The proceedings of the May 2000 meetings are presented in three volumes, of which v.8 is the first. It contains 30-plus papers on experimental and theoretical findings in connection with electrochemistry, ESR, photophysics, and photochemistry of fullerenes and nanotubes. A sampling of photoinduced electron transfer of fullerene-based molecules in organized media; studies on self-assembled zinc tetrapyrrole-fullerpyrrolidine conjugates; and layer-by-layer assembled photoactive fullerene films. The volume is lightly indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)