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Physical Organic Chemistry – A Personal Perspective
Author(s) -
Sander Wolfram
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
israel journal of chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.908
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1869-5868
pISSN - 0021-2148
DOI - 10.1002/ijch.201500047
Subject(s) - chemistry , antiaromaticity , physical organic chemistry , variety (cybernetics) , cyclooctatetraene , perspective (graphical) , organic molecules , computational chemistry , nanotechnology , biochemical engineering , organic chemistry , molecule , aromaticity , computer science , materials science , artificial intelligence , engineering
Physical organic chemistry plays a unifying role in chemistry by combining a large variety of experimental and theoretical techniques to create simplified, intuitively understandable concepts of chemical processes. The concept of “antiaromaticity” is used to demonstrate how complex experiments may result in general models that allow chemists to predict the chemical and physical properties of difficult to access molecules and even of transition states. Cyclooctatetraene and the fluorenyl cation are used as examples to illustrate some working methods of physical organic chemistry.