Table of Contents

April 20, 2004; 101 (16)

FROM THE COVER

Commentaries

Commentary:
- Yibin Wang
- and Joshua I. Goldhaber
Return of calcium: Manipulating intracellular calcium to prevent cardiac pathologies
PNAS 2004 101:5697-5698; published ahead of print April 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401518101
- See companion article on page 5622 in issue 15 of volume 101
Commentary:
- Roland Brandstaetter
Circadian lessons from peripheral clocks: Is the time of the mammalian pacemaker up?
PNAS 2004 101:5699-5700; published ahead of print April 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401378101
- See companion article on page 5339 in issue 15 of volume 101
Commentary:
- Soumya S. Ray
- and Peter T. Lansbury, Jr.
A possible therapeutic target for Lou Gehrig's disease
PNAS 2004 101:5701-5702; published ahead of print April 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401934101
- See companion article on page 5976 in issue 16 of volume 101
Commentary:
- Y.-A. Barde
Death of injured neurons caused by the precursor of nerve growth factor
PNAS 2004 101:5703-5704; published ahead of print April 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401374101
- See companion article on page 6226 in issue 16 of volume 101

Anthropology

Anthropology:
- Erica Klarreich
Inaugural Article: Biography of Richard G. Klein
PNAS 2004 101:5705-5707; published ahead of print April 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402190101
- See commentary article on page 5708 in issue 16 of volume 101

FROM THE COVER

Return of calcium: Manipulating intracellular calcium to prevent cardiac pathologies

Circadian lessons from peripheral clocks: Is the time of the mammalian pacemaker up?

A possible therapeutic target for Lou Gehrig's disease

Death of injured neurons caused by the precursor of nerve growth factor

Inaugural Article: Biography of Richard G. Klein

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Controlling the enantioselectivity of enzymes by directed evolution: Practical and theoretical ramifications

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Design of chiral ligands for asymmetric catalysis: From C 2 -symmetric P,P- and N,N-ligands to sterically and electronically nonsymmetrical P,N-ligands

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Asymmetric autocatalysis: Novel structures, novel mechanism?

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Asymmetric autocatalysis and its implications for the origin of homochirality

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Zr[bis(salicylidene)ethylenediaminato]-mediated Baeyer–Villiger oxidation: Stereospecific synthesis of abnormal and normal lactones

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Epoxidation of unfunctionalized olefins by Mn(salen) catalyst using organic peracids as oxygen source: A theoretical study

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Cu(I)-catalyzed direct addition and asymmetric addition of terminal alkynes to imines

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Enantioselective direct aldol reactions catalyzed by l -prolinamide derivatives

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: One-pot synthesis of enantiopure syn -1,3-diacetates from racemic syn / anti mixtures of 1,3-diols by dynamic kinetic asymmetric transformation

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Palladium-catalyzed carbocyclization of 1,6-enynes leading to six-membered rings or oxidized five-membered trifluoroacetates

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Computational predictions of stereochemistry in asymmetric thiazolium- and triazolium-catalyzed benzoin condensations

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: An efficient asymmetric synthesis of an estrogen receptor modulator by sulfoxide-directed borane reduction

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: An efficient and general route to reduced polypropionates via Zr-catalyzed asymmetric C—C bond formation

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Development of an efficient, scalable, aldolase-catalyzed process for enantioselective synthesis of statin intermediates

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Highly enantioselective epoxidation of styrenes: Implication of an electronic effect on the competition between spiro and planar transition states

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Chiral biphenyl diphosphines for asymmetric catalysis: Stereoelectronic design and industrial perspectives

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Mo-catalyzed asymmetric olefin metathesis in target-oriented synthesis: Enantioselective synthesis of (+)-africanol

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Expanding the scope of asymmetric electrophilic atom-transfer reactions: Titanium- and ruthenium-catalyzed hydroxylation of β-ketoesters

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Remarkably diastereoselective synthesis of a chiral biphenyl diphosphine ligand and its application in asymmetric hydrogenation

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Copper-catalyzed asymmetric conjugate reduction as a route to novel β-azaheterocyclic acid derivatives

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Stereoselective terminal functionalization of small peptides for catalytic asymmetric synthesis of unnatural peptides

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Editing the stereochemical elements in an iridium catalyst for enantioselective allylic amination

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Copper-catalyzed asymmetric conjugate addition of Grignard reagents to cyclic enones

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: New mechanistic studies on the proline-catalyzed aldol reaction

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Infrared spectroscopic investigations on the metallation of terminal alkynes by Zn(OTf) 2

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Enantioselective Diels–Alder reactions catalyzed by hydrogen bonding

Nanohydrodynamics simulations: An atomistic view of the Rayleigh–Taylor instability

Optics at critical intensity: Applications to nanomorphing

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Zr[bis(salicylidene)ethylenediaminato]-mediated Baeyer–Villiger oxidation: Stereospecific synthesis of abnormal and normal lactones

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Epoxidation of unfunctionalized olefins by Mn(salen) catalyst using organic peracids as oxygen source: A theoretical study

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Cu(I)-catalyzed direct addition and asymmetric addition of terminal alkynes to imines

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Enantioselective direct aldol reactions catalyzed by l -prolinamide derivatives

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: One-pot synthesis of enantiopure syn -1,3-diacetates from racemic syn / anti mixtures of 1,3-diols by dynamic kinetic asymmetric transformation

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Palladium-catalyzed carbocyclization of 1,6-enynes leading to six-membered rings or oxidized five-membered trifluoroacetates

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: Computational predictions of stereochemistry in asymmetric thiazolium- and triazolium-catalyzed benzoin condensations

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: An efficient asymmetric synthesis of an estrogen receptor modulator by sulfoxide-directed borane reduction

Asymmetric Catalysis Special Feature Part II: An efficient and general route to reduced polypropionates via Zr-catalyzed asymmetric C—C bond formation