Robert A. Holton

Robert A. Holton is an American chemist who worked on the total synthesis of taxol . He is a professor of chemistry at Florida State University .

He studied chemistry at the University of North Carolina graduated with a BSc in 1965 and was in 1971 at Florida State University in Martin A. Schwartz for PhD doctorate . This was followed by a postdoc from 1971 to 1973 at Stanford University . From 1973 to 1978 he was an assistant professor at Purdue University and from 1978 to 1985 an associate professor at Virginia Tech . Since 1985 he has been a professor at Florida State University.

A lot of work on the synthesis of natural products has been carried out within his research group . Among other things, work on prostaglandin F2a, Naredin , aphidicolin , taxusin and Hemibrevitoxin B . Holton is Scientific Director and Co-Founder of Taxol Inc. and President and Founder of the MDS Research Foundation and Syncure Inc.

Individual evidence

↑ Robert A. Holton, Carmen Somoza, Hyeong Baik Kim, Feng Liang, Ronald J. Biediger, P. Douglas Boatman, Mitsuru Shindo, Chase C. Smith, Soekchan Kim, Hossain Nadizadeh, Yukio Suzuki, Chunlin Tao, Phong Vu, Suhan Tang, Pingsheng Zhang, Krishna K. Murthi, Lisa N. Gentile, and Jyanwei H. Liu. "First total synthesis of taxol. 1. Functionalization of the B ring". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1994 , 116 1597-1598. doi : 10.1021 / ja00083a066 .
↑ Robert A. Holton, Hyeong-Baik Kim, Carmen Somoza, Feng Liang, Ronald J. Biediger, P. Douglas Boatman, Mitsuru Shindo, Chase C. Smith, Soekchan Kim, Hossain Nadizadeh, Yukio Suzuki, Chunlin Tao, Phong Vu, Suhan Tang, Pingsheng Zhang, Krishna K. Murthi, Lisa N. Gentile, and Jyanwei H. Liu. "First Total Synthesis of Taxol. 2. Completion of the C and D Rings". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1994 , 116 , 1599-1600.
↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Robert A. Holton at academictree.org, accessed on February 12 2018th
^ Robert A. Holton, RR Juo, Hyeong B. Kim, Andrew D. Williams, Shinya. Harusawa, Richard E. Lowenthal, and Sadamu. Yogai. "A synthesis of taxusin". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1988 , 110 , 6558-6560. doi : 10.1021 / ja00227a043 .

Web links

Florida State University
Taxologist Robert A. Holton ( Memento from January 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Dr. Robert A. Holton (PDF; 1.7 MB)

personal data
SURNAME	Holton, Robert A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century

[1] Robert A. Holton, Carmen Somoza, Hyeong Baik Kim, Feng Liang, Ronald J. Biediger, P. Douglas Boatman, Mitsuru Shindo, Chase C. Smith, Soekchan Kim, Hossain Nadizadeh, Yukio Suzuki, Chunlin Tao, Phong Vu, Suhan Tang, Pingsheng Zhang, Krishna K. Murthi, Lisa N. Gentile, and Jyanwei H. Liu. "First total synthesis of taxol. 1. Functionalization of the B ring". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1994 , 116 1597-1598. doi : 10.1021 / ja00083a066 .

[2] Robert A. Holton, Hyeong-Baik Kim, Carmen Somoza, Feng Liang, Ronald J. Biediger, P. Douglas Boatman, Mitsuru Shindo, Chase C. Smith, Soekchan Kim, Hossain Nadizadeh, Yukio Suzuki, Chunlin Tao, Phong Vu, Suhan Tang, Pingsheng Zhang, Krishna K. Murthi, Lisa N. Gentile, and Jyanwei H. Liu. "First Total Synthesis of Taxol. 2. Completion of the C and D Rings". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1994 , 116 , 1599-1600.

[3] raphical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Robert A. Holton at academictree.org, accessed on February 12 2018th

[4] Robert A. Holton, RR Juo, Hyeong B. Kim, Andrew D. Williams, Shinya. Harusawa, Richard E. Lowenthal, and Sadamu. Yogai. "A synthesis of taxusin". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1988 , 110 , 6558-6560. doi : 10.1021 / ja00227a043 .