James Cullen Martin

James Cullen Martin ( born January 14, 1928 in Dover (Tennessee ), † 20 April 1999 in Tampa ( Florida) ) was an American chemist (organic chemistry).

Martin received his doctorate in 1956 from Harvard University with Paul D. Bartlett (The chlorination of 1,4- endoxocyclohexane ). He was professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.

With his doctoral student Daniel Benjamin Dess he introduced the Dess- Martin oxidation, the selective alcohol oxidation with Dess -Martin periodinane.

In 1983, he stood in front of the Department of Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.