Adolfo Quilico
Adolfo Quilico (born November 12, 1902 in Milan , † December 11, 1982 ibid) was an Italian chemist.
Life
Quilico studied chemistry at the University of Milan, where he was a student of Angelo Angeli and graduated with a Laureate in 1925. In 1929 he completed his habilitation in general chemistry and in 1936 won the competition for an extraordinary professorship at the University of Parma. A year later he went to the University of Florence , where he stayed until 1943 when he went back to Milan, where he was professor at the Polytechnic .
He was first known for the investigation of diazo compounds and the reaction of unsaturated compounds with nitric acid as well as the investigation of azoles (pyrroles). In 1930 (still working with Angeli) he found a new synthesis method for polypyrrole (pyrrole black) and in 1931 he determined the structure of polypyrrole. He also dealt with heterocycles . In Italy he is considered the founder of natural product chemistry and examined, among other things, mold toxins ( aspergillin ) and various chemical substances from insects (in collaboration with the entomologist Mario Pavan from the University of Pavia).
He was friends with Giulio Natta .
He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei .
In 1970 he gave the Paul Karrer lecture on nitrile oxides .
There is a medal of the Italian Chemical Society named after him.
Web links
- Enciclopedia Treccani
- Life data, publications and academic family tree of Adolfo Quilico at academictree.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marc van Hooren, Oligomeric model systems of electrically conductive copolymers based on pyrrole and thiophene, dissertation, University of Hannover 1999, p. 11
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Quilico, Adolfo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 11, 1982 |
| Place of death | Milan |