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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1994

Credits and References for the 1994 Chemistry Nobel Poster


Editors:
Solgerd Björn-Rasmussen and Margareta Wiberg Roland, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Joanna Rose, Stockholm

Author:
 Professor Per Ahlberg, Department of Organic Chemistry, Göteborg University, Sweden, Member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Layout and illustrations:
Kjell Lundin, Explicare, Sweden

Printed by:
Tryckindustri,1994

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Contents:

Introduction »
 George A. Olah gave the cations of carbon longer life »
From idea to long-lived carbocations »
The problem of the non-classical ion »
Protonation of alkanes with superacids »
Exciting carbocation structures »
Further reading »
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