{"product_id":"chemical-creativity-ideas-from-the-work-of-woodward-huckel-meerwein-and-others-9783527297542","title":"Chemical Creativity: Ideas from the Work of Woodward, Hückel, Meerwein, and Others","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e »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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e The Nature of Science and the History of Science\u003cbr\u003e An Experiment\u003cbr\u003e DISCOVERIES MISSED, DISCOVERIES MADE -\u003cbr\u003e TWO CASE STUDIES OF CREATIVITY IN CHEMISTRY\u003cbr\u003e Science and the Individual\u003cbr\u003e Diels, Alder, Their Competitors, and the Discovery of the Diene Synthesis\u003cbr\u003e Thiele\u003cbr\u003e The Alternation Effect and the Discovery of Orbital Symmetry\u003cbr\u003e ERICH HÜCKEL AND THE THEORY OF AROMATICITY -\u003cbr\u003e REFLECTIONS ON THEORY AND EXPERIMENT\u003cbr\u003e Debye-Hückel Theory of Electrolytic Solutions\u003cbr\u003e Nature of the Double Bond\u003cbr\u003e Hybridization in Double Bonds\u003cbr\u003e Benzene Problem\u003cbr\u003e MO Description of Conjugated Cyclic Compounds\u003cbr\u003e Orbital Symmetry (Woodward-Hoffmann Rules)\u003cbr\u003e Extension of Cyclic p-Electron MO Theory to Transition States of Pericyclic Reactions\u003cbr\u003e Violation of Hund's Rule in Biradicals\u003cbr\u003e Reflections on Hückel's Career\u003cbr\u003e THE DIENONE-PHENOL MYSTERIES\u003cbr\u003e Isolations of Estrogens\u003cbr\u003e Approaches to the Estrogens by Aromatization of Ring A\u003cbr\u003e Alicyclic Steroids\u003cbr\u003e Woodward's Challenge\u003cbr\u003e Misgivings about the Structures\u003cbr\u003e Why did Woodward Undertake the Correction of the Phenolic Structures?\u003cbr\u003e Woodward and the Total Synthesis of Steroids\u003cbr\u003e Approaches and Achievements\u003cbr\u003e Mechanistic Motivation\u003cbr\u003e MEDITATIONS ON THE SPECIAL CONVICTIVE POWER OF SYMMETRIZATION EXPERIMENTS\u003cbr\u003e Enolization as a Mechanism of Symmetrization\u003cbr\u003e The Menthone Problem\u003cbr\u003e Tricyclene and the Wagner-Meerwein Rearrangement\u003cbr\u003e The Pinacol Controversy\u003cbr\u003e The Favorskii Rearrangement\u003cbr\u003e Symmetrization\u003cbr\u003e Racemization Machines with no   Achiral Parts\u003cbr\u003e Direct Nucleophilic Displacement Reaction\u003cbr\u003e The Walden Inversion\u003cbr\u003e Biological and Evolutionary Attraction of Symmetry\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue","brand":"Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53196944769367,"sku":"9783527297542","price":68.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/chemical-creativity-ideas-from-the-work-of-woodward-huckel-meerwein-and-others-9783527297542","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}