Introduction / Roald Hoffman
1. Search for New Elements / Glenn T. Seaborg and Walter D. Loveland
2. Bonding and the Theory of Atoms and Molecules / John N. Murrell
3. Chemistry in a New Light / Jim Baggott
4. Novel Energy Sources for Reactions
Electrosynthesis / Tatsuya Shono
Microwaves in Chemical Synthesis / D. Michael P. Mingos and David R. Baghurst
Ultrasound in Chemical Synthesis / Paul D. Lickiss
5. What, Why and When is a Metal? / Peter P. Edwards
6. Clothing of Metal Ions: Coordination Chemistry at the Turn of the Millennium / Malcolm Chisholm
7. Surface Chemistry / Gabor A. Somorjai
8. New Roads to Molecular Complexity / K. C. Nicolaou, E. W. Yue and T. Oshima
9. Medicine from Nature / Jim Staunton and Kira Weissman
New Drugs, Novel Aids for Agriculture and the Preparation of Refined Fragrances / Stanley Roberts
Discovering Pesticides / Bhupinder P. S. Khambay and Richard H. Bromilow
11. Inorganic Chemistry of Life / Robert J. P. Williams
12. Supramolecular Chemistry / Jean-Marie Lehn and Philip Ball
13. Advanced Materials / Paul Calvert
14. Molecular Electronics / Bob Munn
15. Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Energy Conversion / Andrew Hamnett and Paul Christensen
16. Chemistry Far from Equilibrium: Thermodynamics, Order and Chaos / Guy Dewel, Dilip Kondepudi and Ilya Prigogine
17. Chemistry in Society / Colin Russell.
