Chemist no. 175 of 350 · Organic

William S. Knowles

1917-2012United StatesNobel Chemistry 2001

Asymmetric hydrogenation, L-DOPA process

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The discovery, explained

William Knowles and Asymmetric Hydrogenation: The Birth of Industrial Chiral Catalysis

How William Knowles used a chiral rhodium-phosphine catalyst for asymmetric hydrogenation and the Monsanto L-DOPA process. Notes for JAM, NET, GATE.

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Biography

William S. Knowles: The Industrial Chemist Who Made Chiral Catalysis Practical

Life of William S. Knowles, American industrial chemist who developed asymmetric hydrogenation for L-DOPA and shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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