Robert Burns Woodward was an American organic chemist. He is considered by many to be the preeminent synthetic organic chemist of the twentieth century, having made many key contributions to the subje
Woodward talked about Chlorophyll in 1965
Ronald Charles David Breslow was an American chemist from Rahway, New Jersey. He was University Professor at Columbia University, where he was based in the Department of Chemistry and affiliated with
Straight chain analogs for aromaticity studies
Racemization of amino acids on an evolutionary time scale. Alpha methyl amino acids cannot racemize
Decarboxylative transamination. Note that the final product shown can be protonated from either face, generating a racemic mixture after hydrolysis of the imine.