Reviews of Reactive Intermediate Chemistry

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PREFACE. CONTRIBUTORS. PART 1 REACTIVE INTERMEDIATES. 1. Tetrahedral Intermediates Derived from Carbonyl Compounds, Pentacoordinate Intermediates Derived from Phosphoryl and Sulfonyl Compounds, and Concerted Paths Which Avoid Them (J.P. Guthrie). 2. Silicon-, Germanium-, and Tin-Centered Cations, Radicals, and Anions (V.Y. Lee and A. Sekiguchi). PART 2 METHODS AND APPLICATIONS. 3. An Introduction to Time-Resolved Resonance Raman Spectroscopy and Its Application to Reactive Intermediates (D.L. Phillips, W.M. Kwok, and C. Ma). 4. Time-Resolved Infrared (TRIR) Studies of Organic Reactive Intermediates (J.P. Toscano). 5. Studies of the Thermochemical Properties of Reactive Intermediates by Mass Spectrometric Methods (P.G. Wenthold). 6. Reactive Intermediates in Combustion (J.K. Merle and C.M. Hadad). 7. Reactive Intermediates in Crystals: Form and Function (L.M. Campos and M.A. Garcia-Garibay). 8. The Chemical Reactions of DNA Damage and Degradation (K.S. Gates). 9. Conical Intersection Species as Reactive Intermediates (M.J. Bearpark and M.A. Robb). 10. Quantum Mechanical Tunneling in Organic Reactive Intermediates (R.S. Sheridan). INDEX.