Herbert O. House

Herbert Otis House (born December 5, 1929 in Willoughby , Ohio , † October 2, 2013 in Alpharetta , Georgia ) was an American chemist and professor of organic chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Life

House studied chemistry at the University of Illinois , where he in the group of Reynold Clayton Fuson his dissertation Customized and in 1953 a doctorate was. In 1955 he became a Sloan Research Fellow . In May 1964 he accepted a call to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he took the chair for organic chemistry.

His research focus was on the chemistry of carbanions , nitrogenous compounds , rearrangements , the synthesis of polycyclic systems, and new or improved synthetic methods . House's name is primarily associated with the Corey House synthesis , also known as the Corey-Posner-Whitesides-House reaction .

A well-known student of Herbert O. House is Barry Trost .

Works

• Herbert O. House: Modern Synthetic Reactions (The Organic Chemistry Monograph Series) , WA Benjamin, New York, 1965

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary on memorialsolutions.com accessed December 26, 2017
2. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Herbert O. House at academictree.org, accessed on February 12, 2018.
3. ^ Past Fellows. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, accessed May 31, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Technology Review, p. 8. Retrieved December 27, 2013 . 
5. ^ Herbert O. House, William L. Respess, George M. Whitesides: The Chemistry of Carbanions. XII. The Role of Copper in the Conjugate Addition of Organometallic Reagents. In: The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 31, 1966, pp. 3128-3141, doi : 10.1021 / jo01348a012 .
6. ^ EJ Corey, Gary H. Posner: Selective formation of carbon-carbon bonds between unlike groups using organocopper reagents . In: Journal of the American Chemical Society . 89, 196, pp. 3911-3912, doi : 10.1021 / ja00991a049