#English-born #American #chemist who developed #organoboranes (compounds of #boron, #carbon and #…

#English-born #American #chemist who developed #organoboranes (compounds of #boron, #carbon and #hydrogen) which provided many new techniques in #synthetic #organic chemistry. For this accomplishment, he shared (with Georg Wittig) the 1979 #NobelPrize for #Chemistry.

The versatility of organoboranes as reagents in #reductions, #additions and #rearrangements provides new ways of linking #carbonatoms to each other.

Applications of organoboranes now include the #manufacture of #agricultural and #pharmaceutical chemicals (such as the #antidepressant #Prozac).

In graduate #research during WW II, he discovered a method to produce sodium borohydride, giving a new approach to making hydrogen gas, used in weather #balloons and later in #fuelcells.

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