New insights into how the most iconic reaction in organic chemistry really works
Diels and Alder won the Nobel; now UCLA's Kendall Houk makes the movie
12-Jul-2012 -
In 1928, chemists Otto Diels and Kurt Alder first documented diene synthesis, a chemical reaction important for synthesizing many polymers, alkaloids and steroids. Their work on this mechanism, which came to be known as the Diels–Alder reaction, won them the 1950 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
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Diels-Alder Reaction
organic chemistry