Re: Periodic Table

From: Fred Kasner (fkasner_at_sdf.lonestar.org)
Date: 07/14/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:46:19 +0000 (UTC)

Andrew Usher <k_over_hbarc@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Fred Kasner <fkasner@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote in message news:<ccv2fq$8ii$7@chessie.cirr.com>...

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>> > Andrew Usher
>>
>> Similar kinds of analyses have been employed by chemists but usually only
>> at the graduate level where the knowledge the students bring to the table
>> is considerable. Henry Taube, then at the U. of Chicago did this in my
>> graduate course in inorganic chemistry. It was so detailed that we got only
>> through about 1/4 to 1/3 of the table in that course back in the '50's.
>> FK

> Now this sound interesting. If there was something similar available,
> I think I'd buy it.

> Andrew Usher

Yeah, so would I. But Henry Taube (a Nobel Laureate) is well into his 80's and am
no longer a kid at 78. But I have been reading some inorganic chem books lately.
You have to do this kind of thing to keep the brain functioning in old age. What I
really would like to do is to take a course in organic chem once again. It is so
different from what I studied in 1946. Lots of the stuff about mechanism and rate
just wasn't done in those days. My graduate course in (2 quarters) in organic chem
was realistic (Wheland insisted that any process that you tried to use that couldn't
give you a 25% yield was useless unless you were desparate.)
FK 

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