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The Series “Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products”

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László Zechmeister was not only an authority in the field of chromatography and well known for his research about pigments and stereoisomers, he is also the founder of the book series “Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products

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  1. 1.

    Germ:. Fortschritte der Chemie Organischer Naturstoffe.

  2. 2.

    Volume 94 was published in 2011.

  3. 3.

    As the subtitle of the first four editions of the series implies: “Eine Sammlung von zusammenfassenden Berichten” (Engl.: A collection of summarizing reports).

  4. 4.

    Short for: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.

  5. 5.

    Original: “[…] möchte ich Sie höflichst einladen, einen zusammenfassenden Artikel für die “Fortschritte der Chemie organischer Naturstoffe”, deren Herausgabe ich wieder übernommen habe, zu schreiben. Band V dieses Unternehmens wird in wenigen Wochen fertig vorliegen, und ich möchte Ihre werte Mitarbeit für Band VI gewinnen”.

  6. 6.

    1903–1995.

  7. 7.

    1883–1950.

  8. 8.

    1897–1959.

  9. 9.

    1877–1957; Wieland worked, among others, at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin-Dahlem. In 1925, he succeeded Richard Willstätter in his chair at the University of Munich. Wieland was editor of the Liebigs Annalen der Chemie for 20 years, and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1927 for his investigations of the constitution of the bile acids and related substances [7].

  10. 10.

    1887–1976; Ružička was professor for organic chemistry at the University of Utrecht and successor to Richard Kuhn at the ETH Zurich. In 1939, the same year as Adolf Butenandt, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes [8].

  11. 11.

    1886–1946.

  12. 12.

    Original: “Ihr neuer Brief bestätigt die Richtigkeit meines Vorschlages, die “Fortschritte” solange ruhen zu lassen, bis entweder grundlegend andere Verhältnisse wieder eingetreten sein werden, oder bis die heutigen Verhältnisse im internationalen Verkehr eine Ordnung angenommen haben werden, unter der die Abfassung von Arbeiten wieder möglich sein wird, und auch für die betreffenden Verfasser wieder interessant genug sein wird” [ 11 ].

  13. 13.

    “Soweit mir bekannt ist, hat Ihre Frau Gemahlin das Sach- und Autorenregister der früheren Bände der “Fortschritte” angefertigt” [14].

  14. 14.

    Herz worked at that university from 1949 until 1994; he is now still listed as professor emeritus on the faculty website [15].

  15. 15.

    1928-2007. Born in Scotland, Scott was educated at universities in Glasgow, London, and New Haven. At the Imperial College London, Scott worked with the Nobel Prize laureate Derek Barton [16], who contributed to the Zechmeister with a report on the analysis of steroids in Vol. 19.

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    1934-2011; Kirby was a Barton student as well.

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Wirth, M. (2013). The Series “Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products”. In: László Zechmeister. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00642-0_4

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