Chemical Creativity

Ideas from the Work of Woodward, Hückel, Meerwein, and Others

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

Av Jerome A. Berson, USA) Berson, Jerome A. (Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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Where are the origins of chemical ideas? How did the pioneers in chemistry recognize the fundamental intellectual issues of their time? What skills of reasoning and experiment did they use to solve these problemes? How did the circumstances of personality and competition influence their careers and scientific accomplishments? If we can answer these questions, we may be able to improve our own chances of success in research. »This is a marvelous book of people and chemical ideas! The author, Jerry Berson, is known as a chemical stylist, a physical organic chemist possessed of the highest analytical powers. In a unique approach to the history of chemistry (indeed the history of science) he brings that style, as well as his insider's knowledge and a perceptive sensivity to the societal setting of chemists, to the analysis of some key chapters in modern organic chemistry.« Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Laureate

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Utgivningsdatum1999-03-24
Mått170 x 241 x 13 mm
Vikt399 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieChemistry
Antal sidor207
Upplaga1
FörlagWiley-VCH Verlag GmbH
SABQD 15, QD 31
ISBN9783527297542

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Jerome A. Berson received a B.S. in chemistry from the City College of New York in 1944. After a brief period in the industry with Hoffmann-La Roche in New Jersey, he served in the Army of the United Stated (1944-1946, China-Burma-India Theater). In 1946, he entered graduate study at Columbia University where he took M.A. and Ph.D. degrees with W. von E. Doering. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University (with R. B. Woodward) in 1949-1950. Subsequently, he taught chemistry at the University of Southern California (1950-1963), the University of Wisconsin (1963-1969), and Yale University (since 1969). He is presently Sterling Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Yale. His research group has concentrated its efforts on the elucidation of reaction mechanisms and the synthesis of molecules of theoretical interest. In the latter category, a principal activity has been the study of non-Kekulé compounds.In recent years, he has written on the history of science, producing a number of articles and two books, both published by Wiley-VCH: Chemical Discovery and the Logicians' Program (2003) and the present book, Chemical Creativity.

INTRODUCTIONThe Nature of Science and the History of ScienceAn ExperimentDISCOVERIES MISSED, DISCOVERIES MADE -TWO CASE STUDIES OF CREATIVITY IN CHEMISTRYScience and the IndividualDiels, Alder, Their Competitors, and the Discovery of the Diene SynthesisThieleThe Alternation Effect and the Discovery of Orbital SymmetryERICH HÜCKEL AND THE THEORY OF AROMATICITY -REFLECTIONS ON THEORY AND EXPERIMENTDebye-Hückel Theory of Electrolytic SolutionsNature of the Double BondHybridization in Double BondsBenzene ProblemMO Description of Conjugated Cyclic CompoundsOrbital Symmetry (Woodward-Hoffmann Rules)Extension of Cyclic p-Electron MO Theory to Transition States of Pericyclic ReactionsViolation of Hund's Rule in BiradicalsReflections on Hückel's CareerTHE DIENONE-PHENOL MYSTERIESIsolations of EstrogensApproaches to the Estrogens by Aromatization of Ring AAlicyclic SteroidsWoodward's ChallengeMisgivings about the StructuresWhy did Woodward Undertake the Correction of the Phenolic Structures?Woodward and the Total Synthesis of SteroidsApproaches and AchievementsMechanistic MotivationMEDITATIONS ON THE SPECIAL CONVICTIVE POWER OF SYMMETRIZATION EXPERIMENTSEnolization as a Mechanism of SymmetrizationThe Menthone ProblemTricyclene and the Wagner-Meerwein RearrangementThe Pinacol ControversyThe Favorskii RearrangementSymmetrizationRacemization Machines with no Achiral PartsDirect Nucleophilic Displacement ReactionThe Walden InversionBiological and Evolutionary Attraction of SymmetryEpilogue