Chemist no. 55 of 350 · Organic
Robert Burns Woodward
1917-1979United StatesNobel Chemistry 1965
Total synthesis; Woodward-Hoffmann rules
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The Woodward-Hoffmann Rules: Why Some Reactions Go One Way and Not the Other
Understand the Woodward-Hoffmann rules: conrotatory and disrotatory electrocyclic reactions, cycloadditions, sigmatropic shifts, with examples and exam tips.
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Robert Burns Woodward: The Life of the Master of Organic Synthesis
Biography of R. B. Woodward: MIT PhD at 20, syntheses of quinine, strychnine, chlorophyll and vitamin B12, Nobel Prize 1965 and the Woodward-Hoffmann rules.
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