Comments on: Capturing penta-coordinate carbon! (Part 1).

By: Frozen Semibullvalene: a holy grail (and a bis-homoaromatic molecule). « Henry Rzepa

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 17:28:23 +0000

[...] a structure where the transition state (shown at the top) became instead a true minimum (bottom)? A similar challenge had been set for freezing out the transition state for the Sn2 reaction into a minimum, the topic [...]

By: The Sn2 reaction and the anomaly of carbon. « Henry Rzepa

The Sn2 reaction and the anomaly of carbon. « Henry Rzepa — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:31:12 +0000

[...] was three years ago that I first blogged on the topic of the Sn2 reaction. Matthias Bickelhaupt had suggested that the Sn2 reaction involving displacement at a carbon atom [...]

By: To blog or to publish. That is the question. « Henry Rzepa

To blog or to publish. That is the question. « Henry Rzepa — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:47:44 +0000

[...] do speak from (thus far one) experience. The story starts here, this being the initial post on a story that broke on Steve Bachrach’s blog about a compound [...]