Foreword; Preface; Memorial Tribute to Professor Dr. Hitoshi Ohtaki; Contributors; 1. Development of Chemistry in Asia with the Cooperation of European Countries, Hitoshi Ohtaki; 2. Functional Peptidomics: Recent Developments and State of Art, Vadim T. et al.; 3. Structural Bioinformatics in the Discovery of Novel Drugs, Mahmud Tareq et al.; 4. Chemical and Biological Studies with an Aconitum and a Delphinium Species, Ayhan Ulubelen et al.; 5. Novel Bioactive Natural Products from Marine and Terrestrial Sources, Athar Ata; 6. Bioactive Turkish Plant Extracts and Their Constituents, Gülaçtý Topçu et al.; 7. Chamomile Biodiversity of the Essential Oil Qualitative-Quantitative Characteristics, Ivan Salamon; 8. Recent Progress on Bioactivity Studies on Turkish Lycopodium clavatum L, Ilkay Orhan et al.; 9. Separation and Characterization of the Vanillin Compound from Soda Lignin, Mohamad Nasir et al.; 10. Recent Development of Ring Closing Metathesis Approach to Bioactive Heterocycles: Synthesis of Nakadomarin, A, Quinolines et al.; 11. Effect of Molecular Structure on Polymorphic Nucleation of BPT Derivatives, Mitsutaka Kitamura et al.; 12. The Golden Ratio in the Creations of Nature Arises in the Architecture of Atoms and Ions, Raji Heyrovská; 13. Interaction of Thioamides, Selenoamides and Amides with Di-iodine: A Study of the Mechanism of Action of Anti-thyroid Drugs, Sotiris K. Hadjikakou et al.; 14. Catalytic Properties of Polyamido Dendrimers, Metin Tülü; 15. Swell Ratio Parameter for Prediction of Chemically Crosslinked Low Density Polyethylene Foam Expansion Characteristics, Coswald Stephan Sipaut et al.; 16. Ruthenium Tris-bypyridine/Zeolite-Y/Titanium Dioxide Nano-Assembly: ‘Ship-in-a-Bottle’ Synthesis and Application in Heterogeneous Photodegradation of 2,4-xylidine, Leon M. Jr. Payawan et al.; 17. Infrared Spectroelectrochemical Analysis of the Binuclear Rhenium Complex of the Form, [Re(CO) 3 Cl] 2 (tpbq), Arnie R. de Leon et al.; 18. MicrobialSynthesis of Poly (3-Hydroxybutyrateco-4-Hydroxybutyrate) by Cupriavidus sp. USMAA1020 Isolated from Malaysian Environment, Amirul A. Abdullah et al.; 19. Rust Phase Transformation in the Presence of Mangrove Tannins, Afidah A. Rahim et al.; 20. Treatment of Oil-Water Mixture Using Illite Clay Mineral, Fatma Turak et al.; 21. Removal of Catechol and Resorcinol from Aqueous Solutions by Adsorption onto High Area Activated Carbon Cloth, Numan Hoda et al.; 22. Removal of Metobromuron Pesticide from Aqueous Solutions by Adsorption at High Area Activated Carbon Cloth, Numan Hoda et al.; 23. Effects of Thermal Treatment and Storage on Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) Content and Diastase Activity of Honeys Collected from Middle Anatolia in Turkey, Kadir Turhan; 24. The Degradation Kinetics of Phenol Solutions with Ozone, Kadir Turhan et al.; 25. Determination of Some Trace Metals in Edible Mushrooms Samples Using Atomic Absorption Spectrometry, Kadir Turhan et al.; 26. Sorption of Zn(II) and Pb(II) Ions by a New Resin Synthesized from Sumac Tannin and Gelatin, Kadir Turhan Fatma Turak et al.; 27 In Quest of Friendly Free Radicals: Reactions of Iodine Atom Free Radicals with Some Biologically Important Compounds; M. Mohammad et al.; 28. Adsorption of Cu(II) from Aqueous Solutions by Sumac ( Rhus coriaria L.) Tannins; Ahmet Lütfi Uður, Mahmure Üstün Özgür et al.; 29. Sorption of Pb(II) and Zn(II) Ions from Aqueous Solution by Tannin Resins; Fatma Turak et al.; 30. Determination of Ibuprofen, Pseudoephedrine HCl, Chlorpheniramine Maleate and Nipagen by Liquid Chromatography and Fractional Factorial Design; Bürge Aþçý et al.; 31. Comparison of Derivative Spectrophotometry and Partial Least Squares (PLS-1) Calibration for the Determination of Caffeine in Energy Drinks; Özlem Aksu Dönmez et al.; 32. Simultaneous Spectrophotometric Determination of Food Additives (Benzoic Acid, Caffeine, Aspartame and Acesulfame-K) in Cola Drinks by PLS Multivariate Calibration Method;