R. B. Woodward's Letters: Revealing, Elegant and Commanding
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A collection of excerpts from letters written by R. B. Woodward to his friends, colleagues, young students and others is presented in this article, which illustrate many aspects of his personality and philosophy of life.Abstract:
A collection of excerpts from letters written by R. B. Woodward to his friends, colleagues, young students and others is presented. These excerpts are representative of Woodward's lengthy correspondence and illustrate many aspects of his personality and philosophies of life.
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Evolution of the Diels-Alder Reaction Mechanism since the 1930s: Woodward, Houk with Woodward, and the Influence of Computational Chemistry on Understanding Cycloadditions.
TL;DR: The evolution of Woodward's mechanistic thinking is described, beginning in the late 1930s and early 1940s with his proposal of a charge-transfer mechanism for the Diels-Alder reaction, eventually leading to the Woodward-Katz two-stage concerted mechanism in 1959, and then to its mechanistic solution in terms of orbital symmetry control.
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Die Evolution des Diels‐Alder‐Reaktionsmechanismus seit den 1930er Jahren: Woodward, Houk zusammen mit Woodward und der Einfluss der Computerchemie auf das Verständnis von Cycloadditionen
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From Decades to Minutes: Steps Toward the Structure of Strychnine 1910-1948 and the Application of Today's Technology.
TL;DR: This paper reports on and analyzes 20 key publications leading up to Robinson's (correct, then incorrect, then correct again though not definitive) proposal and Woodward's assignment of the actual structure of strychnine and subjected the assignment to a modern computational quantum chemistry workflow.
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Rolf Huisgen, Eminent Chemist and Polymath (1920–2020): In His Own Words and In His Publication Metrics
TL;DR: The human side of this eminent chemist as he edges closer to his 100th birthday is revealed and the power and influence of review articles - secondary sources, in the vocabulary of historians and sociologists of science is demonstrated.
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An Iraqi by Birth, an Israeli in Body, a Soul without Borders. Sason Shaik in His Own Words**
TL;DR: In this paper , a compilation of several interview with the eminent theoretical chemist Sason Shaik of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has been presented, focusing almost entirely on him as a human being.
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