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Centre and the Libraries of the Universities of Lancaster, Leeds and York, UK and the Defence
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Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL), Pune, India without whose support this book would
not have seen the light of the day.
The authors are also grateful to the following copyright owners for their permission to
reproduce tables and text from their publications: American Chemical Society (The Journal
of Organic Chemistry;Industrial and Laboratory Nitrations, ACS Symposium Series 22; and
Nitration: Recent Laboratory and Industrial Developments, ACS Symposium Series 623) and
Infomedia India Ltd (Chemical World).
Dr. Agrawal would like to thank his wife Sushma and Dr. Hodgson his mother Sheila and
father Dale for their patience, understanding and valuable support during the writing of this
book.
Finally our thanks are due to Mr. Paul Deards, Commissioning Editor (Physical Sciences),
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ,
UK for his support and valuable suggestions.