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Ronald Charles David Breslow (March 14, 1931 – October 25, 2017) was an American chemist from Rahway, New Jersey.
Dec 12, 2017 · Ronald Breslow discovered new chemistry at nearly every corner of what he called the “central science”. At heart an organic chemist, he had a mercurial, intuitive understanding of the ...
- Virginia W. Cornish
- 2017
Ronald Breslow was one of the leading organic chemists of his generation. He had received the perfect start in gaining a Harvard doctorate at the age of 24 supervised by the legendary Bob Woodward, followed by a year of postdoctoral work in Cambridge with the equally legendary, but scientifically distinct, Alexander Todd.
- John M. Brown
- 2019
Oct 27, 2017 · University Professor Ronald C. D. Breslow, a trailblazing chemist who led the creation of the field of biomimetic chemistry and developed the anti-cancer compound Zolinza, passed away on October 25. He was 86.
Ronald Breslow. While still in his twenties, Breslow made two groundbreaking contributions to mechanistic organic chemistry. His synthesis of a cyclopropenyl cation generalized the concept of aromaticity to cyclic systems with only 2 π -electrons.
Oct 26, 2017 · Ronald Breslow—Samuel Latham Mitchill Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University, 1996 president of the American Chemical Society, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences—died Oct. 25 at age 86 in New York City after a struggle with cancer.
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Ronald Breslow, a leading figure in both physical-organic and bioorganic chemistry, died on October 25, 2017 at the age of 86. Breslow led the field of chemistry by developing experimental tests of aromaticity and antiaromaticity (the latter a name that he coined), and by utilizing the insights of physical-organic chemistry to mimic and ...