Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Organizing Committee and List of Participants -- Welcome Address -- Yamada Science Foundation and the Scope of Yamada Conference -- Executive Members of Foundation -- Chapter 1. Perspective of solution chemistry of Japan. The historical background and recent trends -- Chapter 2. Molecular theory of solvation processes in dipolar and non-dipolar solvents -- Chapter 3. An interaction-site representation of the dynamic structure factor of liquid and the solvation dynamics -- Chapter 4. The interplay of dielectric and mechanical relaxation in solvation dynamics -- Chapter 5. Fluctuating charge force fields for aqueous solutions -- Chapter 6. Solvation dynamics of dye molecules in polar solvents studied by time resolved hole burning Spectroscopy -- Chapter 7. Ultrafast measurements of the dynamics of solvation in polar and non-dipolar solvents -- Chapter 8. Solvent and nuclear dynamic effects on intermolecular electron transfer -- Chapter 9. Theory on rates of solution reactions influenced by slow fluctuations in viscous solvents, and its experimental confirmation -- Chapter 10. Dynamics of Brownian motion under a potential and theory on the rate of chemical reactions -- Chapter 11. Structural characteristics of hydrogen-bonded networks in water and ice systems -- Chapter 12. Structure and dynamics of supercooled and glassy aqueous ionic solutions -- Chapter 13. The structure and dynamics of aqueous solutions containing complex molecules -- Chapter 14. Liquid-liquid phase separations and critical behavior of electrolyte solutions driven by long-range and short-range interactions -- Chapter 15. Slow relaxation in pure and binary frozen-in systems -- Chapter 16. Slow dynamics in supercooled fluids -- Chapter 17. Density functional theory of solution dynamics -- Chapter 18. Dissociation and solvation in water and aqueous solutions -- Chapter 19. Effect of solvent, temperature, and pressure on hydrogen bonding and reorientation of water molecules -- Chapter 20. Collective vibrational dynamics of simple liquids -- Chapter 21. Mechanisms of dephasing in femtosecond time-resolved coherent Raman scattering from molecules in liquids -- Chapter 22. Ion solvation and ion association studied by infrared and microwave methods -- Chapter 23. Dynamical aspects of water by low-frequency Raman scattering -- Chapter 24. Ultrasonic relaxation study of fast exchange processes in mixed micelle systems of alcohol-decyltrimethylammonium bromide-water -- Chapter 25. Organometallic free radicals in solution -- Chapter 26. The structure of metal complexes of small models of glycoproteins in aqueous solution -- Chapter 27. Kinetic evidence for short-lived intermediates in metalloporphyrin formation -- Chapter 28. Structure and dynamics of solvated ions: new tendencies of research -- Chapter 29. The role of solvent in inorganic reaction mechanisms, as elucidated by high pressure studies -- Chapter 30. EXAFS of bromide ion in solvents and at air/solution interface -- Chapter 31. Redox properties of oxo-bridged di- and tri-nuclear complexes of heavy transition elements: stability of mixed-valence state -- Chapter 32. Study of the reduction of Co(NH3)4(pzCO2) 2+ by Fe(CN)6 4- in binary aqueous mixtures: an interpretation of solvent effects based on spectroscopic data -- Chapter 33. Ion pair of tetraalkylammonium picrates -- Chapter 34. Ion-pairing effects on the 59Co electric field gradients in the NMR relaxations of tripositive cobalt(Ill) complex ions -- Chapter 35. Concentration dependence of 59Co relaxation rates of tris(acetylacetonatao)-cobalt(Ill)in some organic solvents -- Chapter 36. Mechanistic study of oxidation reactions of hydroquinone, catechol, and L-ascorbic acid by dicyanobis(1,10-phenanthroline) iron(Ill) in dimethyl sulfoxide -- Chapter 37. Molecular orientation in fluids near solid-liquid interface as studied by the density functional method -- Chapter 38. The stability and dynamics of clathrate hydrates -- Chapter 39. Deviation of the TST rate constant through the nonlinear couplings -- Chapter 40. Spatial correlations in reaction-diffusion systems in nonequilibrium conditions -- Chapter 41. Nonlinear effects of solvation dynamics -- Chapter 42. Solvation dynamics studied by ultrafast transient hole burning -- Chapter 43. Hydrogen-bonded structure in aqueous sulfuric acid solutions -- Chapter 44. Raman spectroscopic study of rotational and vibrational relaxation of CF3H in the supercritical site -- Chapter 45. Anomalous conformational behavior of short poly(oxyethylene) chains in water: an FT-IR spectroscopic study -- Chapter 46. Time-resolved resonance Raman study of the recombination dynamics photodissociated carbon monoxide to sperm whale myoglobin and its mutants -- Chapter 47. Solvent viscosity dependence of bimolecular reaction rate constant of the excited 9-cyanoanthracene quenched by 1,3-cyctohexadiene -- Chapter 48. Extremely slow reorientation dynamics of molecular tracers in glassy polymers -- Chapter 49. Dynamics near a liquid surface: mechanisms of evaporation and condensation -- Chapter 50. The effect of ionic atmosphere on the tracer diffusion of micelles -- Chapter 51. Effect of addition of surfactant on the micelle-monomer exchange process -- Chapter 52. Dissipative structure in aqueous polymer solutions -- Chapter 53. Non-linear effects in the free energy profile of electron transfer reaction: an integral equation approach -- Chapter 54. Induction time of precipitation of calcium carbonate -- Chapter 55. Photophysical properties of viologen-linked N-alkylporphyrins and their zinc(ll) complexes in solutions -- Chapter 56. Conductometric study of hydrophobic properties of tris(1,10-phenanthroline) and tris(2,2'-bipyridine) complexes -- Chapter 57. Structure of the monohalogenocadmium(ll)complexes in N, N-dimethylformamide -- Chapter 58. Effect of pressure on the viscosity of aqueous cesium chloride solution at 25 oC -- Chapter 59. Melting behaviour in hexagonal CeCI3 and monoclinic ErCI3 crystals -- Chapter 60. Polarization effect on the static and dynamic properties of molten lithium iodide -- Chapter 61. Evaluation of thermodynamic quantities of fluid mixtures by the PY equation -- Chapter 62. Solvation free energy of protein reproduced by the combination of the extended scaled particle theory and the Poisson-Boltzmann equation -- Chapter 63. Transport properties of a spherical molecule in solvent with position-dependent viscosity -- Chapter 64. Liquid dynamics studied by higher order non-linear optical spectroscopy -- Chapter 65. Temperature dependence of singlet excitation energy migration in liquid benzene as revealed by picosecond laser photolysis -- Chapter 66. Solvent effect on ultra-fast electron transfer in mixed-valence biferrocene monocation -- Chapter 67. Translational diffusion of transient radicals studied by the transient grating method -- Chapter 68. Intra and intermolecular energy transfer in thermal dissociation in the gas and liquid N2O4 -- Chapter 69. Photoelectron emission spectroscopy applied to bromide ion in solvents -- Chapter 70. Direct comparison between femtosecond optical Kerr effect and high-resolution light scattering measurements -- Chapter 71. Vibrational cooling process in solution probed by picosecond time-resolved Raman spectroscopy. Analysis of the cooling kinetics -- Chapter 72. Rotational relaxation of rod like molecules: diphenylacetylene in various solvents -- Chapter 73. Ground state recovery of phenol blue in fluids near the gas- iquid critical density -- Chapter 74. Dynamics of two-component liquids near the glass transition -- Chapter 75. Relaxation characteristics of intracellular (Na + as measured by double quantum filtered (DQf) NMR.