Franklin Arnold Davis (born April 1, 1939) is the

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Professor of Chemistry at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is most notable for his development of sulfur-nitrogen reagents including ''N''-sulfonyloxaziridine for oxidations and asymmetric hydroxylations and ''N''-sulfinyl imines for the asymmetric synthesis of chiral amine derivatives. The reagents are commonly called Davis oxaziridines and Davis

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s, respectively.

Davis oxidation In organic chemistry, the Davis oxidation or Davis' oxaziridine oxidation refers to oxidations involving the use of the Davis reagent (2-(phenylsulfonyl)-3-phenyloxaziridine) or other similar oxaziridine reagents. This reaction mainly refers to t ...

and

Davis' reagent Davis reagent (3-phenyl-2-(phenylsulfonyl)-1,2-oxaziridine or 2-(benzenesulfonyl)-3-phenyloxaziridine) is a reagent used for oxidation in the Davis oxidation reaction, as well as oxidation of thiols to sulfones In organic chemistry, a sulfone ...

are both named after him.

Biography

Davis was born in Des Moines, Iowa. Davis earned his B.S. from University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1962 and completed his PhD at

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with Donald C. Dittmer in 1966. After completing a post-doctoral appointment at University of Texas at Austin with

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, he took up a job at

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in 1968. There he served as George S. Sasin Professor of Chemistry until 1995, and moved across town to Temple University. Davis has won the American Chemical Society

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(2006), the John Scott Medal (2006), and the

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award (2012).

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