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Biographical :7Vfemoirs VOLUME 53
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He combined personal qualities of charm, strength, high intelligence, and extraordinary capacity for hard work. Roger Adams was a direct descendant of the uncle of President John Adams; his ancestors had moved to southeastern New Hampshire, where Roger's father, Austin W
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He worked very hard at a series of demancling courses and had the satisfaction of receiving a John Harvard honorary scholarship for making four A's. In his last unclergracluate year he took advanced courses anti started research in organic chemistry with H
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Along with other courses he taught elementary organic chemistry and initiated the first elementary laboratory in that subject at Harvard. He was a very successful teacher, so much so that James B
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The tested procedures developed in "preps" (officially called Organic Chemical Manufactures) led to the indispensable annual publication, Organic Syntheses, of which fifty annual volumes were published under Adams' watchful eye.
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The important problems he worked on during his research career included the development of platinum oxide
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, stereochemistry of compounds with restricted rotation and of deuterium compounds, the structure of gossypo} (the yellow material in cottonseed meal) , compounds isolated from marihuana, and the structure of the Crotalaria and Senecio alkaloids and quinoneimines.
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built up departments of physical chemistry with several outstanding colleagues, the Illinois department was larger and offered a broader range of research opportunities to students.
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Where did all of these chemists find jobs? Consideration of this question leads to Roger Adams' interaction with the
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Hence, the influence of the Illinois department and its graduates became very great, particularly when many of these graduates reached responsible administrative positions in research and teaching. Adams was constantly being asked for advice about academic and industrial positions everywhere, and he spent much effort in fancying suitable positions for his students.
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12 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS wrote that his "biggest contribution to chemical industry has been very indirect through many of the students who have been eminently successful in industry." It is clear, however, that this underestimates his personal contribution. Although it is almost invidious to single out Adams' Ph.D.'s between 1927 and 1959, the following had outstanding careers: M
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One of his associates in Washington during those years wrote that if he was shipwrecked on a distant island, he would like to have Roger Adams with him. He was sure that Adams would figure out some way of getting off, and they "would have a whale of a good time doing it."*
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4 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS work with Organic Syntheses and Organic Reactions, which he had started about 1940, and as a consultant; he was on acIvisory boards for many groups, some mentioned above, and for the American Chemical Society, of which he had been president in ~ 935. He was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, served on the Natural Resources Board of the State of Illinois, and on the Board of Directors of Battelle Memorial Institute.
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The list of his awards, offices, and honors covers three pages. More than any other organic chemist of his time, Roger Adams epitomized the coming of age of organic research and advanced training in this country and the phenomenal growth of chemical research ant!
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Oxalyl chloride as a reagent in organic chemistry.
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Optically active dyes.
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Platinum oxide as a catalyst in the reduction of organic compounds.
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Optically active dyes.
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Reduction of cinnamic aldehyde to cinnamyl alcohol in the presence of platinum-oxide platinum black and promoters.
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Rees. Reduction of aromatic nitro compounds to amines with hydrogen and platinum-oxide platinum black as a catalyst.
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Yohe. Cyclopentyl alkyl acetic acids and c~cyclopentylethyl alkyl acetic acids and their bactericidal action toward B
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Cyclopropylmethyl alkyl acetic acids and their bactericidal action toward B Leprae.
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Ford. Cyclobutylalkyl alkyl acetic acids and their bactericidal action toward B
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The surface tension of various aliphatic acids previously studied for bactericidal action toMycobacterium leprae.
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XXIII. Optically active 2,5-dimethoxy-2'-nitro-6'-carboxydiphenyl and the mutarotation of its salts.
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ROGER ADAMS 27 With W
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28 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS With N
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ROGER ADAMS 29 With M
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XII. Gossylic acid lactone tetramethyl ether.
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XXIII. Attempts to prepare desapogossypolone tetramethyl ether.
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Restricted rotation in aryl olefins.
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Restricted rotation in arylamines.
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Tetrahydrocannabinol homologs with marihuana activity.
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McPhee. Tetrahydrocannabinol homologs and analogs with marihuana activity.
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Restricted rotation in aryl olef~ns.
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Restricted rotation in substituted aromatic amines.
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Restricted rotation in substituted aromatic amines.
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Restricted rotation in aromatic amines.
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Senecio alkaloids: c~-longilobine; structure of c'-longinecic acid.
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XIX. Addition of active methylene compounds to 1,4-naphthoquinonedibenzenesulfonimide.
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XXVIII. Addition of active methylene compounds to p-quinonedibenzenesulfonimide and its derivatives.
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Restricted rotation in aryl amines.
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Restricted rotation in aryl amines.
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Restricted rotation in aryl amines.
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The reaction of 2-bromopyridine N-oxides with active methylene compounds.
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Restricted rotation in aryl amines.
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