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Georg Wittig

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Gender Male
Death36 years ago
Date of birth June 16,1897
Zodiac sign Gemini
Born Berlin
Germany
Date of died August 26,1987
DiedHeidelberg
Germany
Known forWittig reaction
1,2-Wittig rearrangement
[2,3]-Wittig rearrangement
Potassium tetraphenylborate
Job Chemist
Education Philipps-University Marburg
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
Awards Nobel Prize in Chemistry
NationalityGerman
Academic advisor Hans Meerwein
Karl von Auwers
Doctor student Werner Tochtermann
Ulrich Schöllkopf
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Georg Wittig was a German chemist who reported a method for synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides in the Wittig reaction. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Herbert C. Brown in 1979.

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