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Categories: Nobel laureates in Chemistry American chemists. If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given. Charles Stine Frederick N. Joseph College in Yokohama , Japan. Please wait while we load your content Despite being coaxed by his professor James F Norris, Pedersen did not pursue a doctorate degree and instead started a career because he did not want to remain a burden on his father anymore.

Jean-Marie Lehn [ edit ]. Category Commons Portal WikiProject. Fetching data from CrossRef. The signal accomplishment of this unusual individual was his serendipitous discovery of macrocyclic polyethers and of their selective complexation of alkali metal cations. As Pedersen began working on problems as a new chemist, he was free to work on whatever problems fascinated him and he quickly became interested in oxidative degradation and stabilization of substrate.

Pedersen Charles John Pedersen October 3, — October 26, was an American organic chemist best known for describing methods of synthesizing crown ethers.

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By , Charles J. Yonath Richard F. Loading related content. He was studying the effects of bi- and multidentate phenolic ligands on the catalytic properties of the vanadyl group, VO when he accidentally found unknown crystals of a by-product. Nevertheless, it was the first of the many metal deactivators , which function by converting an inactive complex from an otherwise catalytic metal ion.

Pedersen was diagnosed with myeloma in , and though he was becoming increasingly frail, he traveled to Stockholm to accept the Nobel Prize in late Share on Facebook. Coordination chemistry Magnetochemistry Organometallic chemistry Organolanthanide chemistry Cluster chemistry Solid-state chemistry Ceramic chemistry. Miscellaneous research [ edit ].

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