Larry E. Overman
Larry Eugene Overman (* 1943 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American chemist and full professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine .
In 1965 he received his BA from Earlham College and in 1969 he was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. PhD in chemistry . After a postdoctoral stay at Columbia University with Ronald Breslow , he moved to the University of California, where he is now a full professor.
Larry Overman became a research fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellow ) in 1975 . He has been a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1996 . In 2003 his work was honored with the Arthur C. Cope Award and in 2008 with the Tetrahedron Prize . The Roger Adams Award and the Ryōji Noyori Prize were announced to Overman for 2015.
Overman's research interests are the development of new chemical reactions with a focus on transition metal - catalyzed syntheses of organic natural products . It is particularly associated with the Overman rearrangement and Claisen rearrangement of allylic alcohols for the synthesis of allylic trichloroacetimidates .
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| SURNAME | Overman, Larry E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Overman, Larry Eugene (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois |