Derek Barton

Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton FRS ( born September 8, 1918 in Gravesend, Kent; † 16 March 1998 in College Station, Texas ) was a British chemist and winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

Life and work

Barton studied from 1938 at Imperial College, University of London. In 1940 he graduated from there his studies and received his PhD in 1942 in organic chemistry. He was a professor at Texas A & M University.

In 1949, his Royal Society of Chemistry for the first time awarded Corday -Morgan medal awarded. From 1949 to 1950 he was a guest lecturer at Harvard University. In 1954 he was elected a member of the Royal Society, and in 1956 a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, in 1957 he received the Ernest Guenther Award. In 1966 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In 1972 he was knighted. From 1978 worked Barton as Director at the Institut de Chimie of Substances Naturelles in Gif- sur -Yvette (France).

Barton received in 1969 together with the Norwegian Odd Hassel the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for their work in the development of Konformationsbegriffes and its application in chemistry". One of the most famous students Barton is Professor Jack Baldwin, discoverer of the eponymous Baldwin's rules.

Were named after him, the Barton reaction and together with Stuart W. McCombie, the Barton - McCombie deoxygenation.