James Cullen Martin

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James Cullen Martin (born January 14, 1928 in Dover (Tennessee) , † April 20, 1999 in Tampa (Florida) ) was an American chemist ( organic chemistry ).

James Cullen Martin 1991

Martin received his PhD from Harvard University in 1956 with Paul D. Bartlett ( The Chlorination of 1,4-endoxocyclohexane ). He was a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . In 1962 he became a Sloan Research Fellow .

With his doctoral student Daniel Benjamin Dess he introduced the Dess-Martin oxidation , the selective alcohol oxidation with Dess-Martin periodinane .

In 1983 he headed the Organic Chemistry Department of the American Chemical Society .

literature

  • Kin-ya Akiba Memoirs of James Cullen Martin , Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon and the Related Elements, Vol. 181, No. 5, 2006, pp. 1201-1215

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of James Cullen Martin at academictree.org, accessed on January 1, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Martin, James Cullen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Dover, Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1999
Place of death Tampa (Florida)