Leopold, Richard

Leopold A. Bernstein, Financial Statement Analysis Theoty, Application Interpretation, 5th ed. Richard D. Irwin, Homewood, IL, 1992. 

This boast was somewhat premature, because the most difficult step of the four-step process was still unsolved. The dehydration of butylene glycol to the desired butadiene, as Meisenburg had remarked eleven years earlier, presented great difficulties, because apart from butadiene, other products of the dehydration were also formed, which gave rise to heavy contamination. I.G. Hochst had developed an alum catalyst, based on earlier work at Bayer, but Richard Leopold of Hochst ruefully reported in April 1927 that one of the hydroxyl groups resisted dehydration, giving rise to allyl carbinol and crotyl alcohol as by-products. ... 

Zabner J, Ramsey BW, Meeker DP, Aitken ML, Balfour RP, Gibson RL, Launspach J, Moscicki RA, Richards SM, Standaert TA, Williams-Warren J, Wadsworth SC, Smith AE, Welsh MJ. Repeat administration of an adenovirus vector encoding cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator to the nasal epithelium of patients with cystic fihrosis. J Clin Invest 1996 97 1504-1511. Harvey BG, Leopold PL, Hackett NR, Grasso TM, Williams PM, Tucker AL, Kaner RJ, Ferris B, Gonda I, Sweeney TD, Ramalingam R, Kovesdi I, Shak S, Crystal RG. Airway epithelial CFTR mRNA expression in cystic fibrosis patients after repetitive administration of a recombinant adenovirus. J Clin Invest 1999 194 1245-1255. 

Robert F. Curl Jr., Sir Harold Kroto, Richard E. Smalley 1939 Adolf Butenandt, Leopold Ruzicka... 

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