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Springer Kinetics And Spectroscopy Of Carbenes And Biradicals 1990 Edition by M.S. Platz
The development of mechanistic organic chemistry is filled with claims of short-lived reactive intermediates connecting starting material to product. In many ways this book represents a personal odyssey of the editor in this area of chemistry. I well remember my introduction to organic chemistry as an undergraduate working in the laboratories of Shelton Bank at SUNY Albany in the early 1970s and the excitement and frustration attending the piecing together of the details of a reaction mechanism by working backwards from the stable products of the reaction. In those days the reaction and the reactive intermediates flew by too rapidly to permit direct observation. Thus it came as something of a revelation to me as a graduate student at Yale that it was possible to slow down a reaction and actually "see" such ephemeral species as carbenes and biradicals by spectroscopic methods by generating them photochemically at cryogenic temperatures. In this monograph several chap ters are devoted to low-temperature studies. Dougherty has described the matrix EPR spectra of biradicals which were pure conjecture only ten years ago. Michl and Arnold have described the matrix spectroscopy of cyciobutadiene a molecule that has fascinated organic chemists for over a hundred years. They have shown that by using a combination of matrix spec troscopic methods it is possible to learn nearly as much about the structure of cyciobutadiene the prototypical antiaromatic biradicaloid as about that of a common shelf-stable reagent. Table of contents : I. Perspectives on Network Management.- *Introduction and Overview the Editors.- *Network Management Alternatives for the Future.- *Recent FCC Policies and Network Management.- *Technology Impacting Network Management.- * Integrated Network Management.- * Open Systems Management Standards.- II. Techniques And Databases For Managing Heterogeneous Networks.- * Introduction and Overview the Editors.- * Implementing Integrated Monitoring Systems for Heterogeneous Networks.- * Implementing Network Management in a Multi-Vendor Environment - A User Perspective.- * Network Management Policies: What Aims and How to Pursue Them.- * Database Management for an Integrated Network Management System.- III. Architectures And Systems For Network Management.- * Introduction and Overview the Editors.- * Service Performance Requirements in the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Environment.- * Extensibility of an Enterprise Mangement Director.- * Network Mangement for the PBX Market.- * X.25 PAD Concentrator and Gateway Network Management - Towards a UNMA Environment.- * Control and Management of SONET Based Fiber Networks.- * Defense Data Network Fault Isolation System.- IV. Expert Systems Applications To Network Management.- * Introduction and Overview the Editors.- * Applying Artificial Intelligence Techniques To The Management Of Heterogeneous Networks.- * The Integration of Human and Machine Intelligence in Network Management and Control.- * Genesis A Real-Time Expert System For Network Control.- * An Expert System For Diagnosing Performance Problems in SNA Networks.- * Applications of Expert Systems to Network Surveillance.- * Nora: An Intelligent Advisor For Traffic Network Management.- V. Fault And Performance Management.- * Introduction and Overview.- * Dynamic Access Capacity Management in a Multiservice Packet-Mode Environment.- * Fault Isolation in Communication Networks with Local Directed Graphs.- * Minimal Length Test Sequences for Protocol Conformance.- * On the Design of Observers for Fault Detection in Communication Networks.- * The Application of the Partition Function in Revenue-Oriented Performance Analysis for Network Management.- VI. Management Of Network Routing.- * Session Chairman Report on the Dynamic Routing Session.- * Network Routing Evolution.- * Advanced Routing Techniques: Using Advanced Intelligent Network Functional Components and Data Base Controls.- * Control of Multi-Domain Networks.- * PARS: A Predictive Access-Control and Routing Strategy for Real-Time Control of Telecommunication Networks.- * Stochastic Integrals and the Calculations of Performance in Dynamic Control/State Dependent Routing Networks.- VII. User Interfaces For Network Management.- * Network Management User Interfaces.- * Network Management Software and User Interfaces: Issues and Approaches.- AUTHOR INDEX.