Derek Harold Richard Barton (1918-1998)

British chemist, professor in London, Glasgow and at Imperial College, director of the Institute for the Chemistry of Natural Substances at Gif-sur-Yvette and, from 1986, professor at Texas A&M University.

He received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with Odd Hassel, for the development of conformational analysis. He invented many radical reactions: the Barton nitrite reaction, decarboxylation with thiohydroxamates and, in 1975 with Stuart McCombie, the Barton–McCombie deoxygenation.

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