The 1979 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded jointly to Georg Wittig and Herbert C. Brown. Here Robert Shaw describes Georg Wittig's achievements in synthetic and mechanistic chemistry.
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Shaw, R. Georg Wittig — virtuoso of chemical synthesis. Nature 282, 231–232 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/282231a0
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