INDIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
Section A: Inorganic, Bio-Inorganic, Physical, Theoretical & Analytical Chemistry
Editorial Board
Prof. A Chakravorty
Dept. of Inorganic Chemistry
Indian Association for the
Cultivation of Science
Calcutta 700 032
Prof. S Mitra
Chemical Physics Group
Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research
Mumbai 400 005
Prof. D N Satyanarayana
Department of Inorganic & Physical
Chemistry
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore 560 012
Prof. A C Dash
Department of Chemistry
Utkal University
Bhubaneswar 751 004
Prof. R N Goyal
Department of Chemistry
Roorkee University
Roorkee 247 667
Prof. Y K Agrawal
Department of Chemistry
Gujarat University
Ahmedabad 380 009
Prof. S.S.Krishnamurthy
Department of Inorganic and
Physical Chemistry
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore 560 012
Prof. Lallan Mishra
Department of Chemistry
Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi 221 005
Dr V K Jain
Chemistry Department
Bhaba Atomic Research Centre
Mumbai 400 085
Prof. N Sathyamurthy
Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur 208 016
Prof. Pradeep Mathur
Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology
Mumbai 400 076
Prof. B Viswanathan
Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology
Chennai 600 036
Dr Anil Kumar
Physical Chemistry Division
National Chemical Laboratory
Pune 411 008
Prof. I Gutman
Faculty of Science
University of Kragujevac
P O Box 60, YU-34000, Kragujevac
Yugoslavia
Prof. E I Solomon
Monroe E Spaght Professor of
Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305, U.S.A
Prof. Karl Wieghardt
Max Planck Institute fur
Strahlenchemie
Stiftstrasse 34-36
D-45470 Mulheim an der Ruhr
Germany
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