Lewis, W. Lee

Lewis, W. Lee, and G.A. Perkins. "The Beta-Chlorovinyl Chloroarsines." Industrial Engineering Chemistry 15 (March 1923) 290-95. 

W. Lee Lewis J. Ross Robertson Waldo L. Semon F. C. Whitmore... 

Arsine Derivatives,Organic. Many arsine derivs were proposed as CWA s. More than 60 of such derivs are listed by Wachtel (Ref, pp 189-92). The most known of these compds is Lewisite or MI, which is f -cbloro-vinyldichloroarsine, C1-CH CH- AsC12, first isolated in 1917 by Dr W. Lee Lewis and developed as a war gas by the US Chemical Warfare Service (Ref, pp 202-6). Another important arsine CWA is Adamsite (Brit) (designated in the US as DM) or diphenylamine-chloroarsine ... 

Lewis, E. N., Schoppelrei, J. W., Lee, E. and Kidder, L. H. (2005) Near-infrared chemical imaging as a process analytical tool for the pharmaceutical industry. In Process Analytical Technology (Katherine Bakeev, ed.), Blackwell Publishing, Oxford. 

For recent examples of asymmetric Lewis add-catalyzed Diels—Alder reactions of ketone dienophiles, see (a) D.H. Ryu, T.W. Lee, E.J. Corey,... 

A powerful chemical warfare agent, named after W. Lee Lewis, its American discoverer. 

Morton, C., Alock, N.W., Lees, M.R., Munslow, I.J., Sanders, C.J., and Scott, P. (1999) Stabihzation of cerium(IV) in the presence of an iodide ligand remarkable effects of Lewis acidity on valence state. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 121, 11255. 

Lewisite (2-chlorovinyl dichloroarsine) was first synthesized in 1904 and rediscovered by Captain W. Lee Lewis in the USA, after whom the agent was named (Vilensky and Redman, 2003). Lewisite was first synthesized in bulk in the US A and, according to Prentiss (1937), the first shipment was on its way to Europe when the 1918 armistice was signed and apparently this shipment was destroyed at sea. Lewisite rapidly acquired a remarkable reputation as the dew of death although there remains no proof of it having been used in war. 

See W. Davis to W. Lee Lewis, September 26, 1939 W. Davis telegram to W. Lee Lewis, October 16, 1939 W. Lee Lewis to W. Davis, October 16, 1939 and W. Lee Lewis to W. Davis, October 25, 1939 SIA RU7091, Box 386, Folder 2. The interview section of the broadcast actually took place in the studios of station WBBM in Chicago, where a local announcer read questions to Mrs. Lewis from the prepared script. See annotated scripts for November 13, 1939, in SIA RU7091, Box 386, Folder 2. 

Lewisite is a war gas developed in 1917 by W. Lee Lewis, an American scientist. The gas rapidly penetrates clothing and skin and is poisonous because it contains arsenic, which combines with thiol groups on enzymes, thereby inactivating the enzymes. During World War II, the... 

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