SUDHINDRA N. MISRA and SHAUN 0 . SOMMEKER, Can. J. Chem. 70, 46 (1992). The absorption difference, comparative absorption spectrophotometry, and quantitative analysis of 4f-4f spectra of praseodymium (II1) and 3~, + transitions exhibit substantial intensification as well as a wide variation of oscillator strength. Since these transitions do not follow the selection rules they cannot be considered hypersensitive. Ligands such as P-diketones, Schiff bases, amino acids, diols, nucleic bases, nucleosides, nucleotides, alkoxides, and haloacetates with widely differing binding features in terms of coordinating ability, denticity, and normalized bite appear to induce, to varying degrees, high sensitivity in these non-hypersensitive transitions. The present article reports the high sensitivity of the ' H , + ' P 2 , ' P I , ' P O , and ID2 transitions of Pr(II1) by considering the solution spectra of 173 species. This unique sensitivity is termed Ligand Mediated Pseudohypersensitivity.