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unusual facts about Dakin-West reaction



Dream Pets

The names Dakin and Dream Pets were purchased by retail chain Big Lots, as of July 2011 Big lots had not produced any further Dream pets.

George Francis Willis

He sold his firm in 1922 but then made another fortune with Zonite, an antiseptic preparation based on Dakin's Solution, widely used in World War I.

Henry Drysdale Dakin

Due to a request for a chemist by Alexis Carrel to the Rockefeller Institute, Dakin joined Carrel in 1916 at a temporary hospital in Compiègne.

Henry Gassett Davis

He recommended opening and evacuating abscesses and washing them with warm water and chlorine, an early form of the more modern Carrel-Dakin method of wound treatment.

Janet Wilder Dakin

Janet Wilder Dakin (June 3, 1910 - October 7, 1994), was a philanthropist, zoologist and a younger sister of author Thornton Wilder and poet Charlotte Wilder.

Michael Dakin

Michael Farrell Dakin (Mike) is a retired Royal New Zealand Artillery officer, a Vietnam veteran and a management consultant.

Philip Dakin Wagoner

Philip Dakin Wagoner was born on 24 July 1876 in Somerville, New Jersey, son of Dr. Henry G. Wagoner and Rachel Lime Dakin Wagoner.

Robinson–Gabriel synthesis

Starting with aspartic acid β esters undergoing acylation to differentiate the first substituent, linked to carbon-2, followed by Dakin-West conversion to keto-amide to introduce the second substituent, and ending with the Robinson-Gabriel cyclodehydration at 90°C for 30 minutes with either phosphorus oxychloride in DMF or catalytic sulfuric acid in acetic anhydride.

Shawn Sturgeon

He was a Charles Phelps Taft Fellow and studied Mexican literature and culture while living in Mexico, and a Tennessee Williams Scholar and Walter Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.


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