
Gerhard L. Closs
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LOCATION: Chicago, IL, United States
A.A. Michelson Distinguished Service Professor of Chemistry, University of Chicago 1974–92. Author of numerous papers on transient intermediates in chemical reactions.
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Carbanion, any member of a class of organic compounds in which a negative electrical charge is located predominantly on a carbon atom. Carbanions are formally derived from neutral organic molecules by removal of positively charged atoms or groups of atoms, and they are important chiefly as chemical…
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