Yechiel Gaoni

1930–2019 · Israeli · Weizmann Institute of Science

Co-author with Raphael Mechoulam of the papers that established the structures of cannabidiol (1963) and Δ9-THC (1964) and their total synthesis (1965). The THC work is routinely credited to Mechoulam alone; it was joint.

Compounds credited overall: the cannabinoid structural work, jointly with Mechoulam

On this site

• Cannabinoids
• CBD C21H30O2 isolated it, 1963
• THC (Δ9-THC) C21H30O2 isolated it, 1964

  Joint first author on the structure and synthesis papers.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Mechoulam