Article ID: CBB720615930

Liberating R. B. Woodward and the Woodward Research Institute from Error (2020)

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Insiders’ eyewitness accounts correct 14 factual errors and one misleading suggestion in an outsider’s history of the Woodward Research Institute. Misrepresented are the recruiting, operations, and accomplishments of the WRI, especially in the syntheses of Cephalosporin C and Prostaglandin F2a.

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Article Kaspar F. Burri; Richard J. Friary (2019) A school for synthesis: R. B. Woodward and the Woodward Research Institute remembered. Bulletin for the History of Chemistry (pp. 37-50). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Seeman, Jeffrey I.
Slater, Leo B.
Ammann, Klaus
Bächi, Beat
Benfey, Theodore
Benfey, Otto Theodor
Journals
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
The Chemical Educator
The Chemical Record
Publishers
Chronos
American Chemical Society
Princeton University
Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry
Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF)
Christoph Merian Verlag
Concepts
Organic chemistry
Chemistry
Pharmaceutical industry
Stereochemistry
Pharmacy
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
People
Woodward, Robert Burns
Hoffmann, Roald
Robinson, Robert
Hückel, Erich
Ingold, Christopher
Meerwein, Hans
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Basel (Switzerland)
Switzerland
United States
Institutions
American Chemical Society
F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co.
Naturhistorische Museum Basel
Woodward Research Institute
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