Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-t7fkt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-27T14:34:41.375Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Representation in Chemistry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

R. Hoffmann  and
P. Laszlo
R. Hoffmann
Affiliation:
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
P. Laszlo
Affiliation:
École polytechnique, Palaiseau
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Chemical structures are among the trademarks of our profession, as surely chemical as flasks, beakers and distillation columns. When someone sees one of us busily scribbling formulas or structures, he or she has no trouble identifying a chemist. Yet these familiar objects, which accompany our work from start to end, from the initial doodlings (Fig. I) to the final polished artwork in a publication (Fig. II), are deceptively simple. They raise interesting and difficult questions about representation. It is the intent of this article to reflect upon molecular graphics.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 37 , Issue 147 , September 1989 , pp. 23 - 51
Copyright
Copyright © 1989 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

References

Birkinshaw, T.N., Tabor, A.B.. Holmes, A.B.. Kaye, P.. Mayne, P.M.. and Raithby, P.R., preceding communicationGoogle Scholar
Dauben, W.G. and Bunce, R.A., J Org Chem. 1982, 47, 5042CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bnsse, F., Thoraval, D., and Chan, T.H., Can J Chem. 1986 64. 739Google Scholar
Kirby, A.J., ‘The Anomeric Effect and Related Stereoelectronic Effects at Oxygen’. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1983, Brown, K.L., Damm, L., Dunitz, J.D., Eschenmoser, A., Hobi, R., and Kratky, C., Helv, Chim Acia, 1978, 61, 3108; Kruse, L.I., DeBrosse, C.W., and Kruse, C.H., J Am Chem. Soc, 1985, 107, 5435 and references cited therein.Google Scholar
Weinreb, S.M. and Staib, R.R.. Tetrahedron. 1982. 38, 3087CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Danishefsky, S.J.. Larson, E.. Askin, D., and Kato, N., J Am Chem Soc, 1985, 107, 1246CrossRefGoogle Scholar