Georg Wittig was a German chemist who lived from 1897 to 1987. He reported a method for synthesizing alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides, known as the Wittig reaction, and shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Herbert C. Brown in 1979.
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Georg Wittig (16 June 1897 - 26 August 1987) was a German chemist who reported a method for synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides in the Wittig reaction.
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University of Marburg TU Braunschweig University of Freiburg University of Tübingen University of Heidelberg
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