Elias James Corey

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1990

The Logic of Chemical Synthesis: Multistep Synthesis of Complex Carbogenic Molecules

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From Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1981-1990, Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Bo G. Malmström, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1992

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