Career
He is also known for his 1982 work exploring the possibility of a connection between recreational use of amyl nitrite and an increased incidence of Kaposi"s sarcoma in homosexual men
Lawesson obtained his education at Uppsala University. He did most of his work at the University of Aarhus in Denmark and his last paper was published in 1986. After finding that 2,4-bis(4-methoxyphenyl)-1,3,2,4-dithiadiphosphetane 2,4-disulfide was useful for some reactions, Lawesson undertook a general survey of the reactivity of organic compounds with this reagent.
lieutenant is often named after him as Lawesson"s reagent.
The synthesis of thioketones is his most cited paper. At one point South. O. Lawesson worked with the chemist North. M. Yousif.
After Lawesson"s death, Yousif has been working in Egypt and has been very active within the phosphorus sulfur chemical community. Yousif has published many new reactions of Lawesson"s reagent.
Professor T. B. Rauchfuss, who is in the United States of America did some very important work on Lawesson"s reagent.
He did the 31P Nuclear magnetic resonance experiment which proved that Lawesson"s reagent could form the dithiophosphine ylides in solution.
