Carbocation Chemistry

1. Historical Perspective (Peter J. Stang).

2. 100 Years of Carbocations and Their Significance in Chemistry (George A. Olah).

3. Zwitterionic ‘‘Neutral’’ and ‘‘Anionic’’ Carbocation Analogs (Chaitanya S. Wannere, Zhongfang Chen, and Paul von Rague´ Schleyer).

4. Recent Studies of Long-Lived Carbocations and Carbodications (G. K. Surya Prakash and V. Prakash Reddy).

5. Antiaromaticity Effects in Cyclopentadienyl Carbocations and Free Radicals (Annette D. Allen and Thomas T. Tidwell).

6. Long-Lived Carbocations in Cold Siberia (Vyacheslav G. Shubin and Gennady I. Borodkin).

7. Polyfluorinated Carbocations (Vitalij D. Shteingarts).

8. Carbocations, Fast Rearrangement Reactions, and the Isotopic Perturbation Method (Martin Saunders and Olga Kronja).

9. Stable Ion Chemistry of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs); Modeling Electrophiles from Carcinogens (Kenneth K. Laali).

10. Chromium Tricarbonyl–Coordinated Carbocations (Bruce N. Hietbrink, Dean J. Tantillo, Kendall N. Houk, and Craig A. Merlic).

11. Carbocations in Gold Chemistry (Hubert Schmidbaur and Keith A. Porter).

12. Proton Exchange between Strong Acids and Alkanes (Jean Sommer and Alain Goeppert).

13. Electrophilicity Scales for Carbocations (Herbert Mayr and Armin R. Ofial).

14. Organic Synthesis in Superacids (Jean-Claude Jacquesy).

Index.