Dr. Jeffrey I. Seeman

Effect of Conformational Change on Reactivity in Organic Chemistry Evaluations, Applications, and Extensions of Curtin-Hammett/Winstein-Holness Kinetics, Chem. Rev. 1983, 83, 83-134. 

Recent Studies on Conformational Analysis and Steric Effects, Pure Appl. Chem. 1987, 59, 1661-1672. 

The Woodward-Doering/Rabe-Kindler Total Synthesis of Quinine: Setting the Record Straight, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2007, 46, 1378-1413. 

Students Inspiring Students.  An On-line Tool for Science Fair Participants, The Science Teacher, 2011, 78. 39-43 [with T. Lawrence]. 

Gilbert Stork:  In his Own Words and in the Musings of his Friends, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2012, 51, 3012-3023. 

Guest Editorial:  Estate Planning, Chemical & Engineering News, 2012, 90 (December 30), 3. 

Having Fun with the Nozoe Autograph Books. A Bit of Exploration and an Unintended Learning Experience, The Chemical Record, 2013, 13, 146-160. 

Carl Djerassi’s Search For Home.  At 90, Highly Celebrated Chemist and Author Has a Burning Quest to Belong, Chemical & Engineering News, 2013, 91 (October 21), Front Cover, 10-11, 13-14. 

Ernest L. Eliel, 1921 – 2008, Biographical Memoirs for the National Academy of Sciences, 2014, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.; pp. 1-13, 
http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/eliel-ernest.pdf. 

Conflict Resolution and Authorship Issues in the U.S. Chemical Academic Community [with Mark C. House], Accountability in Research, 2015, 22, 346-383. 

Woodward-Hoffmann’s Stereochemistry of Electrocyclic Reactions: From Day 1 to the JACS Receipt Date (May 5, 1964 to November 30, 1964), J. Org. Chem. 2015, 80, 11632-11671. 

John D. Roberts:  In His Own Words and Those of His Friends, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 15901-15913. 

Wrong But Seminal, Nature Chemistry, 2016, 8, 193-200 [with S. Cantrill]. 

R. B. Woodward: A Larger Than Life Chemistry Rock Star, Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 10228-10245. 

Moving Past a Seminal Generation in the History of Chemistry, Bull. Hist. Chem. 2017, 42, 79-80. 

A Model to Estimate the Sources of Tobacco Specific Nitrosamines in Cigarette Smoke, Chem. Res. Toxicol. 2017, 30, 1556-1561. 

Synthesis and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nature Chem. 2017, 9, 925-929. 

Moving Beyond Insularity in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Chemistry, Found. Chem., 2018, 20, 75-86. 

Multiple Independent Errors:  A Parallelism to Robert K. Merton’s “Multiple Independent Discoveries”, Found. Chem. 2018, 20, 219-249. 

On the Relationship between Classical Structure Determination and Retrosynthetic Analysis/Total Synthesis, Isr. J. Chem. 2018, 58, 28-44. 

Peer Review of Mendeleev’s 1869 Breakthrough Paper:  “I Suggest Eliminating the Table . . . ”, Helv. Chim. Acta 2019, 102, 4560-4564 (e1800177 (1-5)). 

The Mutation of the “Nobel Prize in Chemistry” into the “Nobel Prize in Chemistry or Life Sciences”:  Several Decades of Transparent and Opaque Evidence of Change within the Nobel Prize Program, Angew. Chemie Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 2942-2961 [with Guillermo Restrepo]. 

From Decades to Minutes.  Steps Toward the Structure of Strychnine, 1910 – 1948, and the Application of Today’s Technology, Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 10702-10721 [with D. Tantillo]. 

Rolf Huisgen, Eminent Chemist and Polymath (1920 – 2020) In His Own Words and In His Publication Metrics, Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 12250-12266 [with G. Restrepo]. 

Rolf Huisgen’s Classic Studies of Cyclic Triene Diels-Alder Reactions Elaborated by Modern Computational Analysis, Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 12506-12519 [with P.-P. Chen and K. N. Houk]. 

Evolution of the Diels-Alder Reaction Mechanisms Since the 1930s: Woodward, Houk with Woodward, and the Influence of Computational Chemistry on Understanding Cycloadditions, Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 12660-12681 [with K. N. Houk, F. Liu, and Z. Yang]. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202001654.

“For its Size, the Most Complex Natural Product Known.” Who Deserves Credit for Determining the Structure of Strychnine? ACS Cent. Sci. 2022, 1-10; doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.1c01348.

The Ways of Science Through the Lens of the Woodward-Hoffmann Rules. The Stories Begin, Chem. Rec., 2022, 22, 1-22; doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202100211.

A Sleeping Beauty in Chemistry. Oosterhoff, Havinga and Schlatmann, Four Years Before “The Woodward-Hoffmann Rules,” Chem. Rec., 2022, 22, 1-25; doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202100245.

Kenichi Fukui, Frontier Molecular Orbital Theory, and the Woodward-Hoffmann Rules. Part II. A Sleeping Beauty in Chemistry, Chem. Rec., 2022, 22, 1-30; doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202100300.

The Many Chemists Who Could Have Proposed the Woodward-Hoffmann Rules (Including Roald Hoffmann) But Didn’t: The Theoretical and Physical Chemists, Chem. Rec., 2022, 22, 1-45; doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202200052.

Five Decades of Dispute. A Triptych: Why Woodward? Chem. Rec., 2022, 22, 1-56; doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202200150.

Why Hoffmann? The Person and the Young Chemical Physicist, Chem. Rec., 2022, 22, 1-30; doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202200196.

The Many Chemists Who Could Have Proposed the Woodward-Hoffmann Rules But Didn’t: The Organic Chemists Who Discovered the Smoking Guns, Chem. Rec., 2022, 22, 1-67; doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202200065.

Percy Lavon Julian: A Man Who Rose to Every Occasion, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2022, 119, 1-4; e2208883119; doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2208883119.

Understanding Chemistry: From “Heuristic (Soft) Explanations and Reasoning by Analogy” to “Quantum Chemistry,” Chem. Sci., 2022, 11461-11486; doi: 10.1039/d2sc02535c [with Dean Tantillo].

The Uncertain Role of Nominations in the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.  Chem. Eur. J. 2023, 29, 1-15.  DOI: 10.1002/chem.202203985 [with G. Restrepo].

Revolutions in Chemistry:  Assessment of Six 20th Century Candidates (The Instrumental Revolution; Hückel Molecular Orbital Theory; Hückel’s 4n+2 Rule; the Woodward-Hoffmann Rules; Quantum Chemistry; and Corey’s Retrosynthetic Analysis), J. Am. Chem. Soc. Au, 2023, 3, 2378-2401; doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.3c00278.

Guest Editorial: Celebrating Carl Djerassi, Chem. Eng. News, 2023, 101 (October 23), 2; https://cen.acs.org/people/Guest-Editorial-Celebrating-Carl-Djerassi/101/i35 [with R. Hoffmann, B. Z. Shakhashiri, and R. N. Zare].

A 21st Century View of Allowed and Forbidden Electrocyclic Reactions, J. Org. Chem.  2024, 89, 1018-1034; https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.3c02103 [with Q. Zhou, G. Kukier, I. Gordiy, R. Hoffmann, and K. N. Houk].