Content: Phosphorus-carbon compounds with p[pi]-p[pi] bonds / R. Appel -- Selective bond formation of organophosphorus acids with functional groups of biological importance / L. Horner, R. Gehring, and H.-W. Flemming -- Chemical synthesis and biological properties of the 5'-terminus of eukaryotic messenger ribonucleic acids (mRNA) / Tsujiaki Hata, Mitsuo Sekine, Iwao Nakagawa, Kazuo Yamaguchi, Shinkichi Honda, Takashi Kamimura, Kazuko Yamaguchi, and Kin-Ichiro Miura -- Triphenylphosphane-diethylazodicarboxylate : a useful system for directed structural variation of carbohydrates / E. Zbiral, H.H. Brandstetter, and E. Mark -- Synthetic application of element organic substituted phosphorus ylides / H.J. Bestmann -- Mono-, di-, and multi-ylides in organometallic chemistry / Hubert Schmidbaur -- Synthetic and spectroscopic investigations involving [alpha]-heterosubstituted phosphonate carbanions / Hans Zimmer -- A new approach to activation of hydroxy compounds using pentacoordinated spirophosphoranes / J.I.G. Cadogan, I. Gosney, D. Randles, and S. Yaslak -- Synthetic applications of [alpha]-amino substituted phosphine oxides / A. Van Der Gen and N.L.J.M. Broekhof -- Reactions of aziridines, 4-oxazolines, and their derivatives with alkylidene phosphoranes and phosphorus(III) nucleophiles / M. Vaultier and R. Carrié -- Phosphonates containing sulfur and selenium : synthesis, reactions, and new applications / M. Mikołajczyk, S. Grzejszczak, W. Midura, M. Popielarczyk, and J. Omelańczuk -- Umpolung of [alpha], [beta]-ethylenic ketones and aldehydes by phosphorus groups / H.J. Cristau, J.P. Vors, Y. Beziat, C. Niangoran, and H. Christol -- Monomeric metaphosphates in enzymic and in enzyme-model systems / F.H. Westheimer -- Stereoelectronic effects in phosphate esters / D.G. Gorenstein, R. Rowell, and K. Taira -- Stereospecific synthesis and assignment of absolute configuration at phosphorus in nucleoside 3'- and 5'-O-arylphosphorothioates and nucleoside cyclic 3',5'-phosphorothioates / J. Baraniak, Z.J. Leśnikowski, W. Niewiarowski, W.S. Zieliński, and W.J. Stec -- The stereochemistry of chiral cyclic phosphorus esters : do theories of bond-forming and bond-breaking processes fit the facts? / Thomas D. Inch and C. Richard Hall -- The stereochemical course of the alkaline hydrolysis of 1,3,2-oxazaphospholidine-2-thiones / C. Richard Hall and Thomas D. Inch -- Hydrolysis of adenosine 5'-triphosphate : an isotope-labeling study / Seymour Meyerson, Eugene S. Kuhn, Fausto Ramirez, and James F. Marecek -- Nucleoside phosphorothioates for the study of enzyme mechanisms / F. Eckstein -- Chiral [¹⁶O, ¹⁷O, ¹⁸O] phosphate monoesters for determining the stereochemical course of phosphokinases / Gordon Lowe, Paul M. Cullis, Richard L. Jarvest, and Barry V.L. Potter -- Syntheses and configurational assignments of thymidine 3'- and 5'-(4-nitrophenyl [¹⁷O, ¹⁸O] phosphates) / Shujaath Mehdi, Jeffrey A. Coderre, and John A. Gerlt -- The mechanism of aldehyde-induced ATPase activities of kinases / W.W. Cleland and Alan R. Rendina -- Kinetic and thermodynamic studies of yeast inorganic pyrophosphatase / Barry S. Cooperman -- The role of histidine residues and the conformation of bound ATP on ATP-utilizing enzymes / P.R. Rosevear, G.M. Smith, S. Meshitsuka, A.S. Mildvan, P. Desmeules, and G.L. Kenyon -- [¹⁸O/[¹⁶O]³¹P-NMR studies of phosphoryl transfer enzymes / J.J. Villafranca, F.M. Raushel, R.P. Pillai, M.S. Balakrishnan, C. Debrosse, and T.D. Meek -- Potential antiviral nucleotides / D.W. Hutchinson -- Phosphinomethanes : synthesis and reactivity / H.H. Karsch -- Preparation and synthetic reactions of [alpha]- alkoxyallyl phosphorus ylides / M. Maleki, J.A. Miller, and O.W. Lever, Jr. -- [Alpha]-phosphorylated carbanions : synthetic features / G. Sturtz, B. Corbel, M. Baboulène, and J.J. Yaouanc -- A new synthesis of indoles / M. Le Corre, A. Hercouet, and H. Le Baron -- Alkylation by way of monomeric and polymeric alkoxyphosphonium salts / Donald W. Hamp and Edward S. Lewis -- Some preparative and mechanistic aspects of the chemistry of phosphoric acid and thiophosphoric acid chloride betaines / M. Meisel, C. Donath, and H. Grunze -- "Activated" phosphoranes for the cyclodehydration and chlorination of simple diols / S. Woody Bass, Carey N. Barry, Philip L. Robinson, and Slayton A. Evans, Jr. -- N-alkylation of organophosphorus amides : a new, convenient route to primary and secondary amines / A. Zwierzak -- Phosphoric amide reagents / Erik B. Pedersen -- Reversible masking of acetylcholinesterase by covalent phosphorylation in the presence of a novel cyclic phosphate ester / H. Leader, L. Raveh, R. Brukstein, M. Spiegelstein, and Y. Ashani -- [Alpha]-aminophosphonous acids: a new class of biologically active amino acid analogs / E.K. Baylis, C.D. Campbell, J.G. Dingwall, and W. Pickles -- Phosphonodipeptides / Lidia Kupczyk-Subotkowska, Pawel Kafarski, Janusz Kowalik, Barbara Lejczak, Przemyslaw Mastalerz, Józef Oleksyszyn, and Jerzy Szewczyk -- Some aspects of the chemical synthesis of oligodeoxyribonucleotides / Colin B. Reese and Lydia Valente -- Coupling of fatty diazomethylketones with organophosphorus acids : an approach to glycerophospholipid analog synthesis / David A. Marsh and Joseph G. Turcotte -- Design of organophosphorus reagents for peptide synthesis / R. Ramage, B. Atrash, and M.J. Parrott -- The nature of the energy transduction links in mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation / Fausto Ramirez, Shu-I Tu, Prabha R. Chatterji, Hiroshi Okazaki, James F. Marecek, and Brian McKeever -- ADP hydrolysis promoted by cobalt(III) / Markus Hediger and Ronald M. Milburn -- PMR measurements of chair-twist conformational equilibria for diastereomeric P-derivatives of thymidine cyclic 3',5'-monophosphate : possible implications for naturally occurring cyclic nucleotides / Alan E. Sopchik, Gurdip S. Bajwa, Keith A. Nelson, and Wesley G. Bentrude -- Phosphonate inhibitors of carboxypeptidase A / Neil E. Jacobsen and Paul A. Bartlett -- "Illicit transport" systems for organophosphorus antimetabolites / Maqsood Sheikh, Barry Gotlinsky, Burton E. Tropp, Robert Engel, and Thomas Parker -- The preparation of phosphorus esters and thioesters from white phosphorus / Charles Brown, Robert F. Hudson, Gary A. Wartew, and Harold Coates -- Thermal rearrangement and condensation of O, O-dimethyl-O-phenylphosphorothionate / Herbert Teichmann and Gerhard Schramm -- Synthesis and reactivity of (silylamino)phosphines / Robert H. Neilson, Patty Wisian-Neilson, David W. Morton, and H. Randy O'Neal -- Addition of lithium dialkylcuprates to [alpha], [beta]-unsaturated phosphoryl compounds : nucleophilic properties of adducts / R. Bodalski, T. Michalski, J. Monkiewicz, and K.M. Pietrusiewicz -- Phosphorylated ketenes / O.I. Kolodyazhnyi, V.I. Yakovlev, and V.P. Kukhar -- Preparation and properties of N-(Hydroxycarbonylmethyl)aminomethyl alkyl- and arylphosphinic acids and derivatives / Ludwig Maier -- Some aspects of aminoalkylphosphonic acids synthesis by the reductive amination approach / P. Savignac and N. Collignon -- Recent results on open-chain and cyclic phosphanes and organylphosphanes / Marianne Baudler -- Formation of phosphorus oxoacids with P-P-P-P-P-P and P-P-P-P-P frameworks and related compounds / Toshio Nakashima, Hirohiko Waki, and Shigeru Ohashi -- NMR characterization of homologous cyclic phosphoramides / Jack E. Richman, Robert B. Flay, and O.D. Gupta -- Synthesis and chemical behavior of some bicyclophosphanes / C. Bonningue, O. Diallo, D. Houalla, A. Klaebe, and R. Wolf -- Reactions of 2,4-bis(4-methoxyphenyl)-1,3,2,4-dithiadiphosphetane 2,4-disulfide / Sven-Olov Lawesson -- Small rings with tervalent phosphorus / Ekkehard Fluck and Horst Richter -- The unexpected formation of 1,2-oxaphosphol-3-ene 2-oxides in the reaction of diacetone alcohol with phosphonous dihalides / Kurt Moedritzer and Raymond E. Miller -- Dihydrophenophosphazines via the interaction of diarylamines and phosphorus trichloride : applications and limitations / Harold S. Freeman and Leon D. Freedman -- Contributions to the chemistry of N-phosphoryl phosphazenes / L. Riesel, E. Herrmann, A. Pfützner, J. Steinbach, and B. Thomas -- Conjugation in phosphazenes: pyrrylphosphazenes and phosphazenyl carbanions / K.D. Gallicano, R.T. Oakley, R.D. Sharma, and N.L. Paddock -- Structure, conformation, and basicity in cyclophosphazenes and related compounds / R.A. Shaw and S.N. Nabi -- Phosphazene rings and high polymers linked to transition metals or biologically active organic species / H.R. Allcock -- Polymerization of hexachlorocyclotriphosphazene / John W. Fieldhouse and Daniel F. Graves -- Alkenylfluorocyclotriphosphazenes / Christopher W. Allen, Randall P. Bright, and Kolikkara Ramachandran -- The reactions of halophosphazenes with organometallic reagents / Paul J. Harris and Harry R. Allcock -- 1,2-bis(dichlorophosphino)alkanes / E.H. Uhing and A.D.F. Toy -- Products of peracid oxidation of S-alkyl phosphorothiolate pesticides / Yoffi Segall and John E. Casida -- Research on organophosphorus insecticides, synthesis of O-alkyl O-substituted phenyl alkylphosphonothioates / Wu Kiun-Houo, Sun Yung-Min, and Wang Sing-Min -- Introduction of phosphorus into the polyethyleneterephthalate molecule / G. Borisov, K. Troev, and A. Grozeva -- Selected novel trivalent organophosphorus processing stabilizers for polyolefins / J.D. Spivack, A. Patel, and L.P. Steinhuebel -- Oligomeric phosphorus esters with flame retardant utility / Edward D. Weil, Ralph B. Fearing, and Fred Jaffe. Crystalline calcium polyphosphate fibers / E.J. Griffith -- Fluorination of phosphoapatites : possible alterations of their structure / G. Montel, G. Bonel, J.C. Heughebaert, M. Vignoles, M. Hamad, and G. Bacquet -- Photo- and thermo-coloring of reduced phosphate glasses / Y. Abe, R. Ebisawa, D.E. Clark, and L.L. Hench -- A gel chromatographic study on the interactions of long-chain polyphosphate anions with magnesium ions / Tohru Miyajima, Toshimitsu Onaka, and Shigeru Ohashi -- Phosphaalkenes, R₂C=PR', and phosphaalkynes, RC:::P / H.W. Kroto and J.F. Nixon -- Recent developments in the chemistry of dicoordinated phosphorus radicals and cations / S.G. Baxter, A.H. Cowley, R.A. Kemp, S.K. Mehrotra, and J.C. Wilburn -- ³¹P NMR investigations on dicoordinated phosphorus compounds in P(II) = C-P(III) systems / R. Appel, V. Barth, H. Kunze, B. Laubach, V. Paulen, and F. Knoll -- Synthesis and properties of phosphaalkenes / T.A. Van Der Knaap, T.C. Klebach, F. Visser, R. Lourens, and F. Bickelhaupt -- Routes to dicoordinated phosphorus compounds / K. Issleib, H. Oehme, H. Schmidt, and G.-R. Vollmer -- Reactions of 2,4,6-tri(t-butyl)phenyllithium with phosphorus halides / Masaaki Yoshifuji, Ichiro Shima, and Naoki Inamoto -- Synthesis of new dicoordinated phosphorus compounds with a P(III)=N bond / C. Malavaud, L. Lopez, T. N'gando M'pondo, M.T. Boisdon, Y. Charbonnel, and J. Barrans --Cyano anions of dicoordinated, tricoordinated, tetracoordinated, pentacoordinated, and hexacoordinated phosphorus / Alfred Schmidpeter, Franz Zwaschka, and William S. Sheldrick -- Preparation, reactions, and structures of some N, N'-dimethylurea-bridged phosphorus compounds / Norbert Weferling and Reinhard Schmutzler -- A stable monocyclic triarylalkoxyhydridophosphorane / A 10-P-5 species with an apical P-H bond -- Michael R. Ross and J.C. Martin -- Monocyclic phosphoranide and phosphoranoxide anions : P(V) oxyphosphorane carbanion -- P(IV) ylide alkoxide tautomerism / Itshak Granoth, Rivka Alkabets, Ezra Shirin, Yair Margalit, and Peter Bell -- Selectivity in reactions of tricyclic phosphatranes / D. Van Aken, I.I. Merkelbach, J.H.H. Hamerlinck, P. Schipper, and H.M. Buck -- The perfluoropinacolyl group : a stabilizing substituent for unusual phosphites and phosphoranes / Gerd-Volker Röschenthaler, Rainer Bohlen, and Werner Storzer -- Tartaric acid in phosphorus chemistry : phosphor emetics and oligomers / A. Munoz, L. Lamandé, M. Koenig, and R. Wolf -- Nucleophilic substitution at pentacoordinated phosphorus : addition-elimination mechanism / A. Skowrońska, J. Stanek-Gwara, and M. Nowakowski -- Metal chelates of aminoalkylphosphonic acids : stabilities, properties, and reactions / Arthur E. Martell -- Transition VIB metal [pi]-complexes of [lambda]³- and [lambda]⁵-phosphorins and some of their reactions / K. Dimroth -- Synthesis of transition metal phosphoranides : conversion of bicyclic phosphoranes into phosphoranides and phosphane adducts with transition metal derivatives / J.G. Riess, F. Jeanneaux, P. Vierling, J. Wachter, and A. Grand -- Secondary phosphino macrocyclic ligands / Evan P. Kyba and Heinz H. Heumüller -- Dicoordinated and tricoordinated acyclic phosphazenes as complex ligands / O.J. Scherer, H. Jungmann, and R. Konrad -- Metal complexes of amino(cyclophosphazenes) / V. Chandrasekhar, S.S. Krishnamurthy, and M. Woods -- Structural and magnetic investigation on transition metal complexes with tripodal polytertiary phosphines / L. Sacconi -- The use of alkylaminobis(difluorophosphines) as ligands to stabilize novel binuclear complexes / J.H. Kim, K.S. Raghuveer, T.W. Lee, L. Norskov-Lauritzen, V. Kumar, M.G. Newton, and R.B. King -- New aspects of the coordination chemistry of carbonyl phosphines / Edith F. Landvatter and Thomas B. Rauchfuss -- New chiral aminophosphine ligands : application to catalytic asymmetric C-C bond formation / Gérard Buono, Christian Triantaphylides, Gilbert Peiffer, André Mortreux, and Francis Petit -- 31P NMR studies of catalytic intermediates in triphenylphosphine rhodium complex hydroformylation systems / Alexis A. Oswald, Joseph S. Merola, Edmund J. Mozeleski, Rodney V. Kastrup, and John C. Reisch -- New data on the mechanism of the Perkow-Arbuzov reaction / László Tőke, Imre Petneházy, Győngyi Szakál, Harry R. Hudson, Luba Powroznyk, and Christopher J. Cooksey -- Structure and reactivity of quasiphosphonium intermediates / H.R. Hudson, A.T.C. Kow, and K. Henrick -- Reactions of triorganosilyl halides with esters of tricoordinated and tetracoordinated phosphorus / J. Chojnowski, M. Cypryk, J. Michalski, and L. Wozniak -- Halogenolysis of the phosphorus-sulfur bond in thioloesters of organic phosphorus thioacids / B. Krawiecka, J. Michalski, and E. Tadeusiak -- Isotope effects in amination reactions of chlorocyclophosphazenes / J.M.E. Goldschmidt, R. Halevi, and E. Licht -- Zwitterionic [sigma]-complexes : their role as intermediates in phosphorylation of aromatics by phosphorus compounds / Y. Gololobov and P. Onys'ko -- Use of X-ray structural results on phosphorus compounds in modeling reaction mechanisms / Robert R. Holmes, Judith C. Gallucci, and Joan A. Deiters -- Ligand effects on the reaction of alkoxide ions with organophosphorus derivatives containing multiple leaving groups / Kenneth E. Debruin, Charles E. Ebersole, Morgan M. Hughes, and David M. Johnson -- Methanolysis of a phosphate ester / William S. Wadsworth, Jr. -- Reactivity of tricoordinated phosphorus compounds : a mechanistic study with a variety of substrates / C. Dennis Hall, Robert C. Edwards, John R. Lloyd, Paul D. Beer, Philip J. Hammond, Alberto O. D'amorim, and Melvin P. Melrose -- A new stereospecific synthesis of a P(III) organophosphorus ester / Leonard J. Szafraniec, Linda L. Szafraniec, and Herbert S. Aaron -- A single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis of (1R,1'S)-1,1'-ethylenebis(1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-4,4-dimethyl-1-phenylphosphinolinium) diperchlorate / Narayanasamy Gurusamy, K. Darrell Berlin, Dick Van Der Helm, and M. Bilayet Hossain -- Stereochemical investigation of chiral onium hexaarylphosphates / G.P. Schiemenz and J. Pistor -- Spectroscopy of phosphorus compounds : d[pi]-p[pi] bonding effects on the 31P NMR chemical shifts of N-aryliminophosphoranes / Philip C. Murphy and John C. Tebby -- ¹H, ¹⁹F, ³¹P, and ¹³C NMR investigation of diphosphanes and triphosphanes / J.P. Albrand and C. Taïeb -- Principal ³¹P chemical shift tensor components as determined by solid state NMR / J.P. Dutasta, J.B. Robert, and L. Wiesenfeld -- Application of the ¹⁸O shift on the ³¹P NMR spectrum to the elucidation of biochemical phosphate transfer mechanisms / Frank Jordan, Salvatore J. Salamone, and Alice L. Wang -- Phospholipase A2 hydrolysis of phospholipids : use of ³¹P NMR to study the hydrolysis, acyl migration, regiospecific synthesis, and solubilization of phospholipids / Andreas Plũckthun and Edward A. Dennis -- Photolytic rearrangement of phosphorus, germanium, and silicon azides : evidence for new hybridized species / J.P. Majoral, G. Bertrand, A. Baceiredo, and P. Mazerolles -- Diphenylphosphinous acid by UV irradiation of aroyl diphenyl phosphines / K. Praefcke and M. Dankowski -- Chemical model showing three phenomena : phosphorane [yields] ylide, ylide [yields] phosphorane, and phosphorane [equilibrium] ylide / Ramon Burgada, Yves Leroux, and Y.O. El Khoshnieh -- Base-catalyzed reactions of phosphonomethylphosphinates, bis(phosphonomethyl)phosphinates, and bis(phosphonomethyl)phosphinic amides with aldehydes / W. Franklin Gilmore and Joon Sup Park -- Structure-reactivity studies on oxygen-containing phosphorus-based ligands / Yuan Chengye, Ye Weizhen, Zhou Chengming, and Hui Yongzheng -- Phosphoric and carboxylic amides : comparison of bonding and reactivity / Tomasz A. Modro.