| RefNo | EC/1937/03 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XIV, 227; A01425 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Clemo, George Roger: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Distinguished as an organic chemist. Author or joint-author of about 45 scientific memoirs published in the Journal of the Chemical Society. These cover a wide range of topics, of which the more significant are new synthetic methods, especially in the quinoline group; strychnine and brucine; the lupin alkaloids; the constitution of santonin; catalytic production of polynuclear compounds; experiments on hexadeuterobenzene. Made outstanding contributions to chemistry of lupinane, encountering for the first time cis and transfused rings in isomeric octahydropyrrocolines. Noteworthy too are his synthetical studies in the decaline group, and on rearrangements in the course of selenium dehydrogenations. |
| Proposers | Robert Robinson; W N Haworth; F D Chattaway; Jocelyn Thorpe; Robert H Pickard; James Kenner; W H Mills; I M Heilbron; C K Gold; J L Simonsen; Samuel Smiles; A G Perkin; Harold King |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA1962 | Clemo; George Roger (1889 - 1983) | 1889 - 1983 |