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CHEMISTRY BY MARYE ANNE FOX Department of Chemistry University of Texas, Austin Austin, Tex. " Alkoxide ligands, acting as pi donors to stabilize early transition metals in high oxidation states, and carbonyls, acting as pi acceptors to stabilize late transition elements in low oxidation states, provide complementary ligand effects to inorganic clusters. A recent article summarizes the effect of such ligands in controlling substrate binding; electronic saturation, and stenc control in organo

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BY MARYE ANNE FOX
Department of Chemistry
University of Texas, Austin
Austin, Tex.

M.H. Chishoim, D.L. Clark, M.J. Hampden-Smith, D.H. Hoffman, “Alkoxide clusters of molybdenum and tungsten as templates for organometallic chemistry: comparison with carbonyl clusters of the later transition elements,” Angewandte Chemie, International Edition in English, 28, 432-44, April 1989. (Indiana University, Bloomington; Los Alamos National Laboratory, N.M.; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.)

In the last several years, theory has moved beyond gas-phase quantum mechanics to provide a quantitatively meaningful picture of structure and reactions in solution. The methodology has been applied to a number of important liquid phase problems: thermodynamics, conformational equilibration, binding and recognition, and prediction of reactivity.

W.L. Jorgensen, “Free energy calculations: A breakthrough for modeling organic chemistry in solution,” Accounts of Chemical Research, 22, 184-9, May 1989. (Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.)

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