Roald Hoffmann, PhD
Affiliations: | Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States |
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Theoretical chemistryWebsite:
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http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3524
http://www.roaldhoffmann.com/
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1981 was awarded jointly to Kenichi Fukui and Roald Hoffmann "for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions"
In 1962 I received my doctorate, as the first Harvard Ph.D. of both Lipscomb and Gouterman.
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Parents
Sign in to add mentor| Robert Earl Ferguson | research assistant | 1955-1956 | National Bureau of Standards | |
| James B. Cumming | research assistant | 1957-1958 | Brookhaven National Lab | |
| (Efficient Low-Level Counting System for C11) | ||||
| Alexander Sergeevich Davydov | research assistant | 1960 | Moscow State University (Physics Tree) | |
| (Project on excitor theory) | ||||
| Martin Gouterman | grad student | 1962 | Harvard | |
| William N. Lipscomb | grad student | 1962 | Harvard | |
| (Theory of Polyhedral Molecules: Second Quantization and Hypochromism in Helices.) | ||||
Children
Sign in to add traineeCollaborators
Sign in to add collaborator| Robert B. Woodward | collaborator | Harvard | ||
| (rules for elucidating reaction mechanisms) | ||||
| Eluvathingal Devassay Jemmis | collaborator | 1978-1980 | Cornell | |
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| Sirianni DA, Song X, Wairegi S, et al. (2023) Variations on the Bergman Cyclization Theme: Electrocyclizations of Ionic Penta-, Hepta-, and Octadiynes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145: 21408-21418 |
| Rahm M, Cammi R, Ashcroft NW, et al. (2021) Correction to "Squeezing All Elements in the Periodic Table: Electron Configuration and Electronegativity of the Atoms under Compression". Journal of the American Chemical Society |
| Cammi R, Rahm M, Hoffmann R, et al. (2020) Varying electronic configurations in compressed atoms: from the role of the spatial extension of atomic orbitals to the change of electronic configuration as an isobaric transformation. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation |
| Elatresh SF, Hossain MT, Bhowmick T, et al. (2020) Fermi surface studies of the low-temperature structure of sodium Physical Review B. 101 |
| McLeod D, Thøgersen MK, Jessen NI, et al. (2019) Expanding the Frontiers of Higher-Order Cycloadditions. Accounts of Chemical Research |
| Stuyver T, Chen B, Zeng T, et al. (2019) Do Diradicals Behave Like Radicals? Chemical Reviews |
| Rahm M, Cammi R, Ashcroft NW, et al. (2019) Squeezing all Elements in the Periodic Table: Electron Configuration and Electronegativity of the Atoms under Compression. Journal of the American Chemical Society |
| Gu J, Wu W, Stuyver T, et al. (2019) Cross Conjugation in Polyenes and Related Hydrocarbons: What Can Be Learned from Valence Bond Theory about Single-Molecule Conductance? Journal of the American Chemical Society |
| Rahm M, Cammi R, Ashcroft NW, et al. (2019) Electron configuration and electronegativity of the atoms under compression Acta Crystallographica Section A. 75 |
| Elatresh SF, Zhou Z, Ashcroft NW, et al. (2019) High-pressure lithium as an elemental topological semimetal Physical Review Materials. 3 |