Robert Robinson (scientist)
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Sir Robert Robinson, (13 September 1886 – 8 February 1975), won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Chemistry [1] for his research on plant dyestuffs (anthocyanins) and alkaloids. He was the Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University from 1930 and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Robinson Close in the Science Area at Oxford is named after him [2], as is the Robert Robinson Laboratory at the University of Liverpool.
Work
His synthesis of tropinone, a precursor of cocaine, in 1917 was not only a big step in alkaloid chemistry but also showed that tandem reactions in a one-pot synthesis are capable of forming bicyclic molecules.[1] [2]
References
- ↑ R. Robinson (1917). "A synthesis of tropinone". Journal of the Chemical Society, Transaction 111: 762-768. doi:10.1039/CT9171100762.
- ↑ Arthur John Birch (1993). "Investigating a Scientific Legend: The Tropinone Synthesis of Sir Robert Robinson, F.R.S.". Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 47 (2): 277-296. doi:10.1098/rsnr.1993.0034.
- Abraham E. P. (1987). "Sir Robert Robinson and the early history of penicillin.". Nat Prod Rep. 4 (1): 41-46. doi:10.1039/np9870400041.
- Lord Todd; J. W. Cornforth (1976). "Robert Robinson 13 September 1886 - 8 February 1975". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 22: 414-527. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1976.0018..
- M. D. Saltzman (1987). "The development of Sir Robert Robinson's contributions to theoretical organic chemistry". Nat. Prod. Rep. 4: 53-60. doi:10.1039/NP9870400053.
External links
- Nobel Lecture Some Polycyclic Natural Products from Nobelprize.org website
- Biography Biography from Nobelprize.org website
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Theodor Svedberg (1926) • Heinrich Wieland (1927) • Adolf Windaus (1928) • Arthur Harden / Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1929) • Hans Fischer (1930) • Carl Bosch / Friedrich Bergius (1931) • Irving Langmuir (1932) • Harold Urey (1934) • Frédéric Joliot-Curie / Irène Joliot-Curie (1935) • Peter Debye (1936) • Walter Haworth / Paul Karrer (1937) • Richard Kuhn (1938) • Adolf Butenandt / Lavoslav Ružička (1939) • George de Hevesy (1943) • Otto Hahn (1944) • Artturi Virtanen (1945) • James B. Sumner / John Northrop / Wendell Meredith Stanley (1946) • Robert Robinson (1947) • Arne Tiselius (1948) • William Giauque (1949) • Otto Diels / Kurt Alder (1950) |
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