Metal-Ligand Interactions

Preface.- List of Contributors.- Density Functional Modeling of Ligand-Metal Interactions and EnzymaticActivities in Metalloenzymes Peptide Bond Cleavage by Carboxypeptidase A.- Guided-Ion Beam Studies of Ionic Transition Metal Clusters and Complexes.- Influence of Silys Ligands on the Reactivity of Heterobimetallic Complexes: Insertion and Migration Reactions.- Compounds of Post-Transition Elements of Group 12–14 Containing Fe(CO)4 and Related Iron Carbonyl Ligands.- Ligand-Metal Surface Interactions: Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity.- 2,2’ Bipyrimidine: A Useful Tool in Designing Polynuclear Complexes of Controlled Nuclearity.- Influence of Particle Size on Metallic and Bimetallic Supported Catalysts: Hydrogenolysis of Hydrocarbons and Selective Hydrogenation of Nitro-Groups.- Quantum Mechanical Ab Initio Investigation of Metal-Ligand Interactions in Transition-Metal Carbonyl Complexes.- Clean and Modified Oxide Surfaces: Structure and Dynamics of Adsorbed Molecules.- Site and Size Effects on the Binding Energy of CO on Palladium Clusters A Density Functional Treatment.- Progress Towards a Molecular Surface Science: Dative Interactions in Chemistry at Metal Centres as Revealed by Spectroscopic, Kinetic and Dynamical Studies.- Theoretical Dynamical Studies of Metal Clusters and Clusters-Ligand Systems.- The Role of Interelectronic Interaction in Transition Metal Oxide Catalysts.- Coordinatively Unsaturated Pt and Pt-Re Clusters as Models for Surfaces and Bimetallic Catalysts.- Molecular Adsorption of Diazirine on Palladium (110) Clusters Models using the LCGTO-MCP-LSD Method.- Metal-Ligand Interactions in Gas Phase and in Solution. The Density Functional Point of View.- Ab Initio Calculations of Electronic Surface States of Transition Metal Oxides and of theSuperexchange Coupling in Oxo-Bridged Transition Metal Complexes.- Intermediate Neglect of Differential Overlap Calculations on the Electronic Spectra of Transition Metal Complexes.- List of Participants.