Question
Answer the following about Robert Woodward’s contributions to total syntheses, for 10 points each.
[10e] Woodward led the Harvard team, which joined forces with Albert Eschenmoser’s ETH team, in the total synthesis of this compound. This largest B vitamin’s central corrin ring contains a cobalt atom.
ANSWER: vitamin B12 [or cobalamin]
[10m] The first step of Woodward’s classic strychnine (“STRICK-neen”) synthesis begins with a Fischer indole synthesis, involving a phenyl derivative of this compound. The Olin Raschig process produces this compound found in rocket fuels.
ANSWER: hydrazine [or N2H4; accept phenylhydrazine]
[10h] Woodward and Doering’s 1944 total synthesis of quinine stood until this chemist published a stereoselective pathway in 2001. Carbonyls are selectively alkylated in this chemist’s namesake enamine synthesis.
ANSWER: Gilbert Stork [accept Stork enamine synthesis]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 100% | 29% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 12.22 | 56% | 56% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 6.67 | 22% | 33% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 86% | 71% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 11.25 | 63% | 50% | 0% |
Data
| Cambridge A | Bristol A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cambridge B | Imperial A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge C | Manchester | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Southampton A | Cambridge D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Birmingham | Durham | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial B | Warwick A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Oxford A | LSE A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Southampton B | Oxford B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |