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2. Arthur Clay Cope
2. Arthur Clay Cope
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his thesis work and three independent publications in three years and was recommended by the Wisconsin organic chemistry faculty (then 17
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At the end of his first year of graduate work Cope married intelligent, articulate, and forceful Bernice Mead Abbott, who had also attended Butler University and had met Cope as the teaching assistant in her freshman chemistry course. Bernice, known as "B." exerted a strong influence over his early career.
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In 1939, Cope's career was given a boost through his election as secretary of the Organic Division of the American Chemical Society. Though his wife, B
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By that time Cope had an outstanding research record and in 1944 tract received the coveted American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry for his discovery of the "Cope rearrangement." He was electect to the National AcacIemy of Sciences in ~ 947. Although eager to continue on into new fielcis of research, he was thoroughly cognizant of the need to revitalize the department at MIT, worId-cIass at that time only in physical chemistry.
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This influx of first-rank new professors produced almost inevitable and long-lasting strains for many of the preexisting faculty in the MIT Chemistry Department. But along with new facilities and Cope's untiring efforts to get research support and the highest quality of graduate students and postcloctoral fellows the effect on the Department's research productivity was both immediate and awe· .
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This massive effort led Cope and his coworkers into studies of the chemistry of medium-size(1 ring compouncls. Transannular Hydrogen Migration and Valence Tautomer~sm One hallmark of Cope's research was meticulousness born of an almost morbid fear that some erroneous experimental result wouIcl be published under his name.
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over into physical organic chemistry, in which he repeatecIly disavowed interest or competence while, at the same time, publishing perceptive observations that led to whole new areas of physical organic encleavor. One significant example is "valence tautomerism," where a compound isomerizes reversibly without intervention of external agents (except heat)
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of Organic Syntheses, a highly influential annual publication of tested laboratory procedures for the preparation of important organic compounds not yet available from commercial sources. Through this group Cope became closely associated with Roger Aclams, then the "Pope" of American organic chem
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Among other accomplishments as an American Chemical Society leader, Arthur Cope hac! much to do with averting collapse of Chemical Abstracts around]
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He left half of his estate to the American Chemical Society to stimulate research in organic chemistry through the Cope Awards. The fund's current income of approximately $200,000 supports one major award and ten smaller Cope Scholar Awards.
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ARTHUR CLAY COPE 27 tragic loss that he died suddenly at the age of fifty-six in Washington, D.C., where he had gone for American Chemical Society and National Academy of Sciences business. One could say of Arthur Cope what used to be said of Dodge automobiles "They don't make 'em like that anymore." WE WISH TO THANK Dr.
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I Isopropenyl alkyl malonic esters.
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Molecular rearrangement of cyclooctene oxide on solvolysis.
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IX. Solvolysis of trans-cyclooctene oxide.
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