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LOUIS PLACK HAMMETT
LOUIS PLACK HAMMETT
Pages 136-149
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practice of chemistry and, in particular, changer! the way synthetic organic chemistry is performecI, with enormous practical consequences.
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in 1916 in the micicIle of World War I went to Zurich to work with Hermann Staudinger. On his return to the Uniter!
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with five grancichilciren. Janet also entertained Louis's graduate students en c!
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on the indicator properties of aromatic amines, a scale that measures 100% sulfuric acid as 10~° times as strong (that is, ten billion times as strong) as 10% acicI, en c!
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100% sulfuric acid into true superaciclic merlin, such as fuming sulfuric acicI, or solutions of HF in BF3. George Olah won the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his demonstration of the catalytic effects of such superacic!
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Chemists had long realized that reactions with large negative free energies may nevertheless be extremely slow. For example, the equilibrium position for Egyptian sarcophagi en c!
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aromatic compounds presumably means that here steric effects complicate what are otherwise resonance en c! electrostatic ones.
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an Explosives Research Laboratory outside Pittsburgh at Bruceton, Pennsylvania, on the site of the Bureau of Mines with George Kistiakowsky as director en c! Hammett as associate director.
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imaginatively. The civil service employees of the Bureau of Mines were left behinc!
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in the archives of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1951, when he was finally appointed chairman, he supervised the buildup of the Chemistry Department at Columbia en c!
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Autobiographical notes. Files of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Paul. The relation between the rates of some acid catalyzed reactions and the acidity function, Ho.
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Cryoscopic study on bases in sulfuric acid. The ionization of diorthosubstituted benzoic acids.
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