Statistical mechanics of chain molecules / Paul J. Flory

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When this book was first published in 1969, many skeptics questioned the practi-cality and general applicability of connecting chemical structure, i. e., constitution and configuration, with configurational and conformational statistics of chain molecules. Since then, the book has evolved ¡nto the central work of Macromole-cular Physical Chemistry. It is the recommended introduction ¡nto the subject of Rotational Isomeric State Theory for the novice and the most important work of reference for those seeking to rationally deduce the conformational character-istics of macromolecules from a detailed knowledge of the chain structure. This now classic book has been missed by the scientific community for a number of years; several advances and many new applications of the principies set down in it have appeared since, but the concisely developed fundamentáis are as valid today as when it just had appeared. It is reprinted here intact.