Edwin Haslam (1932 – 3 October 2013)Edwin HASLAM Obituary
was an organic chemist and an author of books on

polyphenol Polyphenols () are a large family of naturally occurring phenols. They are abundant in plants and structurally diverse. Polyphenols include phenolic acids, flavonoids, tannic acid, and ellagitannin, some of which have been used historically as ...

s. He was an alumnus of Sir John Deane's College in Northwich, Cheshire, United Kingdom and was for many years Professor of Organic Chemistry at the

University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University or TUOS) is a public university, public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Its history traces back to the foundation of Sheffield Medical School in 1828, Fir ...

. Haslam proposed a first comprehensive definition of plant polyphenols based on the earlier proposals of Edgar Charles Bate-Smith, Tony Swain and Theodore White, which includes specific structural characteristics common to all phenolics having a tanning property. It is referred to as the White–Bate-Smith–Swain–Haslam (WBSSH) definition.

Works

* ''Chemistry of vegetable tannins'', 1 edition – first published in 1966 * ''The shikimate pathway'', 2 editions – first published in 1974 * ''Metabolites and metabolism'', 1 edition – first published in 1985 * ''Plant polyphenols: vegetable tannins revisited'', 1 edition – first published in 1989 * ''Shikimic acid'', 1 edition – first published in 1993 * ''Practical Polyphenolics'', 2 editions – first published in 1998,

References

External links

Edwin Haslam on openlibrary.org
* 1932 births 2013 deaths British organic chemists Academics of the University of Sheffield British science writers British inorganic chemists People educated at Sir John Deane's College {{UK-chemist-stub