1. Editor’s Note

   • V. Krishnan

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1259 - 1259

2. Frontiers in chemistry

   • S. Ramasesha

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1261 - 1261

3. Some spectroscopic studies on cold isolated molecules

   • Mihir Chowdhury
   • Nikhil Guchhait

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1263 - 1268

4. Role of Coulomb interaction in heavy-fermion systems: Calculation of effective mass

   • S. Lamba
   • S. K. Joshi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1269 - 1275

5. Diffusional transport from structurally variant hydrogels

   • V. Premnath
   • V. S. Vadalkar
   • R. A. Mashelkar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1277 - 1296

6. Ionic and dipolar solvation dynamics in liquid water

   • Nilashis Nandi
   • Srabani Roy
   • Biman Bagchi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1297 - 1306

7. Infrared diode laser probing of methane in excimer laser photolysis of pyruvic acid

   • Sisir K. Sarkar
   • Jai P. Mittal
   • George W. Flynn

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1307 - 1314

8. Anion-molecular interaction through CH₃ groups: Modelab initio studies

   • A. F. Jayaraj
   • Surjit Singh

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1315 - 1320

9. Excited-state density functional calculations on the helium isoelectronic sequence

   • Ranbir Singh
   • B. M. Deb

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1321 - 1328

10. Thermodynamics of some long-chain biradicals studied by EPR spectroscopy

    • S. Sankarapandi
    • J. M. Rifkind
    • P. T. Manoharan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1329 - 1340

11. Electroprotic reactions

    • Animesh Chakravorty

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1341 - 1348

12. Seeking hydrogen bonds — With and without neutron diffraction

    • R. Chidambaram
    • M. Ramanadham
    • A. Sequeira

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1349 - 1361

13. Reactivity and catalytic activity of layered YBa₂Cu₃O_7-δ (123) type defect perovskites

    • M. S. Hegde
    • S. Ramesh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1363 - 1373

14. Cation binding and photophysical properties of a monoaza-15-crown-5-ether linked cyanine dye

    • K. J. Thomas
    • K. George Thomas
    • M. V. George

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1375 - 1382

15. Structure, function and therapeutic potential of omega conopeptides: Novel blockers of neuronal calcium channels

    • J. Ramachandran

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1383 - 1387

16. Chemical education in the coming decades — Challenges and opportunities

    • K. V. Sane

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1389 - 1398

17. Conformational studies on δ-crystallin, the core protein of the bird eye lens

    • Subraveti Chenchal Rao
    • Volety Srinivas
    • Dorairajan Balasubramanian

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1399 - 1414

18. Anti-AIDS compounds: A new synthesis of β-thymidine from D-xylose

    • A. V. Rama Rao
    • M. K. Gurjar
    • Sasmita Tripathy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1415 - 1421