| Num. Chap. | Titre du chapitre | Page |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carbocations | 3 |
| 2 | Crossing the Borderline Between SN1 and SN2 Nucleophilic Substitution at Aliphatic Carbon | 41 |
| 3 | Carbanions | 69 |
| 4 | Radicals | 121 |
| 5 | Non-Kekulé́ Molecules as Reactive Intermediates | 165 |
| 6 | Organic Radical Ions | 205 |
| 7 | Singlet Carbenes | 273 |
| 8 | Stable Singlet Carbenes | 329 |
| 9 | Triplet Carbenes | 375 |
| 10 | Atomic Carbon | 463 |
| 11 | Nitrenes | 501 |
| 12 | Synthetic Carbene and Nitrene Chemistry | 561 |
| 13 | Nitrenium Ions | 593 |
| 14 | Silylenes (and Germylenes, Stannylenes, Plumbylenes) | 651 |
| 15 | Strained Hydrocarbons: Structures, Stability, and Reactivity | 717 |
| 16 | Arynes | 741 |
| 17 | Matrix Isolation | 797 |
| 18 | Nanosecond Laser Flash Photolysis: A Tool for Physical Organic Chemistry | 847 |
| 19 | The Picosecond Realm | 873 |
| 20 | Reactions on the Femtosecond Time Scale | 899 |
| 21 | Potential Energy Surfaces and Reaction Dynamics | 925 |
| 22 | The Partnership between Electronic Structure Calculations and Experiments in the Study of Reactive Intermediates | 961 |