Robert Downs Haworth

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Haworth reaction

Robert Downs Haworth (born March 15, 1898 in Cheadle , Cheshire , † May 19, 1990 ) was an English chemist ( organic chemistry ).

Haworth was the son of a school principal, was at Arthur Lapworth in 1922 at the University of Manchester PhD and worked as a post-graduate student at Oxford in junior William Henry Perkin . From 1927 he was a professor at the University of Newcastle and from 1939 at the University of Sheffield .

He dealt with the chemistry of natural substances ( resins , tannins , structure and synthesis of alkaloids ).

Haworth Phenanthrene Synthesis

A variant of Friedel-Crafts alkylation , the Haworth reaction, is named after him (1932). It creates 1-tetralone . The related phenanthrene synthesis, the Haworth synthesis (1932), is named after him.

In 1956 he received the Davy Medal . In 1944 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society .

Peter Pauson is one of his doctoral students .

literature

  • Ewart Jones , Biographical Memoirs Fellows Royal Society, Volume 37, 1991

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Robert Downs Haworth at academictree.org, accessed on January 1, 2018th
  2. ↑ Jie Jack Li, Named Reactions, Springer 2003, p. 175
  3. ↑ John Andraos, Named organic reactions
personal data
SURNAME Haworth, Robert Downs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Cheadle (Cheshire)
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1990