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Pioneering Ideas for the Physical and Chemical Sciences

Josef Loschmidt’s Contributions and Modern Developments in Structural Organic Chemistry, Atomistics, and Statistical Mechanics

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  1. W. Fleischhacker

    1. Institute for Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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  2. T. Schönfeld

    1. Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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Table of contents (39 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Organic Structural Chemistry

    1. The Significance of the Hydrogen Bond for Physiology

      • Max F. Perutz
      Pages 1-13

    2. Natural Product Structure Elucidation: 1950 → 2000

      • Carl Djerassi
      Pages 15-24

    3. Conformational Analysis

      • Ernest L. Eliel
      Pages 25-39

    4. Thoughts and Experiments on a Chemical Etiology of Nucleic Acid Structure

      • Albert Eschenmoser
      Pages 41-64

    5. Loschmidt’s Graphic Formulae of 1861

      • Alfred Bader
      Pages 65-80

    6. Spheres from Dalton to Loschmidt

      • Günter P. Schiemenz
      Pages 81-87

    7. Josef Loschmidt’s Last Scientific Publication: “Stereochemische Studien I”

      • Christian R. Noe
      Pages 89-99

    8. Richard Anschütz, Archibald Scott Couper, and Josef Loschmidt

      • Alfred Bader
      Pages 101-107

    9. Organic Chemistry in Austria and Loschmidt’s “Chemische Studien”

      • Robert Rosner
      Pages 109-118

    10. Loschmidt and Venn

      • Ian D. Rae
      Pages 119-127

    11. Loschmidt’s Achievements and Shortcomings in Elucidating the Structure of Organic Molecules

      • Raluca-Silvia Moraru, Edwin Scheiber
      Pages 129-131

    12. Configurational Stability and Reactions of Benzylic Carbanions with an Acyloxy or Dialkylphosphoryloxy Substituent

      • Friedrich Hammerschmidt, Achim Hanninger
      Pages 133-138
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About this book

This volume presents the contributions delivered at the "Josef-Loschmidt-Sympo­ sium," which took place in Vienna, June 25-27, 1995. The symposium was arranged to honor Josef Loschmidt one hundred years after his death (8 July 1895), to evaluate the sig­ nificance of his contributions to chemistry and physics from a modem point of view and to trace the development of scientific fields in which he had done pioneering work. Loschmidt is widely known for the first calculation of the size of molecules (1865/66), which also led to values for the number of molecules in unit gas volume and for the mass of molecules. With critical analyses of problems in statistical physics he made important contributions to the development of that field, "Loschmidt's paradoxon" continuing to be a point of departure for present day studies and discussions. For decades there was little awareness that Loschmidt was a pioneer in organic struc­ tural chemistry. Only in recent years has Loschmidt's first scientific publication "Chemis­ che Studien I", published in 1861, become more widely known and it is now recognized that with his ideas on the structure of organic molecules he was greatly ahead of the chemists of that time. The papers in these proceedings are arranged in three sections: l. Organic structural chemistry (Chapters 1-12). 2. Physics and physical chemistry (Chapters 13-26). 3. Loschmidt's biography, Loschmidt's world (Chapters 27-33).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    W. Fleischhacker

  • Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    T. Schönfeld

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pioneering Ideas for the Physical and Chemical Sciences

  • Book Subtitle: Josef Loschmidt’s Contributions and Modern Developments in Structural Organic Chemistry, Atomistics, and Statistical Mechanics

  • Editors: W. Fleischhacker, T. Schönfeld

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0268-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45684-8Published: 31 December 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0270-2Published: 29 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0268-9Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 320

  • Topics: Organic Chemistry, Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics

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