In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry, a brief biographical sketch of Norris is presented along with discussion of his research accomplishments in the contexts of the influence of his doctoral mentor Dr. Ira Remsen and the early development of physical organic chemistry. Dr. Norris had two distinct academic careers, researcher and teacher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and administrator and teacher at Simmons College. A third career, scientific leader and statesman, co-existed with these dual careers. This chapter will briefly describe Norris’s researches in molecular addition compounds, the triphenylmethyl system, Friedel-Crafts chemistry as well as his twenty paper series on “The reactivity of atoms and groups in organic compounds” (from 1920 through 1940).
...MoreBook E. Thomas Strom; Vera V. Mainz (2016) The Foundations of Physical Organic Chemistry: Fifty Years of the James Flack Norris Award.
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