Professor
Gilbert Stork
(
–
)
1921
2017
Columbia University
;
New York, NY
Chemist; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Chemistry
Elected
1962
Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus. Stereocontrol as part of the design of total syntheses of natural products (1946-1951). Regiospecificity in the alkylation of ketones and aldehydes (The Enamine Alkylation; regiospecific generation and trapping of lithium enolates; metalloenamine generation and alkytion). Polyene Cyclization Stereochemistry. Stereocontrolled total synthesis of natural products such as alkaloids, steroids prostaglandins.
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