Elias James Corey

E.J. Corey
Corey in 2007
Born
Elias James Corey

(1928-07-12) July 12, 1928 (age 96)
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, PhD)
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsOrganic chemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Harvard University
ThesisThe synthesis of N,N-diacylamino acids and analogs of penicillin (1951)
Doctoral advisorJohn C. Sheehan
Notable students
Websitechemistry.harvard.edu/people/e-j-corey

Elias James Corey (born July 12, 1928) is an American organic chemist. In 1990, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis",[3] specifically retrosynthetic analysis.[4][5]

Regarded by many as one of the greatest living chemists, he has developed numerous synthetic reagents, methodologies and total syntheses and has advanced the science of organic synthesis considerably.

  1. ^ Laureates of the Japan Prize Archived April 7, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. japanprize.jp
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  3. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1990". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved July 25, 2015.
  4. ^ E. J. Corey, X-M. Cheng, The Logic of Chemical Synthesis, Wiley, New York, 1995, ISBN 0-471-11594-0.
  5. ^ Corey, E.J. (1991). "The Logic of Chemical Synthesis: Multistep Synthesis of Complex Carbogenic Molecules (Nobel Lecture)". Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 30 (5): 455–465. doi:10.1002/anie.199104553.