ReviewChemical record (New York, N.Y.)2025
Woodward and Hoffmann. Hoffmann and Woodward. A Close Collaboration Had Yet to Begin.
Review in Chemical record (New York, N.Y.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Creating a Masterpiece. The Road to (and Beyond) Woodward and Hoffmann's 1969 Angewandte Chemie Treatise.Chemical record (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Review
- Woodward and Hoffmann. Hoffmann and Woodward. A Close Collaboration Had Yet to Begin.Chemical record (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Review
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Abstract
In 1965, R. B. Woodward and Roald Hoffmann published five communications in the Journal of the American Chemical Society in which they outlined the mechanisms of electrocyclizations, cycloadditions, and sigmatropic reactions - today known as the Woodward-Hoffmann rules. Over the next several years, the organic chemistry community rushed to test the validity of the W-H rules and expand the range of reactions covered by them. Meanwhile, Woodward and Hoffmann were besieged with invitations to lecture and write expositions on these concepts. In this publication, I present an analysis of Woodward and Hoffmann's next publications in 1966 and 1967 on the W-H rules. Two of these publications were based on lectures Woodward or Hoffmann presented in late 1965 and 1966. I also discuss their own continuing research on the topic in this time period (all by Hoffmann; none by Woodward). I conclude that the assumed intimate collaboration of Woodward and Hoffmann had actually not yet begun.
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