Robert Burns Woodward
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Robert Burns Woodward was an American organic chemist, who is considered by many to be the preeminent synthetic organic chemist of the twentieth century.
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Woodward talked about Chlorophyll in 1965
Vitamin B12 total synthesis
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The total synthesis of vitamin B12 was accomplished in 1972 by two different approaches between the collaborating research groups of Robert Burns Woodward at Harvard and Albert Eschenmoser at ETH. The
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…and planning (see also palytoxin, synthesized by the research group of Yoshito Kishi, one of Woodward's postdoctoral students). As of 2019, no other total synthesis of Vitamin B12 has been published. That same year, based on observations that Woodward had made during the B12 synthesis, he and Roald Hoffmann devised rules (now…
Figure 7a – ETH B12 Ph.D. theses (top to bottom, in chronological order: Jost Wild, Urs Locher, Alexander Wick, and)
Figure 7b – Three stacks of Harvard B12 reports written by postdoctoral researchers