Olah G.A. - A Life of Magic Chemistry (2001)(en)
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260 A L I F E O F M A G I C C H E M I S T R Y
Chemistry of Energetic Materials (ed. with Squire), Academic Press, 1991.
Electron-Deficient Boron and Carbon Clusters (ed. with Wade and Williams), 1991.
Synthetic Fluorine Chemistry (ed. with Chambers and Prakash), 1992.
Hydrocarbon Chemistry (with Molnar), 1995.
Onium Ions (with Laali, Wang, and Prakash), 1998.
Research Across Conventional Lines, Collection of papers of George Olah and Commentary (ed. with Prakash), World Scientific Publ., Singapore, 2001 (in press).
Index
Acetyl cation, 193 protosolvated, 194
Acyl cations, 193
Adams, Roger, opposition to carbocation concept, 56, 75
Adamson, Douglas, graduate student, 247
Adler, George, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Alchemy
quest for making gold, 24 quest for knowledge, 24
Alemayehu, Mesfin, graduate student, 247
Alkylation(s), of isobutylene to isooctane, 102
acid catalyzed, 163 Alkyl fluorides
complex with SbF5, 77 conductivity of, 77 NMR study of , 77 – 78
American Chemical Society Awards, 70, 255
Aniszfeld, Robert graduate student, 247 colleague, 123
Anthropic principle, 14 Antimony pentafluoride, 100
in the preparation of persistent carbocations, 76 – 80
Arany Janos, Hungarian poet, 43 Aristotle, 23
Arnett, E. M. (Ned), 124
calormetric studies of norbornyl cation, 143
Arrhenius, Svante
CO2 as cause of atmospheric warming, 216
on extraterrestrial life, 16 Nobel Prize in chemistry, 216
Arvanaghi, Massoud, graduate student, 247
Asensio, Greg, postdoctoral fellow, 90
Atomic theory, 32 Atoms, Greek concept, 8
Bach, J. S., on symmetry, 19 Bach, Thorsten, postdoctoral
fellow, 247
Bacon, Francis, scientific method, 5 Bacon, Roger, philosopher’s stone,
25
Baeyer, A. von, 30
Nobel Prize in chemistry, 73 triphenylmethyl cation, 73
Bagno, Alessandro, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Baker, E. B., NMR study of carbocations, 78
Baldeschwieler, John, 89 Bartlett, Paul D.
defining non-classical ions, 140 early development of modern
carbocation chemistry, 75 Harvard seminars, 84
261
262 INDEX
Bartlett, Paul D. (Continued ) recommendation for Cleveland,
85 Barton, D.
Nobel Prize in chemistry, 36 synthetic methodology, 36
Barzaghi, Mario, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Batamack, Patrice, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Bau, Robert, 124
Bausch, Joseph, graduate student, 247
Bekesy, George von
need for good enemies, 146 Nobel Prize in medicine, 146 Bellew, Donald, graduate student,
247
Benson, Sidney, 120 invitation from, 109
Bergius, F., coal liquefaction, 132 Bergman, Robert G.
C-H or C-C activation, 167 Nobel Prize in chemistry, 132 Berrier, Arthur, graduate student,
247
Berson, Jerome A., former faculty member at USC, 110
Berzelius, J. J., 30 Bodanszky, Miklos, faculty
colleague in Cleveland, 85 Bodis, Jeno, postdoctoral fellow,
247 Bohlmann, F., 61
Bohr, Neils, atomic model, 9, 31, 32
Bollinger, Marty, postdoctoral fellow, 90
Bonding, two-electron three-center, 156
Boyle, Robert gas law, 26
Sceptical Chymist, 26 Brookhaven Reaction Mechanism
Conference, 81
Brouwer, D. M., contribution to carbocations, 82
Brown, Herbert. C.
Nobel Prize in chemistry, 138 2-norbornyl cation controversy,
138 – 140
opposing non-classical ions, 138 – 139
photo with George Olah and Heinz Staab, 145
structure of diborane 156 Bruce, Mark, graduate student, 90
Brunck, Jorg-Stephan, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Bucholz, Herwig, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Bucsi, Imre, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Budapest, 38 birth city, 38
destruction of, 45 Technical University, 47
Bukala, Jozef, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Bunsen, R., 30
Burrichter, Arwed, graduate student, 247
Butlerov, A., 30, 154 Butyl(tert) cation
INDOR technique in the observation of, 78
isolelectronic with trimethylboron, 80
NMR study, 78
Cacace, Fulvio, 245
Calin, Michael, postdoctoral fellow, 90
Caltech-JPL, fuel cell cooperation, 253
Camphene hydrochloride, rearrangement, 74
Canada, emigration to, 84 failure for academic
appointment, 84
INDEX 263
Canada, emigration to (Continued ) industrial work, 84
Carbocations alkyl cations, 76
tert-amyl cation, 80 tert-butyl carbocation, 76 early research at Dow, 69
extended studies in Cleveland, 93
five and hypercoordinate nonclassical, 148
isopropyl cation, 80
long-lived in superacidic systems, 75
trivalent classical, 148 varied, 95
Carbon hypercoordinate, 147
role in electrophilic chemistry, 147
Carbon dioxide
chemical recycling, 205
effect on global warming, 205 increase in atmosphere, 216
Carbonic acid, protonated, 196 Carbonylation, of dimethyl ether,
193 Carboranes, 161
Carboxonium ions, 195
Carl Gustaf XVI, king of Sweden, 180
presenting the Nobel Prize, 150, 182
Casanova, Joseph, 124, 171 Cationic, Inc., 253 Cavendish, H., hydrogen
(inflammable air), 27 CH5 , 159
by protonation of CH4, 163 Chadwick, J., atomic model, 9 Chambers, Richard, 245 Chandrasekhar, Subramanyan
black holes, 227
Nobel Prize in physics, 227 Chemical bonding (bond), 21
Chemical Research Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 60
Chemistry analytical, 22 branches of, 22 central science, 21 definition of, 21 early, 22 emergence of, 22
emergence of atomic concept of, 21
inorganic, 22 organic, 22 physical, 22 theoretical, 22
varied hyphenated branches, 22 Choy, Reiko, secretary, 115, 171,
173 Christe, Karl
colleague, 124
X-ray of oxonium salts, 190 Chun, Young-Gab, postdoctoral
fellow, 247
Clark, David, ESCA studies of ions, 143
Clifford, Paul, postdoctoral fellow, 90
Clinton, Hillary, remarks at White House, 173
Clinton, William, president, 173 Clouet, Gilbert, postdoctoral
fellow, 247 Coals, 131
hydrogenation of, 132 liquefaction of, 132
Comisarow, Melvin, graduate student, 89, 90
Commeyras, August carbocation-borane analogy,
156
postdoctoral fellow, 90 Comte, August, on history of
science, 5
264 INDEX
Conant, James
naming of superacids, 96 organic chemist, and Harvard’s president, 233
Cope, Arthur C. award, 187 Copernicus, N., celestial
mechanics, 8 Corey, Elias J.
Nobel Prize in chemistry, 36 retrosynthesis, 36
Cotton, F. A., metal-metal bonding, 36
Cotton metal (photo), 256 Couper, A. S., 30, 154 Cracking, of hydrocarbons, 163 Cram, Donald J.
Nobel Prize in chemistry, 151 phenonium ions, 151
Creation, according to Book of Genesis, 13
Crick, Francis
DNA, 19
Nobel Prize in medicine, 37 Cristol, Stanley J., 245
Cupas, Chris, postodoctoral fellow 89
Cyclopropane
corner protonated, 149 edge protonated, 149
Cyclopropylcarbinyl cation, nonclassical, 148
Dalton, J., 32 atomic theory, 28
Dalton, Larry, colleague, 124 polymer and materials
chemisitry, 135 Darwinian evolution, 17
Davy, Humphry, hydrochloric acid, 28
Deffieux, Denis, postdoctoral fellow, 247
DeMember, Jack, postdoctoral fellow, 90, 156
Democracy, meaning of, 4
Democritus, mechanical atomic hypothesis, 23
Denis, Jean-Marc, postdoctoral fellow, 90
Dewar, M. J. S., contribution to carbocations, 75
Dinosaurs, extinction of, 13 Dirac, P., 32
Doggweiler, Hans, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Donovan, Daniel, graduate student, 90, 247
Doraty, A., conductor, 44
Dow Chemical Co., working for, 66, 82
Dumas, J., substitution reaction, 29
Dunbar, Robert, colleague in Cleveland, 85
Dunne, Ken, postdoctoral fellow, 90
Dyatkina, M. E., on quantum theory, 36
Edelson, Ed., postdoctoral fellow, 247
Edler, Ronald, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Einstein, Albert on chance, 16
general relativity, 8
on quantum theory, 35 refrigerator patent, 53 on science, 5 space-time, 8
twentieth century science, 19 Electrophilic reactions, of alkanes,
164
Elements, formation of, 1 Ellis, Robert, graduate student,
247 Energy
consumption, 206 sources of, 206
Environment, hazards of, 2
INDEX 265
Eotvos, Lorand, Hungarian physicist, 41
Ernst, Thomas, postdoctoral fellow, 247
ESCA of 2-norbornyl cation, 144 Escher, M., on symmetry, 19 Ethylene-halonium ion, 151 Etzkorn, Markus, postdoctoral
fellow, 247
Euclid, fifth axiom geometry, 8 Evans, John, colleague at Dow, 79 Extinction
of dinosaurs, 17 of species, 17
Extraterrestrial life, 16
Fackler, John, colleague in Cleveland, 86
Faraday, M., 30
Farnia, Morteza, graduate student, 247
Farooq, Omar, graduate student, 247
Faust, interrelationship of alchemy with humanities and economics, 18
Felberg, Jeff, graduate student, 247 Fermi, Enrico
Nobel Prize in physics, 54, 177 Fessner, Wolf-Dieter, postdoctoral
fellow, 247
Feyerabend, P., on falsification, 10 Feyman, Richard, Physics lectures,
240 Field, Leslie
carbocation-borane analogy, 81, 156
postdoctoral fellow, 247 Fieser, L., Organic Reagents, 236 Fischer, Ernst Otto
Nobel Prize in chemistry, 36 organometallic chemistry, 36
Fischer, Emil H.
Academic grandfather, 53 enzyme action, 36
founder of biochemistry, 36 natural products, 225
Nobel Prize in chemistry, 30, 51 school of natural product
chemistry, 36 Fischer-Tropsch chemistry, 132
Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, 210, 211 Fluorination, reagents for, 104 Fluorine compounds, research on,
54, 103 Fluoroantimonic acid, 98
Forstmeyer, Dietmar, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Forsyth, David, postdoctoral fellow, 90
Fossil fuels, 127, 221 diminishing reserves, 226
Fox, William, Hungarian-born film-maker, 44
Frankland, E., valency, 30 Franklin, Carl, 175
friend and supporter, 114, 232 photo, 115
Franklin, Caroline, 175
Franklin, Rosalind, X-ray of DNA, 37
Fredga, Kerstin
photo with George Olah, 178 President, Swedish Academy of
Sciences, 177 Friedel-Crafts chemistry, 55,
57 – 58, 76 books on, 69, 259
Frohlich, Stephan, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Fu, Xiangkai, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Fuel cell
comparison with batteries, 215 concept, 214 – 215
direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC), 214, 219 invention by Grove, 176
regenerative, 220
Fung, Alex, graduate student, 247
266 INDEX
Gabor, Denis
Hungarian-born physicist, 222 Nobel Prize in physics, 47, 222 Galileo, G., celestial mechanics, 8 Garcia-Luna, Armando, graduate
student, 247
Gassman, P., nonclassical 2- norbornen-7-yl cation, 160
Gatterman reaction, 198 Gatterman, L., laboratory text
book 48
Gay-Lussac, J. L., gas-law, 29 Gell-Mann, Murray
Nobel Prize in physics, 10 on scientific proof, 10, 11 George, Helmut, postdoctoral
fellow, 247 Gerhardt, C., 31
Germain, Alain, postdoctoral fellow, 90
Gillespie, Ronald, 64 contributions to superacid
chemistry, 96
Gladysz, John, formyl cation, 196 Global temperature change, 216 God, different meaning of, 4, 13 Go¨ del, Kurt, incompleteness
theorem, 14 Goethe, J. W.
author of Faust, 24 interest in science, 18
Gold, Victor, 245
Gomberg, M., triarymethyl radical, 73
Gore, Albert Jr., 173 Graduate students
in Cleveland, 91
in Los Angeles, 247
Grant, James, graduate student, 91 Gray, Harry, 187
Grdina, Mary Jo, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Greek atomists, 8 Greenhouse effect
caused by CO2, 216
caused by greenhouse gases, 215 Gronovitz, Salo, chairman of the
Nobel Chemistry committee, 179 Grove, William, inventor of the
fuel cell, 213, 219
Gupta, Balaram, graduate student, 91
Guyo, Paul M., postdoctoral fellow, 247
H3 , 101
structure of, 149
Ha, Dong-Soo, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Hachoumy, Mahommed, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Halonium ions, 198 alkylations with, 104 preparation of, 103
Halpern, Yuval, postdoctoral fellow, 90
Hamanaka, Sawako, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Hammett, Louis, electronic theory, 34
Handley, Judith, graduate student, 247
Harper, Aaron, colleague in polymer and materials chemistry, 123, 135
Harsanyi, John
Hungarian-born economist, 177 Nobel Prize in economics, 177
Hartz, Nickolas, graduate student, 247
Hashimoto, Iwao, postdoctoral fellow, 90
Hashimoto, Toshihiko, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Haszeldine, Robert, 64 Haw, James, colleague, 124 Hawking, Stephen, physical
theories as mathematical models, 10
INDEX 267
Head, Nicholas, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Heagy, Michael, graduate student, 247
Heidelberger, Charles, fluorinated anticancer drugs, 59
Heiliger, Ludgar, graduate student, 247
Heiner, Thomas, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Heisenberg, W., electron exchange, 35
Heither, W., electron exchange, 35 Herges, Rainer, postdoctoral fellow,
247
Herzberg, Gerhardt
Nobel Prize in chemistry, 66 Hevesy, George
Hungarian-born chemist, 184 Nobel Prize in chemistry, 41, 47,
222
Ho, Tse Lok, postdoctoral fellow, 90, 236
Hogen-Esch, Thieo faculty colleague, 123 polymers, 135
Hogeveen, H.
CH5 , 159 contributions to the
carbocations, 82 (Me)6C2 dication, 159
Homo sapiens, emergence of, 17 Hooke, R., chemical affinity, 26 Horimoto, Hideaki, postdoctoral
fellow, 247
Horvath, I., formyl cation, 196 Houben-Hoesch reaction, 198 Hovorka, Frank, faculty colleague
in Cleveland, 85
Howard, Leslie, Hungarian-born actor, 44
Hubbard, John, president of USC, 110
Hughes, Edward, 64 carbocationic intermediates, 74
SN1 and E1 reactions, foundation for carbocationic intermediates, 74
Huisgen, Rolf, 69, 245 photo, 206
Huisgen, Trudl, 245 (photo), 246 Humboldt University, visit of
Fischer’s laboratories, 61 Hunadi, Ron, postdoctoral fellow,
247
Hungarian Revolution, 62 Hungarian State Award, 243 Hungary, homeland, 38
escape from, 84 research in, 47 – 48 visiting, 242
Husain, Altaf, graduate student, 247
Huxley, Thomas, 227 agnosticism, 14
Hwang, JePil, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Hydrocarbon Research Institute, at USC, 87, 111
Hydrocarbons classes of, 127 as fuels, 225
environmental challenges, 205 – 221
scope, 126
societal challenges, 205 – 221 Hydronium ion, 190 Hypercarbon chemistry, 34, 153
book, 156
future significance, 167 Hyperconjugation, in carbocations,
150 Hypercoordination, 159 HZSM-5, 201
solid acid catalyst, 164
Iatrochemists, 25 Illuminati, Gabriello, 245
Inaba, Shin-ichi, postdoctoral fellow, 247
268 INDEX
Ingold, Christopher K., 64 pioneer of electronic theory of
organic chemistry, 34, 55 SN1 and E1 reactions, basis for
carbocationic intermediates, 74
visiting Dow, 69, 82
Ip, Wai, Man, graduate student, 247
IR studies of carbocations, 81 Isomerization
of alkanes in superacids, 163 of hydrocarbons, 101
Isooctane, industrial preparation, 165
Isobutylene-isobutane alkylation, 102
IUPAC
congress in London, 71 congress in Zurich, 61
Iyer, Pradeep, graduate student, 247
Joschek, Jens, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Juell, Charles, postdoctoral fellow, 90
Kagan, H., asymmetric synthesis, 36
Kamen, Martin, 111
Kant, I. a priori concept, 8 Kaprieliam, Zohrab, executive vice
president of USC, 110 – 112 Karman, Theodor von, Hungarian-
born scientist, 41, 47 Karpeles, Richard, graduate
student, 247
Kashimura, Shigenori, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Kaspi, Josef, postdoctoral fellow, 90
Katritzky, Alan, 65 Kehrman, F., triphenylmethyl
cation, 73
Kekule, F. A.
benzene structure, 153
concept of carbon tetravalency, 30, 34, 153
dreams, 153
Kelly, David, postdoctoral fellow, 90
Kemeny, John, Hungarian-born mathematician, 222
Kepler, J., celestial mechanics, 8 Keumi, Takashi, postdoctoral
fellow, 247
Keyaniyan, Schahab, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Kharash, M., 156
King’s College, London, offer of Daniell Chair, 109
Kisfaludy, Lajos, Hungarian colleague, 55
Kitaigorodsky, A. I., 62 Klopman, Gilles
calculation of CH4 with, 160 computation of CH5 with, 157 faculty colleague in Cleveland,
85
Klumpp, Douglas, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Knieler, Roland, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Knowledge, of the physical world, 5
Kobayashi, Shiro, postdoctoral fellow, 90
Koch-Haaf reaction, 165 Kochi, Jay, faculty colleague in
Cleveland, 86, 187 Kolbe, H., 30
Komppa, Gustav, camphene synthesis, 52
Korda, Alexander, Hungarian filmmaker, 44
Kotian, Kitu, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Kovsky, Tom, postdoctoral fellow, 90
INDEX 269
Krass, Norbert, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Kreinenbuhl, Paul, postdoctoral fellow, 90
Krishnamurthy, V. V., postdoctoral fellow, 247
Krishnamurti, Ramesh, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Kroll, Manfred, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Ku, Alice, graduate student, 91 Kuhn, Steve, colleague and
collaborator in Hungary and at Dow, 54, 66
Kuhn, Thomas, 13 falsification, 10
normal science, 2, 5, 233 revolutionary science, 7, 18, 225
Kyoto protocol, 217
Laali, Khosrow, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Lambert, Christian, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Lammertsma, Koop computation of CH62 , 157 postdoctoral fellow, 247
Landin, Bengt, painter of Nobel diploma, 179
Langmuir, I.
Nobel Prize in chemistry, 33, 155
Laube, Thomas associate, 247
X-ray structural study of 2- norbornyl cation, 144
Lavoisier, A., 6
books on chemistry, 28 execution, 28
rejection of phlogiston theory, 27 Lazzaro, Anthony, USC vice
president, 118
Lecoq, Jean-Claude, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Lee, Chang-Soo, graduate student, 247
Leffer, Kenneth, book on Ingold, 109
Lehnhoff, Stefan, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Lengyel, Judy (wedding photos), 49, 50
Lewis, G. N.
electron pair bonding, 33 rule of eight, 155
Li, Xing-ya, postdoctoral fellow, 247
Liang, Gao, graduate student, 91 Liao, Qimu, postdoctoral fellow,
247
Liebig, J., alchemy as early chemistry, 25
Lin, Henry, graduate student, 91 Lin, Johnny, postdoctoral fellow,
90
Lipscomb, William
multicenter bonding in boron compounds, 148
Nobel Prize in chemistry, 34, 82, 156
Liszt, Franz, Hungarian-born composer, 44
Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, 252
establishing of, 108 – 126 objectives of, 125
Loker, Donald, benefactor and supporter, 114 – 115
photos, 114, 116 Loker, Katherine, 175
benefactor and supporter, 114, 232
Katherine Bagdanovich Loker
Wing of the Institute, 119 photo, 120
photos, 114, 116
London, F., electron exchange, 35 Los Angeles, move to, 108