Frank Westheimer
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Frank Westheimer's Degrees
- Bachelors Chemistry University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Frank Henry Westheimer was an American chemist. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1936 to 1954, and at Harvard University from 1953 to 1983, becoming the Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry in 1960, and Professor Emeritus in 1983. The Westheimer medal was established in his honor in 2002.
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- Why nature chose phosphates. (1987) (1222)
- Pseudo-rotation in the hydrolysis of phosphate esters (1968) (614)
- The Magnitude of the Primary Kinetic Isotope Effect for Compounds of Hydrogen and Deuterium. (1961) (564)
- The Electrostatic Influence of Substituents on the Dissociation Constants of Organic Acids. II (1938) (349)
- Photoaffinity labeling of biological systems. (1979) (323)
- 1-Benzyldihydronicotinamide—A Model for Reduced DPN (1955) (274)
- Catalysis by molecular sieves in the preparation of ketimines and enamines (1971) (240)
- The Mechanisms of Chromic Acid Oxidations. (1949) (205)
- The enzymatic transfer of hydrogen. I. The reaction catalyzed by alcohol dehydrogenase. (1953) (154)
- The Lanthanum Hydroxide Gel Promoted Hydrolysis of Phosphate Esters (1955) (150)
- The photolysis of diazoacetylchymotrypsin. (1962) (142)
- The Reduction of Thioketones by a Model for a Coenzyme (1957) (131)
- THE ENZYMATIC TRANSFER OF HYDROGEN FROM ALCOHOL TO DPN (1951) (120)
- Hydrolysis and Exchange in Esters of Phosphoric Acid1a,b (1961) (109)
- The Theory of the Racemization of Optically Active Derivatives of Diphenyl (1946) (108)
- Metal Ion-catalyzed Decarboxylation: A Model for an Enzyme System1 (1951) (105)
- Barium Ethylene Phosphate (1956) (96)
- Enzymatic Synthesis of the Enantiomorphis of Ethanol-1-d1,2 (1953) (88)
- Inhibition of orotidine-5'-phosphate decarboxylase by 1-(5'-phospho-beta-d-ribofuranosyl)barbituric acid, 6-azauridine 5'-phosphate, and uridine 5'-phosphate. (1980) (84)
- A reporter group at the active site of acetoacetate decarboxylase. II. Ionization constant of the amino group. (1971) (81)
- Rates and mechanisms of hydrolysis of esters of phosphorous acid (1988) (77)
- ON THE MECHANISM OF THE ENZYMATIC DECARBOXYLATION OF ACETOACETATE1 (1959) (71)
- The Electrostatic Influence of Substituents on the Dissociation Constants of Organic Acids. III (1939) (70)
- The Kinetics of the Oxidation of 2-Deuteropropanol-2 by Chromic Acid (1949) (70)
- Acetoacetate decarboxylase. Identification of lysine at the active site. (1966) (68)
- The Kinetics of the Chromic Acid Oxidation of Isopropyl Alcohol: The Induced Oxidation of Manganous Ion (1949) (67)
- The Hydrolysis of Methyl Ethylene Phosphate: Steric Hindrance in General Base Catalysis (1963) (66)
- The Effect of Solvent on Some Reaction Rates (1941) (65)
- A reporter group at the active site of acetoacetate decarboxylase. I. Ionization constant of the nitrophenol. (1971) (63)
- pH-Product and pH-rate profiles for the hydrolysis of methyl ethylene phosphate. Rate-limiting pseudorotation (1969) (63)
- Metal Ion Promoted Hydrolysis of Glycine Amide and of Phenylalanylglycine Amide (1956) (63)
- The enthalpies of hydrolysis of acyclic, monocyclic, and glycoside cyclic phosphate diesters. (1975) (63)
- The Reduction of Olefinic Double Bonds with Dihydropyridines (1962) (62)
- Nuclear magnetic resonance evidence for the pathways of pseudorotation in alkyloxyphosphoranes (1970) (62)
- The Hydrolysis of Some Cyclic Esters of Sulfuric Acid (1963) (61)
- The Photochemical Reduction of Bromotrichloromethane by Derivatives of 1,4-Dihydropyridine (1961) (59)
- The Quantitative Evaluation of the Effect of Hydrogen Bonding on the Strength of Dibasic Acids (1956) (58)
- Products from the photolysis of diazoacetyl chymotrypsin. (1966) (58)
- The Hydrolysis of Mono- and Dibenzyl Phosphates (1955) (58)
- The geometry of the transition state in the hydrolysis of phosphate esters. (1966) (57)
- The Calculation and Determination of the Buttressing Effect for the Racemization of 2,2',3,3'-Tetraiodo-5,5'-dicarboxybiphenyl (1950) (56)
- Biochemistry: Polyribonucleic acids as enzymes (1986) (56)
- The enzymatic transfer of hydrogen. II. The reaction catalyzed by lactic dehydrogenase. (1953) (54)
- The Chromic Acid Oxidation of Isopropyl Alcohol in 86.5% Acetic Acid Solution. The Chemistry of the Chlorochromate Ion (1952) (53)
- Coincidences, decarboxylation, and electrostatic effects (1995) (53)
- The Stereochemistry of Unsaturated Phosphonic Acids1 (1966) (51)
- Rearrangement accompanying the photolysis of diazoacyl esters (1968) (50)
- The rates of hydrolysis of esters of cyclic phosphinic acids. (1966) (50)
- The Kinetics of the Chromic Acid Oxidation of Benzaldehyde (1958) (49)
- A Calculation of the Energy of Activation for the Racemization of 2,2′‐Dibromo−4,4′‐Dicarboxydiphenyl (1947) (48)
- The Mechanism of the Chromic Acid Oxidation of Isopropyl Alcohol. The Chromic Acid Ester1 (1951) (48)
- The hydrolysis of gamma-phenylpropyl di- and triphosphates. (1966) (47)
- N-methyl dihydronicotinamide (1958) (47)
- Marking the hydrophobic binding sites of enzymes. Insertion into the methyl group of an alanine residue of trypsin (1969) (45)
- The Kinetics of the Oxidation of Isopropyl Alcohol by Chromic Acid (1943) (44)
- 2-diazo-3,3,3-trifluoropropionyl chloride: reagent for photoaffinity labeling. (1976) (42)
- Calculation of the Bond Angles and Conformation of Methyl Ethylene Phosphate and Related Compounds (1965) (41)
- Hydrolysis of Phostonates1,2 (1965) (40)
- The Amine Catalysis of the Dealdolization of Diacetone Alcohol (1938) (40)
- The Oxidation of Trisubstituted Phosphites by Dinitrogen Tetroxide (1958) (39)
- Acetoacetate decarboxylase. Selective acetylation of the enzyme. (1968) (37)
- ISOTOPE EFFECTS IN THE ENZYMATIC DECARBOXYLATION OF OXALACETIC ACID (1959) (36)
- The purification of orotidine-5'-phosphate decarboxylase from yeast by affinity chromatography. (1979) (35)
- Mechanism of Alcoholic Fermentation. The Fermentation of Glucose-1-C¹⁴ (1950) (33)
- 1-Ethoxyphosphole 1-Oxide (1964) (33)
- The Cleavage of cis- and trans-1,2-Dimethyl-1,2-cyclopentanediol by Chromic Acid (1962) (33)
- MONOMERIC METHYL METAPHOSPHATE (1974) (33)
- Acetoacetate decarboxylase. Preparation of the enzyme. (1966) (33)
- The active site of cetoacetate decarboxylase. (1966) (33)
- The Kinetics of Nitration of Aromatic Nitro Compounds in Sulfuric Acid1 (1946) (32)
- Mechanisms in the Hydrolysis of Phosphorodiamidic Chlorides1 (1965) (32)
- The Mechanism of the Cleavage of Phenyl-t-butylcarbinol by Chromic Acid (1956) (31)
- The Chemistry of Diisopropyl Chromate (1952) (29)
- Acetoacetate decarboxylase. Reaction with acetopyruvate. (1968) (29)
- The Solvolysis of Tetrabenzylpyrophosphate (1959) (28)
- Interaction of gamma-phenylpropyl triphosphate with cations. (1966) (28)
- A diazo compound for the photochemical labeling of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase. (1971) (28)
- PK of the lysine amino group at the active site of acetoacetate decarboxylase. (1971) (27)
- Intermolecular reaction during photolysis of diazoacetyl -chymotrypsin. (1971) (27)
- THE METAL ION CATALYZED DECARBOXYLATION OF DIMETHYLOXALOACETIC ACID (1949) (25)
- A CRYSTALLINE DECARBOXYLASE WITHOUT BIOTIN (1959) (25)
- Photolysis of 1-azido-2,2,3,4,4-pentamethylphosphetane 1-oxide. Monomeric metaphosphonimidate (1974) (24)
- Inhibited pseudo-rotation in a cyclic monoalkyphosphorane (1967) (24)
- [43] Acetoacetate decarboxylase from Clostridium acetobutylicum: EC 4.1.1.4 Acetoacetate carboxy-lyase (1969) (24)
- The Reduction of Ketoacids with a Derivative of 1,4-Dihydropyridine (1958) (24)
- .alpha.-Diazobenzylphosphonate dianions (1976) (24)
- The Electrostatic Influence of Substituents on Reaction Rates III. Solvent Effect (1942) (24)
- Monomeric methyl metaphosphate. 3. Electrophilic aromatic substitution in solution (1978) (23)
- Acetoacetate decarboxylase. Catalysis of hydrogen-deuterium exchange in acetone. (1968) (23)
- Acetoacetate decarboxylase. The molecular weight of the enzyme and subunits. (1968) (21)
- Acetoacetate decarboxylase. Subunits and properties. (1966) (21)
- The Mechanism of the Oxynitration of Benzene1,2 (1947) (21)
- Ionization of oxyphosphoranes. Phosphonium ions and hexacoordinated phosphorus anions (1976) (21)
- The Chromic Acid Oxidation of Pinacol1 (1960) (20)
- The Polytopal Rearrangement at Phosphorus (1980) (20)
- HYPOTHESIS FOR THE MECHANISM OF ACTION OF CHYMOTRYPSIN. (1957) (20)
- The Rate of Mercuration of Benzene as a Function of the Activity of Water (1963) (20)
- Oxaloacetate decarboxylase from cod. Mechanism of action and stereoselective reduction of pyruvate by borohydride. (1968) (20)
- S-carboxymethylcysteine from the photolysis of diazoacyl trypsin and chymotrypsin. (1971) (20)
- Acetoacetate decarboxylase. Reassociation of subunits. (1968) (19)
- Mechanisms related to enzyme catalysis. (1962) (19)
- The Electrostatic Influence of Substituents on Reaction Rates. II1 (1940) (19)
- Semicarbazone Formation in Sixty Per Cent. Methyl Cellosolve1 (1934) (19)
- Monomeric methyl metaphosphate: reactions with carbonyl groups (1980) (19)
- The Mechanism of Aromatic Mercuration.1 I. Orientation Effects (1950) (19)
- Solvolysis of Tetrabenzyl Pyrophosphate. Catalysis by Imidazole1 (1966) (18)
- A Free-Radical Oxidation of a Dihydropyridine*,1a (1965) (18)
- The Effect of Resonance on Reaction Velocity1 (1941) (18)
- pH-Rate profile for the hydrolysis of some esters of a bicyclic phosphinic acid. Evidence for rate-limiting pseudorotation (1969) (18)
- The Discovery of the Mechanisms of Enzyme Action, 1947–1963 (1985) (17)
- Letter: A phosphodiesterase from Enterobacter aerogenes. (1973) (17)
- The Chromic Acid Oxidation of Diisopropyl Ether1,2 (1960) (17)
- The enzymatic hydrolysis of gamma-phenylpropyl di- and triphosphates. (1966) (16)
- Enthalpy of hydrolysis of simple phosphate diesters (1973) (16)
- Photochemical decomposition of trimethylsilyl diazoacetates in alcohols (1979) (16)
- Are our universities rotten at the "core"? (1987) (16)
- The Malonic Ester Synthesis and Walden Inversion (1942) (15)
- Substituted 1-oxyphosphole 1-oxides (1971) (15)
- Kinetics and mechanism of the hydrolysis of pentaaryloxyphosphoranes (1973) (15)
- The Thiamin-Pyruvate Reaction (1957) (15)
- Ring opening and reclosure in a cyclic phosphorane. (1967) (15)
- The Kinetics of the Benzilic Acid Rearrangement (1936) (15)
- The Stereochemical Course of the Fragmentation of β-Halophosphonates1 (1966) (15)
- Photoaffinity Labeling‐Retrospect and Prospect (1980) (15)
- Polyribonucleic acids as enzymes. (1986) (14)
- The Entropy of Chelation (1956) (14)
- AMINO ACID CATALYSIS OF THE MUTAROTATION OF GLUCOSE (1937) (14)
- The mechanism of the nitration of anisole. (1948) (13)
- The Electrostatic Effect of Substituents on the Dissociation Constants of Organic Acids. IV. Aromatic Acids (1939) (13)
- The hydrolysis of phosphate esters (1977) (13)
- The electrostatic influence of substituents on the dissociation constants of organic acids. A reply to Wynne-Jones and Rushbrooke (1947) (13)
- Monomeric methyl metaphosphate. II. Electrophilic aromatic substitution (1975) (13)
- A titration method for bovine trypsin. (1969) (13)
- Halide Catalysis in the Bromination of Deoxybenzoin (1963) (13)
- Decarboxylation of Schiff bases (1973) (12)
- MONOMERIC METAPHOSPHATE ANION: REACTION WITH CARBONYL GROUPS (1981) (12)
- Mechanism of the Conant-Swan fragmentation and the formation of monomeric metaphosphate ion (1984) (12)
- Diazoacetyl subtilisin. (1973) (12)
- Some substituted 7-ethoxy-7-phosphabicycloheptene and-heptane 7-oxides (1967) (12)
- Phosphoranes as intermediates in the acid hydrolysis of acyclic phosphonate esters: evidence from oxygen exchange (1979) (11)
- THE KINETICS OF SOME AMINE CATALYZED REACTIONS (1939) (11)
- Acetoacetate decarboxylase. Photochemical oxidation induced by iodoacetate. (1966) (11)
- On the Mechanism of the Oxidative Cleavage of Phenyl-t-butylcarbinol with Chromic Acid (1963) (11)
- p-Toluenesulfonyldiazoacetates as photoaffinity labeling reagents (1978) (11)
- Proton-exchange reactions of acetone and butanone. Resolution of steps in catalysis by acetoacetate decarboxylase. (1975) (11)
- The Role of Phosphorus in Chemistry and Biochemistry. An Overview (1993) (10)
- Rates of ionization of phosphoranes (1976) (10)
- (Dansyldiazomethyl)phosphinates: fluorescent reagents for photoaffinity labeling (1981) (10)
- Hydroxy Furans. I. Beta Hydroxy Triphenylfuran (1936) (9)
- Errata: The Electrostatic Influence of Substituents on the Dissociation Constants of Organic Acids. I and II (1939) (9)
- The Role of Thiamin in Carboxylase (1959) (9)
- p-Toluenesulfonyldiazoacetates: Reagents for photoaffinity labeling (1978) (8)
- The Mechanism of Aromatic Mercuration. II. Reaction Kinetics. (1951) (8)
- Pyridine Catalysis of the Oxidation of Isopropyl Alcohol by Chromic Acid (1959) (8)
- Kinetics and mechanism of the hydrolysis of aryloxyphosphonium salts. Salt effects (1979) (8)
- Reactivity of Thiobenzophenone with Phenylhydrazine (1960) (8)
- Fermentation of glucose-1-C14. (1949) (8)
- Rates and Mechanisms of Hydrolysis of Esters of Phosphorous Acid. (1988) (7)
- The Preparation and Resolution of 2,2'-Diiodo-5,5'-dicarboxybiphenyl and of 2,2',3,3'-Tetraiodo-5,5'-dicarboxybiphenyl (1950) (6)
- Pseudorotation in a sterically hindered phosphorane (1976) (6)
- Dissociation Constants in the Cinnamic Acid Series1 (1941) (5)
- The Application of Physical Organic Chemistry to Biochemical Problems. (1986) (5)
- Rearrangement of 4,4-diarylcyclohexadienones induced by attack of methyl metaphosphate at the carbonyl group (1983) (5)
- Imidazole Catalysis of the Hydrolysis of δ-Thiovalerolactone (1962) (5)
- Monomeric Metaphosphates in Enzymic and in Enzyme-Model Systems (1981) (5)
- DISPROPORTIONATION AMONG ARYLOXYPHOSPHORANES (1979) (5)
- Enol phosphates from the action of monomeric metaphosphate ion on ketones (1983) (5)
- Kinetics and mechanism of hydrolysis of aryloxyphosphonium salts (1976) (4)
- Nobel Laureates: Bloch and Lynen Win Prize in Medicine and Physiology. (1964) (4)
- THE SALT EFFECT IN THE REARRANGEMENT OF BENZIL o-CARBOXYLIC ACID (1936) (4)
- IONIZATION OF ARYLOXYPHOSPHORANES IN ACETONITRILE: RATES AND EQUILIBRIUMS (1979) (4)
- Additions and Corrections. Pseudo-Rotation in the Hydrolysis of Phosphate Esters (1968) (2)
- The Electrostatic Influence of Substituents on Reaction Rates. IV. (1943) (2)
- Hydrolysis of Esters of Bicycloheptyl- and -heptenylphsophinic Acids (1967) (2)
- Konrad Bloch. 21 January 1912 – 5 October 2000 (2002) (2)
- A special fund for young scientists (1970) (2)
- Hydrolysis of Gamma-Phenylpropyl Di- and Triphosphates. (1965) (2)
- How to turn on an electric light (1985) (2)
- Enzymes and enzyme models. (1962) (2)
- James Bryant Conant, 26 March 1893 - 11 February 1978 (1979) (2)
- A special fund for young scientists—part II (1970) (1)
- THE HYDROLYSIS OF PHOSPHATE ESTERS AND RELATED COMPOUNDS: MONOMERIC METAPHOSPHATES AND PHOSPHORIMIDATES (1974) (1)
- A method for marking the hydrophobic binding sites of enzymes. An insertion into the methyl group of an alanine residue of trypsin. (1969) (1)
- Deciding How Much Science Is Enough. (1994) (1)
- KINETICS AND MECHANISM OF THE METHANOLYSIS OF ARYLOXYPHOSPHONIUM SALTS (1979) (1)
- THE CASE FOR MONOMERIC METAPHOSPHATE (1980) (1)
- Response: the core curriculum. (1987) (1)
- Correction. Ionization of Aryloxyphosphoranes in Acetonitrile: Rates and Equilibria (1981) (1)
- Robert Burns Woodward, Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1965. (1965) (1)
- Models for Enzymic Systems: An Introduction (1980) (1)
- α-DIAZOBENZYLPHOSPHONATE DIANIONS (1977) (1)
- Starch-gel electrophoresis and ultracentrifugation of actin (1962) (0)
- Additions and Corrections - Disproportionation among Aryloxyphosphoranes. (1980) (0)
- A conversation with Frank Westheimer. Interview by K. Noelle Gracy. (2002) (0)
- A PHOSPHODIESTERASE FROM ENTEROBATER AEROGENES (1974) (0)
- NMR-BEWEIS FUER DIE PSEUDOROTATION IN ALKYL-OXYPHOSPHORANEN, PSEUDOROTATIONSBARRIEREN IN CYCLISCHEN ALKYLOXYPHOSPHORANEN (1970) (0)
- Response : The Core Curriculum (1987) (0)
- Sune Bergström and Bengt Samuelsson PROSTAGLANDINS AND RELATED FACTORS 11 from Human Seminal Plasma : 1 Isolation of Prostaglandin (0)
- P h ysica I organic chemistry (1997) (0)
- Cleaving CC Bonds in Cyclopropenium Ions (1980) (0)
- Additions and Corrections - Monomeric Methyl Metaphosphate: Reactions with Carbonyl Groups. (1980) (0)
- Rates and mechanisms of hydrolysis of esters of phosphorous acid [Erratum to document cited in CA108(3):21987r] (1988) (0)
- LUMINESCENCE OF Pr3+ IONS IN Y~Als_xGax0z2 SOLID SOLUTIONS (0)
- Additions and Corrections - Mechanisms in the Hydrolysis of Phosphorodiamidic Chlorides. (1965) (0)
- Emil Thomas Kaiser: February 15, 1938-July 18, 1988. (1989) (0)
- SUBSTITUIERTE 1-HYDROXY-PHOSPHOL-1-OXIDE (1971) (0)
- Physical organic chemistry (1997) (0)
- Paul Doughty Bartlett (14 August 1907-11 October 1997) (1998) (0)
- MECHANISM OF ENZYMIC DECARBOXYLATION OF BETA KETOACIDS (1971) (0)
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