Table of Contents:
  • Life before college
  • Undergradute years at Penn State
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • National Research Council Fellowship year at Harvard
  • The move to MIT
  • Research at MIT : carbocations
  • Electrical effects of substituents at MIT
  • Some other small-ring chemistry
  • Benzyne
  • Teaching at MIT
  • Life in Cambridge
  • Back to Caltech
  • Visit to Europe
  • California Institute of Technology
  • My entrance into nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
  • NMR : rotation about single bonds and magnetic nonequivalences
  • NMR : improved instrumentation
  • NMR : educational activities
  • Expanding computer horizons
  • Grignard reagents
  • Cyclooctatetraene
  • Conformational equilibria
  • Natural-abundance ¹³C NMR spectra
  • ¹⁵N NMR spectroscopy
  • Applications in medicine
  • Mechanistic studies of iodonium hydrolysis
  • The textbook of organic chemistry
  • Mechanistic studies of the Diels-Alder Reaction
  • Organic syntheses
  • More on the structure of the C₄H₇⁺ carbocation : a chemical chimera.