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Xue-Min Cheng
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<p>Xue-Min Cheng is a medicinal chemist, author and pharmaceutical executive best known as the co-author of <i>The Logic of Chemical Synthesis</i>, which formalized <a href="/facts/Retrosynthetic_analysis/PwP65DjN">retrosynthesis</a>. The concept for this <a href="/facts/Elias_James_Corey/xsj35SIc">Elias J. Corey</a> won the 1990 <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistry/8Nb8Ajjy">Nobel Prize</a> in Chemistry. </p>