A Century of Chemical Dynamics Traced through the Nobel Prizes. 1981: Fukui and Hoffmann

• J. Van Houten ^[1]
  1. [1] Saint Michael''s College, United States
• Localización: Journal of chemical education, ISSN 0021-9584, Vol. 79, Nº 6, 2002, pág. 667
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The 1981 Nobel Prize was awarded to Kenichi Fukui and Roald Hoffmann "for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions." Those theories, which have come to be known as "frontier orbital theory" and the "Woodward-Hoffmann rules" respectively, remain important tools for predicting the course of organic reactions and they are frequently taught in courses in mechanistic organic chemistry.