The foundations of physical organic chemistry : fifty years of the James Flack Norris Award
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The foundations of physical organic chemistry : fifty years of the James Flack Norris Award
（ACS symposium series, 1209）
American Chemical Society , Distributed in print by Oxford University Press, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book examines the history and fundamentals of the physical organic chemistry discipline. With the recent flowering of the organic synthesis field, physical organic chemistry has seemed to be shrinking or perhaps is just being absorbed into the toolkit of the synthetic chemist. The only Nobel Prize that can be reasonably attributed to a physical organic chemist is the 1994 award to George Olah, although Jeffrey I. Seeman has recently made a strong case that R. B.
Woodward was actually a physical organic chemist in disguise (I).
2014 saw the awarding of the 50th James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry. James Flack Norris was an early physical organic chemist, before the discipline received its name. This book provides insight into the fundamentals of the field, and each chapter is devoted to a major discovery or to noted physical organic chemists, including Paul Schleyer, William Doering, and Glen A. Russell.
Table of Contents
1. James Flack Norris: His Early Contributions to Physical Organic Chemistry
2. My Study of Optical Activity - From the Distant Past to the Present with Stops in-Between
3. Some Thermochemical Studies of Solvation from the 1960s and 1970s
4. A Life in Physical Organic Chemistry
5. Hydrogen Isotopes in Physical Organic Chemistry
6. Exploring Free Radicals: The Life and Chemistry of Glen A. Russell
7. Norbornyl Cation Isomers Still Fascinate
8. From the Ivy League to the Honey Pot
9. Lost in the Funhouse. Life in the Research Laboratory of William von Eggers Doering
10. 60 Years of Research on Free Radical Physical Organic Chemistry
11. Diradicals -- A Fifty Year Fascination
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