The Rare Earths in Modern Science and Technology: Volume 3

Spedding Award Address.- Rare Earth Reminiscences.- Bioinorganic Chemistry.- Magnetic Resonance Studies of Metal Cation Transport Across Biological Membranes: Use of Paramagnetic Lanthanide Ions.- Inter-Lanthanide Ion Energy Transfer Distance Measurements in Biological Systems.- Gadolinium as an EPR and NMR Probe of Ca2+ Sites in Biological Systems.- Optical Activity of Mixed-Ligand Complexes of Tb(III) with Pyridine-2,6-Dicarboxylic Acid and Hydroxycarboxylic Acids.- Terbium Luminescence as a Probe of Lanthanide Coordination in Solution.- A 160Tb(III) Probe of the Calcium Binding Sites of Muscle Calcium Binding Parvalbumin.- The Lanthanides as Structural Probes in Peptides.- Multinuclear NMR Study of Three Aqueous Lanthanide Shift Reagents: Complexes with EDTA and Two Macrocyclic Ligands.- Structures of Dithiophosphinate Complexes of the Lanthanides in the Solid and Solution by X-Ray Diffraction and Paramagnetic NMR.- Organometallic and Coordination Chemistry.- Recent Advances in the Low Valent Approach to f-Element Organometallic Chemistry.- Laser Photochemistry of a Uranium Compound Tailored for l0? Absorption: U(OCH3)6.- New Stoichiometric and Catalytic Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl Organoactinide Chemistry.- Choosing a Coordination Number for Ln(III): 1:1, 1:2, 2:1, 3:2 and 4:3 Complexes with Crown Ethers.- A Systematic Study of the Complexation of DI- and TRI-Valent Lanthanide Ions by Macrocycles of Varying Size.- Octahedral Compounds of Lanthanides: Trimethylphosphine Oxide (tmpo) as Ligand.- Amine Complexes of Divalent Europium.- High Coordination Polyhedra of Trivalent Rare Earth Ions.- Erbium Chloride Complexation in Aqueous DMF.- Lanthanide Hexafluoroantimonate Complexes of Hexamethylphosphoramide.- Spectroscopy.- Parametrisation of the MCD-Spectra of Rare Earths: Example of Pr3+ in PVA-Matrix.- Ab-Initio Calculation of Lanthanide Crystal Field Parameters and Transition Probabilities.- On the Origin of Resonance Lines in 3d Emission Spectra of Rare Earths.- Transition Intensities for Nd3+ in Crystals.- Truncation Effects on Crystal Field Calculations for the 4f6(Eu3+) Configuration in Solids.- Study of M4,5-Level Soft X-Ray Appearance Potential Spectra of Selected Rare Earths.- The Effect of Multiplet Splitting of the 4d Levels in Rare Earth Elements on Their X-Ray Spectra.- Optical Spectra, Energy Levels, and Crystal-Field Analysis of Tripositive Rare Earth Ions in Y2O3: I. Kramers Ions in C2 Sites.- Sm2+ Activated Mixed Fluorides: Synthesis and Fluorescence.- Electric and Magnetic Dipole Strengths of f-f Transitions in Cubic Cs2NaYCl6:Ln3+ Systems.- Absorption Spectrophotometric Characterization of Sm(II), Sm(III), and Sm(II/III) Bromides and Sm(III) Oxybromide in the Solid State.- Cascade Laser Action in Tm3+:YLF.- Laser Induced Luminescence of Pr3+ in CaF2 Attributed to Different Local Site Symmetries.- Photoconductivity Due to Autoionization of Divalent Rare Earth Impurities in Crystals Having the Fluorite Structure.- The Effect of Structural Environment on the Absorption Spectra of Selected Lanthanide Sesquioxides.- The Ce3+ Tb3+ Transfer in Phosphate Host Lattices.- Laser Excited Luminescence of Tb3+, Eu3+ -Activated Ferroelectric Gadolinium Molybdate (GMO).- Luminescence of High-Pressure Phases of Eu2+ Activated Alkaline Earth Borates and Silicates.- PMR Spectroscopic Studies of Lanthanide Aminocarboxylate Complexes.- The Interaction of 1:1 and 1:2 Lanthanids-EDTA Chelates with Alkali Cations: Aqueous Relaxation Reagents for Metal Nuclide NMR.- Luminescence of L-(?)-Tryptophan in DMSO at 77 K in the Presence of Tb3+.- Hypersensitivity in the 4f?4f Absorption Spectra of Er3? and Ho3+ Complexes.- Possible Symmetries of the Coordination Sphere of Eu3+ in DMSO via a Correlation of Magnetic Circular Dichroism (MCD) with Absorption and Emission Spectra.- Diphenyl-Phosphinyl-Morpholide (DPPM) Lanthanide Salt Adducts: Nd3+ and Eu3+ Spectra.- Adducts of Lanthanide Trifluoromethanesulfonates and Tetramethylene Sulfo