Profiles chemist Robert S. Langer of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Production of research papers and books; Focus on polymer preparations for biomedical application; Awarding of the Draper Prize given by the National Academy of Engineering.
Focuses on the rules of organic reactions developed by professors Robert Burns Woodward and Roald Hoffmann from the Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Basis of the rules on orbital symmetry; Overview of the research papers of Woodward and Hoffmann; Impact of the papers of Woodward and Hoffmann on the study of organic reactions.