Prelog, Vladimir

Adam Bostanci, Nürnberg, Germany

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002899

1906–1998 Bosnian natural products chemist and the leading stereochemist of the twentieth century.

Keywords: stereochemistry; chirality; CPI-system

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Further Reading
	Prelog V (1976) Chirality in chemistry (Nobel lecture). Science 193: 24.
	book Prelog V (1991) My 123 Semesters of Studies of Chemistry. Seeman JI (ed.). Washington DC: American Chemical Society.
	Prelog V and Seiwerth R (1941) Uber die Synthese des Adamantans. Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 74B: 1644–1648.
	Prelog V and Sepilfogel S (1945) Die Konstitution des Strychnins. Experientia 1: 197–198.
	Cahn RS, Ingold CK and Prelog V (1956) The specification of asymmetric configurations in organic chemistry. Experientia 12: 81.
	book Koeppel TA (1993) "Vladimir Prelog". In: James LK (ed.) Nobel Laureates in Chemistry. Washington DC: American Chemical Society, Chemical Heritage Foundation.