Basolo Medal for Roald Hoffmann

摘要

The Fred Basolo Medal for 2010 has been awarded to Roald Hoffmann (Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor Emeritus of Humane Letters at Cornell University) for his contributions to inorganic chemistry. In 1981 Hoffmann shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kenichi Fukui. His name is also synonymous with the Woodward-Hoffmann rules that are used to predict the stereochemical outcome of pericyclic organic reactions.