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The 2000 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry presented to Rober H. Grubbs
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- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 169 KB
- Volume
- 337
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
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Benjamin Franklin
Medal in Chemistry to Robert H. Grubbs for his wide ranging seminal contributions to greatly advance and expand the field of olefin metathesis, a unique carbon-carbon bond breaking/ making process, that has enormously added to the chemist's capabilities at making a broad range of drugs and other useful complex molecules, improved rubbers, and plastics for laboratory and commercial applications.
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