Georg Wittig

Born: 1897-06-16 in Berlin, Germany

Gender: male

Field: German chemist (1897–1987)

Biography

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.

Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1979

Awarded on: 1979-10-15

"for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis"

Affiliations:

University of Heidelberg – Heidelberg, Germany

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