Front Cover; Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy, Volume 20; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. NMR Spectroscopy in Living Systems; I. Introduction; II. Sample preparation; III. Localization methods; IV. Measurement of intracellular cations; V. Enzyme kinetics; Chapter 2. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Boron Compounds Containing Two-, Three- and Four-Coordinate Boron; I. Introduction; II. Experimental; III. 11B nuclear magnetic resonance; IV. NMR of nuclei other than 11B and 1H24,704; Chapter 3. 11B NMR Spectroscopy; I. Introduction

II. Spectroscopic techniques and general resultsIII. Analytical applications; IV. One-boron compounds; V. Polyboranes and carboranes; VI. Metalloboranes and metallocarboranes; VII. Coupled boranes and carboranes; VIII. Transition-metal complexes of boron-containing heterocycles; IX. 11B NMR studies of solids; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 4. NMR Studies of Alkali Anions in Non-Aqueous Solvents; I. Introduction; II. Nuclear shielding in the alkali anions; III. Solution structure of Na- probed by relaxation measurements; IV. Chemical dynamics in alkali-metal solutions

V. Overall conclusionsIndex; Cumulative Indexes for Authors and Subjects, Volumes 11-20