One reaction named for this chemist uses iodine and silver acetate to give syn addition to an alkene, unlike the related Prevost reaction, which gives anti addition.
This man figured out the structure of the antibiotic terramycin using a large piece of cardboard and a pen. Christmasterone was discovered in this man's laboratory as an intermediate in one scheme. In collaboration with Geoffrey Wilkinson and Ernst Otto Fischer, this man posited the sandwich structure for ferrocene. One scheme partly developed by this man used a collaborator's namesake sulfide contraction to transform a tricyclic ketone in one step. That project, which was a collaboration with Albert Eschenmoser, took almost a decade and has (*) 73 steps. One reaction named for this chemist uses iodine and silver acetate to give syn addition to an alkene, unlike the related Prevost reaction, which gives anti addition. One of his syntheses led him to become the first namesake of a set of statements considering the conservation of orbital symmetry to contrast thermal and photochemical control. For 10 points, name this organic chemist who conducted total syntheses of cholesterol and B12, and who is the first namesake of a series of rules governing pericyclic reactions with Hoffman.
This man figured out the structure of the antibiotic terramycin using a large piece of cardboard and a pen.
Robert Burns Woodward