Standout Papers

The Conservation of Orbital Symmetry 1965 2026 1985 2005 3.2k
  1. The Conservation of Orbital Symmetry (1969)
    R. B. Woodward, Roald Hoffmann Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English
  2. Interaction of orbitals through space and through bonds (1971)
    Roald Hoffmann Accounts of Chemical Research
  3. Orbital interactions in metal dimer complexes (1975)
    P. Jeffrey Hay, Jack C. Thibeault et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society
  4. Die Erhaltung der Orbitalsymmetrie (1969)
    R. B. Woodward, Roald Hoffmann Angewandte Chemie
  5. Stereochemistry of Electrocyclic Reactions (1965)
    R. B. Woodward, Roald Hoffmann Journal of the American Chemical Society
  6. Building Bridges Between Inorganic and Organic Chemistry (Nobel Lecture) (1982)
    Roald Hoffmann Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English
  7. Structure and chemistry of bis(cyclopentadienyl)-MLn complexes (1976)
    Joseph W. Lauher, Roald Hoffmann Journal of the American Chemical Society
  8. Theory of Polyhedral Molecules. I. Physical Factorizations of the Secular Equation (1962)
    Roald Hoffmann, William N. Lipscomb The Journal of Chemical Physics
  9. The band structure of the tetracyanoplatinate chain (1978)
    Myung‐Hwan Whangbo, Roald Hoffmann Journal of the American Chemical Society
  10. A chemical and theoretical way to look at bonding on surfaces (1988)
    Roald Hoffmann Reviews of Modern Physics
  11. Potential high- T c superconducting lanthanum and yttrium hydrides at high pressure (2017)
    Hanyu Liu, Ivan I. Naumov et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  12. Benzynes, dehydroconjugated molecules, and the interaction of orbitals separated by a number of intervening sigma bonds (1968)
    Roald Hoffmann, Akira Imamura et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society
  13. What Do the Kohn−Sham Orbitals and Eigenvalues Mean? (1999)
    Ralf Stowasser, Roald Hoffmann Journal of the American Chemical Society
  14. Transition metal pentacoordination (1975)
    Angelo R. Rossi, Roald Hoffmann Inorganic Chemistry
  15. Planar tetracoordinate carbon (1970)
    Roald Hoffmann, Roger W. Alder et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society
  16. How Chemistry and Physics Meet in the Solid State (1987)
    Roald Hoffmann Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English
  17. Conservation of orbital symmetry (1968)
    Roald Hoffmann, R. B. Woodward Accounts of Chemical Research
  18. Carbon-hydrogen and hydrogen-hydrogen activation in transition metal complexes and on surfaces (1984)
    Jean Yves Saillard, Roald Hoffmann Journal of the American Chemical Society
  19. Bonding capabilities of transition metal carbonyl fragments (1975)
    M. Elian, Roald Hoffmann Inorganic Chemistry
  20. Copper(I)-copper(I) interactions. Bonding relationships in d10-d10 systems (1978)
    Prem K. Mehrotra, Roald Hoffmann Inorganic Chemistry
  21. Boron Hydrides: LCAO—MO and Resonance Studies (1962)
    Roald Hoffmann, William N. Lipscomb The Journal of Chemical Physics
  22. Brücken zwischen Anorganischer und Organischer Chemie (Nobel‐Vortrag) (1982)
    Roald Hoffmann Angewandte Chemie
  23. Chains of trans-edge-sharing molybdenum octahedra: metal-metal bonding in extended systems (1983)
    Timothy Hughbanks, Roald Hoffmann Journal of the American Chemical Society
  24. Tetrahedral and other M2L6 transition metal dimers (1976)
    Richard H. Summerville, Roald Hoffmann Journal of the American Chemical Society
  25. Trimethylene and the addition of methylene to ethylene (1968)
    Roald Hoffmann Journal of the American Chemical Society
  26. CpM(CO)2(ligand) (Cp = cyclopentadienyl, M = metal) complexes (1979)
    Birgitte E. R. Schilling, Roald Hoffmann et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society
  27. Comparative bonding study of conical fragments (1976)
    M. Elian, Maynard M. L. Chen et al. Inorganic Chemistry
  28. Orbital Symmetries and endo-exo Relationships in Concerted Cycloaddition Reactions (1965)
    Roald Hoffmann, R. B. Woodward Journal of the American Chemical Society
  29. Reductive Elimination of d8-Organotransition Metal Complexes (1981)
    Kazuyuki Tatsumi, Roald Hoffmann et al. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
  30. Conjugated one and two dimensional polymers (1979)
    Myung‐Hwan Whangbo, Roald Hoffmann et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences
  31. Do Diradicals Behave Like Radicals? (2019)
    Thijs Stuyver, Bo Chen et al. Chemical Reviews
  32. Extended hückel theory—v (1966)
    Roald Hoffmann Tetrahedron
  33. Ethylene complexes. Bonding, rotational barriers, and conformational preferences (1979)
    Thomas A. Albright, Roald Hoffmann et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society
  34. Conformational preferences and rotational barriers in polyene-ML3 transition metal complexes (1977)
    Thomas A. Albright, Peter Hofmann et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society
  35. Theory of Polyhedral Molecules. III. Population Analyses and Reactivities for the Carboranes (1962)
    Roald Hoffmann, William N. Lipscomb The Journal of Chemical Physics
  36. The olefin insertion reaction (1978)
    David L. Thorn, Roald Hoffmann Journal of the American Chemical Society
  37. Cope rearrangement revisited (1971)
    Roald Hoffmann, Wolf D. Stohrer Journal of the American Chemical Society
  38. Extended Hückel Theory. III. Compounds of Boron and Nitrogen (1964)
    Roald Hoffmann The Journal of Chemical Physics
  39. The norcaradiene - cycloheptatriene equilibrium (1970)
    Roald Hoffmann Tetrahedron Letters
  40. Stabilizing a singlet methylene (1968)
    Rolf Gleiter, Roald Hoffmann Journal of the American Chemical Society
  41. Detailed orbital theory of substituent effects. Charge transfer, polarization, and the methyl group (1974)
    Roald Hoffmann et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society
  42. Reductive elimination and isomerization of organogold complexes. Theoretical studies of trialkylgold species as reactive intermediates (1976)
    Sanshiro Komiya, Thomas A. Albright et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society
  43. Molecular orbital theory of pentacoordinate phosphorus (1972)
    Roald Hoffmann, James M. Howell et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society
  44. Organometallic migration reactions (1978)
    Heinz Berke, Roald Hoffmann Journal of the American Chemical Society
  45. Triple-decker sandwiches (1976)
    Joseph W. Lauher, M. Elian et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society
  46. Transition-metal complexed olefins: how their reactivity toward a nucleophile relates to their electronic structure (1981)
    Odile Eisenstein, Roald Hoffmann Journal of the American Chemical Society
  47. Strong conformational consequences of hyperconjugation (1972)
    Roald Hoffmann, Leo Radom et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society
  48. Bond-stretch isomerism and polytopal rearrangements in (CH)5+, (CH)5-, and (CH)4CO (1972)
    Wolf D. Stohrer, Roald Hoffmann Journal of the American Chemical Society
  49. Platinum(0)-platinum(0) dimers. Bonding relationships in a d10-d10 system (1978)
    Alain Dedieu, Roald Hoffmann Journal of the American Chemical Society
  50. Valence orbitals of cyclobutane (1971)
    Roald Hoffmann et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society
  51. M3L9(ligand) complexes (1979)
    Birgitte E. R. Schilling, Roald Hoffmann Journal of the American Chemical Society
  52. Effect of ligand asymmetry on the structure and reactivity of CpMLL'(allyl) (Cp = cyclopentadienyl, M = metal, L = ligand) and -(ethylene) complexes (1979)
    Birgitte E. R. Schilling, Roald Hoffmann et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society
  53. Seven-coordination. A molecular orbital exploration of structure, stereochemistry, and reaction dynamics (1977)
    Roald Hoffmann, E. L. Muetterties et al. Inorganic Chemistry
  54. Bent cis d0 MoO22+ vs. linear trans d0f0 UO22+: a significant role for nonvalence 6p orbitals in uranyl (1980)
    Kazuyuki Tatsumi, Roald Hoffmann Inorganic Chemistry
  55. Interaction of nonconjugated double bonds (1970)
    Roald Hoffmann, E. Heilbronner et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society
  56. Qualitative discussion of alternative coordination modes of diatomic ligands in transition metal complexes (1977)
    Roald Hoffmann, Maynard M. L. Chen et al. Inorganic Chemistry

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