We wish to announce the publication of Volume 9 of REVIEWS IN COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY. The emphasis of this volume is on molecular modeling, covering computer-aided ligand/drug design, thermodynamic perturbation and thermodynamic integration, oligosaccharides, molecular mechanics force fields, and molecular shape.

The authors and chapters are:

1. James R. Damewood, Jr.
   Peptide Mimetic Design with the Aid of Computational Chemistry.
2. T. P. Straatsma
   Free Energy by Molecular Simulation.
3. Robert J. Woods
   The Application of Molecular Modeling Techniques to the Determination of Oligosaccharide Solution Conformations.
4. Ingrid Pettersson and Tommy Liljefors
   Molecular Mechanics Calculated Conformational Energies of Organic Molecules: A Comparison of Force Fields.
5. Gustavo A. Arteca
   Molecular Shape Descriptors.

The book will be available for your perusal at the VCH Publishers (Wiley) booth at the Orlando ACS meeting later this month. Volume 9 (xxxiii + 282 pp) has ISBN 1-56081-930-8.

We recently doubled our book give-away program. If you are interested in winning a free copy of Volume 9 or other volumes, check out our home page at http://chem.iupui.edu/~boyd/rcc.html

Donald B. Boyd
Co-editor, REVIEWS IN COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY