High Pressure Chemistry, Biochemistry and Materials Science

Preface. General and Physical Aspects, Materials Science: High Pressure Equations of State: Theory and Applications; M. Ross. Some Recent Applications of Pressure Tuning Spectroscopy; H.G. Drickamer, Z.A. Dreger, J.M. Lang. High Pressure Chemistry in the Solid State; Pressure Induced Molecular Rearrangements in Rigid Media; H.G. Drickamer. Recent Developments in Diamond-Anvil Cells; D.J. Dunstan. Applications of Diamond-Anvil Cells to Materials Science; D.J. Dunstan. Ultra High Pressure Experiments on High-Tc Superconductors; R.J. Wijngaarden, E.N. Van Eenige, J.J. Scholtz, D.T. Jover, R. Griessen. Fluid Alkali Metals at High Temperatures and Pressures; F. Hensel. Neutron and X-Ray Scattering of Fluids at High Pressure and High Temperature; R. Winter. Selected Thermodynamic Aspects of the Influence of Pressure on Polymer Systems; E. Nies. Molecular Modeling of the Influence of Pressure on Fluid and Glassy State Behaviour; E. Nies, S. Vleeshouwers. Combustion and Diffusion Flames in Supercritical Aqueous Fluids at High Pressures; E.U. Franck. Raman Spectroscopy of Ammonia Monohydrate to 13.5 GPa; A. Koumvakalis, M. Nicol. The High Pressure Viscosity of Simple and Polymeric Fluids; H.E. King jr., R.L. Cook, C.A. Herbst. Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Dense Cyclohexane in Porous Silica; T.W. Zerda, A. Brodka. High Pressure Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Studies of Hydrogen Bonded Systems; M. Mackowiak, M. Zdanowska-Fraczek. Chemical and Biochemical Aspects: High Pressure Mechanistic Studies of Inorganic and Organometallic Systems; R. Van Eldik. Bioinorganic Kinetics at Elevated Pressure. Application of Stopped-Flow, T-Jump, Flash-Photolysis and Pulse-Radiolysis Techniques; R. Van Eldik.High Pressure Kinetic Effects as Mechanistic Probes in Organic Chemistry; G. Jenner. The Future of High Pressure Organic Synthesis; G. Jenner. High Pressure NMR Studies of Chemical and Biochemical Systems; J. Jonas. The Behaviour of Proteins under Pressure; K. Heremans. Pressure Dissociation of the Smaller Oligomers: Dimers and Tetramers; G. Weber. Relations of Bond Energies and Entropy with Volume, Pressure and Temperature in Protein Aggregates; G. Weber. High Pressure Vibrational Spectroscopic Studies of Aqueous Biological Systems: from Model Systems to Intact Tissues; P.T.T. Wong. Volumetric Properties of Model Biomembranes; R. Winter, M. Böttner. Effects of Pressure on Large Multimeric Proteins and Viruses; J.L. Silva. Pressure Studies on Protein-DNA Interactions; M. Villas-Boas, J.L. Silva, R.M. Clegg. The Effect of the Lipid Matrix on the Response of a membrane Enzyme to High Pressure; D. Zakim, J. Kavecansky. Dissociation of Large Oligomeric Proteins by High Hydrostatic Pressure: Dynamic Light Scattering Studies; G. Reinhart, E. Gratton, W.W. Mantulin. Comments on Trends in High Pressure Research. Subject Index. Author Index.