Fifty Years of a Dispute. A Triptych: Why Woodward?**
Year: 2022
Type: review
Abstract: 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.
Source: The Chemical Record
Author: Jeffrey I. Seeman
Institution: University of Richmond
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $4,400
OpenAlex ID: W4292397328