Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents
Preface
Part 1: reactive intermediates
1.carbocations 00
r.a. Mcclelland
2.crossing the borderline between sn1 and sn2 nucleophilic substitution at
Aliphatic carbon 00
t.l. Amyes, m.m. Toteva, and j.p. Richard
3.carbanions
S. Gronert
4.radicals
m. Newcomb
5.non-kekul molecules as reactive intermediates 00
J.a. Berson
6.organic radical ions 00
H.d. Roth
7.singlet carbenes 00
m. Jones, jr., and r.a. Moss
8.stable singlet carbenes 00
G. Bertrand
9.triplet carbenes 00
h. Tomioka
10.atomic carbon 00
P.b. Shevlin
11.nitrenes 00
M.s. Platz
12.synthetic carbene and nitrene chemistry 00
M.p. Doyle
13.nitrenium ions 00
D.e. Falvey
14.* silylenes 00
W. Ando, and n. Tokitoh
15.strained hydrocarbons: structures, stability, and
reactivity 00
K.b. Wiberg
16.arynes 00
M. Winkler, h.h. Wenk, and w. Sander
Part 2: methods and temporal regimes
17.matrix isolation 00
T. Bally
18.nanosecond laser flash photolysis: a tool for
physical organic chemistry 00
J.c. Scaiano
19.*the picosecond realm
E. Hilinski
20.reactions on the femtosecond time scale 00
j.e. Baldwin
21.potential energy surfaces and reaction dynamics 00
B.k. Carpenter
22.the partnership between electronic structure calculations and experiments in the
Study of reactive intermediates 00
W.t. Borden