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Article: Radical spin doctors.(Review)
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- Chemistry and Industry
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- June 26, 2000
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General aspects of the chemistry of radicals
Ed Zeev Alfassi
Chichester: John Wiley & Sons 1999
Ppix+563, [pounds]150, ISBN 0471 98760 3
John Steinbeck's dictum 'Ideas are like rabbits; you get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen' could well have been written with free radicals in mind. Exactly a century ago, Gomberg's pioneering discovery of triphenylmethyl was discounted by orthodox chemists, but multiplication of radical ideas and radical inventions took place on a truly lapine scale in the following years. By the mid-twentieth century, it was still possible for Cheves Walling to cover the whole ...