Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry

by Ian Williams (Editor), Nick Williams (Editor)

Overview

Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry, Volume 55, presents the latest reviews of recent work in physical organic chemistry. The book provides a valuable source of information that is ideal not only for physical organic chemists applying their expertise to both novel and traditional problems, but also for non-specialists across diverse areas who identify a physical organic component in their approach to research. Its hallmark is a quantitative, molecular level understanding of phenomena across a diverse range of disciplines.

• Reviews the application of quantitative and mathematical methods to help readers understand chemical problems
• Provides the chemical community with authoritative and critical assessments of the many aspects of physical organic chemistry
• Covers organic, organometallic, bioorganic, enzymes and materials topics
• Presents the only regularly published resource for reviews in physical organic chemistry
• Written by authoritative experts who cover a wide range of topics that require a quantitative, molecular-level understanding of phenomena across a diverse range of disciplines

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323850223
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	11/22/2021
Series:	Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry , #55
Pages:	76
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Ian Williams has been Professor of Theoretical Organic Chemistry at the University of Bath since 1995. He has many years’ experience in the application of computational methods to the study of problems in physical organic chemistry. Born in Bournemouth, England, he studied at the University of Sheffield and gained his PhD under the supervision of James McKenna. He then spent two years in Richard Schowen’s laboratory at the University of Kansas, five years as a Royal Society Pickering Research Fellow at Cambridge in the sub-group of Theoretical Chemistry, and four years as an EPSRC Advanced Fellow in Bristol. Since his first appointment at Bath in 1989, he has taught physical organic and computational chemistry to all years of the Chemistry programmes and is currently a Director of Studies. His research uses computational modelling and simulation as tools to aid the interpretation of experimental observations, and he has published on a broad range of topics from atmospheric chemistry to enzyme mechanisms. A past Chair of the Royal Society of Chemistry Theoretical Chemistry Group and UK representative on the EuCheMS Division of Computational Chemistry, he now serves on the IUPAC Subcommittee on Structural and Mechanistic Chemistry, which has responsibility for the ICPOC international conferences on physical organic chemistry, and he chaired ICPOC21 in the UK. He is no relation to the other Co-Editor of Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry!

Table of Contents

1. Beyond transition state theory—Non-statistical dynamic effects for organic reactions
Dean J. Tantillo
2. Synthesis of p-extended non-alternant hydrocarbons based on azulene (5-7), pentalene (5-5) and heptalene (7-7) skeletons and elucidation of their electronic structures
Akihito Konishi and Makoto Yasuda
3. Phenanthrylene–alkynylene macrocycles, phenanthrene-fused dicyclopenta[b,g]naphthalene, as well as relevant diradicaloids and antiaromatic compounds
Shin-ichiro Kato

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This series continually publishes cutting-edge reviews in the field of physical organic chemistry.