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Otto Diels
1876–1954 · Germany · Born in the 1800s
Nobel Chemistry 1950
German chemist who developed the Diels–Alder reaction, a cornerstone of ring-forming synthesis.
Nobel Prize work
With Kurt Alder he discovered the diene synthesis, the Diels–Alder cycloaddition that joins a diene and a dienophile into six-membered rings, becoming one of the most powerful reactions in organic synthesis.