6A Chemical Reviews, 1998, Vol. 98, No. 8
In Color on the Cover (Top) Hyaluronan, a polysaccharide first discovered in the vitreous (“hyaloid”) humor of cattle eyes, finds new biomedical applications such as surface modification of contact lenses. See “Hyaluronan: Preparation, Structure, Properties, and Applications”, by Lubomı´r Lapcˇ´ık, Jr., Lubomı´r Lapcˇ´ık, Stefaan De Smedt, Joseph Demeester, and Peter Chabrecˇek, p 2663. (Bottom) DNA interstrand cross-linking by FR-66979. See “DNA Cross-Linking Agents as Antitumor Drugs”, by Scott R. Rajski and Robert M. Williams, p 2723.
To Appear in CHEMICAL REVIEWS, Vol. 99, No. 1, or in a later issue Metal Oxide Surfaces and Their Interactions with Aqueous Solutions and Microbial OrganismssGordon E. Brown, Jr., Victor E. Henrich, William H. Casey, David L. Clark, Carrick Eggleston, Andrew Felmy, D. Wayne Goodman, Michael Gra¨tzel, Gary Maciel, Maureen I. McCarthy, Kenneth Nealson, Dimitri A. Sverjensky, Michael F. Toney, and John M. Zachara, Stanford University, Yale University, University of CaliforniasDavis, Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of Wyoming, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Texas A&M University, EÄ cole Polytechnique Fe´de´rale de Lausanne, Colorado State University, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, The Johns Hopkins University, IBM Almaden Research Center, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Reactions of Hydrosilanes with Transition Metal Complexes: Formation of Stable Transition Metal Silyl CompoundssJoyce Y. Corey and Janet Braddock-Wilking, University of MissourisSt. Louis. Synthesis of Functionalized Bicyclo[3.2.1]octanes and Their Multiple Uses in Organic ChemistrysMarie-He´le`ne Filippini and Jean Rodriguez, Universite´ d'Aix-Marseille III. Resorcinolic Lipids, the Natural Non-isoprenoid Phenolic Amphiphiles and Their Biological ActivitysArkadiusz Kozubek and John H. P. Tyman, University of Wroclaw, and Brunel University. Ab Initio Methods for the Calculation of NMR Shielding and Indirect Spin−Spin Coupling ConstantssTrygve Helgaker, Michal Jaszunski, and Kenneth Ruud, University of Oslo, and Polish Academy of Sciences.
