Understanding chemistry: from “heuristic (soft) explanations and reasoning by analogy” to “quantum chemistry”-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Understanding chemistry: from “heuristic (soft) explanations and reasoning by analogy” to “quantum chemistry”

Published:2022 Issue:39 Volume:13 Page:11461-11486
ISSN:2041-6520
Container-title:Chemical Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Chem. Sci.

Author:

Seeman Jeffrey I.¹^ORCID,Tantillo Dean J.²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemistry, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173, USA

2. Department of Chemistry, University of California – Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA

Abstract

“Soft theories” largely drove chemical understanding for 150 years or more. In the past 50 years, quantum chemistry has provided (a) the underlying “hard evidence” for many soft theories and (b) the explanations for chemical phenomena that are unavailable by soft theories.

Funder

National Science Foundation

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/SC/D2SC02535C

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