Paul Wender

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Paul Anthony Wender (* 1947 ) is an American chemist (organic synthesis). He is a professor at Stanford University .

Wender graduated from Wilkes College with a bachelor's degree in 1969 and received his PhD from Yale University in 1973 with Frederick E. Ziegler . He was a post-doctoral student at Columbia University in 1974 . In 1974 he became an assistant professor and later an associate professor at Harvard University and in 1982 a professor at Stanford. He is Francis W. Bergstrom Professor there .

It deals with the targeted synthesis of complex biologically interesting molecules and coined the term function-oriented synthesis (function oriented synthesis). He pursued applications such as for drugs used in cancer therapy and synthesized among other phorbol , taxol , resiniferatoxin and prostratin . Because of his work on the synthesis of indole derivatives, the Wender indole synthesis he described in 1981 was named after im.

In 1979 Wender was a Sloan Research Fellow . He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2003), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1995 he received the Pfizer Research Award for synthetic organic chemistry, the Eli Lilly Grantee Award , the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award , the Humboldt Research Award , in 1988 the Ernest Guenther Award from the ACS, their American Chemical Society Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry and its HC Brown Award in 2003 . In 2013 he received the Prelog Medal , in 2012 the Tetrahedron Prize and in 2015 the Arthur C. Cope Award .

He has been a consultant to Eli Lilly since 1980 and is also a consultant to CellGate.

He is not to be confused with the psychologist Paul H. Wender.

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  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Paul A. Wender, Alan W. White: Methodology for indole synthesis . In: Tetrahedron Letters . tape 22 , no. 16 , 1981, pp. 1475–1478 , doi : 10.1016 / S0040-4039 (01) 90354-5 ( elsevier.com [accessed June 21, 2019]).
  3. ^ Past Fellows. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, accessed June 30, 2019 .
  4. ↑ 2015 National Award Recipients at the American Chemical Society (acs.org); Retrieved August 19, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Wender, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wender, Paul Anthony (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Chemist (Organic Synthesis)
DATE OF BIRTH 1947