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Article: Fred Baur. Fredric John Baur (July 14, 1918 – May 4, 2008) was an American organic chemist and food storage scientist notable for designing the Pringles packaging. Baur filed for a patent for the tubular Pringles container and for the method of packaging the curved, stacked potato chip in the container in 1966... | Wikipedia - Fred Baur - Summary | 267 | 1,167 | null |
Article: Francis William Bergstrom. Francis William Bergstrom, Ph.D. (1897–1946) was an American professor of chemistry at Stanford University. Bergstrom was born in Bloomington, Indiana on January 10, 1897, then moved to Stanford when he was 11 years old. He enrolled at Stanford and received a B.S. in 1918 and a Ph.D.... | Wikipedia - Francis William Bergstrom - Summary | 172 | 819 | null |
Article: Guy Bertrand (chemist). Guy Bertrand, born on July 17, 1952, at Limoges is a chemistry professor at the University of California, San Diego. Bertrand obtained his B.Sc. from the University of Montpellier in 1975 and his Ph.D. from the Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, in 1979. He was a postdoctoral researche... | Wikipedia - Guy Bertrand (chemist) - Summary | 280 | 1,180 | null |
Section: Scientific work. Questioning the current dogma is a design feature of Guy Bertrand's research program. He has made many important contributions to the chemistry of main group elements and new binding systems in inorganic, organometallic and organic chemistry. Throughout his career, he has isolated a variety of... | Wikipedia - Guy Bertrand (chemist) - Scientific work | 338 | 1,500 | null |
The electronic properties of CAACs stabilize highly reactive species, including organic and major group radicals, as well as paramagnetic metal species, such as gold complexes (0), which were completely unknown. CAACs have also allowed the isolation of bis(copper)acetylide complexes, which are key catalytic intermediat... | Wikipedia - Guy Bertrand (chemist) - Scientific work | 342 | 1,600 | null |
The most recent developments cover a wide range from nanoparticle stabilization to the antibacterial and anti-cancer properties of silver (I) and gold (I) complexes. A CAAC-copper complex even allows OLEDs to be used with a quantum efficiency close to 100% at high brightness. The discovery of stable carbenes was a brea... | Wikipedia - Guy Bertrand (chemist) - Scientific work | 289 | 1,305 | null |
Section: Honours and awards. He was awarded the CNRS silver medal in 1998. He is a member of the French Academy of Technology (2000), the Academia Europaea (2002), the European Academy of Sciences (2003), the French Academy of Sciences (2004) and the American Association for Advancement of Sciences (2006). He was recen... | Wikipedia - Guy Bertrand (chemist) - Honours and awards | 174 | 776 | null |
Section: Research and career. Bobbitt worked from 1952 to 1955 as a teaching assistant at Ohio State. He then moved to Wayne State University, as a postdoctoral fellow in the research group of Carl Djerassi, working on isoquinoline alkaloids. In 1956, he was hired as a lecturer at the University of Connecticut where he... | Wikipedia - James M. Bobbitt - Research and career | 322 | 1,469 | null |
Section: Books and selected papers > Reviews. J. M. Bobbitt: Periodate Oxidations of Carbohydrates, Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry, Vol. 11, 1956, 1-42. J. M. Bobbitt: The Chemistry of 4-Oxy- and 4-keto-1,2,3,4-tetrahyhdroisoquinolines, Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry, Vol. 15, 1973, 99-128. (The Bobbitt Reactio... | Wikipedia - James M. Bobbitt - Books and selected papers > Reviews | 344 | 970 | null |
Section: Books and selected papers > Selected papers. M. L Wolfrom, J. M. Bobbitt: Periodate oxidation of cyclic 1,3, -diketones. Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 78, 1956, 2489. C. Djerassi, S. K. Figdor, J. M. Bobbitt, F. I. Markley: Alkaloid studies. XIV. The structure of the cactus alkaloid piloceriene... | Wikipedia - James M. Bobbitt - Books and selected papers > Selected papers | 341 | 951 | null |
H. Weisgraber, S. Dutta: Synthesis of isoquinolines. X. 1-alkyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoilines. in:Journal of Organic Chemistry. Vol. 34, 1969, 2487. J. M. Bobbitt, I. Noguchi, H. Yagi, K. H. Weisgraber: Electrochemistry of natural Products. III. A stereoselective, stereospecific phenol coupling reaction. In: Journal... | Wikipedia - James M. Bobbitt - Books and selected papers > Selected papers | 252 | 745 | null |
Section: Education and academic career. Boekelheide was born in Chelsea, South Dakota to a family of German ancestry. He received his bachelor's degree from Dakota Wesleyan University in 1939. He then received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1943, where he worked under the supervision of C. Frederick Koelsc... | Wikipedia - Virgil Boekelheide - Education and academic career | 165 | 825 | null |
Section: Life and education. Brown was born in 1934 in The Bronx, New York. According to Brown, when she was young, she contracted tuberculosis, and was treated by Arthur Logan. Logan was a young African-American in his intern year of residency, and lived in Brown's building. Brown's later inspiration to study science ... | Wikipedia - Jeannette Brown - Life and education | 220 | 1,007 | null |
Section: Chemical research. After receiving her master's degree, Brown began work as a research chemist at CIBA Pharmaceutical Company, where she was involved in research programs for drug development targeting tuberculosis and coccidiosis. She moved to Merck in 1969, where she co-authored 15 publications, obtained one... | Wikipedia - Jeannette Brown - Chemical research | 240 | 1,093 | null |
Section: Outreach. Brown spent 36 years in research before she switched over to education. From 1993 to 2002 she was a visiting professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where she also helped recruit black students to enter STEM fields and worked on science education issues in the state. It was here that she... | Wikipedia - Jeannette Brown - Outreach | 174 | 973 | null |
Section: Early life and education. Bryant grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina as one of seven children. He began working at age ten and held various jobs throughout his youth. He was influenced by his high school science teacher, Arnold Bolen, and decided to pursue chemistry in college. After graduation from high sch... | Wikipedia - David R. Bryant - Early life and education | 168 | 869 | null |
Section: Early career: Union Carbide (1961–2000). After earning his Ph.D. in 1961, he immediately went to work for Union Carbide Corporation. He spent the next 39 years there, retiring in 2000. His career at Union Carbide was multi-dimensional: he did fundamental research in organic chemistry in an industrial setting, ... | Wikipedia - David R. Bryant - Early career: Union Carbide (1961–2000) | 334 | 1,650 | null |
Section: Honors and awards. Bryant has received awards from his peers in the chemistry industry, the education community, and the state of West Virginia for his many professional and civic achievements. In 1998, Bryant was awarded the Perkin Medal. The award recognized his accomplishments on a low pressure Oxo process ... | Wikipedia - David R. Bryant - Honors and awards | 266 | 1,302 | null |
Section: Later career: Renewable Algal Energy (RAE, LLC) (2009 – present). In 2009, Bryant joined Renewable Algal Energy (RAE, LLC) as an inventor and patent strategist. As a RAE team member, Dr. Bryant is using the same inventive skills and patent techniques that he employed in organic chemistry to work with non-GMO a... | Wikipedia - David R. Bryant - Later career: Renewable Algal Energy (RAE, LLC) (2009 – present) | 232 | 1,073 | null |
Section: Career. Buchwald was a postdoctoral fellow at Caltech with Robert H. Grubbs. In 1984, he joined MIT faculty as an assistant professor of chemistry. He was promoted to associate professor in 1989 and to Professor in 1993. He was named the Camille Dreyfus Professor in 1997. He has coauthored over 435 accepted ac... | Wikipedia - Stephen L. Buchwald - Career | 172 | 828 | null |
Section: Biography. Edward Meredith Burgess was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1934. He attended Shades Valley High School in that city and was awarded the school's science award upon graduation in 1951. During the summers of his junior and senior high school years he obtained a job performing routine chores at the Uni... | Wikipedia - Edward M. Burgess - Biography | 257 | 1,254 | null |
Section: Career > National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE). Burks-Houck was dedicated to the establishment of the NOBCChE on the West Coast and its national endeavours. She represented NOBCChE in Dakar, Senegal, delivering a presentation titled: "Environm... | Wikipedia - Winifred Burks-Houck - Career > National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) | 240 | 1,259 | null |
Section: Early life and career. Campos was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. He remained in his hometown until the age of 11, where he moved to Los Angeles, California. Campos attended California State University, Dominguez Hills, graduating with a B.Sc. in chemistry in 2001. After completing his undergraduate degree, Campo... | Wikipedia - Luis M. Campos - Early life and career | 312 | 1,534 | null |
Section: Academic career. Carreira began his independent research career on the Caltech faculty and became a full professor in 1997. While there, he received several awards for successful new faculty and for his skilled teaching. He has been a full professor of chemistry at ETH Zürich since 1998. Carreira has coauthore... | Wikipedia - Erick M. Carreira - Academic career | 175 | 903 | null |
Section: Academic career > Carreira letters. The appointment reignited debate over a 1996 letter in which Carreira highlighted his expectations for long working hours in his research group, which were viewed as inappropriately demanding and demeaning by other professors. In response, Carreira released a statement disav... | Wikipedia - Erick M. Carreira - Academic career > Carreira letters | 195 | 1,021 | null |
Section: Education, employment and professional activities. Cavallito earned a B.Sc. in chemistry from Rutgers University in 1936 and a Ph.D. in organic and physiological chemistry from Ohio State University in 1940. From 1942 to 1950 Cavallito was a research group leader at Sterling Winthrop Research Institute in Rens... | Wikipedia - Chester John Cavallito - Education, employment and professional activities | 207 | 1,032 | null |
Section: Early life and education. Chandler was the first of eight children born to Annie M. (née Onley) (1861–1909) and Henry Wilkins Chandler (1852–1938) in Ocala, Florida. Chandler's mother was a teacher from New York, and Chandler's father was the first Black graduate of Bates College in Maine who was an early Afri... | Wikipedia - Edward Marion Augustus Chandler - Early life and education | 215 | 984 | null |
Section: Research. Chirik’s multidisciplinary research seeks to transform traditional catalysis, which relies on exotic metals like platinum and rhodium to drive chemical reactions. Instead, Chirik uses alternative, Earth-abundant metals like iron and cobalt, developing techniques that allow these metals to mimic or su... | Wikipedia - Paul Chirik - Research | 303 | 1,443 | null |
Section: Academic and scientific activities. A graduate of Ursinus College, Pennsylvania in 1986, Conway subsequently studied at the Burke Chemical Laboratories of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1991. His thesis concerned the attempted generation of indolyne (an aromatic compound relat... | Wikipedia - Samuel Conway - Academic and scientific activities | 279 | 1,483 | null |
Section: Fandom activities > Convention chairman > Media dealings. Conway dissuades members of the fandom, and Anthrocon membership in particular, from responding to the mass media and news media, due in part to sensationalist coverage like the 2001 Vanity Fair article in which he was quoted. In 2003 he said his standa... | Wikipedia - Samuel Conway - Fandom activities > Convention chairman > Media dealings | 251 | 1,234 | null |
Section: Fandom activities > Storyteller. Conway styles himself "Furrydom's Storyteller", making annual appearances at Anthrocon in what has come to be known as Uncle Kage's Story Hour. The entertainment typically consists of four or five extended personal anecdotes. His stage name resulted from his first storytelling ... | Wikipedia - Samuel Conway - Fandom activities > Storyteller | 173 | 747 | null |
Section: Fandom activities > Author. While known within the fandom for his spoken storytelling, Conway is also the author of several short stories published in various works by Sofawolf Press. In May 1998, Conway was invited to write a story based on his interest in birds of prey, particularly the red-tailed hawk. The ... | Wikipedia - Samuel Conway - Fandom activities > Author | 303 | 1,345 | null |
Section: Other activities. While in college, Conway was a member of the Ursinius Meistersingers vocal music group, and the performing arts honor society Pi Nu Epsilon. He became a volunteer for the American Red Cross Disaster Service in 1989, but quit in 1998 due to his perception of high-level corruption in the organi... | Wikipedia - Samuel Conway - Other activities | 210 | 1,038 | null |
Section: Career. Cooke began his career working in starch research at the Corn Products Refining Company (now Ingredion), an ingredient manufacturer in Illinois. In 1946, he joined the Visking Corporation in Chicago, where he worked on researching carbohydrate chemistry. He was promoted in 1954 to assistant manager of ... | Wikipedia - Lloyd Miller Cooke - Career | 324 | 1,626 | null |
Article: Arthur C. Cope. Arthur C. Cope (June 27, 1909 – June 4, 1966) was an American organic chemist and member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is credited with the development of several important chemical reactions which bear his name including the Cope elimination and the Cope rearrangement. ... | Wikipedia - Arthur C. Cope - Summary | 249 | 1,243 | null |
Section: Biography. E.J. Corey (the surname was anglicized from Levantine Arabic Khoury, meaning priest) was born to Lebanese Greek Orthodox Christian immigrants Fatima (née Hasham) and Elias Corey in Methuen, Massachusetts, 50 km (31 mi) north of Boston. His mother changed his name from William to "Elias" to honor his... | Wikipedia - Elias James Corey - Biography | 324 | 1,531 | null |
Section: Major contributions > Reagents. Corey has developed several new synthetic reagents: PCC (pyridinium chlorochromate), also referred to as the Corey-Suggs reagent, is widely used for the oxidation of alcohols to corresponding ketones and aldehydes. PCC has several advantages over other commercial oxidants. An ai... | Wikipedia - Elias James Corey - Major contributions > Reagents | 330 | 1,358 | null |
This example illustrates that PCC is capable of performing a Dauben oxidative rearrangement with tertiary alcohols through a [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement. t-Butyldimethylsilyl ether (TBS), triisopropylsilyl ether (TIPS), and methoxyethoxymethyl (MEM) are popular alcohol protecting groups. The development of these pr... | Wikipedia - Elias James Corey - Major contributions > Reagents | 338 | 1,548 | null |
Usually TBAF severs TBS ethers, but the hindered TBS ether above survives primary TIPS removal (scheme 5). The MEM protecting group was first described by Corey in 1976. This protecting group is similar in reactivity and stability to other alkoxy methyl ethers under acidic conditions. Acidic conditions usually accompli... | Wikipedia - Elias James Corey - Major contributions > Reagents | 321 | 1,424 | null |
Section: Major contributions > Methodology. Several reactions developed in Corey's lab have become commonplace in modern synthetic organic chemistry. At least 302 methods have been developed in the Corey group since 1950. Several reactions have been named after him: Corey-Itsuno reduction, also known as the Corey-Baksh... | Wikipedia - Elias James Corey - Major contributions > Methodology | 350 | 1,617 | null |
The synthesis of dysidiolide by Corey and co-workers was achieved via an enantioselective CBS reduction using a borane-dimethylsulfide complex. Corey-Fuchs alkyne synthesis is the synthesis of terminal alkynes through a one-carbon homologation of aldehydes using triphenylphosphine and carbon tetrabromide. The mechanism... | Wikipedia - Elias James Corey - Major contributions > Methodology | 330 | 1,326 | null |
The Corey-Kim reagent is formed in situ when the succinimide and sulfide react to form a dimethylsuccinimidosulfonium chloride species (scheme 14). Triethylamine deprotonates the alkoxysulfonium salt at the α position to afford the oxidized product. The reaction accommodates a wide array of functional groups, but allyl... | Wikipedia - Elias James Corey - Major contributions > Methodology | 321 | 1,409 | null |
Stereospecfic alkenes are present in several natural products as the method continues to be exploited to yield a series of complex substrates. Professor T.K.M Shing et al used the Corey-Winter olefination reaction to synthesize (+)-Boesenoxide (scheme 16). CBS-type enantioselective Diels–Alder reaction has been develop... | Wikipedia - Elias James Corey - Major contributions > Methodology | 339 | 1,494 | null |
Previously, intermolecular outcompeted intramolecular lactonization even at low concentrations. One big advantage of this reaction is that it is performed under neutral conditions allowing the presence of acid and base-labile functional groups. As of 2016, rings of 7–44 members have been successfully synthesized using ... | Wikipedia - Elias James Corey - Major contributions > Methodology | 341 | 1,405 | null |
Dimethylsulfonium methylide transforms ketones and enones to the corresponding epoxides. Dimethylsulfonium methylide is much more reactive and less stable than dimethylsulfoxonium methylide, so it is generated at low temperatures. Based on their reactivity, another distinct advantage of these two variants is that kinet... | Wikipedia - Elias James Corey - Major contributions > Methodology | 179 | 833 | null |
Section: Major contributions > Total syntheses. E. J. Corey and his research group have completed many total syntheses. At least 265 natural compounds have been synthesized in the Corey group since 1950. His 1969 total syntheses of several prostaglandins are considered classics. Specifically the synthesis of Prostaglan... | Wikipedia - Elias James Corey - Major contributions > Total syntheses | 346 | 1,603 | null |
Section: Major contributions > Publications. E.J. Corey has more than 1100 publications. In 2002, the American Chemical Society (ACS) recognized him as the "Most Cited Author in Chemistry". In 2007, he received the first ACS Publications Division "Cycle of Excellence High Impact Contributor Award" and was ranked the nu... | Wikipedia - Elias James Corey - Major contributions > Publications | 326 | 1,074 | null |
Section: Altom suicide. Jason Altom, one of Corey's students, committed suicide in 1998. Altom's suicide caused controversy because he explicitly blamed Corey, his research advisor, for his suicide. Altom cited in his 1998 farewell note "abusive research supervisors" as one reason for taking his life. Altom's suicide n... | Wikipedia - Elias James Corey - Altom suicide | 308 | 1,506 | null |
Section: Corey Group members. As of 2010, approximately 700 people have been Corey Group members including notable students Eric Block, Dale L. Boger, Weston T. Borden, David E. Cane, Rick L. Danheiser, William L. Jorgensen, John Katzenellenbogen, Alan P. Kozikowski, Bruce H. Lipshutz, David R. Liu, Albert Meyers, K. C... | Wikipedia - Elias James Corey - Corey Group members | 165 | 603 | null |
Section: Woodward–Hoffmann rules. When awarded the Priestley Medal in 2004, E. J. Corey created a controversy with his claim to have inspired Robert Burns Woodward prior to the development of the Woodward–Hoffmann rules. Corey wrote: "On May 4, 1964, I suggested to my colleague R. B. Woodward a simple explanation invol... | Wikipedia - Elias James Corey - Woodward–Hoffmann rules | 350 | 1,636 | null |
Section: Awards and honors. E.J. Corey has received more than 40 major awards including the Linus Pauling Award (1973), Franklin Medal (1978), Tetrahedron Prize (1983), Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1986), National Medal of Science (1988), Japan Prize (1989), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1990), Golden Plate Award of the Americ... | Wikipedia - Elias James Corey - Awards and honors | 196 | 844 | null |
Section: Early life and education. Cram was born and raised in Chester, Vermont, to a Scottish immigrant father, and a German immigrant mother. His father died before Cram turned four, leaving him the only male in a family of five. He grew up on Aid to Dependent Children, and learned to work at an early age, doing jobs... | Wikipedia - Donald J. Cram - Early life and education | 329 | 1,474 | null |
Section: Career > Research. Cram expanded upon Charles Pedersen's ground-breaking synthesis of crown ethers, two-dimensional organic compounds that are able to recognize and selectively combine with the ions of certain metal elements. He synthesized molecules that took this chemistry into three dimensions, creating an ... | Wikipedia - Donald J. Cram - Career > Research | 155 | 855 | null |
Section: Career > Professor. Cram was named an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1947, and a professor in 1955. He served there until his retirement in 1987. He was a popular teacher, having instructed some 8,000 undergraduates in his career and guided the academic output of 200 gradua... | Wikipedia - Donald J. Cram - Career > Professor | 152 | 741 | null |
Section: Scientific career. In 1992, Cramer joined the faculty in the University of Minnesota's department of chemistry, where he remained for his entire academic career. In addition to teaching and research, Cramer was director of both undergraduate and graduate studies in the chemistry department for three years each... | Wikipedia - Christopher J. Cramer - Scientific career | 324 | 1,793 | null |
Cramer also helped pioneer the university's e-learning programs by developing the online course Statistical Molecular Thermodynamics. His research work has covered a wide area, including advancements in solar energy (as head of the Center for the Study of Charge Transfer and Charge Transport in Photoactivated Systems),... | Wikipedia - Christopher J. Cramer - Scientific career | 199 | 1,100 | null |
Article: Stanley J. Cristol. Stanley Jerome Cristol (June 14, 1916 – January 23, 2008) was an American organic chemist. A chemistry professor and long-time faculty member of the University of Colorado Boulder Chemistry and Biochemistry Department, he was named Chair of the American Chemical Society Colorado Section in ... | Wikipedia - Stanley J. Cristol - Summary | 158 | 835 | null |
Section: Career. Cristol started working with insecticides for the USDA at Beltsville in 1944. DDT had been a known chemical for decades at that point, though its insecticidal properties were only discovered in 1939 by Paul Hermann Müller. Cristol was tasked with isolating impurities in insecticide samples, coming to i... | Wikipedia - Stanley J. Cristol - Career | 318 | 1,573 | null |
Section: Selected publications. Cristol, S. J.; Haller, H. L. (1945). "The chemistry of DDT. A Review". Chem. Eng. News. 23 (22): 2070–2075. doi:10.1021/cen-v023n022.p2070. Cristol, S. J. (1947). "The kinetics of the alkaline dehydrochlorination of the benzene hexachloride isomers. The mechanism of second-order elimina... | Wikipedia - Stanley J. Cristol - Selected publications | 345 | 863 | null |
doi:10.1021/ja01107a027. Cristol, S. J.; Arganbright, R. P. (1957). "Bridged polycyclic compounds. IV. The stereochemistry of the free radical addition of p-thiocresol to a bicyclo[2,2,1]heptene and a bicyclo[2,2,2]octene". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 79 (22): 6039–6041. doi:10.1021/ja01579a052. Cristol, S. J.; Brindell, G. D.; ... | Wikipedia - Stanley J. Cristol - Selected publications | 343 | 758 | null |
Chem. Soc. 80 (8): 1950–1952. doi:10.1021/ja01541a043. Cristol, S. J.; Firth, Jr., W. C. (1961). "A convenient synthesis of alkyl halides from carboxylic acids". J. Org. Chem. 26: 280. doi:10.1021/jo01060a628. Cristol, S. J.; Sequeira, R. M.; DePuy, C. H. (1965). "Bridged polycyclic compounds. XXXI. Stereochemical aspe... | Wikipedia - Stanley J. Cristol - Selected publications | 346 | 826 | null |
Soc. 91: 214–215. doi:10.1021/ja01029a053. Cristol, S. J.; Lee, G. A. (1966). "Photochemical transformations. V. Allylic rearrangements and rearrangement of allylic halides to cyclopropyl halides". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 91 (26): 7554–7555. doi:10.1021/ja01054a081. Cristol, S. J.; Greenwald, B. E. (1976). "Photochemical tra... | Wikipedia - Stanley J. Cristol - Selected publications | 326 | 846 | null |
Section: Education. Danheiser was born in New York and received his B.A. in 1972 at Columbia College. While working as an undergraduate under the direction of Gilbert Stork, Danheiser developed a method for the regiospecific alkylation of beta-diketone enol ethers (the "Stork-Danheiser Alkylation"). and employed it in ... | Wikipedia - Rick L. Danheiser - Education | 154 | 589 | null |
Section: Research. Danheiser's research has focused on the development of new strategies for the synthesis of complex molecules and their application in the total synthesis of natural products. Synthetic methods invented in his laboratory include highly stereoselective [4 + 1] cyclopentene annulations based on oxyanion... | Wikipedia - Rick L. Danheiser - Research | 338 | 1,280 | null |
Section: Teaching and service. Danheiser has a particular interest in reproducibility in scientific research. He has been the editor-in-chief of the journal Organic Syntheses and a member of the board of directors of the Organic Syntheses corporation since 2004. Organic Syntheses has the unusual feature that all data a... | Wikipedia - Rick L. Danheiser - Teaching and service | 237 | 1,293 | null |
Section: Awards and honors. In 1995/96 he shared the Wolf Prize in Chemistry with Gilbert Stork of Columbia University for "designing and developing novel chemical reactions which have opened new avenues to the synthesis of complex molecules, particularly polysaccharides and many other biologically and medicinally impo... | Wikipedia - Samuel J. Danishefsky - Awards and honors | 227 | 1,199 | null |
Article: Scott E. Denmark. Scott Eric Denmark is an American chemist who is the Reynold C. Fuson Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Denmark received an S.B. degree from MIT in 1975 and the D.Sc.Tech. degree from ETH Zurich in 1980, under the supervision of Professor Albert ... | Wikipedia - Scott E. Denmark - Summary | 165 | 742 | null |
Section: Early life and education. Denmark was born in Lynbrook, New York in 1953. He attended MIT as an undergraduate and during his studies he was involved in research with both Richard H. Holm on ferredoxin analogs and Daniel S. Kemp on functionalized cyclophanes. He received his S.B. degree from MIT in 1975. His gr... | Wikipedia - Scott E. Denmark - Early life and education | 151 | 650 | null |
Section: Research. Denmark began his independent academic research career in 1980 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where his laboratory's early work focused on investigation of the Nazarov cyclization reaction and Claisen rearrangement. This work was later recognized by the Frederick Stanley Kipping A... | Wikipedia - Scott E. Denmark - Research | 337 | 1,463 | null |
Unlike other organocatalysts, the Lewis base catalysts operate without the assistance of H-bonding, and have a broad substrate scope. An additional area of research for the Denmark group is the observation and characterization of the pre-transmetalation species of the boron-palladium adduct in Suzuki reactions using ra... | Wikipedia - Scott E. Denmark - Research | 231 | 1,183 | null |
Article: Peter Dervan. Peter B. Dervan (born June 28, 1945) is the Bren Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. The primary focus of his research is the development and study of small organic molecules that can sequence-specifically recognize DNA, a field in which he is an internationally reco... | Wikipedia - Peter Dervan - Summary | 155 | 761 | null |
Section: Early life and education. Peter B. Dervan was born on June 28, 1945, in Boston, Massachusetts, in an Irish immigrant family. He grew up in a family of six in Dorchester, a working-class suburb of Boston. Dervan attended Boston College High School and received his B.S. degree from Boston College in 1967, where ... | Wikipedia - Peter Dervan - Early life and education | 204 | 925 | null |
Section: Career. Dervan became an assistant professor of chemistry at Caltech in 1973, joining John D. Roberts, Robert G. Bergman and Robert Ellsworth Ireland in the organic chemistry group. He became an associate professor in 1979, and professor in 1982. He was appointed as the first Bren Professor of Chemistry in 198... | Wikipedia - Peter Dervan - Career | 271 | 1,264 | null |
Section: Research. While teaching a class at Caltech in Advanced Organic Chemistry, Dervan came to a realization that would guide his future career: rather than working to "close" a classic problem that had been previously defined, he would seek to define and "open" a new research area that could be studied for many ye... | Wikipedia - Peter Dervan - Research | 303 | 1,595 | null |
A human cell contains approximately 20,000 genes, whose expression is controlled by the binding of protein transcription factors in the promoter region of each gene. Through pioneering work in DNA recognition, Dervan has determined many of the chemical principles underlying sequence-specific recognition of DNA, and ena... | Wikipedia - Peter Dervan - Research | 257 | 1,303 | null |
Section: Selected publications. Nickols, N. G.; Dervan, P. B. (2007). "Suppression of Androgen Receptor Mediated Gene Expression by a Sequence-Specific DNA Binding Polyamide". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 104 (25): 10418–10423. Bibcode:2007PNAS..10410418N. doi:10.1073/pnas.0704217104. PMC 1965528. PMID 17566103. Yang, F... | Wikipedia - Peter Dervan - Selected publications | 248 | 595 | null |
Section: Education and career. Dong was born in Qingdao, a coastal city in China. Dong received his B.S. degree from Peking University and completed his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Stanford University with Professor Barry M. Trost. Dong’s Ph.D. research studies involved the development of new catalytic enantioselect... | Wikipedia - Guangbin Dong - Education and career | 325 | 1,483 | null |
Section: Research. Dong's research focuses on the following areas: 1) Pushing the boundary of C-C bond activation for efficient synthesis of complex organic molecules. For example, his research group has realized the “cut-and-sew” and “hook-and-slide” strategies for manipulating inert C-C bonds to achieve synthetically... | Wikipedia - Guangbin Dong - Research | 200 | 960 | null |
Section: Biography. Alexander Dounce was born on December 7, 1909, in New York. He began his undergraduate studies at Hamilton College but later moved to Cornell University, where he also did his doctoral studies in the lab of James B. Sumner, a pioneer in protein crystallization. Dounce received his PhD in organic che... | Wikipedia - Alexander Dounce - Biography | 347 | 1,622 | null |
In 1952, Alexander Dounce and Ernest Kay, who was Dounce's first PhD student, published a new method for DNA isolation and purification from nuclei employing sodium dodecyl sulfate that became widely used. Also in 1952, Dounce wrote a review article in which he, as one of the first scientists to do so, proposed that DN... | Wikipedia - Alexander Dounce - Biography | 336 | 1,596 | null |
While the actual mechanism turned out to be different, Dounce's hypothesis that nucleotide triplets code for amino acids was correct, and his speculations "helped lead to the deciphering of the code." In the words of Nirenberg, "In the review he was far ahead of everybody else [...]. He predicted that the code would be... | Wikipedia - Alexander Dounce - Biography | 341 | 1,399 | null |
Section: Scientific publications > Key publications. Dounce, A. L. (September 1935). Study of dihydrofurans and the dehydration rearrangement of 2,3-ethylenic 1,4-diols. Ithaca, New York. LCCN 36016046. OCLC 63223210.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Dounce's PhD thesis Sumner, J. B.; Dounce, ... | Wikipedia - Alexander Dounce - Scientific publications > Key publications | 345 | 971 | null |
Article: John H. Eicher. John Harold Eicher ((1921-03-30)March 30, 1921 – (2016-06-07)June 7, 2016) was an organic chemist, philosopher of science, historian, and author. He was a Manhattan Project scientist who worked at Columbia University to develop the first atomic bomb, and taught chemistry at Miami University in ... | Wikipedia - John H. Eicher - Summary | 189 | 824 | null |
Section: Early life and education. The product of German, Swiss, and a small amount of Delaware Native American ancestry, Eicher was born in Dayton, Ohio. Eicher's father, Harold Ralph Eicher (1892–1968) was a sales manager and his mother, Myrtle Grace (née Wetzel) Eicher (1894–1989) was a seamstress, public school tea... | Wikipedia - John H. Eicher - Early life and education | 239 | 1,103 | null |
Section: Career. Moving to the Ohio State University in Columbus, Eicher helped in the preparation of aviation gasoline components such as triptane, a reference compound, which was sent to the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain. He joined the American Chemical Society in 1943, later serving as an assistant se... | Wikipedia - John H. Eicher - Career | 335 | 1,564 | null |
He became a longtime chapter secretary for the Phi Lambda Upsilon national chemistry honorary, and a member of the research Society of the Sigma Xi. With colleague Alec Kelley (1923–2013), he founded a Unitarian fellowship which later became the Unitarian-Universalist Church of Lafayette, Indiana. Eicher then worked on... | Wikipedia - John H. Eicher - Career | 202 | 961 | null |
Article: Ernest L. Eliel. Ernest Ludwig Eliel (December 28, 1921 – September 18, 2008) was an organic chemist born in Cologne, Germany. Among his awards were the Priestley Medal in 1996 and the NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society in 1997. When the Nazis came to power, he left Germany and moved to Scotland, th... | Wikipedia - Ernest L. Eliel - Summary | 317 | 1,495 | null |
Article: Thomas H. Epps III. Thomas H. Epps, III is an American chemist and the Thomas & Kipp Gutshall Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. He has a joint appointment in Materials Science & Engineering, and an affiliated appointment in Biomedical Engineering. He serves as the ... | Wikipedia - Thomas H. Epps III - Summary | 202 | 1,013 | null |
Section: Early life and education. Epps was born to Ruth Epps, a professor of accounting at Virginia Union University and Virginia Commonwealth University, and Thomas H. Epps, Jr, professor of chemistry at Virginia State University. He grew up in Chesterfield County, Virginia. Epps completed his undergraduate degree at... | Wikipedia - Thomas H. Epps III - Early life and education | 163 | 890 | null |
Section: Research and career. In the summer of 2006 Epps joined the University of Delaware. Here his research considers nanostructured assemblies of polymers for a variety of applications. In particular, he has focused on block copolymers; polymers which are composed of two or more chemically dissimilar units. Specific... | Wikipedia - Thomas H. Epps III - Research and career | 314 | 1,578 | null |
When talking about the new programme, Epps said "one of the big problems that we want to address is sustainability ... not just thinking about whether we can make new polymers or catalysts from biomass, but understanding the impact of these polymers on the environment, in terms of toxicity and in terms of the resources... | Wikipedia - Thomas H. Epps III - Research and career | 309 | 1,614 | null |
Section: Select publications. Albert, Julie N. L.; Epps, Thomas H. (2010-06-01). "Self-assembly of block copolymer thin films". Materials Today. 13 (6): 24–33. doi:10.1016/S1369-7021(10)70106-1. ISSN 1369-7021. Young, Wen-Shiue; Kuan, Wei-Fan; Epps, Thomas H. (2014-01-01). "Block copolymer electrolytes for rechargeable... | Wikipedia - Thomas H. Epps III - Select publications | 263 | 679 | null |
Section: Research and achievements. Fowler's research has led to new fundamental knowledge, development of important scientific tools, and has broad impacts in the application of nuclear medicine to diagnostics and health. She has worked for much of her career developing radiotracers for brain imaging to understand the... | Wikipedia - Joanna Fowler - Research and achievements | 324 | 1,630 | null |
Section: Major publications. Fowler has published approximately 530 papers. The following are a few of the most cited: Inhibition of monoamine oxidase B in the brains of smokers. Fowler, J.S., Volkow, N.D., Wang, G.-J., et al. Nature. Volume 379, Issue 6567, 22 February 1996, Pages 733-736 Distribution volume ratios wi... | Wikipedia - Joanna Fowler - Major publications | 310 | 1,047 | null |
Section: Awards and honors. Fowler's scientific excellence and achievements have been recognized by prestigious awards, including the National Medal of Science, awarded in 2009 by President Obama. In 2003, Fowler was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Her numerous other honors include: 1997 – Society of Nucle... | Wikipedia - Joanna Fowler - Awards and honors | 234 | 1,268 | null |
Section: Biography > Career. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Fox served as president of the scientific research society Sigma Xi. She earned a B.S. in chemistry from Notre Dame College in 1969 and a PhD from Dartmouth College in 1974. In 1976 she joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin, wh... | Wikipedia - Marye Anne Fox - Biography > Career | 340 | 1,761 | null |
Her unanticipated vote at the 11th hour resulted in months of turmoil in college sports. Miami President Donna Shalala delayed her university's acceptance of the ACC invitation to the last possible day explaining "We had numbers on Boston College-Virginia Tech. We had done numbers on Miami alone. But we had not anticip... | Wikipedia - Marye Anne Fox - Biography > Career | 335 | 1,655 | null |
Section: Career. Franz has spent his entire career at Monsanto in St. Louis, Missouri. After finishing his Ph.D., Franz was hired by Monsanto as a Resident Chemist in 1955. He focused on process research, new polymer synthesis, and the development of plasticizers and polymer flame retardants. Franz received two patents... | Wikipedia - John E. Franz - Career | 283 | 1,403 | null |
Section: Career > Discovery of glyphosate. Researchers at Monsanto had been searching for an herbicide that was effective against annual and perennial weeds for nine years but found little success. They knew of two phosphonic acid compounds that were ineffective against weeds, and the researchers were not able to advan... | Wikipedia - John E. Franz - Career > Discovery of glyphosate | 320 | 1,516 | null |
Section: Honors. Franz has received awards for his discovery. In 1977, he was awarded the IR-100 award by Industrial Research magazine. In 1981, he received the first J.F. Queeny Award from Monsanto to honor an invention that was also a commercial success. He was the recipient of the 1987 National Medal of Technology, ... | Wikipedia - John E. Franz - Honors | 333 | 1,718 | null |
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