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Also known as Herbert Charles Brown, Herbert Brown, Herbert Brovarnik, H. C. Brown

American chemist (1912–2004)

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Herbert Charles Brown (1912–2004) was an American and British chemist, university teacher, and writer specializing in organic chemistry. Born in London, he was educated at the University of Chicago, where Hermann Irving Schlesinger served as his doctoral advisor. Brown held positions at Purdue University, Wayne State University, and the University of Chicago. He died of a myocardial infarction in West Lafayette.

Brown was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Among his notable works are *Boranes in Organic Chemistry*, *Organoboranes for syntheses*, and *The Nonclassical Ion Problem*. He was the doctoral advisor for Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki.

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Works
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  • Boranes in Organic Chemistry
  • Organoboranes for syntheses
  • The Nonclassical Ion Problem
  • In memory of H. L. Meerwein
  • Explorations in the Nonclassical Ion Area (Tetrahedron Reports)

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1979

    for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis

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Encyclopedic overview

Herbert Charles Brown (22 May 1912 – 19 December 2004) was an American chemist and recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with organoboranes.

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