Steven M. Weinreb

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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

  1. Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004.
  2. Nahm, Weinreb, Tetrahedron Letters, Volume 22, 1981, p. 3815.