. 1123-1126) Suresh, Bettadapura S.; Thompson, James Charlton
• Reactions of copper(II) complexes of optically active N-substituted diamines with alk-3-en-2-ones or 4-hydroxyalkan-2-ones: formation of optically active macrocycles (pp. 1127-1132) Miyamura, Kazuo; Hata, Kazuhiko; Makino, Tadashi; Saburi, Masahiko; Yoshikawa, Sadao
• Chemistry of metallacyclic complexes containing the FeCSCS ring obtained by metal-promoted CS2–CS coupling. X-Ray crystal structures of [(CO)(cp)FeC{SW(CO)5}SC(FeL n )S] and [(CO)(cp)FeC(SEt)SC(FeL n )S]SO3CF3[FeL n = Fe(cp)(CO)2, cp =η-C5H5] (pp. 1133-1143) Busetto, Luigi; Zanotti, Valerio; Albano, Vincenzo G.; Braga, Dario; Monari, Magda
• Aluminium speciation studies in biological fluids. A new investigation of aluminium hydroxide equilibria under physiological conditions (pp. 1145-1148) Venturini, Marilyne; Berthon, Guy
• Synthesis and stereochemical studies of the chiral ruthenium complexes [Ru(η-C5H5){(S)dpompyr-PP′}X][dpompyr =N-diphenylphosphino-2-(diphenylphosphinoxymethyl)pyrrolidine, X = H or Cl]. Crystal structure of [(S)Ru(η-C5H5){(S)dpompyr-PP′}Cl] (pp. 1149-1155) Cesarotti, Edoardo; Prati, Laura; Sironi, Angelo; Ciani, Gianfranco; White, Colin
• Crystal structures of low- and high-spin iron(III) complexes with quadridentate Schiff bases (pp. 1157-1161) Nishida, Yuzo; Kino, Koji; Kida, Sigeo
• Dimeric tungsten(V) compounds containing [(S)W(µ-S)2W(S)]2+. Syntheses and structures of di-µ-sulphido-bis[(diethyl dithiophosphato-SS′)sulphido-tungsten(V)] and di-µ-sulphido-bis[(N,N-diethyldithiocarbamato-SS′)-sulphidotungsten(V)] (pp. 1163-1167) Drew, Michael G. B.; Hobson, Richard J.; Mumba, Peter P. E. M.; Rice, David A.; Turp, Neil
• The preparation of [Ru(NCMe)6][7-(η6-C6Me6)-nido-7-RuB10H13]2 and its characterization by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy: a triply hydrogen-bridged eleven-vertex nido-7-metallaundecaborane (pp. 1169-1174) Bown, Mark; Fontaine, Xavier L. R.; Greenwood, Norman N.; Kennedy, John D.; Thornton-Pett, Mark
• Reactions of planar pentadentate ligands with palladium and platinum chlorides. Crystal structures of cis-dichlorobis(N′-isopropylidenebenzohydrazide)platinum(II) and the cyclopalladated dianion of N′,N‴-(pyridine-2,6-diyldiethylidyne)bis(benzohydrazide) (pp. 1175-1179) Palenik, Gus J.; Giordano, Thomas J.
• Photoactivation of methane by η5-cyclopentadienyl and substituted η5-cyclopentadienyl Group 8 metal dicarbonyl complexes, [M(η5-C5R5)(CO)2](M = Rh or Ir, R = H or Me), and dicarbonyl(η5-indenyl)iridium: a matrix isolation study (pp. 1181-1190) Rest, Antony J.; Whitwell, Ian; Graham, William A. G.; Hoyano, James K.; McMaster, Alexander D.
• Chemistry of polynuclear metal complexes with bridging carbene or carbyne ligands. Part 54. Compounds derived from [W(CC6H4Me-4)(CO)2(η-C5Me5)] with bonds between tungsten and iron, cobalt, or nickel; crystal structure of [FeW{µ-C(C6H4Me-4)C(O)O}(CO)5(η-C5Me5)] (pp. 1191-1199) Delgado, Esther; Hein, Joachim; Jeffery, John C.; Ratermann, Andrew L.; Stone, F. Gordon A.; Farrugia, Louis J.
• Chemistry of polynuclear metal complexes with bridging carbene or carbyne ligands. Part 55. Coupling of methylene and alkylidyne groups at a trimetal centre; crystal structures of [Ru2W{µ-σ:η-trans-CHC(H)R}(µ-CO)(CO)3(η-C5H5)2(η-C5Me5)]·CH2Cl2 and [Ru2W(µ3-CCH2R)(µ-CO)3(CO)(η-C5H5)3](R = C6H4Me-4) (pp. 1201-1208) Davies, David L.; Parrott, Michael J.; Sherwood, Paul; Stone, F. Gordon A.
• Chemistry of polynuclear metal complexes with bridging carbene or carbyne ligands. Part 56. Synthesis of iron–molybdenum compounds; crystal structures of [FeMo(µ-CR)(CO)6(η-C5H5)] and [FeMo2(µ3-RC2R)(CO)6(η-C5H5)2](R = C6H4Me-4) (pp. 1209-1214) Garcia, M. Esther; Jeffery, John C.; Sherwood, Paul; Stone, F. Gordon A.
• Chemistry of polynuclear metal complexes with bridging carbene or carbyne ligands. Part 57. Reactions of iron–molybdenum complexes with oxygen and sulphur; crystal structure of [FeMo(µ-η2-SCC6H4Me-4)(CO)5(η-C5H5)] (pp. 1215-1219) Byrne, Paul G.; Garcia, M. Esther; Jeffery, John C.; Sherwood, Paul; Stone, F. Gordon A.
• Chemistry of polynuclear metal complexes with bridging carbene or carbyne ligands. Part 58. Some reactions of the compounds [MW(µ-CC6H4Me-4)(CO)3(η5-C9H7)(η5-C2B9H9Me2)](M = Mo or W); crystal structures of the complexes [W2(µ-CC6H4Me-4)(CO)2(L)(η5-C9H7)(η5-C2B9H9Me2)][L = N2C(C6H4Me-4)2 or O] (pp. 1221-1227) Howard, Judith A. K.; James, Alun P.; de M. Jelfs, Alasdair N.; Nunn, Christine M.; Stone, F. Gordon A.
• Chemistry of polynuclear metal complexes with bridging carbene or carbyne ligands. Part 59. Reactions of the alkylidyne compounds [M(CR)(CO)2{HB(pz)3}][M = Cr, Mo, or W, R = C6H4Me-4; M = W, R = Me, HB(pz)3= hydrotris(pyrazol-1-yl)borate] with d 10 complexes; crystal structure of [PtW2(µ-CMe)2(CO)4{HB(pz)3}2] (pp. 1229-1234) Becke, Sigurd H. F.; Bermúdez, M. Dolores; Tran-Huy, N. Hoa; Howard, Judith A. K.; Johnson, Owen; Stone, F. Gordon A.
• Chemistry of polynuclear metal complexes with bridging carbene or carbyne ligands. Part 60. Di- and tri-metal compounds prepared from the metal alkylidyne complexes [W(CR)(CO)2(η-C5Me5)](R = Me or C6H4Me-4) and [M(CR)(CO)2{HB(pz)3}][M = Mo, R = C6H4Me-4; M = W, R = Me; HB(pz)3= hydrotris(pyrazol-1-yl)borate] (pp. 1235-1242) Bermúdez, M. Dolores; Delgado, Esther; Elliott, Gregory P.; Tran-Huy, N. Hoa; Mayor-Real, Fernando; Stone, F. Gordon A.; Winter, Michael J.
• Chemistry of polynuclear metal complexes with bridging carbene or carbyne ligands. Part 61. Reactions of iron–molybdenum compounds with tertiary phosphines (pp. 1243-1247) Byrne, Paul G.; Garcia, M. Esther; Tran-Huy, N. Hoa; Jeffery, John C.; Stone, F. Gordon A.
• Notes. Carbon-13 and phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance studies of the fluxional behaviour of the complexes [Fe3(CO)10{P(OMe)3}2] and [Fe3(CO)10{P(OMe)3}{P(OPh)3}] (pp. 1249-1252) Farrar, David H.; Lunniss, Julie A.
• Synthesis, characterization, and reactions of chromyl(VI) alkoxides (pp. 1253-1255) Chadha, Sunehri L.; Sharma, Vijay; Sharma, Anuradha
• The crystal structure of bismuth diethyldithiophosphinate–benzene (1/1), Bi(S2PEt2)3·C6H6 (pp. 1257-1259) Sowerby, D. Bryan; Haiduc, Ionel
• Crystal and molecular structure of a novel mixed-spin binuclear nickel(II) complex with N,N′,N″,N‴-tetrakis(2-aminoethyl)-1,4,8,11-tetra-azacyclotetradecane (pp. 1261-1262) Mikuriya, Masahiro; Kida, Sigeo; Murase, Ichiro
• Copper(II) complexes of tyrosine-containing tripeptides (pp. 1263-1265) Kiss, Tamas
• Electronic d-d spectra and ligand-dissociation rates of pentacyanoruthenate(II) ions (pp. 1267-1269) Olabe, José A.; Zerga, Hugo O.; Gentil, Luis A.
• Fluorine-19 nuclear magnetic resonance studies of tetraethylammonium fluoride in glacial ethanoic acid (pp. 1271-1273) Emsley, John; Gold, Victor; Lowe, Barry M.; Szeto, Wing Tsee Alice
• Binuclear copper(I) complexes containing bis(diphenylphosphino)methane bridging ligands: crystal structure of [Cu2(µ-dppm)2(MeCN)4][ClO4]2 (pp. 1275-1278) Díez, Josefina; Gamasa, M. Pilar; Gimeno, José; Tiripicchio, Antonio; Camellini, Marisa Tiripicchio
• Water-soluble Schiff-base complexes of vanadyl(IV) and vanadium(III) (pp. 1279-1281) Evans, Dennis F.; Missen, Paul H.
• Additions and corrections (pp. 1283-1283) Freeman, Mark J.; Orpen, A. Guy; Salter, Ian D.; Leporati, Enrico; Tourné, Claude M.; Tourné, Gilbert F.; Weakley, Timothy J. R.

Issue: 6

• Contents pages (pp. P021-P024)
• Front cover (pp. X021-X022)
• Back cover (pp. X023-X024)
• The preparation, characterisation, and some reactions of [Os3H(X)(CO)9(NMe3)](X = Cl, Br, or I) (pp. 1285-1288) Ditzel, Evert J.; Hanson, Brian E.; Johnson, Brian F. G.; Lewis, Jack
• Systematic cluster build up by the reaction of [Os3H(X)(CO)9(MeCN)](X = SR or NHMe; R = Me, Et, or Ph) with [OsH2(CO)4] (pp. 1289-1291) Ditzel, Evert J.; Johnson, Brian F. G.; Lewis, Jack
• Substitution reactions on triosmium clusters of the type [Os3(µ-H)(µ-X)-(CO)10][X = NHMe, O2CR, C5H4N, or OC(NHMe); R = H, Me, or Ph] (pp. 1293-1297) Ditzel, Evert J.; Johnson, Brian F. G.; Lewis, Jack
• Water photolysis. Part 2. An investigation of the relative advantages of various components of the sensitiser–electron relay–metal colloid system for the photoproduction of hydrogen from water, and the use of these systems in the photohydrogenation of unsaturated organic substrates (pp. 1299-1303) Tan, Chee-Kai; Newberry, Vincent; Webb, Thomas R.; McAuliffe, Charles A.
• Mixed oxidation state trinuclear cobalt complexes with bridging sulphito and Schiff-base ligands. Part 1. Preparation of the complexes [Co II (µ-SO3)2(µ-L)2CO III 2(ROH)2](L = Schiff base anion, R = alkyl) and structure determination of [Co II (µ-SO3)2(µ-α,α′-Me2-salpd)2Co III 2(PrnOH)2]·2PrnOH (pp. 1305-1311) Fukuhara, Chōki; Asato, Eiji; Shimoji, Toshimi; Katsura, Kosho; Mori, Masayasu; Matsumoto, Keiji; Ooi, Shun'ichiro
• Reactions of co-ordinated ligands. Part 40. Synthesis, structure, and reactivity of dirhenium µ-allylidene complexes; crystal structures of[Re2(µ-σ:η3-CHCHCMe2)(CO)8] and [Re2(µ-σ:η3-CHCHCMe2)(CO)9] (pp. 1313-1318) Green, Michael; Orpen, A. Guy; Schaverien, Colin J.; Williams, Ian D.
• Reactions of co-ordinated ligands. Part 41. Synthesis and reactions of cationic functionalised alkyne molybdenum complexes; formation of carbyne and vinylidene complexes and crystal structure of [Mo(CCHPh)Br{P(OMe)3}2(η-C5H5)] (pp. 1319-1328) Beevor, Robert G.; Green, Michael; Orpen, A. Guy; Williams, Ian D.
• Gold(III) complexes with nitriles containing aromatic nuclei: crystal and molecular structure of trichloro(p-toluonitrile)gold(III) (pp. 1329-1332) Hiller, Wolfgang; Dell'Amico, Daniela Belli
• Spectroscopic, magnetic, and structural properties of diaquadimethanolbis-(N-tosylvalinato)copper(II) and its 2,2′-bipyridine adduct (pp. 1333-1339) Battaglia, Luigi P.; Corradi, Anna Bonamartini; Menabue, Ledi; Saladini, Monica; Sola, Marcó
• New spin-crossover iron(III) complexes with large hysteresis effects and time dependence of their magnetism (pp. 1341-1347) Oshio, Hiroki; Kitazaki, Kenji; Mishiro, Junichi; Kato, Noriyuki; Maeda, Yonezo; Takashima, Yoshimasa
• The chemistry of vitamin B12. Part 28. Crystal structure of dicyanocobyrinic acid heptamethyl ester and its interaction with alcohols: the effects of hydrogen bonding to co-ordinated cyanide (pp. 1349-1357) Markwell, Anthony J.; Pratt, John M.; Shaikjee, M. Salim; Toerien, James G.
• Syntheses and characterization of dinuclear palladium and platinum complexes with a single unsupported bridging group. Crystal structure of [{C6H3(CH2NMe2)2-o,o′}Pd(µ-Cl)Pd{C6H3(CH2NMe2)2-o,o′}]BF4 (pp. 1359-1366) Terheijden, Jos; van Koten, Gerard; Grove, David M.; Vrieze, Kees; Spek, Anthony L.
• Reaction of elemental sulphur with cobalt(II)-Schiff-base complexes: synthesis of µ-disulphido and µ-tetrasulphido binuclear cobalt(III) complexes. Crystal structures of two binuclear cobalt(III)-Schiff-base complexes (pp. 1367-1376) Floriani, Carlo; Fiallo, Marina; Chiesi-Villa, Angiola; Guastini, Carlo
• Electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide to methanol. Part 5. Relationship between the ability of metal complexes to engage in homogeneous catalysis and their co-ordination chemistry (pp. 1377-1380) Ogura, Kotaro; Uchida, Hiroaki
• Synthesis and characterization of palladium(II)-η3-allyl–ylide complexes. X-Ray crystal structure of [PdCl(η3-2-MeC3H4){Ph3PC(H)COMe}] (pp. 1381-1387) Facchin, Giacomo; Bertani, Roberta; Calligaris, Mario; Nardin, Giorgio; Mari, Marina
• Synthesis, spectroscopic, and electrochemical properties of bis(2,2′-bipyridyl)-ruthenium compounds of some pyridyl-1,2,4-triazoles (pp. 1389-1395) Hage, Ronald; Prins, Rob; Haasnoot, Jaap G.; Reedijk, Jan; Vos, Johannes G.
• Reaction paths and kinetics in the Cr2+ reduction of the Mo V 2 and Mo IV 3 ions [Mo2O4(H2O)6]2+ and [Mo3O4(H2O)9]4+ (pp. 1397-1402) Hills, Elaine F.; Sykes, A. Geoffrey
• Reduction–oxidation properties of organotransition-metal complexes. Part 26. The synthesis of paramagnetic triazenido- and aryl(1-aryliminoethyl)amido-bridged dirhodium carbonyl derivatives containing the [Rh2]3+ core (pp. 1403-1408) Connelly, Neil G.; Garcia, Gabriel; Gilbert, Mark; Stirling, Janet S.
• Design of transition metal chelates with biological activity. Potentiometric study of complex formation equilibria between 2-amino-N-hydroxy-3-(p-hydroxyphenyl) propanamide and nickel(II), copper(II), and hydrogen ions in aqueous solution (pp. 1409-1414) Leporati, Enrico
• The synthesis of silica-supported phosphine and phosphine oxide complexes of manganese(II) iodide and their reaction with sulphur dioxide (pp. 1415-1417) Booth, Brian L.; Mu-guang, Liu; McAuliffe, Charles A.
• Magnetic exchange interactions in perovskite solid solutions. Part 8. A study of the solid solution SrFe1–x CoxO3–y by Iron-57 mössbauer spectroscopy (pp. 1419-1423) Gibb, Terence C.
• Reactions of chromium(III) complexes of 1,10-phenanthroline, 2,2′-bipyridyl, and oxalate with the pulse radiolytically generated aquated electron, zinc(I), and cadmium(I) (pp. 1425-1429) Lawrance, Geoffrey A.; Sangster, David F.
• Pentamethylcyclopentadienylrhodaborane chemistry. Part 2. The reaction of [6-(η5-C5Me5)-nido-6-RhB9H13] with dimethylphenylphosphine, and the characterization of [5-(η5-C5Me5)-nido-5-RhB9H11-7-(PMe2Ph)], [2-(η5-C5Me5)-closo-2-RhB9H7-3,10-(PMe2Ph)2],* and [2-(η5-C5Me5)-nido-2-RhB8H10-5-(PMe2Ph)] by X-ray diffraction analysis and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (pp. 1431-1443) Fontaine, Xavier L. R.; Fowkes, Hayat; Greenwood, Norman N.; Kennedy, John D.; Thornton-Pett, Mark
• A group theoretical paradigm for describing the skeletal molecular orbitals of cluster compounds. Part 2. Bispherical clusters (pp. 1445-1456) Johnston, Roy L.; Mingos, D. Michael P.
• Triosmium clusters containing the ligands CNH2, NCHCN, and NCMeCN derived from cyanide ion, cyanogen, and acetonitrile (pp. 1457-1461) Deeming, Antony J.; Donovan-Mtunzi, Susan; Kabir, Shariff E.; Arce, Alejandro J.; De Sanctis, Ysaura
• Metallocene derivatives of early transition elements. Part 4. Synthesis and crystal structures of a series of zirconocene(IV) halides [Zr(η-C5H4SiMe3)2X2](X = Cl or Br) and [Zr{η-C5H3(SiMe3)2-1,3}2X2](XF, Br, or I) (pp. 1463-1472) Antiñolo, Antonio; Lappert, Michael F.; Singh, Anirudh; Winterborn, Duncan J. W.; Engelhardt, Lutz M.; Raston, Colin L.; White, Allan H.; Carty, Arthur J.; Taylor, Nicholas J.
• Kinetic studies on the oxidation of ethylenediaminebis(pyridine)- and bis(ethylenediamine)-platinum(II) complexes by hexachloroiridate(IV) (pp. 1473-1475) Peloso, Arnaldo
• Cyclopalladation to form planar tridentate [N–C–N]– intramolecular co-ordination systems involving pyridine donor groups, including ligand synthesis and X-ray structural studies (pp. 1477-1483) Canty, Allan J.; Minchin, Nigel J.; Skelton, Brian W.; White, Allan H.
• Concentrated aqueous solutions and liquid hydrates of zinc chloride: a study of their solvent behaviour using intershell, charge-transfer, and d–d absorption spectra (pp. 1485-1488) Duffy, John A.; Wood, G. Leslie
• Bimetallic systems. Part 19. Chromium(0)–, molybdenum(0)–, or tungsten(0)–iron(0) carbonyl complexes containing one or two bridging Ph2PCH2PPh2 ligands: crystal structure of [(OC)3Mo(µ-Ph2PCH2PPh2)2Fe(CO)3] (pp. 1489-1493) Jacobsen, Grant B.; Shaw, Bernard L.; Thornton-Pett, Mark
• Bimetallic systems. Part 20. Synthesis of group 6 metal(0)-iridium(I) or -rhodium(I) complexes bridged by Ph2PCH2PPh2 (pp. 1495-1499) Blagg, Adrian; Pringle, Paul G.; Shaw, Bernard L.
• Bimetallic systems. Part 21. Synthesis of vinylidene- and phenylene-bridged complexes of dinickel(II), nickel(II)–palladium(II), and nickel(II)-platinum(II) containing Ph2PCH2PPh2(dppm): crystal structures of [(SCN)Ni(µ-dppm)2(µ-CCH2)Ni(NCS)] and [ClPd(µ-dppm)2(µ-CCCl2)NiCl] (pp. 1501-1507) Fontaine, Xavier L. R.; Higgins, Simon J.; Shaw, Bernard L.; Thornton-Pett, Mark; Yichang, Wu
• Bimetallic systems. Part 22. Molybdenum(0)– and manganese(I)-iron(0) carbonyl complexes containing one bridging Ph2PCH2PPh2 ligand, including the reversible uptake of carbon monoxide: crystal structure of [(OC)4Fe(µ-Ph2PCH2PPh2)Mo(CO)4]·0.5 C6H5Cl (pp. 1509-1513) Jacobsen, Grant B.; Shaw, Bernard L.; Thornton-Pett, Mark
• Phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance parameters for compounds with the α-tetraphosphorus trisulphide skeleton; substituent constants for an inorganic substrate (pp. 1515-1520) Tattershall, Bruce W.
• A quantitative approach to host–guest interactions for matrix-isolated alkali-metal salts of hexafluoroanions and perchlorates (pp. 1521-1527) Beattie, Ian R.; Millington, Keith R.
• Intermediates in the conversion of [Os3(CO)11(PRPh2)](R = Me or Ph) into [Os3(µ3-C6H4)(µ3–PR)(CO)9]: crystal and molecular structures of [Os3-(µ-H)(µ3-C6H4PMePh-o)(CO)9] and [Os3(µ3-C6H4PMe-o)(CO)10] (pp. 1529-1534) Deeming, Antony J.; Kabir, Shariff E.; Powell, Nicholas I.; Bates, Paul A.; Hursthouse, Michael B.
• Raman and resonance-Raman studies of platinum group tetrathiomolybdates and tetrathiotungstates (pp. 1535-1544) Clark, Robin J. H.; Walton, Jacqueline R.
• The triphenylphosphine cone angle and restricted rotation about the chromium–phosphorus bond in dicarbonyl(η6-hexa-alkylbenzene)(triphenyl-phosphine)chromium(0) complexes. Crystal and molecular structure of dicarbonyl(η6-hexa-n-propylbenzene)(triphenylphosphine)chromium(0) (pp. 1545-1550) Hunter, Geoffrey; Weakley, Timothy J. R.; Weissensteiner, Walter
• Preparation and reactivity of halide-bridged binuclear carbonyl manganese and rhenium anions, [M2(µ-X)(CO)8–2n {(EtO)2POP(OEt)2} n ]–(X = halide; M = Mn, n= 1 or 2; M = Re, n= 1). X-Ray crystal structure of [Mn2Au(µ-Br)(CO)6– (µ-tedip)(PPh3)] (pp. 1551-1556) Riera, Victor; Ruiz, Miguel A.; Tiripicchio, Antonio; Camellini, Marisa Tiripicchio
• Synthesis and substitution reactions of a heterodimetallic molybdenum–manganese complex, [MoMn(µ-H)(µ-PPh2)(η5-C5H5)(CO)6]; X-ray crystal structure of [MoMn(µ-H)(µ-PPh2)(η5-C5H5)(CO)4(dppm-PP′)] (pp. 1557-1563) Horton, Andrew D.; Mays, Martin J.; Raithby, Paul R.
• Notes. Reactions of (NSCl)3 with Lewis acids and sulphur: a convenient preparation of [S2N][SbCl6] (pp. 1565-1567) Banister, Arthur J.; Kendrick, Aidan G.
• Crystal and molecular structure of [{Ag[S2P(OEt)2]·PPh3}2] (pp. 1569-1571) Drew, Michael G. B.; Hobson, Richard J.; Mumba, Peter P. E. M.; Rice, David A.
• Identification of the endo,exo isomer of 6,9-(PMe2Ph)2-arachno-B10H12 by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (pp. 1573-1575) Fontaine, Xavier L. R.; Kennedy, John D.
• Preparation and crystal structures of [PPh4]2[M2(SPh)6](M = Zn or Cd) (pp. 1577-1579) Abrahams, Ian L.; Garner, C. David; Clegg, William
• Letters (pp. 1581-1581) Hill, William E.; Wickens, Denys A.; Abrams, Gillian
• Additions and corrections (pp. 1583-1583) Leporati, Enrico; Bingham, Alistair G.; Bögge, Hartmut; Müller, Achim; Ainscough, Eric W.; Brodie, Andrew M.; Demartin, Francesco; Pizzotti, Maddalena; Porta, Francesca; Cenini, Sergio

Issue: 7

• Contents pages (pp. P025-P028)
• Front cover (pp. X025-X026)
• Back cover (pp. X027-X028)
• Structure and magnetism of analogous O-bridged (phenolato) and S-bridged (thiophenolato) binuclear copper(II) complexes. Crystal structure of the binuclear S-bridged complex µ-[2,6-bis(4′-cyclohexyl-4′-hydroxy-2′,3′-diazabuta-1′,3′-dien-1′-yl)-4-methylthiophenolato(3–)-S,N 2,O(Cu1,2)]-methanol-µ-(pyrazolyl-N,N′)-dicopper(II) (pp. 1585-1591) Iliopoulos, Peter; Murray, Keith S.; Robson, Richard; Wilson, Jenny; Williams, Geoffrey A.
• Nitrogen-15 and oxygen-17 nuclear magnetic resonance chemical shifts and 15N-29Si, 13C-29Si, and 15N–1H coupling constants in cyclosilazoxanes (pp. 1593-1596) Kupče, Ēriks; Liepinš, Edvards; Lukevics, Edmunds; Astapov, Boris
• Involvement of hydrogen-bonding protons in delocalization of the paramagnetic electron in a single crystal of photoreduced decatungstate (pp. 1597-1604) Yamase, Toshihiro
• Complexes of 2,5,7,9-tetrathiabicyclo[4.3.0]non-1(6)-ene-8-thione(L1). Part 1. Synthesis and antimony-121 Mössbauer spectroscopic characterisation of SbCl3(L1)1.5, crystal and molecular structures of SbCl3(L1)1.5 and uncomplexed L1 (pp. 1605-1609) Drew, Michael G. B.; Kisenyi, Jonathan M.; Parish, R. V. (Dick)
• Synthesis of (η-cyclopentadienyl)(trimethylphosphine)tungsten derivatives and related chemistry (pp. 1611-1618) Green, Malcolm L. H.; Parkin, Gerard
• Synthesis and characterization of new heterobimetallic iron–cobalt complexes with ethenyl bridges CR2CHR1[R1= H or C(O)OMe, R2= C(O)OMe or C(O)OEt]. X-Ray structure of [FeCo(CO)6{µ-MeOC(O)CC(H)C(O)OMe}] (pp. 1619-1622) Moldes, Isabel; Ros, Josep; Mathieu, René; Solans, Xavier; Font-Bardía, Mercé
• Substituted osmium clusters containing labile ligands. The preparation, characterisation, and some reactions of [Os3H(OR)(CO)9(MeCN)](R = H, Me, Et, or Ph) and the isomers of [Os3H(SR)(CO)9(MeCN)](R = Me, Et, or Ph); the crystal and molecular structure of [Os3H(SPh)(CO)9(PEt3)] (pp. 1623-1630) Ditzel, Evert J.; Gómez-Sal, M. Pilar; Johnson, Brian F. G.; Lewis, Jack; Raithby, Paul R.
• Ring-size and substituent effects in relatively rigid macrocyclic quinquedentate ligands. Structure determinations of [ZnL4(H2O)2][ClO4]2·MeCN and [ZnL3(ClO4)2] (pp. 1631-1636) Liles, David C.; McPartlin, Mary; Tasker, Peter A.
• Nitrogen-14 nuclear quadrupole resonance study of bonding in transition-metal cyanides (pp. 1637-1640) Murgich, Juan; Oja, Tonis
• Crystal and molecular structures of [MCl(CPhCMe2)(η-C5H5)2](M = Zr or Hf) and [TiCl0.5 Br0.5(CPhCMe2)(η-C5H5)2]: an unusual π-interaction with the metals and molecular orbital calculations on model compounds (pp. 1641-1645) Cardin, Christine J.; Cardin, David J.; Morton-Blake, D. Anthony; Parge, Hans E.; Roy, Abhijit
• Chemistry of 2,3-dihydro-2-metallaphenalenes. Part 2. Formation of [CHMMe2C(MMe3)C10H6] x via base decomposition of [1,8-(Me3MCH2)2C10H6] y (M = Ge, x= 2–, y= 0; M = P, x= 0, y= 2+); crystal structures of the novel bis-ylide CHPMe2C(PMe3)C10H6 and of a distorted peri-ylide, 1-Me-8-(Me3PCH)C10H6 (pp. 1647-1653) Engelhardt, Lutz M.; Papasergio, Rocco I.; Raston, Colin L.; Salem, Geoffrey; Whitaker, Claire R.; White, Allan H.
• Neutral and anionic 2-methyl-6-nitrophenyl palladium(II) complexes. The X-ray crystal structure of bis(benzyltriphenylphosphonium)trans-di-µ-chloro-bis[chloro(2-methyl-6-nitrophenyl)palladate(II)]–acetone (1/2) (pp. 1655-1658) Vicente, Jose; Arcas, Aurelia; Borrachero, M. Victoria; Hursthouse, Michael B.
• Unsymmetrical bridging of an acetylide ligand in the cation [Pt2(CCBut)3(µ-dppm)2]+(dppm = Ph2PCH2PPh2): X-ray structure determination of the tetraphenylborate salt (pp. 1659-1663) Alcock, Nathaniel W.; Kemp, Terence J.; Pringle, Paul G.; Bergamini, Paola; Traverso, Orazio
• Syntheses, X-ray structures, and properties of complexes of macrocyclic hexaimines with lanthanide nitrates (pp. 1665-1673) Arif, Ata M.; Backer-Dirks, J. D. Julius; Gray, Colin J.; Hart, F. Alan; Hursthouse, Michael B.
• Preparation and partial oxidation of tin(II) trifluoroacetate: spectroscopic properties and X-ray crystal structure of di-µ3-oxo-octakis-µ-trifluoroacetato-tetratin(II)tin(IV) (pp. 1675-1682) Birchall, Thomas; Faggiani, Romolo; Lock, Colin J. L.; Manivannan, Veeragathy
• Preparation, structure, and properties of [Ni{S2C2(CF3)2}2]– and [Ni{Se2C2(CF3)2}2]– salts with small cations (pp. 1683-1685) Harris, Nigel J.; Underhill, Allan E.
• Photochemical preparation and reactivity of platinum(II) complexes with oxygen-donor ligands. Description and synthesis of di-µ-chloro-dichlorobis(substituted pyridine)diplatinum(II) (pp. 1687-1692) Auffret, Joëlle; Courtot, Pierre; Pichon, Roger; Salaün, Jean-Yves
• Technetium(V) and rhenium(V) complexes with N-(2-mercaptophenyl)salicylideneiminate. Crystal structure of chloro(oxo)[N-(2-sulphidophenyl)salicylideneiminato-NOS]technetium(V) (pp. 1693-1699) Tisato, Francesco; Refosco, Fiorenzo; Mazzi, Ulderico; Bandoli, Giuliano; Nicolini, Marino
• Tungsten(VI) equilibria: a potentiometric and calorimetric investigation (pp. 1701-1705) Cruywagen, Johannes J.; van der Merwe, Izak F. J.
• Crystal and molecular structure of [Co8(CO)21(µ5-CS2)(µ5-C2S)]: a thiocarbonyl group as a six-electron donor (pp. 1707-1711) Gervasio, Giuliana; Rossetti, Rosanna; Stanghellini, Pier Luigi; Bor, György
• Conversion of uncharged methyl complexes of ruthenium(II) into a cationic acyl complex: a mechanistic study (pp. 1713-1716) McCooey, K. Michelle; Probitts, E. Jane; Mawby, Roger J.
• Studies on transition-metal–peptide complexes. Part 13. Copper(II) and nickel(II) complexes of amino acids and peptides containing a thioether group (pp. 1717-1720) Sóvágó, Imre; Petőcz, György
• An electron spin resonance study of the equilibrium between tetrahalogeno- and pentahalogeno-nitridotechnetate(VI) ions in solution (pp. 1721-1725) Baldas, John; Boas, John F.; Bonnyman, John
• Iron antimonate (pp. 1727-1731) Berry, Frank J.; Holden, John G.; Loretto, Michael H.; Urch, David S.
• Monometallic, homo- and hetero-bimetallic complexes based on redox active tris(3,5-dimethylpyrazolyl)borato-molybdenum and -tungsten nitrosyls. Part 4. The effects of ligating atom type on the reduction potentials of monometallic complexes (pp. 1733-1736) Al Obaidi, Najat; Chaudhury, Muktimoy; Clague, Diane; Jones, Christopher J.; Pearson, Julie C.; McCleverty, Jon A.; Salam, Sithy S.
• Charge density in the CoCl4 2– ion: a comparison with spin density and theoretical calculations (pp. 1737-1745) Figgis, Brian N.; Reynolds, Philip A.; White, Allan H.
• Covalence in the [Cr(CN)6]3– ion studied by X-ray diffraction from Cs2KCr(CN)6 (pp. 1747-1753) Figgis, Brian N.; Reynolds, Philip A.
• An electron spin resonance study of the copper(II) chelate of 2-(2′-pyridyimethylenehydrazonomethyl)phenol and related compounds (pp. 1755-1761) Tirant, Michael; Smith, Thomas D.; Pilbrow, John R.; Hanson, Graeme; Sinclair, Geoffrey R.
• Synthesis and reactions of [(OC)2Re(µ-dppm)2(µ-Cl)2Rh(η 2-C2H4)](dppm = Ph2PCH2PPh2): crystal structure of the 1 : 2 chlorobenzene solvate (pp. 1763-1768) Carr, Stuart W.; Shaw, Bernard L.; Thornton-Pett, Mark
• The reversible one-electron oxidation of trans-[Mn′L(CO)(Ph2PCH2PPh2)2] z+: synthesis and characterisation of stable manganese(II) derivatives (pp. 1769-1773) Carriedo, Gabino A.; Riera, Victor; Connelly, Neil G.; Raven, Stephen J.
• The base catalysed hydrolysis of trans-dichlorobis-(1,2-diaminoethane)-cobalt(III) and -(1,3-diaminopropane)cobalt(III) cations: rate-limiting proton transfer (pp. 1775-1778) Blakeley, Christine; Tobe, Martin L.
• Correlation between thermal stability and molecular and crystal structure in a series of potassium–dibenzo-18-crown-6 solid compounds (pp. 1779-1783) Battaglia, Luigi P.; Corradi, Anna Bonamartini; Bianchi, Antonio; Giusti, Jolanda; Paoletti, Piero
• Notes. The co-ordination of small molecules by manganese(II) phosphine complexes. The reaction of some [MnX2L](X = Cl, Br, or I; L = PPrn 3, PMe2Ph, or PPh3) complexes with tetracyanoethylene (pp. 1785-1787) Gott, George A.; McAuliffe, Charles A.
• Co-oligomerization of diphenylketene and ethylene promoted by (η 5-cyclopentadienyl)bis(ethylene)cobalt(I): synthesis and X-ray structure of a heterocycle containing cobalt(III) (pp. 1789-1792) Gambarotta, Sandro; Stella, Sergio; Floriani, Carlo; Chiesi-Villa, Angiola; Guastini, Carlo
• X-Ray crystal structure and properties of dibenzotetrathiafulvalenium trichlorodiethylstannate(IV) (pp. 1793-1796) Matsubayashi, Gen-etsu; Shimizu, Ryuichi; Tanaka, Toshio
• Di-2-pyridyl ketone complexes of copper(I): efficient photocatalysts for norbornadiene–quadricyclane conversion (pp. 1797-1799) Basu, Amitabha; Saple, Ashok R.; Sapre, Niteen Y.
• On the induced circular dichroism of d–d transitions of a 14-membered macrocyclic tetra-amine nickel(II) complex in β-cyclodextrin (pp. 1801-1803) Kobayashi, Nagao; Zao, Xizhang; Osa, Tetsuo; Kato, Kazumasa; Hanabusa, Kenji; Imoto, Tomosaku; Shirai, Hirofusa

Issue: 8

• Contents pages (pp. P029-P032)
• Front cover (pp. X029-X030)
• Back cover (pp. X031-X032)
• Metallacarboranes derived from the [C2B10H12]2– anion. The preparation, molecular structure, and properties of [4-(dppe)-4-Pd-1,6-C2B10H12], [4,4,4-H(PPh3)2-2-OMe-4-Ir-1,6-C2B10H11], and [3-(dppe)-3-Pt-1,2-C2B9H11] (pp. 1805-1811) Alcock, Nathaniel W.; Taylor, John G.; Wallbridge, Malcolm G. H.
• Cationic ruthenium(II) phosphite complexes. Preparation and properties of monocarbonyl and isocyanide derivatives (pp. 1813-1816) Albertin, Gabriele; Antoniutti, Stefano; Bordignon, Emilio
• Crystal and molecular structure of chromium(II) sulphate pentahydrate and single-crystal electronic spectra and bonding of CrSO4·5H2O, CuSO4·5H2O, and CuSO4·5D2O (pp. 1817-1822) Hitchman, Michael A.; Lichon, Michael; McDonald, Robbie G.; Smith, Peter W.; Stranger, Robert; Skelton, Brian W.; White, Allan H.
• Mixed chloro-, NN-dialkyldithiocarbamato-, and S-alkyl NN-dialkyldithiocarbamate complexes of platinum(II). Crystal structure of [PtCl(S2CNEt2)(MeS2CNEt)] (pp. 1823-1826) Clemente, Dore A.; Faraglia, Giuseppina; Sindellari, Livia; Trincia, Lucio
• Synthesis of SS′-bis(4′-benzo[15-crown-5])dithioglyoxime and its complexes with copper(II) nickel(II), cobalt(II), cobalt(III), palladium(II), platinum(II), and platinum(IV) (pp. 1827-1831) Ahsen, Vefa; Gökçeli, Füsun; Bekâroǧlu, Özer
• Electrochemical reactions of dichlorobis(aryl isocyanide)platinum(II) complexes (pp. 1833-1837) Yamamoto, Yasuhiro; Takahashi, Katsuo; Matsuda, Kiyoshi; Yamazaki, Hiroshi
• The methyl/trifluoromethyl substitution effect in boranes. A gas-phase electron diffraction and vibrational study of bis(dimethylamino)-(trifluoromethyl)borane and dimethylaminobis(trifluoromethyl)borane (pp. 1839-1845) Hausser-Wallis, Reneé; Oberhammer, Heinz; Bürger, Hans; Pawelke, Gottfried
• Bimetallic compounds of trans-cyclohexane-1,2-diamine-NNN′N′-tetra-acetate(cdta): structural and magnetic characterization of [(H2O)4Cu(cdta)Ni]·3H2O and [(H2O)5Ni(cdta)Cu]·H2O (pp. 1847-1851) Fuertes, Amparo; Miravitlles, Carlos; Escrivá, Emilio; Coronado, Eugenio; Beltrán, Daniel
• Complex formation of beryllium(II) with salicylate and hydroxide ions in 1 mol dm–3 sodium perchlorate aqueous solution at 25 °C (pp. 1853-1856) Maeda, Masunobu; Murata, Yutaka; Ito, Kaname
• Preparation and characterisation of dicarboxylatobis(η-cyclopentadienyl)-tungsten(IV) complexes: a novel and convenient synthesis from [W(η-C5H5)2H2] using molecular oxygen as a hydrogen acceptor (pp. 1857-1860) Ito, Takashi; Nakano, Toshiyuki
• Decarboxylation of vinylene carbonate at triosmium clusters; X-ray crystal structure of the µ3-formylmethylidene compound [Os3(CHCHO)(CO)10] (pp. 1861-1864) Arce, Alejandro J.; Deeming, Antony J.; Hursthouse, Michael B.; Walker, Nigel P. C.
• Complexes of ligands providing endogenous bridges. Part 3. Non-transition metal complexes of macrocycles derived from 2,6-diacetyl-4-methylphenol; the crystal structure of a mononuclear barium complex (pp. 1865-1868) Bailey, Neil A.; Fenton, David E.; Roberts, Patrick B.; Walford, Alison M.
• Three isomeric hydride compounds formed by protonation of decacarbonyl-bis(dimethylphenylphosphine)triosmium and the X-ray structures of two of these: 1,1- and 1,2-[Os3H(CO)10(PMe2Ph)2][PF6] (pp. 1869-1875) Deeming, Antony J.; Donovan-Mtunzi, Susan; Kabir, Shariff E.; Hursthouse, Michael B.; Malik, K. M. Abdul; Walker, Nigel P. C.
• Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic study of γ-zirconium phosphate (pp. 1877-1881) Clayden, Nigel J.
• Tetranuclear amido complexes of copper(I): a synthetic and structural study (pp. 1883-1888) Gambarotta, Sandro; Bracci, Michela; Floriani, Carlo; Chiesi-Villa, Angiola; Guastini, Carlo
• A general synthetic route for platinum cluster compounds containing carbonyl and tertiary phosphine ligands and a study of their reactions with unsaturated inorganic molecules (pp. 1889-1895) Evans, David G.; Hallam, Malcolm F.; Mingos, D. Michael P.; Wardle, Robert W. M.
• Kinetic study of the homogeneous methanolysis of tetraphosphorus decasulphide (pp. 1897-1900) Bourdauducq, Paul; Démarcq, Michel C.
• Co-ordination chemistry of higher oxidation states. Part 23. Synthesis and properties of tetrahalogenoiridium(IV) complexes, [IrL2X4][X = Cl or Br; L = pyridine, PR3, AsR3, SbR3, SR2, or SeR2]. Crystal and molecular structure of trans-[Ir(AsEt3)2Br4] (pp. 1901-1910) Cipriano, Robert A.; Levason, William; Pletcher, Derek; Powell, Nigel A.; Webster, Michael
• Exchange of cadmium into the sodium and ammonium forms of the natural zeolites clinoptilolite, mordenite, and ferrierite (pp. 1911-1916) Loizidou, Maria; Townsend, Rodney P.
• Reverse Bohr effect on the oxygen-binding affinity of heme embedded in a bilayer of liposome as a hemoglobin model: pH-induced oxygen uptake and evolution by aqueous synthetic lipid-heme solution (pp. 1917-1920) Yuasa, Makoto; Tani, Yuichiroh; Nishide, Hiroyuki; Tsuchida, Eishun
• Dithio-oxamides as ligands: crystal structures and vibrational analyses of bis(N,N′-dicyclohexyldithio-oxamidato)palladium(II), bis(N,N′-dibenzyldithio-oxamide) copper(II) diperchlorate, and dichloro(N,N′-dimethyldithio-oxamide) zinc(II) and the carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of related compounds (pp. 1921-1928) Antolini, Luciano; Fabretti, Antonio C.; Franchini, Giancarlo; Menabue, Ledi; Pellacani, Gian Carlo; Desseyn, Herman O.; Dommisse, Roger; Hofmans, Hendrik C.
• Substitution reactions and luminescence spectra of the mixed complexes [ReCl x Br6–x ]2– (pp. 1929-1932) Flint, Colin D.; Lang, Peter F.
• Electrophilic attack on a series of dinuclear diphosphazane-bridged derivatives of iron by halogens. X-Ray crystal structures of [Fe2I(CO)5{µ-(MeO)2PN(Et)P(OMe)2}2]PF and [Fe2(µ-Br)(CO)4{µ-(PhO)2PN(Et)-P(OPh)2}2]PF6 (pp. 1933-1945) Field, John S.; Haines, Raymond J.; Sampson, Clifford N.
• Activation energies for molecular tumbling and cyclopentadienyl rotation in [M(η5-C5H5)(η4-cod)](M = Rh or Ir; cod = cyclo-octa-1,5-diene) and the X-ray crystal structure of and bonding in [Rh(η5-C5H5)(η4-cod)] (pp. 1947-1951) Adams, Harry; Bailey, Neil A.; Mann, Brian E.; Taylor, Brian F.; White, Colin; Yavari, Parvin
• Regioselective synthesis of [1-B10H9(SH)]2– and [2-B10H9(SH)]2–: potential agents for boron–Neutron capture therapy of brain tumours (pp. 1953-1956) Komura, Michihiro; Nakai, Hiroshi; Shiro, Motoo
• X-Ray structural study of [Fe(saltrien)]X (X = Br·2H2O, BPh4 or PF6). Origin of unusual magnetic behaviour of the spin-crossover complex [Fe(saltrien)]PF6 (pp. 1957-1961) Nishida, Yuzo; Kino, Koji; Kida, Sigeo
• Reactions of rhodium(V) hydrido–silyl complexes with butyl-lithium and with lithium triethylhydridoborate (pp. 1963-1966) Ruiz, Jose; Mann, Brian E.; Spencer, Catriona M.; Taylor, Brian F.; Maitlis, Peter M.
• The heteronuclear cluster chemistry of the group 1B metals. Part 4. Synthesis, structures, and dynamic behaviour of group 1B metal–ruthenium cluster compounds containing sulphur ligands. X-Ray crystal structures of [M2Ru3(µ3-S)(µ-Ph2PCH2PPh2)(CO)9](M = Cu or Au) (pp. 1967-1975) Brown, Scott S. D.; Hudson, Stephen; Salter, Ian D.; McPartlin, Mary
• Chiral recognition in ion pairing of an optically active tris(ethylenediamine)cobalt(III) cation and application to chromatographic resolution of metal complex anions (pp. 1977-1982) Tatehata, Akira; Fujita, Masanori; Ando, Katsunori; Asaba, Yasuyuki
• Transformation of [PPh4][Fe5RhC(CO)16] under hydroformylation conditions: synthesis and crystal structure of [PPh4][Fe3Rh3C(CO)15] (pp. 1983-1987) Alami, Mahmoud Kalam; Dahan, Françoise; Mathieu, René
• The preparation and crystal structure of 5SbF3·3SbF5 (pp. 1989-1998) Nandana, W. A. Shantha; Passmore, Jack; White, Peter S.; Wong, Chi-Ming
• The co-ordination of small molecules by manganese(II) phosphine complexes. Part 8. Irreversible oxidation of trimethylphosphinemanganese(II) dihalides, [MnX2(PMe3)](X = Cl, Br, or I), to bis(trimethylphosphine)manganese(III) trihalides, [MnX3(PMe3)2]. X-Ray crystal structure of trans-tri-iodobis-(trimethylphosphine)manganese(III), the first example of a trigonal-bipyramidal manganese(III) tertiary phosphine complex (pp. 1999-2003) Beagley, Brian; McAuliffe, Charles A.; Minten, Karl; Pritchard, Robin G.
• The synthesis and reactions of palladium–iron carbonyl complexes containing bridging Ph2PCH2PPh2 ligands (pp. 2005-2008) Jacobsen, Grant B.; Shaw, Bernard L.
• Synthesis and characterisation of some new manganese(II) and manganese(III) complexes of tetradentate Schiff-base ligands and their reaction with molecular oxygen (pp. 2009-2012) McAuliffe, Charles A.; (‘Dick’) Parish, R. V.; Ashmawy, Fathy M.; Issa, Rafaat M.; Amer, Saiid A.
• Alkylation of tricarbonyliron complexes by trimethylsilyl cyanide: synthetic and kinetic studies (pp. 2013-2016) Alexander, Rikki P.; James, Tony D.; Stephenson, G. Richard
• Metal ion-bridged intramolecular stacking interaction between the tryptophyl residue and the aromatic heterocyclic amine within the ternary complex (1,10-phenanthroline)(L-tryptophanato-O,N)copper(II) perchlorate–water (1/2.5): an X-ray study (pp. 2017-2021) Aoki, Katsuyuki; Yamazaki, Hiroshi
• Phosphorus–nitrogen compounds. Part 50. Further studies on the formation of bicyclic cyclotetraphosphazatetraene derivatives (pp. 2023-2029) Contractor, Sorab R.; Kılıç, Zeynel; Shaw, Robert A.
• (η-Benzene)bis(trimethylphosphine)iron: a useful precursor to polyene iron derivatives. Crystal structure of 2–4-η : 2′–4′-η-1,1′-bi(cyclohex-3-en-2-yl)-bis(trimethylphosphine)iron(II) (pp. 2031-2038) Green, Malcolm L. H.; O'Hare, Dermot; Wong, Luet-Lok
• Insertion of 2,6-dimethylphenyl isocyanide into the U–N bond of [U(η-C5H5)3(NEt2)]. Crystal structure of [U(η-C5H5)3{C(NEt2)NC6H3Me2-2,6}] (pp. 2039-2043) Zanella, Pierino; Brianese, Nicola; Casellato, Umberto; Ossola, Franco; Porchia, Marina; Rossetto, Gilberto; Graziani, Rodolfo
• Lamellar inorganic ion exchangers. Proton–copper(II) ion exchange in γ-titanium bis(hydrogenphosphate) (pp. 2045-2050) Alvarez, Celia; Llavona, Ricardo; García, José R.; Suárez, Marta; Rodríguez, Julio
• Studies on borate, esters. Part 8. Interactions of cations with oxyacid anion-bridged esters of D-glucarate in alkaline media (pp. 2051-2057) van Duin, Martin; Peters, Joop A.; Kieboom, Antonius P. G.; van Bekkum, Herman
• Bis(organoimido)-complexes of tungsten(IV): the crystal and molecular structures of tetrachlorobis(t-butylamine)bis(t-butylimido)bis(µ-p-tolylimido)-ditungsten(VI) and tetrachlorobis(µ-phenylimido)-bis(t-butylamine) bis(t-butylimido)ditungsten(VI) (pp. 2059-2065) Ashcroft, Barry R.; Nielson, Alastair J.; Bradley, Donald C.; Errington, R. John; Hursthouse, Michael B.; Short, Richard L.
• Preparation and characterisation of mononuclear organoimido complexes of tungsten: X-ray crystal structures of [WCl4(NC6H4Me-p)(thf)], [P(CH2Ph)Ph3][WCl5(NC6H4Me-p)], and [WCl2(NPh)2(bipy)] (pp. 2067-2075) Bradley, Donald C.; Errington, R. John; Hursthouse, Michael B.; Short, Richard L.; Ashcroft, Barry R.; Clark, George R.; Nielson, Alastair J.; Rickard, Clifton E. F.
• Pentafluorophenyl complexes of palladium and platinum containing chelating, unidentate, or bridging Ph2PCH2PPh2 ligands (pp. 2077-2081) Usón, Rafael; Forniés, Juan; Espinet, Pablo; Navarro, Rafael; Fortuño, Consuelo
• Notes. Carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance study of the properties of the unsaturated anion [Re3(µ-H)4(CO)9(NCMe)]– at low temperature (pp. 2083-2085) Beringhelli, Tiziana; D'Alfonso, Giuseppe; Molinari, Henriette
• A trigonal bipyramidal pentaruthenium cluster, [Ru5(CO)3(µ3-CO)3(η-C5H5)4] (pp. 2087-2088) Knox, Selby A. R.; Morris, Michael J.

Issue: 9

• Contents pages (pp. P033-P036)
• Front cover (pp. X033-X034)
• Back cover (pp. X035-X036)
• Thermal investigation and stereochemical studies of some cyclic diamine complexes of nickel(II), zinc(II), and cadmium(II) in the solid state (pp. 2089-2094) Singh, Langonjam Kanhai; Mitra, Samiran
• Synthesis, characterisation, and aquation kinetics of [N-(o-carboxyphenyl)iminodiacetato](glycinato)chromate(III) complex ion in acidic media (pp. 2095-2098) Chatterjee, Chínmay; Phadke, Sanjiv Vasant
• Reaction of elemental sulphur with bis(pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)vanadium derivatives: disulphido and µ-sulphido complexes. Crystal structures of [V(η-C5Me5)2(S2)] and [V2(η-C5Me5)2Cl2(µ-S)2] (pp. 2099-2103) Floriani, Carlo; Gambarotta, Sandro; Chiesi-Villa, Angiola; Guastini, Carlo
• Photochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide in water using a nickel(II) tetra-azamacrocycle complex as catalyst (pp. 2105-2109) Grant, Janice L.; Goswami, Kisholoy; Spreer, Larry O.; Otvos, John W.; Calvin, Melvin
• Reactions of main group homopolynuclear cations with transition-metal carbonyls. Stabilisation of µ-Se2 2+ and η3-Te3 2+ dicationic ligands and crystal structures of [Mo(Te3)(CO)4][SbF6]2 and [FeW(Se2)(CO)8][SbF6]2 (pp. 2111-2116) Seigneurin, Aline; Makani, Thomas; Jones, Deborah J.; Rozière, Jacques
• Platinum(II) complexes with ligands (RO)2PCH2P(OR)2(R = Me, Et, Ph, or C6H4Me-4); crystal structure of cis,cis-[Pt2Me4{µ-(EtO)2PCH2P(OEt)2}2] (pp. 2117-2124) Manojlović-Muir, Ljubica; Jobe, Ian R.; Maya, Beverley J.; Puddephatt, Richard J.
• Studies in Werner clathrates. Part 4. Structures of tetrakis(4-ethylpyridine)di-isothiocyanatonickel(II) and its clathrates with p-, m-, and o-xylene, carbon disulphide, and carbon tetrachloride (pp. 2125-2140) Moore, Madeleine H.; Nassimbeni, Luigi R.; Niven, Margaret L.
• The syntheses and crystal structures of two iminolithium adducts: (Ph2CNLi·NC5H5)4, a tetrameric pseudo-cubane formed by stacking two (LiN)2 four-membered rings, and [But 2CNLi·OP(NMe2)3]2, a dimer prevented sterically from stacking (pp. 2141-2147) Barr, Donald; Snaith, Ronald; Clegg, William; Mulvey, Robert E.; Wade, Kenneth
• The hydrolysis of metal ions. Part 10. Kinetic and equilibrium measurements of molybdenum(VI) (pp. 2149-2157) Brown, Paul L.; Shying, Michael E.; Sylva, Ronald N.
• Methylindium dialkylamido compounds: mono- and bis-dialkylamides involving four- and five-co-ordinated indium(III). X-Ray crystal structures of {Me2In[N(CH2)2N(Me)CH2CH2]}2, MeIn[MeNC(CH)4N]2, and MeIn{[MeN(CH2)2NMe]InMe2}2 (pp. 2159-2164) Arif, Atta M.; Bradley, Donald C.; Dawes, Helen; Frigo, Dario M.; Hursthouse, Michael B.; Hussain, Bilquis
• Synthesis and reactions of the co-ordinatively unsaturated hexafluorobut-2-yne complex [WBr2(CO)(CF3CCCF3)2]. The crystal and molecular structure of [{W[C(CF3)C(CF3)P(OEt)2O](µ-Br)(CO)(CF3CCCF3)}2] (pp. 2165-2170) Davidson, Jack L.; Vasapollo, Giuseppe; Millar, John C.; Muir, Kenneth W.
• Some chemistry of the heterobimetallic complexes [(OC)3Mo(µ-dppm)2Rh(CO)Cl] and [(OC)3Mo(µ-dppm)2M(CO)2]PF6(M = Rh or Ir, dppm = Ph2PCH2PPh2). Structure of [(OC)3Mo(µ-dppm)2(µ-CCMe)Rh(CO)] (pp. 2171-2176) Blagg, Adrian; Robson, Richard; Shaw, Bernard L.; Thornton-Pett, Mark
• Chemistry of polynuclear metal complexes with bridging carbene or carbyne ligands. Part 62. Synthesis of penta-, hexa-, and hepta-heteronuclear metal cluster compounds involving tungsten or molybdenum with platinum or nickel: crystal structures of the chain compounds [Pt3W3(µ-CMe)(µ3-CMe)2(CO)6(cod)(η-C5Me5)3]·0.5CH2Cl2 and [Pt3W4(µ-CC6H4Me-4)2(µ3-CC6H4Me-4)2(CO)8(η-C5H5)4] (pp. 2177-2187) Davies, Simon J.; Elliott, Gregory P.; Howard, Judith A. K.; Nunn, Christine M.; Stone, F. Gordon A.
• Chemistry of polynuclear metal complexes with bridging carbene or carbyne ligands. Part 63. Synthesis of eight-membered-ring metallacycles: X-ray crystal structures of [Pt4W4(µ-CR)(µ3-CR)3(µ-CO)(CO)7(η-C5H5)4]·CH2Cl2, [Ni2Pt2W4(µ-CR)(µ3-CR)3(µ-CO)(CO)7(η-C5H5)4]·CH2Cl2(R = C6H4Me-4), and [Ni2Pt2W4(µ3-CPh)4(CO)8(η-C5H5)4] (pp. 2189-2200) Elliott, Gregory P.; Howard, Judith A. K.; Mise, Takaya; Nunn, Christine M.; Stone, F. Gordon A.
• Chemistry of polynuclear metal complexes with bridging carbene or carbyne ligands. Part 64. Addition of methylene groups to iron–molybdenum complexes; crystal structures of [FeMo(µ-CH2){µ-σ:η-C(C6H4Me-4)CH2}(CO)5(η-C5H5)] and [FeMo{µ-C(C6H4Me-4)C(OMe)C(H)}(CO)5(η-C5H5)] (pp. 2201-2209) Garcia, M. Esther; Tran-Huy, N. Hoa; Jeffery, John C.; Sherwood, Paul; Stone, F. Gordon A.
• Chemistry of polynuclear metal complexes with bridging carbene or carbyne ligands. Part 65. Reactions of the complexes [FeW(µ-CR)(CO)5(η-C5Me5)] and [Fe2W(µ3-CR)(µ-CO)(CO)8(η-C5Me5)](R = C6H4Me-4) with alkynes R′C2R′(R′= Me or Ph); crystal structures of [FeW{µ-C(R)C(O)C(Me)C(Me)}(CO)5(η-C5Me5)]·CH2Cl2 and [FeW{µ-C(R)C(Et)C(H)C(Me)C(Me)}(µ-CO)(CO)3(η-C5Me5)] (pp. 2211-2218) Hein, Joachim; Jeffery, John C.; Sherwood, Paul; Stone, F. Gordon A.
• Chemistry of polynuclear metal complexes with bridging carbene or carbyne ligands. Part 66. Carbaboranetungsten–platinum complexes. Polyhedral rearrangements of a 12-vertex cage system; crystal structures of [PtW(CO)2(PEt3)2{µ6-C2B9H8(CH2C6H4Me-4)Me2}]·CH2Cl2, [PtW(µ-H){µ-σ:η5- C2B9H7(CH2C6H4-Me-4)Me2}(CO)2(PMe3)(PEt3)2], and related compounds (pp. 2219-2233) Attfield, Michael J.; Howard, Judith A. K.; de M. Jelfs, Alasdair N.; Nunn, Christine M.; Stone, F. Gordon A.
• Crystal structures and properties of [Au(phen){(CN)0.92Br0.08}2]Br and [Au(phen)(CN){(CN)0.82Br0.18}]·0.5trans-[Au(CN)2Br2]·0.5Br·phen (phen = 1,10-phenanthroline) obtained by disproportionation of five-co-ordinate bromodicyano(1,10-phenanthroline)gold(III). Two examples of secondary co-ordination and CN/Br disorder in square-planar gold(III) complexes (pp. 2235-2240) Marangoni, Giampaolo; Pitteri, Bruno; Bertolasi, Valerio; Ferretti, Valeria; Gilli, Gastone
• The co-ordination of small molecules by manganese(II) phosphine complexes. Part 9. The reaction of ethylene with [MnX2L](X = Cl, Br, or I; L = PPrn 3, PBun 3, PPhMe2, PPhEt2, or PPh3) in tetrahydrofuran solution (pp. 2241-2243) Gott, George A.; McAuliffe, Charles A.
• A reversible metal framework rearrangement in high-nuclearity osmium–platinum cluster compounds. X-Ray crystal structures of [Os6Pt(CO)17(µ3-NCMe)(C8H12)], [Os6Pt(CO)17(µ4-NCMe)(C8H12)](C8H12= cyclo-octa-1,5-diene), and [Os6(CO)19(µ3-NCMe)]: compounds with novel metal–acetonitrile bonding modes (pp. 2245-2252) Couture, Christiane; Farrar, David H.
• Synthesis, reactivity, and X-ray crystal structures of [Os6Pt2H2(CO)16(µ-C8H10)(C8H12)]·CH2Cl2 and [Os6H(CO)16(µ-C8H11)]. Model compounds for C–H activation (pp. 2253-2259) Couture, Christiane; Farrar, David H.
• Transition metal Schiff-base complexes as ligands in tin chemistry. Part 1. A tin-119 Mössbauer spectroscopic investigation of the adducts SnX4·ML, SnMe2(NCS)2·ML, and SnRCl3·ML (X = halide; M = Cu II or Ni II ; L = quadridentate Schiff-base ligand; R = phenyl or n-butyl) (pp. 2261-2266) Cunningham, Desmond; Fitzgerald, Joan; Little, Mark
• Crystal structure of tris(quinoxaline-2,3-dithiolato)molybdate(V); a distorted trigonal prismatic complex (pp. 2267-2271) Boyde, Stephen; Garner, C. David; Enemark, John H.; Bruck, Michael A.; Kristofzski, John G.
• Synthesis of chelate stabilised alcohol– and alkoxo–platinum(II) complexes. X-Ray crystal structure of [Pt(PPh2CH2CMe2O)2]·3.5H2O (pp. 2273-2280) Alcock, Nathaniel W.; Platt, Andrew W. G.; Pringle, Paul
• Notes. The synthesis, crystal and molecular structure of a copper(I) complex of 2(1H)-pyridinethione: an intermediate in Cu4S4 heterocubane build up (pp. 2281-2283) Constable, Edwin C.; Raithby, Paul R.
• Attempted synthesis of osmium(VI) and iridium(VI) thiofluorides; the preparation of OsF5·SF4 and IrF5·SF4 (pp. 2285-2287) Holloway, John H.; Rook, John
• Syntheses and properties of complexes of a conjugated macrocyclic hexamine with lanthanide nitrates (pp. 2289-2290) Gray, Colin J.; Hart, F. Alan
• Addition and corrections (pp. 2291-2291) Chimatadar, Shivamurti A.; Nandibewoor, Sharanappa T.; Sambrani, Mahantesh I.; Raju, Javali R.

Issue: 10

• Contents pages (pp. P037-P040)
• Front cover (pp. X037-X038)
• Back cover (pp. X039-X040)
• Preparation and properties of the tungsten(V) aqua dimer [W2O4(H2O)6]2+: kinetic studies on the 1:1 reaction with NCS– (pp. 2293-2297) Sharp, Christopher; Hills, Elaine F.; Sykes, A. Geoffrey
• Reactivity of rhenium(I) pseudo-allyl complexes with heterocumulenes such as RNCS (R = Me or Ph, p-MeC6H4) and PhNCO. Part 1. Crystal structure determination of two isostructural monothio- and dithio-carbamate rhenium(I) complexes co-crystallized as [Re(CO)2(PPh3)2{SC(NHPh)–S}]·[Re(CO)2(PPh3)2{O–C(NHPh)S}] (pp. 2299-2303) Rossi, Roberto; Marchi, Andrea; Duatti, Adriano; Magon, Luciano; Casellato, Umberto; Graziani, Rodolfo
• Preparation and crystal structures of bis(tetraphenylarsonium) tris(oxalato)technetate(IV), and tetraphenylarsonium tris(benzene-1,2-dithiolato)technetate(V): octahedral versus trigonal-prismatic geometry for tris-bidentate complexes of technetium (pp. 2305-2310) Colmanet, Silvano F.; Williams, Geoffrey A.; Mackay, Maureen F.
• The relative nucleophilic efficiency of water and dimethyl sulphoxide in the aqueous substitution of aquapentacyanocobaltate(III) and chloropentacyanocobaltate(III) (pp. 2311-2316) Abou-El-Wafa, Moustafa H. M.; Burnett, Michael G.; McCullagh, John F.
• Oxygen-17 and aluminium-27 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic investigations of aluminium(III) hydrolysis products (pp. 2317-2322) Thompson, Arthur R.; Kunwar, Ajit C.; Gutowsky, Herbert S.; Oldfield, Eric
• Analysis and prediction of acid–base reactions between oxides and oxysalts using the optical basicity concept (pp. 2323-2328) Dent-Glasser, Lesley S.; Duffy, John A.
• Molten lithium carbonate–sodium carbonate–potassium carbonate eutectic: electronic spectroscopy of first-row transition metal compounds (pp. 2329-2331) Carthey, Nicholas A.; Kerridge, David H.
• Gold-197 Mössbauer spectra of some gold–ruthenium cluster compounds (pp. 2333-2336) Moore, Laila S.; (‘Dick’) Parish, R. V.; Brown, Scott S. D.; Salter, Ian D.
• The reaction of di-2-pyridyl ketone with antimony(III) fluoride. Preparation, properties, Mössbauer spectrum and crystal structure of difluoro(methoxydi-2-pyridylmethoxo-NN′O)antimony(III) (pp. 2337-2340) Alonzo, Giuseppe; Bertatzi, Nuccio; Bombieri, Gabriella; Bruno, Giuseppe
• An electron spin resonance study of the dioxygen adduct of bis[2-(2′-pyridylmethylenehydrazonomethyl)phenolato]cobalt(II) and related materials (pp. 2341-2345) Tirant, Michael; Smith, Thomas D.; Pilbrow, John R.
• Axially asymmetric metal alkyls. Part 5. Synthesis and reduction to Zr III species of Group 4 metallepines [ML(η-C5H5)2][L =(2-CHRC6H4)2 2–, R = H, M = Ti, Zr, or Hf)], isomers of [ZrL(η-C5H5)2](R = SiMe3), and meso-[M{1,8-(CHSiMe3)2C10H6}(η-C5H5)2](M = Zr or Hf); X-ray crystal structures of [TiL(η-C5H5)2](R = H) and λ- and δ-RS-[ZrL(η-C5H5)2](R = SiMe3) (pp. 2347-2357) Engelhardt, Lutz M.; Leung, Wing-Por; Papasergio, Rocco I.; Raston, Colin L.; Twiss, Paul; White, Allan H.
• A structural comparison of the two polymorphs of Sr2Co2O5 by cobalt K-edge extended X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (pp. 2359-2363) Battle, Peter D.; Gibb, Terence C.; Steel, Andrew T.
• Aspects of germanium-73 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (pp. 2365-2372) Wilkins, Alistair L.; Watkinson, Philip J.; Mackay, Kenneth M.
• Ab initio study of stable bis(carbon dioxide)molybdenum complexes (pp. 2373-2377) Marcos, Enrique Sánchez; Caballol, Rosa; Trinquier, Georges; Barthelat, Jean-Claude
• Metal(II) hexafluoroantimonates: preparation and characterization of MF2·2SbF5(M = Mg, Ni, Zn, Fe, Co, Cu, Cr, Ag, Cd, or Pb) and the X-ray structure determination of AgF2·2SbF5 (pp. 2379-2383) Gantar, Darja; Leban, Ivan; Frlec, Boris; Holloway, John H.
• Synthesis, molecular structure, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of the anionic monocarbametallaborane [NEt4][(CO)3(PPh3)(OH)-closo-MoCB10H10]·CH2Cl2 (pp. 2385-2389) Fontaine, Xavier L. R.; Greenwood, Norman N.; Kennedy, John D.; MacKinnon, Peter I.; Macpherson, Ian
• Polymeric thiolate complexes of Group 12 metals. Crystal and molecular structures of catena-[µ-(3-dimethylammonio-1-propanethiolate)]-dichloro-cadmium(II) and bis[3-(dimethylammonio)propyl] disulphide tetrabromocadmate(II) (pp. 2391-2395) Casals, Isidre; Gonzaález-Duarte, Pilar; Sola, Joan; Font-Bardía, Mercè; Solans, Joaquim; Solans, Xavier
• Aqua(2,2′-bipyridyl)difluorocopper(II) dihydrate: X-ray structure reveals short hydrogen bonds and other unusual features (pp. 2397-2399) Emsley, John; Arif, Muhammad; Bates, Paul A.; Hursthouse, Michael B.
• Determination of the relative signs of 2 J(31P–31P) in complexes of tungsten(0) and molybdenum(0) using two-dimensional [31P–31P]-COSY-45 nuclear magnetic resonance chemical shift correlation (pp. 2401-2405) Fontaine, Xavier L. R.; Kennedy, John D.; Shaw, Bernard L.; Vila, José M.
• Synthesis and crystal structure of tris(morpholinecarbodithioato-S,S′)manganese(IV)pentaiodide–dichloromethane (2/1) (pp. 2407-2410) Deplano, Paola; Trogu, Emanuele F.; Bigoli, Francesco; Pellinghelli, Maria Angela
• Structure and solvation of mercury(II) iodide and bromide in tetrahydrothiophene solution (pp. 2411-2415) Sandström, Magnus; Persson, Ingmar; Goggin, Peter L.
• Pentamethylcyclopentadienylrhodaborane chemistry. Part 3. The reaction of [{Rh(η5-C5Me5)Cl2}2] with closo-[B10H10]2– and arachno-B10H12-6,9-(PMe2Ph)2, and the characterisation of some novel rhodaboranes by X-ray diffraction analysis and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (pp. 2417-2429) Fontaine, Xavier L. R.; Fowkes, Hayat; Greenwood, Norman N.; Kennedy, John D.; Thornton-Pett, Mark
• Beryllium(II) hydrolysis in 3.0 mol dm–3 perchlorate (pp. 2431-2437) Bruno, Jordi
• Studies of metal carbonate equilibria. Part 15. The beryllium(II)–water–carbon dioxide(g) system in acidic 3.0 mol dm–3 perchlorate media (pp. 2439-2444) Bruno, Jordi; Grenthe, Ingmar; Sandström, Magnus; Ferri, Diego
• Studies of metal carbonate equilibria. Part 16. The beryllium(II)–water–carbon dioxide(g) system in neutral-to-alkaline 3.0 mol dm–3 perchlorate media at 25 °C (pp. 2445-2449) Bruno, Jordi; Grenthe, Ingmar; Muñoz, Maria
• Preparation, crystal and molecular structure, and antimony-121 Mössbauer spectrum of trifluoro(1,10-phenanthroline)(thiourea)antimony(III) (pp. 2451-2454) Bombieri, Gabriella; Bruno, Giuseppe; Nicoló, Franco; Alonzo, Giuseppe; Bertazzi, Nuccio
• Iron–ligand bonding properties of synthetic iron–porphyrin complexes with oxygen transporting ability in aqueous media (pp. 2455-2458) Tsuchida, Eishun; Maeda, Hiromi; Yuasa, Makoto; Nishide, Hiroyuki; Inoue, Hidenari; Shirai, Tsuneo
• The cyclometallation of benzoic acid to give rhodium, iridium, and osmium C,O-benzoates. X-Ray structure determination of the dibenzoate [(C5Me5)Rh(OOCPh)2(H2O)] (pp. 2459-2466) Kisenyi, Jonathan M.; Sunley, Glenn J.; Cabeza, Javier A.; Smith, Arnold J.; Adams, Harry; Salt, Nicholas J.; Maitlis, Peter M.
• Characterizations of the redox orbitals of mixed-ligand 2,2′-bipyridine–2-(2′-pyridyl)quinoline ruthenium(II) complexes (pp. 2467-2471) Tait, C. Drew; Vess, Thomas M.; DeArmond, M. Keith; Hanck, Kenneth W.; Wertz, Dennis W.
• Substitution reactions of the osmium(I) dinuclear compound [Os2(MeCO2)2(CO)6]. X-Ray crystal structure of [N(PPh3)2][Os2(MeCO2)2Cl(CO)5] (pp. 2473-2477) Deeming, Antony J.; Randle, Neil P.; Hursthouse, Michael B.; Short, Richard L.
• Phosphorus–nitrogen compounds. Part 51. Carbon-13 and phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance properties of phenylphosphonothioic di(monoalkylamides). Determination of aromatic substituent constants by 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (pp. 2479-2484) Parkes, Harold G.; Shaw, Robert A.; Watkins, David A.
• Notes. Kinetics of reduction of tris(ethylenediamine)cobalt(III) by ethylenediamine-NNN′N′-tetra-acetatochromate(II) (pp. 2485-2487) Segal, Michael G.
• Infrared spectroscopic studies of uranyl(VI) species adsorbed from aqueous [UO2(CO3)3]4– solutions on to a polymer bearing amidoxime groups (pp. 2489-2491) Hirotsu, Takahiro; Katoh, Shunsaku; Sugasaka, Kazuhiko; Senō, Manabu; Itagaki, Takaharu
• Dynamics of oxygen binding to modified iron(II)–porphyrin complexes embedded in the bilayer of phospholipid liposome (pp. 2493-2495) Yuasa, Makoto; Nishide, Hiroyuki; Tsuchida, Eishun

Issue: 11

• Contents pages (pp. P041-P046)
• Front cover (pp. X041-X042)
• Back cover (pp. X043-X044)
• The co-ordination of small molecules by manganese(II) phosphine complexes. Part 10. The reversible binding of nitric oxide by [MnX2(PR3)](X = Cl, Br, I; R3= Prn 3, Bun 3, PhMe2, PhEt2) in the solid state and in tetrahydrofuran solution. The effect of the nature of the halogen and the phosphine on stability and reversibility (pp. 2497-2501) Barratt, David S.; McAuliffe, Charles A.
• Preparation, nuclear magnetic resonance spectra, and X-ray diffraction study of bis(N-benzylacetimidic acid ethyl ester)dichloropalladium(II) (pp. 2503-2504) McCullough, Kevin J.; Bladon, Peter; Janecki, Tomasz; Pauson, Peter
• A realistic model for heme-containing catalases and peroxidases: the X-ray structural characterisation of a non-porphyrin iron(III) macrocyclic complex, and the mechanism of its peroxidation of aromatic substrates (pp. 2505-2510) Cairns, Colin J.; Heckman, Roger A.; Melnyk, Alexandra C.; Davis, William M.; Busch, Daryle H.
• Disproportionation, electrochemistry, and electronic coupling involving mononuclear and binuclear cobalt phthalocyanine derivatives (pp. 2511-2518) Liu, Wei; Hempstead, Michael R.; Nevin, W. Andrew; Melník, Milan; Lever, Alfred B. P.; Leznoff, Clifford C.
• Complexes of ligands providing endogenous bridges. Part 4. Copper(II) complexes of macrocyclic Schiff bases derived from 2,6-diacetylpyridine and 1,n-diamino-n′-hydroxyalkanes (n,n′= 3,2; 4,2; and 5,3): synthesis, properties, and structures (pp. 2519-2529) Bailey, Neil A.; Fenton, David E.; Moody, Richard; de Barbarin, Cecilia O. Rodriguez; Sciambarella, I. Nina; Latour, Jean Marc; Limosin, Daniele; McKee, Vickie
• Dithiocarbamates of tungsten(III)and tungsten(IV) (pp. 2531-2536) Brown, David A.; Glass, William K.; Toma, Hani J.; Waghorne, W. Earle
• Studies involving mixed donor macrocyclic ligands. Comparative X-ray diffraction, infrared, and fast atom bombardment mass spectrometric studies of the nickel thiocyanate complexes of three O2N3-donor macrocycles (pp. 2537-2542) Adam, Kenneth R.; Leong, Anthony J.; Lindoy, Leonard F.; McCool, Brian J.; Ekstrom, Alfred; Liepa, Imants; Harding, P. Alexander; Henrick, Kim; McPartlin, Mary; Tasker, Peter A.
• Studies of metal-ion recognition. The interaction of CO II , Ni II , and Cu II with new oxygen–nitrogen donor macrocycles; X-ray structures of complexes of Cu II and Ni II with a 15-membered O2N3 derivative (pp. 2543-2553) Fenton, David E.; Murphy, Brian P.; Leong, Anthony J.; Lindoy, Leonard F.; Bashall, Alan; McPartlin, Mary
• Formation of a (4 + 4) Schiff-base macrocyclic ligand by a template rearrangement. Crystal and molecular structures of two tetranuclear manganese(II) complexes (pp. 2555-2562) Brooker, Sally; McKee, Vickie; Shepard, William B.; Pannell, Lewis K.
• Molecular mechanics studies of a series of dicopper complexes of a 20-membered macrocycle containing differing types of bridges between the metal centres (pp. 2563-2572) Drew, Michael G. B.; Yates, Paul C.
• Kinetic studies on 1 : 1 electron-transfer reactions involving blue copper proteins. Part 14. Reactions of poplar plastocyanin with inorganic complexes (pp. 2573-2577) Jackman, Martin P.; McGinnis, Joseph; Sykes, A. Geoffrey; Collyer, Charles A.; Murata, Mitsuo; Freeman, Hans C.
• Copper(I) and copper(II) compounds of a dinucleating, octadentate tetrakisbenzimidazole ligand. Crystal and molecular structures of three dihalogeno{1,8-bis[bis(1′-methylbenzimidazol-2′-ylmethyl)amino]-3,6-dioxaoctane}dicopper(II) bis(anion) compounds (halogen = F, Cl, or Br; anion = BF4, CF3SO3, or Cl) (pp. 2579-2593) Van Rijn, Jacobus; Reedijk, Jan; Dartmann, Mechtild; Krebs, Bernt
• Complexes of cobalt(II) and nickel(II) with 3- and 4-acetylpyridine (pp. 2595-2598) Cabral, M. Fermamda; de O. Cabral, João
• Metallo-ligands containing terminal oxygen donors bonded to a manganese–carbonyl moiety (pp. 2599-2603) Mason, Mark; Kang, Ding-Xue; Cihon, Irene; Kintz, Andy; Blinn, Elliott L.; Tegen, Marvin; Treichel, Paul M.
• Synthetic and equilibrium studies on copper(II), nickel(II), and palladium(II) complexes of N,N′,N″,N‴-tetrakis(2-hydroxyethyl)-1,4,8,11-tetra-azacyclotetradecane (L); kinetics of the acid dissociation of the copper(II) complex and X-ray structural characterisation of the nickel(II) complex [NiLH–1][ClO4] (pp. 2605-2613) Hay, Robert W.; Pujari, Mahesh P.; Moodie, W. Thomas; Craig, Scott; Richens, David T.; Perotti, Angelo; Ungaretti, Luciano
• Preparation and spectroscopic study of functionally substituted cyclopentadienides of thallium(I), potassium, rhodium(I), and iridium(I) (pp. 2615-2619) Arthurs, Michael; Al-Daffaee, Hafid K.; Haslop, John; Kubal, Gina; Pearson, Matthew D.; Thatcher, Peter; Curzon, Eirian
• New iron(II) spin-crossover complexes with heterocyclic amine-derived ligands and STEPS experiments on photogenerated metastable high-spin states (pp. 2621-2630) Addison, Anthony W.; Burman, Sudhir; Wahlgren, Curtis G.; Rajan, Odatt A.; Rowe, Teresa M.; Sinn, Ekkehard
• Bicyclam [6,6′-bi(1,4,8,11-tetra-azacyclotetradecane)]: a ditopic receptor for homo- and hetero-bimetallic complexes (pp. 2631-2634) Fabbrizzi, Luigi; Montagna, Laura; Poggi, Antonio; Kaden, Thomas A.; Siegfried, Liselotte C.
• Subvalent Group 14 metal compounds. Part 10. Syntheses and structures of some bis(metallo)plumbylenes [Pb{Mo(R)(CO)3}2(OC4H8)][R =η-C5H5, η-C5H3(SiMe3)2-1,3, or η-C5Me5]; X-ray crystal structures of [Pb{Mo(η-C5Me5)(CO)3}2(OC4H8)] and [{Pb[Mo(η-C5Me5)(CO)3][Mo(η-C5Me5)(CO)2(µ-CO)]}2] (pp. 2635-2642) Hitchcock, Peter B.; Lappert, Michael F.; Michalczyk, Michael J.
• Nickel(II), copper(II), and zinc(II) complexes of penta-azamacrocyclic ligands. Crystal and molecular structure of 3,6,9,12-tetramethyl-3,6,9,12,18-penta-azabicyclo[12.3.1]octadeca-1(18),14,16-trienezinc(II) perchlorate (pp. 2643-2648) Alcock, Nathaniel W.; Moore, Peter; Omar, Hadi A. A.; Reader, C. James
• The mechanism of fluxionality of [Ru(η6-C8H8)(η4-C7H8)], [Ru(η4-C8H8)(η4-C7H8)L][L = PEt3 or P(OMe)3], and [Os(η6-C8H8)(η4-C8H12)](C8H8= cyclo-octatetraene, C7H8= norborna-2,5-diene, and C8H12= cyclo-octa-1,5-diene) (pp. 2649-2652) Grassi, Maria; Mann, Brian E.; Pickup, Barry T.; Spencer, Catriona M.
• Monometallic, homo- and hetero-bimetallic complexes based on redox active tris(3,5-dimethylpyrazolyl)borato molybdenum and tungsten nitrosyls. Part 6. Synthesis and electrochemistry of complexes containing saturated heterocyclic amide ligands. X-Ray crystal and molecular structure of [{Mo(NO)[HB(Me2pz)3]Cl}2(NC4H8N)] (pp. 2653-2660) Al Obaidi, Najat; Hamor, Thomas A.; Jones, Christopher J.; McCleverty, Jon A.; Paxton, Keith
• Chemistry of polynuclear metal complexes with bridging carbene or carbyne ligands. Part 67. Reactions of the salts [X][W(CR)(CO)2(η5-C2B9H9Me2)][X = P(CH2Ph)Ph3, R = C6H4Me-4; X = NEt4, R = Ph] with bis(cyclo-octa-1,5-diene)platinum (pp. 2661-2667) Baumann, Franz-Erich; Howard, Judith A. K.; Johnson, Owen; Stone, F. Gordon A.
• The reaction of [Mn2{µ-σ:η2-C(R)CHR}(µ-PPh2)(CO)7](R = H or Ph) with nucleophiles: X-ray crystal structures of [N(PPh3)2][Mn2(µ-H){µ-C(O)C(Ph)CHPh}(µ-PPh2)(CO)6], [Mn2{PPh2C(Ph)CHPh}(CO)9], [Mn2(µ-PPh2CHCH2)(CO)8], [Mn2{µ-C(O)C(Ph)CHPh}(µ-PPh2)(CO)6(CNBut)2], [Mn2{µ-σ:η2-C(Ph)CHPh}(µ-PPh2)(CO)6(CNBut)], and [Mn(µ-PPh2CHCH2)(CO)7(PEt3)] (pp. 2669-2682) Henrick, Kim; McPartlin, Mary; Iggo, Jonathan A.; Kemball, Alan C.; Mays, Martin J.; Raithby, Paul R.
• New decomposition pathways for formyl complexes of ruthenium(II) (pp. 2683-2686) Barratt, David S.; Cole-Hamilton, David J.
• Synthesis and study of monomeric and dimeric amidine complexes of nickel(II) and platinum(II). Crystal structure of bis(N,N′-diphenylbenzamidino)platinum(II), [Pt{PhNC(Ph)NPh}2] (pp. 2687-2694) Barker, James; Kilner, Melvyn; Gould, Robert O.
• A two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance exchange study of the fluxionality of [PtIMe3(MeSCH2CH2SEt)] (pp. 2695-2701) Abel, Edward W.; Moss, Ian; Orrell, Keith G.; Šik, Vladimir; Stephenson, David
• Organic chemistry of dinuclear metal centres. Part 9. Diruthenium complexes of buta-1,3-diene. X-Ray crystal structure of [Ru2(CO)2(µ-s-trans-η2:η2′-CH2CHCHCH2)(η-C5H5)2] (pp. 2703-2707) Lewandos, Glenn S.; Knox, Selby A. R.; Orpen, A. Guy
• The formation and characterisation of (η2-ethene)hydrido(η5-pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)(trisubstituted-silyl)rhodium complexes; intermediates in catalytic dehydrogenative silylation reactions (pp. 2709-2713) Ruiz, Jose; Bentz, Peter O.; Mann, Brian E.; Spencer, Catriona M.; Taylor, Brian F.; Maitlis, Peter M.
• Synthesis, reactions, and dynamic nuclear magnetic resonance studies of η2-vinyl complexes of molybdenum and tungsten, [M{η3-C(CF3)C(CF3)(L–L)}(CF3CCCF3)(η5-C5H5)](L–L = MeCO2 –, Me2PS2 –, Et2NCS2 –, or Me2NCS2 –) (pp. 2715-2722) Davidson, Jack L.
• Reactions of tetra-µ-carboxylato-diruthenium(II,II) compounds. X-Ray crystal structures of Ru2(µ-O2CCF3)4(thf)2, Ru2(µ-O2CR)4(NO)2(R = Et or CF3), and {Na3[Ru2(µ-O2CO)4]·6H2O} n (pp. 2723-2736) Lindsay, Alan J.; Wilkinson, Geoffrey; Motevalli, Majid; Hursthouse, Michael B.
• Reduction–oxidation properties of organotransition-metal complexes. Part 27. Mixed-valence triazenido-bridged di-iridium compounds (pp. 2737-2740) Connelly, Neil G.; Garcia, Gabriel
• Heteronuclear complexes containing Group 6 transition metals; chemical, spectroscopic, and theoretical studies on some binuclear complexes and the X-ray crystal structure determination of [WNi(CO)3(PPh3)2(η5-C5H5)] (pp. 2741-2749) Carlton, Laurence; Lindsell, W. Edward; McCullough, Kevin J.; Preston, Peter N.
• Rhodium(I)–iron(0) carbonyl complexes containing one bridging Ph2PCH2PPh2 ligand, including the formation of a tetranuclear cluster from a heterobimetallic precursor: crystal structures of [(OC)4Fe(µ-Ph2PCH2PPh2)RhCl(CO)] and [Fe2Rh2(µ-Ph2PCH2PPh2)2(CO)8] (pp. 2751-2755) Jacobsen, Grant B.; Shaw, Bernard L.; Thornton-Pett, Mark
• Isometallocenes. Part 1. Polymethylated isocobaltocenium salts; a general route to [Co(C4Me4)(arene)] (pp. 2757-2760) Cook, Malcolm R.; Härter, Peter; Pauson, Peter L.; Šraga, Ján
• Gold–boron chemistry. Part 1. Synthetic, structural, and spectroscopic studies on the compounds [5,6-µ-(AuPR3)-nido-B10H13](R = cyclo-C6H11 or C6H4Me-2) (pp. 2761-2768) Wynd, Andrew J.; McLennan, Alistair J.; Reed, David; Welch, Alan J.
• Diplatinum-(II) and -(III) complexes with bridging µ-diphosphonito-P,P′ or µ-methylenebis(phosphonito)-P,P′ ligands. Synthesis, structure, and nuclear magnetic resonance analysis of the ‘lantern’ complexes. Crystal structures of K4[Pt2{µ-CH2[P(O)OH]2}4]·6H2O and K4[Pt2{µ-CH2[P(O)OH]2}4Cl2]·8H2O (pp. 2769-2780) King, Christopher; Roundhill, D. Max; Dickson, Mark K.; Fronczek, Frank R.
• Organoruthenaborane chemistry. Part 5. Products of the reaction between closo-[B10H10]2– and [(η6-C6Me6)ClRuB3H8]. Nuclear magnetic resonance studies and the crystal and molecular structure of [{(η6-C6Me6)2Ru2H4}RuB10H8(OEt)2] (pp. 2781-2787) Bown, Mark; Fontaine, Xavier L. R.; Greenwood, Norman N.; MacKinnon, Peter; Kennedy, John D.; Thornton-Pett, Mark
• Dinitrogen complexes derived from tricarbonyl(η6-hexaethylbenzene)chromium(0): crystal and molecular structure of µ-dinitrogen-bis[dicarbonyl(η6-hexaethylbenzene)chromium(0)]–toluene (1/1) (pp. 2789-2791) Denholm, Stella; Hunter, Geoffrey; Weakley, Timothy J. R.
• The syntheses and crystal and molecular structures of some ten-vertex (MCB8; M = Ru or Os) metallacarbaboranes: 9,9,9-[(CO)(PPh3)2-nido-9,6-MCB8H10-5-(PPh3)](M = Ru or Os) and [9,9,9-(η-C5H5)(H)(PPh3)-arachno-9,6-RuCB8H12] (pp. 2793-2802) Alcock, Nathaniel W.; Jasztal, Michael J.; Wallbridge, Malcolm G. H.
• Reactions of co-ordinated ligands. Part 42. The synthesis and reactions of cationic η4-tetraphenylcyclobutadieneruthenium complexes; X-ray crystal structures of [Ru(NCMe)(η4-C4Ph4)(η-C5H5)][BF4] and [Ru{η5-CH(Ph)C(Ph)C(Ph)C(Ph)O}(η-C5H5)] (pp. 2803-2814) Crocker, Mark; Froom, Simon F. T.; Green, Michael; Nagle, Katharine R.; Orpen, A. Guy; Thomas, Dianne M.
• The chemistry of tetraphenylcyclopentadienone complexes of ruthenium and rhodium: the X-ray crystal structure of [Ru{η5-C5Ph4OC(O)CH(OMe)Ph}(CO)2Cl] (pp. 2815-2822) Bailey, Neil A.; Jassal, Varinder S.; Vefghi, Rahmatollah; White, Colin
• Synthesis using metal atoms of [RuH(η-C6H6)(PMe3)(σ-C6H5)], [OsH(η-C6H6)(PMe3)(σ-C6H5)], [MnH(η-C6H6)(PMe3)2], and [Mn(η-C5H5)(PMe3)3]: arene ligand-exchange reactions of [RuH(η-C6H6)(PMe3)(σ-C6H5)] (pp. 2823-2830) Green, Malcolm L. H.; Joyner, David S.; Wallis, Julian M.
• Reactions of phosphine, arsine, and stibine with carbonylbis(triethylphosphine)iridium(I) halides. Part 1. Reactions in toluene; X-ray crystal structures of [Ir(CO)ClH(PEt3)2(AsH2)] and [Ir(CO)XH(PEt3)2(µ-ZH2)RuCl2(η6-MeC6H4CHMe2-p)](X = Br, Z = P; X = Cl, Z = As) (pp. 2831-2838) Ebsworth, E. A. V.; Gould, Robert O.; Mayo, Richard A.; Walkinshaw, Malcolm
• Reactivity of a cluster-co-ordinated acyl. Reduction of a µ-acetyl ligand to acetaldehyde (pp. 2839-2842) Cowie, Alan G.; Johnson, Brian F. G.; Lewis, Jack
• Carbene complexes. Part 21. Synthesis and characterisation of bis(carbene)molybdenum(II) complexes and dimetal(0) complexes of the Group 6 elements containing novel bridging bis(carbene) ligands; X-ray structures of [Mo(CO)2(L Et)2(OSO2CF3)2][L Et=CN(Et)(CH2)2NEt] and [W(CO)5{C(OEt)CH2C6H4CH2C(OEt)-o}W(CO)5] (pp. 2843-2851) Anderson, David M.; Bristow, Garry S.; Hitchcock, Peter B.; Jasim, Hatam A.; Lappert, Michael F.; Skelton, Brian W.
• Mixed-metal phosphinito complexes of platinum(II) and palladium(II) with lanthanide and actinide elements. The single-crystal X-ray structure of [UO2(OH2){(OPPh2)2Pd(S2CNEt2)}2] (pp. 2853-2856) Veitch, Paul M.; Allan, James R.; Blake, Alexander J.; Schröder, Martin
• Hydride addition reactions of the olefin complexes [Fe(η 5-C5H5)-(CO)2(olefin)][BF4]; formyl formation as the kinetically preferred process; regio- and stereo-selectivity during addition to the co-ordinated olefins (pp. 2857-2861) Cameron, Alan D.; Laycock, David E.; Smith, Vedene H.; Baird, Michael C.

Issue: 12

• Front cover (pp. X045-X046)
• Back cover (pp. X047-X048)
• Contents pages (pp. P047-P050)
• Electrolytic behaviour of transition metal bromides in acetonitrile solution (pp. 2863-2866) Grzybkowski, Wacław
• σ-Alkynyl complexes of manganese(I) as η2-bonding ligands for Group 1B metal–ligand fragments. X-Ray crystal structure of [Mn2Cu(µ-CCBut)2(CO)6(dppe)2]PF6·0.5CH2Cl2 (pp. 2867-2873) Carriedo, Gabino A.; Miguel, Daniel; Riera, Víctor; Soláns, X.
• Manganese(I) complexes with (tricyclohexylphosphonio)dithiocarboxylate as chelate and unidentate ligand. X-Ray crystal structure of fac-[Mn(CO)3{S2CP(C6H11)3}2]ClO4·H2O (pp. 2875-2880) Miguel, Daniel; Riera, Victor; Miguel, Jesus A.; Bois, Claudette; Philoche-Levisalles, Michèle; Jeannin, Yves
• Electronic structure and redox reactions of vanadium(II) polypyridine, isocyanide, and phosphine complexes (pp. 2881-2884) Shah, S. Sadiq; Maverick, Andrew W.
• Ligand intra- and inter-molecular exchange processes in dioxopentakis(trimethylurea)uranium(VI). A proton nuclear magnetic resonance study (pp. 2885-2888) White, Alex; Lincoln, Stephen F.
• Complexes formed between zinc(II) and diethylenetriamine: a carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance study (pp. 2889-2895) Hague, David N.; Moreton, Anthony D.
• Carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance study of the zinc(II) complexes of 3,7-diazanonane-1,9-diamine and 1,2-diaminoethane (pp. 2897-2904) Dagnall, Stephen P.; Hague, David N.; Moreton, Anthony D.
• Crystal structure of a copper complex of 2-carboxypentonic acid; a decomposition product of dehydroascorbic acid (pp. 2905-2910) Norman, Richard E.; Rose, Norman J.; Stenkamp, Ronald E.
• The effect of increase in chelate ring size beyond six-membered on the metal ion size selectivity patterns of tetra-aza macrocycles (pp. 2911-2915) Hancock, Robert D.; Ngwenya, M. Patrick
• Chemistry of polynuclear metal complexes with bridging carbene or carbyne ligands. Part 68. Reactions between nonacarbonyldi-iron and the salts [NEt4][W(CR)(CO)2(η5-C2B9H9Me2)](R = Me, Ph, or C6H4Me-4); crystal structures of [NEt4][FeW{µ-CH(C6H4Me-4)}(µ-σ:η5-C2B9H8Me2)(µ-CO)(CO)5] and [NEt4][Fe2W(µ3-CPh)(µ-σ:σ′,η5-C2B9H7Me2)(CO)8] (pp. 2917-2925) Baumann, Franz-Erich; Howard, Judith A. K.; Johnson, Owen; Stone, F. Gordon A.
• Dienophile cycloaddition to cycloheptatriene and related complexes of tricarbonyliron. X-Ray crystal structures of [Fe(CO)3(η4-C7H7CN)]·C2(CN)4 and [ Fe(CO)3(η4-C7H7–C7H7)] (pp. 2927-2934) Chopra, Suman K.; Cunningham, Desmond; Kavanagh, Seamus; McArdle, Patrick; Moran, Grainne
• Reactions of allene with triosmium and triruthenium clusters including coupling and oxidative addition: X-ray structure of the coupled allene compound [Os3(C6H8)(CO)10] (pp. 2935-2939) Deeming, Antony J.; Arce, Alejandro J.; De Sanctis, Ysaura; Bates, Paul A.; Hursthouse, Michael B.
• The mechanism of the photochemical production of hydrogen from aqueous solutions of hydridotris(triethylphosphine)platinum(II) (pp. 2941-2945) Bruce, Duncan W.; Cole-Hamilton, David J.; Pogorzelec, Peter
• The chemistry of chromium nitrile complexes of 1,2-bis(dimethylphosphino)-ethane. X-Ray crystal structures of trans-[Cr IV Cl(NEt)(dmpe)2]CF3SO3, trans-[Cr IV (NCHMe)2(dmpe)2][BPh4]2, and trans-[Co0(H·NCMe)2(dmpe)2][BPh4]2 (pp. 2947-2954) Barron, Andrew R.; Salt, Julian E.; Wilkinson, Geoffrey; Motevalli, Majid; Hursthouse, Michael B.
• Mean phosphorus– and arsenic–sulphur bond enthalpies in diethyldithiocarbamate chelate complexes (pp. 2955-2958) Airoldi, Claudio; de Souza, Antonio G.
• A comparison of the efficiencies of polymer-supported phosphine and phosphine oxide complexes of manganese(II), MnX2(P C6H4PPh2) and MnX2{P C6H4P(O)Ph2} n (n= 2 or 4; X = Cl, Br, or I), for the absorption of sulphur dioxide (pp. 2959-2961) Booth, Brian L.; Li, Ke-Si; McAuliffe, Charles A.
• Oxygen- and carbon monoxide-binding to a lipophilic diporphyrinatocopperiron complex solubilized in an aqueous medium with a micelle (pp. 2963-2967) Nishide, Hiroyuki; Hashimoto, Yukio; Maeda, Hiromi; Tsuchida, Eishun
• Synthesis and chemistry of trans-[RhX(CO)L2](X = anionic ligand, L = tertiary phosphine) (pp. 2969-2974) Ohgomori, Yuji; Yoshida, Shin-ichi; Watanabe, Yoshihisa
• Binuclear copper(I) complexes of a 24-membered macrocycle (L1) derived from 2,5-diformylthiophene and 3-thiapentane-1,5-diamine. Crystal and molecular structure of [Cu2L1(NCS)][ClO4]; a unique example of a single end-to-end bridging thiocyanate between copper(I) atoms (pp. 2975-2980) Lavery, Aidan; Nelson, S. Martin; Drew, Michael G. B.
• Reactions of diazo-compounds with the electron-rich germylene Ge[N(SiMe3)2]2. Characterisation and some addition reactions of [(Me3Si)2N]2GeNNC(COOMe)2: crystal and molecular structure of [(Me3Si)2N]2Ge[NHNC(COOMe)2][C(N2)COPh] (pp. 2981-2987) Glidewell, Christopher; Lloyd, Douglas; Lumbard, Keith W.; McKechnie, James S.; Hursthouse, Michael B.; Short, Richard L.
• Preparation, isomerization, and reactions of hydride complexes of ruthenium(II) (pp. 2989-2993) Bray, Joanne M.; Mawby, Roger J.
• Reactions in mixed non-aqueous solution containing sulphur dioxide. Part 9. Mechanisms of dissolution of metals, oxides, and sulphites (pp. 2995-2997) Gill, J. Bernard; Goodall, David C.; Harrison, W. David
• Metal–nucleotide interactions: crystal structures of Ca[Cu(5′-GMP)2(en)-(H2O)2]·8H2O (5′-GMP = guanosine 5′-monophosphate, en = ethylenediamine) and Ca[Cu(5′-IMP)2(H2O)4]·6.7H2O (5′IMP = inosine 5′-monophosphate) (pp. 2999-3002) Mangani, Stefano; Orioli, Pierluigi
• Dinuclear rhodium and iridium complexes of dicarboxyimidazolates; crystal structure of [NBu4][(cod)Rh(dcbi)Rh(cod)]·2PriOH (pp. 3003-3007) Bayón, J. Carlos; Net, Gemma; Rasmussen, Paul G.; Kolowich, J. Bruce
• Surface characterisation of α-, β-, γ-, and δ-UO3 using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (pp. 3009-3015) Allen, Geoffrey C.; Holmes, Nigel R.
• Mono- and bi-nuclear gold(I) and gold(III) complexes with S2C–PR3 ligands. X-Ray crystal structures of [Au(C6F5)3(S2C–PEt3)] and [Au2(µ-S2C–PEt3)-(C6F5)6]·Ch2Cl2 (pp. 3017-3022) Usón, Rafael; Laguna, Antonio; Laguna, Mariano; Castilla, Maria Luz; Jones, Peter G.; Fittschen, Christa
• Instant ligands. Part 2. Preparation of some bidentate ligands containing PF2O groups from aromatic hydroxy compounds, and their reactions to form molybdenum and tungsten complexes (pp. 3023-3027) Bell, Graeme A.; Rankin, David W. H.; Reinisch, Paul F.
• Preparations, properties, and vibrational spectra of some (dimethylamino)halogenosilanes (pp. 3029-3034) Anderson, David G.; Armstrong, Janet; Cradock, Stephen
• Molecular structures of some (dimethylamino)halogenosilanes in the gas phase by electron diffraction and the crystal and molecular structures of mono- and di-chloro(dimethylamino)silane by X-ray diffraction at low temperatures (pp. 3035-3042) Anderson, David G.; Blake, Alexander J.; Cradock, Stephen; Ebsworth, E. A. V.; Rankin, David W. H.; Robertson, Heather E.; Welch, Alan J.
• Chemistry of molybdenum. Part 5. Synthesis, spectroscopic and electrochemical properties of bis(2-aminocyclopent-1 -ene-1- dithiocarboxylato)(arylimido)dihalogenomolybdenum(VI) complexes (pp. 3043-3047) Kumar, Sujit Baran; Chaudhury, Muktimoy
• The chemistry of cycloheptatrienyl complexes of molybdenum and tungsten: the synthesis and reactions of some vinylidene and alkynyl derivatives (pp. 3049-3053) Adams, Jeanette S.; Bitcon, Caroline; Brown, Jack R.; Collison, David; Cunningham, Michael; Whiteley, Mark W.
• Structure and electrochemical properties of bis(pyridine)cobalt(III) complexes of N,N′-ethylenebis(salicylideneimine) homologues with an aryl substituent on the ethylene backbone. Crystal structures of [Co(salpen)(py)2]PF6·0.5 Et2O and [Co(salcppn)(py)2]PF6·2py (py = pyridine) (pp. 3055-3059) Kitaura, Eiji; Nishida, Yuzo; Ōkawa, Hisashi; Kida, Sigeo
• The structure of bis(dimethylamino)silane in the gas phase, determined by electron diffraction (pp. 3061-3065) Anderson, David G.; Armstrong, Janet A.; Cradock, Stephen; Rankin, David W. H.
• Chelate ring-opening of rhenium–diphosphine complexes by diazonium salts (pp. 3067-3071) Carr, Stuart W.; Fontaine, Xavier L. R.; Shaw, Bernard L.
• Synthesis, characterisation, and photochemical properties of a series of ruthenium containing metallopolymers based on poly-N-vinylimidazole (pp. 3073-3078) Geraty, Suzanne M.; Vos, Johannes G.
• Platinum(II)– and pailadium(II)–iron(0) complexes containing one bridging Ph2PCH2PPh2 ligand. Crystal structures of [(OC)3Fe(µ-Ph2PCH2PPh2)(µ-CO)PtBr2] and [(OC)3Fe(µ-Ph2PCH2PPh2)(µ-I)PtI]·CH2Cl2 (pp. 3079-3083) Jacobsen, Grant B.; Shaw, Bernard L.; Thornton-Pett, Mark
• Syntheses and crystal structures of complexes [M2R2][M = Cu, Ag, or Au; R = 2-C(SiMe3)2C5H4N] and [Cu4R′4][R′= 2-CH(SiMe3)C5H4N]; electrochemical generation of [Cu2R2]2+ (pp. 3085-3091) Papasergio, Rocco I.; Raston, Colin L.; White, Allan H.
• Preparation and structure of nickel(II) complexes of N-substituted tetra-aza macrocycles: molecular structure of [(1RS,4SR,5RS,8SR,11RS,12SR)-1,5,8,12- tetramethyl-1,4,8,11-tetra-azacyclotetradecane]nickel(II) diperchloratet (pp. 3093-3098) Miyamura, Kazuo; Kohzuki, Masatomo; Narushima, Ryoichi; Saburi, Masahiko; Gohshi, Yohichi; Tsuboyama, Sei; Tsuboyama, Kaoru; Sakurai, Tosio
• An electron spin resonance study of frozen aqueous solutions containing 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(N-methyl-4′-pyridinio)porphyrinatocobait(II) (pp. 3099-3101) Evans, Dennis F.; Wood, David
• Notes. Preparation of two mixed-metal carbonyl clusters based on the platinumtriosmium core. X-Ray crystal structure of [Os3PtH2(cod)(CH2)(CO)9](cod = cyclo-octa-1,5-diene) (pp. 3103-3105) Norén, Bertil; Sundberg, Peter
• Additions and corrections (pp. 3107-3107) Alcock, Nathaniel W.; Taylor, John G.; Wallbridge, Malcolm G. H.; Rossi, Roberto; Marchi, Andrea; Duatti, Adriano; Magon, Luciano; Casellato, Umberto; Graziani, Rodolfo