Comprehensive Organic Transformations: A Guide to Functional Group Preparations - Hardcover

Larock was born in Berkeley, California and raised in San Francisco Bay Area. He received his B.S degree summa cum laude in chemistry in 1967. He received an NSF Graduate Fellowship to pursue his graduate training at Purdue University and after obtaining his Ph.D. in 1971, he received an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship. In 1972, he joined the organic chemistry faculty at Iowa State University, where he is currently University Professor of Chemistry.