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Oct 08, 1912 Montreal, Quebec, Canada Died on 23 Nov 1969 (aged 57)
Canadian chemist
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About Saul Winstein
- Saul Winstein (October 8, 1912 – November 23, 1969) was a Jewish Canadian chemist who discovered the Winstein reaction.
- He argued a non-classical cation was needed to explain the stability of the norbornyl cation.
- This fueled a debate with Herbert C.
- Brown over the existence of s-delocalized carbocations.
- Winstein also first proposed the concept of an intimate ion pair.
- He was co-author of the Grunwald–Winstein equation, concerning solvolysis rates.Richard F.
- Heck, who earlier in his career had undertaken postgraduate studies with Winstein, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
