Chemist no. 58 of 350 · Organic
Elias James Corey
1928-United StatesNobel Chemistry 1990
Retrosynthetic analysis
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Retrosynthetic Analysis: How E. J. Corey Taught Chemists to Think Backwards
Understand E. J. Corey's retrosynthetic analysis: disconnections, synthons, functional group interconversion, umpolung and examples for JAM, NET and GATE.
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E. J. Corey: The Life of the Chemist Who Taught the World to Plan Syntheses
Biography of E. J. Corey: childhood in Massachusetts, MIT education, Harvard career, retrosynthetic analysis, Nobel Prize 1990 and lasting influence.
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Documented doctoral, postdoctoral and teaching links. Dashed chips are teachers outside the 350 chemists listed here.
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