1. Foreword

   • P S Zacharias

   Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 109 - 109

2. New main group ligands for complexation with transition and inner transition elements

   • S S Krishnamurthy

   Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 111 - 121

3. Recent chemistry of hypervalent silicon(IV) compounds — Part II. Synthesis and characterisation of some new spirobicyclic five- and six-coordinated siliconate anions

   • Suraj P Narula
   • Ravi Shankar
   • Meenu

   Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 123 - 129

4. Tuning metal-metal distances through ligands

   • Santosh P Abraham
   • Ashoka G Samuelson

   Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 131 - 142

5. Hardness: A concept in inorganic chemistry. Some aspects

   • Sanchita Hati
   • Dipankar Datta

   Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 143 - 158

6. New aspects of intramolecular coordination in organochalcogen (Se/Te) chemistry

   • R Kaur
   • S C Menon
   • H B Singh

   Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 159 - 164

7. Mono-, bi- and high-nuclearity organotin complexes

   • Vimal K Jain

   Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 165 - 174

8. Electrosynthesis of coordination compounds by the dissolution of metal anodes using ligand precursors

   • M C Chakravorti

   Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 175 - 180

9. Photoelectrocatalytic reactions of metal complexes at chemically modified electrodes

   • Ramasamy Ramaraj

   Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 181 - 192

10. Ligand control on the synthesis and redox aspects of mononuclear manganese-(III) and -(IV) complexes with tridentate ONS-coordination

    • Rina Mukhopadhyay
    • Samiran Bhattacharjee
    • Ramgopal Bhattacharyya

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 193 - 206

11. Tribridged diruthenium complexes: A new structural motif

    • Akhil R Chakravarty

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 207 - 216

12. Stereochemistry of molybdenum(II) π-allyl complexes

    • Vijaya S Joshi
    • Sanjoy K Chowdhury
    • Amitabha Sarkar

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 217 - 227

13. Synthesis and uses of macrobicyclic cryptands: From complexation of transition metal ions to molecular devices

    • Dillip K Chand
    • Pradyut Ghosh
    • Parimal K Bharadwaj

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 229 - 233

14. Iron(III) complexes of phenolate ligands as models for catechol dioxygenases

    • Mallayan Palaniandavar
    • Rathinam Viswanathan

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 235 - 249

15. Dicopper complexes of relevance to tyrosinase modelling: An overview

    • Debalina Ghosh
    • Tapan Kumar Lal
    • Rabindranath Mukherjee

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 251 - 256

16. Binuclear unsymmetric ligand complexes of iron(III) and chromium(III) and their use as epoxidation catalysts

    • P B Samnani
    • P K Bhattacharya
    • S Satish

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 263 - 263

17. Properties of linearbis-dinuclear complexes afforded by schiff base ligands containing catechol and imidazole group

    • Subhash Padhye
    • Anupa Murugkar
    • Rajeev Chikate

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 264 - 264

18. A novel low spin iron(III) complex with four amide and two pyridine coordination. X-ray structure, EPR spectra and electrochemical properties

    • Manabendra Ray
    • Debalina Ghosh
    • R N Mukherjee

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 265 - 265

19. Structural investigations on thermochromic transition metal complexes

    • Beena Narayanan
    • Mohan Bhadbhade

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 266 - 266

20. Synthesis, characterization and photophysical studies of supramolecular metal complexes of ruthenium(II)

    • Amitava Das
    • Parimal Paul
    • P Natarajan

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 267 - 267

21. Synthesis, characterisation and photochemical studies of cobalt(III) complexes containing polypyridyl and peptide ligands

    • S K Tripathi
    • P Natarajan

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 268 - 268

22. Stereoselective catalytic epoxidation of styrenes by dissymmetric Mn(III) chiral schiff base complexes. Synthesis and physicochemical studies

    • R I Kureshy
    • N H Khan
    • A K Bhatt

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 269 - 269

23. Reactivity of Ru^III(edta)(H₂O)⁻ with nucleic bases, nucleosides and DNA (calf-thymus) in aqueous solution

    • Debabrata Chatterjee
    • Hari C Bajaj
    • Amitava Das

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 270 - 270

24. Homogeneous hydrogenation of nitrogen-nitrogen bond of hydrazine catalysed by Ru-EDTA complex to give ammonia

    • G Ramachandraiah
    • S B Halligudi

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 271 - 271

25. Synthesis and characterization of mixed ligand complexes of zinc(II) with cytidine and amino acids

    • P Rabindra Reddy
    • A Mohan Reddy

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 272 - 272

26. Non-polymeric metal-metal multiple bonded diruthenium complexes, Ru₂(O₂CAr)₄(2-MeIm)₂(ClO₄)

    • C Sudha
    • A R Chakravarty

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 273 - 273

27. Cyclopalladation of schiff bases of thiosubstituted benzylideneanilines

    • Falguni Basuli
    • Pabitra Chattopadhyay
    • Chittaranjan Sinha

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 274 - 274

28. Synthesis and physicochemical studies of chelate polymers of schiff base derived from 3,3′-dinitro-5,5′-methylene-bis-salicylaldehyde and ethylenediamine

    • D H Sutharia
    • M N Patel

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 275 - 275

29. Physicochemical properties of some new coordination polymers

    • H B Pancholi
    • M M Patel

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 276 - 276

30. Electrophilic osmium nitrosyls: Example of inorganic functional group

    • Sutapa Sinha
    • Pradyut Kumar Das
    • Barindra Kumar Ghosh

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 277 - 277

31. Electronic effects in the insertion reaction of copper(I) aryloxides

    • Christina Wycliff
    • Ashoka G Samuelson

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 278 - 278

32. Ruthenium(III) complexes of β-ketoamines. Examples of unusually low Ru(IV)/Ru(III) reduction potentials

    • Subrata Choudhury
    • Sreebrata Goswami

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 279 - 279

33. Studies on high-valent (⩾2) dinuclear manganese complexes using a septadentate schiff-base ligand in relation to manganese catalase enzymes

    • Sami Mukhopadhyay
    • Debashis Ray

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 280 - 280

34. Coordination chemistry of transition elements with some group V and VI donors

    • T S Lobana

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 281 - 281

35. Single-step conversion of oxoperoxo complexes of molybdenum and tungsten to dioxo complexes using triphenylphosphine

    • M R Maurya
    • C Gopinathan

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 282 - 282

36. Synthesis, characterisation and solid state thermochromism in N¹-isopropyl-2-methyl-1,2-propanediamine complexes of copper(II) nitrate

    • Chandi Pariya
    • Ashutosh Ghosh
    • Nirmalendu Ray Chaudhuri

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 283 - 283

37. Synthesis and characterization of octa-coordinatedcis-dioxomolybdenum(VI) complexes with some novel schiff bases derived from 4-acyl-3-methyl-1-phenyl-2-pyrazolin-5-ones and 4-amino-2,3-dimethyl-1-phenyl-3-pyrazolin-5-one

    • R C Maurya
    • N Sumita Rao

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 284 - 284

38. Synthesis and characterization of homobimetallic (bis(2-hydroxy-1-naphthaldehyde)oxaloyldihydrazonato) diaquobisdioxomolybdenum(VI) dihydrate complex and its reactivity towards proton and electron donor reagents

    • Ram A Lal
    • Syamal Adhikari

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 285 - 285

39. Chemistry of ruthenium-picolinates. Synthesis, characterization and cyclic voltammetric studies

    • Natun Ghatak
    • Joydip Chakravarty
    • Samaresh Bhattacharya

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 286 - 286

40. Synthesis, characterization and reactivity of titanium and zirconium complexes derived from chelated alkoxide ligands

    • Chandrasekhar S Bajgur

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 287 - 287

41. Reactions of ruthenium chloride with multidentateN-heterocycles

    • Shivakumaraiah
    • Y S Ramaswamy
    • N M Nanje Gowda

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 288 - 288

42. Quintet-triplet magnetic phase transition in dinucleating lawsone ligands: Magnetostructural evidence involving array of copper(II) centres

    • S Y Rane
    • Sunita D Gawali
    • S K Date

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 289 - 289

43. Tweezer ligands forpH-regulated selective metal ion transport

    • S Ameerunisha
    • P S Zacharias

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 290 - 290

44. Synthesis, crystal structure and EPR simulation of a water stable binuclear di-μ-oxo Mn(III, IV) complex

    • D Ramalakshmi
    • G Swarnabala
    • M V Rajasekharan

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 291 - 292

45. Magnetostructural correlations on Cu(II) complexes of bipyridyl-3,3′-dicarboxylic acid (BP-3-CA)

    • Sindhu Menon
    • M V Rajasekharan

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 293 - 293

46. Synthesis and characterization of [Fe^III(bha)(Hbha)]: Effect of coordinated amide protonation state on the iron(III) centre

    • N R Sangeetha
    • S Pal

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 294 - 294

47. Neutral five-coordinate gallium(III) and indium(III) complexes from sulphur ligands

    • Subrato Bhattacharya
    • Vishnu D Gupta

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 295 - 295

48. Synthesis and reactions of ortho substituted hybrid diselenide ligand derived from N,N-dimethylbenzylamine

    • Rupinder Kaur
    • H B Singh
    • Rajan P Patel

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 296 - 296

49. Some recent advances in the chemistry of metallophosphoranes

    • B N Anand
    • Rajwant Bains
    • Ruchi Sarda

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 297 - 297

50. Syntheses and structures of new mono and multinuclear organotin phosphinates

    • Musa A Said
    • C Hemavathi
    • A Clearfield

    Modern Trends In Inorganic Chemistry Pages: 298 - 298