Quantitative Aspects of Free Radical Chemistry

THE Faraday Society held a two-day meeting in Oxford during September 23-25 to discuss "The Labile Molecule", or the quantitative aspects of free radical chemistry. The nature of the discussion seemed commonplace enough, and the tremendous activity in this field of chemistry is almost taken for granted. If we neglect the war years-and that is not quite justified-the subject seems to have grown up in about five scientific years, from a rather tentative qualitative notion to a subject of considerable precision requiring for its practice a wide variety of advanced techniques.