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Jack Baldwin (chemist)

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Georgina Ferry's obituary of Baldwin notes that "he had little time for the academic conventions of Oxford: he spoke his mind." and that "he enjoyed good food, fine wine, powerful motorbikes, fast cars and his dogs." Some of these aspects of his character are illustrated in a three-part documentary.
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The Baldwin group’s range of interests includes mechanisms of reactions; total synthesis of natural products such as trichoviridin, acromelic acid A, hypoglycin A and lactacystin; and biomimetic synthesis of natural products such as (-)-xestospongin A. Baldwin published over 700 papers.
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One of Baldwin's passions was finding out how nature makes chemicals that researchers cannot. This led him to ‘biomimetic’ synthesis: using the principles of nature to improve the generation of biomolecules in the laboratory.
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for ring closure reactions. It was also where Baldwin met his future wife, Christine Louise Franchi; they married in 1977. In 1978, he moved to
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Baldwin was the second son of Frederick C N Baldwin and Olive F Headland. He was educated at Brighton Grammar School and
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After four years on the staff at Imperial College, Baldwin moved to the United States: first to
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1988 Dr Paul Jansen Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis, Belgium
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in 1970, where he published his most significant work —
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1963 Assistant Lecturer in Chemistry, Imperial College
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Harwood, Laurence; Adlington, Robert (August 2008).
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Sir
FRS
London
England
U.K
Imperial College London
Baldwin's rules
FRS
Knight Bachelor
Nakanishi Prize
University of Oxford
Doctoral advisor
Derek Barton
John Sutherland
research.chem.ox.ac.uk/jack-baldwin.aspx


Dyson Perrins Laboratory
FRS
chemist
Waynflete Professor of Chemistry
University of Oxford
organic chemistry
Lewes County Grammar School
Imperial College, London
Sir Derek H.R. Barton, FRS, Nobel Laureate
Pennsylvania State University
MIT
Baldwin's rules
Oxford

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