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In writing this book the authors, one a physical chemist the other an organic
chemist, have successfully brought together what to a large number of scientists
are two compIetely separate subjects; the reactions of free radicals in solution and
in the gas phase. Both kineticists and synthetic organic chemists will find much to
illumine each others fields in this text. As one reads the book it becomes apparent
also that it has been written none-too-soon because shortly the subject will have
grown too large to be covered adequately in one volume. Indeed, these authors
have had to omit the very important area of free radical polymerization due to
the lack of space in which to do it justice.
The first part of the book, Chapters 1 to 6, gives a description of the prin-
ciples underlying the methods of production of free radicals, their physical
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Though the fourth in the series, this volume marks the debut of Professor
Thirsk as Senior Reporter, succeeding as he does Professor Hilts. Ln the process,
one can, I think, already discern a slight change of emphasis. The volume begins