Carbocation Chemistry

GEORGE A. OLAH is the 1994 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. The Director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Distinguished Loker Chair Professor at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles, Dr. Olah has published close to 1,300 papers, authored or coauthored more than twenty books and monographs, and holds more than 100 patents. G. K. SURYA PRAKASH, the George A. and Judith A. Olah Nobel Laureate Chair Professor and Scientific Co-director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute at the University of Southern California, has published 480 papers, coauthored six books, and holds more than a dozen patents.

Preface. 1. Historical Perspective (Peter J. Stang).

2. 100 Years of Carbocations and Their Significance in Chemistry (George A. Olah).

3. Zwitterionic ‘‘Neutral’’ and ‘‘Anionic’’ Carbocation Analogs (Chaitanya S. Wannere, Zhongfang Chen, and Paul von Rague´ Schleyer).

4. Recent Studies of Long-Lived Carbocations and Carbodications (G. K. Surya Prakash and V. Prakash Reddy).

5. Antiaromaticity Effects in Cyclopentadienyl Carbocations and Free Radicals (Annette D. Allen and Thomas T. Tidwell).

6. Long-Lived Carbocations in Cold Siberia (Vyacheslav G. Shubin and Gennady I. Borodkin).

7. Polyfluorinated Carbocations (Vitalij D. Shteingarts).

8. Carbocations, Fast Rearrangement Reactions, and the Isotopic Perturbation Method (Martin Saunders and Olga Kronja).

9. Stable Ion Chemistry of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs); Modeling Electrophiles from Carcinogens (Kenneth K. Laali).

10. Chromium Tricarbonyl–Coordinated Carbocations (Bruce N. Hietbrink, Dean J. Tantillo, Kendall N. Houk, and Craig A. Merlic).

11. Carbocations in Gold Chemistry (Hubert Schmidbaur and Keith A. Porter).

12. Proton Exchange between Strong Acids and Alkanes (Jean Sommer and Alain Goeppert).

13. Electrophilicity Scales for Carbocations (Herbert Mayr and Armin R. Ofial).

14. Organic Synthesis in Superacids (Jean-Claude Jacquesy).

Index.