(The volumes of Organic Reactions are collections of chapt...)
The volumes of Organic Reactions are collections of chapters each devoted to a single reaction, or a definite phase of a reaction, of wide applicability. The material is treated from a preparative viewpoint, with emphasis on limitations, interfering influences, effects of structure, and the selection of experimental techniques. Numerous detailed procedures illustrate the significant modifications of each method. Includes tables that contain all possible examples of the reaction under consideration.
(The volumes of Organic Reactions are collections of chapt...)
The volumes of Organic Reactions are collections of chapters each devoted to a single reaction, or a definite phase of a reaction, of wide applicability. The material is treated from a preparative viewpoint, with emphasis on limitations, interfering influences, effects of structure, and the selection of experimental techniques. Numerous detailed procedures illustrate the significant modifications of each method. Includes tables that contain all possible examples of the reaction under consideration.
(The volumes of Organic Reactions are collections of chapt...)
The volumes of Organic Reactions are collections of chapters each devoted to a single reaction, or a definite phase of a reaction, of wide applicability. The material is treated from a preparative viewpoint, with emphasis on limitations, interfering influences, effects of structure, and the selection of experimental techniques. Numerous detailed procedures illustrate the significant modifications of each method. Includes tables that contain all possible examples of the reaction under consideration.
(The volumes of Organic Reactions are collections of chapt...)
The volumes of Organic Reactions are collections of chapters each devoted to a single reaction, or a definite phase of a reaction, of wide applicability. The material is treated from a preparative viewpoint, with emphasis on limitations, interfering influences, effects of structure, and the selection of experimental techniques. Numerous detailed procedures illustrate the significant modifications of each method. Includes tables that contain all possible examples of the reaction under consideration.
(The volumes of Organic Reactions are collections of chapt...)
The volumes of Organic Reactions are collections of chapters each devoted to a single reaction, or a definite phase of a reaction, of wide applicability. The material is treated from a preparative viewpoint, with emphasis on limitations, interfering influences, effects of structure, and the selection of experimental techniques. Numerous detailed procedures illustrate the significant modifications of each method. Includes tables that contain all possible examples of the reaction under consideration.
(The volumes of Organic Reactions are collections of chapt...)
The volumes of Organic Reactions are collections of chapters each devoted to a single reaction, or a definite phase of a reaction, of wide applicability. The material is treated from a preparative viewpoint, with emphasis on limitations, interfering influences, effects of structure, and the selection of experimental techniques. Numerous detailed procedures illustrate the significant modifications of each method. Includes tables that contain all possible examples of the reaction under consideration.
Arthur Clay Cope was born on June 27, 1909 in Dunreith, Indiana, United States. He was the son of Everett Claire Cope, who had a grain-storage business, and Jennie Compton, who worked on the local Young Women's Christian Association office staff. His parents moved the family to Indianapolis.
Education
Cope received a bachelor's degree in chemistry at Butler University in Indianapolis in 1929 and enrolled at the University of Wisconsin for graduate work. He obtained a National Research Council Fellowship at Harvard University (1932 - 1934).
Career
At Harvard he wrote several papers that reflect Kohler's influence.
In 1934, Cope became associate in chemistry at Bryn Mawr College; he was promoted to assistant professor in 1935 and to associate professor in 1938. At Bryn Mawr he further studied the synthesis of substances with potential pharmaceutical applications.
He received support and a consultantship from the Sharpe and Dohme Laboratories in Philadelphia. One result was a commercial barbiturate, Delvinyl Sodium.
In 1940-1941, Cope spent part of a Guggenheim Fellowship doing research at Bryn Mawr and the rest visiting organic chemistry research groups at universities in the United States.
In 1941 he moved to Columbia University as an associate professor.
When the United States entered World War II, he joined the Office of Scientific Research and Development and became technical aide and section chief of Division 9 of the National Defense Research Committee, with responsibility for diverse projects ranging from chemical warfare agents and insect repellents to antimalarial drugs.
In 1945, Karl Compton, then president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), asked Cope to become chairman of the Department of Chemistry.
At MIT, Cope, working with C. G. Overberger, was able to repeat the classical 1911 Willstätter synthesis of the extraordinary polyolefin called cyclooctatetraene. It was a massive effort and led Cope and his coworkers into studies of the chemistry of medium-sized ring compounds.
At MIT, Cope was appointed in 1945 to the editorial board of Organic Syntheses, and in 1947 he joined the editorial board of the influential Organic Reactions series. He was a consultant to the Central Research Department of the Du Pont Company from 1946 until his death. He served the American Chemical Society with particular distinction as chairman of the Division of Organic Chemistry (1946 - 1947), councillor (1950 - 1951), northeastern section chairman (1955 - 1956), member of its board of directors (1951 - 1966), president (1960 - 1961), and chairman of the board (1959-1960, 1962 - 1966). Cope also served for nine years on the important Committee on Professional Training. He had been chairman of the chemistry section of the National Academy of Sciences and served on the academy's Committee on Science and Public Policy.
When MIT made a decision to reduce the hours required for chemistry in the undergraduate curriculum, Cope resisted strongly. This, along with what some faculty members perceived as arbitrary decisions, led to the end of his two-decade tenure as chairman of the chemistry department.
Cope was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1947.
Personality
When Cope became president of the ACS, he was described as "mild-mannered, " but his courteous and affable facade covered a strong temperament. His students called him "the iron fist in the velvet glove. " He was single-minded about chemical education.
Because of the royalties on his pharmaceutical patents, Cope became a relatively wealthy man. He bequeathed the bulk of his estate to the ACS to stimulate research in organic chemistry through the Cope Award.
Connections
On August 22, 1930, Cope married Bernice Mead Abbott. His widespread activities apparently strained his marriage, for he and his wife were divorced. On July 2, 1963, he married Harriet Packard (née Osgood) and in the process acquired a stepson.
Guggenheim Fellowship
1944 American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry
1947 Elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Today, the Arthur C. Cope Award, in honor of his memory, is given out annually by the American Chemical Society to the most outstanding organic chemist. The Arthur C. Cope Award is a prize awarded for achievement in the field of organic chemistry research.
Guggenheim Fellowship
1944 American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry
1947 Elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Today, the Arthur C. Cope Award, in honor of his memory, is given out annually by the American Chemical Society to the most outstanding organic chemist. The Arthur C. Cope Award is a prize awarded for achievement in the field of organic chemistry research.