Ronald Breslow
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Ronald Charles David Breslow was an American chemist from Rahway, New Jersey. He was University Professor at Columbia University, where he was based in the Department of Chemistry and affiliated with the Departments of Biological Sciences and Pharmacology; he had also been on the faculty of its Department of Chemical...
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The cyclopropenyl cation, C3H+3
Straight chain analogs for aromaticity studies
Cyclic compounds for aromaticity studies
Racemization of amino acids on an evolutionary time scale. Alpha methyl amino acids cannot racemize
Decarboxylative transamination. Note that the final product shown can be protonated from either face, generating a racemic mixture after hydrolysis of the imine.
Formation of alpha keto acids. The product shown above is believed to be oxidized to the final alpha keto acid by oxidation by iron oxide, as oxygen was not present on prebiotic Earth.
The conformation of the alpha-methyl amino acid favors protonation on the top face of the molecule, leading to the D-enantiomer. Hydrolysis of the decarboxylation product generates the D-amino acid.Awards 18
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Harry B. GrayAlso won Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry
Chad MirkinAlso won National Fresenius Award
Paula T. HammondAlso won Othmer Gold MedalSteven V. LeyAlso won Paracelsus PrizeWilliam von Eggers DoeringAlso won Welch Award in Chemistry
Dieter SeebachAlso won Arthur C. Cope AwardAbout this person
Ronald Charles David Breslow was an American chemist from Rahway, New Jersey. He was University Professor at Columbia University, where he was based in the Department of Chemistry and affiliated with the Departments of Biological Sciences and Pharmacology; he had also been on the faculty of its Department of Chemical Engineering. He had taught at Columbia since 1956 and was a former chair of the university's chemistry department.
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