Modern Physical Organic Chemistry

Thismoderntextbookmakesexplicitthemanyconnectionsbetweenphysicalorganicchemistryandcriticalfieldssuchasorganometallicchemistrry,materialschemistry,bioorganicchemistry,andbiochemistry.Inthelatterpartofthetwentiethcentury,thefieldofphysicalorganicchemistrywentthroughdramaticchanges,withanincreasedemphasisonnoncovalentinteractionsandtheirrolesinmolecularrecognition,supramolecularchemistry,andbiology;thedevelopmentofnewmaterialswithnovelstructuralfeatures;andtheuseofcomputationalmethods.Contemporarychemistsmustbejustasfamiliarwiththesenewerfieldsaswiththemoreestablishedclassicaltopics.ModernPhysicalOrganicChemistryisintendedtobridgethatgap.Inadditiontocoveringthoroughlythecoreareasofphysicalorganicchemistry-structureandmechanism-thebookwillescortthepractitioneroforganicchemistryintoafieldthathasbeenthoroughlyupdated.Thefoundationsandapplicabilitiesofmoderncomputationalmethodsarealsodeveloped.