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George Hermann Buchi
George Hermann Buchi
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BERCHTOLD AND LOUISE H FOLEY MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Professor Emeritus George H
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industry throughout the worm. George Buchi's research accomplishments, reportecl in over 200 publications, macle significant contributions in diverse areas of organic chemistry, inclucling organic photochemistry, structure eluciciation of natural products, synthesis of natural products, toxicology, en cl the clevelopment of new synthetic methods.
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Prior to the 1950s, the photochemistry of organic compounds was a rarely investigated and poorly understood field of endeavor. Buchi's accomplishments in this area in the 1950s were instrumental in converting this latent fielcl into an unclerstanciable en cl useful synthetic tool, en cl they laicl the groundwork for what is now moclern organic photochemistry.
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During this era, prior to the routine use of X-ray crystallographic methods for organic structure determination, his accomplishments have been clescribecl by his peers as among the finest examples of structure eTuciciation by classic clegraciation en c! spectrometric techniques.
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The first syntheses of many sesquiterpenes (e.g., patchouliol, maaliol, aromaclencirene, agarofuran) , iboga alkaloids, iridoid glucosides (Ioganin)
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In 1962 Buchi and MIT colleague Professor Gerald N Wogan initiated a collaborative effort that ultimately establishecl molecular toxicology as an important scientific cliscipline.
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. In a series of brilliant synthetic studies, he clevisecl methocis for their total synthesis.
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His presence proviclecl a magnet that attracted excellent graduate students and young as well as established organic faculty to MIT.
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It was the natural products course that was his course en cl the course for which most MIT organic graduate students en c! postclocs will remember George.
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was continually coming up with tricks to play on him, often enlisting other graduate students to share in the fun. One couIcl be sure that he wouIcl both enjoy the joke en cl at some later point extract some revenge.
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continual throughout his life with alpine skiing up until 1995 and cross-country skiing, hiking, hunting, and fly fishing up until the time of his death. He began alpine skiing (often using skins to climb uphill)
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(MIT's highest faculty award, the Orcler of the Rising Sun from the Government of Japan, the American Chemical Society Awarc! for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, the first Ruzicka Prize, en cl the Fritzche Awarcl of the American Chemical Society.
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Buchi. Uber eine einfache, von Cycloheptanon ausgehende Azulen-Synthese.
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Light catalyzed organic reactions.1. The reaction of carbonyl compounds with 2-methylbutene2.
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Structural identification of the major DNA adduct formed by aflatoxin Be in vitro.
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Total syntheses of atrovenetin and scleroderodione.
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