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| | Alder, Kurt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | June 20, 1958, Cologne, W. Ger.), German chemist who was the corecipient, with Otto Diels, of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1950 for their development of the Diels-Alder reaction, or diene synthesis, a widely used method of synthesizing cyclic organic compounds. |
 | | The diene synthesis consists essentially of the linking of a diene, which is a substance containing two alternate double bonds, to a dienophile, which is a compound containing a pair of doubly or triply bonded carbon atoms. |
 | | In 1943 he discovered the ene reaction, which is similar to the diene synthesis, and which also found widespread use in chemical synthesis. |
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