Abstract
This is how Paul von Ragué Schleyer, a physical organic chemist and computational chemist, summarized his most important scientific achievement: “[I] have increased chemists’ awareness, by the examples of my research, of the power of computational methods and of their potential for widespread applications in chemistry.”
Keywords
Paul von Ragué Schleyer Adamantane Computational chemistry 2-Norbornyl cation Carbocations Lithium compounds George A. Olah John A. PopleReferences
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