  We study the normal state and pairing instability in electron-doped cuprates
near optimal doping. We show that the fermionic self-energy has a non-Fermi
liquid form leading to peculiar frequency dependencies of the conductivity and
the Raman response. We solve the pairing problem and demonstrate that T_c is
determined by the curvature of the Fermi surface, and the pairing gap
\Delta(k,\omega) is strongly non-monotonic along the Fermi surface. The normal
state frequency dependencies, the value of T_c\sim10K and the k-dependence of
the gap agree with the experiment.
