Alan Katritzky

Alan Roy Katritzky (born August 18, 1928 in London - † February 10, 2014 ) was an English-American chemist ( organic chemistry ).

life and work

Katritzky studied at Oxford University , where he received his doctorate in 1954 with Robert Robinson . In 1958 he became a lecturer at Cambridge University . In 1960 he was one of the Founding Fellows of Churchill College . In 1963 he became professor and dean of the chemistry faculty at the University of East Anglia . In 1980 he went to the University of Florida .

He dealt with the chemistry of heterocycles (synthesis, reactivity), especially compounds with benzotriazole , and is known for contributions to quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSPR). He is the namesake of the Boulton-Katritzky rearrangement .

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1980) and an external member of the Polish Academy of Sciences . He has received multiple honorary doctorates and the Robert Robinson Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry.

with Alexander Pozharskii, Anatoly soldierskov: Heterocycles in life and society: an introduction to heterocyclic chemistry, biochemistry and applications, Wiley 2011
Handbook of Heterocyclic Chemistry, 3rd edition, Elsevier 2010
with Jean Mund Lagowski: Chemistry of Heterocycles: Theoretical Basics, Representation Methods, Reactions, Springer 1968 (English original: The principles of heterocyclic chemistry, Methuen 1967, in the 1st edition Heterocyclic Chemistry , Methuen 1960)
Editor: Physical Methods in Heterocyclic Chemistry, 2 volumes, Academic Press 1963

He was the editor of the Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry series (Pergamon Press, later Elsevier).

A. John Boulton: Alan Roy Katritzky. August 18, 1928 - February 10, 2014. In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 61, 2015, pp. 225–245, doi: 10.1098 / rsbm.2015.0001 .

↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Alan Roy Katritzky at academictree.org, accessed on February 15 2018th