Ian Fleming (chemist)
Ian Fleming ( born 1935 in Staffordshire ) is a retired British professor of organic chemistry at the University of Cambridge. He became known in 1967 through the structure determination of chlorophyll and as an author. He was also involved in the synthesis of cyanocobalamin with Robert Burns Woodward. He has gained further by the use of organosilicon compounds in the stereoselective synthesis merits.
Life
Ian Fleming was born in Staffordshire and grew up in Stourbridge, Worcestershire. In 1959 he received the B. A. and in 1962 he was at the at Pembroke College Cambridge to the Ph.D. doctorate. This was followed by postdoctoral work with R. B. Woodward at Harvard University, where he was involved in the total synthesis of vitamin B12. Fleming is the author of many international publications, articles in the chemical encyclopedia Comprehensive Organic Chemistry. He is also the author of several textbooks and a standard work on the frontier orbital theory.
- Ian Fleming: Pericyclic reactions. Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-850307-1
- Ian Fleming: Frontier Orbitals and Organic Chemical Reactions. VCH Weinheim 1979, ISBN 3-527-25792-6