Lewis Norman Mander
Lewis Norman Mander AC , also known as Lew Mander , (born September 8, 1939 in Auckland , † February 8, 2020 in Canberra ) was a New Zealand chemist ( organic chemistry ). He taught at the Australian National University .
Life
Mander studied chemistry at the University of Auckland and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1960 and a master's degree in 1961. In 1965 he received his doctorate from the University of Sydney and worked at the University of Michigan with Robert Ellsworth Ireland , which he followed in 1965 to the California Institute of Technology . In 1966 he taught as a lecturer and in 1970 as a senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide and from 1975 as a senior fellow, followed from 1980 as a professor at the Australian National University in Canberra . 1981 to 1986 and again in the 1990s he was Dean of the Research School of Chemistry there .
He was known for his syntheses and chemical studies of gibberellins (which are plant hormones) and terpenes (diterpenes). Methyl cyanoformate as a reagent in organic synthesis is named after him, which he used for the C-selective acylation of enolates .
In 2010 he received the Robert Robinson Award and in 1987 the Flintoff Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was a member of the Australian Academy of Science (1983) and the Royal Society of New Zealand . Mander was a Nuffield Commonwealth Fellow at the University of Cambridge from 1971 to 1972 , a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the California Institute of Technology in 1977 and Harvard University in 1986 . From 1994 to 1995 he taught as a visiting scholar at the RIKEN Institute in Japan .
Works
- with Ernest L. Eliel , Samuel H. Wilen : Stereochemistry of Organic Compounds, Wiley 1994
- Twenty years of Gibberellin research, Natural Product Reports, Volume 20, 2003, pp. 49-69.
- Stereoselective Synthesis, Wiley-VCH 1998
Web links
- Mander, Lewis Norman (Lew) (1939-) . Encyclopedia of Australian Science, February 7, 2011,accessed June 3, 2016.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mander, Lewis Norman |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mander, Lew |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | New Zealand Chemist (Organic Chemistry) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Auckland |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 2020 |
| Place of death | Canberra |