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S.O. Lawesson
is a
chemist known for his
popularization of
Lawesson's reagent within the
chemical community. He also worked
on other areas of
organic chemistry and
published some work on the subject
of the link between
cancer in
homosexual men and
amyl nitrite, this work has
the potential to be very
controversial as it is related
to the work of
Peter Duesberg. S.O. Lawesson
worked at the University of
Aarhus which is in
Denmark (Europe)
and he died sometime in the 1980s
and he last published a paper in
1986.
After finding that
Lawesson's reagent was useful
for some reactions, S.O. Lawesson
undertook a general survey of the
reactivity of organic compounds
with Lawesson's reagent.
At one point S.O. Lawesson
worked with a chemist called N.M.
Yousif. After the death of S.O.
Lawesson, N.M. Yousif has been
working in
Eygpt and has been very active
within the
phosphorus
sulfur chemical community.
N.M. Yousif has published many new
reactions of
Lawesson's reagent.
Prof T.B. Rauchfuss, who is in
the
USA did some very important
work on
Lawesson's reagent. He did the
31P NMR experiment which proved
that
Lawesson's reagent could form
the dithiophopshine ylides in
solution.
