This book is dedicated to a wonderful person, Rimma Vladimirovna Golovnya, Doctor of Chemistry. Professor . Golovnya was a leading scientist in the field of gas chromatography and flavochemistry and worked fruitfully for many years in organic, analytical, and physical chemistry. Being students, we were fortunate to enjoy lectures by academicians . Nesmeyanov, . Rehbinder, and . Spitsin, professors of the Faculty of Chemistry at Moscow State University. The supervisor of my post-graduate training, academician . Semenov, was the first among Russian chemists to win the Nobel Prize. It was he who suggested, immediately after I defended my Candidate of Chemistry.
