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Dean Stanley Tarbell
Dean Stanley Tarbell
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ary! ethers, en cl quantitative comparison of the behavior of organo sulfur versus organo oxygen compounds.
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Stan's mother, Ethel Milliken Tarbell, was born in AlsteacI, New Hampshire, the daughter of Charles A and Eva Stricklanc!
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Any real pleasure as an unclergracluate seemed to be clerivecl mainly from Stan's friendships at Lowell House ant! its excellent library en cl record collection.
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He electec! to clo research with Paul Bartlett, with whom he received training in physical organic chemistry and chemical kinetics.
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Stan trained new graduate students on problems concernec! with novel aspects of the CIaisen rearrangement, while emphasis on the kinetic aspects became secondary to the synthesis en cl determination of the scope of the reaction.
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methods for the detection of toxic agents, in particular arsenical compounds, en cl synthesis en cl testing of compounds for antimalarial activity. Beyonc!
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for further outstanding faculty appointments. HELPING TO RAISE A FAMILY In 1942 Stan married Ann Tracy, whom he hacl met when he was lecturing at Racicliffe, as mentioned earlier.
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research in organic chemistry at both unclergraduate and graduate levels, Stan concentrated on supplying the necessary physical resources, such as library, stockroom, research equipment, and advanced instrumentation. He introclucecl unclergracluates to research en cl found appointments for them in other graduate schools while recruiting the best possible graduate students for Rochester.
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Throughout my time in the Tarbell laboratory, there was a steady stream of visits from his former students. Stan's determination to stay in touch with his former coworkers was reflected in his policy of encouraging his coworkers to take their notebooks with them when they left; if there was any need for clarification of experiments that had been run, or access to data or procedures, Stan knew how to get in touch with each former student.
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its derivatives. Over a 10-year period, Stan en cl his students cleterminecl the contrasting behavior between series of organic sulfur compounds en cl the corresponding organic oxygen compounds, inclucling the discovery of the generality of isomerization by base of alkyl allyl sulfides to alkyl propenyl sulfides and elucidation of the mechanism.
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efforts of graduate en cl unclergracluate students en cl postdoctorates explorecl the novel chemistry thoroughly en cl accumulatecl sufficient evidence for the assignment of the complete structure en cl absolute stereochemistry. A massive paper combined all of the chemical conversions en cl intermediate structures in a magnificent analysis of the chemistry of fumagillin.
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The graduate students en cl two postdoctorates who accompanied Stan from Rochester soon had a lively research program going and were joined by Vanclerbilt unclergracluate en cl graduate students. The TarbelIs were received most corclially by the university people.
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Possibly their greatest joint contribution was the definitive biography of Roger Adams, which actually appeared while they were accumulating material for the volume on the history of organic chemistry in the United States. The Dexter Award of the Division of the History of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society was bestowal in 1989.
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Another time he learned classical Italian so that he would be able to read Dante's Inferno. He was a music lover and a lifelong baseball fan.
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I was also guided by the material that Stan himself placed on file in the Office of the Home Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences and, of course, by Stan's lucid Autobiography. It was my pleasure to serve under Stan's chairmanship on the NIH Medicinal Chemistry Study Section B
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I A kinetic study of the rearrangement of allyl ~tolyl ether in diphenyl ether solution.
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Thermal decomposition of mixed carboxyliccarbonic anhydrides; factors affecting ester formation.
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Roger Adams, Scientist and Statesman. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society.
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