Solution phase models line compounds

It will be obvious from my account that although I consider myself primarily a physical chemist, my concern was always with finding the most efficient solution to a problem. If that meant doing phase-rule studies with a vacuum line (hardly ever attempted before), or getting infra-red spectra of polymers to identify end-groups when the only IR instrument in the City of Manchester at that time was in the ICI laboratories at Blackley, or synthesising new model compounds or super-pure A1C13, we just overcame the practical obstacles and got on with it. 

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