The
chemogenesis analysis shows there
to be five distinct electronic reactions chemistries: Redox,
Photo, Lewis Acid/Base, Radical and Diradical, and that much
inorganic and organic reaction chemistry can be considered in
terms of interacting Lewis acids and Lewis bases, including:
Electrophilic
and nucleophilic addition and substitution
Brønsted acidity
Diels-Alder cycloaddition
Dative bonding, coordination complexes, etc., etc., etc.
It
transpires that when classified by FMO topology and reaction
behaviour, four general types of Lewis base and six general
types of Lewis acid can be recognised, and that the 6 x 4 types
of Lewis acid and Lewis base interact to give a matrix with
24 distinct types of Lewis acid/base complex.
Like
the periodic table, the
Lewis acid/base interaction matrix has many properties.
It is a general and comprehensive reaction chemistry schema
that naturally crosses the inorganic-organic divide.
Click
on a cell to explore the Lewis Acid/Base Interaction Matrix:
