Robert Robinson (scientist)

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This article is about a Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner. For other people of the same name, see Robert Robinson .

Template:Infobox Scientist Sir Robert Robinson, (13 September 1886 – 8 February 1975), won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Chemistry [1] for his research on plant dyestuffs (anthocyanins) and alkaloids. He was the Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University from 1930 and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Robinson Close in the Science Area at Oxford is named after him [2], as is the Robert Robinson Laboratory at the University of Liverpool.

Work

His synthesis of tropinone, a precursor of cocaine, in 1917 was not only a big step in alkaloid chemistry but also showed that tandem reactions in a one-pot synthesis are capable of forming bicyclic molecules.[1] [2]

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References

  1. ^ R. Robinson (1917). "A synthesis of tropinone". Journal of the Chemical Society, Transaction 111: 762 - 768. doi:10.1039/CT9171100762. 
  2. ^ Arthur John Birch (1993). "Investigating a Scientific Legend: The Tropinone Synthesis of Sir Robert Robinson, F.R.S.". Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 47 (2): 277-296. 
  • Abraham E. P. (1987). "Sir Robert Robinson and the early history of penicillin.". Nat Prod Rep. 4 (1): 41 - 46. 
  • Lord Todd; J. W. Cornforth (1976). "Robert Robinson 13 September 1886 -- 8 February 1975". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 22: 414-527. .
  • M. D. Saltzman (1987). "The development of Sir Robert Robinson's contributions to theoretical organic chemistry". Nat. Prod. Rep. 4: 53 - 60. doi:10.1039/NP9870400053. 

External links

  • Nobel Lecture Some Polycyclic Natural Products from Nobelprize.org website
  • Biography Biography from Nobelprize.org website

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