Organic Problem Reactions Under Pressure

Abstract

No technique or new approach worth its salt survives for long in the public’s interest if all that it can do is to show that it could have solved old problems had it been on the scene on time. High pressure chemistry is no exception to this harsh rule; to pay its way it must be applicable to current problems. In my first lecture I attempted to show that volume changes can be very nicely correlated with structural changes when the latter have already been well defined; now it is time to see whether this correlation is strong enough to be capable of extrapolation into less well reconnoitered territory. As in my first lecture, detailed references to the original work to be discussed now may be found in the review literature quoted there.