SIMILARITY APPROACH TO CHEMICAL REACTIVITY - OVERLAP DETERMINANT METHOD IN THE CHEMISTRY OF COMPLEX REACTIONS WITH COARCTATE TRANSITION STATES

摘要

The overlap determinant method was applied to the study of various carbene reactions for which the name ''complex'' reactions was recently proposed. It has been shown that the method is able to deal correctly with these reactions even in situations where the existing classical technique of correlation diagrams fails. In addition to correctly predicting the allowedness and/or forbiddenness of these reactions, the complementary similarity approach provides a simple insight into the detailed mechanism of these processes. [References: 17]