During the study of the kinetics of Cl atom reactions by atomic fluorescence method we observed anomalous fluorescence emission for some atomic transitions. Instead of usual decrease of the fluorescence intensity by adding substrate, 1363 A transition $(^2P^{\circ}_{3/2}{\to}^2P_{1/2})$ intensity increased by adding substrate. From the normally behaved fluorescence lines the absolute rate constant for the reaction, Cl + $CH_3Cl{\to}$, was found to be $4.2{\times}10^{-13}$ cc/molecule sec at $20^{\circ}C$.

Simple rules for predicting nonbonded interactions have been proposed. It was found that an end-to-end nonbonded interaction is either attractive or repulsive depending on the sign of the product of AO coefficients of two end atoms in the HOMO of a closed shell conjugated system with a crowded structure. The nonbonded attraction becomes the greatest in a 4N + 2 electron conjugated system, while it is repulsive in a 4N electron system. For 4N + 1 and 4N - 1 electron systems, it is attractive but the effect is less than that in 4N + 2 system. As a result of the attractive interaction, the overlap population of an atom pair increases (decreases) if the HOMO is antibonding (bonding) for the atom pair. The rules were illustrated with some examples.

Penicillin amidohydrolase was partially purified from the fermented broth of Bacillus megaterium, and was immobilized on nylon fiber. The surface area of nylon fiber was increased by roughening it with fine sand and activated by acid treatment. The free amino groups on the nylon fiber exposed by such treatment were then utilized to immobilize the penicillin amidase. Enzymatic properties of penicillin amidohydrolase immobilized on the nylon fiber by covalent bonding and cross linking with glutaraldehyde were studied and compared with those of soluble enzyme. The optimal pH and temperature profile of immobilized enzyme showed only slightly broader peaks, and the values of kinetic constants, $K_m$, $K_{ia}$, and $K_{ip}$, of the immobilized enzyme are only slightly greater than those of the soluble enzyme. These results suggest that the mass transfer effect on the reaction rate for the penicillin amidase immobilized on nylon fiber is not so significant as the enzyme immobilized on some other support material like bentonite. The experimental results of batch reaction agreed well with the results of computer simulation for both the immobilized and soluble enzyme systems, confirming the validity of the rate equation derived which was based on the combined double inhibition by two reaction products.

The CNDO/2 method was used to compute relative stabilities of various configurations and conformations of acetamide, N-methylacetamide and diacetamide and their protonated forms. It was found that: (a) nonbonded interactions play important roles in determining structural preferences of the compounds, (b)$n-{\sigma}^{\ast}$ "throughbond" interactions always favor cis-protonation (relative to C-N).

Direct photoisomerizations of benzalpyrrolinones yield the corresponding E-isomers via a singlet state, since no effect of oxygen on the reaction rates was observed. The Z-oxodipyrromethene was photoisomerized to the E-isomer in a degassed system. In an aerobic system the oxodipyrromethene 3 was photoisomerized at the early stage of the reaction and photooxygenated slowly at latter stage of the reaction. For bilirubin, other (possibly Z ${\to}$ E) than self-sensitizing $^1O_2$ reaction should have occurred because of the lack of a solvent effect on the self-sensitized photooxidation reaction rate at the early stage.

The surface tensions, the chemical potentials and the densities of various liquids such as argon, nitrogen, helium, ammonia, and water are calculated using the significant structure theory of liquids. And using these calculated values, the critical supersaturation ratios and the radii of the above materials are determind according to the classical Becker-Doring and the revised Lothe-Pound theories. The results are compared with the experimental values and well agreed with the available experimental data.

The thermal decomposition reaction of ethyl bromide was studied in the temperature range of 724.5-$755.1^{\circ}K$. Pressure dependence of the reaction was observed in its fall-off region. A theoretical evaluation of the rate constants was carried out adopting RRKM formulation in the region and was compared with the experimental observation.The validity of theory was also reevaluated by using the observed results. The observed activation energy in this study and Arrhenius A-factor were 51.7 kcal/mole and $10^{12.5}$, respectively. The small A-factror in the study was discussed in terms of the formation of a tight activated complex and the molecular elimination as a prevalent reaction mode.

A vacuum ultraviolet photolysis of ethyl bromide was studied in the pressure range of 0.5-19.9 torr and at 123.6 nm krypton resonance line. The pressure effect on the reaction was studied by increasing the reactant pressure and by adding an inert gas, e.g., He. In the observation the monatomic gas is found to be no effect in the reaction. A scavenger effect of the reaction was also performed by adding NO gas as a radical scavenger and was found to be quite efficient to scavenge a radical product $C_2H_6$. The observation of the major reaction product $C_2H_6$ was interpreted in terms of a molecular elimination. Nontheless the decreasing phenomenon of ${\phi}_{C_2H_4}/{\phi}_{C_2H_6}$ with pressure rise was attributed to the existence of the two electronically excited states. One state proceeds to the molecular elimination and the other to carbon-bromine bond fission. The excitation and the decomposition mechanisms between two excited states and the reaction products were interpreted in terms of the first excitation which proceeds the molecular elimination, and the second excitation which resulted from the first excited state by collisional cross over decomposes by carbon-bromine bond fission.

Activation energies for plastic deformation calculated from traditional phenomenological equations have been criticized frequently since the values are different by authors, and also by experimental conditions. The reasons of different activation enthalpies are clarified in this study. Our method for calculating activation enthalpies based on the authors' theory of plastic deformation was presented and discussed. The method was applied to various cases of alloys, the calculated activation enthalpies are listed and compared with the activation energies obtained by the traditional methods in order to show the reasonableness of our method. The physical meaning of the activation enthalpies which we found was clarified.