Table of contents for Chemical creativity : ideas from the work of Woodward, Huckel, Meerwein, and others / Jerome A. Berson.

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Introduction: The Nature of Science and the History of Science/An Experiment.
Discoveries Missed, Discoveries Made - Two Case Studies of Creativity in Chemistry: Science and the Individual/Diels, Alder, Their Competitors, and the Discovery of
the Diene Synthesis/Thiele/The Alternation Effect and the Discovery of Orbital Symmetry.
Erich Hückel and the Theory of Aromaticity - Reflections on Theory and Experiment: Debye-Hückel Theory of Electrolytic Solutions/Nature of the Double Bond/Hybridization in Double Bonds/Benzene Problem/MO Description of
Conjugated Cyclic Compounds/Orbital Symmetry (Woodward-Hoffmann Rules)/ Extension of
Cyclic p-Electron MO Theory to Transition States of Pericyclic Reactions/Violation of Hund's Rule in Biradicals/Reflections on Hückel's Career.
The Dienone-Phenol Mysteries: Isolations of Estrogens/Approaches to the Estrogens by Aromatization of Ring A/ Alicyclic Steroids/Woodward's Challenge/Misgivings About the Structures/Why did Woodward Undertake the Correction of the Phenolic Structures?/Woodward and the Total Synthesis of Steriods/Approaches and Achievements/Mechanistic Motivation.
Meditations on the Special Convictive Power of Symmetrization Experiments: Enolization as a Mechanism of Symmetrization/The Menthone Problem/Tricyclene and the Wagner-Meerwein Rearrangement/The Pinacol Controversy/The Favorskii Rearrangement/Symmetrization/Racemization Machines with no Achiral Parts/Direct Nucleophilic Displacement Reaction/The Walden Inversion/Biological and Evolutionary Attraction of Symmetry.
Epilogue.