Nathan Kornblum (1914-1993)
American chemist, professor at Purdue University. He studied ambident nucleophiles, such as nitrite ion, which can react through nitrogen or through oxygen, and substitution mechanisms via radical anions (SRN1).
In 1957 he described the oxidation of active halides to aldehydes and ketones with dimethyl sulfoxide, the Kornblum oxidation, the first of the DMSO oxidations.
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