ChemInform Abstract: Generation and Chemical Trapping of a Bis(ethano) Derivative of Tricyclo(3.3.0.03,7)oct‐1(5)‐ene: The Consummate Member of a Series of Pyramidalized Alkenes.

Branan, Bruce M.; Paquette, L. A.; Hrovat, David A.; Borden, W. T.

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“…117,122 The reactions of 35a and 35b were both found to be consistent with predictions 123,125 that pyramidalized double bonds have very low-lying LUMOs. This prediction was also confirmed by the spectroscopy 126 and the chemistry 127 of members of the homologous series of pyramidalized alkenes 33, n = 0À3. 115 Phil Eaton Asks My Group To Perform Calculations on 1,4-Dehydrocubane and on Cubyl Cation.…”

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With a Little Help from My Friends: Forty Years of Fruitful Chemical Collaborations

Borden

2011

J. Org. Chem.

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A former colleague of mine at the University of Washington once told me, only half-jokingly, "You do a lot of collaborative research, and I think the reason for its success is that you are brave enough to choose as your collaborators people who are better chemists than you." Looking back over the past 40 years of my career, I have, indeed, had an unusually large number of research collaborations, and they have, in fact, been successful, largely because my collaborators have all been talented chemists who had expertise that I lacked.These collaborations have come about in several ways. In some cases, an experimentalist has asked my research group to perform calculations. On other occasions, I have sought collaborators outside of my own research group when I needed help, usually experimental but sometimes computational, in testing a prediction. I have also had research collaborations begin when I was on sabbatical or when Professors from other universities spent sabbaticals in my research group, usually with the goal of learning how to do electronic structure calculations.This Perspective allows me to thank at least a few of my many collaborators over the past 40 years by recounting how their contributions made it possible for me to do research that I probably would not have been able to do on my own. This Perspective also gives me the opportunity to give some examples of the synergism between theory and experiments in my research and to acknowledge the important role that serendipity has played throughout my career, but particularly in the collaborative projects that are the focus of this Perspective. I have been lucky in having had puzzling experimental and computational results brought to my attention at times when I had the knowledge and/or computational resources that were necessary in order to explain those results. I have also been very fortunate in knowing experimentalists and theoreticians who were willing to collaborate with me on experiments and calculations that were of interest to me, but which I could not have readily done on my own.Serendipity has also played a different kind of role in my research. When I have been working on finding the solution to a specific problem, my research has frequently led me to the solution of a problem of much broader scope. I attribute my good fortune, at least in part, to my compulsive habit of persistently asking myself the question, "Why is that?" when I am presented with an experimental or computational result that I do not understand.I have divided this Perspective into eight major sections, each of which describes a different area of my research during the past 40 years, in which collaborations have played an important role. Rather than reading this Perspective in its entirety, some readers may prefer to be selective and peruse just a few of the eight sections. The sections cover my collaborative research on (1) hydrocarbons containing unsaturatively 1,3-bridged cyclobutane rings, (2) the use of orbital topology for predicting the ground states of diradicals, (3)...

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“…This prediction was also confirmed by the spectroscopy 126 and the chemistry 127 of members of the homologous series of pyramidalized alkenes 33, n = 0À3.…”

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ChemInform Abstract: Generation and Chemical Trapping of a Bis(ethano) Derivative of Tricyclo(3.3.0.03,7)oct‐1(5)‐ene: The Consummate Member of a Series of Pyramidalized Alkenes.

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