Table of Contents:
  • Carbocations / R.A. McClelland.
  • Crossing the borderline between SN1 and SN2 nucleophilic substitution at aliphatic carbon / T.L. Amyes, M.M. Toteva, and J.P. Richard.
  • Carbanions / S. Gronert.
  • Radicals / M. Newcomb.
  • Non-kekulé molecules as reactive intermediates / J.A. Berson.
  • Organic radical ions / H.D. Roth.
  • Singlet carbenes / M. Jones, Jr. and R.A. Moss.
  • Stable singlet carbenes / G. Bertrand.
  • Triplet carbenes / H. Tomioka.
  • Atomic carbon / P.B. Shevlin.
  • Nitrenes / M.S. Platz.
  • Synthetic carbene and nitrene chemistry / M.P. Doyle.
  • Nitrenium ions / D.E. Falvey.
  • Silylenes (and germylenes, stannylenes, plumbylenes) / N. Tokitoh and W. Ando.
  • Strained hydrocarbons: structures, stability, and reactivity / K.B. Wiberg.
  • Arynes / M. Winkler, H.H. Wenk, and W. Sander.
  • Matrix isolation / T. Bally.
  • Nanosecond laser flash photolysis: a tool for physical organic chemistry / J.C. Scaiano.
  • The picosecond realm / E. Hilinski.
  • Reactions on the femtosecond time scale / J.E. Baldwin.
  • Potential energy surfaces and reaction dynamics / B.K. Carpenter.
  • The partnership between electronic structure calculations and experiments in the study of reactive intermediates / W.T. Borden.