Arthur Lüttringhaus senior
Arthur Lüttringhaus senior (born August 8, 1873 in Cologne-Mülheim , † October 28, 1945 in Heidelberg ) was a German chemist at BASF .
He was the uncle of the chemist Arthur Lüttringhaus and the son of a leather goods manufacturer. Lüttringhaus studied chemistry in Freiburg im Breisgau and Jena, where he received his doctorate in 1896. During his studies in 1892 he became a member of the Alemannia Freiburg fraternity . He was an assistant in Jena and in 1899 in Kiel, and from 1900 he was at the main laboratory of BASF in Ludwigshafen . From 1921 he headed the Alizarin Laboratory and in 1926 the Alizarin Department. At the end of the 1920s he was involved in setting up the IG Farben plant for vat dyes in the USA (General Aniline Works). From 1932 he also headed the main laboratory. In 1933 he retired.
At BASF he first dealt with sulfur dyes , then from 1909 with alizarin dyes and from 1918 also with odorants.
He was involved in the Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction when he discovered that unsaturated aldehydes can be converted into the corresponding unsaturated alcohols with ethanol and activated magnesium . Since he did not correctly interpret the reaction, he was ignored in the naming.
literature
- Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 285
Individual evidence
- ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. p. 306.
- ^ Pötsch in the article Arthur Lüttringhaus (the elder) in the lexicon of important chemists.
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| SURNAME | Lüttringhaus, Arthur senior |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne-Mülheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1945 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |