Remembering Roger F. C. Brown: A Personal Note on the Development of Pyrolysis as a Synthetic and Mechanistic Technique in Organic Chemistry

Ulfert E. Wiersum

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Remembering Roger F. C. Brown: A Personal Note on the Development of Pyrolysis as a Synthetic and Mechanistic Technique in Organic Chemistry

Ulfert E. Wiersum ^A

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^A Parkweg 20, 6994CN De Steeg, The Netherlands. Email: uewiersum@hetnet.nl

U. E. Wiersum received his Ph.D. degree in 1968 under the supervision of Professor Hans Wynberg at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. After a post-doctoral term with Fred Bordwell at Northwestern University in 1969, he returned to The Netherlands to join AKZO-Nobel, Arnhem, and retired in 1998. He promoted FVP to solve fundamental and industrial problems.

Australian Journal of Chemistry 67(9) 1362-1363 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH14220
Submitted: 6 April 2014 Accepted: 14 April 2014 Published: 7 May 2014

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Remembering Roger F. C. Brown: A Personal Note on the Development of Pyrolysis as a Synthetic and Mechanistic Technique in Organic Chemistry

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