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Molecular structure of bis-(4-acetophenyl-sali cylaldiminato) acetylacetonato cobalt (Ill ) Organocobalt complexes o f diacetylmonoxime buckled with different diamincs as ' models' for vitamin B12 derivatives 765 534 201 830 835 564 442 1050 131 2 1348 IND IAN J CHEM , VOL 39A, 2000 Qua ntitati ve aspects of intramo lec ular interactions in volving cobalt(l l), coppcr(ll ) zinc( ll ) nucl cotid cs and dipcptidcs Rc<J c ti o ns of 2,2' ,6' ,2"-terpvridine . a nd its comp 1exes, WI.tl1 OH" a n d Cuq· A radJOl yllc study Some mixed ligand co mpl exes of cobal t(ll) w ith bidcntatc sc hiiT bases Spect rop hotometri c determin ati on of cobalt(ll ) and gold(! II ) in th e presence of potass ium pers ulph atc using resacetop hen one ox im e Spectropho tomet ric determin ati o n of Zn(ll), Cd(ll ), Hg( ll ), Fc( II )Co(ll) , Ni (ll ) and Cu(ll) with 2(4,6-dimeth yl-2- pyrimidylazo)- 1-naphthol-4-su !phonate, sodiu m sa lt Synthesis and c harac te risation of a trinucl ear Co(I II )-Cu(II )-Co(lll ) co mplex with pyridine-2ca rboxylate as bridging ligand Synthes is and characte ri zation of 13, 14-mc mbered tetraaza mac rocyclic co mpl exes Sy nth esis and c harac teriz at ion of co balt ( ll ) , ni ckcl(ll ), copper(ll), zinc(ll ), cadmium(ll) and mcrcury(l l) complex es with 2-hydroxyimino-3(2' -i min o-4-phe nylthi azoly l)-butane and 2-hydroxyi mino-3[2' -imino-4 ' p -tolulylthiazolyl ))butane Synthesis and c harac teri za ti on of copper(ll), nickel(ll),cobalt(ll), palladium(ll), rhodium(III) and dioxouranium(VI) complexes with biacetylmonox.ime phenoxyacetyl hydrazone Synthesis and characteri zati on of hig hly conjugated 22 -m e mbcred octaazamacrocycles a nd th ei r manganesc(ll ), copper( ll), cobal t(ll ) and zinc(ll) complexes Sy nthesis a nd characte ri zat ion of metal co mplex es of methyl e ne bridged hexadent ate tetraani o ni c li ga nd s Synthesis a nd characte ri zation of some transiti o n met al complexes of trimeri c and tet rameric aminocyclophosphazenes Synthesis of so me 16-mem be red macrocyclic compl exes of c hromium(lll ), mangan ese (ll ) , iron(lll) , cobalt(ll ), ni ckel(ll ) and co pper(ll ) containi ng a tetraoxooctaazacyclohexadecane ligand Synthesis, c haracte risati o n and in-vitro antitumour studi csof so me 3d complexes o fN- sali cy loy l-N'thi obenzhydrazide Sy nthes is, characterisation and complexat ion reaction of apS) - pyridine-2,6 - dicarboxy lato/iminodiacetato (te traeth yle nepentamine) cobalt (Ill ) in aqueous medium- A comparative study Synthesis, structure and reac tivit y of zirco nium (IV ), vanadi um (IV), cobalt(l l), nickel(ll ) an d coppcr( II) complexes de rived from carbo hyd razide sc hill hase li gand s Column chromatography Column chro matograp hic pre-concentration of cobalt and zinc with 3-hyd roxy-4-i mino-(N-2'pyridyl )-2-methylnaphthalcn- 1-o ne adso rbed on naphthalene and their es tim atio n in vitami n and milk sam ples 1 157 945 1098 557 545 664 450 1145 1301 1090 1093 528 407 1074 1044 4 15 564 Confor mat ion a nalysis A computa ti onal study of th e no n-lin ear optical prope rties in 11:-0- n: coupled donor-acce ptor organi c molecu les I 14 Connectivity in dex Est im at in g the co nnecti vi ty index of a saturated hydrocarbo n 38 1 Co nti nuum model Effec t of wate r co ntinuum o n the interactio n ene rgy of DNA base-pairs: A Ha rtee-Fock self- consistent react ion fie ld stud y 132 Coordinatio n c he mistry A novel synt hesi s of tetramet hylammonium trioxylluorochromate(VI) A si ngle ste p synthesis of some cya non itrosyl 5 {CrN0} complexes of chromium()) in volvin g mu lti -functional lig ands directly fro m c hromate(VI ) in aq ueous-aerobic medium Alcoholate derivatives of bimetalli c [Sn (IV ), AI(III)) -J..t -oxoisopropoxy acetate and -J..t-oxoisopropoxid e EXAFS studies of cobalt(ll ) complexes with salicy li c acids Impro ved synthesis and reactivity of tris(acety lacetonato)ruthenium(lll) Mixed li gand complexes of cobalt (II & Ill) - Molec ular structure of bis-(4-acetophen yl-salicylaldimin ato) acetylacetonato cobalt (III) Molybden um(V) complexes of dithiocarbonates derived from glucose, sucrose and triphenylmethylca rbino l Monofuncti o nal bidentate schiff base complexes o f ruthenium(lll) conaining triph enylpho sphi ne or tri pheny larsi ne Ne w copper com plexes of diacety l hydrazone ox ime and its acetone azi ne Organocobalt co mplex es of di ace ty lmonoxime buckled with different d iamines as ' models' for vitamin 812 de rivatives Polypyrazo lylborate mi xed -li gand complexes of Zr(IV), VO(IV) a nd MoOz(VI ) Some mixed li gand complexes of cobalt(ll) with bidentate schiff bases Studies on so me lanthanide( III) complexes o f o-, mand p- chi o ro subs tituted diphen ycarbazones Synthesi s and a study of paramagneti c shift s in the co mplexes of lanthanide thiocy anates w ith 2,2'bipyridyl Synthesi s and c haracteri zao n of open-ring polycompo nent co mplexes formed in the reac ti o n o f Ian then ides with o-ph e nyl ened iam in e a nd benzoylacetone Synthesi s a nd c ha racteri za tion of co balt(ll ), nickel (ll ), coppe r(ll), zinc(ll), cadrni um(ll ) and mercury( ll ) complexes with 2-hydroxyimin o-3(2' -imino-4-pheny lthi azo lyl)-butane and 2-hydroxyim in o-3[2 ' -im ino-4' p-to lul y lth iazo lyl)]butane Syn th esis a nd c haracte r ization of coppc r(II ), nickel(ll),cobaii(II ), pall adium(ll ), rhodium (lll ) and dioxouranium( VI ) complexes w ith biacetylmonoxime phc noxyaccty l hydrazone 434 867 883 442 457 1050 I 083 I 079 57 1 13 12 446 I 098 1150 1286 1309 1145 130 I ANNUAL INDEX Synthesis and characterizatio n o f metal complexes of methylene bridged hexadentate tetraanio ni c ligands Synthesis and characteri zat ion of so me transition metal co mpl exes of trimeri c and tetrameric aminocyclophosphazenes Synthesis and characteri zatio n of toluene-3,4-dithiolatoantimon y( III ) diorganodithiophosphates Synthesis and characteri zation ofuranium(IY) complexes with 3-substituted-4-amino-5-mercapto 1,2,4-triazole Schi ff bases Synthesis and characterizaton of novel tetraoximes and their poly-metal co mplexes Synthesis and characteri zato n, luminescent and redox properties of some mononuclear and dinuclear ruthenium (II) polypyridyl complex es Synthesis and crystal structure of a new Ni (II ) complex of 1,5 -bis (N - 1-meth yl-imidazo l-2-methyl)1,5-diazacyclooctane (L), [NiLCI( Synthesis and spect ral studi es of iron(III) and iron(II ) complexes with 2,3-disubstituted quinazolin4(3 H)-ones Synthesis and spec tral st udies of oxomolybdenum(Y ) and dioxomolybdenum(YI) com plexes of 1,2-dihydro- l ,5-dimeth yl-2-phenyl-4-(2,4-dih yd rox y pheny lazo )-3-H-pyrazo 1-3-one Synthesis and structural inves ti gation of biologically active compl exes of lanthanide with chlorpromazine Synthesis of a new series of bifunctional complexes (CsHs)Fe(C0)2SCO(C6H4)CO X (X= R N H , R2N , Ar-0) Synthesis structure and properties of a, P-unsaturated ca rbox ylate adducts of a rene ruthen ium (II ) sc hiff-base complexes: X-ray crystal structu re of [(r{p-cymene)Ru (02CCH=CMe2)(0-2C 6H 4CH=NC6H4·pMe)].H20 Synthesis, characteri sati o n and in-vitro an titumour studiesof some 3d compl exes of N-salicyloyl-N'thiobenzhydrazide Synthesis, characterisation and absorption spectro scopy of mo no and dinuclear com plexes of platinum(II) and palladium(II ) Synthesis, characterisation and co mpl exation reaction of apS) - pyridine-2 ,6 - di carboxy latoliminodiacetato (tetraethylenepentamine) cobalt (III ) in aqueous medium- A comparative stud y Synthesis , characteri sti cs and redox properties of uranyl complexes with diamine li gand s hav ing ONNO and ONNNO donor g ro ups Synthesis, characteri zatio n and an tiinfl ammatory effects o f Cr(III ), Mn(II), Fe(! II ) and Zn(II) co mplexes with diclofenac sodium Synthesis, spectral studi es and stru ct ural aspects of bi s( d i i so pro pox ide d i th i op hos phato ) ru thenium (II ) complex Synthetic spectroscopic and structural studi es on 4aminobenzoate complexes of divalent alkaline eart h met a l s: X-ray ..:rystal s truc tur es of f{Mg(H20 )6} (4-aba)2].2H20 and [Ca( H20)2(4aba)2] (4-aba = ami nobenzoate) Template sy nthes is of 1-(8' -amino-a- naphthyl)-4(8 ' -amino-a- naphth ylamine)- 1-azab uta-1 ,3-di 1093 528 880 1087 1280 1295 871 1202 989 425 1055 838 1074 667 1044 461 874 877 843 1349 ene, a tetraaza half-cycl ised li gand , and characterisati o n of its copper( II ) complexes 400 Coordi nati o n polymers [K(18C6)]2[Pt(SCN)4)(H20): A novel one dimensio nal coo rdin ati on polymer wi th K-N bonds 983 Copper A ferromagneticall y coupl ed acetato bridged co pper(II) dimer Decomposition of irrad iated yttrium oxalate and CuO mi xture Electrochemical studi es o n CuN202 chromophorc Estimatio n of g- ten so r of metal che lates us ing Wiener index First tetraaza macrocycle having fu sed nap hth alene rings: Synthesis and its co mpl exation Ion-association and solvation studies of copper(!), silver(!), thallium(!) perch! orates and some tetra lkyl-ammonium salts in bin ary mixtures of tri ethylphosphite wit h aceto nitrile, benzonitrile and pyridine at 298.15K Kin eti c and mechani sti c st udi es on reactions of so me bis(dithiocarbamato)copper(II) comp lexes with period ate Metal ion induced enhancement of em ission of an o rgani c tluoropho re New cop per co mplexes of diacetyl hydrazone oxime and its aceto ne azine Quantitat ive aspects of intramo lec ul ar interacti ons involvin g cobalt(II ), copper(!!) zinc(!!) nucleotides and dipeptides Spectrophotometric determination of copper( II ), silver(! ), and palladium(II) with 4-(2,6-diamino-4pyrimidylazo)phenol Spectrophotometric determinati on of Zn(II ), Cd(II ), Hg( II ), Fe(II )Co(II ), Ni (II ) and Cu( II ) with 2(4,6-dimethyl-2-pyri midylazo)- 1-napht hol-4-su !pho nate, sodium sal t Synthesis and characterisation o f a trinuclear Co( III )-Cu(II )-Co(III ) co mpl ex with pyridine-2carboxy late as bridgin g li ga nd Synthesis and characterizati o n of 13, 14-membered tetraazamacrocycl ic co mpl exes Synthesis a nd characterization of cobal t(!! ), ni ckel(II) , copper(II ), zin c( II ), cadmium(II ) and mercury( II ) co mpl exes with 2-hydrox yimino-3(2' -imino-4-phenylthi azolyl)-butane and 2-h yd roxy imino-3[2' -imin o-4' p-tolul ylthi azo lyl)]butane Synthesis a nd c ha r ac te ri za ti o n of copper( ! 1), ni ckel(Il ),cobalt(II ), palladium(II), rh odium(lll) and di oxo uranium(YI ) complexes with biacetylmonox ime phenoxyacetyl hydrazone Synthesis and characterizati o n of highly conj ugated 22- m e mb ered octaaza mac rocyc les and th e ir manganese( II ), copper(! I), cobalt(! I) and zinc( ! I) complexes Synthesis and characterizati o n of metal comp lexes of methylene bridged hexadentate tetraanionic ligands Synthesis and characteri zat io n of so me tran sition metal complexes of trimeric and tetrameric aminocyclophosphazenes Synthesis and stru ct ure of the copper(!) complex [Cu(dppm) (2,2' -bipy)]2(N0J)2 11 74 12 10 378 386 480 579 940 375 571 11 57 784 545 664 450 11 45 1301 1090 1093 528 985 1350 INDIAN J CHEM , VOL 39A, 2000 Synthesis of some 16-membered macrocyclic complexes of chrom ium ( lll ), mang a nesc (Il), iron(l ll ), coba lt(ll ), ni ckel(ll ) and coppcr( II) con tai ning a tetraoxooctaazacyclohexadccane ligand Synthesis, characterizati on and peroxidase ac ti vity or binuclear complexes of 2,6-bis(2-hyd ro xybenzy lidene hydrazone)-4-methyl phenol Synthesis, structure and reactivity of zi rc onium (IV) , vanadium(IV) , coba lt(ll ), ni ckel (ll ) and copper(!!) complexes derived from carbohyd razide schiff base li gands Template synthesis of 1-(8' -amino-a-naphthyi)-4(R' -amino-a- naphth ylaminc)- 1-aza buta-1 ,3 -di cne, a tctraaza half-cyclised liga nd , and characterisation of its copper( II ) complexes X-band electron paramag netic resonance spectra of i midazo late-b ridged copper( I I)-co pper( II ) and copper(ll )-zinc(l l) complexes of glycy lva line Coprccipitation Study on the solid solubility mechani sm of Crz03 in Fe30~ (y - Fe203) Coupled clu ster methods A linear response theory for excited state energies for systems with a strongl y correlated ground state Cal culation of vibrational spectra by the coupled clu ster meth od- Appli cations to HzS Dipole moment of open shell radicals using the Fock space multi-reference coupled cluster linear response approach: Full singles and doubles approximation Coutinho Evans See Desai Prashant Crown ethers Liquid-liquid extraction separation studi es of iron (Ill) from iron (II) and other cations with dibenzo18-crown-6 from hydrobromic acid medium Solvent extraction separation of barium(! I) from associated clements using 15-crown-5 from picrate medium Crude oils Anal ys is of crude oil for its trace metals content Cryptands Synthesis and charactcri zaton of cryptates of Sm(ll) , Eu(lll), Tb(lll) , Dy(III ) chlorides with mac robicyclic cryptand Crystal structure Mixed ligand complexes of cobalt (II & Ill ) - Molecul ar structure of bis-(4-acetophenyl -salicylaldiminato) acetyl acetonato cobalt (III ) New copper complexes of diacetyl hydrazone ox ime and its acetone azine Synthesis and crystal structure of a new Ni (II) compl ex of I ,5-bi s (N-1-meth yl-imidazol-2-methyl)1,5-diazacyclooctane (L), [NiLCit Synthesis and structure of the copper(!) comp lexfCu(dppm) (2,2 ' -bipy)]2(N03)2 Synthesis structure and properties of a . ~-unsatu­ rated carboxy late adducts of arene ruthenium(!!) schiff-base complexes: X-ray crystal stru cture of f(q 6-p-cymene ) Ru (02CCH=CMe2)(0-2C6H4CH=NC6H4-pMe)].H20 407 421 4 15 400 ! 124 13 17 196 60 274 1334 554 779 1306 1050 571 87 i 985 838 Synthetic spectroscopic and structural ~tudies on 4-aminobenzoate complexes of divalent alkaline earth met a ls: X-ray c rys tal stru c tures o f [ {Mg(Hz0)6} (4-aba)2] .2Hz0 and [Ca(Hz0)2( 4aba)z] (4-aba = aminobenzoate) [K( I8C6)]2[Pt(SCN)4](H20): A novel one dimensional coordination polymer with K-N bonds Cyclic voltammetry A ferro- and antiferro-magnetically coupled binuclear manganese(II,III) complex of an orthofun ctionali sed para-nap hthoquinone : Synthesis and charac terization by thermogravimetric, thermochromic, cyclic voltammetric, magneti c and EPR studies Effect of methyl groups on the oxidation of xa nthine and correlation of oxidati on potenti als with frontier molecular orbital energies Electro chemi cal studies on CuN202 chromophore Monofunctional bidentate schiiT base complexes of ruthenium(lll ) conaining triphenylphosphine or triphcny larsinc Polymer based oxidation catalyst for direct methanol fuel cell Synth es is and characterisation of a trinucl ear Co(lli)-Cu(II)-Co(III) complex with pyridine-2carboxyl ate as bridging ligand Synthesis and characterization of dinuclear ruthenium (!! ) comp lexes wi th 4,4 ' -bipyridine as bridging li gand Synthesi s and characteri;_atio n of dinuclear ruthenium(II ) co mplexes with dianion of 2,5-dihydro xy- 1,4-benzoquinone as bridging ligand Templ ate synthesis of 1-(8' -amino-a-naphthyl )-4(8' -ami no-a-naphthylamine)-1-azabuta-1 .3-di ene, a tetraaza half-cyclised liga nd, and characteri sation of its copper(! I) complexes Cyclizations Homol ytic bimolecular displacement at carbon in organocobaloximes: intramo lecular cyclizations Cyclodextrins Photophys ics of !H-I , 5-benzodiazepine in aqueous cyclodextrin environments Cyclohexanones Kinetics and mechanism of ox idation of 2-hydroxycyclohexanone by vanadium (V) 843 983 111 7 953 378 1079 826 664 11 87 11 91 400 835 389 775 D ahlenburg Lutz See Dey Dilip Kumar Damodar Kum ar See Balakrishnan T Das A K See Saba B 751 40 Das Achintya See Kalra Parul Das Arabinda Phenol-amide chel ate of iron(! II ): Its redox activity with sulphur(IV ) 262 Das B C See Routra N Das Bijan See Acree, Jr Willi am E Das I See Gupta B D Das lshwar Fractal growth and osci llations during electrochemi cal deposition in Pb-Zn binary system Growth patterns and light induced kinetics of the fungi Cephalosporium sacc/wri on agar pl ates 902 1210 475 835 1005 697 ANNUAL INDEX Wave propagation and pattern form at ion on a porcelain membrane 618 Das Kalyan Kumar See Dutta Antara 163 Das Mukul See Rastogi R P 679 Das Nigamananda Synthesis and characterisation of a trinuclear Co(III )-Cu(II)-Co(lll) complex with pyridine-2carboxylate as bridging li gand Synthesis , characterisation and complexation reaction of a~S) - pyridine-2,6 - dicarbo xy lato/i minodiacetato (tetraethyl enepentami ne) cobalt (II I) in aqueous medium- A comparati ve stud y Das Parimal Kum ar Band-wi dth of charge transfer band of ion-pairs and dipolar molecul es in neat and mixed binary solvents Das h Amitabh See Das Nigamananda Dash Anandi C See Das Arabinda 664 1044 484 664 1044 902 Date S K See Rane S Y 111 7 Dat ta Dipank ar See Chakrabarti Pinak See Lewi s Nita A See Mostafa Golam See Naskar Jnan P See Patra Goutam K See Purkayastha Prad ipta 571 400 1174 Datta Sambhu N Theoretical investigation of the electronic structure of mol ecules involved in green-plant photosynthesi s 373 480 375 120 728 De G S See Sengupta Partha Sarathi 928 De Rajib Lal Mixed ligand complexes of cobalt (II & Ill ) - Molecular structure of bis- (4-acetophenyl-sa!icylaldiminato) acetylacetonato cobalt (Ill) Some mi xed ligand complexes of cobalt(ll) with bidentate schiff bases Deb B M See Vikas Deepa C S See Sugu nan S Deepali Alcoholate derivatives of bimetallic [Sn(IV ), AI(III)] -Jl-oxoisopropoxy acetate and -Jl-oxoi so propoxide Density function al calculations Ab initio and OFf studies on the lithium and hydroge n bonded complexes of LiF and HF with a and ll+CJ donors A density fun ctional calculation of Ar++(3s 2 3p 3nl) satellite states Density functional studies of potential energy surfaces o f SiOH-HSiO and PXH+-HPX+ ( X= F, Cl) systems Density-functional theory of optical response Interfacial stru cture of a so lute-so lvent mixture in co nt::~ ct wi th :1 semipermeable membrane Local reactivity indices of free radicals: Ab initio Hartree-Fock and Kohn-Sham density functi onal calculations Shannon entropy of I -normalised electron density Structure of polymers at interfaces: A density functional approach 230 Desai Pras hant Structure of the epitope- fragment 579 to 60 I - in the GP4 I transmembrane domain of HIV -I 274 Dcsiraju Gautam R Molecular recognition and inclusi on: Edited by A W Coleman See Sarma Jagarl apudi A R P 786 253 Dev S See Gunaseelam K 76 1 92 Dey Adhikari 0 MCSCF calculations on metal ion (Li+, Na+, Be 2+) affinities of a few carbonyl molecules in the ground and 1' 3 nrc* excited states 792 Dey Dilip Kumar Synthesis and characterization of di organotin (IV ) dichloride adducts of Schiff bases 11 77 Dey Kamalendu Synthesis and characterization of so me chromium(lll ) complexes with N, S, 0-donor thiohydrazo nes 11 40 Dey Ranjan See Pandey J 0 Dhadki PM See Bandekar Sunita V Dharmaraj N See Ramesh R Dhindsa Kuldip Singh See Malhotra Rajesh Dhuley 0 G See Patil R K 1050 1098 32 765 883 80 32 75 9 219 68 48 Deva Priyakumar U Structure, stability and reacti vit y parameters of (C H)s iso mers and their cation and anion radical counterparts: A theoretical study Dhadke PM See Mishra B Y Dave ltishri Kinetics and mechanism of oxidation of some a-hydroxyacids by quinolinium fluorochromate 135 1 993 111 4 548 1079 42 1 II 05 Diamines Synthesis, characteristics and redox properties of uranyl complexes with diamine ligands having ONNO and ONNNO donor groups 461 Differential oscillopolarography Catalytic determination of ultra trace amounts of titanium by 2.5 - order differential oseillopolarography 541 Dirneri sations Molecular dynamics study of the so lid state photoreac tivity of 3- and 4-cyano-trans-cinnamic acids 253 Dioxyge n Kinetics and mechani sm of heterogeneou s cadmium sulphide and homogeneous manganese( ll ) catalysed oxidation of sulphur(IV) by dioxygen in acetate buffered medium 507 Dipeptides Mixed li gand complexes of ni cke l(ll ) with imidazoles and some dipeptides 468 Dipole moments Ab-initio MRD-CI studies of electric field gradi ent (c fg) and dipole moment of CCN r::~dical at 1352 IND IAN J CHEM, VOL 39A, 2000 CASSCF optimized geometries for X2n, o:41:-, A 2 ~, B21:- and C 21:+ An ab initio study of molecular charge distribu tion and electrostatic potentials: Role of hybridization displacement charge Dipole moment of open shell radicals using the Fock space multi-reference coupl ed clu ster linear response approach: Full si ngles and doubles approximation 148 180 60 Diradicals Semiempirical and thermodynamic calculations on the exothermi c degradation of· vinyl polyperoxides 631 Dixit Surjit B See Kalra Parul 262 Dixit Vandana See Gupta B D 830 DNA Exploring new bio-active Ru(II ) polypyridyl complexes through their interaction with DNA 660 132 Dong Wenkui Synthesis and characteri zaton of cryptates of Sm(I 1) , Eu(I II ), Tb(III) , Dy(III) chlorides with macrobicyc lic cryptand 1306 114 Doping Influence of doping on the structure and electri cal properties of poly(aniline) 50 1 Dou Jianmin See Liu Ying 983 Douman Jin See Wang Dongmei 985 Dubey Sapna See Bhasin Menka 1036 Dulling oscillator Quantum manifestations of· the classical chaos in an undamped Duffing oscill ator in presence of an external field : A quantum theory of motion study Durga Prasad M Calcu lation of vibrational spectra by the coupled cluster method - Applications to H2S Dutta Antara Electro ni c spectrum of GeTe: An ab initio based configuration interaction study 3 16 196 Dwivedi Chandra Shekhar See Singh Kehar 163 495 Dwivedi D K See Pandey J D 993 Dyes A study on equili brium and kineti cs of carbocationto-carbinol conversion for di- and tri- ary lmeth ane dye ca ti ons in aqueous so luti ons: Relative stabilities of dy e carbocat ions and mechanis m of dye carbi nol formation Adsorption of Eriochrome Black Ton polyanilline from aqueous and methanolic solutions Adso rption of methylene blue on cellulose from its own solution and its mixture wi th methyl orange Eigen states Classical resonances and their quantum mamfest ati ons El-Agez Medhat M See Mostafa Sahar I DNA base pair Effect of water continuu m on the interaction energy of DNA base-pairs: A Hartee-Fock sel f-consistent reaction fi eld study Donor-acceptor systems A computational study of the non- linear optical properties in n-a- n coupled donor-acceptor organic molecules Dysprosium Separation of carrier-free holmium and dysprosium produced in 70 MeV 11 B5+ irradiated europium target by liquid-liquid extraction with HDEHP Synthesis and characterizato n of cryptates of Sm(I 1), Eu(III), Tb(III) , Dy(III) ch lorides with macrobicyclic cryptand 703 603 6 11 Electric fie ld gradients . . . Ab-initio MO calculations of electric field gradients 2 at 35 CI and H nuclei in SiH3CI, SiH2Ciz, SiCI2 and SiHCI3 Ab-initio MRD-CI studies of electric field gradient (efg) and dipole moment of CCN radical at CASSCF optimized geometries for X2n, o:4 1:-, A2 ~. B21:- and C 21:+ Electroanalytical methods Analys is of crude oil for its trace metals content Electrochemi stry Chronoamperometric curren t at ltramicrospheroidal electrodes for steady state EC' reactions - A two-point Pade' approximant Comparati ve in vestigations on electrical conductance of ion-exchage membranes Electrocatalytic properties of spinel-type MxC03x04 prepared by a new sol-gel route for Oz evolution in alkaline solutions Electrochemical characterization of LiNis hydride electrode Electrochemical studies on CuNzOz chromophore Influence of doping on the structure and electrical properties of poly(aniline) Kin etics of dissolu ti on of iron in aq ueous media containing ch loride and sulphate ions Metallization effects of an adsorbed iayer: An STM study at electrochemical interface Studies on mixed membrane potenti als Electrodes A new chalcogenide membrane bismuth ion-selective electrode Electrochemical characteriza tion of LiNis hydride electrode Electro lytes A si mple method to predict the solvation free energy and enthalpy of electrolytes in aq ueous and nonaqueous soluti ons Conductance and viscosity measurements of some I: I electrolytes in dimethylformamide + methanol mixtures at 25, 30 and 40 °C Partial molar volumes and viscosities of some monovalent ion s in ethanolam ine and water-ethanolamine mixtures at 298 .15K Electron transfer Phenol-amide chelate of iron( III) : Its redox activity wi th su lphur(IV ) Electronic states Characteri zation of low- lying electronic states of co 2+ 106 1 1306 307 130 1 139 148 779 356 1264 819 690 378 50 1 1000 364 495 472 690 584 392 598 902 173 ANNUAL INDEX Electronic spectrum of GeTe: An ab initio based config urati o n interaction study Elec troni c stru cture Theoreti cal investigati o n of the electronic structure of molecul es involved in green-pl an t photosynth es is Electrostatic potentials An ab initio stud y of molecular charge di stribution and electrostatic potentials: Ro le of hybridi zation displacement charge Molecular electrostatics for exploring hydration pattern s of molecules: 2-Formamide 163 50 Enzyme inhibitor Free energy analysis of enzyme-inhibitor binding: The carboxypeptidase A-inhibitor complexes 262 Europium Synthesis and characterizaton of cryptates of Sm(II) , Eu(lll) , Tb(lll) , Dy(Jll) chlorides with macrobicyclic cryptand EXAFS spectroscopy EXAFS studies of cobalt(II) complexes with salicylic acids Excess functions Excess thermodynamic and dielectric functions of the binary liquid mixtures of methyl methacrylate + alkoxyethanols (2-methoxyethanol , 2ethoxyethanol, 2-butoxyethanol) and + 1-alcohols ( !-butanol, 1-pentanol , 1-heptanol ) Excess vo lumes, viscosities and compressibilities of binary mixtures consisting of alcohols with I ,4diox ane at different temperatures Viscosities for binary liquid mixtures of some n-alkoxyethanols with alkyl acetates at 298.15 K Excited state energies A linear response theory for excited state energies for systems with a strongly correlated g round state Excited states of hi g hly stripped ions 1117 386 1083 1124 1280 1306 442 1270 809 1322 I 40 Fan Ya ot ing See Hou Ho ngwci Fang Ya- Yin Synthe sis and crystal structure of a ne w Ni (ll ) complex o f I ,5- bi s (N- 1-mcthyl-imidazo l- 2- meth yl)1,5-di azacyc looctane (L), [NiLCJt 338 1024 11 57 120 787 Ertepinar Hamide See Gok Yasar 685 541 Farantos S C See Maiti B Engelbrecht Johan P See Markovic Zoran EPR spectroscopy A ferro- and antiferro-magnetically coupled binuclear manganese(II,III) complex of an orthofunctionalised para-naphthoquinone : Synthesis and characterization by thermogravimetric, thermochromic, cyclic voltammetric, magnetic and EPR studies Estimation of g-tensor of metal chelates using Wiener index Molybdenum(Y) complexes of dithiocarbonates derived from glucose, sucrose and triphenylmethylcarbinol X-band electron paramagnetic resonance spectra of imidazolate-bridged copper(II)-copper(II) and copper(II)-zinc(II) complexes of glycylvaline Fang Yanjun See C hen Hui Fang Yu zhi See Li Lijun Florence Nightingale K See Rab indra Reddy P 180 1353 Fluorescence Excited state proton tran sfer of so me substituted naphthols in liposo mcs Luminescence characteristics of I , I ' -binaphthyl4,4' -diol in different solvents and at various pH Metal ion induced enhancement of emission of an organic fluorophore Photophysics of IH-1 , 5-benzodi azepine in aqueous cyclodextrin environments 964 634 375 389 Synthesis of P-halogenated porphyrin dimers with distinct photophysical properties 980 Fluorimetry Extractive fluorimetric determination of dimethoate residues in water samples 133 1 Fluorination A novel synthesis of tetramethylammonium trioxytluorochromate(VI) 434 Formamide Molecular electrostatics for exploring hydration patterns of molecules : 2-Formamide 50 Fractals Fractal growth and oscillations during electrochemical deposition in Pb-Zn binary system 1005 Free radicals Kinetics of ruthenium( Ill) catalysed polymerization of methyl methacrylate by triethanolamine in presence of CCI4 Local reactivity indices of free radicals: Ab initio Hartree-Fock and Kohn-Sham density functional calculations Phase transfer catalyzed free radical polymerization : Kinetics of polymerization of butyl methacrylate using potassium peroxomonosulphate/tetrabutyl phosphonium chloride catalyst system 747 68 75 1 Frontier molecular orbitals Effect of methyl groups on the oxidation of xanthine and correlation of oxidation potentials with frontier molecular orbital energies 953 Fuel cells Polymer based oxidation catalyst for direct methanol fuel cell 826 Fuentealba P See Parveen Fazal S 48 Fullerenes Classical resonance rule for predicting the stability/instability o f fullerene mol ecules 905 Fungi Gro wth patterns and li g ht induced kinetics of th e fun gi Cephalosporium sacclwri o n agar plates 697 G tensors 87 1 Estimation of g- tenso r of met al chelatcs usin g Wi ener in dex ~ 3~6 1354 INDIAN J CHEM, VOL 39A, 2000 Gad re Shridhar R Molecular electrostati cs for explorin g hydration patterns of molecules: 2-Formamide Gallium Liquid-liquid extraction and separation of ga llium(lll ) with Cyanex 921 Gand hi Jesal B Synthesis, characteristics and redox properties of uranyl complexes wit h diamine ligands having ONNO and ONNNO donor groups Gango padhyay Palas 1-lypcrpolarisability - molecular twi st correlatio n in diaminodicyanoquinodimethanes 50 111 4 46! 106 Gangwa ni Hcml ata Kinetics and mechanism of oxidati on of met hi on ine by hcxamcthylenctctraminc-bromine 436 Ganju Sunita See Balat·am V 567 Garadkar K M See 1-lankarc P P Garg B S Column chromatographic pre-concentration of cobalt and zi nc with 3-hydroxy-4-imino-(N-2 ' pyridyl)-2-mcthylnaphth alcn-1-one adsorbed on naphthalene and their estimation in vitamin and milk samples George J See Sastry N V 11 45 564 1270 George Shanty Ex tractive spectrophotometric determination of trace amounts of si lver in plating ertluents 896 Ghammami S See Mahjoub A R 434 Ghosh Swapan K See Patra Chandra 230 Gill Dip Singh Ion-association and solvation studies of copper(!), si lver(!), thallium(!) perch Iorates and some tctralky l- ammonium sa lts in binary mixtures of tri et hylphosphitc with acetonitrile, benzonitrile and pyridine at 298 .15K Gok Yasar Synthesis and characterizaton of novel tetraoximes and their poly-metal comp lexes 579 12RO Gold Spectrophotometric determination of cobalt(!! ) and gold (lll ) in the presence of potassium persulphate using resacctophcnonc ox ime 557 Goldsmith Sheetal See Thaker B T 859 Gopal a Rao R V Collecti ve excit ati ons and dynamic st ru cture factor of liquid tellurium 247 Gopinath an C See Alckar Nirupa A 439 34.'\ Gopinathan Sarada See Alckar Nirupa A 439 IOR7 Govindan R B See Narayanan K Goyal Rajenc.Jra N Effec t of methyl groups on the oxidation of xan thine and correlation of oxid ation potentials with fron ti er molecular orbital energies Graph theory Estimatin g the connectivity index of a saturated hydrocarbon Estimation of g-tensor of metal chclates using Wiener index Some enumeration theorems for self-avoiding walks l 1222 38 ! 386 236 Growth patterns Fractal growth and osci ll ati ons during electrochemical deposition in Pb-Zn binary system Growth patterns and light induced kineti cs of the fungi Cephalosporium sacchari on aga r plates 1005 Gudasi K B See Marvalli P B 1087 Gulla Subhadra See De Raj ib Lal 1050 Gunaseelam K Estimation ofmicellization parameters of cety lpyridinium chloride in water using the mixed electrolyte model for conductance 697 761 Gupta Akhilcsh K Improved synthesis and reacti vity of tris(acetylacetonato)ruthenium(lll ) Synthesis and characte ri zati on of dinuclcar rutheniu m( !!) comp lexes with 4,4' -bipyridine as bridging liga nd Synthesi s and characterizat ion of dinu clear ruthenium( ll ) complexes with dianion of 2,5-dihydro xy-1,4-benzoquinone as bridging ligand 1191 Gupta Anupama See Gupt a Akhilesh K 1187 457 11 87 Gupta B D Cleavage of Co-C bond in allyl cobaloximes with arencsulp henyl chloride Homolytic bimolecular displacement at carbon in organocobaloximes: intramolecular cyclizat ions 830 Gupta K S See Manoj S V 507 Gurnu le Wasudeo B Ion-exchange properties of 8-hydroxyquinoline-biurct-formaldehydc tercopolymcrs Guru raj M V See Sat ish C D Gutierre z G See Parveen Fazal S Gutman Ivan Estimatin g the connectivity index of a saturated hyc.Jrocarbon 835 Ill 0 446 48 38 1 H aight Jr G P See Sharma Kamala Gopi nathan M S See Narayanan K Gouc.Jar T R See Man•alli P B Simultaneous determination of guanosine and IS-hydroxy-guanosine by differential pulse vo ltammctry 053 Hankarc P P Syn th es is and characte ri zation or cobalt( !! ). nickel(! !), coppcr(l l). zinc( ll ). cadmium(! !) anc.J mercury( [[) complexes with 2-hydroxyimino- 3(2' -imino-4-phenylthiazolyl)-butanc and 2-hydro xyi mino-312 ' -imino-4 ' p-t olulylthi~Jzolyl ) ]­ hut ~m e Harbula M:moj K Densit y-functi ona l theory of optic<J l resp\Hisc ll arih ar A I . Kin eti cs of" oxidative dcgr:.~dation of U+Jiys ine by alkaline pcrman ganatc - A mechani stic approach I 1-+.'i 76') ANNUAL INDEX Harikumaran Nair M L Synthesis and spectral studi es of oxomo lybdenum(V) and dioxomolybdenum(VI ) complexes of I ,2-dihydro-1 ,5-dimethyl-2-phenyl-4-(2,4-dihydroxyphenylazo)-3-H-pyrazol-3-one Hasa n Syed Sirajul See Kh an Tahir Ali 989 450 1090 Has hem E Y Spectrophotometric study of th e compl exati on cquilibri :~ of zinc(II) with lawsone, juglone and nap hthazarin 889 Hati Sanchita See Chakrabarti Pinak 571 He Pingang See Li Lijun 541 Hela P G Reacti ons of 2,2' ,6 ' ,2"- terpvridin e and its co mp!exes , wt"th OH" and eaq- i\ radwlyt JC study 945 Helium Density-fun cti onal th eo ry of optical res ponse HIV - 1 Structure of the epitope- fragment 579 to 60 I - in the GP41 tran smembrane domain of HI V-I Holmium Separation of carrier-free holmium and dyspros ium produced in 70 MeV 11 8 5+ irradi ated europium target by liquid-liquid extraction with HDEHP 9 274 1061 Hossain Md Motasse r See Chowdhury AI-Nakib 50 1 Hossaini an A See Mahjoub A R 434 Hota Satya P See Mi shra Bij aya K 721 Hou Hongwei Large nonlinear optical absorption and self-defocusing effect s of clu ster [MoS4 Cu4 (z(py)6J 534 How lader M 8 H Synthesis of some 16-membered macrocyc lic complexe s of c hromium( lll ), manga nese( !! ), iron(III ), cobalt(ll ), nickel(ll ) and copper( II ) containing a tetraoxooctaazacyclohexadecane ligand 407 Hu Peizhi See Cheng Gang 1309 Hu Xiurong See Chen Linshen 13 17 Hunjan Jagtar Singh Melting of the glassy mi xed cluster Ar9Xew 201 Husain M M See Ras togi R P 679 Husain Saj id See Balaram V 567 Hussain Reddy K Organocobalt complexes o r diacetylmonoxime buckled wi th different di amines as ' models' for vitamin 812 derivati ves See Ramesh M Hybridizations Classical resonance rule fur predicting th e stability/ in stabi lit y or full erene molecules Hydride tran sfer Ev idence for direct hydride ion transfer from phosphorus to manganese(V II ) in th e permanganate oxidation of hypophosphite ion Hydroca rbon s Estimatin g the connectivity index of a saturated hydrocarbon 1355 Hydroge n sulphide Calculation of vibrational spectra by the co upl ed clu ster meth od - Applications to HzS 196 Hydrogenations Vapour phase hydrogenation of phenol to cyc!ohcxanone over titan ia supported palladium system: A kinetic study 856 Hydrox y acids Kinetics and mechanism of oxidation of some a-hydroxyacids by quinolinium lluorochromatc Kin etics and mechanism of oxidation of some a-hydroxyacids by butyltriphenyl phosphon ium dichromate Hyperpolari sabilili es A computati onal stud y of the non-linear opti cal properties in n-CJ-n: coupled donor- acceptor organic molecules Hyperpol arisability - molecular twist correlati on in dia minodicyanoquinodimethanes lcP-MS Analysis of sub-boil distilled water, hyd rochl ori c and nitric acid for trace element impurities by ICPMS 728 734 114 106 567 ldriss K A See Has hem E Y 889 lrtikhar K See Kh an Azad A 1286 Inert gases A density fun cti onal calculation of Ar++(3/3/nl) satellite states Density-functional theo ry of optical respo nse Melting of the glassy mi xed cluster Ar9Xew 32 9 20 1 INM analysis Melting of the glassy mi xed clu ster Ar9Xew 20 1 Interfac ial stru ctures Interfacial structure of a so lute-so lven t mi xlllre in contact with a semipermeabl e membrane Structure of polymers at interfaces : A density functi onal approach 2 19 230 Intermol ec ul ar interaction s Correlation of distribution of organic so lutes in organic solvent - water systems with molecul ar properti es and solution structure parameters 802 Ion chromatograp hy Rapid analysis of ultra trace amount s of ani ons in water by solid phase extraction and ion ch rom ato graphy 1101 905 Ion exchange Comparative investi gation s on electri cal condu ctance of ion-exc hage membranes Ion-exc hange properties of 8-hydroxyquinoline-biuret- furmaldehyde tercopolymers Synthesis of a no vel metal ehelatin g ion exchange resin specific for zi nc 1327 709 Ion pairs Band-width of charge transfer band of ion -pairs and dipolar molecul es in neat and mixed binary solvents 484 38 1 Ion selective electrodes A new chalcogenide membrane bismuth ion-se lecti ve electrod e 472 13 12 1337 1264 111 0 1356 INDIAN J CHEM, VOL 39A, 2000 Ionic conducti vi ty A new positi ve mixed anion effect on fast Ag + ion conductivity in AgzW04 IR spectroscopy Eth ylation of toluene over aluminophosphate based molecular sieves in the vapour phase · Iron Extractive spectrophotometric dete rmi nation of iron using 3-h ydroxy-2-(2- thi enyi)-4H-chromen-4one Kineti cs of dissolution of iron in aq ueous medi a containing chloride and sulph ate ions Kin e ti cs of red uc ti o n o f tri s(d ithioc arbamato)iron( III) complexes by oxal ic acid - inJluence of added dithio-carbama te ligand on the rate of reaction Liq uid-li qu id extraction separation studies of iron (I ll ) from iron (II) and other cations wi th dibenzo18-crown-6 from hydrobromic acid medium Phenol-amide chelate of iron(III ): Its redox activit y with sulphur(IY ) Preparation of Fe3+-doped TiOz nanoparticles and thei r photocatalytic properties Reacti ons of 2,2' ,6' ,2"-terpv ridi ne and its comp1exes, W I.th OH' an d eaq- A radiolylic siUdy So lven t ex traction and spectrophotometric determi nation of Fe (II) with 1,3-diphenyl-4-carboethoxy pyrazole-5-one Spectrophotometric determination of Zn(II), Cd(II ), Hg(II ), Fe(II)Co(II), Ni(ll ) and Cu( II ) with 2(4,6-d imethyl-2-py rimid ylazo)- 1-naphthol-4-su Iphon ate, sodium salt Study on the solid solubility mechani sm of CrzOJ in Fe304 (y - FezOJ) Synthesis and characterization of iron (II , Ill ) complexes of 3-hyd roxy-benzaldehyde isonicotinic acid hydrazone Synthesis and characteri zation of some transition metal complexes of trimeric and tetrameric aminocyclophosphazenes Sy nthes is and spectral studies of iron( III ) and iron(II ) compl exes wi th 2,3-disubstituted quinazolin-4(3 H)-ones Synthesis of a new series of bifunctional complexes (CsHs)Fe(CO)zSCO(C6H4)COX ( X=RN H , Rz N, Ar-0) Synthesis, characterisation and in-vitro anti tumour studiesof some 3d comp lexes of N-sal icy loyi-N 'thi obenzhydrazide Synthesis, characteri zation and antiinJlammatory effects of Cr(III) , Mn(II ), Fe(II I) and Zn(ll) complexes with diclofenac sodium Synthesis, characterization and peroxidase activity of binuclear complexes of 2,6-bis(2-hydroxybenzylidene hydrazone)-4-meth yl phenol lshwara Bhat J See Susha C B Islam Khan Shoukat See Kh an Tahir Ali 997 lsomeri zations Investi gations on stochastic resonance in isomerization processes using discrete time maps 330 921 Isomorphic states Class ical resonances and their quantu m manifestati ons 307 J agie llo M See Prezhdo V V 552 1000 933 Jagtap A H See Hankare P P 11 45 Jahan Nafees See Kh an Tahir Ali 1090 Jai n Arun K Ab-initio MO calculations of electric field gradients 2 35 at CI and H nuclei in SiH3CI, SiHzCiz. SiCiz and SiHCIJ 139 Jain D V S See Singla M L 603 Jai n Leela See Jain Yimal K 1334 902 685 1222 Jain Preeti See Arya Satya Prakas h 552 Jain Vimal K Preparation and characteri zation of platinacyc loalkanes containing nitrogen donor ligands 974 Jana Jatramo han See Mostafa Golam 945 1105 545 13 17 1182 528 1202 1055 974 Jai n Neena See Goyal Rajendra N 1174 Jassal P S Kinetics and mechani sm of phenol-formaldehyde and TBMP- fo rmaldehyde based catalysed reaction 646 Jauhar S P Condu ctance and viscos ity measurements of some I: I electro lytes in dimethylformamide + methanol mixtures at 25, 30 and 40 °C 392 Jayaram B See Kalra Paru l 262 Jha Abhisekh See Datta Sambhu N 120 Ji Wei See Hou Hongwei 534 Ji Xinglong See Chen Hui 685 Jibrillbrahim Synthesis of a new seri es of bifunctional complexes (CsHs)Fe(CO)zSCO(C6H4)C O X (X = R N H, RzN , Ar-0) 1055 Jin Gu Spectrophotometric determinati on of cadmium(II ) using the chromogenic reagent 4-(o-diazoaminophenylarsonic acid) azobenze ne 1227 Jing Zhizhong See Cheng Gang 1309 Joseph Daisy Some enumeration theorems for self-avoiding walks I 236 874 Joshi lnder Mohan See Gill Dip Singh 579 42 1 Joshi S K EXAFS studies of cobalt(II) co mplexes with sali cy li c ac ids 442 740 Juneja H D See Gurnule Wasudco B 111 0 1041 1074 450 1090 Islam M S See Howlader M B H 407 Jyothi T M Red uction of nitroarenes with isopropanol and potass ium hydroxide over meta l oxide catalysts Ismail K See Gunaseelam K 76 1 Jyo ti See Malhotra Rajesh 42 1 ANNUAL INDEX Kabir-ud-Din Micellar and salt effects on the Ruhemann ' s purple formation between L-lysine and ninhydrin See Khan Zaheer Kakkar Rita See Wadi R K Kalra Parul Free energy analysis of enzyme-inhibitor binding: The carboxypeptidase A-inhibitor complexes Kan Jiayi See Jin Gu Kannan C See Cheralathan K K KarTapas Local reactivity indices of free radicals: Ab initio Hartree-Fock and Kahn-Sham density functional calculations 1019 522 598 262 1227 921 68 Karambelkar Yivek V See Murugavel Ramaswamy 843 Karim M R See Howlader M B H 407 Karvembu R See Ramesh R 1079 Kaur Harpal See Thaker B T 859 Kaushal Jyotsna See Yasisht S K Kayastha Arvind M See Singh N K 863 1074 Kekule structures Classical resonance rule for predicting the stability/instability of fullerene molecules Parametrization of MMX force field for benzocyclobutenes 905 Kembhavi M R See Harihar A L 769 Keshavamurthy Srihari Classical resonances and their quantum manifestations 787 307 Keshavan B Synthesis and structural investigation of biologically active complexes of lanthanide with chlorpromazine 425 Khadikar P V Estimation of g-tensor of metal chelates using Wiener index 386 Khan Azad A Synthesis and a study of paramagnetic shifts in the complexes of lanthanide thiocyanates with 2,2'bipyridyl 1286 Khan E M See Rane S Y 1117 Khan Ruhul Amin See Chowdhury AI-Nakib Khan Tahir Ali Synthesis and characterization of 13 , 14-membered tetraazamacrocyclic complexes Synthesis and characterization of highly conjugated 22-membered octaazamacrocycles and their manganese(II), copper(II), cobalt(ll) and zinc(ll) complexes 501 450 1090 Khan Zaheer Kinetics and mechanism of oxidation of D-glucose by chromium(VI) in perchloric acid See Kabir-ud-Din 522 1019 Khurana Shilpa See Maurya Mannar R 1093 Kinetics A study on equilibrium and kinetics of carbocationto-carbinol conversion for di- and tri- aryl- methane dye cations in aqueous solutions: Relative stabilities of dye carbocations and mechanism of dye carbinol formation Adsorption of Eriochrome Black T on polyanilline from aqueous and methanolic solutions Adsorption of polyacrylamide onto Fuller' s earth surface Correlation analysis of reactivity in oxidation of substituted benzyl alcohols by benzyltrimethylammonium chlorobromate Decomposition of irradiated yttrium oxalate and CuO mixture Evidence for direct hydride ion transfer from phosphorus to manganese(YII) in the permanganate oxidation of hypophosphite ion Growth patterns and light induced kinetics of the fungi Cephalosporium sacchari on agar plates Kinetic and equilibrium studies of the acid dissociation of the zinc( II) complexes of N, N' -dialkyl-1 , I 0-phenanthroline-2, 9-dimethanamine ligands Kinetic and mechanistic studies on reactions of some bis(dithiocarbamato)copper(II) complexes with period ate Kinetics and mechanism of heterogeneous cadmium sulphide and homogeneous manganese(ll) catalysed oxidation of sulphur(IY) by dioxygen in acetate buffered medium Kinetics and mechanism of oxidation of 2-hydroxycyclohexanone by vanadium(V) Kinetics and mechanism of oxidation of aliphatic alcohols by oxo(salen) manganese(V) complexes Kinetics and mechanism of oxidation of aliphatic aldehyde by 2,2' -bipyridinium chlorochromate Kinetics and mechanism of oxidation of D-glucose by chromium(VI) in perchloric acid Kinetics and mechanism of oxidation of methionine by hexamethylenetetramine-bromine Kinetics and mechanism of oxidation of some aamino acids by benzyltrimethylammonium chlorobromate Kinetics and mechanism of oxidation of some a-hydroxyacids by quinolinium fluorochromate Kinetics and mechanism of oxidation of some a-hydroxyacids by butyltriphenylphosphonium dichromate Kinetics and mechanism or phenol-formaldehyde and TBMP-formaldehyde based catalysed reaction Kinetics and mechanism of ruthenium(lll ) chloride catalyzed oxidation of phosphorous acid by thallium(lll) in acid perchlorate medium - role of tautomeric forms of the phosphorous acid Kinetics and mechanism of the interaction of pyridine-2-thiol with cis-diaqua ethylene diamine) platinum(! I) perchlorate in aqueous medium Kinetics of dissociation oftris-2 ,2 ' -bipyridyl iron(! I) in the water pools of CTAB reverse micelles Kinetics of oxidative degradation of L(+)lysine by alkaline permanganate- A mechani stic approach Kinetics of reduction of tris(dithiocarbamato)iron(III) complexes by oxalic acid - influence of added dithio-carbamate li!!and on the ~ rate of reaction 1357 703 603 1248 1258 1210 709 697 430 940 507 775 654 1169 522 436 650 728 734 646 1036 928 643 769 933 1358 INDIA N 1 CHEM, VOL 39A, 2000 Kin eti cs of ruthenium(! II) catalysed pol ymerizati on or meth yl meth ac rylate by trieth anolamine in presence of CCI4 Ki neti cs of the reacti on between thioglycol ic acid and parabenzoq uin one- Micell ar effect of cetyltri mct hyl-ammonium bro mide Ph ase tra nsfer catalyzed free radical polymerizati on: Kine ti cs or po ly me ri za tio n of but yl mcth Jcry late using potass iu m peroxomonos ul phatc/tcrrab ut yl phosphoni um chlorid e catalyst system Photoc hemical decompositi on of aq ueo us soluti on of sod ium salt of N-bromo-4-met hylbcnze nes ulphona mi dc Photosuhstitution kinetics and mec hani sm of potassiumoc tacyanomolyhdate( IV) with 5-nitro- 1, I0phcnanthrol inc Ph otosubstitu tion ki netics a nd mec hani sm of Mo( IV) and W(IV) cyanide co mplexes with nitrogen heterocyc le li gJnd- I ,3,5,7- tetraazatri cyclodccanc Reacti vit y of Schill base, Pan -4: Reacti on of 2-/4ilydroxybe nzy lidene-2-a minobcnzo thi azo lc with aniline in mi croemul sion Synthes is, charac teri sati on and complexat ion reaction of a~S) - py ri dine-2,6 - dicarboxy lato/iminodiacetato (tetraeth ylencpentaminc) co balt (Ill ) in aqueo us medi um- A comparati ve study Vapour phase hydrogenati on of pheno l to cyclohex ano ne over titania support ed pall adi um system: A kinet ic st udy Kishorc Kausha l See Nanda Ajaya Kum ar Koth ai Nayaki S Lumi nesce nce charac teri sti cs nf I, I ' -b in aphth yl4,4 ' -d iol in differe nt so lven ts and at various pH Kot hari Ani ta Ki neti cs and mechanism of ox idati on of so me a -hydroxyacids by but yltri phenylphosphon ium di chromate P~ma i o t ova 639 75 1 12 18 85l) 11 64 72 1 1044 856 63 1 634 734 734 Koth;lri Seema See Koth ari Anit a Kovatc heva-N inova V See 747 M Kri shan L !l See Balaram V Kri shn a Reddy V Spec tropho tomet ri c determination o f cobalt(ll ) and go ld( Ill ) in the presence of potassi um pcrsulphate usi ng rcsacctophcnone ox ime Ku lkarni Anant D See Gadrc Shrid har R Kul ka rni Ncelima D See Gandh i Jcsal B Kulk:i rni S G See Aswar AS 1000 567 557 so 46 1 Ku lk arni V II See Warad D U 12 14 4 15 Ku!lla r A See Lal R A 11 94 Ku!lla r Ha rsh See Pal Amalendu 1322 Kuma r Neeraj See Goya l Rajendra N Kumar Sanjcc v See Kabir-ud-Din Kuma r Subodh Sy nth..:>is, spec tral studies and structu ral aspec ts of hi~ ( d i i so pro pox ide d i th i ophos ph at o) rut he- · nium(ll ) complex Sci' Patel R N Kumbh at Vinit a Kin eti cs and mec hani sm of ox idati on of aliphati c alde hyde by 2,2' -bipyri din ium chl orochromate 11 69 Ku shawaha S K See Singh N K 1070 L ahiri Su santa See Nayak Da lia La! R A Alk ali metal and am monium oxo peroxomo lybdenum (VI) complexes derived fro m sa li cylaldehyde iso ni cotin oy lh yd razone Lanth anides Studies on some lanthanide( III ) complexes of o-, Illand p- chi oro substituted diphcnycarbazones Synt hesis and a st udy of paramagneti c shift s in the complexes of lanth anide th iocyanates with 2,2' bipyridyl Sy nthesis and charac teri zaon of open-ring po lycompo ncnt comp lexes formed in the reaction of Janth e n ides w it h a- phe ny le ned iam in e and benzoy lace tone Synthes is and struc tural in ves ti gati on of biolog icall y acti ve compl exes of lanthanide with ch lorpromaz ine Jl l)4 II 50 1286 130l) 425 Lanth anum Lamh anum( lll) and praseodymiu m(l ll ) complexes with bidentate and tetradentate schi ff base ligands contai ning indo le rin g 11 98 Lanth anum ni ckelate Electrochem ical charac teri zati on of LiNi s hydri de electrode 690 Lark 13 S See Bani pal T S I0 I I Lax ma Redd y K Synth es is an d spec tral studies of iron( lll ) and iron( ll ) complexes with 2,3-d isubstitu tecl quinazo lin-4(3 1-1 )-ones 1202 Lax mi kanth Rao 1 A co mputatio nal stu dy of th e non- linear optica l properti es in 11-0 - 11 coupled do nor-accer tor orga ni c molecul es 11 4 Lead Fractal grow th and oscill ati ons durin g electroc hemica l depos ition in Pb-Zn bina ry system Spec trophotometric de termination of lead (II ) in water samples using benzil a- monox imc isonicot inoy l hyd razo ne Lee Yiew Wang See Hou 1-longwei Lei Nic See lin Gu 1005 1337 534 1227 I019 Le!ler to the editor Co mments on th e paper entitled 'D etermin ati on of th e eq uil ibri m co nstant for complex formation in a binary mi xture or chl oro form and tri d hylami ne from viscos ity data on th e bas is of the idea l associated so lut io n rn odci " 475 877 11 24 Le wis Nita A Te mplate synthesis of 1-(8 ' -am ino-a -naph th yl)-4(8 ' -am ino-a-nap hthylaminc)-1 -azahuta -1 .3-d i ene, a tctraaza half-cycli sed ligand , and charactc:·isation of its copper( II ) comp lexes 400 953 ANNUAL INDEX Li Lijun Catalytic determination o r ultra trace amou nt s of titanium by 2.5 - order different ial oscillopolarograp hy 541 G~ng 1309 Li Qingyun See Cheng Lin Huaku an See Sun Hongwei Liposo mes Excited state proton transfer of some substituted naphthol s in li posomes Liquid liquid extraction Correlation of di stribution of organic solutes in organic so lvent - water systems wi th molecular properti es and so lution structure parameters Liquid-liquid extraction and separat ion of gallium(lll ) with Cyanex 92 1 Liquid-liquid extraction separat ion studi es of iron (Ill ) from iron (II ) and other cati ons with d ibenzo18-crow n-6 from hydrobromic acid medium Separation of carrier-free holmium and dy sprosium produced in 70 MeV 11 8 5 + irradiated europium target by liquid-liquid extraction with HDEHP Liquid phase oxidation Catalytic liquid phase oxidation or p -xylene using transiti on metal substituted polyoxometal ates Lithium MCSCF ca lculations on metal ion (Li+, Na+, Be2 +) affinitie s of a few carbonyl molec ul es in th e 1 ground and ' 3 nn:* excited states Ultrasonic stud y of molecular interacti ons and co mpressibility behaviour of lithium soaps in 50:50% (v/v) benzene-methanol mi xture Liu Renjiang Direct spectrophotometric determination of bismuth in pharmaceutical products using a fl ow-inj ecti on sys tem Liu Ying [K( 18C6)]2 lPt(SCN)4] (Hz0): A novel one dimensional coordinatio n polymer with K-N bonds Loka nathr~i 430 964 802 111 4 1117 1174 552 442 1061 Mahalakshmi S Bas is set, correlation and relaxation effects in the characterisation of electron-mo lecu le scatterin g resonances using the dilated e lectron propagator method with app licati on to th e 2n gN2 _ s hape rcsu- 439 nann.·s .. 22 792 Mahata N Vapour phase hydrogena tion of phenol to cyclohcxanone over titania supported palladium system: A kinetic study 856 'i3 7 Mahj oub A R A novel synthesis of tetrameth ylammonium trio xylluorochromate(V I) 434 Maiti B Periodic orbit analysis for HeH2+ in 676 983 534 M acrocyc les Fi1·st tetra aza macrocycle having fused nap hthalene rings: Synthesis and its complex:Jl ion Synthesis and characteri za tion of 13. 14-mcmbcred tctraazamacrocyclic co mp lexes Synthesis o f some 16-mcmbc rcd macrocyclic comrle xes of chromium(l ll }, manganese( ll ) , iron(! II ). cobalt ( II ), nickcl(ll ) and corpcr(l l) co ntaining a tctraoxoocta azacyc lohexadccane li gam: 1306 Mahajan N K See Josh i S K 12 18 Ly sine Micellar and salt effects on th e Ruh emann's purple fo rmation between L-lysine and ninh ydrin Magnetic properties A ferro- and antiferro-magneti call y coupl ed binuclear inanganese(II ,III) compl ex of an orthofunctionalised-eara-naphthoquinone : Synthesis and charac teri zation by thermogravimetric, thermochromic, cycl ic vo ltammctric, mag netic and EPR studi es A ferrom agneticall y coupled acetato bridged copper(!! ) di mer 1090 1334 K M See Yathirajan H S Lu Guanglie See Chen Linshen Macrocyclic li ga nds Synthesis and charac teri zati on of highly co nj uga ted 22-membered octaazamacrocyc les and th eir manganese(!!), copper(! I), cobalt(! I) and zinc( ! I) co mplexes Synthesis and characterizaton of cryptates of Sm( ll ), Eu(III ), Tb(lll ), Dy(III ) ch lorides wit h macrobicyclic cryptand Mahajan Mee naks hi See Arya Satya Prakas h Low Michael K M See Hou Hongwei Luminescence Synt hesi s and characterizaton, luminescent and redox properties of some mon onuclear and dinuclear ruthenium (! I} polypy rid yl complexes 1359 13 17 three dimensions 1164 Makwana B S See Shahi Vinod K 1264 Malhotra Rajesh Synthesis , characterization and perox idase activit y of binuclear complexes of 2,6-bi s(2- hydroxy bcnzyi idene hydrazone)-4-methyl phenol 421 Mallika1juna Reduy P Synthesis and charac teri zation of iron (II, Ill ) co mplexes of 3-hydroxy-benzaldchyde ison ico tini c acid hydrazone 1182 ManeS G See Mohite B S 1295 10 19 480 450 407 338 Maj id Kows ar See Ali S I Manganese A ferro- and antiferro-m ag neti call y co upl ed binu clear mangancse(ll ,Ill) compl ex of an ort ho functionalised pam-naphthoq uin one : Sy nth esis and characterization by thermog ravimetric, therm ochromic, cyc li c voltammetric, magnetic and EPR studies Evide nce for direct hydride ion tr:msfcr from phosrhorus to mangancse(Y II ) in the pe rmanganmc oxidation of hypop hosp hite ion Kinetics and mechanism of heteroge neous cadm ium sul phide and homogeneo us manganese( II ) catalyscd oxidation of sulrhu r( IV) by cliox ygc n in acetate butTered medium 'i54 1.334 111 7 709 507 INDIAN J CHEM, VOL 39A, 2000 1360 ! Kin eti cs and mechani sm of oxidation of aliphatic alcohols by oxo(salen) manga nese(V) complexes Metal ions in biological sys tems, Vol. 37 : Manganese and its role in biological processes (edited by A Si gel & H Sigel) Synthesis and characterization of highly conjugated 22-membered octaazamacrocycles and their manganese(ll ), copper( II ), cobalt(ll) and zinc(ll ) complexes Synthesis of some 16-membered macrocyclic complexes of chromium(lll), man ga ne se (ll ), iron(lll ), cobalt(ll ), nickel(ll ) and co pper(ll ) containing a tetraoxooctaazacyclohexadccane liga nd Synthesis, charac terisation and in-vitro antitumour studicsof some 3d complexes of N-salicyloyl-N 'thi obenzhydrazide Synthesis, characteri zation and antiinflammatory effects of Cr(lll), Mn(ll) , Fe(! II ) and Zn(ll) co mpl exes with diclofenac sodium Manna Bi swabrata See Dutta Antara Ma.nogaran S See Bandyopadhyay I 654 1340 1090 407 1074 874 163 189 Manohara Murthy N See Mallikarjuna Redd y P 11 82 Manohor S B See Nayak Dalia 1061 Manoj S V . Kin etics and mechanism of heterogeneous cadmium sulphide and homogeneous manganese(!!) catalysed oxidation of sulphur(IV) by diox ygen in acetate buffered medium Markovic Zoran · Paramt(trization of MMX force field for ben zocycl_obutenes Marvalli P B Synthesis and characterization of uranium(IV) complexes with 3-substituted-4-amin.o-5-mercapto I ,2,4-triazole Schiff bases Mathur P K See Sawant Shilpa D See S~ a rm a P K Mathur P N Synthesis of a novel metal chelating ion exchange resin specific for zinc ' Matuya Manrrar R Synthesi s and characterization of metal complexes of methylene bridged hexadentale tetraanioni c ligands . 507 787 1087 886 472 1327 1093 Mffilrya R C A .single sLep synthes is of some cyanonitrosy l {CrNO)' complexes of chromium(l ) in volving multi-functional ligands direc tl y from chromate( VI) in aqueous-aerobic med ium 867 Mcahi C See Dey Adhikari D 792 M e~ rotra 709 Raj N See Sharma Kamala Mehrotra Ram C See Sharma Maneesh K 4 10 Mehta R K See Kumar Subodh 877 Melnik' II See Prezhdo V V 802 Melwanki M B SjJectrophotometric determination of trace amounts of vanadium(V) with isothipendy l hydroc hl oride 465 Spectrophotometric determinati on of vanadium(V ) using methdil azine hydrochloride in minerals and steel samples Membranes A new chalcogenide membrane bismuth ion-selective electrode Comparative investigations on electrical conductance of ion-exchage membranes Interfacial structure of a solute-solvent mi xture in contact with a semipermeable membrane Studies ort mixed membrane potenti als Wave propagation and pattern formation on a porcelain membrane 11 07 472 1264 219 495 618 Mercury Spectrophotometric determin ation of Zn(l 1). Cd(ll), Hg(il), Fe(II)Co(ll), Ni (ll) and Cu(ll ) with 2(4,6-dimethyl-2-pyrimidylazo)-1-naphthol -4-su !phonate, sodium salt Synthesis a nd c haracteri za tion of coba lt(ll ), nickel(ll ), copper(ll), zinc(l l), cadmium(ll) and mercury(ll) complexes wi th 2-hydroxyimino-3(2' -imino-4- phe£lylthiazolyl)- butane and 2-hydro xyim ino-3 [2 ' -imino-4 ' p-tolulylthi azolyl )]butane· 1145 Meso porosity Reg iose lective t-butylati on of 111-creso l over mesoporous AI-MCM-41 molecular sieves 1241 Metal hydride electrodes Electrochemical charac terization of LiNi5 hydride electrode 690 Metal ion affil)ity MCSCF calculations on metal ion (Li+, Na +. Be 2+) affinities of a few carbonyl molecules in the ground and 1•3 n7t* excited states 792 Metal oxides Reduction of nitroarenes with isopropanol and potassium hydrox ide over metal oxide catalysts 1041 Metall acycloalkanes Preparation and characterization of platinacyc loalkanes containing nitrogen donor ligands 974 Metall ahydrazi nes Silyl-nitrogen compounds: Part (XI ) - Syn thesis of silyl at.ed metall ahydrazines 863 545 Methacrylates Kinetics of ruthenium(lll) catalysed polymeri zation of methyl methacryl ate by triethanolamine in presence of CCI4 Phase transfer catalyzed free radical polymerizati o n :Kin e ti cs of polym e riz ati o n of butyl methac rylate using potassium peroxo monosulphate/tctrabuty l phosphonium chloride catalyst system 751 Methionine Kinetics and mechanism of ox idation of methionine by hex amethylenetetramine-bromine 436 Micelles Effects of add iti ves (NaCl, urea, glucose, guan idine hydrochloride) on the physico-chemical properties of reverse micelles ofTweens in ch loroform 589 747 ANNUAL INDEX Mohanty Prakash See Das Nigamananda Estimation ofmicelli zation parameters of cetylpyridinium chloride in water using the mixed electrolyte model for conductance Kinetics of dissociation oftris-2,2' -bipyridyl iron(ll) in the water pools of CT AB reverse micelles Kinetics of the reaction between thioglycolic acid and parabenzoquinone-Micellar effect of cetyltrimethyl-ammonium bromide Micellar and salt effects on the Ruhemann's purple formation between L-lysine and ninhydrin 1019 Microemulsions Reactivity of Schiff base, Part-4: Reaction of 2-/4hydroxybenzylidene-2-aminobenzothiazole with ani line in microemulsion 721 Mishra A K Metallization effects of an adsorbed layer: An STM study at electrochemical interface See Pappayee N 364 964 Mishra 8 Y Liquid-liquid extraction and separation of gallium(lll ) with Cyanex 92 1 111 4 761 643 639 Mishra Bijaya K Reactivity of Schiff base, Part-4: Reaction of 2-/4hydroxybenzylidene-2-aminobenzothiazole with aniline in microemulsion 721 Mishra G P See Das lshwar 618 Mishra Lallan Explori ng new bio-active Ru (ll) polypyridyl complexes through their interaction with DNA Mononuclear and binuclear ruthenium(Ill) polypyridyl complexes containing 2,6-bis(2 ' benzimidazyl)-pyridine as co-ligand : Synthesis, spectroscopic properties and redox activity Synthesis and characterizaton, luminescent and redox properties of some mononuclear and dinuclear ruthenium(ll) polypyridyl complexes Mishra Manoj K See Mahalakshmi S 660 1131 1295 22 Mishra PC See Ani! Kumar 180 Mishra Sangeeta See Sen Gupta Susanta K 703 Mishra Shio Sewak See Das Ishwar 1005 564 Mittal Sachin See Garg 8 S Mixed oxides The redox behaviour of CuO-ZrOz-CeOz mixed ox ides catalysts · MMX force fields Parametrization of MMX force field for clobutenes 851 benzocy~ 787 Mohamed Ajax K See Khan Tahir Ali 1090 Mohammed Yusuff K K See Anas K See Sridevi N 940 933 Mohan Raju K See Mallikarjuna Reddy P 1182 Mohana K N See Yathirajan H S 1218 Mohana Raju K See Hussain Reddy K 1312 Mohandoss K Molybdenum(V) complexes of dithiocarbonate;:s derived from glucose, sucrose and triphenylmethylcarbinol 1083 Mohite 8 S Liquid-liquid extraction separation studies of iron (Il l) from iron (II) and other cations with dibenzo18-crown-6 from hydrobromic acid medium Solvent extraction separation of barium(ll) from associated elements using IS-crown-S from picrate medium Molecular charge distribution An ab initio study of molecular charge distribution and electrostatic potentials: Role of hybridization displacement charge Molecular dynamics Collective excitations and dynamic structure factor of liquid tellurium Melting of quantum solids: Comparison of observable and path centroid properties Melting of the glassy mixed cluster Ar9Xe10 Molecular dynamics study of the solid state photoreactivity of 3- and 4-cyano-trans-cinnamic acids Molecular electrostatics for exploring hydration patterns of molecules: 2-Formamide Periodic orbit analysis for HeH2+ in rhree dimensions Structure of the epitope- fragment 579 to 60 I -in the GP41 transmembrane domain of HIV -I 1361 664 1044 1334 554 180 247 207 201 253 so 338 274 Molecular modelling Molecular electrostatics for exploring hydration patterns of molecules: 2-Formamide 50 Molecular recognition Molecular recognition and inclusion: Edited by A W Coleman 786 Molecular resonances Basis set, correlation and relaxation effects in the characterisation of electron-molecule scattering resonances using the dilated electron propagator method with application to the 2ngN2- s hape resonances 22 Molecular sieves Ethylation of toluene over aluminophosphate based molecular sieves in the vapour phase Regioselective t-but ylation of nz -creso l over mesoporous Al-MCM-41 molecular sieves 1241 Molecular twi st Hyperpolarisability - molecular twist correlation in diaminodicyanoquinodimethanes 106 Molyhdenitc Trace metals analysis in molybdenite mineral sample 560 Molybdenum Alk ali metal and ammonium oxoperoxomolybdenum (V I) complexes derived from salicylaldehyde isonicotinoylhydrazone Large nonlinear optical absorption and self-defocusing effects of cluster [MoS4 Cu4 l2(py)6] Molybdenum(V) complexes of dithiocarbonates derived from glucose, sucrose and triphenylmethylcarbinol Photosubstitution kinetics and mechanism of potassiumoctacyanomolybdate(IV) with 5-nitro-1, I 0phenanthroline 921 1194 534 1083 859 1362 INDIAN J CHEM , VOL 39A, 2000 Ph otosub stitution kinetic s and mec ha ni sm of Mo( IV ) and W(IY ) cya nide complexes with nitrogen heterocycle li gand- I ,3,5,7-tetraazatri cyclodccane Po lypyrazo lylborate mi xed- li gand co mpl exes of Zr(IV ), VO(IV ) and Mo02(Yl ) Synthesi s and spectral studi es of oxom olybdenum(V) and di oxomolybdenum(Vl ) complexes of I ,2-dihydro-l ,5-dimcthyl -2- phenyl-4-(2 ,4di hydrox ypheny lazo )-3-1-l- pyrazo l-3 -one Monda! Chandan Kum ar See Saba Rajendra 1164 446 989 28 1 Montmorillonite Acidity and catalyti c activit y of rare earth modifi ed AI/Zr pill ared clays 765 Morales Dani el A See Gutman Ivan 38 1 Mori kawa Tetsuo See Narita Su sum u 905 Moss bauer spectroscopy Stud y on the solid so lubility mechani sm of Cr203 in Fe304 (y- Fe203) Synthesis and characterization of iron (ll , Ill) complexes of 3-hydroxy-ben zaldehyde isonicotinic acid hydrazo ne Synthesi s and spectral studi es o f iron(lll ) and iron ( I! ) complexes with 2,3-disubstituted quinazolin -4(3 1-l )-ones Mostafa Gol am A fcrrom agneticall y coupl ed acetato bridged co pper(!! ) dimer Mostafa Sah ar l Sy nthesis and charac te ri za ti o n o f coppe r(!! ), ni ckel (I l),cobalt(ll ), pall adium(I !) , rhodium(! II ) and dio xouranium(Vl) complexes with bi acetylmonoxime phenoxyacetyl hydrazo ne 13 17 11 82 1202 1174 1301 Moulik Satya P See Nandi Susantamay See Palit Debashi sh 589 611 Moulik Satya Pri ya See Bi swas Sudes hna 9 12 Mukherj ee Al ok K See De Rajib Lal 1050 Mukhc1jee Debashi s See Chattopadh yay Sudip Mukherj ee Dul al Chandra See Bi swas Sudeshna 9 12 Mukherj ee Kall ol See Biswas Sudes hna 9 12 Kinetic and equilibrium studies of th e ac id dissociati on of the zinc(! I) complexes of N, N' -dialkyl-1 , I0-phenanth ro line-2, 9-dimcth anamine liga nds Metal ion induced enhancement of emi ss ion of an orga ni c lluorophore Polypyrazo lylborate mi xed-li ga nd co mpl exes of Zr(IV ), YO(IV ) and Mo02(V l) Preparati on and characteri zation of pl atin acyc loalkanes containing nitroge n donor li ga nds Reacti on of ani on radi cal chelates with ac ids: An unusual route to ruth enium azo species Synthes is and characteri zati on of 13, 14-mcmbcred tetraazamac rocyclic compl exes Synthesis and characteri zation of some transiti on metal comp lexes of trimeric and tetrameri c ami nocyc lophos phazenes Synthes is and spec tral studi es o f oxomo lybdenum(V) and dioxomolybdenum (Vl ) complexes of I ,2-dih ydro -1 ,5-dimeth yl -2 -phenyl -4-( 2,4di hydro x yphcnylazo )-3-H- py razo l-3-one Synthes is and structure of the cop per(! ) complcx[Cu(dppm ) (2,2 ' -bipy) ]2(N03)z Synthesis of some 16-membercd macrocyclic compl exe s of c hromium ( lll ) , man ga nes e(!!) , iron(lll ), co balt(ll ), nick el(ll ) and co pper(ll ) containing a tetraoxooctaazacyclohcxadecane li ga nd 430 375 446 974 477 450 528 989 985 407 Na fees Jahan See Kh an Tahir Al i 450 Nagaraj a K S See Mohand oss K 1083 Nagendra P See Yathirajan H S 12 18 Nageswara Rao T See Balm·am V 567 Nanda Aj aya Kum ar Scmi empirical and th ermodyn ami c calcul ations on th e ex othermi c deg radation of vin yl polyperox ides 63 1 Nandi Su santama y Effects of additi ves (NaCI, urea, glucose, guanidine hydrochl ori de) on the ph ys ico-chemi cal properti es of reverse mi celles of Twcens in chloro torm 589 Nandibewoor S T See Harihar A L 769 Na noparti clcs 3 Preparation of Fe +-doped Ti02 nanoparticles and th eir ph otocatalyti c properti es 685 Mukherj ee P K See Saba B 40 Narah ari Sas try G See Dcva Pri ya kum ar U Mukhe1j ec T K See Saha B 40 Na ray anan K · Evidence for low dimension chaos in electri call y coupled chemi cal osc illator in batch conditi on 345 Narita Susumu Cl ass ical reso nance rule for predi ctin g the stabil ity/instability of full erene molecules 905 Na rul a A K See Dee pali 883 Nas kar Jnan P Electro chemi ca l studies on CuNzOz chromoph orc See Chakraba rti Pin ak See Lewi s Nita A 378 57 1 400 Murugavcl Ramas wamy Synthetic spectroscopic and stru ctural stud ies on 4-aminobenzoate complexes of di valent alk aline ea rth met a ls : X-ra y c ry stal stru c tures of I ( Mg(l-lz0)6} (4-aba)2].21-lz0 and !Ca(l-l20h(4aba)z] (4-aba = aminobenzoate) 843 Murugesan V See Chcralath an K K See Umamaheswari V 92 1 1241 Muruges h A P See Shahi Vinod K 1264 Mull a Redd y S See Kri shna Reddy V 55 7 N ligands Electrochemi cal studies on CuN202 chromophorc First tctraaza macrocyclc having fu sed naphth alene rin gs : Synthesis and its complexati on 378 480 Nataraj an K See Ramesh R ayak Dali a Separati on of carri er-free holmium and dys prosium produced in 70 MeV tlBS+ irradi ated europium target by liquid-liquid extractio n with HDEHP 92 1079 106 1 1363 ANNUAL INDEX Neon Density-functional th eo ry of optical respo nse Neural networks Stochastic reso nance in a neuron based model for a molecular system Nicke l Interaction of Ni(II) with nucl eotides and dipeptides - A qu ant itati ve study Mixed li gand complexes of nickei (II ) with imid azo les and some dipe ptides Spectroph otometric determin at ion of Zn(II), Cd(ll) , Hg( II ), Fe( II )Co(II ), Ni (II ) and Cu(II ) with 2(4,6-dimethyl-2-pyrimidylazo)-1-naphthol-4-su !pho nate, sodium salt Syn thes is and characteri zati o n of 13, 14-membered te traazamac rocycli c co mplexes Synthesis and characte ri zatio n of co b a lt ( II ), ni ckei(II ), copper( II ), zinc( Il ), cadmium(II ) and mercury (II ) complexes with 2-h ydroxyi mino-3(2' -imino-4-phe nylthi azo lyl)-butane and 2-hydroxyimino-3(2' -imin o-4' p -tolul ylthi azolyl)]butane Synthesis a nd c ha rac te ri za ti on o f copper(II), nickel(ll),cobalt(II) , pall adium (ll ), rhodium (III ) and dioxouranium (YJ) co mpl exes with biacetylmonoxime phenoxyacetyl hydrazone Syn thesis and characteri zat io n of metal complexes of me th ylene bridged hexadentate tetraanionic ligand s Syn thes is and characterization of some transition metal co mpl exes of trimeric and tetrameric aminocyclophosphazenes Synthesis and crystal st ru cture of a new Ni(II) complex of I ,5 -bi s (N-1-meth yl-imi dazo l- 2-methyl)1,5-diazacyclooctane (L), [NiLCit Sy nthes is of some 16-membered macrocyclic comp lexes of chro mium ( III ), manganese ( II ), iron(lll) , cobalt(II ), nickel(ll) and copper( II ) contai ning a tetraoxooctaazacyclohexadecane li gand Sy nthes is, characterization and peroxidase acti vity of binu clear complexes of 2,6-bis(2-h ydroxybenzy lide ne hyd razone)-4-methyl phenol Syn th es is, structure a nd reactivity of zirco nium (IV), vanad ium (IV ), cobalt(ll ), nickel(II) and copper(ll ) com plexes derived from carboh yd razid e sc hi ff base li gand s 1 9 323 1024 468 545 450 1145 130 1 1093 528 87 1 407 42 1 4 15 Ninhydrin Mice ll a r a nd salt effec ts on the Ruhemann's purple formation between L-lysine and ninhydrin 1019 Nisanoglu Ersoy See Gok Yasar 1280 Nisha K See Sugunan S NMR spectrosco py C leavage o f Co-C bo nd in allyl cobalox imes with arenesu lphe nyl chlorid e Co mp os iti o nal ass ig nm e nt s of trans-4-acryloyloxyazobe nze ne/me th y l methacrylate co po lymers by two dimensional NMR spectroscopy Preparati on a nd characterizatio n of platinacycloalkanes con taini ng nitrogen donor li gands Sil yl-nitrogen compo und s: Part (X I) - Synthesis o f sil ylated metallahydrazines Struct ure o f th e epitope- fragment 579 to 60 I -in th e GP4 1 transmembrane doma in of HI Y -I 765 830 974 863 274 1066 1286 11 87 1191 11 77 1182 453 877 843 Nonequilibrium reactions Growth pattern s a nd li gh t induced kinetics of th e fungi Cephalosporium sacclwri on agar plates 697 Nonequilibrium systems Adiabatic no ise- indu ced escape rate for non-equilibrium open systems 300 Nonlinear optics A comput ationa l study of the non-linear optical properti es in n- a- n coupled donor-acceptor organic molecules Large nonlin ear optical absorpt ion and self-defocusing effects of cluste r [MoS4 C u4 h (py)6] 534 Nucleophillic reactions Reactivity of Schiff base, Part-4: Reaction of 2-/4hydroxybenzylidene-2-aminobenzothiazole with aniline in microemulsion 721 Nucleotides Inte racti on of Ni( ll ) wi th nucl eo tides and dipeptides -A quantitative study Quantitative aspects of intra molec ular interac ti o ns involvin g cobalt(!! ), copper(ll ) zinc(II) nu cleotides and dipepti?es 0 625 13 Substituent effects on H and C NMR chemical shifts in styryl tlu orenyl and sty ryl biphenyl ketones Synthesis and a stud y of paramagnetic shi fts in th e compl exes of lanthanide thi ocyanates with 2,2'bipyridyl Synthesis and characterizati on of dinuclear ruthenium(II) complexes w ith 4,4' -bipyridine as bridging li gan d Synthesis and characteri zatio n o f dinuclear ruthenium(!! ) complexes w ith dianion of 2,5-dihydroxy-1 ,4-benzoquinone as bridging li gand Syn thesis and c haracterizatio n of diorganotin(l Y) dichloride adducts of Schiff bases Synthesis and characterizat ion of iron (II , Ill ) complexes of 3-hydroxy-benzaldehyde isonicotinic acid hyd razone Synthesis and characterizat io n of Ru (ll ) arene com6 plexes, [Ru(r{arene)(dppm)Ht (11 arene=benzene, p-cymene or 2 6 hexamethylbenzene), [Ru (11 -arene) (py) 1] + 6 and [Ru(11 -arene)(py)2Cit Synthesis, spectral studi es and stru c tural aspects of bis(di i sopropoxide di thiophosphato )r u th enium(II ) complex Synthetic spectroscopic and stru ctural studies on 4aminobenzoate complexes of divale nt alka line ea rth met a ls: X-r ay crysta l structures of [{Mg( H20)6}(4-aba)2].2 H20 and [Ca(H20 h(4aba)2 ] (4-aba = am in obenzoate) 114 1024 11 57 li gands Electroc hemical studi es on CuN202 chro mopho re Synthesis and characterizati on of hetero bimetallic alk ox id e deriv a tives of titanium contain in g tri e thanolaminate ligand -llO Osci I lation s B-Z oscillator wi th fructo se a nd tartaric acid as organ ic substrates 679 378 1364 INDI AN J CHEM, VOL 39A, 2000 Frac tal growt h and osc illation s durin g electrochemical deposit ion in Pb-Zn binary system Wave propagati on and pattern formati on on a porcelain membrane Oscill at ors Evide nce lor low dimension chaos in electri ca ll y cou pled chemical oscill ator in batch conditi on Quantum manifestati ons of the class ica l chaos in an umlilmpcd Dull ing oscill ator in presence or an ex tern al field: A qu antum theo ry of motio n stud y Osci ll atory reactio ns Osc ill atory reacti on of bromate-galli c acid: A e<l lorimetric and potentiometri c study on in hibitory cllects or sa lts Ox idations A sim ple meth od lo r speeding up phase tra nsfer catalysed reacti ons Catalyti c li qu id phase oxidati on of p -xy lene using trans ition metal substituted polyoxo mctalates Cor rc i ~Hi o n ana lys is or rcae ti vity in ox idati on o f substi tu ted benzy l alcohols by benzyl trimeth ylam mo nium chl orobromate Effect o f meth yl gro ups on th e ox idat ion or xanthine and correlati on of ox idation potenti als with fronti er molec ul ar orbital energies Evid ence for direct hydride io n transfer from phosph oru s to manga ncse( VII ) in th e pcrm anga natc ox ida ti on of hypo phosphitc ion Kineti cs and mec hani sm o f heterogeneous cadmium sulph ide and homogeneo us mangancsc( ll) r atalysed ox idati on of sulphu r(IV) by di oxygcn in acetate buffered med ium Kinetics and mechani sm of oxid ati on of 2-hydro xy cyc lohcxanonc by va nadiu m(V) Kine ti cs and mechani sm of ox idatio n of aliphati c alco hols by oxo(sa lcn) manga ncsc( V) compl exes Kinetics and mec hani sm of oxidati on or aliph ati c aldehyde by 2,2' -bipyridinium chlorochro mate Kineti cs and mechani sm o f ox ida tio n of D-glucose hy chromiu m(VI ) in perchl ori c ac id Kin etic s and mechani sm of ox id ati on of methionine by hexamethy lenetetramine-bro mi ne Ki ne tics and mec hani sm of ox ida ti on of some aami no acids by benzy ltrimeth ylammo nium chlorob romatc Kin eti cs and mechani sm of ox id ati on of so me a-h ydroxyacids by qum oliniu m fl uoroc hromatc Ki ne ti cs and mechan ism of ox idati on of so me a -hydroxyacids by but yltriphcnylphos phonium dichn,rnatc Kineti cs and mechani sm of ruthenium(! II ) chlorid e catalyzed ox idati on of phosphorous ac id by th allium(III ) in acid perchl orat e medium - role of tautomeric forms of th e phosphorous ac id Kin eti cs of ox idati ve degrad at ion of L(+)lys ine by alka lim: pcrmanga nate - A mec hani sti c approac h Phos phate radi cal induced oxidation of thy mine in aqu eo us so luti on Synthesis, cata lyti c and bi ological activit y of ruthcnium(II ) complexes P achauri tvt ani sha 1005 6 18 Kineti cs of rut heni um(! II) catalysed polymeri zati on of meth yl methacrylate by trieth anolamine in prese nce of CC I4 Padh ye S B See Ranc S Y Pad manabhan A S See Jose ph Daisy 345 3 16 9 12 899 439 125 8 95 3 709 507 775 654 11 69 522 436 650 728 1322 Pal M L See Lal R A 11 94 Pal Sourav Dipol e moment of open shell radi cals using th e Fock space mult i-re ference coupled clu ster linear response approach: Full sin gles and doubl es approx imati on Palan ichamy M See Cheralath an K K See Umamaheswari V Palit Debashis h Adsorpti on of methy lene blu e on cellul ose from its own solutio n and it s mi xture with meth yl orange Pali wa l L J See Gurn ul c Was udeo B Pall adiu m Spectr-op hotometri c determination of co pper( I1), sil ver( I), and pall adium(ll ) wi th 4-(2 ,6-diamin o-4pyri mid ylazo) phenol Sy nth es is and charac te ri za ti o n o f copper( II ), nickci(II ),cobalt(l 1), pall adium(! 1), rh od ium (II I) and di oxouran ium(VI ) complexes wit h biacctylmonox imc pheno xyacctyl hydrazo ne Synthesis, charac teri sati on and absorpti on spectroscopy of mono and dinu clear complexes of pl atinum(l l) and pall ad ium(II ) Pan Ji ao mai See Liu Rcnji ang Panaioto va M Kin eti cs of di ssolution of iron in aqu eo us medi a containing chlorid e and sulphate ions 756 1207 92 1 124 1 61 1 111 0 784 130 1 667 676 1000 672 Pandey D S See Si sodi ya 0 S 453 Pandey J D Theni1odynamic and thcrm oaco usti c propert ies of liquid eth anol in temperature ra nge frnm 380 to 460 K at pressures up to 190 M Pa P a n d~y R V See Shrimal A K Pandeya K B See Patel R N 769 60 Pancras J Patri ck Deri vative spectrophotometric de termi nat ion of vanadium in all oys and environmental samples after adso rpti ve extracti on of its 2-(5-bromo-2-pyrid ylazo)-5-diethylaminophenol chelate onto mi crocrystalline benzo phenone Pandey Vibha See Das lshwar 1036 236 Pal Amalendu Vi scosit ics for binary li quid mi xt ures of some n -a lkox yeth anols with alk yl acetates at 298. 15 K Pandey Om Prakash See Rai Ani ta 734 747 111 7 Pani grahi G P Kineti cs and mechani sm of oxidation o f 2-hydroxycyclohexanonc by va nadium( \f ) Pappayee N Excited state proton transfer of some su bstituted naphthols in liposomcs Paras har Kshipra See Mathur P N 993 11 98 528 6 18 11 24 775 964 1327 ANNUAL INDEX Parlapanski M See Panaioto va M Parvcc n Faza l S Shannon entropy of 1-nonnali sed electron den sity 1000 48 Patel Ismai l A See Thaker B T 859 Patel Namita See Mi shra Bij aya K 721 Patel R N X-ba nd electron paramagneti c reso nance spectra of i midazo late- bridged copper(ll)-copper(l I) and copper(ll )-zinc(ll) co mplexes of glycy lvalinc See Khadik ar P V 11 24 386 Patel S R See Sastry N V 1270 Patil P N See Mohite B S 554 Patil R K Solvent extraction and spectrophotometri c determination of Fe(l l) with I ,3 -diphenyl-4-carboethox y pyrazol e-5-one II 05 1365 Phosphoru s Evidence for direct hydride ion transfer from phosphoru s to manganese(Y II ) in th e permanganatc ox idation of hypophosphite ion Photocatalysis Preparation of Fe 3+-doped Ti02 nanoparti clcs and their photocatalyti c properti es 6~5 Photochemi stry Photochemical decomposition of aqueous solution o f sodium salt of N-bromo-4-methylbenzcnesulphonamide Photosubstitution kinet ics and mechJni sm of potassiumoctacyanomolybdate(IV) with 5-nitro-1. I0phenanthroline Photosub stitution kinetic s and mec hani sm o f Mo(IV ) and W(IV ) cyanide complexes with nitrogen heterocyc le li gand- 1,3,5 ,7-tetraazatric yclodecane 11 64 Photochromi c polymers Compositional ass ignment s of tram-4- ac ryloyloxyazobenze ne/methyl meth ac rylate co polymers by two dimensional NMR spectroscopy 625 1 21~ 859 Patra Chandra N Structure of polymers at interfaces: A densit y functional approac h 230 Patra Goutam K First tetraaza macrocyc lc ha ving fu sed naphthalene rings: Synthesis and its complexation See Lewis Nita A See Purkayasth a Pradipta 480 400 375 Photoox idati ons Phosphate radical induced oxidation of thymine in aqu eo us so lution 756 11 74 Photoreacti vit y Molec ul ar dynami cs study of the sol id state photoreactivity of 3- and 4-cyano-trans-cinnamic ac id s 253 1024 Photosynthesis Theoretical investi gati on of the electroni c structure of molecules involved in green-pl ant photosynthesis 120 Pitre K S See Tamrakar P K See Tamrakar Praveen Kumar 779 560 Patra Goutam P See Mostafa Golam Pcptides Interaction of Ni(ll) with nu cleotides and dipeptidcs -A quantitati ve study Quantitati ve as pects of intramolecu lar interac tions involving cobalt(ll ), copper(!! ) zinc(ll ) nucleotides and dipeptides Perturbation methods Densit y- function al theory of optical response Excited states of hi ghly stripped ion s pH-metry Mi xed li ga nd co mpl exes of ni ckei(II ) wi th imidazo les and some dipeptides Phase diagrams Reactivit y of Schi IT base, Part-4 : Reaction of 2-/4hydro xy benzylidene-2-aminobenzothiazole with aniline in mi croemul sion Phase transfer catalys is A simple method for speeding up phase tran sfer catal ysed reacti ons Phase transfer catalyzed free radical polymeri zati on: Kin e ti cs of po lymerization of butyl methacrylate using potassium pcroxomonosulphatc/tctrabutyl phos phonium chloride catalyst system 1157 9 40 468 721 899 9H3 Poddar A See Sengupta S 3 16 Poddar Raj K See Gupta Akhilesh K 751 Phonon frequ encies Collective excitations and dynamic stru cture factor of liquid tellurium 247 Phosp hate rJdi cals Phosphate rad ical induced oxidation of thymine in aqu eous so luti on 756 Phosphazc nes Synthesis and charac teri zation of some transiti on metal co mplexes of trimeric and tetrameric aminoc yc lophosphazcnes Pl atinum Kin eti cs and mechanism of the interac tion of pyridin e-2-thi ol with cis-diaqua et hylene di amine) platinum(ll) perchlorate in aqueous med ium Preparati on and characterization of pl atinacyc loalkan es containing nitrogen donor li ga nds Synthesis, characterisation and absorption spectroscopy of mono and dinu clear comp lexes of platinum(!I) and palladium( ll ) [K ( !8C6)]2[Pt(SCN)4)(H20): A novel one dimensiona l coordin ation polymer with K-N bonds 528 928 974 667 457 11 87 1191 Pol arograph y Analysis of crude oil for its trace metals conten t Catalytic determination of ultra trace amounts or titanium by 2.5 - order differenti al oscillopoiarograp hy Indirect pol arog rap hic determination of yttrium Trace met als analysis in molybdenite mineral sampl e 560 Polyac rylam ide Adsorption of polyacrylamide onto Fuller's eart h surface 1248 779 541 8~6 INDIAN J CHEM, VOL 39A, 2000 1366 Polyaniline Adsorption of Eriochrome Black Ton pol ya nilline from aq ueous and methanolic so lutions lntluence of doping on the structure and electrical properties of poly(aniline) Polyelcctrolytes Solvation of N-based catio ni c polyelectrolytes: Vi scosity studies in propylene carbonate and su lphalane Polymerizations Kin eti cs of ruthenium() II) catalysed polymerization of methyl methac rylate by triethanol am ine in presence of CCI4 Phase transfer catalyzed free radi cal polymerizati o n: Kinetics of polymerization of butyl methacrylate using potass ium peroxomonosulphate/tetrabutyl phosphonium chloride catalyst system In vesti gations on stochas tic resonance in isomerization processes using discrete time maps 603 Prab hakaran C P See Harikumaran 501 Pramanik Ram krishna See Das Parimal Kumar air M L Prasad 8 8 See Singh Meenaks hi Prasad D H L See Sastry N V 489 747 75 1 330 989 484 489 1270 Prasad Rajendra Ab-initio MRD-CI studies of electric rield gradient (efg) and dipole moment of CCN rad ical at 2 4 CASSCF optimized geometries for X n, a I:-, 2 2 2 A ~.B I:- andC I:+ 148 Prasada Rao T See George Shant y 896 Praseody mium Lanthanum(lll) and praseodymium(lll ) complexes with bidentate and tetrademate schiffbase ligands containing indole ring Prezhdo M V See Prezhdo V V 1198 802 Polymers Compos ition al assig nments of trans-4- acry lo yloxyazobenzene/methyl methacrylate co pol ymers by two dimensional NMR spectroscopy Influence of doping on the structure and electrical properties of poly(aniline) Semiempirical and thermodyn amic calculations on the exothermic degradation of vi nyl polyperoxides Structure of polymers at interfaces : A density fun cti onal approach [K( 18C6)h[Pt(SCN)4](H20 ): A nove l one dimensional coordi nation polymer with K- N bonds 983 Polymetal co mplexes Synthesis and characterizaton of novel tetraox imes and their poly-metal complexes 1280 Porphyrin dimers Synthesis of ~-halogenated porphyrin dimers with distinct photophysical properties 980 Puran ik Vedvati G See Chakrab art i Pinak 571 Porwal Beena See Chauh an H P S 880 Puri Bal Krishan See Pancras J Patrick 672 173 Purkayast ha Pradipta Metal ion induced enhancement of emission of an organic ll uorop hore See Sur Debjani 389 Quad rup ole co upling Ab-initio MO calculati ons of electri c field grad ients 35 2 at CI and H nuclei in Sil-l]Cl , Si H2Ciz , SiC)z and Si HCI3 139 Quantum dynamics Quantum manifestations of th e classical chaos in an und amped Duffing oscillator in presence of an external field: A quantum theory of motion study 316 Quantum solids Melting of quantum solids: Comparison of observabl e and path centroid properties 207 9 12 Quantum states Classical resonances and their quantum man ifestations 307 345 Quinodimcthanes Hyperpo larisabi lity - molec ul ar twist correlati on in diaminodicyanoquinodimethanes 106 625 501 631 230 Potential energy curves Characterization of low-lying electronic states of co 2+ Electronic spectrum of GeTe: An ab initio based configuration interaction stud y Potential energy surfaces A linear response th eory for exci ted state energies for systems wit h a stron gly correlated ground state Density fun cti onal studies of potential energy surfaces of S!OH-HSiO and PXH+-HPX+ ( X= F, Cl) systems . . . Periodic orbit analysis for l-leH2+ 111 three d""cnstons Structure, stab ilit y and reacti vity parameters of (C H)R isomers and their cat ion and anion radical counterparts: A theoretical study Potentiometry Oscillatory reacti on of bromate-galli c ac id : A ca lorimetri c and potentiometric study on inhibitory effects of salts Power spectra Evidence for low dimension chaos in electricall y coupled chem ical oscillator in batch cond ition 163 75 338 92 Prezhdo V V Correl ati on of distribution of organic solutes in organic solvent - water systems with molecular properties and so luti on structure parameters 802 Priyadarsini K I See Hel a P G 945 Proton sponges First tetraaza macrocycle ha ving fused naphthalene rin gs: Synthesis and its complexation 480 Proton transfer Excited state proton transfer of some substituted naphthols in liposomes Photophysics of I H-1 , 5-benzodiazepine in aqueous cyclodextrin environments Pul se radi olys is Reactions of 2,2' ,6' ,2" -terpx ridine a nd its co mplexes, with OH' and eaq- rachotytJ c st udy 964 389 945 375 ANN UAL INDEX Quinolines Force field and assignment of the vibrational spectra of quinoline and isoquinoline- An ab initio study R abbani M See Salar Amoli H Rabindra Redd y P lntera~ion of Ni(II) with nucleotides and dipeptides - A qu antitati ve stud y Quantitative as pects of intramol ecul ar interac tions involving cobalt(II ), copper(ll) zinc(JI ) nucleotides and dipeptides Stability and thermodynamics of Zn(ll )-cysteinemeth ylester and hi stidinemeth ylester system relevance to zinc core in transcription factor IliA Rakha Tawfik H See Mostafa Sahar I 189 1024 11 57 1030 Radhakrishn an T P See Gango padhyay Palas 703 13 12 106 Radhika M See Rabindra Reddy P 1030 Radha Rani V See Sen Gupta Susanta K Radhakrishna Redd y M See Hussain Reddy K Radhika R T See Kesh avan B 425 Radi cal ions Phosphate radical induced oxidation of th ymine in aqueous solution Reaction of anion radical chelates wi th acids: An unusual route to ruthenium azo species 756 Radical reactions Asynchronous behaviour in some three-atom linear concerted radical-exchange reactions Radicals Dipole moment of open shell radi cals using the Fock space multi -reference coupled cluster linear response approach: Fu ll singles and doub les approximati on Structure, stability and reacti vity parameters of (CH)Hiso mers and their cation and anion radical counterparts: A theoretical study Rad iochemistry Deco mposi tion of irradi ated yttrium oxalate and CuO mixture Separation of carrier-free holmium and dysprosium produced in 70 MeV 11 B5 + irradiated eu ropium target by liquid-liquid extracti on with HDEHP Rag havan K V See Mahala N Rahn a K S See Sugunan S Rai Anita Lanth an um(lll ) and praseodymium( IJJ ) complexes wi th bidcntate and tctradentate schiffbase ligands containing indole ring Rai Renuka Investi gations on stochasti c resonance in isomeri zati on processes using di screte time maps Stochastic resonance in a neuron based model for a mol ecu lar system 477 29 1 60 92 1210 106 1 856 765 11 9g 330 323 Rajendran L Chronoamperometric current at ultramicrospheroi dal electrodes for steady state EC ' reactions - A two-poi nt Pade' approximant 356 Rajes h B Polymer based ox idation catalys t for direct methanol fuel cell 826 Raks hit A K See Jassal P S Rama Moh an K Extracti ve tluorimetric determinati on of dimethoate residues in water samples 1367 130 1 646 1331 Ramakri shna K Kin etics of the reaction between thioglycoli c acid and parabenzoquinone-Micell ar effect of cetyltrimethyl-ammonium bromide See Syamala P 639 643 Ramasami T See Sivanesan D 132 Ramas wami A See Nayak Dalia Ramaswamy Ramakrishna See Hunjan Jagtar Singh Ramesh A See Rama Mohan K Ramesh M Spec trophotometric determination of lead (II ) in water samples using benzil a-monoxime iso nicotinoyl hydrazo ne Ramesh R Monofunctional bidentate schiff base complexes of ruthenium(IIJ ) conainin g triphenylphosphine or triphenylarsine Random walks Some enumeration theorems for self-avoi ding walks I Rane S Y A ferro- and antiferro-magneti call y coupled binu clear manganese(II ,Ill) compl ex of an orthofunctionali sed para-n aphthoquinone : Synthesis and characterization by thermogravimetric, thermochromic, cyclic vo ltammetric, mag neti c and EPR studies Rangappa K S See Yathirajan H S Rangarajan R See Shahi Vinod K Rao B S See Jyothi T M Rasto gi R P B-Z oscill ator wit h fru ctose and tartaric acid as organi c substrates See Das lshwar Rath Rakesh K See Roy Sudeshna Rattan V K See Bani pal T S Raveendra Redd y P See Kri shna Reddy V Ravi Kumar Maram Phosphate radical induced oxidation of thymine in aqueous solution Ravi M See Gangopad hyay Palas Ravikanth M Synthesi s of B-halogenated porph yrin dimers with distinct photoph ys ical properties Ray Chaudh uri Jyotiprati m See Bani k Suman Kum il r Ra y Deb Shank ar See Banik Suman Kum ar Ray N K See Sunita Rani Reaction mechani sms Kin etics and mechani sm of heterogeneous cad mium sulphide and homogeneous manganese(!!) catalysed oxidation of sulphur(IY ) by dioxygen in acetate buffered medium 1061 20 1 133 1 1337 1079 236 111 7 12 18 1264 104 1 679 6 18 838 809 557 756 106 980 300 300 75 507 1368 INDIA N J CHEM , V OL 39A, 2000 Kin et ics nnd mechanism of ox idation of 2-hydroxy cyc lohexanone by vanadium(V) Kin etics and mechan ism of ox idati on of aliph ati c alcoho ls by oxo(salen) manganese(V ) co mplexes Kin eti cs and mechanism of ox idation of aliph atic aldehyde by 2,2 ' -bipyridiniu m chlorochromate Kin eti cs and mechani sm o f ox idati on of D-glucose by chrom ium( YI) in perchl ori e acid Ki neti cs and mechani sm of ox idati on of methion ine hy hexameth ylcnetetramin e- bro mine Kin eti cs and mechani sm of ox idati on of so me aamino acids by benzy ltrimeth ylammonium chlorobromate Kin etics and mechani sm of ox idati on of so me a-h ydroxyac ids by qu in olinium lluorochro mate Kin eti cs and mechani sm of ox idati on of so me a-h ydroxyacicls by but yltri phenylphosphonium elichro mate Kin et ics and mechanis m of phenol-form aldehyde and T BM P- forma ldehyde based catalysed reacti on Kineti cs and mechani sm of ruth enium(lll ) chloride ca talyzed ox idati on of phosphorous acid by th allium(lll ) in acid perc hl orate medi um - ro le of tautomeric fo rms or th e ph osphorous acid Kin eti cs of dissoc iati on oftri s-2,2' -bi pyridyl iron (! I) in th e water pools of CT A B reverse mi cell es K inetics of ox idati ve degradation of L (+) lysin e by alk ali ne perm anganate - A mechan isti c approac h Kin eti cs of th e reac ti on between thi oglyco li c acid and parabcnzoquinone- Mi cel lar effec t of cet yltrimeth yl-ammonium bromi de Reac ti vit y of Schi ll base, Part -4: Reacti on of 2-/4hydroxybenzylidene-2-a min obenzo thi azo lc with aniline in mi croemul sion Reac ti vit y indices Local reac ti vity indices of free radi ca ls: A.b initio Hart ree- Fock and K ohn- Sham density fun ction al calcul atio ns Reddy R N See Hela P G Redox ch emi stry M o no nu c l ea r an d b i nu c l ear ru th en i um ( III ) polypyridy l comp lexes contai ni ng 2,6-b is(2 ' benzimidazyl) -p yridine as co- li gand : Synthesis, spectroscopic properti es and redox acti vity Phenol-amide chelate of iron(III): Its redox acti vity with sulphur( IY ) Synthesis and charac teri zaton, luminescent and redox properti es of some mononuclear and clinuclear ruth enium(!! ) polypyriclyl complexes Synthesis, charac teri sti cs and redox properties of uranyl complexes with di amine ligands having ON NO and ON NNO donor grou ps Th e redox behav iour of CuO-Zr02-Ce02 mixed oxides catalysts Reductions Kineti cs o f r edu c ti o n o f tri s( dithi o carbamato)i ron(lll ) complexes by oxali c acid- influ ence or aclcl ecl clithio -carbamate ligand on th e rate of reacti on Reducti on of nitroarcnes with iso propanol and potass ium hydrox ide over metal oxide catalys ts Rekha R See Sugunan S 775 654 11 69 522 436 650 728 734 646 1036 643 769 639 72 1 68 945 11 31 902 1295 46 1 851 933 104 1 765 Resonance rules Class ica l resonance rul e for predi cti ng the stability/in stabi lity of fullerenc molecu les 905 Resonances Class ical reso nances and th eir quantu m mani festati ons 307 Resonant amplit udes Bas is set, correlati on and relaxati on ef fec ts in th e characteri sati on of elec tron- molecule scatterin g resonances using th e dil ated elec tron prop agator meth od with ap pli cation to the 2 n gN 2_ shape resonntts - Reverse mi cell es Effec ts of additi ves (NaC I, urea, glucose, guanidine hyd rochl ori de) on th e physico -chemi ca l properti cs of reverse micell es of T wccns in chl oro form Kin eti cs of dissoc iati on of tri s-2,2' -bipyrid yl iron(! I) in the water pools of CT A B reverse n~ i ce ll es Rhodium Sy nth es i s and charac teri za ti o n o f coppe r( !! ), ni ckel(! l ),cobalt(II ), palladium(! 1), rhodium(! I I) and cl ioxouranium(YI ) co mplexes with biacetyl monox i mc phcnoxyacct yl hydrazone Rohank ar P G See As war A S Rok ade M D See Mishra B Y Rout ra N Deco mposit io n of irradi ated yttrium oxalate and CuO mix ture Roy Am la n K See Vikas 22 589 643 130 1 1214 111 4 12 10 32 Roy Sucles hn a Synthesi s stru cture and properti es of a. , ~-unsatu­ ratcd carboxy late adducts of arene ruthenium(! I) schiff-base co mplexes : X -ray crys tal stru cture of 6 [(11 -p-c y menc ) Ru (02CCH=CMe2)(0-2C6RtCH=NC6H4-pMc)J. H20 Ruth enium Explorin g new bio-ac ti vc Ru (l l ) po lypyri dyl co mpl exes through their i nteracti on w ith D NA Improved syn thes is and reacti vity of tri s(acetylacetonato) rut hcn ium(l I I) Kin eti cs and mechani sm of ruthenium ( Ill) chloride catalyzed oxidation of phosphorous aci d by thalli um(lll ) in acid perchl orate medi um - ro le of tautomeri c fo rm s of the phosphorous ac id Kin eti cs of ruthcnium(lll ) catalysed polymeri zati on or methyl meth acrylate by tri eth anolamine in presence of CCI4 M onofun cti onal bidentate schill base comple xes of ruth cniu m( lll ) conai ning triph enylphos phine or tri phcny larsi nc M o no nu c l ear and binu c l ea r ruth eniurn(lll) polypyrid y l co mpl exes containin g 2, 6-bis(2 ' bcnzimiclazy l)-pyridine as co -li gand : Synthesi s, spectroscopic properti es and redox acti vity Reac ti on of anion radi cal chelates w ith acids: An unusual route to ruth enium azo species Sy nthes is and charac teri za ti on of dinuclear ruth enium(!! ) com pl exes w ith 4,4 ' -bi py ridin e as bridging li gand 660 457 1036 747 1079 11 31 477 11 87 ANNUAL INDEX Synthesis and characterization or dinuclcar ruthenium(!! ) complexes with di anion or 2,5-dih ydroxy-1 ,4-benzoquinone as bridging li ga nd Synthesis and charac teri zati on or Ru(ll ) arene co m6 6 plexes , [Ru (ll -arene)(dppm)Ht (11 a rene= htnzene , p-cy m ene or hexamethylbenzene), [Ru (fl 6 -arene)(pyb ] ~+ and [Ru(116 -arene)( py)2Cil+ Synthesis and charactcrizaton, luminescent and redox pro pert ies of some mononuclear and dinu clear ruthenium(! I) pol ypyridyl complexes Synthesis stru cture and properties of a , ~-uns aturatcd ca rbox ylate ad du cts of arene ruth enium(]! ) schitT-base complexes: X-ray crystal structure of [(1"1 6-p-cymene ) Ru (02CCH=CMe2)(0-2C6H4CH=NC6H4-pMe)l.H20 Synthesis , catalytic and biological acti vit y of ruth enium (! I) complexes Synthesis , spectral studi es and structural aspects of bi s( d i i so pro pox id e d it hi ophos phato )rut henium(ll) com plex 1369 Saran Anil See Desai Prashan t 274 11 9 1 Sarma Jagarl apudi A R P Molecular dynamics stud y of th e so lid state photorcactivit y of 3- and 4-cyano-trans-cinnamic ac id s 253 453 Sastry NV Excess th ermod ynamic and di electric functions of the binary liquid mixtures of meth ylmethacry late + a lk oxye th a nol s (2- met ho xyct ha no l, 2 ethoxyethanol , 2-butoxyethanol) and + !-alcohols ( !-butanol, 1-pentano l, 1-heptanol) 1270 Satellite states A density functional calculation of Ar++(3i3p 3n/ ) satellite states 32 1295 Sathyamurthy N See Mai ti B 338 Sat ish C 0 Polypyrazo lylborate mi xed-li ga nd complexes of Zr(IV), YO(IV ) and Mo02(YI ) See Warad 0 U 446 415 Sawant Shilpa 0 Indirect polarographic determinati on of yttrium 886 Scaled particle theory A simple meth od to predi ct the solvati on free energy and enthalpy of electrolytes in aq ueo us and nonaqu eous solution s 584 11 77 Saha Raj endra A symmetry forbidd en reaction and the BEBO model for locating the transition state Scanning electron microscopy Polymer based oxidation catalyst for direct methanol fuel cell 826 281 Sahay A N See Sisodiya 0 S 453 Scan ning tunn elling microsco py Metalli zation effects of an adsorbed layer: An STM study at electrochemical interface 364 S acc haride osc ill ators B-Z oscillator with fructose and tart ari c acid as orga nic subst rates Saha B Excited states of hi ghl y stripped ions Saha Manas Kum ar See Dey Dilip Kum ar Sajjanar S B See Yeerabhadra Swamy H M 838 1207 877 679 40 1150 Salai Chettu Ammal S Ab initio and OFf studies on th e lithium and hydroge n bonded complexes of LiF and HF with 0 and n+a don ors 80 Salar Amoli H Rapid analysis of ultra trace amounts of ani ons in water by sol id phase extraction and ion chromatograph y 1101 Salem Jamil K J See Kabir-ud-Din 101 9 Salt effects Micell ar and salt effects on the Ruhemann' s purple form ati on between L-lysine and ninhyd rin 101 9 Saman ta (nee Bcra) Kek a See De Raj ib Lal 1098 Samarium Synthesis and characterizaton of cryptates of Sm(ll), Eu(lll), Tb(lll ), Dy(I IJ) chlorides with macrobicyclic cryptand 1306 Sandhu Sccma See Jauh ar S P 392 Sangal Aditi See Goya l Rajendra N 953 Sangaranarayanan M V See Raj endran L 356 Sanjay Kum ar Characterization of low-lying electronic states of C0 2+ 173 Sannigrahi A B See Kar Tapas Saprc N S See Khadi kar P V 68 386 SchilT bases Alkali metal and ammonium oxoperoxomolybdcnum (VI) complexes derived from salicyl aldehyde isonicotinoylhydrazone Kinetics and mechani sm of oxidation of aliph atic alcohols by oxo(salen) manganese(Y) complexes Lanthanum(lll ) and praseodymium(lll ) complexes with bidentate and tetradentate schiffbase li gands containing indole ring Monofunction al bidentate sc hitT base complexes of ruthenium(lll) conaining triphenylphosphine or triphenylarsine Reactivit y of Schiff base, Part-4 : Reaction of 2-/4hydroxybenzylidene-2-aminobenzothiazole with aniline in microemulsion Some mixed ligand complexes of cobalt(ll) with bidentate schiff bases Synthesis and charac terization of diorganotin(IV) dichloride add ucts of Schill bases Synthesis and characterizat ion of uranium(!V ) complexes with 3-substituted-4-amino-5-mercapto I ,2,4-tri azo le Schiff bases Synthesis structure and properti es of a,~-unsaturated carboxylate addu cts of arene ruthenium(!!) schiff-base complexes: X-ray crys tal structure of 6 [(11 -p-cymene)Ru (02CCH=CMe2)(0-2C6H4CH=NC6H4-pMe)l.H20 Synthes is , characterization and perox idase activity of binuclear complexes of 2,6-bis(2-hydrox ybe nzylidene hydrazo ne)-4-mcthyl phenol 1194 654 11 98 1079 721 1098 1177 1087 838 421 1370 IND IAN J CHEM, VOL 39A, 2000 Synthesis, structu re and reactivity of zirconi um (IV) , vanadium(IV), cobalt(ll), nickel(ll) and copper(!!) complexes deri ved fro m carbohydrazide schiff base ligands Scdaira H See Has hem E Y Seethara ma ppa J See Melwanki M B Self-consistent reaction field Effect of water continuum on the interactio n energy of DNA base-pairs: A Hartee-Fock self-consistent reaction field study Semicmperical calculations A symmetry forbidden reaction and the BEBO model for locating the transition state Theoreti cal investigation of the electronic structure of molecul es involved in green-plant photosynthesis Sen Gupta Susanta K A study on equ ilibrium and kinetics of carbocationlo-carbin ol conve rsio n for di- and tri- arylmethane dye cat io ns in aqueous so luti ons : Relative stab ilities of dye carb ocat ions and mechanism of dye carbinol formation Sen K D See Parvcen Fazal S Senapati Sanjib Interfacial structure of a solute-solvent mixture in contac t with a semipermeable membrane Sengupta Part ha Sarathi Kin eti cs and mechanism of the interaction of pyridine-2-thiol with cis-diaqua ethy lene diaminc) platinum(!!) perchlorate in aq ueous medium Sengupta S Quantum manifestations of the classical chaos in an undamped Duffing oscillator in presence of an ex ternal field: A quantum theory of motion stud y Sharma P K A new chalcogenide membrane bi smuth ion-selecti ve electrode 415 Sharma P N See Bal aram V 889 Sharma See See See 465 1107 132 28 1 120 703 48 2 19 316 Sengupta Soumitra Kum ar See Rai Anita 11 98 1331 Shah i Vinod K Comparative investi gati ons on electrical conductance of ion-exchage membranes Shang Zhi-Li ang See Fang Ya-Yin Shannon entropy Shannon en tropy of !-normali sed electron density Sharma lndu See Bhasin Mcnka 997 1264 87 1 48 1036 Sharma Kamala Evidence for direct hydride ion transfer fro m phosphorus to manganese(VII) in the pcrmanganate ox idation of hypo phosphite ion 709 Sharma M See Manoj S V 507 Sharma Maneesh K Synthesi s and characterization of heterobimetallic alk oxide derivatives o f titan ium conta ining triethanolaminate ligand 4 10 Sharm a P D See Bhasin Menka 728 Shibuya Tai-i chi See Narita Susumu 905 Shivakumar Maya Reaction of anion radical chelates with acids : An unusual route to ruthenium azo species Shrimal A K Synthesi s and charac teri zation of some transitio n metal complexes of trimeric and tetrameric am inocyclophosphazcnes 1036 564 477 528 442 Shrivastava S K See Mathur P N 1327 Shrivastava Shi pra See Mathur P N 1327 11 50 Siddalingaiah A H M See Veerabhadra Swamy H M Signal-to-noise ratio Stochastic resonance in a neuron based model for a mol ecular system Silicon Sil yl-nitrogen co mpounds: Part (X I)- Synthesis of si lylated mctallahydrazincs 928 567 654 436 11 69 650, 1258 Sharma R K See Garg B S Sharma Vinita See Dave lti shri Shri vastava B D See Joshi S K Scshaiah K See Rama Mohan K Shah M A A new positi ve mixed anion effect on fas t Ag + ion conductivity in AgzW04 Pradeep K See Bansal Varsha Gangwani Hem lata Ku mb hat Vinita Sita Rama Raju V 472 Sil ver A new positive mi xed anion effect on fast Ag+ ion conductivity in AgzW04 Extractive spec trophotometri c determ ination of trace amounts of sil ver in plating eftluents ion -associati on and so lva tion studi es of copper(!), sil ver(!), thallium(!) perehlorates and some tetralkyl- ammoni um sa lts in binary mix tures of tri ethylphosphite with aceto nitrile, benzonitril e and pyridine at 298.15K Spectrophotometric determination of copper( II ), silver(!) , and palladium(! I) with 4-(2 ,6-cliamino-4pyrimidy lazo )phenol Simpson P See Salar Amoli H Sindhwani Shallu See Garg B S Singal Hari Ram See Malhotra Rajesh Singh Anuradha Sy nthesis , characterizati on and antiin tlammatory effects of Cr(lll), Mn(ll ), Fe(! II ) and Zn(ll ) complexes with diclofenac sod ium Singh Gagandeep See Banipal T S Singh Harji nde r See Rai Renu ka Singh Ishwar Spectrophotometric determination of coppcr(l l) , silver(!). and palladium(II) with 4-(2,6-diamino-4pyrimidylazo)phenol Spectrophotometric determination of Zn(ll) , Cd(ll) , Hg(ll ), Fe(ll)Co(ll ), Ni (ll ) and Cu(ll) with 2- 323 863 997 896 579 784 11 0 1 564 421 874 lOll 323 330 784 ANNUAL INDEX (4,6-dimethyl-2-pyrimidylazo)-1-naphthol-4-su !phonate, sodium salt Singh J P Electrocatalytic properties of spinel-type M,C03-x04 prepared by a new sol-gel route for 02 evolution in alkaline solutions 819 Singh Jasbir See Gill Dip Singh 579 Singh Kehar Studies on mixed membrane potentials 495 Singh Meenakshi Solvation of N-based cationic polyelectrolytes: Viscosity studies in propylene carbonate and sulpholane Singh N K Synthesis, characterisation and in-vitro antitumour studiesof some 3d complexes of N-salicyloyl-N'thiobenzhydrazide Synthesis, characterisation and biological activity of the complexes of manganese(ll) , iron(ll), cobalt(ll), nickel(II), copper(!!) , zinc(ll) and cadmium(!!) with N-benzoyl-N' -2-furanthiocarbohydriazide Singh Pramila See Singh Anuradha Singh R See Manoj S V Singh R K See Chauhan H P S Singh Singh Singh Singh R N See Singh J P Ragini See Mishra Lallan Rohitash See Gill Dip Singh Veena See Gupta B D Singla M L Adsorption of Eriochrome Black Ton polyanilline from aqueous and methanolic solutions Sinha Mahapatra Uttam See Chattopadhyay Sudip Sinha Ragini See Mishra Lallan Sisodiya 0 S Synthesis and characterization of Ru(ll) arene complexes , [Ru(rrarene)(dppm)Ht (rr arene=benzene, p-cymene or hexamethylbenzene), [Ru(T) 6-arene)(py)J] 2+ and [Ru(rrarene)(py)zCit Sita Rama Raju V Correlation analysis of reactivity in oxidation of substituted benzyl alcohols by benzyltrimethylammonium chlorobromate Kinetics and mechanism of oxidation of some aamino acids by benzyltrimethylammonium chlorobromate Sivanesan D Effect of water continuum on the interaction energy of DNA base-pairs: A Hartee-Fock self-consistent reaction field study Sivasankaran Nair M Mixed ligand complexes of nickel(ll) with imidazoles and some dipeptides Sodium MCSCF calculations on metal ion (Li+, Na +, Be2+) affinities of a few carbonyl molecules in the ground and 1•3nn:* excited states 545 489 Sol-gel processes Electrocatalytic properties of spinel-type M,Co3-x04 prepared by a new sol-gel route for 02 evolution in alkaline solutions Preparation of Fe3+-doped Ti02 nanoparticles and their photocatalytic properties 1070 874 507 880 819 I 131 579 830 603 1295 453 1258 650 132 468 792 819 685 Solid phase extraction Rapid analysis of ultra trace amounts of anions in water by solid phase extraction and ion chromatography I 101 Solid solubility Study on the solid solubility mechanism of Cr203 in Fe304 (y- Fe203) 1317 Soliman S A See Hashem E Y 1074 1371 Solution chemistry Band-width of charge transfer band of ion-pairs and dipolar molecules in neat and mixed binary solvents Conductance and viscosity measurements of some I: I electrolytes in dimethylformamide + methanol mixtures at 25, 30 and 40 °C Effects of additives (NaCJ, urea, glucose, guanidine hydrochloride) on the physico-chemical properties of reverse micelles of Tweens in chloroform Excess thermodynamic and dielectric functions of the binary liquid mixtures of methylmethacrylate + alkoxyethanols (2-methoxyethanol, 2ethoxyethanol, 2-butoxyethanol) and +I -alcohols (I -butanol, I -pentanol, I -heptanol) Interaction of Ni(ll) with nucleotides and dipeptides -A quantitative study Ion-association and solvation studies of copper(!), silver(!), thallium(!) perchlorates and some tetralkyl-ammonium salts in binary mixtures of triethylphosphite with acetonitrile, benzonitrile and pyridine at 298. I 5K Mixed ligand complexes of nickel(!!) with imidazoles and some dipeptides Partial molal volumes of transfer of some amino acids from water to aqueous I ,4-dioxane solutions at 298.15K Partial molar volumes and viscosities of some monovalent ions in ethanolamine and water-ethanolamine mixtures at 298. I 5K Quantitative aspects of intramolecular interactions involving cobalt(II), copper(! I) zinc(! I) nucleotides and dipeptides Solvation of N-based cationic polyelectrolytcs: Viscosity studies in propylene carbonate and sulphalane Spectrophotometric study of the complexation equilibria of zinc(! I) with lawsone, juglone and naphthazarin Stability and thermodynamics of Zn(II)-cystcinemethylester and histidinemethylester system relevance to zinc core in transcription factor IliA Studies on some lanthanide(! II) complexes of o-, m and p - chloro substituted diphenycarbazones Viscosities for binary liquid mixtures of some u-alkoxyethanols with alkyl acetates at 298.15 K 889 484 392 589 1270 1024 579 468 101 I 598 I I 57 489 889 1030 I 150 1322 1372 INDIAN J CHEM , VOL 39A, 2000 Solution structure Correlation of distribution of organic solutes in organic solvent - water systems with molecul ar properties and solution structure parameters 802 Solvation A simple method to predict the solvation free energy and enthalpy of electrolytes in aqueous and nonaqueous solutions Band -width of charge transfer band of ion-pairs and dipolar molecules in neat and mixed binary solvents Conductance and viscosity measurements of some I : I electrolytes in dimethylformamide + methanol mixtures at 25, 30 and 40 °C Ion-association and solvation studies of copper(!), silver(!), thallium(!) perchlorates and some tetralkyl-ammonium salts in bin ary mixtures of triethylphosphite with acetonitrile, benzonitrile and pyridine at 298.15K Solvation of N-based cationic polyelectrol ytes: Viscosity studies in propylene carbonate and sulpholane Studies on the impact of solvation of bromamine-T on its conducting behaviour Ultrasonic study of molecular interactions and compressibility behaviour of lithium soaps in 50:50% (v/v) benzene-methanol mixture 537 Solvatochromism Luminescence characteristics of I, I ' -binaphthyl4,4 ' -diol in different solvents and at various pH 634 Solvent effects A b initio calculations of solvent effects on guanine and thioguan ine tautomerism Excess volumes, viscosities and compressibilities of binary mixtures consisting of alcohols with I ,4dioxane at different temperatures Solvent extraction Derivative spectrophotometric determination of vanadium in alloys and environmental samples after adsorptive extraction of its 2-(5-bromo-2-pyridylazo)-5-dicthylaminophenol chel ate onto microcry ~ talline benzophenone Extractive flu orimetric determination of dimethoate residues in water samples Extractive spectrophotometric determination of iron using 3-hydrox y- 2-(2-thieny 1)-48-chromen-4one Solvent extraction and spectrophoto metric determination of Fe(II) with I ,3-diphenyl-4-carboethoxy pyrazole-5-one Solvent extraction separation of antimony(III ) with 2-ethylhexylphosphonic acid mono-2-ethylhexyl ester (PC-88A) Solvent extraction separation of barium(II ) from associated elements using 15-crow n-5 from picrate medium Spectrophotometry Derivative spectrophotometric determination of vanadium in alloys and environmental samples after adsorptive extraction of its 2-(5-bromo-2-pyridylazo)-5-diethylaminophenol chelate onto microcrystalline benzophenone 584 484 392 579 489 740 1231 809 672 1331 552 1105 548 554 672 Direct spectrophotometric determination of bismuth in pharmaceutical products using a flow-injection system Extractive spectrophotometric determin ation of iron usin g 3-hydroxy-2-(2-thienyl)-48-chromen-4one Extractive spectrophotometric determin ation of trace amounts of silver in plating effluents Micellar and salt effects on the Ruhemann 's purple formation between L-lysine and ninh ydrin Solvent extraction and spectrophotometric determination ofFe(II) with I ,3-diphenyl-4-carboethoxy pyrazole-5-one Solvent ex traction separation of antimony(! 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I) complexes of N, N' -dialkyl-1, I 0-phenanthroline-2, 9-dimethanamine ligands 430 Sundaresan R See Sawant Shilpa D 886 Sung Dae Dong See Ananthakrishna Nadar P Sunita Rani Density functional studies of potential energy surfaces of SiOH-HSiO and PXH+-HPX+ ( X= F, Cl) systems Sur De bjani Photophysics of ll/-1 , 5-benzodiazepine in aqueous cyclodextrin environments Surface area Ethylation of toluene over aluminophosphate based molecular sieves in the vapour phase Surfactants Effects of additives (NaCI, urea, glucose, guanidine hydrochloride) on the physico-chemical properties of reverse micelles ofTweens in chloroform Estimation of micellization parameters of cetylpyridinium chloride in water using the mixed electrolyte model for conductance Kinetics of dissociation oftris-2,2' -bipyridyl iron(ll) in the water pools of CTAB reverse micelles 1066 75 389 921 589 761 643 Tautomerism Ab initio calculations of solvent effects on guanine and thioguanine tautomerism Theoretical studies on nitro substitution in ketoeno l, imine-enamine tautomeric processes 639 740 1231 100 Tellurium Collective excitations and dynamic structure factor of liquid tellurium 247 Temperature programmed reduction The redox behaviour of CuO-Zr02-Ce02 mixed oxides catalysts 851 Template synthesis First tetraaza macrocycle having fused naphthalene rings: Synthesis and its complexation Template synthesis of 1-(8 ' -amino-a-naphthyl)-4(8' -amino-a-naphthylamine)- 1-azabuta-1 ,3-di ene, a tetraaza half-cyclised ligand, and characterisation of its copper(! I) complexes 480 400 Terbium Synthesis and characterizaton of cryptates of Sm(II), Eu(III), Tb(III), Dy(III) ch lorides with macrobicyclic cryptand 1306 Tetraoximes Synthesis and characterizaton of novel tetraoximes and their poly-metal complexes 1280 Th aker B T Photosubstitution kinetics and mechanism of potassiumoctacyanomo lybdat e(IY) with 5-nitro-1, I 0phenanthroline 859 Thakur S K See Maurya R C 867 Thakuria T See Dey Adhikari D 792 Thallium Ion-association and solvation studies of copper(!), silver(!), thallium(!) perchlorates and some tetralkyl-ammonium salts in binary mixtures of triethylphosphit~ with acetonitrile, benzonitrile and pyridine at 298. 15K Kinetics and mechanism of ruthenium(! II) chloride catalyzed oxidation of phosphorous acid by thai- 579 INDIAN J CHEM , VOL 39A , 2000 1374 lium(IIl ) in acid perchlorate medium - role of tautomeric forms of the phosphorous acid Thampy S K See Shahi Yinod K Thankachan P P See Goyal Rajendra N Theoreti cal chemistry Ab initio and DFf studi es on the lithium and hydrogen bonded complex s of LiF and HF with o and n+<J donors Ab initio calcul ations of solvent effects on guanine and th ioguanine tautomeri sm Ab-initio MO calculations of el ectri c field gradients at 35 CI and 2H nuclei in SiH3Cl, SiH2Cl2, SiCI2 and SiHCb Ab-initio MRD-CI studies of electri c fi eld gradient (cfg) and dipole moment of CCN radical at CASSCF optimi zed geometries for X2 n, a 4 :L-, A 2 t., B 2:L- and C 2:L+ A computati onal stud y of the non-linear optical properties in 11:-<J-TC coupled don or-acceptor organic molecul es A densi ty fun ctional calculation of Ar++(3s 23p 3nl satellite states A linear response theory for excited state energies for systems with a stron gly correlated ground state A sy mmetry forbidden reaction and the BEB O model · for locating the transition state Adi abatic noise-induced escape rate for non-equilibrium open systems An ab initio stud y of molecul ar charge di stribution and electrostatic potenti als: Role of hybri dization di spl acement charge Asynchronous behaviou r in some three-atom linear concerted radi cal-exchange reaction's Basis set, correlation and relaxati on effec ts in the charac teri sation of electron-molecule scattering resonances using the dil ated electron pro pagator method with application to the 2n N2 _ shape rcso~niT s g Calculati on of vibrational spectra by the coupled clu ster method- Appli cation s to H2S Characteri zation of low-lying electroni c states of col+ Chronoamperometric current at ultramicrospheroidal el ectrodes for steady state EC' reacti ons - 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order differential osci ll opolarography 3 Preparation of Fe +-doped Ti02 nanoparticles and their photocatalytic properties Synthesis and characterization of heterobimetallic alkoxide derivatives of titanium containing triethanolaminate ligand 883 1177 541 685 4 10 Tiwari A K See Singh Kehar 495 Tocher Derek A See Lewis Nita A 400 Toor Amrit Pal See Bani pal T S 809 Trace analysi s Analysis of crude oil for its trace metals content Catalytic determination of ultra trace amounts of titanium by 2.5 - order differential oscillopolarography Spectrophotometric determination of trace amounts of vanadium(V) with isothipendyl hydrochloride Trace metals analysis in molybdenite mineral sample Transition properties Excited states of highly stripped ions Transition states A symmetry forbidden reaction and the BEBO model for locating the transition state Asynchronous behaviour in some three-atom linear concerted radical-exchange reactions 779 541 465 560 40 281 291 495 740 Tungsten Photosubstitution kinetics and mechanism of Mo(IV) and W(IV) cyanide complexes with nitrogen heterocycle ligand- I ,3,5,7-tetraazatricyclodecane 1164 Ultrasonic studies Ultrasonic, volumetric and viscometric studies of some substituted acetophenones in THF -water, DMF- water and dioxane- water co-solvents at 303. 15 K 1214 Umamaheswari V Regioselective t-butylation of m-cresol over mesoporous Al-MCM-41 molecular sieves 1241 Unni Nair Balachandran See Sivanesan D 132 Upadhyay Santosh K See Pachauri Manisha 747 Upadhyaya S K Ultrasonic study of molecular interactions and compressibility behaviour of lithium soaps in 50:50% (v/v) benzene-methanol mixture 537 Upender S See Laxma Reddy K 330 Tin Alcoholate derivatives of bimetallic [Sn(IV), Al(lll)] -11-oxoisopropoxy acetate and -~-t-oxoisopropox­ ide Synthesis and characterization of diorganotin(IV) dichloride adducts of Schiff bases Transport properties Studies on mixed membrane potentials Studies on the impact of solvation of bromamine-T on its conducting behaviour 1375 Uranium Synthesis and characterization of copper(ll) , nickel(ll),cobalt(ll), palladium(ll) , rhodium(lll) and dioxouranium(Vl) complexes with biacetylmonoxime phenoxyacetyl hydrazone Synthesis and characterization of metal complexes of methylene bridged hexadentate tetraanionic ligands Synthesis and characterization of uranium(IV) complexes with 3-substituted-4-amino-5-mercapto I ,2,4-triazole Schiff bases Synthesis, characteristics and redox properties of uranyl complexes with diamine ligands having ONNO and ONNNO donor groups Vanadium Derivative spectrophotometric determination of vanadium in alloys and environmental samples after adsorptive extraction of its 2-(5-bromo-2-pyridylazo )-5-diethylaminophenol chelate onto microcrystalline benzophenonc Polypyrazolylborate mixed-ligand complexes of Zr(IV) , VO(IV) and Mo02(VI ) Spectrophotometric determination of trace amounts of vanadium(V) with isothipendyl hydrochloride Spectrophotometric determination of vanadium(V) using methdil azine hydrochloride in minerals and steel samples Synthesis, structure and reactivity of zirconium (IV), vanadium(IV), cobalt(ll), nickel(II) and copper(ll) complexes derived from carbohydrazide schi ff base ligands Vasisht S K Silyl-nitrogen compounds: Part (X I) - Synthesis of silylated metallahydrazines 1202 1301 1093 1087 461 672 446 465 1107 415 863 1376 INDIAN J CHEM, VOL 39A , 2000 Veerabhadra Swamy H M Studies on some lanthanide(! II) complexes of o-, mand p- chloro substituted diphenycarbazones Venkatesh R See Gopala Rao R V Venuvanalingam P See Salai Chettu Ammal S Vibrational spectroscopy Calculation of vibrational spectra by the coupled cluster method - Applications to H2S Force field and assignment of the vibrational spectra of quinoline and isoquinoline- An ab initio study 11 50 247 80 196 Yathirajan H S Photochemical decomposition of aq ueous solution of sodium sal t of N-bromo-4-methylbenz.enesulphonamide 121 8 Yekeler Huly a Ab initio calculations of solvent effects on guanin e and thioguanine tautomerism 1231 Yimin Hou See Wang Dongmei 985 Yttrium Decomposition of irradiated yttrium oxalate and CuO mixture Indirect polarographic determination of yttrium 1210 886 Z eolites Ethy lation of toluene over alu m inophosphate based molecular sieves in the vapour phase 92 1 598 Zhang Ruo-Hua See Fang Ya- Yin 871 Vishwakarma N See Bajpai A K 1248 Zhao Guanghua See Sun Hongwei 430 Vishwanathan V See Mahata N 856 Zheng Peiju See Liu Ying 983 Viswanathan B See Achyuthlal Babu R S See Rajesh B 690 826 Zhou Zhifen See Sun Hongwei 430 Zhu Kun See C hen Hui 685 Vijai Kanth V See Gupta B D Vikas 3 A density functional calculation of Ar++(3i3p nl satellite states Vinita See Wadi R K Voltammetry Analysis of crude oil for its trace metals content Simultaneous determination of guanosine and 8-hydroxy-guanosine by differential pulse vo ltammetry 189 830 835 32 779 993 W adiRK Partial molar volumes and viscosities of some monovalent ions in ethanolami ne and water-ethanolamine mixtures at 298.15K 598 Wang Anbao See Li Lijun 541 Wang Dongmei Synthesis and structure of the copper(!) comp lex[Cu(dppm) (2,2' -bipy)]2(N03)2 985 Wang En-Guo The redox behaviour of CuO-Zr02-Ce02 mixed oxides catalysts 851 Warad D U Synthesis, structure and reactivity of zirconium (IV ), vanadium(IV) , cobalt(II ), nickel(ll) and copper(! !) complexes derived from carbohydrazide sch i ff base ligands 4 15 Wiener index Estimation of g-tensor of metal chelates using Wiener index 386 Xi aoyuan Hu See Wang Dongmei 871 Y adav Sanjiv K See Singh lshwar Yadaw Ajay K See Mishra Lallan 983 Zhu Shourong See Sun Hongwei 430 Zhu Yurui See Jin Gu 1222 Vyas Vimla See Pandey J D Xu Qiang See Fang Ya- Yin Zhu Lanying See Liu Ying 660 Yan Lan See Dong Wenkui 1306 Yang Rudong See Dong Wenkui 1306 Yang Ruina See Wang Dongmei 985 Yang Ruiqiang See Chen Hui 685 Zinc Column chromatographic pre-concentration of cobalt and zi nc with 3-hydroxy-4-imino-(N-2 ' pyridyl)-2-methylnaphthalen-1-one adsorbed on naphthalene and their estimation in vitamin and milk samples Fractal growth and oscillation s during electrochemical deposition in Pb-Zn binary system Kinetic and equi librium studies of the acid dissociation of the zinc(II ) complexes of N, N' -dialkyl-1, I 0-phenanthroline-2, 9-dimethanamine li gan ds Metal ion induced enhancement of emission of an organi c tl uorophore Quantitative aspects of intramolecular interactions involving cobalt(II ), copper(ll) zinc(II) nucleotides and dipeptides Spectrophotometric determination of Zn(ll), Cd(II) , Hg(II), Fe(l i)Co( II ), Ni(ll) and Cu(ll) with 2(4,6-dimethyl-2-pyrimidylazo)-l-naphthol-4-su !phonate, sodi um salt Spectrophotometric st udy of the complexation eq uilibri a of zinc( II ) with lawsone, juglone and naphthazarin Stability and thermodynamics of Zn(ll)-cysteinemethylester and histidinemethylester system relevance to zinc core in transcription factor IliA Synthesis and characterization of 13, 14-membered tetraazamacrocyclic complexes Synthesis and cha racter ization of coba lt(!!) , nickel(II), copper(II), zinc( ll ), cadmium((() and mercury(ll) complexes with 2-h ydroxyimino-3(2' -imino-4-phenylthiazolyl)-butane an d 2-hydroxyimino-3[2 ' -imino-4' p-tolulylthiazolyl)]butane Synthesis and characterization of highly conjugated 22-membered octaazam acrocyc les and th e ir 1227 564 1005 430 375 1157 545 889 1030 450 1145 ANNUAL INDEX manganese(II) , copper(II), cobalt(II) and zinc(II) complexes Synthesis of a novel metal chelating ion exchange resin specific for zinc Synthesis, characterization and antiinflammatory effects of Cr(III), Mn(II), Fe(III) and Zn(II) complexes with diclofenac sodium X-band electron paramagnetic resonance spectra of imidazolate-bridged copper(II)-copper(ll) and copper(II)-zinc(II) complexes of glycylvaline 1090 1327 874 1124 Zirconium Polypyrazolylborate mixed-ligand complexes of Zr(IY), VO(IV) and MoOz(YI) 1377 446 Synthesis, structure and reactivity of zirconium (IV), vanadium(IY), cobalt(II), nickel(!!) and copper(II) complexes derived from carbohydrazide schiff base ligands Zubkova V V See Prezhdo V V 415 802