Question
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■
Summary
Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 92.00 |
Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 40% | 0% | 0% | 102.50 |
Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 96.50 |
Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 81.50 |
North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 0% | 0% | 50% | 0.00 |
Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 0% | 100.33 |
Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 20% | 91.00 |
Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0.00 |
South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.50 |
Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 112.67 |
UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 9 | 67% | 0% | 11% | 93.33 |
Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 69.00 |
Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 0% | 0% | 67% | 0.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Nikhil Chellam | Northwestern A | Purdue | 25 | -5 |
Henry Bon | Winona State | Carleton | 35 | -5 |
Neal Joshi | WashU B | WashU A | 43 | 10 |
Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Sheffield | 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 |
Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 88 | 10 |
Viraj Negandhi | Texas B | TAMU | 88 | 10 |
Justin Lee | Imperial A | Warwick A | 88 | 10 |
Bryan Ugaz | ASU | Texas A | 91 | 10 |
Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech A | Liberty B | 94 | 10 |
Tobin Payne | Warwick B | LSE | 94 | 10 |
Max Neal | Harvard B | UMass Boston | 98 | 10 |
Mason Yu | Brown A | Brandeis A | 98 | 10 |
Allan Lee | Stanford B | Notre Dame C | 98 | 10 |
Noah Chen | Columbia B | John Jay College | 100 | 10 |
Jacob Egol | Duke | Wake Forest | 101 | 10 |
Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Louisville A | 101 | 10 |
Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Harvard A | 105 | 10 |
Yash Mandavia | Illinois B | Missoui S&T | 110 | 10 |
Bill Zhao | Florida B | Florida State A | 111 | 10 |
Lewis Strachan | Cambridge E | NYU C | 111 | 10 |
Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Oxford B | 111 | 10 |
Cade Reinberger | RIT A | Binghamton A | 111 | -5 |
Alec Riso | Cornell C | ESF A | 111 | -5 |
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 |
Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | William & Mary | 119 | 10 |
Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Illinois C | 119 | 10 |
Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Georgetown B | 119 | 10 |
Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | UCF C | 120 | 0 |
Oliver Thompson | Case Western B | Carnegie Mellon A | 120 | 0 |
Peter Ballas | Michigan D | Michigan C | 120 | 0 |
Anton Akroush | Michigan State | Kenyon | 120 | 0 |
David Nieman | Carnegie Mellon A | Case Western B | 120 | 0 |
Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Michigan D | 120 | 0 |
Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | UNC B | 120 | 0 |
Ezra Santos | Chicago B | Chicago D | 120 | 10 |
Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Winona State | 120 | 0 |
Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Wisconsin B | 120 | 0 |
Ian Saylor | Wisconsin B | Iowa State | 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 |
Nikhil Nair | BU | Dartmouth A | 120 | 0 |
Brielle Rach | Iowa | Northwestern B | 120 | 0 |
Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Notre Dame B | 120 | 0 |
Jonah Hubert | Notre Dame B | Georgetown A | 120 | 0 |
Russell Nip | UBC | UW A | 120 | 0 |
Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | UBC | 120 | 0 |
Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW B | 120 | 0 |
Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | Alberta | 120 | 0 |
Britton Webster | Alabama A | Georgia Tech A | 120 | 0 |
Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech B | 120 | 10 |
Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Alabama A | 120 | 0 |
Benjamin Watson | Oxford C | Cambridge D | 120 | 0 |
Percy Yuen | Cambridge D | Oxford C | 120 | 0 |
Kevin Flanagan | Bristol | Southampton A | 120 | 0 |
Joel Dicker | Southampton B | Cambridge A | 120 | 0 |
Roselyn Daffin | Southampton A | Bristol | 120 | 0 |
Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Haverford A | 120 | 0 |
Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | Vassar A | 120 | 0 |
Samuel Kassover | George Washington B | Maryland A | 120 | 0 |
Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | Haverford B | 120 | 0 |
Kaiben Bennett | Haverford B | Penn B | 120 | 0 |
Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | George Washington A | 120 | 0 |
Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | RIT A | 120 | 0 |
Kritanu Saha | Cornell D | RIT B | 120 | 0 |
Danny Cutbill | RIT B | Cornell D | 120 | 0 |