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E.A. Halevi, Technion The Israel Institute of Technology,
Haifa, Israel
Orbital Symmetry and Reaction Mechanism - The OCAMS View
1991. Approx. 355 pp. 113 figs. Hardcover ISBN 3-540-50164-9
Criteria of orbital symmetry conservation had a profound
influence on mechanistic thinking in organic chemistry and are
still commonly applied today. The author presents a coherent
set of operational rules for the analysis of scope and
reliability. It is written from the viewpoint of
_Orbital_Correspondence_Analysis_in_Maximum_Symmetry (OCAMS).
Its advantage lies in its provision of a coherent overview of
the relation between symmetry and mechanism. For reasons of
consistency, the book remains within the framework of molecular
orbital theory.
>From the contents: The Woodward-Hoffmann Rules in Perspective.-
Symmetry and Energy: Atoms and Atomic Orbitals.- Diatomic
Molecules and their Molecular Orbitals.- Formation and
Deformation of Polyatomic Molecules.- The Classical Thermal
Reactions: Electrocyclic Reactions and Related Rearrangements.-
Cycloadditions and Cycloreversions.- Degenerate
Rearrangements.- Spin and Photochemistry: Electron Spin.-
Excited State Reactions.- Into Inorganic Chemistry.
Modern mechanistic thinking in organic chemistry is still
influenced by the publication of Woodward and Hoffmann
"Conservation of orbital symmetry" in 1965. The author explains
the foundation of these rules coherently. He outlines the scope
and limitations of the model with respect to recent
experimental research. The book is written for students in
chemistry.
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