1897–1987 German organic chemist and Nobel Prize winner who developed reagents for organic synthesis.
Keywords: wittig reaction; alkenes; ylides; organic synthesis
Wittig, Georg Friedrich Karl
WH Brock, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002959
| Further Reading | |
| book Wittig G (1930) Stereochemie. Leipzig: Akademische Verlag. | |
| book Bestman HJ (1983) Wittig Chemistry. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. | |
| book Kroll LC (1993) "Georg Wittig". In: James LK (ed.) Nobel Laureates in Chemistry 1901–1992, pp. 611–617. Washington DC: American Chemical Society. | |
| book Magill FN (1990) The Nobel Prize Winners Chemistry, vol. 3, pp. 1015–1024. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. | |
| Oesper RE (1954) Georg Wittig. Journal of Chemical Education 31: 357–358. | |
| Shaw R (1979) Wittig virtuoso of chemical synthesis. Nature 282: 231. | |
| book Wasson T (1987) Nobel Prize Winners, pp. 1145–1147. New York: HW Wilson. | |
