Seeman Jeffrey I
Department of Chemistry, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173, USA.
Chem Rec. 2022 Sep;22(9):e202200150. doi: 10.1002/tcr.202200150. Epub 2022 Aug 19.
This publication discusses R. B. Woodward's motivations, personality qualities, and chemical experiences that placed him in a perfect position to discover, along with Roald Hoffmann, the solution to the pericyclic no-mechanism problem, that is, to discover the Woodward-Hoffmann rules or, as Woodward preferred, the Principle of Conservation of Orbital Symmetry.
本出版物讨论了R. B. 伍德沃德的动机、个性品质和化学经历,这些使他与罗尔德·霍夫曼一起处于绝佳位置,得以发现周环反应无机制问题的解决方案,即发现伍德沃德-霍夫曼规则,或者如伍德沃德更喜欢的说法,轨道对称守恒原理。