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unusual facts about Organic chemistry


Sudhir Naik

He is a rare combination of a cricketer and an organic chemist with first class in M Sc in Organic Chemistry from Ruparel College in Bombay.


Bruce Roth

After receiving his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Iowa State University in 1981, he spent a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Rochester, then joined Parke-Davis of Warner-Lambert Company as a Medicinal Chemist in 1982.

Cahn–Ingold–Prelog priority rules

The Cahn–Ingold–Prelog priority rules, CIP system or CIP conventions (after Robert Sidney Cahn, Christopher Kelk Ingold and Vladimir Prelog) are a set of rules used in organic chemistry to name the stereoisomers of a molecule.

Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry

He have been hired by Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, to carry out research at the Department of Organic Chemistry II, of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), in Leioa, part of Bilbao conurbation, Basque Country, Spain.

Early life of Jan Smuts

His surviving notebooks from this period reveal the range and breadth of his studies: Latin, Greek, German, the Classics, Optical Physics, Inorganic Chemistry and Metallurgy, Organic Chemistry and Agriculture, and Geology - to name but a few.

Hazel Bishop

In 1942, she worked as an organic chemist for Standard Oil Development Company, designing fuels for airplanes during World War II.

Herchel Smith

His independent research started in Oxford University (1952–1956) but reached its full fruition whilst he was a lecturer in organic chemistry at the University of Manchester.

Jakob Meisenheimer

He made numerous contributions to organic chemistry, the most famous being his proposed structure for a group of compounds now named Meisenheimer complex.

Kerim Gattás Asfura

Kerim M. Gattás Asfura (born February 5, 1976 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras) is a chemist who through his research work has contributed to applied organic chemistry in the field of biomaterials as well as surface and supramolecular chemistry.

MSCL

Methanesulfonyl chloride, an Organic Compound with the chemical formula CH3ClO2S.

Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences

However, it is typical for the Biology course to be in HIV/AIDS Biotechnology, the Chemistry course to be in Organic Chemistry, the Mathematics Course on Discrete Mathematics and the Physics course typically covers concepts in Modern Physics, often focusing on Special Relativity.

Richard Kuhn

Kuhn's areas of study included: investigations of theoretical problems of organic chemistry (stereochemistry of aliphatic and aromatic compounds; syntheses of polyenes and cumulenes; constitution and colour; the acidity of hydrocarbons), as well as extensive fields in biochemistry (carotenoids; flavins; vitamins and enzymes).

Siegfried Blechert

After a research stay with Professor Pierre Potier in Gif-sur-Yvette, France, in 1981, he finished his habilitation at the University of Hannover in 1982 and there became lecturer in organic chemistry.


see also

4n + 2

Hückel's rule in organic chemistry, also known as the 4n + 2 rule

Beilstein database

Isaac Asimov's short story What's in a Name? (1956) introduced the Beilstein "Handbook of Organic Chemistry" as an important plot element.

Brewing Industry Research Foundation

In 1946 the Institute of Brewing recommended the setting up of an experimental research station, the Brewing Industry Research Foundation, with a full-time Director of Research and in 1947 Dr J Masson Gulland (Professor of Organic Chemistry, Nottingham University) was appointed to that position.

Columbia University traditions

On the day before the Organic Chemistry exam—which is often on the first day of finals—at precisely the stroke of midnight, the Columbia University Marching Band occupies Butler Library to distract diligent students from studying in an attempt to raise the curve on the organic chemistry exam.

Erik De Clercq

Since 1976 Erik De Clercq has collaborated on the development of new antiretroviral drugs with Antonín Holý, of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (IOCB) of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague, Czech Republic.

Friedrich Asinger

Well-known students of Asinger are in example Heribert Offermanns, a longtime board member of the Degussa AG, Egon Fanghänel, professor of organic chemistry at the Technical University Merseburg and then at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, and Karl Gewald, who is best known for the development of the Gewald reaction and his work in the field of thiophenes and heterocycles.

Friedrich Paneth

He studied chemistry at the University of Vienna and after working with Adolf von Baeyer at the University of Munich he received his PhD with Zdenko Hans Skraup at the organic chemistry department of the University of Vienna in 1910.

Georg Wittig

In 1944 he succeeded the head of the organic chemistry department Wilhelm Schlenk at the University of Tübingen.

George Preti

He received his B.S. in Chemistry from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1966, and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1971 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a specialty in Organic Mass Spectrometry in the laboratory of Professor Klaus Biemann.

George Rosenkranz

He planned to go to Quito, Ecuador, and chair a university organic chemistry department.

Jeffery W. Kelly

Kelly received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1986) and performed post-doctoral research at The Rockefeller University (1986–89).

John White Webster

He wrote A Description of the Island of St. Michael (1821), was associate editor of the Boston Journal of Philosophy and the Arts (1824–26), compiled A Manual of Chemistry (1826), and brought out editions of Andrew Fyfe's Elements of Chemistry (1827) and Justus von Liebig's Animal Chemistry or Organic Chemistry (1841).

Kotaro Shimomura

He took the degree of B.S. He went to Johns Hopkins University where he worked in organic chemistry under Prof. Ira Remsen.

Leo Paquette

He received his B.S. degree from Holy Cross College in 1956 and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959.

Norbert Bischofberger

He worked as part of the DNA synthesis group at Genentech from 1986–1990, before joining Gilead in 1990 as Director of Organic Chemistry.

Polycyclic

Polycyclic compound, in organic chemistry, a cyclic compound with more than one hydrocarbon loop or ring structures

Robert Ackman

Born in Dorchester, New Brunswick, his education included a Bachelor of Arts in organic chemistry from the University of Toronto received in 1950, a Master of Science in organic chemistry from Dalhousie University received in 1952, a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of London received in 1956, and a D.I.C. in organic chemistry from Imperial College London.

Robert Owen Hutchins

Born in Danville, Illinois, Hutchins earned a B.S. degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1961, an M.A. degree in phytochemistry from California State University, Long Beach in 1962, and a Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry from Purdue University under Joseph Wolinsky in 1967 .

Samuel I. Stupp

He has been a visiting professor at the University of Strasbourg (guest of Jean-Marie Lehn) and held the Juliot Curie Professorship at École Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (guest of late Pierre-Gilles de Gennes) and the Merck-Karl Pfister Visiting Pressorship in Organic Chemistry at MIT.

SO4

Sulfate, SO42-, in organic chemistry, a salt of sulfuric acid

SRN1

Radical-nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SRN1), a type of substitution reaction in organic chemistry

William Francis Hillebrand

He studied organic chemistry for three semesters with Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig at the University of Strasbourg, but changed to geochemistry and metallurgy by studying at the Freiberg Mining Academy.

Wolfgang Steglich

He succeeded Rolf Huisgen as head of the organic chemistry department of the University of Munich in 1991.

YNE

-yne, a suffix used in organic chemistry for names of alkynes