Forbiddenreactions in Woodward-Hoffmann Rule

Reformulating the Woodward-Hoffmann Rules in a Conceptual Density Functional Theory Context: the Case of Sigmatropic Reactions*

In this contribution, we have investigated the performance of the initial hardness response, a reactivity index from conceptual DFT, in the prediction of the allowed or forbidden character of a series of sigmatropic hydrogen shifts, which are traditionally explained using the famous Woodward-Hoffmann rules for pericyclic reactions. Previously, it was observed that this quantity can be linked to...

Gernot Hoffmann

Reply to Woodward

I thank Dr. Woodward for his illuminating review of my book Causality, for explicating so clearly the basic contributions of the book, and for giving me the opportunity to further clarify some aspects of the do-calculus, specifically those that pertain to the notion of intervention. Woodward’s concerns regarding the notion of atomic intervention (dubbedPI) fall into twomain categories. First, w...

Publications for Mark Woodward 2016

Emdin, C., Rothwell, P., Salimi-Khorshidi, G., Kiran, A., Conrad, N., Callender, T., Mehta, Z., Pendlebury, S., Anderson, S., Mohseni, H., Woodward, M., et al (2016). Blood Pressure and Risk of Vascular Dementia: Evidence from a Primary Care Registry and a Cohort Study of Transient Ischemic Attack and Stroke. Stroke: a journal of cerebral circulation, 47(6), 14291435. <a href="http://dx.doi.org...

Hoffmann syndrome: a case report

Hoffmann syndrome is a rare form of hypothyroid myopathy in adults characterized by presence of muscle weakness, stiffness and pseudohypertrophy. We report a 39 year old male with primary hypothyroidism diagnosed at childhood and not on regular thyroxine therapy who presented with fatigue, cold intolerance, constipation, exertional breathlessness, progressive proximal muscle weakness and swelli...