= Robert Burns Woodward
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<Robert Burns Woodward> developed strategies for the <total synthesis> of structurally complex <natural products>. His 1965 Nobel lecture uses the synthesis of <cephalosporin C> to explain the problems of constructing a target's carbon skeleton, arranging <functional groups>, and controlling <stereochemistry>. The synthesis becomes an argument about molecular structure as well as a route to a substance.https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/woodward-lecture.pdf[Recent Advances in the Chemistry of Natural Products, 1965: cephalosporin C synthesis]{ref}
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