CHEMICAL REVIEWS Published bimonthly by the American Chemical Society
THE EDITORIAL BOARD RALPH L. SHRINER, Editor State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
LOUISE KELLEY, Assistant Editor 115 Prospect Street, Franklin, New Hampshire
Associate Editors GEORGE W. WATT, University
of Texas, Austin,
Texas C. SHEEHAN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
B. JONASSEN, Tulane University, New Orleans 18, Louisiana
HANS
G. DAY, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
JOHN
HARRY
H. S. GUTOWSKY, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
WILLIAM E. PARHAM, University
S. HAMMOND, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
GEORGE
of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, Minnesota State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
STANLEY WAWZONEK,
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