Abstract
The theory of time resolved E.S.R. of transient radicals exhibiting CIDEP (chemically induced dynamic electron polarization) is developed to include the effects of chemical reactions. In particular electron transfer and the formation of secondary radicals are treated and expressions derived for time dependent E.S.R. intensities of radicals produced by flash photolysis. In addition some comments are made on other factors which can affect these experiments: spectrometer response, radical pair polarization, radiation damping, nuclear spin relaxation and spectral line overlap.