Specialist Periodical Reports provide systematic and detailed review coverage of
progress in the major areas of chemical research. Written by experts in their
specialist fields the series creates a unique service for the active research
chemist, supplying regular critical in-depth accounts of progress in particular
areas of chemistry. For over 80 years the Royal Society of Chemistry and its
predecessor, the Chemical Society, have been publishing reports charting
developments in chemistry, which originally took the form of Annual Reports.
However, by 1967 the whole spectrum of chemistry could no longer be contained
within one volume and the series Specialist Periodical Reports was born. The
Annual Reports themselves still