This report covers the literature for 1984 available to us by
February 1985. Fortunately, no untoward circumstance has served
to delay publication of this report, and I wish to thank my
colleagues for their conscientious efficiency and unstinted effort
in its production. It has been a pleasure to welcome Dr.Richard
Wightman as a new member of the team. I am also pleased to report
that publication of this title of the Specialist Periodical
Reports is not at present under threat and that at least one
further volume will appear.
I would like to thank Mrs. A. Beattie, Ms. W. F. Janes, and
Ms. S. J. Wharton for typing the chapters, and also Dr. P. G. Gardam
and Mrs.R.H.Pape of the Royal Society of Chemistry for their
advice and encouragement, and making our typescript into the
published text.