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Derek Harold Richard Barton Quotes Page 1 of 1Derek Harold Richard Barton September 8, 1918 - March 16, 1998 Nationality: British Category: Scientist Subcategory: British Scientist
| Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement. | Every chemical reaction has a transition state. | The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry. | It does not seem, however, that organic chemists were much worried about barriers to rotation in organic molecules in general at that time because there was no technique available to demonstrate the phenomenon experimentally. | X-Ray crystallography is nowadays an accurate and rapid method of determining conformation in the crystal lattice, which conformation usually corresponds to the preferred conformation in solution. |
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