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Georg Wittig was a German chemist who reported a method for synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides in the Wittig reaction. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Herbert C. Brown in 1979. See more
Wittig was born in Berlin, Germany and shortly after his birth moved with his family to Kassel, where his father was professor at the applied arts high school. He attended school in Kassel and started studying chemistry … See more
Wittig's contributions also include the preparation of phenyllithium and the discovery of the 1,2-Wittig rearrangement and the 2,3-Wittig rearrangement.
Wittig was well … See more• "The development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis". Archived from the original on June 30, 2006. Retrieved June 7, 2005.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( See more
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