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ISBN10: 3764336161, ISBN13: 9783764336165, [publisher: Birkhauser] Hardcover With a gift inscription on the front flyleaf, othewise a fine hardcover first edition copy in a fine mylar protected DJ, gray spine. [Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1992]
ISBN10: 3764336161, ISBN13: 9783764336165, [publisher: Boston, etc.: Birkhäuser, 1992.] Hardcover First Edition Frontispiece, 332 pp; illus. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. Inscribed: 'Best wishes to/Dr. William Doering/Wilf. Arnold/July 15, 2002'. Beneath the inscription Arnold has drawn a figure resembling a chemical diagram. 'William von Eggers Doering (June 22, 1917 January 3, 2011) was a Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and the former Chair of its Chemistry Department. Prior to joining the Faculty at Harvard, he was a member of the Chemistry Faculties of Columbia University (19421952) and Yale (19521968). He is known in the field of organic chemistry for his work on quinine total synthesis with Robert Burns Woodward. Some people think, as Woodward, he should have been awarded the Nobel Prize for this work. Having published his first scientific paper in 1939 and his last in 2008, he holds the rare distinction of having authored scholarly articles in eight different decades. In 1990, he received the Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry and in 1989, he received the 'James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry' of the American Chemical Society. Some of his discoveries include the structure elucidation of the tropylium cation, the discovery of dichlorocarbene, bullvalene and fulvalene and the discovery of the mechanism of the BaeyerVilliger oxidation' (Wikipedia). [Redondo Beach, CA, U.S.A.] [P ...
ISBN10: 3764336161, ISBN13: 9783764336165, [publisher: Birkha user] Hardcover Very Good [liverpool, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1992]
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