Daniel S. Kemp

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Daniel Schaeffer Kemp (October 20, 1936 – May 2, 2020)^[1][2] was an American organic chemist, an emeritus professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kemp's work was focused on the synthesis and conformational analysis of peptides. He developed several chemical ligation strategies and methods for templating the formation of helices and sheets. The eponymous Kemp's triacid [pl] and the Kemp elimination [de] reaction (and the Kemp decarboxylation [de] variant) are among his developments. He was the author of an organic chemistry textbook. He died from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Massachusetts.