Victor L. King

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Victor L. King

American chemist

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…he and his American student Victor L. King resolved (split) [CoCl(NH₃)(en)₂]Cl₂ into its optical isomers (see below Enantiomers and Diastereomers) in 1911, Werner received the 1913 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. The zenith of his quarter-century experimental achievements was attained with his resolution of the completely inorganic tetranuclear compound,
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…he and his American student Victor L. King resolved (split) [CoCl(NH₃)(en)₂]Cl₂ into its optical isomers (see below Enantiomers and Diastereomers) in 1911, Werner received the 1913 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. The zenith of his quarter-century experimental achievements was attained with his resolution of the completely inorganic tetranuclear compound,
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