Studies in the chemistry of limonin

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28: Bonding and Non-Bonding (1992)

Liversidge Research Lecture, delivered before the Royal Society of New South Wales, 14 October, 1992. Reproduced by permission of the Royal Society of New South Wales from J. Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., 1993, 126, 1354-143."Over the last 10 years our group has carried out two parallel experimental investigations in physical-organic chemistry. The first one dealt with the development of a new experimental parameter for the determination of the π-bond order of the carbon-carbon double bond and the utilisation of this new parameter in the determination of the ground-state electronic structures of some unsaturated systems.""The second investigation dealt with the limitations of a previously proposed (Bott, Field and Sternhell, 1980) semi-quantitative treatment for predicting the severity (energy penalty) of repulsive non-bonded interactions from purely structural parameters.