We prove the volume conjecture for an infinite family of links called
Whitehead chains that generalizes both the Whitehead link and the Borromean
rings.Comment: 11 pages, 1 figure. See also
http://www.science.uva.nl/~riveen/papers.html New in version two is a
computation for the constant term in the asymptotic expansion. The proof of
lemma 5 has been omitted because it is almost the same as that of lemma