Barbara M. Ferrier

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Barbara M. Ferrier (born August 7, 1932 in Edinburgh , Scotland , † before or on January 5, 2006 in Hamilton , Canada ) was a British-Canadian chemist and university professor.

Life

Ferrier holds a PhD in chemistry from the University of Edinburgh . In the 1960s she worked at Harvard University in the group of William von Eggers Doering . Here she was instrumental in the synthesis of bridged 3,4-homotropilidenes . The corresponding connections Barbaralan and Barbaralon were named after her. In 1969 Ferrier came to McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, where she worked at the Faculty of Health Sciences from 1972 as a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences until her retirement in 1998.

Ferrier was the twin sister of the British-New Zealand chemist and professor Robert J. Ferrier .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A tribute to professor emeritus Barbara Ferrier. McMaster University, January 6, 2006, accessed October 4, 2019 .
  2. Jump up ↑ W. von E. Doering, BM Ferrier, ET Fossel, JH Hartenstein, M. Jones, G. Klumpp, RM Rubin, M. Saunders: A rational synthesis of bullvalene barbaralone and derivatives; bullvalone . In: Tetrahedron . tape 23 , no. January 10 , 1967, p. 3943 , doi : 10.1016 / S0040-4020 (01) 97904-9 .
  3. ↑ Alex Nickon, Ernest F. Silversmith: Organic Chemistry: The Name Game . Modern Coined Terms and Their Origins. Pergamon Press, New York 1987, ISBN 0-08-034481-X , pp. 133 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ^ Richard Furneaux, Ralf Schwörer, Sarah Wilcox: Robert John (Robin) Ferrier 1932–2013 . In: Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry . tape 72 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Ferrier, Barbara M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Canadian chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 2006
Place of death Hamilton , Canada