Reviews of Reactive Intermediate Chemistry

Matthew S. Platz, PhD, is Distinguished University Professor at The Ohio State University, with more than 200 research articles and more than a dozen patents to his credit. Dr. Platz has been an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, and a Cope Scholar of the American Chemical Society. Robert A. Moss, PhD, is the Louis P. Hammett Professor of Chemistry at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Dr. Moss has been an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow and has published 400 articles in the areas of reactive intermediates and chemistry in molecular aggregates.Maitland Jones Jr., PhD, is David B. Jones Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University. He has published a textbook on organic chemistry and more than 200 papers focusing on the chemistry of reactive intermediates. He has also been an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow.

• Preface viiContributors ixPart 1 Reactive Intermediates 11. Tetrahedral Intermediates Derived from Carbonyl Compounds, Pentacoordinate Intermediates Derived from Phosphoryl and Sulfonyl Compounds, and Concerted Paths Which Avoid Them 3J.P. Guthrie2. Silicon-, Germanium-, and Tin-Centered Cations, Radicals, and Anions 47V.Y. Lee and A. SekiguchiPart 2 Methods and Applications 1213. An Introduction to Time-Resolved Resonance Raman Spectroscopy and Its Application to Reactive Intermediates 123D.L. Phillips, W.M. Kwok, and C. Ma4. Time-Resolved Infrared (TRIR) Studies of Organic Reactive Intermediates 183J.P. Toscano5. Studies of the Thermochemical Properties of Reactive Intermediates by Mass Spectrometric Methods 207P.G. Wenthold6. Reactive Intermediates in Combustion 247J.K. Merle and C.M. Hadad7. Reactive Intermediates in Crystals: Form and Function 271L.M. Campos and M.A. Garcia-Garibay8. The Chemical Reactions of DNA Damage and Degradation 333K.S. Gates9. Conical Intersection Species as Reactive Intermediates 379M.J. Bearpark and M.A. Robb10. Quantum Mechanical Tunneling in Organic Reactive Intermediates 415R.S. SheridanIndex 465

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