Radom is the leading practitioner in Australia, and one of the leaders internationally, in the application of molecular orbital theory to structure and mechanism in organic chemistry. His particular emphasis is on the structures and stabilities of species on which experiments are difficult (reactive intermediates, unstable molecules) or almost impossible (transition states). The wide acceptance of his term distonic for a class of radical cation intermediates follows his recent work showing that gasÂphase radical cations with charge and radical sites on different atoms often display a stability which contrasts with that of their neutral parents. Radom's predictions preceded the now numerous observations of distonic radical cations.
