Initial commentary will refer to the occasionally stressful emergence of physical organic chemistry as an interdisciplinary field which benefitted greatly from post WWII instrument development.Design of a simple calorimeter in the speaker's laboratory allowed the measurement of solvent-solute interactions over the entire range from weak hydrogen bonding to heats of formation of stable carbonium ions in superacids or of carbanions in superbases.

Some thermochemical studies in the 1960s and 70s

247th National Meeting (2014)

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