High Pressure Molecular Science

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
High-Pressure Raman Scattering Studies of Fluids....Pages 1-23
Pressure Effects on Non-Linear Optical Phenomena....Pages 25-46
Pressure Effects on the Intramolecular Twist of Flexible Molecules In Solid Polymers....Pages 47-57
Molecular Dynamics Studies of High Pressure Transformations and Structures....Pages 59-85
Experimental Techniques in the Diamond Anvil Cell....Pages 87-101
How Accurate are High-Pressure Experiments?....Pages 103-108
Investigations of Semiconductor Band Structure Using High Pressure.....Pages 109-120
Critical- and Wetting-Phenomena Near the Liquid-Vapour Critical Point of Metals....Pages 121-149
Neutron Diffraction Studies of Liquid Alloys up to High Temperatures and Pressures....Pages 151-185
Mutual Solubility in the Solid Phase of Simple Molecular Systems at High Pressure....Pages 187-204
High Pressure Behaviour of the Vibrational Spectra of Mixtures in the Fluid Phase and at the Fluid-Solid Transition....Pages 205-218
Singular Solid-Liquid-Gas Like Phase Diagram of Neutral-to-Ionic Phase Transition....Pages 219-224
Structure of Carbon Black Particles....Pages 225-230
High-Resolution NMR Spectroscopy at High Pressure....Pages 231-259
Pressure-Enhanced Molecular Clustering in Liquid Dimethyl Sulfoxide Studied by Raman Spectroscopy....Pages 261-266
Inorganic and Bioinorganic Reaction Kinetics Under High Pressure....Pages 267-289
Effect of Pressure on Reaction Kinetics. The Components of the Activation Volume Revisited....Pages 291-311
Activation of Organic Reactions. High Pressure vs New Emerging Activation Modes....Pages 313-330
Free-Radical Polymerization Under High Pressure....Pages 331-367
Pressure Effects on Lyotropic Lipid Mesophases and Model Membrane Systems — Effects on the Structure, Phase Behaviour and Kinetics of Phase Transformations....Pages 369-403
Optical Spectroscopic Techniques in High Pressure Bioscience....Pages 405-422
High Hydrostatic Pressure and Enzymology....Pages 423-436
The Phase Diagram and the Pressure-Temperature Behavior of Proteins....Pages 437-472
Pressure Denaturation of Proteins....Pages 473-495
Hydrostatic Pressure as a Tool to Study Virus Assembly: Pressure-Inactivation of Viruses by Formation of Fusion Intermediate States....Pages 497-513
Structure and Stability of Wildtype and F29W Mutant Forms of the N-Domain of Avian Troponin C Subjected to High Pressures....Pages 515-521
High Pressure Effects on Protein Flexibility as Monitored by Tryptophan Phosphorescence....Pages 523-528
Stability Diagram of Lipoxygenase as Determined From H/D Exchange Kinetics and from Conformational Changes....Pages 529-533
FTIR as a Tool to Study Cold, Heat and Pressure Denaturation of Myoglobin....Pages 535-539
On the Use of the Term Osmotic Pressure....Pages 541-545
Back Matter....Pages 547-559