Content: Biochemistry, stereochemistry, and nomenclature of the inositol phosphates / R. Parthasarathy and F. Eisenberg, Jr. -- Phosphoinositides and their stimulated breakdown / B.W. Agranoff and S.K. Fisher -- Enantiospecific synthesis and Ca2+-release activities of some inositol polyphosphates and their derivatives / Clinton E. Ballou and Werner Tegge -- Synthesis of inositol polyphosphates and their derivatives / Shoichiro Ozaki and Yutaka Watanabe -- Synthesis of myo-inositol polyphosphates / Joseph P. Vacca, S. Jane de Solms, Steven D. Young, Joel R. Huff, David C. Billington, Raymond Baker, Janusz J. Kulagowski, and Ian M. Mawer -- Preparation of optically active myo-inositol derivatives as intermediates for the synthesis of inositol phosphates / Trupti Desai, Alfonso Fernandez-Mayoralas, Jill Gigg, Roy Gigg, Carlos Jaramillo, Sheila Payne, Soledad Penades, and Nathalie Schnetz -- Pharmacological effects of D-myo-inositol-1,2,6-trisphosphate / M. Sirén, L. Linné, and L. Persson -- Synthesis of new myo-inositol derivatives containing phosphate, sulfate, and sulfonamido groups / Peter Westerduin and Constant A.A. van Boeckel -- Chemical modifications of inositol trisphosphates : tritiated, fluorinated, and phosphate-tethered analogues / Glenn D. Prestwich and James F. Marecek -- Novel routes to inositol phosphates using Pseudomonas putida oxidation of arenes / Stephen V. Ley, Alison J. Redgrave, and Lam Lung Yeung -- Enantiospecific synthesis of inositol polyphosphates, phosphatidylinositides, and analogues from ( -- )-quinic acid / J.R. Falck and Abdelkrim Abdali -- Synthesis and complexation properties of inositol-phosphates / V.I. Shvets, A.E. Stepanov, L. Schmitt, B. Spiess, and G. Schlewer -- Phosphorothioate analogues of phosphatidylinositol and inositol 1,2-cyclic phosphate : application to the mechanism of phospholipase C / Karol S. Bruzik, Gialih Lin, and Ming-Daw Tsai -- Phosphorothioate analogues of D-myo-inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate : chemistry and biology / Barry V.L. Potter -- Synthesis and biological evaluation of inositol derivatives as inhibitors of phospholipase C / Franz Kaufmann, D. James R. Massy, Wolfgang Pirson, and Pierre Wyss -- Synthesis and biological evaluation of inositol phospholipid analogues / John G. Ward and Rodney C. Young.