It would appear there is a connection from 3M to the vanderbilts to Aclrenochrome [y]
Patent on Aclrenochrome by 3M link https://t.co/aCqPf2qnjg pic.twitter.com/9Erh4dYj0x— l E T 17 (@Inevitable_ET) April 3, 2020
chemist = Deryck F. Boot
Interesting. A chemist at a major drug/chem company would be expected to have a publication record documented at PubMed, especially with a 1982 patent.
Boot has nothing. Listed from Knighton, England. Cannot find anything more. Boots is a name in chemistry from England (Boots created ibuprofen; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boot), but have not found anything on Deryck.