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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1994

Further reading

George A. Olah, G.K. Surya Prakash and Jean Sommer, Superacids. John Wiley and Sons, New York (1985).

Per Ahlberg, Göran Jonsäll and Carin Engdahl, Degenerate Carbocation Rearrangements. Advances in physical organic chemistry (1983), 19, 223-379.

Information about the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1994 (press release), The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

 

  

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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