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Progress in Inorganic Chemistry, Vol. 51 Edited by Kenneth D. Karlin Copyright 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN: 0-471-26534-9 Progress in Inorganic Chemistry Volume 51 Advisory Board JACQUELINE K. BARTON CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA THEODORE J. BROWN UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA, ILLINOIS JAMES P. COLLMAN STANFORD UNIVERSITY, STANFORD, CALIFORNIA F. ALBERT COTTON TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS ALAN H. COWLEY UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN, TEXAS RICHARD H. HOLM HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS EIICHI KIMURA HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY, HIROSHIMA, JAPAN NATHAN S. LEWIS CALIFORNIA INSITITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA STEPHEN J. LIPPARD MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS TOBIN J. MARKS NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, EVANSTON, ILLINOIS EDWARD I. STIEFEL EXXON MOBIL RESEARCH & ENGINEERING CO., ANNANDALE, NEW JERSEY KARL WIEGHARDT ¨ LHEIM, GERMANY MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT, MU PROGRESS IN INORGANIC CHEMISTRY Edited by KENNETH D. KARLIN Department of Chemistry Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland VOLUME 51 AN INTERSCIENCE PUBLICATION JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. Cover Illustration or ‘‘a molecular ferric wheel’’ was adapted from Taft. K. L. and Lippard. S. J., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1990. 112, 9629.