12th International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Padua, Italy, 28 August–2 September 1994
This conference is part of the Physical Organic Chemistry series.
Preface
C. K. Ingold: A chemical revolutionary
Cyclic electron delocalization in hydrocarbon cages: Pagodanes, isopagodanes, (bisseco/seco-)dodecahedradienes
Interaction between stacked aryl groups in 1,8-diarylnaphthalenes: Dominance of polar/π over charge-transfer effects
Enantiomeric recognition of chiral ammonium salts by chiral pyridino- and pyrimidino-18-crown-6 ligands: Effect of structure and solvents
Anion activation by quaternary onium salts and polyether ligands in homogeneous and heterogeneous systems
Reductively activated 'polar' nucleophilic aromatic substitution. A new mechanism in aromatic chemistry?
Reactivity of β-lactams and phosphonamidates and reactions with β-lactamase
Reverse anomeric effect and steric hindrance to solvation of ionic groups
Thermodynamics for C-H bond-breaking of some amphihydric compounds by transfer of protons, hydride ions, H-atoms and electrons
Using thermodynamic cycles to study reactive intermediates
Dynamics of intramolecular carbenic rearrangements
The use of 1,2-shifts in carbenes and nitrenes in the generation of novel heterocumulenes
Exact structures of carbocations established by combined computational and experimental methods
Matrix isolation and vibrational spectroscopy of carbocations
NMR spectroscopic and computational investigations of σ-interactions in carbocations: The β-silyl effect in vinyl cations
Silylated bisketenes: Accessible and reactive organic intermediates
Conical intersections as a mechanistic feature of organic photochemistry
Thornton rule for homolytic reactions
MO study of the effect of substituents on the properties of localized organic and organometallic radicals
Highly reactive small and medium carbacyclic silanes and germanes
Dioxirane oxidations: Taming the reactivity-selectivity principle
Diels-Alder reactions in water: Enforced hydrophobic interaction and hydrogen bonding
Dextran modified self-assembled monolayer surfaces for use in biointeraction analysis with surface plasmon resonance
The centenary of the birth of Louis Hammett