Bowers, Albert

My fascination with people s DMT visions leads me to discuss DMT realities in great detail throughout this book. I also dwell on Marcel Proust and Albert Einstein, perhaps the ultimate expressors of creativity in literature and science. Just as termites are designed to make intricate mounds. Golden Orb Web spiders to weave tremendous webs, and bower birds to construct ornate nests decorated with colorful baubles including... 

Albert Bowers (1930-1990) [46,47] at Syntex observed for secondary steroidal alcohols, that these are amenable to cyclisation with lead tetraacetate, supposed the stereochemistry in the 5-position is adequate. The key step is a radical 1,5-H-abstraction, which is intrinsically more favourable than a 1,4- or 1,6-ab-straction. This reaction is mechanistically related to the Hofmann-Loftier-Frey-tag reaction and the Barton reaction. [48]... 

The authors thank Rod Kunz for his CI2 plasma etch studies, Debra Fenzel-Alexander for her QCM work, Mark Sherwood for obtaining a 75 MHz NMR spectrum, and Melissa Bower and Albert Owen for their thermal analysis and GPC support. 

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