High Pressure Chemistry, Biochemistry and Materials Science

General and Physical Aspects, Materials Science.- High Pressure Equations of State: Theory and Applications.- Some Recent Applications of Pressure Tuning Spectroscopy.- High Pressure Chemistry in the Solid State; Pressure Induced Molecular Rearrangements in Rigid Media.- Recent Developments in Diamond-Anvil Cells.- Applications of Diamond-Anvil Cells to Materials Science.- Ultra High Pressure Experiments on High-TcSuperconductors.- Fluid Alkali Metals at High Temperatures and Pressures.- Neutron and X-ray Scattering of Fluids at High Pressure and High Temperature.- Selected Thermodynamic Aspects of the Influence of Pressure on Polymer Systems.- Molecular Modeling of the Influence of Pressure on Fluid and Glassy State Behaviour.- Combustion and Diffusion Flames in Supercritical Aqueous Fluids at High Pressures.- Raman Spectroscopy of Ammonia Monohydrate to 13.5 GPa.- The High Pressure Viscosity of Simple and Polymeric Fluids.- Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Dense Cyclohexane in Porous Silica.- High Pressure Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Studies of Hydrogen Bonded Systems.- Chemical and Biochemical Aspects.- High Pressure Mechanistic Studies of Inorganic and Organometallic Systems.- Bioinorganic Kinetics at Elevated Pressure. Application of Stopped-Flow, T-Jump, Flash-Photolysis and Pulse-Radiolysis Techniques.- High Pressure Kinetic Effects as Mechanistic Probes in Organic Chemistry.- The Future of High Pressure Organic Synthesis.- High Pressure NMR Studies of Chemical and Biochemical Systems.- The Behaviour of Proteins under Pressure.- Pressure Dissociation of the Smaller Oligomers: Dimers and Tetramers.- Relations of Bond Energies and Entropy with Volume Pressure and Temperature in Protein Aggregates.- High Pressure Vibrational Spectroscopic Studies of Aqueous Biological Systems: From Model Systems to Intact Tissues.- Volumetric Properties of Model Biomembranes.- Effects of Pressure on Large Multimeric Proteins and Viruses.- Pressure Studies on Protein-DNA Interactions.- The Effect of the Lipid Matrix on the Response of a Membrane Enzyme to High Pressure.- Dissociation of Large Oligomeric Proteins by High Hydrostatic Pressure: Dynamic Light Scattering Studies.- Comments on Trends in High Pressure Research.- Author Index.- List of Participants.