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George Andrew Olah (1927–2017)


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1 Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, 837 Bloom Walk, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1661, United States
 

George A. Olah, the recipient of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his groundbreaking work on superacids that led to isolation and observation of long lived carbocations, passed away on 8 March 2017 at his home in Beverly Hills, California.
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  • Olah, G. A. (with Mathew, T.), A Life of Magic Chemistry, Autobiographical Reflections including Post-Nobel Years and the Methanol Economy, John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2015, 2nd updated edn.
  • Olah, G. A., Tolgyesi, W. S., Kuhn, S. J., Moffatt, M. E., Bastien, I. J. and Baker, E. B., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1963, 85, 1328.
  • Olah, G. A., Baker, E. B., Evans, J. C., Tolgyesi, W. S., McIntyre, J. S. and Bastien, I. J., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1963, 86, 1360.
  • Gillespie, R. J., Acc. Chem. Res., 1968, 1, 202.
  • Olah, G. A., Prakash, G. K. S. and Sommer, J., Science, 1979, 206, 13; Olah, G. A., Prakash, G. K. S., Molnar, A. and Sommer, J., Superacid Chemistry, John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2009, 2nd edn.
  • Olah, G. A., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1972, 94, 808.
  • Winstein, S., Trifan, D. S., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1949, 71, 2953; 1952, 74, 1147, 1149.
  • Olah, G. A., Prakash, G. K. S., Arvanaghi, M. and Anet, F. A. L., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1982, 104, 7105; Olah, G. A., Prakash, G. K. S. and Saunders, M., Acc. Chem. Res., 1983, 16, 440.
  • Scholz, F., Himmel, D., Heinemann, F. W., Schleyer, P. v. R., Meyer, K. and Krossing, I., Science, 2013, 341, 62.
  • Olah, G. A., Prakash, G. K. S., Wade, K. N. and Molnar, A., Hypercarbon Chemistry, John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2011, 2nd edn.
  • Olah, G. A. and Klumpp, D. A., Superelectrophiles and their Chemistry, John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2008.
  • Olah, G. A. and Li, X.-Y., In Synthetic Fluorine Chemistry (eds Olah, G. A., Chambers, R. D. and Prakash, G. K. S.), John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1992.
  • Olah, G. A., Goeppert, A. and Prakash, G. K. S., Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy, Wiley-VCH, Wienheim, 2009, 2nd edn.
  • Olah, G. A., Goeppert, A., Czaun, M., Mathew, T., May, R. B. and Prakash, G. K. S., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 8720.
  • Olah, G. A., Mathew, T., Prakash, G. K. S. and Rasul, G., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 1717; Olah, G. A., Mathew, T. and Prakash, G. K. S., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 6905; 2017, 139, 566.

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  • George Andrew Olah (1927–2017)

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Authors

G. K. Surya Prakash
Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, 837 Bloom Walk, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1661, United States
Thomas Mathew
Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, 837 Bloom Walk, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1661, United States

Abstract


George A. Olah, the recipient of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his groundbreaking work on superacids that led to isolation and observation of long lived carbocations, passed away on 8 March 2017 at his home in Beverly Hills, California.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv112%2Fi10%2F2144-2145