My life in science has pretty much focused on physical organic chemistry. The topics have included novel aromatic molecules--the cyclopropenyl cations and cyclopropenone--and also antiaromaticity in the 4 pi-electron species including cyclopropenyl anions, cyclobutadiene, and cyclopentadienyl cation. Electrochemistry was an important tool, and esr spectroscopy to detect triplet ground states in symmetrical antiaromatics. We showed that aromaticity added resistance to molecular wires, so non-aromatic wires have higher conductivities. We showed the mechanism by which thiamine pyrophosphate catalyzes important biochemical processes with an intermediate nucleophilic carbene. We devised artificial enzymes and explored hydrophobicity; this furnished a tool to discover the geometries of transition states. We determined some enzyme mechanisms, and experimentally showed a scheme for the way that prebiotic chemistry could have formed L-amino acids and D-sugars. We devised a group of novel catalytic polymers, and also a new anticancer compound with a novel mechanism.
...MoreBook E. Thomas Strom; Vera V. Mainz (2016) The Foundations of Physical Organic Chemistry: Fifty Years of the James Flack Norris Award.
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