Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry, Volume 41 (Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry)

Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry provides the chemical community with authoritative and critical assessments of the many aspects of physical organic chemistry. The field is a rapidly developing one, with results and methodologies finding application from biology to solid state physics. * Reviews the application of quantitative and mathematical methods towards understanding chemical problems* Multidisciplinary volumes cover organic, organometallic, bioorganic, enzymes and materials topics Content: Editor's preface Page ix Contributors to Volume 41 Page xi The interpretation and mechanistic significance of activation volumes for organometallic reactions Review Article Pages 1-78 Rudi van Eldik, Colin D. Hubbard Kinetic and mechanistic studies of the reactivity of Zn–OH n ( n =1 or 2) species in small molecule analogs of zinc-containing metalloenzymes Review Article Pages 79-181 Lisa M. Berreau Electron transfer reactions within σ- and π-bridged dinitrogen-centered intervalence radical cations Review Article Pages 183-215 Stephen F. Nelsen Using kinetic isotope effects to determine the structure of the transition states of S N 2 reactions Review Article Pages 217-273 Kenneth C. Westaway Mechanisms for nucleophilic aliphatic substitution at glycosides Review Article Pages 275-314 Nicole A. Horenstein Effect of enzyme dynamics on catalytic activity Review Article Pages 315-362 Dimitri Antoniou, Jodi Basner, Sara Núñez, Steven D. Schwartz Author Index Pages 363-379 Cumulative Index of Authors Pages 381-382 Cumulative Index of Titles Pages 383-392 Subject Index Pages 393-398