This chemist erroneously predicted that a certain cyclization undergoes a two-plus-two mechanism followed by a migratory insertion, which was corrected by E. J. Corey’s three-plus-two mechanism in a decade-long feud. A reaction named for this chemist expands on one developed by the Upjohn Company and may use a commercial “AD (“A-D”) mix” containing various potassium salts and a quinine ligand. This chemist is the alphabetically latest of the developers of a copper-catalyzed variant of the Huisgen (“HOUSE-gun”) cycloaddition, which reacts an azide with an alkyne. This chemist names an alkene dihydroxylation that uses osmium tetroxide, as well as an asymmetric epoxidation. For 10 points, name this American chemist who coined the term “click chemistry” and twice received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. ■END■
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| Nikhil Chellam | Northwestern A | Purdue | 25 | -5 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Carleton | 35 | -5 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Sheffield | 43 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU B | WashU A | 43 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Rutgers A | 47 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Missouri | 48 | 10 |
| Adam Fine | Chicago A | Chicago C | 49 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Penn A | 50 | 10 |
| Stan Melkumian | Purdue | Northwestern A | 56 | 10 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Southampton B | 70 | -5 |
| Michael Eng | UNC C | South Carolina | 72 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Florida A | UCF B | 73 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Yale A | 79 | 10 |
| Viraj Negandhi | Texas B | TAMU | 88 | 10 |
| Justin Lee | Imperial A | Warwick A | 88 | 10 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 88 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | Texas A | 91 | 10 |
| Tobin Payne | Warwick B | LSE | 94 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech A | Liberty B | 94 | 10 |
| Mason Yu | Brown A | Brandeis A | 98 | 10 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | UMass Boston | 98 | 10 |
| Allan Lee | Stanford B | Notre Dame C | 98 | 10 |
| Noah Chen | Columbia B | John Jay College | 100 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Louisville A | 101 | 10 |
| Jacob Egol | Duke | Wake Forest | 101 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Harvard A | 105 | 10 |
| Yash Mandavia | Illinois B | Missoui S&T | 110 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Oxford B | 111 | 10 |
| Lewis Strachan | Cambridge E | NYU C | 111 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell C | ESF A | 111 | -5 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | Binghamton A | 111 | -5 |
| Bill Zhao | Florida B | Florida State A | 111 | 10 |
| Rasheeq Azad | UNC B | UNC D | 113 | -5 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial B | Cambridge B | 113 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Carnegie Mellon B | 117 | 10 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech C | Vanderbilt A | 117 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Georgetown B | 119 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | William & Mary | 119 | 10 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Illinois C | 119 | 10 |
| David Nieman | Carnegie Mellon A | Case Western B | 120 | 0 |
| Oliver Thompson | Case Western B | Carnegie Mellon A | 120 | 0 |
| Anton Akroush | Michigan State | Kenyon | 120 | 0 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Michigan D | 120 | 0 |
| Peter Ballas | Michigan D | Michigan C | 120 | 0 |
| Jonah Hubert | Notre Dame B | Georgetown A | 120 | 0 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Notre Dame B | 120 | 0 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | Northwestern B | 120 | 0 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Georgia Tech A | 120 | 0 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Alabama A | 120 | 0 |
| Percy Yuen | Cambridge D | Oxford C | 120 | 0 |
| Benjamin Watson | Oxford C | Cambridge D | 120 | 0 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | RIT A | 120 | 0 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | UCF C | 120 | 0 |
| Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | UNC B | 120 | 0 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago B | Chicago D | 120 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin B | Iowa State | 120 | 0 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Wisconsin B | 120 | 0 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Winona State | 120 | 0 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Dartmouth A | 120 | 0 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | BU | 120 | 0 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | Brandeis B | 120 | 0 |
| Andrew Messersmith | Brandeis B | Tufts A | 120 | 0 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | Alberta | 120 | 0 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW B | 120 | 0 |
| Russell Nip | UBC | UW A | 120 | 0 |
| Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | UBC | 120 | 0 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech B | 120 | 10 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol | Southampton A | 120 | 0 |
| Roselyn Daffin | Southampton A | Bristol | 120 | 0 |
| Joel Dicker | Southampton B | Cambridge A | 120 | 0 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | George Washington A | 120 | 0 |
| Samuel Kassover | George Washington B | Maryland A | 120 | 0 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Haverford A | 120 | 0 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | Vassar A | 120 | 0 |
| Kaiben Bennett | Haverford B | Penn B | 120 | 0 |
| Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | Haverford B | 120 | 0 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell D | RIT B | 120 | 0 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT B | Cornell D | 120 | 0 |