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Ault, Addison – Journal of Chemical Education, 2008
In this article I review one of the most significant accomplishments of Frank H. Westheimer, one of the most respected chemists of the 20th century. This accomplishment was a series of stereospecific enzymatic oxidation and reduction experiments that led chemists to recognize what we now call the enantiotopic and diastereotopic relationships of…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry, Scientists, Science Experiments