HIST 21 |
| In the Aug. 20, 1957 issue of The Journal of the American Chemical Society, an article appeared by C. Frederick Koelsch on a new stable radical, alpha, gamma-bisdiphenylene-beta-phenyl allyl. However, the first footnote of the article revealed that this paper, essentially unchanged, had been submitted to the journal on June 9, 1932. A referee held that the properties of the compound could not be those of a free radical. This paper will describe the career of Koelsch, an early winner of the ACS award in pure chemistry, present the background of the original discovery, and explore the reasons for the 25 year hiatus in publication. |
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Landmark Stable Free Radicals of the 20th Century
8:30 AM-12:05 PM, Monday, March 26, 2007 Hyatt Regency McCormick -- 20C, Oral
Division of the History of Chemistry |