In Memory of H. L. Meerwein

ISBN-13: 9783662154441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 322 str.

Herbert C. Brown;George A. Olah;Hepke Hogeveen

Opis

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Spis treści

Meerwein and equilibrating carbocations.- From boron trifluoride to antimony pentafluoride in search of stable carbocations.- Wagner-meerwein rearrangements in long-lived polymethyl substituted bicyclo[3.2.0]heptadienyl cations.- Rearrangements of carbocations.

O autorze

Born in 1927 in Budapest, Hungary, George A. Olah obtained his doctorate at the Technical University of Budapest, and is now a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Institute at the University of Southern California. He has received numerous awards and recognitions worldwide, including memberships in various academies of science and 12 honorary degrees. He has some 1,400 scientific papers, 20 books and more than 140 patents to his name. In 1994, Prof Olah was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discoveries.