Awards & Winners

Saul Winstein

Date of Birth 08-October-1912
Place of Birth Canada
(North America, Americas, DVD Region 1)
Nationality United States of America, Canada
Saul Winstein was the Canadian chemist who discovered the Winstein reaction, in which he argued a non-classical cation was needed to explain the stability of the norbornyl cation. This fueled a debate with Herbert C. Brown over the existence of delocalized cations such as this. Richard F. Heck, who earlier in his career had undertaken postgraduate studies with Winstein, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Co-author of the Grunwald-Winstein equation concerning solvolysis rates.

Awards by Saul Winstein

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1970


National Medal of Science for Physical Science
(In recognition of his many innovative and perceptive contributions to the study of mechanism in organic chemical reactions.)