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Among the first persons to develop biooriented organic projects was F.H. Westheimer, in the 1950s. He was probably the first physical organic chemist to do serious studies of biochemical reactions. However, it was only twenty years later that the field blossomed to what is now accepted as bioorganic chemistry.
“It might be helpful to remind ourselves regularly of the sizeable incompleteness of our understanding, not only of ourselves as individuals and as a group, but also of Nature and the world around us.” N. Hackerman Science 183, 907 (1974)
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Dugas, H. (1996). Introduction to Bioorganic Chemistry. In: Bioorganic Chemistry. Springer Advanced Texts in Chemistry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2426-6_1
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