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The right place at the right time

Title
The right place at the right time / John D. Roberts.
Author
Roberts, John D., 1918-2016
Publication
  • Washington, DC : American Chemical Society, 1990.
  • ©1990

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Description
xix, 299 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Profiles, pathways, and dreams
Uniform Title
Profiles, pathways, and dreams
Subject
  • Roberts, John D., 1918-2016
  • Roberts, John D., 1918-2016
  • Roberts, John D. 1918-2016
  • Roberts, John D
  • Roberts, John D., 1918-
  • 1900-1999
  • Chemists > United States > Biography
  • Chemistry, Organic > United States > History > 20th century
  • 35.50 organic chemistry: general
  • Chemistry, Organic
  • Chemists
  • Autobiografie
  • Organische chemie
  • Biografias de quimicos
  • Quimica organica
  • Chemistry > History
  • Robert, John D
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • History.
  • Memoirs (form)
  • Robert, John D.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-281) and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 0841217661
  • 9780841217669
  • 0841217920
  • 9780841217928
LCCN
90000259
OCLC
  • ocm21197391
  • 21197391
  • SCSB-1896913
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library