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Arthur C. Cope (June 27, 1909 – June 4, 1966) was an Americanorganic chemist and member of theUnited States National Academy of Sciences. He is credited with the development of several important chemical reactions which bear his name including theCope elimination and theCope rearrangement.

Cope was born on June 27, 1909, inDunreith, Indiana. He received a bachelor's degree in chemistry fromButler University inIndianapolis in 1929 and a PhD in 1932 from theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison. His research continued at Harvard University in 1933 as a National Research Council Fellow. In 1934, he joined the faculty ofBryn Mawr College. There, his research included the first syntheses of a number ofbarbiturates includingdelvinyl sodium. At Bryn Mawr, Cope also developed a reaction involving the thermal rearrangement of anallyl group which eventually became known as the Cope rearrangement.

In 1941, Cope moved toColumbia University where he worked on projects associated with the war effort including chemical warfare agents, antimalarial drugs, and treatments formustard gas poisoning. In 1945, he moved to theMassachusetts Institute of Technology to become the head of the Department of Chemistry.

• 1944American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry^[1]
• 1945 Elected to theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences^[2]
• 1947 Elected to theNational Academy of Sciences.
• 1961 Elected to theAmerican Philosophical Society^[3]

Today, theArthur C. Cope Award, in honor of his memory, is given out annually by theAmerican Chemical Society to the most outstanding organic chemist.

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