Carl R. Johnson

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Carl Randolph Johnson (born April 28, 1937 in Charlottesville , Virginia ) is an American chemist ( organic chemistry ).

Johnson grew up in Orange (Virginia) and attended the Medical College of Virginia with a bachelor's degree in pharmacy in 1958 and in 1962 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in chemistry with Nelson J. Leonard with the thesis I. Transannular sulfoxide- ketone interaction II. A prospectus of the vancomycin structure doctorates . As a post-doctoral student he was at Harvard University with Elias J. Corey . In 1962 he became an assistant professor and later professor at Wayne State University , from 1990 as a Distinguished Professor . From 1997 to 2001 he headed the chemistry faculty and in 2002 he retired. Since then he has lived in Hartfield on Chesapeake Bay.

He dealt with organic sulfur compounds, especially sulfoxides and sulfoximines , organometallic chemistry, organic synthesis of particularly medicinally interesting substances and natural products, enzymes in synthesis. He had 64 graduate students at Wayne State and he published over 200 papers.

In 2002 he was an Arthur C. Cope Scholar. From 1965 to 1968 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1991 he received the Humboldt Research Award .

From 1984 to 1989 he was Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. From 1981 he was on the board of directors of Organic Syntheses and he was editor of Volume 57. From 1976 to 1981 he was on the advisory board of the Journal of Organic Chemistry. In 1987 he was director of the organic chemistry division of the American Chemical Society .

He has been married to chemist Mary Cardwell since 1966 and has one son.

Fonts

  • with Allinger , Norman A. Lebel , Don C. DeJongh , Michael P. Cava , Calvin L. Stevens : Organische Chemie , 1st edition, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-11-004594-X .
  • with Daniel J. Pasto, Marvin J. Miller: Experiments and techniques in organic chemistry, Prentice Hall 1992
  • with Daniel J. Pasto: Laboratory text for organic chemistry: a source book of chemical and physical techniques, Prentice Hall 1979
  • with Daniel J. Pasto: Organic Structure Determination, Prentice Hall 1969

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Chemistry Tree
personal data
SURNAME Johnson, Carl R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johnson, Carl Randolph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottesville , Virginia