Description:Content: The promise of surface science in catalysis : success or failure? / Friedrich M. Hoffmann and Daniel J. Dwyer -- Molecular-beam studies of the effect of surface temperature on the probability of dissociative chemisorption / Charles T. Rettner -- New molecular-beam methods for coverage-dependent kinetic measurements using time resolved specular helium scattering / K.A. Peterlinz, T.J. Curtiss, and S.J. Sibener -- Kinetics and mechanism of carbon monoxide oxidation on platinum, palladium, and rhodium foils / George W. Coulston and Gary L. Haller -- Infrared reflection-absorption spectroscopy : new technique for in situ determination of local surface structure / W. Kevin Kuhn, Jian-Wei He, and D. Wayne Goodman -- Nickel monoxide surface films on Ni(100) : high-temperature structure, thermal stability, and reactivity toward hydrogen / R.B. Hall, C.A. Mims, J.H. Hardenbergh, and J.G. Chen -- Building of complex catalysts on single-crystal surfaces / G.A. Somorjai, C.M. Kim, and C. Knight -- Forward and reverse water-gas shift reactions on model copper catalysts : kinetics and elementary steps / Charles T. Campbell and Karl-Heinz Ernst -- Carbon monoxide oxidation on model single-crystal catalysts / Charles H.F. Peden -- Molecular ingredients of platinum-tin reforming catalysts / Y. Zhou and S.M. Davis -- Controlled-atmosphere photoelectron spectroscopy / M. Grunze, Daniel J. Dwyer, M. Nassir, and Y. Tsai -- Ultrasoft X-ray absorption detected by fluorescence yield : in situ method for characterizing adsorbates and surface reactions / John L. Gland, Tecle Rufael, and Daniel A. Fischer -- In situ studies of catalytic reactions with Fourier transform-infrared reflection-absorption spectroscopy : island formation and stability of ultrathin layers at high pressure / Friedrich M. Hoffmann and Mark D. Weisel -- NMR studies of the structures and reactions of simple molecules adsorbed on metal clusters / C.A. Klug, C.P. Slichter, and J.H. Sinfelt -- In situ surface kinetics by dynamic isotopic tracing : application to methane oxidative coupling / C.A. Mims, R.B. Hall, A.J. Jacobson, J.T. Lewandowski, and G. Myers -- Infrared study of surface species under high-pressure conditions / S.D. Worley, J.P. Wey, and W.C. Neely -- Effect of structure in propylene oxidation on molybdenum trioxide / Anantha N. Desikan and S. Ted Oyama -- Chemical reactions in high electric fields / H.J. Kreuzer -- Surface reactions on an atomic scale : field desorption with field and photon pulses / J.H. Block, G.-K. Chuah-Jaenicke, and N. Kruse -- Mass effects in photodissociation of chloromethane : quenching by substrate metal / S.K. Jo, J. Kiss, M.E. Castro, and J.M. White -- Photoinduced pathways to dissociation and desorption of dioxygen on Ag(110) and Pt(111) / S.R. Hatch and Alan Campion -- Time-resolved study of laser-induced thermal desorption / Z. Rosenzweig and M. Asscher.