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SHEEHAN, John Clark (1915 – 1992)

SHEEHAN, John Clark (1915 – 1992)

1915 – 1992

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Photo by Karsh, Ottawa · E.J. Corey, John D. Roberts: John Clark Sheehan. // Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1995, V68 — 468p. · CC BY-SA 4.0

1957 CE

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The total synthesis of penicillin V.

Sheehan and Henery-Logan reported the step by step synthesis of penicillin V (phenoxymethylpenicillin) and the cyclization of the beta lactam ring, key to creation of beta-lactam antibiotics. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for…