Nationality Polish Role Chemist Fields Organic synthesis | Name Mieczyslaw Makosza Residence Warsaw, Poland | |
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Born 16 November 1934 (age 90) ( 1934-11-16 ) Institutions Warsaw University of Technology
Polish Academy of Sciences Alma mater Leningrad University
Warsaw University of Technology Known for Vicarious nucleophilic substitution
Phase transfer catalysis Education Saint Petersburg State University | ||
Prof. Mieczysław Mąkosza - laureat Nagrody FNP 2012 w obszarze nauk chemicznych i o materiałach
Mieczyslaw Jozef Makosza (born 16 November 1934) is a Polish chemist specializing in organic synthesis and investigation of organic mechanisms. Along with Jerzy Winiarski he is credited for the discovery of the aromatic vicarious nucleophilic substitution, VNS. He also contributed to the discovery of phase transfer catalysis reactions. From 1979 to 2005 he was director of the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
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