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WILLIAM GOULD YOUNG
Pages 364-379

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... more with his brilliant student en c! fellow member of the National Academy of Sciences, Saul Winstein.
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... For reasons unclear to me, rather than going to graduate school, he then became a research assistant, working at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's plant physiology laboratory at Carmel, California, with H
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... to the National Academy of Sciences in the mocIern era without a Ph.D. degree.
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... The chemistry department was a mix of young, bright instructors and assistant professors with a small older group inherited from a prior, essentially teachers college at a campus in west-central Los Angeles. Chairman William
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... Young's major chemical achievements stemmer! from his desire to be able to prepare pure trans-2-butene ~ in substantial laboratory quantities from of cis-2-butene 2 en c!
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... explain electrical conductance of ionic solutions, a subject on which Professor Morgan apparently was not up to speed. I started research in ~ 938 in analytical chemistry and, intrigued by organic chemistry as taught by master teacher G
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... me to present the results at the September 1941 meeting of the American Chemical Society in Atian tic City. After the attack on Pear!
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... My own research connection with Bill Young, besicles the undergraduate research done in collaboration with Saul Winstein, hac! to clo with the nature of the buteny~magnesium bromide 6 and was started immediately after the war project was closet!
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... Bill Young was active in the American Chemical Society (ACS) , first, in the Southern California Section, where he servec!
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... He was the first of the UCLA faculty to be electec! to the National Academy of Sciences ~ ~ 95 ~ ~ .
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... 163-76. New York: Columbia University Press for the National Academy of Sciences, 1973.
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... The composition of butene mixtures resulting from the catalytic decomposition of the normal butyl alcohols.
From page 377...
... Allylic rearrangements.
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... XXI. Further studies related to the nature of the butenyl Grignard reagent.
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... XXXVIII. The reactions of cinnamyl Grignard reagents and alkali metal derivatives of allylbenzene with acetophenone.


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