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An excellent starting point for a student or a practicing chemist to begin learning about modern synthetic applications of free radical chemistry. Giese is actively engaged in research into this chemistry and has written several papers and reviews concerning it. He begins by explaining the general principles of synthesis with radical intermediates and contrasting them with ionic processes. He then discusses in depth the formation of aliphatic and aromatic C-C bonds with numerous variations and examples. The book has many references and covers literature into 1986. It is photo-offset from typed copy and the structure of the compounds referred to are inset in the text very near where they are discussed. The writing style is clear and quite easy to read. A useful addition to graduate and undergraduate libraries.-M.P. Hanson, Augustana College, S. Dak.