Steven M. Weinreb
Steven Martin Weinreb (born May 10, 1941 in Brooklyn ) is an American chemist ( organic chemistry ).
Weinreb graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in 1963 and received his PhD in chemistry from the University of Rochester in 1967 with Marshall Gates . 1966/67 he was with Gilbert Stork at Columbia University . He was then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with George Büchi ) and from 1970 Assistant Professor and later Associate Professor at Fordham University . In 1978 he became an associate professor and in 1987 a professor at Pennsylvania State University .
He dealt with the synthesis of natural products and chemistry of heterocycles. The Weinreb amide ketone synthesis is named after him (developed with Steven Nahm)
In 1983/84 he was a Guggenheim Fellow and from 1975 to 1979 a Sloan Research Fellow .
Fonts
- Alkaloid total synthesis by intramolecular imino Diels-Alder cycloadditions, Accounts of Chemical Research, Volume 18, 1985, p. 16.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004.
- ↑ Nahm, Weinreb, Tetrahedron Letters, Volume 22, 1981, p. 3815.
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SURNAME | Weinreb, Steven M. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weinreb, Steven Martin (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1941 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn |