Symmetry and topology in chemical reactivity / Pieter E. Schipper.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chemical reactivity -- Reaction paths -- Spatial symmetry -- Structure symmetry -- CSR procedure -- CSR applications -- Formal electronic control -- Practical QSR procedure -- The CPMO potential -- Additions -- Inorganic rearrangements -- Substitutions.

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This well-illustrated book develops, using only the ideas of basic quantum chemistry (e.g. perturbation and symmetry theory), a fundamental conceptual and theoretical framework for chemical reactivity. By feeding the role of symmetry and chemical group topology directly into the development, the analysis generates and explains the successful features of simpler reactivity theories (e.g. frontier orbital theory, the isolobal concept, PMO theory, the Woodward-Hoffmann rules), as well as defines their limitations. The unifying construct is that of a group-resolved correlation diagram, which is sh.

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