Ian Fleming (chemist)
Ian Fleming (* 1935 in Staffordshire ) is a retired British professor of organic chemistry at the University of Cambridge . He became known in 1967 for the structural analysis of chlorophyll and as a specialist book author. He was also involved in the synthesis of cyanocobalamin with Robert Burns Woodward . He has also earned merit through the use of organosilicon compounds in stereoselective synthesis . The Fleming-Tamao oxidation in this area is named after him.
Life
Ian Fleming was born in Staffordshire and grew up in Stourbridge , Worcestershire . He received a BA in 1959 and a Ph.D. in 1962 from Pembroke College Cambridge with John Harley-Mason. PhD . This was followed by a postdoc with RB Woodward at Harvard University , where he was involved in the total synthesis of vitamin B 12 . Fleming is the author of many international publications and contributions to the chemical encyclopedia Comprehensive Organic Chemistry . He is also the author of several textbooks and a standard work on frontier orbit theory .
Books (selection)
- Ian Fleming: Pericyclic reactions. Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-850307-1
- Ian Fleming: Frontier Orbitals and Reactions of Organic Compounds. VCH Weinheim 1979, ISBN 3-527-25792-6
Prizes and awards
- 1981 Tilden Lectureship from the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 1983 Prize for Organic Synthesis
Individual evidence
- ^ Ian Fleming: Absolute Configuration and the Structure of Chlorophyll. In: Nature. Volume 216, 1967, pp. 151-152 doi : 10.1038 / 216151a0
- ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Ian Fleming in academictree.org, accessed on February 6, 2018th
Web links
- biography
- Homepage
- Literature by and about Ian Fleming (chemist) in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fleming, Ian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British organic chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Staffordshire |