Albert Eschenmoser
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Albert Eschenmoser is a Swiss organic chemist renowned for his pioneering work on the structure and synthesis of vitamin B12 and for fundamental contributions to the understanding of organic reaction mechanisms and prebiotic chemistry.
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| Albert Eschenmoser canonical | 10 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Albert Eschenmoser Context triple: [ACS Award in Organic Chemistry, hasRecipient, Albert Eschenmoser]
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Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn is a French chemist and Nobel laureate renowned as a founder of supramolecular chemistry for his pioneering work on molecular recognition and self-assembly.
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B.
Elias J. Corey
Elias J. Corey is a Nobel Prize–winning American chemist renowned for pioneering the field of retrosynthetic analysis and revolutionizing modern organic synthesis.
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George A. Olah
George A. Olah was a Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for his groundbreaking work on carbocations and superacids, which fundamentally advanced the understanding of organic reaction mechanisms.
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K. Barry Sharpless
K. Barry Sharpless is an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in asymmetric synthesis and for co-founding the field of click chemistry, achievements that earned him multiple Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
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E.
Barry M. Trost
Barry M. Trost is an American organic chemist renowned for pioneering the concept of atom economy and developing highly efficient catalytic reactions in synthetic chemistry.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Albert Eschenmoser Target entity description: Albert Eschenmoser is a Swiss organic chemist renowned for his pioneering work on the structure and synthesis of vitamin B12 and for fundamental contributions to the understanding of organic reaction mechanisms and prebiotic chemistry.
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A.
Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn is a French chemist and Nobel laureate renowned as a founder of supramolecular chemistry for his pioneering work on molecular recognition and self-assembly.
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B.
Elias J. Corey
Elias J. Corey is a Nobel Prize–winning American chemist renowned for pioneering the field of retrosynthetic analysis and revolutionizing modern organic synthesis.
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C.
George A. Olah
George A. Olah was a Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for his groundbreaking work on carbocations and superacids, which fundamentally advanced the understanding of organic reaction mechanisms.
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D.
K. Barry Sharpless
K. Barry Sharpless is an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in asymmetric synthesis and for co-founding the field of click chemistry, achievements that earned him multiple Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
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E.
Barry M. Trost
Barry M. Trost is an American organic chemist renowned for pioneering the concept of atom economy and developing highly efficient catalytic reactions in synthetic chemistry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Swiss scientist
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human ⓘ organic chemist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Arthur C. Cope Award
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linked to:
Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
Davy Medal ⓘ Marcel Benoist Prize ⓘ Paracelsus Prize ⓘ Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry ⓘ
linked to:
Roger Adams Award
Wolf Prize in Chemistry ⓘ |
| citizenship | Switzerland ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Robert Burns Woodward ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Switzerland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1925-08-05 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Leopold Ružička ⓘ |
| educatedAt | ETH Zurich ⓘ |
| employer | ETH Zurich ⓘ |
| familyName | Eschenmoser ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
bioorganic chemistry
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organic chemistry ⓘ prebiotic chemistry ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Albert ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
chemistry
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organic synthesis ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Eschenmoser sulfide contraction
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Eschenmoser–Claisen rearrangement ⓘ Eschenmoser–Tanabe fragmentation ⓘ research on the origin of biomolecular homochirality ⓘ research on the structure of vitamin B12 ⓘ studies on organic reaction mechanisms ⓘ total synthesis of vitamin B12 ⓘ work on prebiotic nucleic acid analogues ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | German ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina ⓘ Royal Society ⓘ |
| name | Albert Eschenmoser ⓘ |
| nationality | Swiss ⓘ |
| notableStudent |
André S. Dreiding
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Steven A. Benner ⓘ |
| notableWork | collaborative total synthesis of vitamin B12 with Robert Burns Woodward ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Burg, Aargau ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of organic chemistry at ETH Zurich ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
abiotic formation of biomolecules
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nucleic acid chemistry ⓘ vitamin B12 biosynthesis ⓘ |
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