Daniel Swern (1916-1982)

American chemist. He worked for many years at the United States Department of Agriculture laboratories in Philadelphia on the chemistry of fats and peroxides, and later was professor at Temple University.

In 1978, with Kanji Omura, he described the activation of dimethyl sulfoxide with oxalyl chloride to oxidize alcohols to aldehydes and ketones at low temperature, the Swern oxidation.

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