Correct option is A
The correct answer is (a) Herbert C. Brown.
- Herbert C. Brown shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1979 with Georg Wittig for their work on developing the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds as key reagents in organic synthesis.
- Brown's work focused on boron-containing compounds, particularly organoboranes, which became crucial reagents in organic chemistry for synthesis reactions.
Information Booster:
- Arne Tiselius was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1948 for his work on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis.
- Henry Taube won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1983 for his work on electron transfer in metal complexes.
- Emil Fischer won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1902 for his work on the chemistry of sugars and purines.