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 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 88 | 10 |
| Justin Lee | Imperial A | Warwick A | 88 | 10 |
| Viraj Negandhi | Texas B | TAMU | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech C | Vanderbilt A | 117 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Carnegie Mellon B | 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 |
| Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | UNC B | 120 | 0 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago B | Chicago D | 120 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Percy Yuen | Cambridge D | Oxford C | 120 | 0 |
| Benjamin Watson | Oxford C | Cambridge D | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | RIT A | 120 | 0 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell D | RIT B | 120 | 0 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT B | Cornell D | 120 | 0 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | UCF 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 |
| 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 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Georgia Tech A | 120 | 0 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Alabama A | 120 | 0 |