Book excerpt: Presents advances in 31P NMR and coupling effects of the past six years (since VCH published its first jointly edited monograph on the subject). A wide cross-section of experts contribute a concise account of their use of 31P NMR in their own area of expertise, giving major emphasis to the research results they have obtained since the earlier monograph appeared. The volume is divided into nine sections: chemical shift theory; conformational analysis of phosphorus-containing ring systems; compounds with three-, four-, and five-coordinate phosphorus; low-coordinate phosphorus compounds; metal complexes of phosphorus ligands; biological phosphorus systems; mechanism elucidation in phosphorus chemistry; analytical and interpretive aspects; and NMR with solid phosphorus-containing systems. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR