Georg Wittig (German: [ˈɡeː.ɔʁk ˈvɪ.tɪç] ; 16 June 1897 – 26 August 1987) was a German chemist who reported a method for synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes...
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The Wittig reaction or Wittig olefination is a chemical reaction of an aldehyde or ketone with a triphenyl phosphonium ylide called a Wittig reagent. Wittig...
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alkyllithium compound. The reaction is named for Nobel Prize winning chemist Georg Wittig. The intermediate is an alkoxy lithium salt, and the final product an...
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Edward Wittig (1879–1941), Polish sculptor Ferdinand Wittig (1851-1909), American politician Georg Wittig (1897–1987), German chemist Iris Wittig (1928-1978)...
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philologist Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate Georg Alexander Pick, Austrian mathematician Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia Georg Andersson...
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Archived from the original on 20 June 2023. Retrieved 20 June 2023. "Georg Wittig Nobel Prize Medal in Chemistry Received in 1979, Together with Four Additional...
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Li+B(CH3)−4, lithium tetramethylborate(1-). This concept was introduced by Georg Wittig in 1958. Ate complexes are common for metals, including the transition...
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John Goddard, Barbadian-English cricketer and manager (b. 1919) 1987 – Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) 1988 – Carlos...
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1979 Sheldon Glashow; Abdus Salam; Steven Weinberg Herbert C. Brown; Georg Wittig Allan McLeod Cormack; Godfrey Hounsfield Odysseas Elytis Mother Teresa...
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Karl Hurrah! I Live! (1928) – Hendrik Hansen The Burning Heart (1929) – Georg Wittig Asphalt (1929) – Wachtmeister Albert Holk High Treason (1929) – Wassil...
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represents the phenyl group. It was discovered and reported in 1949 by Georg Wittig. Pentaphenylphosphorus can be formed by the action of phenyllithium on...
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1973 1917–2007 Research on organometallic sandwich complexes Georg Wittig 1979 1897–1987 Wittig Reaction Deisenhofer 1988 * 1943 "for the investigation of...
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temperatures. For this work Mukaiyama was inspired by earlier work done by Georg Wittig in 1966 on crossed aldol reactions with lithiated imines. Competing work...
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attack. Alberto Socarras, 78, Cuban-American flautist. Georg Wittig, 90, German chemist (Wittig reaction), Nobel laureate in Chemistry. Ben Branch, 59...
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for specific modifications to be made to complex organic molecules. Georg Wittig was the first to synthesize a cyanoborohydride by treating lithium borohydride...
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Richard Dedekind, Nobel laureates Klaus von Klitzing, Manfred Eigen, and Georg Wittig, aerospace engineer Adolf Busemann, the former CEOs of SAP, Metro Group...
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Schlaeger Sunao Tawara John Tyndall Wilhelm Walcher Alfred Wegener Georg Wittig Alexandre Yersin Karl Ziegler Theodor Zincke Adolf Fick Marburg was always...
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intermediates: Baeyer and Villiger suggested a dioxirane intermediate, while Georg Wittig and Gustav Pieper suggested a peroxide with no dioxirane formation. Carbon...
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targeted. This reaction type was reported independently by Henry Gilman and Georg Wittig around 1940. DOM has traditionally been applied to tertiary anilines...
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at the Polytechnic College in Zürich (now the ETH Zürich), studying with Georg Lunge.: 27–29 In the Fall of 1892, Haber returned again to Breslau to work...
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– 6 November 1998) was a German chemist and together with Georg Wittig discovered the Wittig reaction in 1956. Later in 1981 he published the synthesis...
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reagents in organic synthesis until Karl Ziegler, Henry Gilman, and Georg Wittig — among others — developed synthetic methods that improved upon this...
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prepare hypervalent organic molecules began with Hermann Staudinger and Georg Wittig in the first half of the twentieth century, who sought to challenge the...
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which he was awarded the 1928 Nobel prize in Chemistry, and many of Georg Wittig's publications, including the preparation of phenyllithium. Liebigs Annalen...
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German chemist, and was the academic adviser of both Karl Ziegler and Georg Wittig at the University of Marburg. Karl Friedrich von Auwers was born the...
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boron that would eventually lead to the work for which he, together with Georg Wittig, would be awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1979, and the following...
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Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg Chemistry – Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig Medicine – Allan MacLeod Cormack, Godfrey Hounsfield Literature – Odysseas...
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compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis" Georg Wittig (1897–1987) West Germany 1980 Paul Berg (1926–2023) United States "for...
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the original (PDF) on 19 October 2011. Retrieved 22 September 2010. Georg Wittig in 1958 Ferguson, G. A. Jr; Jablonski, F. E. (2004-12-29). "Electron...
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Boulder Gregory Winter Chemistry 2018 MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Georg Wittig Chemistry 1979 Heidelberg University Robert Burns Woodward Chemistry...
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