Subject: Frontier orbital vs. reactivity

From: "Yeoh Hak Koon" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 14:38:21 +0800

Dear Colleagues,

Due to resource constraints, I could only get some old literature about
Fukui's frontier orbital theory in predicting chemical reactivity.  (He
won the 1981 Nobel prize for this work, but that was 19 years ago.)

My questions :

(a) Is his theory still valid, i.e. not overtaken by another better
theory?
(b) What improvements had gone into the treatment of
superdelocalizability?
(c) Has this theory been successful in more complicated molecules like
metal complex catalysts?

Any help or reference is much appreciated.  Thank you.

Best regards,
H. K. Yeoh (Mr.)
11 May 2000