A brief review on the background, industrial applications, and puzzles in fundamental theory of the physisorption of gases on porous solids at above critical temperatures was presented.

This paper summarizes the latest developments of research and applications of supercritical fluid extraction (SFE ) both in China and abroad. Emphasisis on the progress in basic theory, process and applications of SFE in China.

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The intermolecular interaction is of importance in chemistry, biology and materials science. Chemists, biologists, materials scientists now pay more attention to the experimental and theoretical investigations of this kind of interaction. In this review , the characteristics and features of the investigation for intermolecular in teractions were introduced, mainly focusing on three practical computational methods, and a perspective in this research field was also discussed.

The requisites for industrial electrode materials and some approaches in increasing anodic activity are reviewed . A series of anodic material swith oxygen evolution activity for alkaline water electrolysis are outlined. After analysing the correlations between physicochemical properties of different materials and their catalytic activities , the relationships between structure and property are discussed based on σ^* and MO theories .

As most drugs work when they selectively bind to biological targets (e. g.proteins and nuclear acids) , to find highaffinity ligands f r a target molecule fast and effectually becomes the key step of various drugdiscovery methods. A new technique to discover highaffinity ligands for biomacromolecules, SAR-by-NMR, comes into being on the bases of high developments of modern biological and NMR technologies, which significantly accelerates the drug discovery and reduces the expenses. This method combines the advantages of many drug design methods and requires only short time to get lead compounds due to the use of NMR technologies. The essential principle of using SAR-by-NMR to find high-affinity ligands, its distinguishing features, and applications in drug discovery are reviewed in this paper.

Calixarenes and their derivatives can form complexes with almost all metals. In this paper, the complexes of calixarenes with rare earth and some transition metals, calixarene organometallic compounds and endo coordinate complexes were reviewed.

The recent progresses of combinatorial chemistry are reviewed. The basic conceptions, principles, techniques, and applications in drug discovery, relations to other sciences and technology are introduced. At the end, combinatorial chemistry research projects, requirements, and possible solutions are proposed.

A review on advanced elect roanalytical techniques employed in Chinese traditional and herbal drug studies is presented herein with 177 references. Special interest is focused on the effective components and trace elements analysis in Chinese traditional and herbal drugs. Electrochemical studies on synthetic and natural medicine are comparatively discussed.

The advances in chemistry and pharmacology of the non-opiate potent analgesic epibatidine are reviewed in the respects of total synthesis, preparation of analogues, pharm acological and SAR studies. A brief discussion is also given about the prospects of nicotinic receptor agonist used as non-opiate analgesics.

The studies of CD and ICD in porphyrins and their metal complexes are reviewed. The progress and applications of CD and ICD in the absolute configuration of chiral porphyrins and the functional molecules, chiral diporphyrins, assembly and aggregation of porphyrins are introduced.