Ingold, Christopher organic chemistry

Sir Christopher Ingold, Structure and Mechanism in Organic Chemistry. 2nd edition, ch. 6. London Bell. 

The Paris school included Robert Lespieau (18641947), Georges Dupont (18841958), Charles Prevost (18991983), and Albert Kirrmann (19001974). Principal figures in the London-Manchester school were Arthur Lapworth (18721941), Thomas Martin Lowry (18741936), Robert Robinson (18861975), Jocelyn Thorpe (18721940), and Christopher Ingold (18931970). A broadly defined German research school pursuing ionic and electronic theories of reaction mechanisms in organic chemistry does not enter into this history, because it did not exist. 

Christopher Ingold and the Integration of Physical and Organic Chemistry, 19201950 The Career of Christopher Ingold... 

Like Arthur Lapworth, and unlike Thomas Lowry and Robert Robinson, Christopher Ingold was a scientist comfortable in the laboratory domains of both physical chemistry and organic chemistry. As his student, Derek Davenport, remarked in 1987, Ingold became the clear leader of the "emerging discipline" of physical organic chemistry when he "harnessed chemical kinetics to his discussions of reaction mechanisms" ... 

See Shoppee, "Christopher Kelk Ingold," 355, discussing C. K. Ingold and H. Burton, "The Existence and Stability of Free Radicals," Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical Society, Science Section, 1 (1929) 421 ff. also, Ingold, Structure andMechanism on Organic Chemistry, 8384. 

K. T. Leffek, Sir Christopher Ingold - a Major Prophet of Organic Chemistry, Nova Lion Press, Victoria B.C., Canada, 1996. 

On Ingold see U%oK.T. Leffek, Sir Christopher Ingold - A Major Prophet of Organic Chemistry (British Columbia Nova Lion Press, 1996) 0%oM.D. Saltzman, The Robinson-Ingold controversy. Precedence in the electronic theory of organic reactions Journal of Chemical Education 57 (1980) 753-757 Nye, From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry, 196-223. 

Recognition of the duality of mechanism for nucleophilic aliphatic substitution, formulation of the mechanisms themselves, and analysis of the factors influencing competition between them—all are largely due to Sir Christopher Ingold (of University College, London) and the people who worked with him and this is only a fraction of their total contribution to the theory of organic chemistry. 

Sir Christopher Ingold (1893-1970) was professor at Leeds (1924-1930) and then at University College London (1930-1970) until his death. The words in quotations that follow are taken from Ingold, C. K. Structure and Mechanism in Organic Chemistry, Cornell University Press, Ithaea, NY, 1953. 

One could no longer just mix things sophistication in physical chemistry was the base from which all chemists—including the organic— must start. Christopher Ingold (1893-1970)... 

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