Chemical Creativity

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This text looks at the ideas of people like Woodward, Hnckel and Meerwein that were to further the realms of chemistry. Sections include: discoveries missed, discoveries made; the Dienone-Phenol mysteries; and meditations on the special convictive power of symmetrization experiments. Jerome A. Berson Chemical Creativity Ideas from the Work of Woodward, Hückel, Meerwein, and Others How did the pioneers in chemistry recognize the fundamental intellectual issues of their time? What skills of reasoning and experiment did they use to solve these problemes? How did the circumstances of personality and competition influence their careers and scientific accomplishments? If we can answer these questions, we may be able to improve our own chances of success in research. »This is a marvelous book of people and chemical ideas! The author, Jerry Berson, is known as a chemical stylist, a physical organic chemist possessed of the highest analytical powers. In a unique approach to the history of chemistry (indeed the history of science) he brings that style, as well as his insider’s knowledge and a perceptive sensivity to the societal setting of chemists, to the analysis of some key chapters in modern organic chemistry.« Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Laureate

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Jerome A. Berson (Auteur) - Verschenen op 22/02/1999 bij John Wiley & Sons Inc.