Determination of Organic Structures by Physical Methods

No one could have foreseen the tremendous impact of physical methods upon organic chemistry when this treatise was started in the early 1950's. Not only have many new tools become available to the chemist interested in elucidating organic structure, but the tools themselves have achieved increasing sophistication. This is illustrated in this volume by the first two chapters dealing with exciting extensions of the well-known mass spectrometric technique. Fleetingly short-lived species are brought "to light" in the section on flash photolysis. In the concluding three chapters the theme of nuclear magnetic resonance is further explored for organosilicon chemistry, for solutes dissolved in liquid crystals, and finally for the role of the nuclear Overhauser effect in structure elucidation.