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- Mechanism of the reduction of a carboxylic acid by borane: revisited and revised.
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- Oxime formation from hydroxylamine and ketone: a (computational) reality check on stage one of the mechanism.
- The mechanism of diazo coupling: more hidden mechanistic intermediates.
- The mystery of the Finkelstein reaction
- Why is the carbonyl IR stretch in an ester higher than in a ketone?
- Deviations from tetrahedral four-coordinate carbon: a statistical exploration.
- VSEPR Theory: A closer look at chlorine trifluoride, ClF3.
- Surprises (?) in the addition of HCl to a carbonyl group.
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- Fascinating stereoelectronic control in Metaldehyde and Chloral.
- The first ever curly arrows. Revisited with some crystal structure mining.
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- The strongest bond in the universe: revisited ten years on.
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Henry Rzepa
Emeritus Professor of computational chemistry, Imperial College London. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8635-8390
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