This series provides inorganic chemists and materials scientists with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. Volume 50 continues to report recent advances with a significant, up-to-date selection of contributions on topics such as the following:

• Structural and mechanistic investigations in asymmetric copper;
• Catalyzed reactions;
• Phenoxyl radical complexes;
• Synthesis of large pore zeolites and molecular sieves;
• Inorganic nanoclusters with fullerene-like structure and nanotubes

Kenneth D. Karlin is an Ira Remsen Professor of Chemistry at John Hopkins University. He received his PhD from Columbia University. His main research activities involve synthetic modeling, i.e. biomimetic chemistry.