Talk:Cieplak effect

Cieplak Effect should be Cieplak Model

There is no "Cipelak effect", only a "Cieplak model" to explain an experimentally observed effect in the stereochemistry of nucleophilic carbonyl additions. Since those experimental observations were not by Cieplak, the effect (which would have to be defined more explicitely, anyway) should not be named after him, only the model.

Second, I would like to add that the text reads precocious, as written by a student trying to sound clever: "As chemists continue to discover new reactions and conditions, we continually test, disprove, and propose new models. As such, it is important to continue debating and discussing theoretical frameworks for the physical phenomena we encounter, in the hope of one day getting it right."

Finally, the Cieplak model is probably a footnote in the development of stereochemical models that was already becoming obsolete sometime in the 1990s. Modern theoretical treatments of such effects use different (levels of) theory and language than Cieplak did in 1980. A more up-to-date comment on this model is found in: "Stereoelectronic Effects - A Bridge Between Structure and Reactivity", by I. V. Alabugin, Wiley, 2016.46.237.223.194 (talk) 23:27, 30 August 2017 (UTC)