Josef Houben

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Heinrich Hubert Maria Josef Houben (born October 27, 1875 in Waldfeucht , Rhineland , † June 28, 1940 in Tübingen ) was a German chemist. He expanded the multi-volume series " Methods of Organic Chemistry " founded by Theodor Weyl , known as Houben-Weyl and a standard work in organic chemistry .

Life

From 1894 he studied mathematics and astronomy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn . Under the influence of August Kekulé , he switched to chemistry. In 1898 he received his doctorate as a student of Julius Bredt . After years as an assistant in Aachen and Bonn, he went to Berlin, where he worked at the Emil Fischer Institute . He completed his habilitation in 1908. During the First World War he was wounded several times, then appointed head of war laboratories and economic departments, and from 1917 to 1919 he was assistant to the Technological Institute of the University of Berlin with the title of “Professor”. In 1921 he was appointed to the Biological Reichsanstalt in Berlin-Dahlem, while being appointed associate professor at the university, where he worked until his retirement in 1933. During his work in the Biological Reichsanstalt, Houben improved the already known Hoesch reaction, which is now called the Houben-Hoesch reaction . In this process, polyhydric phenols are reacted with nitriles and hydrogen chloride to form hydroxyketimides, which can be hydrolyzed to hydroxyketones .

In 1931 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Dresden .

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  1. ↑ a b E. Pfankuch: Meeting on October 7, 1940 , In: Reports of the German Chemical Society (A and B Series), 1940, 73, No. 11, doi : 10.1002 / cber.19400731127 , p. A119.
  2. ↑ a b Grete Ronge:  Houben, Josef. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , pp. 659 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ J. Houben: About the nuclear condensation of phenols and phenol ethers with nitriles to phenol and phenol ether ketimides and ketones (I.) , In: Reports of the German Chemical Society (A and B Series), 1926 , 59, No. 11, doi : 10.1002 / cber.19260591135 , p. 2878.
  4. ↑ Honorary doctoral students of the TH / TU Dresden. Technical University of Dresden, accessed on February 9, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Houben, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Houben, Heinrich Hubert Maria Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Forest damp
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1940
Place of death Tübingen