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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bill Zhao | Florida B | Florida State A | 111 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell C | ESF A | 111 | -5 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | Binghamton A | 111 | -5 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Oxford B | 111 | 10 |
| Lewis Strachan | Cambridge E | NYU C | 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 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | UCF 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 |
| 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 |
| Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | UNC B | 120 | 0 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago B | Chicago D | 120 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | RIT A | 120 | 0 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell D | RIT B | 120 | 0 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT B | Cornell D | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |