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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1990

Further reading

E.J. Corey, X.-M. Cheng: The Logic of Chemical Synthesis, Wiley – Interscience, 1989.

E.J. Corey, A.K. Long, S.D. Rubenstein: Computer-Assisted Analysis in Organic Synthesis, Science, Vol 228, 1985, pp 408-418.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Information about the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1990 (press release).

 

  

Contents:
Introduction  »
Organic synthesis – science and art  »
The logic of chemical synthesis  »
Retrosynthetic tree  »
To build molecules  »
To build "left- or right handed" molecules  »
Further reading  »
Based on materials from the 1990 Nobel Poster for Chemistry.
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