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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

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