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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1994

Exciting carbocation structures

Many researchers around the world have used superacids for studying carbocations. Today thousands of these cations have been investigated. Many extremely interesting structures have been discovered.

 
   

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 »
Based on materials from the 1994 Nobel Poster for Chemistry.
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