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Chemical Education Today
Nobel Centennial Essays
A Century of Chemical Dynamics Traced through the Nobel Prizes. 1981: Fukui and Hoffmann
J. Van Houten
Department of Chemistry, Saint Michael's College, Colchester, VT 05439

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June 2002
Vol. 79 No. 6
p. 667

Abstract
The 1981 Nobel Prize was awarded to Kenichi Fukui and Roald Hoffmann "for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions." Those theories, which have come to be known as "frontier orbital theory" and the "Woodward-Hoffmann rules" respectively, remain important tools for predicting the course of organic reactions and they are frequently taught in courses in mechanistic organic chemistry.
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A list of all recipients of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, their affiliations, and work for which the award was made, is available.
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Van Houten, J. J. Chem. Educ. 2002 79 667.
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History / Philosophy; Public Understanding; Physical Chemistry
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