F
G
H
I
J
K
L
Nickel
Manganese
Zinc
Bioinspired Homogeneous Catalysis
Iron-Sulfur and Other Metal-Sulfur Clusters
Activation of Small Molecules
Metal Complexes of Small Biomolecules
M Non-Heme Iron
N
O
P
Q
R
Metals, Nucleic Acids, and Gene Regulation
Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry
Vanadium
Electron and Energy Transfer
Specific Application of Spectroscopy
All the lectures presented the state of the art of the
This Symposium was cosponsored by the Indian Na-
tional Science Academy, the Council of Scientific and
Industrial Research, Departments of Science and Tech-
nology, Biotechnology and Defence Research Develop-
ment Organization of the Government of India, Tamil
Nadu State Council for Science and Technology, Indian
Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd, Vadodara (India) and
The Society for Polymer Science, India. The Confer-
ence organizers take this opportunity to thank the large
number of International and Indian scientists who par-
ticipated in this Symposium.
current research activities in various fields of
bioinorganic chemistry. The ICBIC 8 issue of Pure and
Applied Chemistry contains the plenary lectures and in-
vited lectures on selected topics. The first four lectures
were presented by the plenary lecturers. They were fol-
lowed by the lectures on molybdenum enzymes (A),
galactose oxidase (C), heme enzymes (D), Mössbauer
spectroscopy of iron porphyrins (D), water-oxidizing
manganese enzyme models (G), metal–sulfur clusters
(J), diiron complex-dioxygen interactions (M), orienta-
tion of imidazole rings in metal complexes (L), stacking
and hydrolysis of nucleotide 5′-triphosphates (L),
nucleobase arrangements by metal ion coordination
(N), and electron transfer in metalloproteins (Q).
This issue will be a valuable guide and source of infor-
mation for the current trends and achievements in
bioinorganic chemistry. Owing to the page limitation,
however, only a limited number of topics were selected,
so that it was not possible to incorporate the other im-
portant and interesting lectures. Readers are recom-
mended to refer to the abstracts of ICBIC 8 published in
The Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry (Volume 67,
Numbers 1–4, 1997) for further information.
The Conference was organized by the Science Coun-
cil of Japan and the Chemical Society of Japan, and
was sponsored by the International Union of Pure and
Applied Chemistry, the Society of Biological Inorganic
Chemistry, and the Division of Biofunctional Chemistry
of the Chemical Society of Japan. Generous financial
support by these and other sponsoring organizations
and many companies is gratefully acknowledged. I also
wish to thank all the members who took part in organiz-
ing the Conference for their heartfelt dedication.
Dr K.S.V. Srinivasan,
Convenor
The Plenary and Invited Lectures of The
Eighth International Conference on
Bioinorganic Chemistry (ICBIC 8) appear
in Pure and Applied Chemistry 1998, 70,
855–991
The Eighth International Conference on Bioinorganic
Chemistry was held in Yokohama, Japan, during the
week of 27 July–1 August 1997, with Prof. Masanobu
Hidai, University of Tokyo, as Chairman. Following the
tradition of the previous conferences held in Florence,
Italy (1983), Algarve, Portugal (1985), Leiden, The
Netherlands (1987), Cambridge, MA, USA (1989), Ox-
ford, UK (1991), La Jolla, CA, USA (1993), and Lübeck,
Germany (1995), the scientific programme of the Con-
ference consisted of oral and poster sessions: there
were five plenary lectures, 66 invited lectures, and 370
poster presentations, which were attended by 730 par-
ticipants from 28 countries.
The plenary lectures were given by Profs R. Huber, K.
D. Karlin, P.J. Sadler, J.K. Barton, and T. Kitagawa, and
the 66 invited lectures were given in the following 18
sessions:
Finally, I would like to express my sincere thanks to
the lecturers for their kind cooperation and excellent
contributions to this issue.
A
B
C
D
E
Molybdenum
Metal Uptake, Transport, and Storage
Copper
Heme Iron and Metalloporphyrins
Metals in Medicine
Osamu Yamauchi,
Conference Editor,
Chairman, Programme Committee
Chemistry International, 1998, Vol. 20, No. 4
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