This series provides articles giving the state of research for the most active topics in the field, written by chemists teaching at universities worldwide. Karlin (chemistry, Johns Hopkins U.) has edited the latest edition, which contains seven articles on the following topics: solid-state and solution routes to manipulating hexanuclear transition metal chalcohalide clusters; doped semiconductor nanocrystals; stereochemical aspects of metal Xanthate complexes; trivalent uranium; comparison of the chemical biology of NO and HNO; the origins and consequences of alterations of nucleobase pKa values upon metal coordinatoin; and the functionalization of myoglobin. A cumulative index of all 54 volumes is included.