Showing posts with label Woodward. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Woodward. Show all posts

R. B. Woodward, general problems and the importance of timely birth

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History has its own way of securing rewards for those who ride its crests. That's especially true of scientists. If we look at the g...
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The linguistic adventures of Robert Burns Woodward

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Photo credit: Jeff Seeman Everyone knows about the supreme scientific achievements of Robert Burns Woodward , but few chemists from toda...
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R B Woodward. Vitamin B12. 3.5 hours. Enough said.

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Dylan Stiles (of pioneering " Tenderbutton " fame - username tender, password button in case you want a trip down memory lane) has...

Science as a messy human endeavor: The origin of the Woodward-Hoffmann rules

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A 1973 slide from Roald Hoffmann displaying the 'Woodward Challenge' - four mysterious reactions which spurred the Woodward-Hoff...
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The 111 Nobel Prize nominations of Robert Burns Woodward

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As Nobel season dawns upon us, Stu Cantrill points me to an endlessly interesting link on the Nobel website which lists nominating infor...
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Chemical and Engineering News celebrates 90 years: How chemistry has come a long way

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Chemistry is - in the true sense - the central science, reaching inside every aspect of our lives (Image: Marquette University) Che...

Woodward, and the importance of being born at the right time

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Woodward as a freshman at MIT (Image: CHC ) On his blog Derek has a contemplative post on the conditions necessary for seei...
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Explaining Woodward to the layman

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We scientists often, and rightly so, complain that even the best of our lot are hardly known to the man on the street. How many of my no...

A history of metallocenes: Bringing on the hashish

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Following on the heels of the comprehensive article on metal-catalyzed reactions noted by Derek, here's another one by Helmut Werner...

Woodward on how to travel incognito

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Searching aimlessly for material on R. B. Woodward online, I came across an amusing source: "Droll Science" by Robert Weber. In ...

Note on the cultish status of organic synthesis: Part 1

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When I was in graduate school, a friend and I used to joke that the most egotistical elitists are to be predominantly found in two fields: p...
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