William N. Lipscomb, PhD

Affiliations: 
University of Minnesota, Harvard 
Area:
Theoretical chemistry, chemical structure
Website:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1976/lipscomb.html
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(1919 - 2011)
http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/53205.html
http://www.chem.umn.edu/alumni/IndFacPages/LipscombW.html
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/04/william-lipscomb-dies-at-91/
Lipscomb, William Nunn Part 1. Electron diffraction investigations of vanadium tetrachloride, dimethylketene dimer, tetrachloroethylene, and trichloroethylene. Part 2. The crystal structure of methylammonium chloride. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology (1946).
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1976 was awarded to William Lipscomb "for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding".

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Linus Carl Pauling grad student 1946 Caltech
 (Part 1, Electron diffraction investigations of vanadium tetrachloride, dimethylketene dimer, tetrachloroethylene, and trichloroethylene; Part 2, The crystal structure of methylammonium chloride)
Verner F. Schomaker grad student 1946 Caltech

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Edward A. Laws grad student Harvard
Gil Shoham grad student Harvard
William Henry Eberhardt grad student 1945 Caltech
Christer E. Nordman grad student 1953 UMN
Oleg Jardetzky grad student 1956 UMN
Richard E. Dickerson grad student 1957 UMN
Robert A. Jacobson grad student 1959 UMN
C. William Kern grad student 1961 UMN
Russell N. Grimes grad student 1962 University of Minnesota, Harvard
Roald Hoffmann grad student 1962 Harvard
Lawrence L. Lohr grad student 1963 Harvard
Russel M. Pitzer grad student 1963 Harvard
J. Zanos Gougoutas grad student 1964 Harvard
John Henry Enemark grad student 1966 Harvard
Thomas A. Steitz grad student 1966 Harvard
William England Palke grad student 1967 Harvard
Joseph A. Potenza grad student 1967 Harvard
Donald H. Voet grad student 1967 Harvard
Herbert Beall grad student 1963-1967 Harvard
Roger A. Hegstrom grad student 1968 Harvard (Physics Tree)
Eugene Switkes grad student 1970 Harvard
Irving R. Epstein grad student 1971 Harvard
Don C. Wiley grad student 1972 Harvard
Stephen George Warren grad student 1973 Harvard (Geotree)
John H Hall grad student 1970-1974 Harvard
David A. Dixon grad student 1976 Harvard
Evan R. Kantrowitz grad student 1976 Harvard
Irene M. Pepperberg grad student 1976 Harvard (Neurotree)
Stephen I. Scheiner grad student 1976 Harvard
Douglas C. Rees grad student 1980 Harvard
Kurt  L. Krause grad student 1980-1986 University of Minnesota, Harvard
David W. Christianson grad student 1987 Harvard
John F. Stanton grad student 1984-1988 Harvard
J. Eric Gouaux grad student 1989 Harvard
Peter R. David grad student 1984-1990 Harvard
Yuh Min Chook grad student 1994 Harvard
Florante A. Quiocho post-doc Harvard
Michael G. Rossmann post-doc 1956-1958 UMN
Martha L. Ludwig post-doc 1967 Harvard
Robert Bau post-doc 1968-1969 Harvard
Evan R. Kantrowitz post-doc 1976-1977 Harvard
Joseph Vincent Ortiz post-doc 1982 Harvard
David H. Magers post-doc 1988-1989 Harvard
Stephen K. Burley post-doc 1987-1990 Harvard (Physics Tree)
Raymond C. Stevens post-doc 1989-1991 Harvard
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Lipscomb WN, Kantrowitz ER. (2012) Structure and mechanisms of Escherichia coli aspartate transcarbamoylase. Accounts of Chemical Research. 45: 444-53
Halgren TA, Lipscomb WN. (2010) Approximations to self-consistent field molecular wavefunctions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 69: 652-6
Kaim W, Hosmane NS, Zális S, et al. (2009) Boron atoms as spin carriers in two- and three-dimensional systems. Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English). 48: 5082-91
Kleier DA, Lipscomb WN. (2009) Molecular orbital study of polypeptides. Conformational and electronic structure of polyglycine International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. 12: 73-86
Kleier DA, Scheiner S, Lipscomb WN. (2009) Comments on orbital steering International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. 10: 161-169
Kaim W, Hosmane N, Záliš S, et al. (2009) Boratome als Spinträger in zwei- und dreidimensionalen Systemen Angewandte Chemie. 121: 5184-5193
Erion MD, Dang Q, Reddy MR, et al. (2007) Structure-guided design of AMP mimics that inhibit fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase with high affinity and specificity. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129: 15480-90
Li H, Min D, Shore SG, et al. (2007) Nature of "hydrogen bond" in the diborane-benzene complex: covalent, electrostatic, or dispersive? Inorganic Chemistry. 46: 3956-9
Huang J, Lipscomb WN. (2006) T-state active site of aspartate transcarbamylase: crystal structure of the carbamyl phosphate and L-alanosine ligated enzyme. Biochemistry. 45: 346-52
Kong Y, Ma J, Karplus M, et al. (2006) The allosteric mechanism of yeast chorismate mutase: a dynamic analysis. Journal of Molecular Biology. 356: 237-47
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