Men of Ochem Flashcards
Samuel Danishefsky
CU faculty, Wolf prize. Has his own diene.
Friedrich August Kukule
proposed correct benzene structure in 1865. No Nobel, but his students won three of the first five in chemistry.
Albert Ladenburg
Proposed prism structure for benzene. 1869.
Erich Huckel
Huckel’s Rule. 4n+2
Kurt Alder
Of Deils-Alder, won Nobel prize as a graduate student.
Richard Willstatter
synthesized cyclooctatetraene, plant pigment nobel prize.
Otto Diels
Won Nobel with Alder in 1950.
Traugott Sandmeyer
Discovered Sandmeyer reaction in 1884. Indigo dye!
Charles Freidel
Of F-C fame. French. He wanted to sythesize diamonds!
Crafts was American, boring.
Jack Roberts
Discovered benzyne RXN. Cal Tech.
EJ Corey
retrosynthetic analysis
Linus Pauling
Two Nobel prizes, one for peace, one for chem. Clarified Kukele’s benzene structure with the idea of resonance.
EWG
lowers LUMO
EDG
Raises HOMO
Heteroatoms in aromatic rings
varied bond length, less stable than benzene
