Jeffrey I. Seeman

Five Decades of Dispute: A Triptych. E. J. Corey

In the published version of his March 2004 Priestley Medal address, E. J. Corey stated “On May 4, 1964, I suggested to my colleague R. B. Woodward a simple explanation involving the symmetry of the perturbed (HOMO) molecular orbitals for the stereoselective cyclobutene/1,3‐butadi...