David E Lewis, Ph.D.

Books (2012-present):

• Lewis, D. E., Early Russian Organic Chemists and Their Legacy. Springer: Heidelberg, 2012; 136 pp.; [ISBN 978-3-642-28218-8]. 
• Lewis, D. E., Advanced Organic Chemistry. Oxford University Press: New York, 2016;1176 + xiii pp, ISBN 978-0-19-975897-5. (QD271 L485 2016)
• Lewis, D. E., The Kazan Chemistry School Through the Eyes of an American Historian of Chemistry: Collected Papers by David E. Lewis. Shtyrlin, V.G., Ed.; Konovalov, A.I., Scientific Ed.; Kazan University Publishing House: Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia; 2016; 288 pp, [ISBN 978-5-00019-605-2]. (in Russian) Translation from English by Evtugyn, G.A.; Kuramshin, A.I.; Mukhametzyanov, T.A.; Nemtarev, A.V.; Serov, N.Yu.; Shtyrlin, V.G.
• Lewis, D. E.,  The Wolff-Kishner Reduction and Related Reactions. Elsevier: Amsterdam, 2019. [ISBN-13 9780128157275].
• Lewis, D. E., Addition, Elimination and Substitution: Markovnikov, Hofmann, Zaitsev and Walden. Discovery and Development. Elsevier: Amsterdam, 2022. [ISBN: 9780128210277]
• Beloglazkina, E.; Beletskaya, I.; Lewis, D.; Nenajdenko, V., Eds. History of Organic Chemistry at Russian Universities. From origins to the present day. English translation and extension of Beloglazkina, Ye. K.; Beletskaya, I. P.; Nenajdenko, V. G., Eds. Историа органической химии в университетах России. От устоков до наших дней.  In press.

Refereed papers and book chapters (2017-present):

• Mitchell, S. D.; Anderson, S. M.; LaPlante, K. A.; McKenney, R. K.; Lewis, D. E., "Catalysis in transamination of 6-chloro-2-(3-chlorophenyl)-1H-benz[de]isoquinoline-1,3-(2H)-dione and its implications in laser tissue welding." J. Heterocycl. Chem., 2017, 54, 2029-2037.
• Lewis, D. E., "Intramolecular pericyclic reactions of acetylene derivatives leading to dehydroaromatic and related species." Minirev. Org. Chem. 2017, 14, 107-121.
• Suntsov, V.; Lewis, D. E., "After the Revolution: Nikolai Matveevich Kizhner (1867-1935) in Soviet Moscow." Bull. Hist. Chem. 2017, 42, 46–56.
• Lewis, D. E., "Aleksei Yevgen'evich Chichibabin (1871-1945): A century of pyridine chemistry." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 9660-9668 (English version); Angew. Chem. 2017, 129, 9788-9796 (German version).
• Lewis, D. E., "A. Ye. Arbuzov: Father of organophosphorus chemistry in Russia." Bull. Hist. Chem., 2017, 42, 112–125.
• Lewis, D. E., "Yevgenii Konstantonovich Zavoiskii (1907-1976): Overlooked pioneer in magnetic resonance." In Strom, E.T.; Mainz, V.V., Eds. The posthumous Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Correcting the errors and oversights of the Nobel Prize Committee. ACS Symp. Ser., 2017, 1262, Ch. 10, pp. 219–241.
• Lewis, D. E., "High creativity and historical invisibility: The rise of a chemical community in Russia." In Rasmussen, S.C., Ed. Igniting the Ring of Fire: Historical Evolution of the Chemical Communities in the Countries of the Pacific Rim. (World Scientific Publishing: Singapore, 2018); Ch. 11, pp. 309–354.
• Lewis, D. E., "Introduction to an English translation of Markovnikov's first paper describing 'Markovnikov's Rule.'" Bull. Hist. Chem. 2018, 43, 21–23.
• Lewis, D. E., "Primary Documents. 'On the question of the mutual influence of atoms in chemical compounds.' V. Morkovnikov. Zhurnal Russkago Fiziko-Khimicheskago Obshchestva, 1869, 1, 242-247." Translated by David E. Lewis. Bull. Hist. Chem. 2018, 43, 24–26.
• Lewis, D. E., "Static to dynamic: Kazan chemists and the transformation from chemical structure to reaction regiochemistry." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 3694–3705.
• Lewis, D. E., "The minor impurity in spent ores of the "Siberian metal": ruthenium at 175." Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 11394-1140.
• Lewis, D. E., "1860-1861: Magic years in the development of the Structural Theory of organic chemistry." Bull. Hist. Chem. 2019, 44, 77–91.
• Lewis, D. E., " The Logic Behind Markovnikov's Rule. Was It an Inspired Guess? …No!" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60 (9), 4412–4421.
• Brock, W. H.; Lewis, D. E., "A Different Kind of Nierenstein Reaction. The Chemical Society’s Mistreatment of Maximilian Nierenstein," Ann. Sci. 2021, 78, 221–245.
• Lewis, D. E., "Early Physical Organic Chemistry: Nikolai Aleksandrovich Menshutkin (1842-1907) and Reaction Velocities," Chem. Eur. J. 2021, 27, 15829-15841.
• Lewis, D. E., "A Future History of Selectivity in Organic Chemistry: Whence, Where, and Whither?" Bull. Hist. Chem. 2022, 47, 62–76.
• Lewis, D. E., "The Chemical History of Color," but just two kinds of them." Bull. Hist. Chem. 2022, 48, in press.

Online, open-access columns in Synform:

• Deiringer, R. K.; Lewis, D. E., "Arthur Michael (1853–1942): The Michael Addition Reaction." Synform, 2017/09, A142–144.
• Lewis, D. E., Independent Discoveries: The Wolff-Kishner Reduction." Synform, 2017/12, A208-A212.
• Lewis, D. E., "Charles Friedel (1832-1899) and James Mason Crafts (1839-1917): the Friedel-Crafts Alkylation and Acylation Reactions." Synthesis 2018/4, A49–A53.
• Lewis, D. E., "Rearrangement to electron-deficient nitrogen. 1. A. W. Hofmann (1818-1892), W. Lossen (1838-1906), and T. Curtius (1857-1928)." Synform 2018/7, A107–A110.
• Deiringer, R. K.; North, H.K.; Lewis, D. E., “Philippe Barbier (1848-1922) and Victor Grignard (1871-1935): Pioneers of organomagnesium chemistry.” Synform 2018/10, A155–A159.
• Lewis, D. E., "Mendeleev, Menshutkin and Beilstein: A new generation takes over." Synform 2019/04, A57–A61.
• Lewis, D. E., "Carbocation rearrangements: the pinacol, Wagner-Meerwein, Demjanov, and Tiffeneau-Demjanov rearrangements." Synform 2019/08, A121–A127.
• Lewis, D. E., "Reaction regiochemistry: Markovnikov, Zaitsev and Hofmann." Synform 2019/11, A172–A179.
• Lewis, D. E., "The Nazarov Cyclization." Synform 2020/03, A43–A49.
• Lewis, D. E., "Johann Wilhelm Friedrich Adolf von Baeyer (1835–1917) and Victor Villiger (1868–1934): Peracid Oxidation of Ketones." Synform 2020/12, A173–A178.
• Lewis, D. E., "Aleksei Yevgen'evich Chichibabin (1871-1945) and Pyridine Chemistry," Synform 2021/05, A173–A178.
• Lewis, D. E., "Arthur Rudolph Hantzsch (1857-1935) and the Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles." Synform 2021/12, A201–A210.

U.S. Patents (2014-present):

• Lewis, D. E.; Caldwell, M. D., "Synergistic anticoagulant composition." U.S. Patent No. 8,765,982 B2 [July 1, 2014].
• Kemp, M. C.; Lewis, D. E., "Quaternary ammonium salts as microbe inhibitors." U.S. Patent No. 8,853,454 B2 [October 7, 2014].