Saul Winstein (October 8, 1912 – November 23, 1969) was a Jewish Canadian chemist who discovered the ''
Winstein reaction.'' He argued a
non-classical cation was needed to explain the stability of the norbornyl cation. This fueled a debate with
Herbert C. Brown over the existence of σ-delocalized carbocations. Winstein also first proposed the concept of an
intimate ion pair. He was co-author of the
Grunwald–Winstein equation, concerning solvolysis rates.
Richard F. Heck
Richard Frederick Heck (August 15, 1931 – October 9, 2015) was an American chemist noted for the discovery and development of the Heck reaction, which uses palladium to catalyze organic chemical reactions that couple aryl halides with alkenes ...
, who earlier in his career had undertaken postgraduate studies with Winstein, won the 2010
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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UCLA Biography
1912 births
1969 deaths
Jewish Canadian scientists
Jewish chemists
Canadian chemists
National Medal of Science laureates
Canadian expatriates in the United States
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